Studios, actors' guild reach four-year deal after second round of talks

SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers agreed on a new four-year contract after a second round of talks, the organizations said Saturday.

The actors’ guild reaching a deal with the studios comes nearly a month after a more surprising deal the AMPTP reached with the Writers’ Guild of America, which is also a four-year contract.

The performers’ union -- the Screen Actors’ Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has more than 160,000 members -- and the studios started negotiations in early February but paused in mid-March amid the WGA deal coming together, Deadline reported.

The SAG-AFTRA National Board is expected to “meet in the coming days” to review the deal, which includes new standards for the use of artificial intelligence in productions and a contribution to the union’s pension fund, The Hollywood Reporter reported.

“SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement on terms for a successor contract to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA TV/Theatrical Contracts covering motion pictures, scripted prime time dramatic television, streaming content and new media,” the union said in a statement.

“The specific details will not be released in advance of the Board’s review” of the deal, which is subject to its approval, the statement said.

Negotiations to update the 2023 deal originally started on Feb. 9 and when talks recessed both sides said they were not far from a deal.

After the WGA deal was agreed to and approved, which Deadline reported is similar in several ways to SAG-AFTRA’s proposed contract, the actors’ union picked its negotiations back up the next day on April 27.

The two sides reached the agreement on Saturday.

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This story was originally published May 2, 2026 at 7:02 PM.