May 2 (UPI) -- 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.
