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Blockbuster looks to boost sell-through as losses grow NOV. 1 | Blockbuster laid out some details of its plan to improve store profitability—including a focus on consumer sales—as it reported a wider third-quarter loss Thursday.

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The Artful Writer - A Screenwriting Blog

The party line says that a 99% strike authorization may help us avoid a strike, because it would give the union a potent weapon in negotiations—one that could precipitate a strike-negating deal. Of course, that party line presumes that leadership doesn’t want a strike.

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Informal WGA talks set to begin

The communications impasse between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood's majors has finally ended..TV News, news from the entertainment source: Variety.Informal WGA talks set to begin.

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A steady hand guided this strike settlement

LOS ANGELES -- Lawyers get blamed for a lot of what's wrong with Hollywood: hyper-litigiousness; unnecessarily protracted deal negotiations; studios afraid to take real risks.

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Paramount Cancels 3 HD-DVD Releases

Into the Wild and Things We Lost in the Fire will be Paramount's last vestiges of its short-lived HD-DVD agreement. Instead all those titles and more will be released on Blu-ray sometime in the future.

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/paramount-cancels-3-hd-dvd-releases/

Writers Strike and Take to Picket Lines

Eleventh-hour talks Sunday between the scribes and producers in California with a federal mediator failed to head off the strike, which kicked off in New York City just after midnight. The Writers Guild of America will start picketing at 9 a.m.

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Young a keeper at WGAW

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Is A Deal Close To End The Writers Strike?

Is A Deal Close To End The Writers Strike? - Looks like a deal between the striking writers and the studios and production companies could be imminent. If so, a...

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Can Federal Mediator Help Avert Writers Strike?

Negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will unsurprisingly go down to the wire as the sides aren’t set to meet again until Tuesday.

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Striking writers take a page from the past - Zap2it

FOR an industry at war over competing visions of the digital-age future, the sight this week of thousands of Writers Guild members whipping out their bluntest, most antiquated weapon -- picketing -- was, well, striking.

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