The Writers Guild contract with producers expires at midnight tonight, and the union says it will walk out barring a last minute agreement. But Vanity Fair's Rebecca Keegan says reports over the weekend show the two sides moving closer together.

Even if the writers and producers can't agree by the deadline, there may be good reason to delay the walk out, especially if negotiators for the writers think they are close to resolving differences. And Keegan says studio executives held a conference call over the weekend, and reportedly pushed for a resolution to prevent a strike.

Those executives have other things to worry about, too. A hacker, or possibly a group of hackers, released the entire 5th season of the Netflix hit, Orange Is The New Black. That new season doesn't show up on the streaming service until next month. The hackers claim they put up the files only after Netflix refused to pay a ransom. And they claim to have copies of a variety of other shows set to run on everything from ABC to the National Geographic Channel.

Hollywood has battled piracy for decades, and not always very successfully. But this new wrinkle in ransomware could prove even trickier. It's been reported that the Netflix breach targeted an independent post-production company working for Netflix. Expect a renewed push for data security across the wide array of firms that provide Hollywood services, and may have unreleased material on their servers.