The entertainment industry can get back to something close to normal after SAG-AFTRA announced a tentative agreement with the studios, NBC News reports, with actors able to go back to work as of 12:01 a.m. ET Thursday pending the expected approval vote of the 150,000 members.
The union had been on strike for almost four months, shutting down virtually all television show and movie productions across the country except for some independent productions. The new contract is expected address many of the concerns members had regarding increasing use of technology through AI and improving pay rates coming from streaming and other alternative platforms.