U.S. entertainment industry faces shutdown as Hollywood actors announce strike

LOS ANGELES, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Hollywood's largest union representing about 160,000 actors and workers in television and film announced a strike on Thursday, leading to the first industrywide shutdown of U.S. entertainment industry in more than six decades.

The national board of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) voted unanimously to go on strike, said the union at a news conference.