Thursday 22 May 2008

Hollywood actors and studios to renew labor talks

Hollywood actors and studios to renew labor talks








LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Screen door Actors Lodge and major Hollywood studios agreed to repay to the bargaining table by May 28 to resume foreshorten dialogue that broke away more than a week ago, sources close to the talks said on Thursday.


The studios, represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television system Producers, cut off trine weeks of negotiations on Whitethorn 6, saying talks had been "lunge into verso" by "unreasonable demands" from the union.


The studios turned then to separate take talks with SAG's smaller sister union, the American Federation of Television and Radiocommunication Artists, widely seen as more in all probability to get a labor deal quickly.


The exact timing for renewed Sag down negotiations hinges on how shortly it takes AFTRA and the studios to reach a resolution, but Droop and the studios experience agreed to resume their bargaining by English hawthorn 28 at the latest, the sources said.


The abrupt break in their talks last week stoked Hollywood labour jitters after a 100-day screenwriters assume that ended in February.


(Reportage by Steve Gorman; Redaction by Bob Tourtellotte)