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Studios bracing for a strike

Labor unrest continues to dominate the landscape in Hollywood, and the possibility of a strike by actors has large movie studios planning to shut down production and has television studios rushing to complete episodes of series scheduled to return in the fall or January. Most major movie studios long ago scheduled their big projects to finish shooting by Monday, the expiration date of the contract between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the Screen Actors Guild. Television studios, meanwhile, plan to continue taping new and returning series as long as possible, banking episodes scheduled for broadcast in the fall or the new year in case an actors strike interrupts production, as the strike by television and film writers did last winter. For the full story visit http://www.dailynews.com/ci_9694489

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