Well a couple of months back some reporter fooled us into believing that the strike would end soon. This time around, I hope we at the least start making substantive progress.

The Directors Guild of America, who are negotiating MONTHS before their deal expires, agreed with AMPTP on a new deal. Here are the details:
http://www.mania.com/57187.html

At the same time, this would mean that the WGA will study this contract and probably hunt for something similar or at the least make more compromises than they originally inteded. So, I hope that the deal with the DGA triggers the WGA and AMPTP finally comming to some sort of accord. Here's the story:
http://www.mania.com/57191.html