Hopes for a last-minute breakthrough in negotiations between Hollywood studios and the Screen Actors Guild were dashed Tuesday when contract talks ended on a bitter note, fueling anxiety over the prospect of another strike, the Los Angeles Times reports.

After three weeks of talks, studios walked away from the table, saying that negotiations were “thrust into reverse” by what they called “unreasonable demands.”

SAG accused the studios of turning their backs on the guild to focus on contract talks with the smaller actors union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

“It’s deeply troubling because we said we wanted to stay in the room and make a deal and our pleas were ignored,” SAG President Alan Rosenberg said Tuesday night.

Actors are considering the studios’ offer to resume talks May 28, about a month before their contract expires.

Although they made some headway in negotiations, the parties could not bridge significant differences over how much money actors would receive from shows streamed online, the types of Web programs that would be covered under the contract and the use of clips on the Internet without actors’ consent. Studios also balked at SAG’s demands for higher pay for guest stars and other performers and for improved DVD residuals.

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