Hollywood directors on Tuesday reached a four-year tentative contract agreement with studios and streaming services.

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The Directors Guild of America has reached a tentative four-year deal with the major studios, wrapping up this year’s round of major negotiations with little drama or fanfare. The DGA did not disclose terms of the deal, which still must be approved by the union’s board and sent to the members for ratification. “Consistent with […]

Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) members have voted to ratify the 2026 TV/Theatrical Agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). On Thursday, members approved the deal with a 91.42% vote in favor, and a return of a return of 19.25%, following the SAG-AFTRA board’s recommendation of the contract last month. The contract […]

SAG-AFTRA members have ratified a four-year contract with the major studios, which includes new provisions on synthetic actors and a merger of the union’s two pension funds. Of those who cast ballots, 91.4% voted in favor of the contract and 8.6% were opposed. Turnout was 19.3% of eligible members. The contract allows producers to use […]

SAG-AFTRA leaders are beginning the process of selling their new studio contract to the membership, amid lingering concerns about artificial intelligence and the merger of two pension funds. The deal, unveiled on Monday, allows studios to use synthetic performers only if they bring “significant additional value” to a project. It also requires studios to notify […]

SAG-AFTRA’s national board is recommending the guild’s latest contract with the major studios to its full membership for ratification. The board “decisively” approved the deal, tentatively sealed earlier this month, on Monday, per the union. SAG-AFTRA did not specify how the vote shook out. Now, the membership will need to vote. Among the provisions in […]

The SAG-AFTRA board on Monday approved its four-year contract with the major studios, which includes a plan to merge the union’s two pension funds on Jan. 1, 2028. The deal now goes to the membership for a ratification vote. The pension merger has been a source of internal friction in the past. The Screen Actors […]

Three years after a crippling strike by the writers and actors, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has already wrapped up deals with both unions, ahead of schedule and with no drama. On Monday, the studio alliance will try to make it 3-for-3 as it sits down with the Directors Guild of America, […]

UPDATED with PGA & DGA statements: As Deadline exclusively reported earlier today, SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have nailed down a new contract. Of course, until this is voted on by some 160,000 members of the actors’ guild, everything will remain tentative for the time being. Yet, with AI protections, […]

SAG-AFTRA has reached a tentative four-year deal with the major studios, as negotiators have managed to avoid a repeat of the strikes of three years ago. The union agreed to a deal about a month after the Writers Guild of America announced its tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Both […]

EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Nolan, it’s your turn up at bat. The DGA boss and his union are now the final major Hollywood guild not to make a deal with the studios and streamers, as SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP today have reached an agreement on a new contract, we hear. No one has made it official yet, […]

Members of the screenwriters union overwhelmingly ratified a four-year agreement with Hollywood studios and streamers on Friday, bringing an end to a surprisingly smooth and quick process that brought a prolonged strike the last time around.

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It’s official: The Writers Guild of America has a shiny new four-year deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Members approved the contract with 90.38% (or 4,282 votes) in favor. That left 9.62% (or 456 votes) opposed. Notably, this is much lower than the vote turnout from 2023, when nearly 9,000 votes […]

Writing careers in film and TV are uneven. A lucrative year can be followed by a year with no work at all, or at least, no paid work. Residuals are one way that writers sustain themselves. And since 2000, the Writers Guild of America has also had a “points” system that allows them to maintain […]

After securing the confidence of their boards of directors, the Writers Guild of America East and West on Wednesday revealed the details of the new tentative agreement with the studios and streamers, including the plan to reestablish the solvency of the union health plan. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has agreed to […]

TV and film writers will be paying more for their health care in a deal with the major studios unveiled Wednesday by the Writers Guild of America. In return, the studios will kick in $321 million — a record sum — to keep the writers’ health fund solvent. The health plan changes are the centerpiece […]

SAG-AFTRA is headed back to the bargaining table with the studios and streamers later this month. The actors union issued a statement on Monday confirmed that negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers would resume on April 27. As with the first few weeks of talks, the two sides will be operating […]

It’s officially official: The Writers Guild of America has agreed to a tentative new four-year contract with the studios and streamers, said the Greg Hessinger-led Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the guild tonight. The shocker deal, which was on very few people’s Holy Week and/or Passover bingo card, could prove transformative for […]

Writers Guild of America West chief negotiator Ellen Stutzman was likely wrapping up her first week of talks with the major Hollywood studios on Friday afternoon when the union’s staff called her back to their own bargaining table. The staff have now been on strike for more than a month, and they remain on the […]

Scabby the Rat and about a dozen members of the Writers Guild Staff Union are still outside SAG-AFTRA headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard this afternoon as inside the WGA and the studios wrapped up their first day of contract talks. “What do we want?,” a throng of striking staffers chanted earlier Monday starting around 11:30 am […]

The Writers Guild of America began its talks with the major studios on Monday, as its striking staff members picketed outside. The talks were held at SAG-AFTRA headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard. Shortly before noon, the Writers Guild Staff Union marched a few blocks from WGA West headquarters to set up a picket line. They also […]

SAG-AFTRA has concluded a month of negotiations with the major studios without reaching a new contract, and will resume talks in June. The outcome was not unexpected, though negotiators had held out some hope that a new contract could be reached in March. “SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP completed productive bargaining sessions, including going several days […]

On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety’s Gene Maddaus offers an update on the contract negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the major studios and streamers. The Writers Guild of America is next up at the table starting March 16. Will SAG-AFTRA have a deal by week’s end? Maddaus dives into the issues and circumstances influencing the […]

With negotiations a week away for its new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, the Writers Guild of America has released its pattern of demands. On Friday, the WGA detailed multiple objectives for its upcoming minimum basic agreement with the AMPTP, which was approved by 97.4% of voting guild members, including […]

The members of the Writers Guild of America have voted to approve an agenda for bargaining with the studios, which is set to begin on March 16. With 97.4% voting in favor, the union approved a “pattern of demands” that focuses on health care, compensation, and artificial intelligence, among other issues. The WGA has already […]

SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP announced today that they have agreed to extend negotiations into next week, the week of March 9. This is the final extension for the current block of talks between the two sides as they will be bumping against the planned April 16 start of negotiations between the AMPTP and the WGA. […]

SAG-AFTRA and the major studios have agreed to continue negotiations on a new contract into next week, a sign that both sides see the value in further discussions. The performers’ union started bargaining on Feb. 9 for the first time since the 2023 strike. The original expectation was that the talks would run through March […]

Ahead of a March 16 start date for negotiations with the major studios, the Writers Guild of America has peeled back the curtain on the state of the union’s health and pension funds. As Deadline has previously reported, things aren’t looking good. In a joint memo to members on Friday, the WGA East and West […]

The Writers Guild of America issued its opening salvo the 2026 studio negotiations on Thursday, even as its own staff continues to walk a picket line outside union headquarters. The union is preparing to sit down with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on March 16. In a bulletin to members on Thursday, […]

SAG-AFTRA has concluded its first week of contract talks with the major Hollywood studios, but both parties are keeping quiet about their progress at the bargaining table. Deadline understands that the actors union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers finished up Friday’s session by early afternoon. They’ll return to the table next […]