Striking actors join picket lines as Hollywood shuts down

Hollywood actors took to picket lines outside Netflix and other studio headquarters in Los Angeles on Friday as movie and television production ground to a halt in the most serious Hollywood strike in decades.

Tens of thousands of actors went on strike at midnight Thursday, effectively bringing the giant movie and television business to a halt as they join writers in the first industry-wide walkout for 63 years.

The Screen Actors Guild formally went on strike after negotiations to reach a new deal with production studios ended without an agreement. The union's demands have focused on dwindling pay in the streaming era, and the threat posed by artificial intelligence.