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Filmmakers and dealmakers were just unpacking their parkas in Park City, Utah, on the opening day of the Sundance Film Festival Thursday, when news of a potential breakthrough toward ending the 11-week-old Hollywood writers strike began to zoom from BlackBerry to BlackBerry...
...Directors Guild of America reached a tentative contract deal with studios addressing the main issue that drove the writers to strike - payment for work used online. Under the agreement, when TV shows and movies are downloaded from the Internet, the directors will receive about twice what they have received for videotape and DVD residuals. Across Los Angeles and Park City on Thursday, writers, directors, actors, producers and studio executives were scrutinizing the pact. "People can argue over whether it's a good deal or a bad deal," said Paul Haggis, the writer of Crash and Million Dollar Baby, poring over...
...rocks. It was great. This huge cheer went up.' GLENN CLOSE, after learning that she'd won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Drama, at a bar in New York City. The traditional ceremony was replaced with a speedy news conference because of the ongoing writers' strike...
...unforgettable performances in such cinematic classics as “Up and Cummers 10” and “Dirty Bob’s Xcellent Adventures 35.” Also, the Golden Globes were officially canceled this year due to the ongoing writers’ strike. Both regular viewers are outraged...
...companies in the world: pharmaceutical giants like U.S.-based Pfizer, Britain's GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis of France. And the police were no gunslinging sheriffs, but bureaucrats from the European Commission, seizing computer files and documents. Welcome to the world of market regulation, and to the Commission's intrepid strike force of dawn raiders...