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DE FACTO STRIKE HITS HOLLYWOOD Tuesday, March 4 2008 Independent movie producers who are required by their backers to purchase completion bonds to guarantee that their films will get done have been told by insurance companies that they will not do business with them unless their movies can be finished by June 15, two weeks before the actors' contract with producers expires, the Los Angeles Times reported today (Tuesday). Producer Paul Schiff (Rushmore) told the newspaper that he was forced to shelve three movies (more) SAG LEADERS CRITICIZE DGA DEAL Wednesday, January 30 2008 The leaders of the Screen Actors Guild on Tuesday sent an email message to members expressing strong reservations about the contract signed last week by the Screen Directors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. President Alan Rosenberg and Executive Director Doug Allen wrote, "Some have rushed to anoint their deal as the 'solution' for the entertainment industry. We believe that assessment is premature." The two acknowledged that they had only seen (more) |
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Relations between the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists turned increasingly frosty Tuesday when AFTRA President Robert Reardon dispatched a letter to SAG President Alan Rosenberg demanding to know by next Monday whether SAG will agreed to participate in contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers by the end of the month. Reardon made it clear that AFTRA will do so with or without SAG negotiators in the room. Meanwhile, following a report that some independent producers were unable to get completion bonds because of insurers' fears of a strike, SAG said it would offer contracts to some indie producers guaranteeing that actors would continue working on their films even if a strike is called following the expiration of the actors' contract on June 30. The guarantee would apply only to films that are not financed or distributed by a company represented by the AMPTP. 
