LOS ANGELES, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief executive of 
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc (DWA.N: Quote, Profile, Research), said on 
Tuesday he was "fearful" the gap between writers and studios in current 
contract talks could spark a strike in Hollywood.

"I don't think I've ever seen a wider gap in the bid and the ask on 
where we are today. A lot of it is emotional and rhetorical and a lot of 
it is substantive," he said at the Merrill Lynch Media and Entertainment 
Conference.

Hollywood's writers and producers are engaged in negotiations over new 
contract proposals for a three-year pact covering 12,000 members of the 
Writers Guild of America, whose agreement expires on Oct. 31.


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