00:00 Hollywood is bracing for a mega strike unprecedented in scale since the 1960s.
00:05 The SAG after union said its negotiators unanimously recommended a strike after
00:10 labor talks with Hollywood studios collapsed. The union's national board
00:14 will meet later thursday than to vote on whether or not to pursue industrial
00:18 action. And if they do decide to do so, the double strike of actors and writers
00:23 could bring nearly all U. S. Film and television productions to a screeching
00:28 halt. France 24 is Los Angeles correspondent. Wasim Corne has more.
00:32 The deadline has come and gone and so far we have not heard anything from
00:37 either party, either the A. M. P. T. P. Which is the american motion picture
00:41 and television producers, the company that represents all these studios or
00:46 second after which is the actors union. I've been refreshing twitter furiously
00:50 just as I was before coming on the air. But clearly dozens of people waiting
00:55 up past their bedtime past midnight to find out what happens at this midnight
01:00 deadline. But so far we haven't heard anything. There is now potentially some
01:04 speculation that there won't be a formal announcement made until thursday
01:08 morning at the nine a.m. Board meeting, which is something that is scheduled to
01:12 happen. Perhaps some of these people at SAG after will decide to sleep on it.
01:16 Perhaps right now there are some last minute calls being made and some last
01:19 minute talks being made. It's not the first time that SAG after has really
01:23 taken these negotiations to the brink. I mean just twice in the past decade
01:29 they have they had actually decided to extend those talks just like they did
01:33 this time around and then they were able to strike a deal in the 11th hour. So
01:38 perhaps we might find out in the next few minutes in the next couple of hours
01:41 that there was in fact a deal that was struck. But it has to be said, I mean
01:45 the environment these past few days has really not been conducive to any sort
01:49 of calm negotiations. It's really been a nasty past few days, especially um
01:55 just the past 48 hours. Actually there was even a federal mediator that was
01:59 sent to Los Angeles to try to find a deal to broker a deal between the
02:03 studios and the actors union. Uh that news was leaked to the press. SAG after
02:08 came out and said that they were very unhappy that that information was
02:12 leaked and that they actually again took that opportunity to remind
02:15 reporters and everyone else that they would not be extending that contract
02:19 a second time. But again, just the last bit of information that we heard
02:23 earlier today was actually a news report that came out in an entertainment
02:28 media website saying quoting a senior studio executive. This was talking
02:33 about the writer's strike saying that they're the studio's tactic was
02:37 actually to let all these writers and I quote go broke, lose their apartments,
02:41 lose their houses and then we'll return to the negotiating table in the fall
02:44 hopefully with the upper hand. And so I mean you just can imagine the
02:48 reaction of the both unions, the writers and the actors when they heard
02:52 that bit of information right there.
