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Article: SAG Nixes final offer: stalemate may leave town limbo for long, hot summer.(Screen Actors Guild)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- July 11, 2008
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SAG's still not ready to close a deal with the majors--sig naling that the thesps' contract stalemate will linger on into the late summer.
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Guild on Thursday officially rejected the final offer by the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers on grounds that the pact falls short in such areas as new media and DVD residuals, along with product integration and force majeure protections. At a meeting on Thursday at AMPTP's Sherman Oaks HQ, the AMPTP called on SAG to put the final offer to a vote of SAG's 120,000 members. SAG's official rejection of the final offer and AMPTP's request for a membership vote sets the stage for a ...