So the rumors were true, the Screen Actors Guild’s (SAG) negotiations with the studios are really going nowhere. The studios just slammed the SAG by saying they are being ‘unresponsive, unreasonable and unrealistic.’ You’re not making a public statement like that when there are deals lying ready on the table.

“Although both parties have spent considerable time in the negotiating room, we are not yet close to an agreement,” the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) said. Basically they say the SGA doesn’t want to follow the pattern the Directors and Writers Guild of America set earlier. One of the main disputes is still the compensation for DVD sales, which the SAG wants to double. But the AMPTP isn’t ready to give in, since it will naturally cost them major revenue.

The SGA’s current contract expires June 30, after which the second strike this year could follow.