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Yesterday, Hollywood producers and representatives from the Screen Actors Guild met privately for two hours in an attempt to reach a contract agreement. With Monty Hall nowhere in sight, the two sides once again failed to make a deal. The meeting came a week after SAG rejected the producers' final offer. The two sides currently have no plans to meet again.

According to the Associated Press: "the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has been calling on union leaders to allow actors to vote on a contract offer that it said would provide $250 million in additional compensation over three years. The guild has said the estimated value of the offer is highly inflated." Representatives from both sides of the tracks failed to comment but producers said if the offer is not ratified by August 15th, any proposed wage increase would not be made retroactive to July 1st.

Actors from SAG, which represents 120,000 actors across film, television, and other media, have been working under expired contracts. How that works, I'm not exactly sure, but the two guilds are no closer to making a deal than they were months ago. The only positive news - if any can be derived from the situation - is that SAG still has not taken motions to strike. This, however, is more likely due to an overlapping fatigue from the WGA strike and a possible loss of credibility SAG is likely to face seeing as their sister guild, AFTRA, settled on a deal months ago.