The AMPTP has released a statement talking about how the negotiations with the Screen Actor’s Guild have reached a stalemate:

The AMPTP has been negotiating with SAG now for 13 days. Last week, we asked AFTRA to delay the start of its negotiations until May 5th so that we could give the SAG talks every opportunity to produce an agreement. Since the SAG negotiations are due to wrap up on Friday, May 2nd, today is a good time to let you know where things stand.
When we requested an extra week for the SAG negotiations, we told you that there were “significant gaps” between the parties. Candidly, we must offer the same assessment of the negotiations today, with just over two days to go. Although both parties have spent considerable time in the negotiating room, we are not yet close to an agreement.

Followed by a SAG press release that was all like: “Nah-Uh! You suck!”

Seriously, the game plan has been obvious: strike a crappy deal with AFTRA (the faction split off from SAG), then force that deal down SAG’s throat while feature films wither on the vine.

Don’t expect to see a lot of actors cast in films over the next couple of months. No one is going to greenlight anything with a star attached only to have to shut down production.

This blows, kids.