The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) will resume talks with movie studio bosses next week in a bid to end a dispute over royalty payments.

Unable for weeks to agree on terms for a new contract, Hollywood studios and the Screen Actors Guild have now found themselves unable to agree on whether negotiations will continue.

Hollywood producers have temporarily broken off contract talks with the Screen Actors Guild, calling its demands regarding DVD sales and online content “unreasonable.”

Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro have taken out newspaper advertisements appealing to leaders of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) to start talks with movie studios in a bid to avert a possible strike.