Numerous news outlets, including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter, have word that production companies and Hollywood writers could reach a tentative agreement as early as next week, ending the three-month-old strike.
Most of the information comes from unnamed sources, but the reports seem to agree on the general facts.
The breakthrough occurred on Friday after two weeks of closed-door talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Attorneys for the studios and the guild reportedly are meeting this weekend to work out the language of the proposed agreement.
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February 3rd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Not important to me. I say ‘Meh.’
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:32 pm
It was important enough to you that you typed out a message.
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I hope this isn’t a cop-out; there’ve been an awful lot of sidedeals going down as it is. But not being a member maybe I should just shut it.
February 4th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Never count your chickens…
February 4th, 2008 at 1:40 am
You don’t have to be a member of the organization to be able to call a collapse if you see one.
February 4th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Methinks the extremely underwhelming ratings performance of the Golden Globes along with the genuine possibility of the same thing happening to the Oscars made the studios pull the sticks out of their asses and get back to the bargaining table. They made it a whole week without crying foul and leaving in a snit so that’s gotta be a good sign right?
Until a deal is officially announced though I’m going with cautiously optimistic.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I think the key difference with this round of talks is that actual studio heads were representing the AMPTP. In the past they’ve had a lawyer representing them. His job wasn’t to get the best deal, his job was to get a better deal than what they could get themselves, otherwise he’d be useless. I think they might finally have realized that he was going to cost them more than he got them with his tactics.