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EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA and the studios don’t have a deal, but they are planning on talking more. Any agreement between SAG-AFTRA and the studios to end the 106-day strike by the 160,000-strong guild looks almost certain to not be coming tonight, though the two sides are still in deliberations right…

UPDATED with latest additions: SAG-AFTRA, which launched a strike against Hollywood studios on July 14, launched its interim agreements program that allows independent productions with no direct ties to members of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to continue filming. The guild…

A group of high-profile actors have signed a public letter declaring that they would rather stay on strike than accept a bad deal. Thousands of stars including Sarah Paulson, Chelsea Handler, Christian Slater, Sandra Oh, Daveed Diggs, Pedro Pascal and Kal Penn have signed the letter, which is…

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA's chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said it on the picket lines earlier Thursday, and now it seems that "cautious optimism," as an insider also characterized it today, has become the takeaway term for the state of talks between the actors guild and the studios. In that…

The actors were joined by some hip-hop legends on the picket lines this morning. Kurtis Blow, co-founder of the Hip Hop Alliance, joined SAG-AFTRA outside Paramount to call an end to the strike that has lasted for over 100 days. He also highlighted how his membership of the guild was…

SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP are back at the table today for more talks to resolve the actors strike that has been going on for over 100 days. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, chief negotiator at the union, told Deadline that he was "cautiously optimistic" about talks with the studios. Crabtree-Ireland made…

Negotiations scheduled Wednesday between SAG-AFTRA and the studios didn't happen after all — and everyone's good with that. "It's a step in the right direction and the negotiating committee is taking the time to do a deep review," a guild source tight to the talks told Deadline this evening, noting…

SAG-AFTRA members took to the picket lines outside major studios again today after joining forces with WGA strikers who walked out on May 2. Picketing began on July 14 and has surpassed the 100-day mark with continued striking outside the studios and networks in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and…

Imax CEO Rich Gelfond predicts the long SAG-AFTRA strike will settle relatively soon. If, instead, it drags on, theater chains will face a rocky second half of 2024 but he sees the large-format exhibitor standing apart. "An exhibitor who programs a multiplex needs lots of movies," he told Wall…

UPDATE, 7:44 PM: Talks between the studios and SAG-AFTRA didn’t go so well today, but the Guild has now confirmed the two sides will be back at it tomorrow for another attempt to end the 100-plus day strike. “Today, the CEOs came back to the table,” SAG-AFTRA told members in an email after…

Mere minutes after some of Hollywood's biggest stars and executives issued a letter condemning the terror attacks on Israel and the taking of hundreds of hostages, The WGA East has publicly joined the Guild's West Coast leadership in deciding to stay silent on the murderous siege of the Jewish state two…

EXCLUSIVE: The podcast world is becoming further unionized. Earlier this year, SAG-AFTRA introduced two contracts that covers podcasts – the Independent Podcast Agreement and the MicroPod Agreement. The Table Read podcast, which offers writers the chance for their unproduced scripts to be discove…