ITS ABOUT TIME…

Negotiators for the Screen Actors Guild and the major studios have reached a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract for the union’s 120,000 members.

Sources close to the talks say the union’s negotiating task force will be briefed today on the proposed agreement, which is expected to be voted on by SAG’s 71-member national board on Sunday.

Actors have been working without a contract for nine months as previous attempts at negotiations with the studios collapsed.

The contract contains some minor improvements over previous offers but is largely similar to the one studios presented to SAG nine months ago. That is certain to raise questions about what the union  accomplished by holding out so long to secure a deal after other talent unions secured their own contracts with the studios.