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DIRECTORS OPEN TALKS WITH STUDIOS AND NETWORKS Monday, January 14 2008 
The
Directors
Guild
of
America
on
Saturday
opened
negotiations
for
a
new
contract
with
the
Writers
Guild
of
America.
A
second
meeting
reportedly
took
place
on
Sunday
and
a
third
was
due
to
take
place
today
(Monday).
The
DGA
announced
that
it
planned
to
keep
the
negotiations
confidential.
The
directors
are
said
to
have
spent
some
$2
million
on
a
study
concerning
potential
earnings
via
Internet
distribution
that
it
hopes
will
be
used
as
the
(more)DGA ANNOUNCES 2007 NOMINEES Wednesday, January 9 2008 
Sean
Penn,
known
more
for
his
acting
abilities
than
his
directorial
talent,
was
nevertheless
among
the
nominees
for
best
filmmaker
announced
by
the
Directors
Guild
of
America
Tuesday.
Penn
was
nominated
for
his
Into
the
Wild,
starring
Emile
Hirsch.
Among
the
other
DGA
nominees
were
the
Coen
brothers
for
No
Country
for
Old
Men,
Paul
Thomas
Anderson
for
There
Will
Be
Blood,
Tony
Gilroy
for
Michael
Clayton,
and
Julian
Schnabel
for
The
Diving
Bell
and
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Negotiations between the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers continued on Tuesday for the fourth consecutive day and were scheduled to resume today (Wednesday), with some trade and Internet reports suggesting that a tentative agreement could be announced before the end of the week. If so, analysts will immediately examine the kind of agreement the DGA has made with the AMPTP on residuals for digital distribution, the key issue involved in the writers' strike. Many in the industry are hoping that the deal with the directors can provide a template for similar deals with other labor groups.
