SAG-AFTRA Launches Casting-Specific Interim Agreements, With New Guy Ritchie Movie Among Those Getting Waivers

deadline.com:

SAG-AFTRA has handed out more interim agreements to film and television projects, including waivers featuring a new casting designation.

An untitled Guy Ritchie film and Destry Allyn Spielberg’s directorial debut Please Don’t Feed the Children were among five films given an interim casting agreement as of Thursday.

This is the first time the union’s interim agreement list has featured two designations. According to the SAG-AFTRA website where the list appears, these new designations allows “members to audition and/or engage in negotiations regarding casting for these productions, but may not yet travel, rehearse, or otherwise begin rendering services for the production.” So far the guild has granted 102 interim agreements through the close of business Thursday, with a majority of the waivers allowing projects not tied to Alliance of Motion Picture and Television producer-repped studios to film during the SAG-AFTRA strike. (The Unknown Country was recently granted an agreement so talent could promote the film before its release.) Most of the list is made up of film projects, though there are nine TV projects.

Other projects with the casting designation made public today are the films Armored, Superthief and Return to Wickensburg. A handful of indie producers have told Deadline they haven’t be able to lock in cast for film projects because SAG-AFRTA won’t allow agents to send actors scripts to read.