SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have extended contract talks until midnight on July 12, delaying the expiration of their current deal, which would otherwise have ended at 11:59 p.m. Friday.
While the extension is not a guarantee that the groups will reach a deal for a new contract, similar extensions of contract negotiations between AMPTP and the Actors Guild happened 2014 and 2017, when previous contracts were struck.
SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP both declined to comment in accordance with the customary media blackouts during Hollywood labor negotiations.
Prior to the start of negotiations earlier this month, an overwhelming majority of SAG-AFTRA members voted to authorize guild leaders to call a strike if a satisfactory deal could not be reached.