The Screen Actors Guild says negotiations with Hollywood studios could extend beyond June 30, the day its contract is set to expire.
SAG executive director Doug Allen says in a Thursday e-mail to The Associated Press the union is hoping for an agreement soon but is prepared to keep negotiating into July.
The union has yet to call for a strike authorization vote by members and hopes work in Hollywood would continue if contract talks are extended.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios, says it’s frustrated and discouraged at the guild’s attitude.
Both sides have said they want to avoid a repeat of the 100-day writers strike that ended in February. That walkout shut down production on dozens of TV shows and cost the Los Angeles-area
economy an estimated $2.5 billion.
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