US actors union Sag-Aftra has agreed a “tentative deal” with Hollywood studio bosses to finish a historic 118-day strike.
In an announcement on Wednesday, the union mentioned the longest walkout in its historical past will finish at 12.01am US Pacific time on Thursday following a “unanimous vote”.
The union, which represents round 160,000 members of the business, has been on strike since July 14 inflicting main disruption to Hollywood productions.
The deal comes after the union’s negotiating committee spent days deliberating over a number of objects it deemed “important” together with synthetic intelligence, following a “final, finest and last” supply from the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP) – the group representing studios, streaming providers and producers in negotiations.
The tentative deal will go to the Sag-Aftra nationwide board on Friday “for evaluate and consideration”, it introduced.