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Contract for Hollywood actors includes $40m yearly in streaming bonuses

Top half is a screen with white letters SAG-AFTRA and green letters STRONG, and below at lectern is white woman on left, white man in suit on right.
Sag-Aftra president Fran Drescher (left) and national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland on 10 November 2023, in Los Angeles, California. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Streaming services like Netflix will pay actors bonuses amounting to roughly $40m a year as part of the tentative labor agreement reached between the Sag-Aftra actors union and major Hollywood studios, union leaders said on Friday after their board backed the deal.

The proposed three-year contract, which the union said was valued at more than $1bn over three years, was endorsed by 86% of Sag-Aftra’s national board.

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