REPORT: SAG TO SUBMIT DEAL TO MEMBERS

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REPORT: SAG TO SUBMIT DEAL TO MEMBERS
Tuesday, July 15 2008

The Screen Actors Guild may submit the final offer of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to a membership vote at the end of this month, Daily Variety reported today (Tuesday) citing no sources. It said that the union leadership would likely send the deal to members either without a recommendation or with pro and con arguments. However, L.A. Weekly columnist Nikki Finke in her Deadline Hollywood Today blog, quotes unnamed SAG insiders as saying that there is no truth to the Variety report. Finke herself comments, "This is yet another example of the trade writer Dave McNary making up a story about the guild negotiations that has no basis in reality." She accuses the trade publication of writing "what the moguls tell it because it's so dependent on them for advertising."

HEADING FOR A LONG IMPASSE?
Friday, July 11 2008
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers signaled Thursday that it was done negotiating with the Screen Actors Guild and that its "last, best, final offer" was indeed just that. The AMPTP insisted that SAG's leadership was "unreasonably" demanding more than was gained by other entertainment industry unions, including the Writers Guild of America (WGA), the Directors Guild of America (DGA), the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), and the American Federation of (more)

SHOWS WITH NO ACTORS DOMINATE RATINGS
Thursday, July 10 2008

Suggesting that television networks may have little to lose by continuing to take a tough stance against the Screen Actors Guild, not a single TV program featuring actors made a significant showing in the ratings Tuesday night with the exception of NBC's always dependable Law & Order: SVU. All of the other top shows featured AFTRA -- rather than SAG -- members, who were covered by a previously negotiated contract with the television networks. The (more)

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