The members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) soundly rejected the “final deal” being offered by the major Hollywood film and television studios leaving the entire industry seated on needles and pins wondering what will happen next.
The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) said on Wednesday that its final offer to the more than 120,000 members of the Guild, which they sprinkled with an additional $10 million incentive, would have to be ratified by August 15. A SAG delegation took all night Wednesday and most of Thursday to review and go over the producer’s proposal with its members and came back late on Thursday with a resounding — No Thank You!
“The refusal of SAG’s Hollywood leadership to accept this offer is the latest in a series of actions by SAG leaders that, in our opinion, puts labor peace at risk,” the producers alliance said.
No official word has come from SAG after its meeting on Thursday night.
OMG! Does this mean we can kiss another full season of Heroes goodbye or does this only affect movies?
If a strike occurs it will close down movies, television, everything involving an actor on any size screen.
If a strike occurs, I think we can forget about film and television entertainment as we know it now. After the WGA strike, a SAG strike is the last thing we need. I’m sure we’ll see some shows disappear forever if this happens and people will just forget about or no longer care about the ones that eventually do come back.
I don’t watch a lot of TV, but the few shows I do watch I am terribly attached to. This makes me sad 🙁
Sorry about this folks. The truth is, the studios are really undercutting actors AGAIN with a terrible, terrible deal. They’ve screwed us for 20 years on DVD residuals and are using the same argument they used for DVD for internet: “It’s a new medium, take this crappy deal and we’ll renegotiate later!”
I don’t know if we’ll be a strike…probably not, but anything is possible now. It sucks for you, but in the long run this will suck for working class actors (like me) and their families a whole lot more if we don’t take a stand.
Mike Mc