Actors Ask for More Time to Study Final Offer

The Screen Actors Guild is asking for more time to study the final contract offer made by major Hollywood studios.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios, said both sides met Wednesday for four hours to discuss the offer. The meeting was held a day after the contract between SAG and [...]

George Clooney Plays Peacemaker

George Clooney just wants actors to get along instead of choosing between sparring unions.
In a two-page letter, Clooney is neutral in the dispute between the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild.
He says “What we can’t do is pit artist against artist.”
AFTRA has already reached a tentative [...]

SAG says Studios Offered More to Sister Union

The Screen Actors Guild is accusing the major Hollywood studios of offering a contract deal worth less than an agreement tentatively approved by the leaders of a smaller actors union.
SAG executive director Doug Allen told The Associated Press on Wednesday the offer is worth millions of dollars less over the life of the proposed three-year [...]

TV Networks Brace for Potential Actors Strike

Fall season could be delayed if walkout halts production

By Steve Gorman
Reuters
updated 6:24 p.m. PT, Thurs., June. 19, 2008

LOS ANGELES - As Hollywood recovers from a tumultuous writers strike that ended in February, U.S. television networks are bracing for a possible actors walkout that could delay the upcoming fall TV season.
Jitters over renewed labor unrest have [...]

Screen Actors Guild says Contract Talks Could Last into July

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 [...]

Hollywood Studios, AFTRA Agree on 3-year Contract

The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists says it has agreed to a tentative deal with Hollywood studios on a new three-year contract.
The union said early Wednesday that the deal establishes fees for content streamed and downloaded over the Internet and preserves actors’ rights of consent on the use of their voices and images [...]

Actors Negotiations

Turns out a contract deal between Hollywood producers and the smaller of two actors unions may not be quick or easy.
In an e-mail to members, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists or AFTRA, says challenging issues remain, particularly when it comes to using clips on the Internet.
Both AFTRA and the larger Screen [...]

AFTRA Talks With Producers Continue

From the Associated Press:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s been awfully quiet on the negotiation front between producers and one of the actors unions.
Talks began a week ago between the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists or AFTRA, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
Variety predicts they could reach an agreement [...]

Snag Talks: SAG Negotiations Hit a Brick Wall

Here we go again…?The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Tuesday walked away from the bargaining table, with the AMPTP claiming (in a statement) that “significant differences remain on DVD residuals, streaming, made for new media, and new media use of clips and library material” — discrepancies the [...]

SAG, Studios Extend Talks One Week

By Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 24, 2008
The Screen Actors Guild and major Hollywood studios have agreed to extend their contract talks another week in a sign that the two sides are making some, albeit limited, headway in their negotiations toward a new three-year agreement.
Studios had initially planned to begin negotiations with SAG’s [...]