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By Associated Press
POSTED: 04:56 p.m. EST, Nov 22, 2008
LOS ANGELES: The Screen Actors Guild said today it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed, despite the help of a federal mediator.
The guild said it adjourned talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers shortly before 1 a.m. after two sessions with federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez.
SAG, representing more than 120,000 actors in movies, did not specify what led to the impasse, saying only that management insists on terms that the guild cannot accept.
A call for comment to the movie producers group, known as the AMPTP, was not returned.
A strike authorization vote would take more than a month and require more than 75 percent approval to pass.
SAG is seeking union coverage for all Internet-only productions regardless of budget, plus residual payments for Internet productions replayed online, as well as continued actor protections during work stoppages
But the AMPTP said it was untenable for SAG to demand a better deal than what writers, directors and another actors union accepted earlier in the year, especially now that the economy has worsened.
Actors in prime-time television shows and movies have been working under terms of a contract that expired June 30, with the hope of avoiding a repeat of the 100-day writers strike that shut down production of dozens of TV shows and cost the Los Angeles economy an estimated $2.5 billion.
LOS ANGELES: The Screen Actors Guild said today it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed, despite the help of a federal mediator.
The guild said it adjourned talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers shortly before 1 a.m. after two sessions with federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez.
SAG, representing more than 120,000 actors in movies, did not specify what led to the impasse, saying only that management insists on terms that the guild cannot accept.
A call for comment to the movie producers group, known as the AMPTP, was not returned.
A strike authorization vote would take more than a month and require more than 75 percent approval to pass.
SAG is seeking union coverage for all Internet-only productions regardless of budget, plus residual payments for Internet productions replayed online, as well as continued actor protections during work stoppages
But the AMPTP said it was untenable for SAG to demand a better deal than what writers, directors and another actors union accepted earlier in the year, especially now that the economy has worsened.
Actors in prime-time television shows and movies have been working under terms of a contract that expired June 30, with the hope of avoiding a repeat of the 100-day writers strike that shut down production of dozens of TV shows and cost the Los Angeles economy an estimated $2.5 billion.
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