Pricey cinema tickets and £2 more for Netflix: how viewers will pay for the actors’ strike

• Hollywood, the world’s largest entertainment industry, effectively shut down in May and has remained closed for almost six months thanks to the combined industrial action of Tinseltown’s writers and actors. Films have been delayed, actors barred from promoting finished films and many people have left the industry. The effects have been global in scale and reach. This week, Warner Bros. Discovery announced it had lost half a billion dollars to the dispute, California lost some 45,000 jobs and the