EXCLUSIVE: Prolific TV director-producer Brad Silberling has signed with ICM Partners.
Silberling serves as an executive producer and director on the CW’s drama series Dynasty, currently in its third season and renewed for a fourth for 2020-2021. He also is directing and executive producing the first two episodes of…
After 25 years as a talent agent, CAA vet Jeremy Plager is leaving to launch his own production and management company. He’s firming his list of clients and will start with Woody Harrelson, producer/financier Paul Brooks, actress Clara Rugaard, and writer/director/producer Oren Moverman.
Plager will become producer…
EXCLUSIVE: Longtime The Simpsons executive producer/showrunner Al Jean has signed with the Gersh Agency. This represents the highest-profile new writer signing since Gersh earlier this year became the first major full-service talent agency to sign a franchise agreement with the WGA.
Jean has been on Fox’s The Simpsons…
Hollywood's Big 3 talent agencies estimate that it will cost them more than $10 million to produce all the documents the WGA is seeking in discovery as their yearlong legal battle over packaging fees winds its way slowly towards trial next March. The WGA, however, says the discovery costs to the agencies will be much…
EXCLUSIVE: As part of a strengthening of its IP division, Buchwald has signed the Scholarly Film Company production banner, which focuses on seeking out academic material that can be adapted for the screen.
Founded by Dr. Sipke Shaughnessy of Cambridge University and based in London, the SFC’s mission is to mine…
EXCLUSIVE: Top reality producer Lee Metzger, best known for his work on 14 seasons of NBC’s The Voice, has signed with ICM Partners.
Lee, who works in both unscripted and scripted television, joined The Voice as co-executive producer in Season 1. He was upped to executive producer at the start of the second season…
“We look forward to proceeding with discovery and then to trial,” the WGA told its members today of its yearlong legal battle with the Big 3 talent agencies. That’s despite a stinging, but not total, loss in court Monday, when a federal judge dismissed a large chunk of the guild's antitrust lawsuit against WME, CAA…
UPDATED with WGA statement, 8:56: Saying the WGA’s claims were “gutted,” Hollywood’s Big 3 talent agencies declared “a resounding victory” in a statement reacting to a federal judge dismissing huge chunks of the union's antitrust lawsuit against them today.
In its own statement later, however, the WGA said it plans to…
Hollywood's Big 3 talent agencies told a federal judge today that the WGA's discovery demands for thousands of documents "has been independently challenged by the difficulties associated with remote discovery caused by the COVID-19 pandemic." WME, CAA and UTA, which have been locked in a yearlong legal battle with the…
EXCLUSIVE: Former Los Angeles Laker and NBA champion Matt Barnes has signed with ICM Partners in all areas. Barnes, who retired in 2017 after 14 seasons in the NBA, is currently an ESPN analyst (The Jump, Get Up), executive producer and podcast host.
His Showtime basketball podcast, All the Smoke with Matt Barnes and S…
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran executive producer/showrunner Tim Hobert has signed with APA. He was previously with UTA.
Hobert is currently writing The Griswolds, a half-hour single-camera comedy in the works at HBO Max based on National Lampoon’s Vacation films, with Johnny Galecki’s Alcide Bava Productions and Warner Bros. TV…
SAG-AFTRA is hosting a webinar at this hour with Hollywood's talent agents to discuss the industry shutdown and the contractual obligations of employers who declared the coronavirus pandemic a "force majeure" event when they shuttered film and TV productions.
In a message to agents, the union said that it has had…
