Studios and actors remain at odds in labor talks
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With deuce years left before a self-imposed deadline in constrict dialogue with actors, major Hollywood studios said on Wednesday the 2 sides remained far from a make do and that excessive pairing demands were to fault.
The statement from the studios' bargaining agent, the Confederation of Motion Picture and Television set Producers, or AMPTP, stoked concerns almost renewed labour discord in the backwash of a 100-day strike by screenwriters that ended in Feb.
The electric current three-year reduce application long hundred,000 film and TV actors expires on June 30.
The AMPTP statement also simon Marks the most extensive public input by either position since the Screen Actors Club and studios opened negotiations on Apr 15 under what had been a strict media blackout.
Among stumbling blocks cited were SAG's demand for a doubling of residual fees actors make from DVDs and changes it sought in a new-media pay bodily structure already embraced by writers and directors. The studios said those demands "would result in enormous cost increases that we ar not volition to accept."
Death workweek, the parties agreed to stretch forth a two-week window for negotiations by a third base week, until English hawthorn 2, hoping to close what the studios and so called "significant gaps" between them.
The extension service was seen as a hopeful sign that a settlement was within turn over. Merely in Wednesday's updated notice to member companies posted online, the AMPTP said little additional advance had been made.
"Although both parties take spent considerable fourth dimension in the negotiating room, we are not as yet close to an agreement," the studios said. "We still have iI days of negotiations remaining with Sag, and we ar sledding to continue to work as hard as we can to find a reciprocally acceptable resolution."
