Striking Writers Reach Deal With UA

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Striking Hollywood writers have reached a deal with Tom Cruise's production outfit United Artists Films to resume working while the strike continues against other studios.

The deal announced Monday was the first reached with big-screen producers by the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since Nov. 5. Terms were not disclosed.

"United Artists has lived up to its name. UA and the writers guild came together and negotiated seriously. The end result is that we have a deal that will put people back to work," said Patric M. Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America, West.

The guild said the agreement addresses key issues of writers, who walked off the job over their cut of potential profits from programming on the Internet and other new media.


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[rpannier]

1. Outstanding

Divide and conquer.

Nice to see the unions play this game as well.

[villager]

2. Puts Tom Cruise's studio in a good position to start lapping GE and the others...

n/t

[aquart]

3. Peeling 'em off, one by one.

[villager]

4. Weird how certain Mods won't accept this news as actual news. A bias? In any case, the WGA released

its statement on the settlement:

http://btlnews.com/blog/archives/112