21 November 2008 1:34 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news
Surprising many industry observers who expected the first meeting between the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers under the auspices of federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez would be perfunctory and unproductive, the two sides in fact spent 12 hours together, adjourning at 1100 p.m. Thursday night. They then said that they would meet again on Friday. Nevertheless, Daily Variety, citing people familiar with the meeting, said that "progress appears to have been negligible" and that it consisted mostly of each side repeating the positions they have taken previously.
