Contract negotiations between Hollywood studios and streaming companies and the performers’ union SAG-AFTRA have broken down once again. So for now, the nearly three-month-long strike continues.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the major studios, announced in a statement that the gap between their proposals and the union’s was “too great” and that conversations “are no longer moving us in a productive direction.”
Just two weeks ago, the studio heads of Disney, Netflix, NBC Universal and Warner Brothers Discovery had resumed negotiating with SAG-AFTRA, which represents 160,000 actors, dancers, voiceover artists and stunt performers. The first round of their contract negotiations stalled in mid-July, and union members began to strike, joining striking screenwriters who had walked off their jobs in May.
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