SAG-AFTRA Strike

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…

Actors have officially given the stamp of approval for their latest deal with the studios. SAG-AFTRA, which opened the ratification vote on November 14, has revealed that 78.33% of ballots were in favor of the November 8 tentative agreement with the AMPTP. That number is much higher than many…

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…

SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher and National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland on Friday laid out how the actors’ 118-day strike was ended and their thoughts on the deal with the AMPTP. The duo, in a press conference at its Wilshire Blvd HQ, detailed the stresses and…

EXCLUSIVE: With the SAG-AFTRA strike officially ending yesterday, the broadcast networks are firming up the sizes of the 2023-24 orders to their scripted series, whose production was delayed by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA work stoppages. As Deadline has reported over the past week, because of the early…

The end of the actors strike is the talk of the town, and late night is no exception. “Thank you for joining us on ‘take your actor back to work day’ here in Hollywood,” Jimmy Kimmel said during his opening monologue. “Where most of the movie and TV business has been at a stop, a standstill, since…

There is much celebrating in Hollywood today, as the long SAG-AFTRA strike against the AMPTP has finally been tentatively settled, with a new studio contract awaiting ratification. The news is so welcome that it prompted one movie star to kick up his heels in a callback to one of his most famous…

Jon Feltheimer, CEO of the first media company to report quarterly earnings since SAG-AFTRA struck a deal with studios, said Thursday that he’s so pleased that "we can now all get back to making great content for a global audience." Speaking to Wall Streeter at the top of a call after the company's s…