Trade unions
Hollywood strike: actors and studios reach an agreement
The actors’ union has reached a preliminary agreement with the film studios. photo
© Mark J. Terrill/AP
The strike paralyzed production in the industry for almost four months. After the scriptwriters reached an agreement with the film studios in October, the actors are now following suit.
Actors and film studios in Hollywood have reached a “tentative agreement” to end the strike, which has been going on for almost four months.
Representatives of the actors and the film studios had approved the agreement “in a unanimous vote,” the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA announced, according to consistent media reports. The provisional agreement could end the 118-day strike at midnight (local time, 09:00 CET), it said. The agreement still needs to be ratified by union members before it can take effect.
The strike shut down production across the industry for nearly four months and raised existential questions about the future of the entertainment industry. The approximately 160,000 actors and actresses in the USA had been on strike since July 14th.
The actors demanded, among other things, better remuneration and the regulation of the use of artificial intelligence in the industry. The screenwriters had also been on strike since the beginning of May, but reached an agreement with the studios in early October. It was the first time in more than 60 years that writers and actors had struck at the same time.