SAG-AFTRA delivers response to studios’ ‘best and final’ offer.

SAG-AFTRA delivers its response Monday to the studios’ “last, best and final” offer, as Hollywood awaits a resolution to the 116-day actors’ strike.

The union’s negotiating committee spent nearly 12 hours on Sunday drafting its response. Details were not forthcoming yet.

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers indicated in a Zoom meeting on Saturday that its current offer is the best it can do, and that it will not negotiate further. The offer includes a success bonus for streaming shows, increases in minimum prices, and protection from artificial intelligence.

Several members of the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee expressed their displeasure with the offer on Twitter. Four of them retweeted a call for prominent actors to pressure studio CEOs to come back with a more favorable deal.

The union can continue to push for additional terms, but by using the term “last, best and final,” the AMPTP seeks to convey that it has heard the union’s arguments and cannot compromise further.

The studios sought to underscore that point on Saturday by gathering a larger-than-usual group of CEOs on a Zoom call, including leaders from Paramount, Sony, Amazon and Apple.

The hope is that if SAG-AFTRA agrees to a deal, production can resume in January. But CEOs have already warned that they may not be able to salvage 13-episode seasons of some radio shows.

Much of the negotiations leading up to Saturday’s meeting focused on the issue of artificial intelligence. Among other things, the union seeks to veto uses of artificial intelligence to create “digital doubles.” The union also wants minimum wage rates for using AI to create digital forms, as well as strict approval requirements.

Meanwhile, the union continued to organize sit-ins on Monday in New York and Los Angeles. SAG-AFTRA has scheduled a regular picket through Thursday, with a day off planned for Friday for Veterans Day.