LOS ANGELES (California) – The union representing 160,000 actors agreed Friday at the last minute to extend negotiations with Hollywood studios until July 12, avoiding a strike for now.

Collective bargaining by the Screen Actors Guild for 160,000 representatives ended at midnight Los Angeles time (Saturday 07:00 GMT) but has been extended until midnight on July 12, the union said in a statement.

It also indicated that a media ban on the talks would remain in effect until that day.

The Screen Actors Guild began lengthy negotiations with the likes of Netflix and Disney, but as the midnight deadline approached, both sides announced they would continue negotiations.

Film and television circles fear that the actors will follow the example of the scriptwriters’ strike, leading to a double strike, the first of its kind in Hollywood since the 1960s. Dept.

Members of the union are stars and regular actors who agree in advance to make a move when the two negotiating parties are unable to reach an agreement.

Like screenwriters, actors are demanding better pay that allows them to weather inflation and guarantees that their work won’t be affected by the use of artificial intelligence programs. Especially in relation to sound reproduction.

Actors, in particular, are protesting the low pay they get for every rerun of a movie or series through streaming platforms.

These amounts are large when re-broadcasting a work on television because it is based on an approved advertising system, but they are much smaller when re-presenting the work through streaming platforms that do not provide statistics on the number of views.