LOS ANGELES — With idled entertainment industry workers and Oscar-nominated actors among the interested observers, striking writers and studios ...
Los Angeles Times | Richard Verrier and Claudia Eller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Spurred by the day-old employment contract negotiated by the Directors Guild, Hollywood's writers and the major studios agreed Friday to resume their ...
AP | RYAN PEARSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
PARK CITY, Utah — The same writers strike that transformed the Golden Globes into a news conference might bring smiles to the faces of agents an...
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood directors reached a tentative contract deal Thursday with studios, a development that could turn up the pressure on stri...
New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The striking members of the Writers Guild of America may have hoped that television viewers, upset that their favorite dramas and comedies had gone da...
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The union representing Hollywood directors began contract talks Saturday, with striking TV and film writers calculating how a deal might affect them. ...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Hollywood's Triple-A list actors have started becoming integrally involved in trying to solve the Writers Guild strike against the Hollywood CEOs. I'v...
New York Times | MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The Weinstein Company, one of Hollywood's biggest independent film companies, has completed a separate agreement with striking writers, according to H...
Reuters | Michael Davidson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Hanks said corporate bosses should remember that many people, from carpenters to caterers, were suffering as a result of the strike by about 10,500 Wr...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
The Weinstein Co., one of Hollywood's largest independent film producers, says it expects to reach a deal with striking Hollywood writers that will al...
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
For those not intrigued by David Letterman's strike beard or Jay Leno's attempt to write his own monologue, the Hollywood writers strike has been a no...
Wall Street Journal | Katherine Rosman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Elie Saab, a design house known for couture gowns that sell at $20,000 and up, has built its brand by loaning dresses to celebrities in hopes they wil...
Reuters | Jill Serjeant | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Hollywood scrambled on Tuesday to assess the fallout from the decision to scrap the glittering Golden Globe movie and TV awards ceremony and hold only...
New York Times | Holly M. Sanders | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
With the Golden Globes curtailed and the Oscars in doubt, movie marketers could lose the coveted Red Carpet to promote their films. As a result of th...
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
The Golden Globes and NBC agreed Monday to scrap the show's traditional format, which faced picketing by striking writers, in favor of a news conferen...
Reason | David Weigel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Well, the choice was sort of made for him, but 24-odd hours after being bounced from the Fox News five-man forum, Ron Paul will be appearing on the To...
The Times | John Harlow | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
The Hollywood star George Clooney is being credited with inspiring an actors' boycott against film award ceremonies that threatens to reduce next week...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
SATURDAY UPDATE: I've just been told that the Hollywood/Big Media CEOs who belong to the AMPTP are furious at MGM chairman Harry Sloan for "allowing" ...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
My sources say the striking Writers Guild Of America has told the Hollywood Foreign Press Association that the union won't picket the Golden Globes aw...
New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The restrictions that the striking Writers Guild of America has placed on late-night television hosts to keep them from writing material for their sho...
AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
The Screen Actors Guild said Friday there appears to be unanimous agreement that nominated actors will not cross striking writers' picket lines to at...
New York Post | Zachery Kouwe | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Sure to delight movie studio chiefs and producers everywhere, the striking Writers Guild of America is about to be struck by its own downtrodden emplo...
FishBowl | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Graydon Carter will hold his legendary Vanity Fair Oscar party whether or not the Writers Guild of America strike is resolved by the time of the cerem...
AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The Golden Globe Awards were thrust into deeper jeopardy Wednesday when the striking writers guild refused to negotiate with Globe organizers about st...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
A fully bearded David Letterman opened his first show in two months by walking out amid dancing girls holding picket signs for striking TV writers. "I...
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment