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Hollywood strikes
Actors vote to approve deal that ended strike, bringing relief to union leaders and Hollywood
Members of Hollywood’s actors union have voted to ratify the deal with studios that ended their strike after nearly four months.
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Hollywood actors union board approves strike-ending deal as leaders tout money gains and AI rights
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Hollywood’s strikes are over, but a painful industry-wide transition isn’t
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As Hollywood scrambles to get back to work, stars and politicians alike react to strike ending
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The Hollywood strikes are over. Here’s when you could see your favorite stars and shows return
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Hollywood’s strikes are both now over as actors reach deal with studios and return to work with writers
Hollywood’s actors union has reached a deal with studios to end its strike. The contract agreement reached Wednesday must still be approved by the union’s board and its members, but the leadership said actors will be allowed to return to work starting Thursday.
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Movies and TV shows affected by Hollywood actors and screenwriters’ strikes
Hollywood’s actors and studios are edging closer to a deal that would allow the industry to return to production after a strike of more than three months.
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Where you’ve seen Atlanta, dubbed the ‘Hollywood of the South,’ on screen
ATLANTA (AP) — Metropolitan Atlanta is home to the second highest number of soundstages in the U.S., including the massive Tyler Perry Studios and Trilith Studios.
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As the ‘Hollywood of the South,’ Atlanta has boomed. Its actors and crew are now at a crossroads
For more than a decade, work had been nonstop in Atlanta’s booming film industry thanks to Georgia’s extremely generous tax break.
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ACTORS STRIKE PHOTOS: See images from the 100 days film and TV actors have been picketing
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood’s TV and film actors have been striking for 100 days now, and there’s no end in sight.
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The Hollywood actors strike hits 100 days. Why hasn’t a deal been reached and what’s next?
Film and TV actors are still on strike in what has become the longest walk-off in their history. The strike by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists hit its 100th day on Saturday, while writers are busy back at work after ending their strike.
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Q&A: SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher reacts to Hollywood studios breaking off negotiations
Fran Drescher said Thursday that she is baffled and disappointed that Hollywood studios abruptly broke off talks this week with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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Hollywood studios break off strike talks with actors, who slam ‘bullying tactics’
Strike talks have broken off between Hollywood actors and studios. The alliance of studios and streaming services that negotiates with actors says the two sides are so far apart in their contract talks that there is no point in continuing.
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Hollywood writers vote to approve contract deal that ended strike as actors negotiate
Hollywood writers have voted almost unanimously to approve the contract agreement reached by their union leaders that ended a strike after nearly five months.
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Late-night shows return after writers strike as actors resume talks that could end their standoff
Late-night talk shows are returning after a five-month absence brought on by the Hollywood writers strike.
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In Hollywood writers’ battle against AI, humans win (for now)
After a 148-day strike, Hollywood screenwriters secured significant guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence in one of the first major labor battles over generative AI in the workplace.
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Hollywood actors to resume negotiations with studios next week, as protracted writers strike ends
Hollywood actors will resume negotiations with studios and streaming services next week. The announcement Wednesday comes the same day that a nearly five-month writers strike formally ended.
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The Hollywood writers strike is over after guild leaders approve contract with studios
Leaders of the writers union declared their nearly five-month-old strike over after board members approved a contract agreement with studios.
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PBS boasts slate of new shows unaffected by strikes, which it hopes will draw viewers in
There’s a broadcast television network offering plenty of original programming this fall, although it often flies under the radar.
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Here’s when your favorite show will return now that the writers strike is ending
The writers strike is over. Actors are still walking picket lines, but Wednesday is the first day in nearly five months that screenwriters can return to their jobs.
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Hollywood’s writers strike is on the verge of ending. What happens next?
Late-night talk shows were the first to be affected when the strike began, and may be among the first to return to air now.
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Screenwriters wait to learn terms of deal with Hollywood studios to end historic strike
Actors, who joined the writers on strike in July, have their own issues but there have been no discussions about resuming negotiations with their union yet.
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Hollywood actor and writer strikes have broad support among Americans, AP-NORC poll shows
A new poll shows that Americans are much more sympathetic to Hollywood’s striking writers and actors then they are to the studios on the other side of the table.
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An end in sight? Striking writers and Hollywood studios spend second full day in negotiations
Hollywood studios and striking screenwriters have spent a second full day in talks that could potentially put an end to the nearly five-month dispute that has brought many film and television productions to a halt.
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Side hustles take center stage in paying bills for Hollywood workers on strike
It’s been nearly five months since the Hollywood writers strike began and more than two months since actors joined them. Soon, the walkouts could break historic records.
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As actors restart talks and writers return to work, here are key players in the Hollywood strikes
The key players in the two strikes that brought Hollywood to a halt include little-known leaders, labor lawyers and entertainment tycoons.
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Bill Maher postpones return to the air, the latest TV host to balk at working during writers strike
Bill Maher has delayed returning to his HBO talk show during the ongoing strike by writers and actors, a decision following similar pauses in the past few days by “The Drew Barrymore Show,” “The Talk” and “The Jennifer Hudson Show.”
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Drew Barrymore and ‘The Talk’ postpone their daytime talk shows until after the Hollywood strikes
Drew Barrymore, who drew criticism for taping new episodes of her daytime talk show despite the ongoing writers and actors strikes, now says she’ll wait until the labor issues are resolved.
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Hollywood strikes enter a new phase as daytime shows like Drew Barrymore’s return despite pickets
“The Drew Barrymore Show” will begin airing fresh episodes on Monday but a lot of off-air controversy will be clinging to its typically bubbly host.
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Striking Hollywood writers, studios to resume negotiations next week
Contract talks that could end Hollywood’s writers strike are set to resume next week. The alliance that represents studios, streaming services and production companies said in a statement Thursday that they had reached out to leaders of the writers union, and the two sides agreed to resume negotiati
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Drew Barrymore dropped as National Book Awards host after her talk show resumes during strike
The National Book Awards have dropped Drew Barrymore as the host for this year’s ceremony, a day after her talk show taped its first episode since the Hollywood writers strike began.
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‘Walking Dead’ spinoffs, ‘Interview With the Vampire’ can resume with actors’ union approval
Two spinoffs of “The Walking Dead” and the next season of “Interview With the Vampire” will be resuming production despite the Hollywood strikes after reaching a deal with the actors’ union.
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Hollywood’s working class turns to nonprofit funds to make ends meet during the strike
Hollywood crew members are turning to nonprofits like the Entertainment Community Fund for assistance as they have also lost work during the writer and actors strikes.
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‘Breaking Bad’ stars reunite on picket line to call for studios to resume negotiations with actors
The cast of “Breaking Bad” has reunited to call upon Hollywood studios to resume negotiations with striking screen actors.
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When it comes to the Hollywood strikes, it’s not just the entertainment industry that’s being hurt
It’s been more than 100 days since members of the Writers Guild of America stopped working and more than a month since the actors union joined them.
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