Producers: No new meetings set with SAG

Los Angeles -- More than a month after the Screen Actors Guild contract expired, a group of Hollywood film and TV producers said no new negotiating sessions are planned.

SAG leaders last month rejected what the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers had described on June 30 as its final offer. The latest SAG-AMPTP contract expired July 1.

"The AMPTP is always interested in exploring ways to reach an agreement, and if SAG has an approach that's consistent with the parameters of our June 30 final offer then we are open to hearing that," the AMPTP said in a statement issued Monday. "SAG's negotiators have not discussed with us any plan to reach an agreement and the only meeting the parties are attempting to schedule is one to resolve some outstanding grievance claims. No meetings, formal or informal, regarding these negotiations have taken place since the sidebar SAG requested on July 16, and no meetings are pending."

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