Media & Entertainment Law

SAG Hardliners' Picnic No Walk in the Park

By Jonathan Handel, Esq.

What if you held a picnic and nobody came? That?s almost where Membership First found itself yesterday. A beautiful day, a heavily promoted event, yet the SAG faction was only able to draw about 70 people to its Griffith Park / LA Zoo shindig, reports Variety.

SAG President Alan Rosenberg, who spoke at the picnic cum rally, predicted ?a good chance? of defeat for the pending TV/theatrical deal, but that seems unlikely if MF can only attract a handful of members to an event in LA, considered the group?s stronghold. The ballots go out tomorrow (Tuesday the 19^th), with a June 9 return date, so we?ll know in a few weeks whether the MF tigers still roar or whether they?ve turned to paper.

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Full post as published by Digital Media Law on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).