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...What we're deciding here will affect actors for a generation," says Doug Allen, SAG's national executive director and chief negotiator. "The notion that the [Directors Guild of America], [Writers Guild of America] and SAG should all get the same deal is not fair. What's good for directors is not necessarily good for actors...
...long-simmering battle between the two unions escalated in March amid allegations that SAG was trying to poach actors from the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, which is under AFTRA jurisdiction. Now the fight has gotten to the hair-pulling stage: SAG is attempting to defeat AFTRA's contract vote, which would force the unions back to the bargaining table together. The latest weapon is dueling robo-calls: actor James Cromwell is calling AFTRA's members to support the contract. Sandra Oh is calling the 44,000 actors who are members of both unions to vote to defeat...
...There's enormous anger against SAG in the industry because there's a feeling that they're not being realistic," says Jonathan Handel, a digital-media attorney at TroyGould in Los Angeles. Although none of the other unions have managed to obtain an increase in DVD residuals, SAG is still pushing for it. But because of the weak economy and the fresh memories of the writers' strike, Handel contends, "they don't have the leverage...
...While the actors' unions continue to spar, studios are hedging their bets when it comes to productions. Executives at two movie studios said they had pushed back production start dates to late summer with the SAG negotiations in mind. If there is a strike, the thinking goes, better that it happen before a $100-million movie gets under...
...Several high-profile independent films, such as Bad Lieutenant, starring Nicolas Cage, and W, Oliver Stone's chronicle of the Bush presidency, are moving ahead with production, since they have negotiated separate deals with SAG...