As predicted, the AMPTP has made its “last, best and final offer” to SAG on TV-Theatrical. SAG has issued a statement in response. SAG Statement The Screen Actors Guild national negotiating committee has bargained with the AMPTP for the last 42 days and remains committed to negotiating a fair deal for actors as soon as possible. The [...]
They’re back at the table again, and heading down to the wire. No word on progress, though the SAG team is leaking and spinning to their favored mouthpieces that the last minute negotiations aren’t their fault.  We’re not holding our breath on this one, but we still think the Allens may surprise those who’ve been reading the trades and [...]
We’ve already chronicled the foibles of the blatantly self promoting blogger, but once again she’s in hot water, this time for using “statistics” that don’t even approach the truth. In her latest in her self described “urgent” series about the so-far-failed TV-Theatrical negotiations, Finke, with no attribution, claims that AFTRA had a limited stake in its Exhibit [...]
A big chunk of Andrew Solomon’s Blogstage entry this morning is devoted to the anger over NY Branch President Sam Freed being refused access to the SAG e-mail system to send off a message supporting AFTRA’s Exhibit A and objecting to the Allens’ anti-AFTRA campaign. Solomon talked to some lawyers, including SAG’s. Here’s what he wrote. [...]
Actors Equity and the Broadway League have yet to finalize a deal covering work on the Main Stem and national tours. The contract was set to expire at 12:01 a.m. Monday morning, but, according to Backstage, quoting Equity spokeswoman Maria Somma, both sides have agreed “to extend the contract on day-to-day” while they continue to negotiate. Equity’s [...]
Dear Editor, Can you please give us your thoughts and opinions on what you think are the motivations of the MFer’s and the Allens for this anti-AFTRA campaign? Â What do they stand to gain, in your opinion? Also, for the suggestion box: Â please post your email address (editor@sagwatch.net) prominently on your front home page, so [...]
