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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 3881092" data-attributes="member: 4090">I think the reason you're not seeing them is because, as Grog pointed out, the studios aren't talking. The AMPTP hasn't issued any press statements other than Nick Counter's press release following the breakdowns of the talk (which they issued despite, as has been reported in numerous places, an agreement to have no press releases about- a condition the AMPTP put on the WGA). Since then, they've made no moves to go back to the bargaining table, issued no press statements, nothing. The only thing I have been able to find is a decidedly uninformative and insubstantial disclaimer about their role in things on the front page of the <a href="http://www.amptp.org/" target="_blank">AMPTP website</a>.(Maybe their PR people went on strike, too?)Anyway, if you haven't already, you might want to poke around there for something. Maybe you'll find something more substantive than I have.[EDIT- Actually, I do see a clip from Variety that notes Nick Counter saying he expects the AMPTP to be negotiating next with the Director's Guild rather than the WGA. Which doesn't exactly speak much for how concerned they are with the writers. Although I suppose it's theoretically good news that they're getting a jump on the DGA talks, which contract doesn't expire until June. *shrug*]</blockquote>