SAG-AFTRA & Studios Will Continue Talks This Week – Deadline

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There was no sit-in by SAG-AFTRA members on Monday due to the Indigenous Peoples’ Day holiday, but actors union leadership is back at the negotiating table with the studios and banners.

Following the conclusion of the latest negotiating session at SAG-AFTRA’s Wilshire Boulevard offices, chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and other union leaders will meet again with the Gang of Four and AMPTP CEOs in two days.

“SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP have conducted and concluded negotiations for today,” the parties said in an increasingly joint joint statement this evening. He added, “Bargaining will continue on Wednesday, October 11, with the parties working independently on Tuesday.”

A one-day-one-off approach has been the norm for SAG-AFTRA and the studios since they began renewed talks a week ago.

“It’s a process, and we’re working through it,” a source close to the talks told Deadline on Monday. The three polite but intense bargaining sessions last week included monologues from both sides of the table and deep division over SAG-AFTRA’s revenue-sharing proposal. Today saw union and studio representatives return to talks after the weekend to examine proposals as they aim to end the actors’ strike that has been ongoing for nearly three months.

As was the case last week, Warner Bros Discovery’s David Zaslav, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley, and Disney’s Bob Iger attended Monday with AMPTP President Carole Lombardini. The CEOs are expected to participate in the upcoming face-to-face session.

Along with the somber tone 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 membership on both coasts ratified a new three-year basic minimum agreement with… Overwhelming mandate.

SAG-AFTRA sit-ins are expected to resume Tuesday in Los Angeles at Sony, Disney, Warner Bros and Paramount locations starting at 9 a.m. to noon PT. In New York City, the guild and supporters will be at Paramount, NBCUniversal’s 30 Rock HQ, Amazon/HBO and Warner Bros Discovery/Netflix from 9:30 a.m. to noon ET.

Tuesday will be the 90th day of the SAG-AFTRA strike.