Screen Actors Guild and AMPTP Reach Tentaive Agreement 

Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers Reach Tentative Agreement on TV/Theatrical Deal

LOS ANGELES (April 17, 2009) – The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and Screen Actors Guild today announced that the parties have reached tentative agreement on successor agreements to the Producer-Screen Actors Guild Codified Basic Agreement.

Details of the agreement covering television programs and motion pictures will not be disclosed prior to review by the SAG national board of directors this Sunday, April 19, at a previously scheduled board meeting via videoconference in Los Angeles and New York.

Screen Actors Guild's negotiators will present the tentative agreement to the Screen Actors Guild national board of directors for approval and referral to the membership for ratification.

Contact:

Pamela Greenwalt, SAG
(323) 549-6872

Jesse Hiestand, AMPTP
(818) 935-5941