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Majors move toward final offer to SAG.(Screen Actors Guild )
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Daily Variety
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June 20, 2008
- Author:
- McNary, Dave
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With negligible progress at Screen Actors Guild negotiations, the majors are moving toward making the guild a last, best and final offer.
The "final offer" move--a tactic never used during the WGA strike--could come as early as next week, unless SAG changes course and backs away from an array of demands that are nonstarters for the companies, including an increase in DVD residuals sweeter terms for new-media residuals than those achieved earlier this year by the DGA, WGA and AFTRA.
Talks, which hit their 34th day on Thursday, are said to have been highly unproductive during the past few weeks, with the exasperation level rising for both sides.
The biz is ...
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407 words
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787 words
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