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Hollywood Studios Say They Offered Writers a $97 Million Raise

Writers Guild of America members and supporters on a picket line in Los Angeles. 

Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg

The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, which represents Hollywood studios in contract talks with striking writers, said it offered wage increases of close to $97 million.

That’s more than double the $41 million the writers claim they are being offered, the studios said in a statement Thursday.