SAG-AFTRA & AMPTP Have A Deal: Six Months Of Hollywood Strikes Appears To Be Over

Over two weeks after SAG-AFTRA reached a deal with the studios and ended their nearly four-month long strike, the actors guild has just released the full text of the tentative agreement.

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Media stocks popped Thursday, well outperforming the broader market, after news that the months longs SAG-AFTRA strike has been settled, with the actors’ guild and the AMPTP announcing a agreement last night. Halted productions can soon look to restart, the theatrical release calendar can stop shifting and the industry begin to get back to normal after a tough summer and fall.

Ellise Shafer U.K. entertainment unions Bectu and Equity are celebrating the tentative agreement between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP that is set to end the longest actors strike in Hollywood history. In an announcement on Wednesday, SAG-AFTRA said that the 118-day strike would officially end on Thursday at 12:01 a.m.

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After 118 days on strike, SAG-AFTRA has officially reached a tentative new deal with studios.

actors’ strike that first began in July.SAG-AFTRA took to social media to announce the end of the strike, writing: “Our TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee voted unanimously to approve a tentative agreement with the AMPTP [Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers]. As of 12:01 a.m.

SAG-AFTRA says that its tentative agreement with the studios is worth more than $1B over three years and added that it has “extraordinary scope” and “unprecedented provisions”.

With SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP having reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, it appears that the long-stalled beginning of Oscar campaign season for the many actors, forbidden from participating in any form of promotion for movies distributed and made by struck studios and streamers, finally can join the party. Until now, the FYC campaigns largely have been fronted by directors, craftspeople and, more recently with the end of the WGA strike, writers. For many voters, however, it is the lure of the stars that fills seats at FYC screening events and gets tune-in to the late-night talk shows and other promotional outlets so often used during the season to bring attention to a contender.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SAG-AFTRA negotiators have approved a tentative agreement that will end the longest actors strike against the film and TV studios in Hollywood history. In an announcement Wednesday, the union said the 118-day strike would officially end at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday.

SAG-AFTRA and the studios have finally reached a tentative deal on a new contract after pausing Hollywood for 118 days.

After 118 days of the actors guild being out on strike, SAG-AFTRA and the studios have reached a tentative deal on a new contract that could see Hollywood up and running again within weeks.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav opened the company’s quarterly earnings presentation with remarks on the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, remaining “hopeful” that the work stoppage will end “soon” following the Hollywood studios’ move to adjust AI language in its “last, best and final offer” to the actors union. “We are hopeful we will reach a resolution to the SAG-AFTRA strike soon,” Zaslav said during WBD’s third-quarter earnings call Wednesday.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Zachary Quinto recently took to Instagram to make public a personal email he sent to SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher in which he gave her his unwavering support should the union not accept the AMPTP’s current “best and final” offer. The SAG-AFTRA strike will continue if the offer is rejected, so Quinto wanted to reassure Drescher that he stands behind her and to tell her that she shouldn’t back down and acquiesce to studio pressure. “Fran.

Sunday did not see a lot of action between SAG-AFTRA and the studios as the actors guild strike hit its 115th day.

SAG-AFTRA negotiators spent Thursday afternoon in a holding pattern as the union waited for a response from management to its most recent counterproposal. Agreements around AI remain elusive and frustrating to both sides of the table. Management believes the union is focused on too many “what if” scenarios involving fast-changing generative AI technology, while actors maintain that AI is the existential threat to their livelihoods that has fueled much of the strike.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood’s major studios had a second consecutive day of constructive steps toward a settlement to what will go down as a TV and film strike of record duration for the union. Nobody’s talking officially, but it’s understood that the sides made progress in closing some of the gap on key issues that the union publicly described on Tuesday evening as being “very far apart.” Nobody’s talking for the record at SAG-AFTRA or the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, but signals from both management and union sources are that the conversations are headed in the right direction.

EXCLUSIVE: It will be neither trick nor treat tonight as SAG-AFTRA and the studios plan to continue talking over the next few days in search of a deal to end the 110-day strike that has become a Hollywood nightmare.