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There was no picketing by SAG-AFTRA members Monday due to the Indigenous Peoples Day holiday, but the actors’ guild leadership returned to the negotiating table with studios and streamers.
Following the conclusion of the final negotiating session at the SAG-AFTRA offices on Wilshire Boulevard, chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and other guild leaders will meet again with the Gang of Four CEOs and the AMPTP in two days.
“SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP have engaged in negotiations and have concluded them for today,” the parties said in an increasingly unified joint statement this evening. “Negotiations will continue on Wednesday, October 11, with the parties working independently on Tuesday.”
The one-day-on, one-day-off approach has been the norm for SAG-AFTRA and the studios since they began renewed discussions a week ago.
“It’s a process, we’re working on it,” a source involved in the talks told Deadline on Monday. The three civil but intense negotiating sessions last week included monologues from both sides of the table and a deep disagreement over SAG-AFTRA’s revenue-sharing proposal. Today, guild and studio officials returned to weekend talks and considered proposals to end the actors’ nearly three-month strike.
Like last week, Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley and Disney’s Bob Iger were in attendance, along with AMPTP President Carol Lombardini. The CEOs are expected to attend the next in-person meeting.
Adding to the somber mood across Hollywood due to the horrific attacks on Israel that began over the weekend, today’s SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP talks come on the same day that WGA members on both coasts reached a new three-year minimum base agreement with a ratified the landslide mandate.
The SAG-AFTRA pickets are expected to resume Tuesday from 9 a.m. to noon PT in Los Angeles at the properties of Sony, Disney, Warner Bros. and Paramount. In New York City, the guild and its supporters will be in attendance from 9:30 a.m. to noon ET at Paramount, NBCUniversal’s 30 Rock HQ, Amazon/HBO and Warner Bros Discovery/Netflix.
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Tuesday marks the 90th anniversary of the SAG-AFTRA strike.