Talks between Hollywood writers and studios collapsed Friday, dashing hopes of an imminent resolution to a 5-week-old strike that has upended the entertainment industry, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The breakdown is the latest turn in what has become one of the nastiest labor disputes in recent Hollywood history. It comes after eight days of contentious negotiations that yielded very little, if any, progress.

The sides remain deeply divided on how to split up new media revenues as digital technology and the Internet transform the way entertainment is delivered to viewers.

Each side blamed the other for the breakdown of the talks, which fell apart over disputes about how much writers should be paid for shows distributed online and whether writers who work in reality TV and feature animation should be covered under the Writers Guild of America contract.

In a statement, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios, said it was “puzzled and disheartened by an ongoing WGA negotiating strategy that seems designed to delay or derail talks rather than facilitate an end to this strike.”

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