Hollywood directors hold talks due to writers strike
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Hollywood directors said on  Thursday they would delay opening contract talks with major  film studios until at least January to give striking  screenwriters time to restart their own stalled negotiations.
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Hollywood directors said on  Thursday they would hold off on starting contract talks with  major film and TV studios until at least January to give  striking screenwriters time to resume their own stalled  negotiations.
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Hollywood writers got details today of a tentative agreement that their negotiators had brokered with the major studios. In presenting the three-year deal, the West and East coast guild presidents added a message that said it was time to end the strike.
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Hollywood directors reach a contract deal with film and TV studios after five days of talks, their union says.
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LOS ANGELES  - With a new labor contract for the Directors Guild of America expected to be announced imminently, Hollywood's top screenwriters could turn up the heat on their union to end its 11-week-old strike.
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From the picket lines to ballrooms filled with stars, Hollywood on Monday hoped for a deal to end a 3-month-old clash between striking writers and studios amid reports they could reach an agreement this week.
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Striking Hollywood writers will meet face to face with studio executives this week for the first time since their contract talks collapsed on December 7, the two sides said on Tuesday.
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Officials with the striking writers guild held informal talks Tuesday with Hollywood studios that could lead to the resumption of negotiations, a person familiar with the bargaining strategy said.
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With a new labor  contract for the Directors Guild of America expected to be  announced imminently, Hollywood's top screenwriters could turn  up the heat on their union to end its 11-week-old strike.
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As the ink dried on a tentative  deal between directors and studios, the big question swirling  around Hollywood on Thursday was whether it would bring  striking writers back to the negotiating table.
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Hollywood's actors and industry negotiators broke off contract talks Sunday, saying they would take an indefinite recess to consider each others' proposals.
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With Hollywood bracing for a season  of possible labor strife, screenwriters and studio executives  on Monday opened contract talks expected to hinge in part on  how the Internet has altered show business.
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The Hollywood directors' union reached a contract deal with major film and TV studios on Thursday in a move likely to renew momentum for settling a 10-week-old writers strike that has crippled the industry and clouded the year-end Oscar season.
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LOS ANGELES  - Contract negotiations between Hollywood's directors and studios represent the industry's best shot at getting back to business as usual, even as the writers strike enters its 11th week Monday.
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Hollywood directors have reached a tentative contract deal with studios after five days of negotiations, the directors union said Thursday
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With less than a week to go before a presumed strike deadline, Hollywood studio executives sought to break a deadlock in contract talks with screenwriters by offering a newly condensed package of proposals.
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LOS ANGELES  Â A breakthrough in contract talks has been reached between Hollywood studios and striking writers and could lead to a tentative deal as early as next week, a person close to the ongoing negotiations said Saturday.