Could that be a shining light at the end of the tunnel?

Today, the Directors Guild of America inked a three-year deal with the major Hollywood studios. In it, they lined out an improved deal for payments resulting from content distributed on the internet and such. Following this meeting, the producers invited the WGA back to the table to resume negotiations.

This could establish pattern bargaining, in which the remaining talks are patterned after the first deal that is set. So…don’t get too excited just yet, but there is a slim possibility that this thing could end, and end quickly.