SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood’s studios and streamers have extended negotiations on their next three-year film and television deal one more week, the parties disclosed on Friday.
The performers’ union and the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of companies like Netflix and Paramount, issued a short joint press release noting that their talks would continue. Both remain under media blackout during the negotiations.
The sides are racing against the clock as the AMPTP is set to begin negotiations with a separate union, the Writers Guild of America, on March 16. Still, if SAG-AFTRA and management do not reach a deal by then, they have made room in their schedules for an additional bargaining period ahead of the union’s deal expiring on June 30.
More to come.
