Hollywood labor negotiations to last one more week

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Hollywood actors will spend an additional week negotiating with producers over future contract terms, the groups said Wednesday as the US entertainment industry still reels from a costly 100-day screenwriters strike.

"Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have agreed to extend our bargaining session by one week," the groups said in a joint statement.

"The parties will continue negotiations through May 2," they said, without providing further details.

Formal negotiations between SAG and AMPTP began on April 15, and the contract setting the wages for actors working both in the film industry and in television expires on June 30.

Earlier this year a long strike by the...