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The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) broke off three weeks of contract talks without agreement on Tuesday, raisung the prospect of renewed Hollywood labor unrest after a 100-day writers strike that ended in February.

The AMPTP released a statement about 90 minutes after a self-imposed deadline for reaching a settlement had passed. The statement blamed “SAG’s continued adherence to unreasonable demands,” citing the union proposals to increase the “residual” payments actors earn for DVD sales as one of the key stumbling blocks.Other differences singled out by the studios included union demands pertaining to residuals for Internet streaming of entertainment content and other areas of new media.

There was no immediate response from SAG.

Read more about this at Reuters