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SAG continues to grant waivers

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Over 100 projects have completion contracts

By DAVE MCNARY for Variety

With SAG’s contract stalemate continuing, the Screen Actors Guild has granted more than 100 waivers to indie feature films over the past month, pushing the total to 620.

The waivers have kept a modicum of feature production going. Studios have mostly stopped shooting features since SAG’s contract expired on June 30 due to the uncertainty over whether the guild will be able to hammer out a new deal.

The waivers — or “guaranteed completion contracts” — have been given to producers unaffiliated with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. The waivers call for a production company to adhere to whatever terms SAG negotiates in its new deal with the AMPTP.

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