SAG offers no-strike indie pacts

March 05, 2008 SAG said Tuesday that it will offer guaranteed-completion contracts to indie companies that have projects in production past the June 30 actors contract expiration date. The contracts would quash any threat of a work stoppage for those companies that qualify, enabling them to get the financing and completion bonds required to start filming. The offer by SAG -- whose spokesmen declined to discuss the strategic import of the ploy -- could ratchet up the angst level for studio execs by signaling that the guild is in for the long haul and prepared to strike.

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