Animation actors get new contract

SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) and Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) are getting a modest pay raise.

The Screen Actors Guild and the major studios have reached agreement on a new contract covering about 5,000 actors who provide voices for animated television shows.

The two-year contract, which is retroactive to June 10, is patterned on a deal the union negotiated earlier this year with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of the studios.

The agreement includes annual raises of approximately 3% and establishes payments for shows that are distributed over the Internet, the guild said.

-- Richard Verrier

Photo: The Simpsons. Credit: Fox

Comments

[Ironman Carmichael]

How nice for the voice actors! Meanwhile the artists responsible for the animation itself, not to mention the layouts and backgrounds, are being laid off left and right as their jobs are being taken overseas. Th-Th-That's all, folks!