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Hollywood's long strike season is over and the town can finally get back to work without the specter of any more labor action, for now. Actors were on strike for 118 days, but after ratifying the deal between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP, with a very healthy 78.33% of the votes, thesps, scribes…

The studios, which spent more than 100 days talking tough at the negotiating table with the actors, have congratulated SAG-AFTRA on ratifying its new contract. The AMPTP put out a short statement after the vote passed with 78.33% of the ballots voting yes. Related…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain has given her seal of approval to the tentative agreement reached by SAG-AFTRA with the studios to end the near four-month actors' strike. "I'm glad our leadership, the SAG leadership has gotten to a deal they think is fair and just and historic in…

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. We'll get into the fine print soon with analysis of this draft document (as Guild National Director Duncan…

Matthew Modine voted against SAG-AFTRA's tentative agreement with the studios once, and he's damn sure going to vote against it again. "Consent, in the context of this agreement, is tyranny," says the National Board member in a lengthy pre-Thanksgiving statement decrying the deal, especially its AI…

David Zaslav has a funny way of making friends. In a week where the Warner Bros Discovery CEO once again alienated almost everyone with the cutting of the completed Coyote vs Acme for a tax write down, Zaslav now is praising the Writers Guild of America, his foe for several months this…

Fran Drescher may have injected some Buddhism into SAG-AFTRA's online meeting today on the new tentative agreement with the studios, but there was almost nothing monastic about the guild president's opinion of critics of the November 8 deal.   "I just want you to know that nobody was thrown under the…

Less than 48 hours before SAG-AFTRA members begin voting on ratifying their new deal with the studios, the actors guild has released an extensive summary of the potential three-year contract. Read SAG-AFTRA’s summary of its 2023 Tentative Agreement in full below and our analysis, or click here to dow…

Four days after the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, Netflix rolled out the blue carpet Sunday for the first post-strike Hollywood premiere of a major studio production attended by talent: for Season 6 of the streamer’s British royal drama The Crown. Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, one of the four studio…

John Oliver started off Last Week Tonight talking about the SAG-AFTRA strike ending but then questioning if movies were still needed. “The SAG strike finally ended meaning that movies will be back in production,” Oliver said on his HBO talk show. He then joked, “Although to be honest, I’m not even…

Timothée Chalamet got another turn at hosting Saturday Night Live for the second time and acknowledged the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike during his monologue. “In a lot of ways it feels like my first time [hosting] because the last time was during COVID and that was just weird,” Chalament said. “I was…

Following a vote Friday by the majority of SAG-AFTRA’s National Board to approve a tentative agreement reached with studio CEOs and the AMPTP earlier this week, the actors guild has released more details of the deal. As they have repeatedly said over the past two days since reaching a deal with the…