Boyd Ostroff
June 27th, 2008, 11:15 AM
From today's Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121452693815709201.html?mod=weekend_leisure_arts_hs_coll_left
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The major Hollywood studios are expected to make the actors a final offer by midnight on Monday, when the SAG contract expires.
But resolution isn't expected until more than a week later because of an escalating intramural fight among actors and their unions. A second actors union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, reached a tentative deal with the studios in late May, and the results of the ratification vote by members, going on now, will arrive July 8. The deal was the first time in 27 years that the two unions have negotiated separately.
Meanwhile, work in Hollywood already has ground nearly to a halt as film and TV producers wait to see if there will be another long work stoppage. By next week, there will be almost no films in production. At major studios, more than two dozen television shows for next season are already shooting, but if a strike appears imminent, plans for the balance of next season's TV series could be scrapped in as little as a few days, according to people close to the studios.
Note: this link may expire and only take you to a "teaser" version of the article. If so, try doing a Google search for "wall st journal actors guild" or something similar...
The major Hollywood studios are expected to make the actors a final offer by midnight on Monday, when the SAG contract expires.
But resolution isn't expected until more than a week later because of an escalating intramural fight among actors and their unions. A second actors union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, reached a tentative deal with the studios in late May, and the results of the ratification vote by members, going on now, will arrive July 8. The deal was the first time in 27 years that the two unions have negotiated separately.
Meanwhile, work in Hollywood already has ground nearly to a halt as film and TV producers wait to see if there will be another long work stoppage. By next week, there will be almost no films in production. At major studios, more than two dozen television shows for next season are already shooting, but if a strike appears imminent, plans for the balance of next season's TV series could be scrapped in as little as a few days, according to people close to the studios.