SAG and studios need more time

The Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studios aren’t ready to give up their pre-strike talk. The studios were going to talk to the AFTRA (TV and radio) next week, but the SAG has asked for a one week extension.

“We owe it to our entire industry to give the current . . . talks every opportunity to result in an agreement,” they reasoned. The two parties seem to have a better understanding than the WGA and the studios had last year. But there is still a lot to talk about. For example, the actors want double the amount of money for DVD and media sales. And a strike could potentially be way more costly than the writers’ strike from last winter.