MOVIES - Feb. 10, 1988

A labor-management “information war” is escalating between Hollywood writers and producers. The Writers Guild of America has invited more than 200 Hollywood agents to Chasen’s restaurant on Thursday night for a briefing on the guild’s position in contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. A meeting with executive producers of television series will follow on Friday morning. Guild officials--who insist they are prepared to strike when their current contract expires Feb. 29--say more meetings with other groups are in the works. The producers have issued a “white paper” outlining their position, and earlier this year the guild established a numbers-crunching “department of industrial analysis” to keep tabs on what it says are burgeoning company profits.