Seeking to jump-start stalled contract talks with the studios — and to hang tough at the same time — Screen Actors Guild leaders called on News Corp. President Peter Chernin and Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger to revive formal bargaining.

But the request was rebuffed by the studio executives, ending prospects of a resolution any time soon in the months-long stalemate.

In a letter sent Monday that was also addressed to the studios’ chief negotiator, J. Nicholas Counter III, SAG President Alan Rosenberg and Executive Director Doug Allen said that actors were unhappy with the studios’ “final offer” made in June and that putting it to a vote at this time would serve “no productive purpose.”

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