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NY TimesScreenwriters and producers, with their contract expiring on Wednesday, have agreed to call in a federal mediator for their next meeting, scheduled for tomorrow, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Leaders of the Writers Guild of America East and the Writers Guild of America West have been authorized by their membership to call a strike as early as Thursday, but negotiations could continue beyond that while writers work under terms of the current agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. A walkout would be Hollywood’s first major work stoppage since writers struck for five months in 1988.
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