clipped from www.variety.com

At long last, SAG's tortuous, yearlong contract drama with Hollywood's majors appears to be coming to a close, capping a two-year period of labor unrest that included the trauma of the 100-day writers strike.

That should have the biz breathing a sigh of relief, right?

Not really.

Because even if all goes well with the new regime at SAG and a handshake deal is finally reached this month, there's little respite in sight for the studios: The WGA and Directors Guild of America contracts come up for negotiation again in mid-2011, which means the jockeying will begin this time next year, if not sooner.

There's sure to be more dickering in the 2011 round of negotiations over the compensation formulas that were hard-fought in the 2008 DGA and WGA contracts (the same template that SAG is poised to embrace). Already, the WGA has grievances pending in a dispute over the interpretation of a key point of compensation terms for paid downloads.