SAG needs time to analyze offer

July 02, 2008 With actors working under a contract that expired a day earlier, SAG officials met Wednesday with studio reps for roughly four hours, discussing details of what the studios called their "final offer." There still are several issues left out of the studios' offer, including the push to end SAG's 60 years of force majeure protections -- leaving it to the actor to negotiate on his or her own -- as well as DVD residuals and mileage reimbursement. SAG repeatedly has told the public and its members that AFTRA's primetime/TV deal with the AMPTP is flawed and that it makes no significant gains for actors in new media, both in jurisdictional and residual areas.

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