SAG to meet with AMPTP

Don’t sell the office furniture just yet; both SAG and the AMPTP have confirmed that they have talks scheduled for the first time in months, on February 17 and 18. Since new, negotiation-minded leadership has emerged with SAG, there is hope that the two-day negotiation session could lay the groundwork for a deal at last, ending the possibility of a second Hollywood strike in less than a year.

Of course, not everyone is happy; the ousted SAG leadership is still griping that the union ought not settle for terms close to what WGA, DGA and AFTRA settled for, but it looks like economic realities have finally caught up to these folks… at last? Time will tell.