George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, and Meryl Streep are trying to stop another strike from happening just a few months from now, since the writers' strike finally just ended after 3 months. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is going to be renegotiating their contract between actors and studios because it expires June 30. The problem is they're adamant about the same kinds of things as the writers: "[SAG President Alan] Rosenberg and chief negotiator Doug Allen have vowed to take a hard line against the studios, hoping to win the union's members not only improved residuals in new media but also a larger cut of DVD sales." They're already saying that delaying the talks might be a negotiation tactic, but we already know what that could end up in -- another drawn-out strike. And while TV shows have a few months to build up episodes again, movies aren't quite in the same boat. Production takes much longer and so they can't even start on new movies even though the writers have returned, because now there's the threat of a SAG strike which would halt everything.

So Clooney, Hanks, DeNiro, and Streep took out full-page ads in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter urging the SAG leaders to start negotiating now, because everyone's already "strike-weary". After all, without writers, many of the actors have already gone a few months without work too. And I don't think they'd get as much public support either at this point.