George Clooney-Led $150 Million Proposal to SAG-AFTRA ‘Didn’t Go Well,’ May Be DOA
variety.comGeorge Clooney presented a proposal to SAG-AFTRA leadership during a Tuesday afternoon Zoom call in an effort to find a way to resolve the three-month-long actors strike with the studios.
But the proposal is likely dead on arrival. Sources with knowledge of the situation say the group of some 15 stars, which includes Tyler Perry and Scarlett Johansson, held a follow-up call last night with SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee. “It didn’t go well,” says one of the sources, adding that the committee “didn’t see the validity” of the group’s proposal.
After Tuesday’s Zoom, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher and executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland met with the union’s negotiating committee to discuss the stars’ proposal, which called for removing the cap on dues in a bid to bring more than $50 million to the union annually and $150 million over three years.
They suggested a bottom-up residual structure whereby top earners would be the last to collect residuals and not the first. But their pitch found no traction, say the sources, leaving the A-listers group feeling dejected. “The don’t understand why there isn’t just a mediation,” says one of the sources.
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