Screen Actors Guild (SAG) commentary
No deal yet between SAG and the studios. This video commentary explores why.
No deal yet between SAG and the studios. This video commentary explores why.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment
This short press release from the AMPTP (studio alliance) re today's SAG-AMPTP meeting says it all. Not particularly encouraging. And, below, my ana...
Michael Russnow | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment
Thanks to the WGA strike, management now takes the artistic community seriously, but it couldn't have been accomplished without the support provided by the Screen Actors Guild.
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 07.11.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Screen Actors Guild weighed bargaining strategies Friday after Hollywood producers warned a souring economy could cause them t...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.11.2008 | Entertainment
Day by day, the Screen Actors Guild's Hollywood leadership stumbles deeper into a morass, dragging behind it a bewildered and divided membership.
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Screen Actors Guild rejected the latest contract offer from Hollywood studios on Thursday but claimed it was willing to negoti...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment
A day after the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) approved a deal with the major Hollywood studio for a three-contract, the ...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment
Expanding on my previous post, I do want to acknowledge the obvious: this vote was a strong victory for AFTRA, especially in light of SAG's aggressive...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment
SAG will be emboldened by the low yes vote achieved by AFTRA, and is likely to resist compromise with the AMPTP for some time to come.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment
It's the current common wisdom throughout SAG negotiations that the Writers Strike Destroyed Network Television. Hey, honestly, it sounds reasonable. As long as you don't think too hard. Or at all.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.05.2008 | Entertainment
Ironically, while spurning qualified voting for their own union, SAG's leadership urges it on AFTRA.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.02.2008 | Entertainment
SAG and the AMPTP met for four hours today. According to the AMPTP, the meeting was at SAG's request, and the AMPTP answered questions on the proposal it put on the table two days ago.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.02.2008 | Entertainment
Hollywood's quiet today. Still, with the studios' "final offer" on the table, the natural question is, what happens next -- and will there be a strike?
Alec Baldwin | Posted 07.01.2008 | Entertainment
Before I get into Obama, the SAG strike and renewable energy, I wanted to talk about Patti LuPone. Yeah. That's right. Patti LuPone.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.30.2008 | Entertainment
I'm advised by a AMPTP spokesman that this offer tracks the AFTRA and DGA/WGA deals in terms of minimums, new media, and other provisions.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.28.2008 | Entertainment
Marx posited that history repeats itself: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. This year seems proof of that with the SAG commercials contract expiring this fall.
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 06.27.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — George Clooney just wants actors to get along instead of choosing between sparring unions. In a two-page letter released Thursday...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.18.2008 | Entertainment
It's time for SAG to put its full efforts into crafting the best deal it can get, rather than try to derail the AFTRA primetime deal.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.24.2008 | Entertainment
Union disputes are underway because actors want to control their own images and avoid being overexposed. That also sounds sensible - until you consider the tens of thousands of clips already available online illegally.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.08.2008 | Entertainment
The Screen Actors Guild contract talks collapsed Tuesday. The industry can't afford a second full-blown, extended work stoppage this year, whether from a strike, a lockout, or some ill-defined hybrid.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.15.2008 | Entertainment
Most movie and television production is currently scheduled to cease by mid- to late June, to avoid the risk of actors walking off set and shutting down on an active production.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.02.2008 | Entertainment
The Screen Actors Guild bowed to the inevitable yesterday and set a concrete date -- April 15 -- for commencement of talks with the studios.
AP | ANDREW DALTON | Posted 03.30.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Unions representing film and television actors will negotiate separately with producers in upcoming contract talks after board mem...
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.23.2008 | Entertainment
A better case could not be made for what's at stake for all of us who work in the American entertainment industry than a video produced by German actor Andreas Stenschke.
Sharon Waxman | Posted 03.20.2008 | Entertainment
Forget the Pellicano trial. The documents emerging in another case in downtown L.A. raise serious questions of dubious dealings.
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Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.20.2008 | Entertainment