The contract also includes a new fund for performers to be paid for future viewings of their work on streaming services, in addition to traditional residuals. There will be a 7% general wage increase effective immediately, with further increases in the coming years. Other first-time gains include mandatory hiring of intimacy coordinators for scenes involving nudity or simulated sex, full compensation for dancers asked to sing or singers asked to dance, and more protections and funding for the self-taping of auditions.
Key takeaways:
- The board members of Hollywood's actors union, SAG-AFTRA, have approved the deal with studios that ended their nearly four-month strike, with 86% of the vote.
- The three-year contract agreement will now go to a vote from the union's members, with voting beginning Tuesday and continuing into December.
- Key provisions in the contract include control of artificial intelligence, with productions required to get the informed consent of actors whose digital replicas are used, and compensation for the use of AI in a movie or show.
- Other gains include a new fund for future viewings on streaming services, wage increases, mandatory hiring of intimacy coordinators for scenes involving nudity or simulated sex, and more protections and funding for the self-taping of auditions.