Contract negotiations with the studios start February 9, but the current contract doesn't expire until June 30, so things could take awhile. If you go back to the summer of 2023, fears that the industry was headed toward a writers strike seemed almost like a certainty. Very few thought the actors would also join them on the picket lines. But after 118 days of being out of work, actors approved a new contract valued at $1.11 billion that provided a brand new method for getting compensated from