SAG-AFTRA & Studios Mull More Talks Today After Guild Responds To AMPTP’s “Last, Best & Final” Offer
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: A deal may not be in the cards tonight, but SAG-AFTRA and the studios could be heading back to negotiations within hours.
The two sides are hoping to be speak virtually later today and perhaps into the night, we hear. As of right now, no meetings have been formally set, according to a guild source, but they are expecting to lock in a time “very soon.” It is unclear at present whether the CEO Gang of Four — NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley, Warner Bros Discovery’s David Zaslav, Disney’s Bob Iger and Netflix’s Ted Sarandos — will be participating in these new talks, which are said to include guild Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and AMPTP president Carol Lombardini.
This potential latest sit-down comes as the striking actors guild sent back a response earlier Monday to the AMPTP’s so-called “last, best and final” offer of November 3.
That response was “measured,” as a guild member close to talks tells us on this 116th day of the SAG-AFTRA strike. The guild spent most of the weekend “reviewing” the hundreds of pages thick proposal from the studios — a proposal that is a response to SAG-AFTRA’s “comprehensive counter” of late October. “Everybody knows where everybody stands,” a studio insider told Deadline this afternoon. “Now, it’s about bringing it home, if we can,” he added with some optimism.
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