The following letter members received from SAG today reinforces some of the points I was making in my earlier post: BIG PRODUCER$ MONETIZE YOUTUBE CLIP$ July 17, 2008 It’s Not New Media – It’s NOW Media Dear Screen Actors Guild Member, I want to tell you why your national negotiating committee has not accepted the [...]

July 16, 2008 Dear Screen Actors Guild Member: Small contingents of the negotiating committees for Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers met for two hours today at AMPTP headquarters in Sherman Oaks. Both parties agreed to keep the contents of today’s meeting confidential. We will continue to update you [...]

In what is being termed a ‘sidebar’ meeting, an off the record meeting with an unspecified agenda, the AMPTP has agreed to meet with SAG negotiators today to discuss the current contract stalemate. AMPTP insists that the offer on the table is in fact their ‘last best final’ offer and that there will be no [...]

If only SAG President Alan Rosenberg and AFTRA President Roberta Reardon were married… they could get a divorce. As it stands, it looks like a long, chilly separation is in the works for the two actor’s unions they represent. If anyone is still confused about why SAG and AFTRA conducted the TV/Theatrical contract negotiations separately [...]