Hollywood avoids shutdown

Hollywood couldn't afford a strike-forced shutdown post-COVID. So a deal got struck.

Monday morning was the deadline. Either AMPTP (the body representing TV and film producers) and IATSE (the below the line Hollywood craftspeople who don't get paid enough to live in fancy homes and actually make the shows and movies we watch) agreed on terms they could both live with, or IATSE would go on strike.

IATSE represents approx 60,000 members, s…