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SAG talks to be short and sweet?
Friday January 30th 2009SAG’s negotiations with the congloms next week are expected to be short and sweet — and without moguls Peter Chernin or Bob Iger getting directly involved.
Neither the Screen Actors Guild nor the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers has commented on the talks, set for Tuesday and Wednesday. But several factors should put the talks on a fast track:
* SAG’s moderate majority fired topper Doug Allen this week out of exasperation at his inability to close a deal on the feature-primetime contract, which expired June 30.
* The AMPTP companies have insisted since June 30 that they won’t revise the final offer.
* SAG and the AMPTP have held 46 separate negotiating sessions since April, so each side has full knowledge of the other’s positions.
* If the companies concede on retaining force majeure language and settling the claims of actors left without work when TV series went dark during the WGA strike, that could be enough for SAG to close a deal.
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o (Person) Doug Allen
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o (Person) Doug Allen
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o (Person) Doug Allen
So it’s viewed as highly improbable that Chernin and Iger would enter into the negotiations as they did last year to close out the WGA and DGA deals.
News Corp. prexy Chernin and Disney CEO Iger were last directly involved with the talks in April, when the duo met with SAG prexy Alan Rosenberg and Allen in an effort to come to an agreement on the agenda before the formal bargaining sessions started.
That session was cordial but not particularly substantive, with Chernin and Iger making it clear to guild leaders that the AMPTP has no plans to deviate significantly from the template established in the DGA and WGA contracts reached earlier this year. At that point, the moguls opted to back away and let the formal negotiations process play out (Daily Variety, April 10).
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* (Co) Daily Variety
Filmography, Year, Role
* (Co) Daily Variety
The CEOs have stayed mostly silent since then. Iger, Chernin and six other moguls made a joint announcement following the cratering of the last round of negotiations in November, when federal mediation failed to yield an agreement. That announcement blasted SAG for demanding more than the companies have given in the six other labor agreements it signed last year.
Rosenberg and Allen have never stopped insisting that the unique needs of SAG members and the shift toward new-media platforms require that SAG break the pattern of deals.
In another development, SAG removed on Thursday most of the material on its website that favored a strike authorization. And Rosenberg remained bitter in an interview with Thewrap.com in which he said, “My life sucks” and performed a blues song starting with the lyrics “We don’t care about the future” in which he attempted to satirize his opponents.
Source: Variety
Headline, Industry News
SAG talks to be short and sweet?
Friday January 30th 2009SAG’s negotiations with the congloms next week are expected to be short and sweet — and without moguls Peter Chernin or Bob Iger getting directly involved.
Neither the Screen Actors Guild nor the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers has commented on the talks, set for Tuesday and Wednesday. But several factors should put the talks on a fast track:
* SAG’s moderate majority fired topper Doug Allen this week out of exasperation at his inability to close a deal on the feature-primetime contract, which expired June 30.
* The AMPTP companies have insisted since June 30 that they won’t revise the final offer.
* SAG and the AMPTP have held 46 separate negotiating sessions since April, so each side has full knowledge of the other’s positions.
* If the companies concede on retaining force majeure language and settling the claims of actors left without work when TV series went dark during the WGA strike, that could be enough for SAG to close a deal.
More than one option
o (Person) Doug Allen
Actor, Construction, Director
o (Person) Doug Allen
Character Design
o (Person) Doug Allen
So it’s viewed as highly improbable that Chernin and Iger would enter into the negotiations as they did last year to close out the WGA and DGA deals.
News Corp. prexy Chernin and Disney CEO Iger were last directly involved with the talks in April, when the duo met with SAG prexy Alan Rosenberg and Allen in an effort to come to an agreement on the agenda before the formal bargaining sessions started.
That session was cordial but not particularly substantive, with Chernin and Iger making it clear to guild leaders that the AMPTP has no plans to deviate significantly from the template established in the DGA and WGA contracts reached earlier this year. At that point, the moguls opted to back away and let the formal negotiations process play out (Daily Variety, April 10).
More than one option
* (Co) Daily Variety
Filmography, Year, Role
* (Co) Daily Variety
The CEOs have stayed mostly silent since then. Iger, Chernin and six other moguls made a joint announcement following the cratering of the last round of negotiations in November, when federal mediation failed to yield an agreement. That announcement blasted SAG for demanding more than the companies have given in the six other labor agreements it signed last year.
Rosenberg and Allen have never stopped insisting that the unique needs of SAG members and the shift toward new-media platforms require that SAG break the pattern of deals.
In another development, SAG removed on Thursday most of the material on its website that favored a strike authorization. And Rosenberg remained bitter in an interview with Thewrap.com in which he said, “My life sucks” and performed a blues song starting with the lyrics “We don’t care about the future” in which he attempted to satirize his opponents.
Source: Variety
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Headline, Industry News
SAG talks to be short and sweet?
Friday January 30th 2009SAG’s negotiations with the congloms next week are expected to be short and sweet — and without moguls Peter Chernin or Bob Iger getting directly involved.
Neither the Screen Actors Guild nor the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers has commented on the talks, set for Tuesday and Wednesday. But several factors should put the talks on a fast track:
* SAG’s moderate majority fired topper Doug Allen this week out of exasperation at his inability to close a deal on the feature-primetime contract, which expired June 30.
* The AMPTP companies have insisted since June 30 that they won’t revise the final offer.
* SAG and the AMPTP have held 46 separate negotiating sessions since April, so each side has full knowledge of the other’s positions.
* If the companies concede on retaining force majeure language and settling the claims of actors left without work when TV series went dark during the WGA strike, that could be enough for SAG to close a deal.
More than one option
o (Person) Doug Allen
Actor, Construction, Director
o (Person) Doug Allen
Character Design
o (Person) Doug Allen
So it’s viewed as highly improbable that Chernin and Iger would enter into the negotiations as they did last year to close out the WGA and DGA deals.
News Corp. prexy Chernin and Disney CEO Iger were last directly involved with the talks in April, when the duo met with SAG prexy Alan Rosenberg and Allen in an effort to come to an agreement on the agenda before the formal bargaining sessions started.
That session was cordial but not particularly substantive, with Chernin and Iger making it clear to guild leaders that the AMPTP has no plans to deviate significantly from the template established in the DGA and WGA contracts reached earlier this year. At that point, the moguls opted to back away and let the formal negotiations process play out (Daily Variety, April 10).
More than one option
* (Co) Daily Variety
Filmography, Year, Role
* (Co) Daily Variety
The CEOs have stayed mostly silent since then. Iger, Chernin and six other moguls made a joint announcement following the cratering of the last round of negotiations in November, when federal mediation failed to yield an agreement. That announcement blasted SAG for demanding more than the companies have given in the six other labor agreements it signed last year.
Rosenberg and Allen have never stopped insisting that the unique needs of SAG members and the shift toward new-media platforms require that SAG break the pattern of deals.
In another development, SAG removed on Thursday most of the material on its website that favored a strike authorization. And Rosenberg remained bitter in an interview with Thewrap.com in which he said, “My life sucks” and performed a blues song starting with the lyrics “We don’t care about the future” in which he attempted to satirize his opponents.
Source: Variety
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