
Hollywood actors have ratified a deal with studios, ending a months-long strike that has crippled the film industry, their union announced Tuesday.
SAG-AFTRA said 78 percent of its voting members agreed to this new multi-year contract.
“This is a golden age for SAG-AFTRA, and our union has never been stronger,” its president, Fran Drescher, said in a statement.
The agreement includes, in particular, more than one billion dollars in compensation and benefits for actors, as well as protection against the use of artificial intelligence by studios, the union detailed.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents Netflix, Walt Disney and other studios, welcomed the ratification of the contract. “With this vote, the industry and its jobs will be able to regain strength,” the AMPTP said in a statement.
The union said that 38% of its members voted.
An agreement between SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood studios to end the 118-day strike was already finalized last month, and actors returned to work before the document was ratified.
Source: Hot News

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