After weeks of back-channel talks, Hollywood’s biggest actors union and the major studios appear to have broken their logjam and could be close to striking a deal on a contract, according to people close to the situation.

The agreement would come as a breakthrough for the Screen Actors Guild, whose members have been working without a contract for nine months as various attempts at negotiations with the studios collapsed.

Talks picked up again after the union’s former chief negotiator was ousted by moderates who took control of SAG’s board in elections late last year.

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