Accusing AT&T of “callous gamesmanship,” SAG-AFTRA has filed suit against the giant media and telecommunications conglomerate in a dispute over nearly $5 million in residuals and other compensation allegedly owed to actors who appeared on Mr.
Mercedes, the TV series based on the Stephen King novel that starred Brendan Gleeson and Harry Treadaway.The show aired from 2017-19 on AT&T’s now-defunct Audience Network.AT&T, however, says that it doesn’t owe the union anything and wants SAG-AFTRA to repay the nearly $700,000 that it “mistakenly” paid the union during a failed two-year-long arbitration over the show’s unpaid residuals.SAG-AFTRA’s lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S.
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