Let's make a deal.

The Directors Guild of America inked a three-year contract with the major studios that now puts increased pressure on the Writers Guild of America to end its 12-week strike. The deal was said to be better than what studios had initially offered writers, including higher royalties for online sales of their movies and TV shows. The major sticking point for the writers in the current strike is over how writers should be paid when their shows are distributed over new media. The WGA will now use this agreement as a basis for concluding their own deal.