UPDATED with joint statement: SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers agreed Friday to extend their current film and TV contract until July 12 to allow bargaining on a new deal to continue, both sides said this evening.
The current contract had been set to expire tonight at midnight PT, after which it would have likely meant a second major Hollywood guild would be on strike against the studios. “The agreements, which were set to expire at 11:59 p.m.
PT tonight, will now expire on July 12, at 11:59 p.m. PT,” SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP said in a joint statement. “The parties will continue to negotiate under a mutually agreed upon media blackout.
Neither organization will comment to the media about the negotiations during the extension.” An extension of the SAG-AFTRA contract during tough talks is not unusual: the guild and the studios did so in 2014 and 2017 before finally reaching deals in early July of those years.
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