The Latest Breaking News on SAG-AFTRA National Board Approves Tentative Agreement

First time since 1960 that actors and writers have combined to picket film and TV studios

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood actors were "duped" into extending negotiations for two weeks by studios who wanted more time to promote their summer blockbuster movies, union president Fran Drescher told AFP on Thursday.

UK law prohibits Equity union from legally calling a strike in support of SAG-AFTRA

The strike is first joint action between actors and writers in 60 years, bringing major studio projects to a standstill.

The actors union will join WGA union members on strike at 12 a.m. July 14

It's the first time SAG-AFTRA has gone on strike in decades

Both Hollywood unions now off the job after talks with studios break down.

Leaders of a Hollywood’s actors union voted Thursday to join screenwriters in the first joint strike in more than six decades, shutting down production across the entertainment industry after talks for a new contract with the studios and streaming services broke down.

The cast of new movie Oppenheimer walked out of the UK premiere in London ”to go and write their picket signs” ahead of the announcement Hollywood actors were going on strike.