SAG-AMPTP TALKS TO CONTINUE

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	SAG-AMPTP TALKS LIKELY TO FAIL, SAYS REPORT Apr 25 2008
	Although this week's decision by the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture (more)
	SAG SIGNS DEALS FOR 95 INDIE FILMS Apr 23 2008
	Regardless of whether the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television (more)
	SAG AND AMPTP BEGIN BARGAINING TALKS Apr 16 2008
	Contract negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television (more)

SAG-AMPTP TALKS TO CONTINUE
Monday, May 5 2008

Raising hopes that some progress is being made in talks between members of the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after all, the two groups announced on Friday that they would extend their negotiations through Tuesday. They had been slated to end on Friday. According to published reports, the agreement to continue bargaining talks came after SAG agreed to drop its demand to double the residual payments for DVD sales, reducing the requested hike to 15 percent. Meanwhile the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists said that it would put off its own talks with the AMPTP until Wednesday.

BOTH SIDES AGREE: NO PROGRESS IN ACTORS' TALKS
Thursday, May 1 2008
In their first public statements concerning their nearly three weeks of bargaining talks -- they're due to end on Friday -- the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the Screen Actors Guild each appeared to concede that they remain far apart on reaching an agreement. The AMPTP accused the union of making unreasonable demands including doubling DVD residuals and "huge increases in compensation and benefits." The demands, the AMPTP said, "would result in (more)

NO PROGRESS AT SAG-AMPTP TALKS
Wednesday, April 30 2008
Reporters stalking the offices of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, where closed bargaining talks with the Screen Actors are taking place, have been unable to receive even a hint from participants about what has been going on inside. That has led most to conclude that little headway has been made and that it is likely that the talks will end this week without an agreement, thereby raising the prospects of another industry (more)