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Slumdog emerges as Oscar favourite

Slumdog Millionaire emerged as favourite to win the best picture Oscar after winning the Screen Actors Guild awards on Sunday.

Pay row threatens to turn out the lights in Hollywood

Welcome to Strike 2008 — the sequel. Just when you thought it was safe, the Hollywood unions and their studio paymasters have devised a new dispute.

Coen brothers named best 2007 directors by peers

The Directors Guild of America on Saturday chose Ethan and Joel Coen as best feature film directors for 2007 for their gritty crime drama No Country for Old Men. ”It’s nice to…

Hollywood writers’ strike clouds Oscars

In the 80 years since the first Oscars were handed out, it has taken a war or a flood or an assassination to delay the celebration surrounding the film industry’s highest…

Hollywood writers, studios to resume talks

Striking United States screenwriters and major film and TV studios agreed on Friday to resume formal contract talks on November 26. The announcement of new talks came hours after…

Hollywood writers begin strike as talks collapse

United States film and television writers started going on strike on Monday as last-minute talks aimed at averting the Writers Guild of America’s first strike in almost two…