A SAG-AFTRA merger announcement could come as early as Sunday -- the same day as the SAG Awards

Sale includes mixture of cash and stock

Summit Co-Chairmen Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger would oversee film operations

Judge grants AT&T's request to stop its legal battle with the Department of Justice

Other suitors may be in the mix to merge with Summit, on the heels of its latest 'Twilight' success

Wall Street likes the progress the paired companies have made since the January union, but the jury's still out in Hollywood

Minnesota Democrat says a marriage of the companies will stifle innovation and kill jobs

Free Press says congressional hearing on reforms to the commission should have addressed Meredith Attwell Baker's controversial departure

Group set to work with AFTRA counterparts and have merger plan set for national board-approval by January

Recommendations include a draft mission statement for a combined "successor" union and the appointment of formal groups to work on a proposed meeting schedule to develop a merger plan

A day after the AFTRA board gave its greenlight to continued merger talk, SAG gave the endeavor some financial backing

Gaspin's overpriced bathroom started Steve Burke's dissaffection with the executive, who will leave his job at the top of NBCU next week