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Joe Biden has signed with Creative Artists Agency for representation as he begins his post-presidential era.

“President Biden is one of America’s most respected and influential voices in national and global affairs,” said Richard Lovett, co-chairman of CAA. “His lifelong commitment to public service is one of unity, optimism, dignity, and possibility. We are profoundly honored to partner with him again.”

Lovett, along with fellow co-chairs Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane, has been among Hollywood’s prominent backers of Biden and Kamala Harris’ re-election campaign as well as other Democratic candidates.

The Century City-based mega agency already reps his White House predecessor via Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions, as well as Democratic-leaning pols like Joe Manchin, Susan Rice, Beto O’Rourke and many others across the aisle as part of its speakers bureau.

And the move for the Delaware politician marks a homecoming for Biden and the agency,...

If you’re planning on attending Tom Rothman’s party in November, you’ll need a costume. Rumor has it the Sony chairman is asking invitees to the event — which is a joint birthday bash with his wife, actress Jessica Harper — to dress up as characters from movies made under his reign. Luckily, it’s a long list of wardrobe choices, stretching back a multitude of decades. You could go as Jack Dawson from 1997’s Titanic. Or Satine from 2001’s Moulin Rouge! Or Miranda Priestly from 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada. Or Rick Dalton from 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

The point here is, Rothman is turning 70 and has been in charge at Sony (and before that, Fox) for a very, very long time.

As it happens, he’s not the only silver mogul in Hollywood these days. Bob Iger is 73 and has been running Disney off and on for nearly 20 years.

An emotional and uplifting scene unfolded in front of CAA’s Century City headquarters on Monday as power agent and co-chairman Kevin Huvane teamed with Project Angel Food to honor his late brother Chris Huvane.

The ceremony — attended by CAA insiders, Chris Huvane’s colleagues at Entertainment 360, Project Angel Food CEO Richard Ayoub and Huvane family members — saw the unveiling a new white van that will be used by the nonprofit to deliver meals to seriously ill individuals across Los Angeles County. Dedicated to Chris thanks to a $50,000 donation from Kevin, the van features Chris’s face and an inscription: “In loving memory of Chris Huvane. May this van carry his legacy on every journey. Love always goes the distance…”

Offered Kevin: “Project Angel Food truly captures the essence of compassion and community, creating a profound impact on the lives of many individuals and families throughout Los Angeles County.

In a career filled with so many, Nicole Kidman is on another hot streak.

The Oscar-winner picked up a best actress prize last month at the Venice Film Festival for her critically acclaimed turn in Halina Reijn’s steamy Babygirl, only to see her new Netflix series The Perfect Couple rocket to the No. 1 spot on the streaming rankings days later. She next stars in the second season of Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ series Lioness, which debuts Sunday, and she’s just about to jump in front of cameras on Amazon Studios’ Scarpetta opposite fellow Oscar winners Jamie Lee Curtis and Ariana DeBose and based on the Patricia Cornwell novel.

So, how is Kidman feeling about all the good work right about now? It’s complicated. “I wish my mama was here,” she told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday night while walking the red carpet at Hollywood’s Linwood Dunn Theatre.

Zach Braff is getting the “Garden State” gang back together – at least the bands featured on the movie’s Grammy-winning soundtrack.

A one-night concert celebrating the 20th anniversary of “Garden State” – which Braff wrote, directed and starred in – will take place March 29, 2025, at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. On the bill are the Shins, Iron & Wine, Frou Frou, Colin Hay, Thievery Corporation, Remy Zero, Cary Brothers, Bonnie Somerville and Sophie Barker from Zero 7. Special guests will be announced at a later date.

The evening will benefit the Midnight Mission, a homeless shelter and support organization for unhoused individuals in downtown Los Angeles.

“When I was first approached about doing a concert for the 20th anniversary, I was like, ‘I don’t know how we’re ever going to get all these bands together at the same time,’” Braff tells me. “But when the notion of doing it as a benefit for the Midnight Mission,...

In Coralie Fargeat’s body horror shocker The Substance, Demi Moore stars as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister who is unceremoniously fired from her fitness TV show by a loathsome studio boss, played by Dennis Quaid. Feeling defeated, Sparkle can’t resist the draw of an experimental new drug called that promises to reveal a younger and even better version of herself.

If you’ve seen the trailer, then you know what happens next: Sparkle takes the leap, injects herself with the mysterious liquid and literally births the new and improved Elizabeth Sparkle — known as Sue and played by Margaret Qualley — out of her spinal cord. The only rule for the body swap is that they must spend one week in one body and one week in the other with no exceptions. Needless to say, drama and shocks unfold in quick succession.

Despite the trauma onscreen, Moore and Qualley say...

Disney, CAA, and Miramax lost a bid to toss out a lawsuit by Julia Ormond, who alleged the companies failed to protect her from now-incarcerated Harvey Weinstein.

“The complaint sufficiently alleges that CAA failed to protect plaintiff from Weinstein, failing to warn her of his alleged reputation while at the same time negotiating the production company agreement between the plaintiff and Miramax, and later arranging the dinner meeting between plaintiff and Weinstein,” said the court’s ruling stated, per The Los Angeles Times. At the time of the alleged assault,...

CAA has lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Julia Ormond faulting the agency for failing to warn her about Harvey’s Weinstein’s history of sexual misconduct before she took a meeting with the former movie mogul that led to her assault.

Ormond last year filed a wide-reaching lawsuit accusing her ex-agency, Miramax and Disney of turning a blind eye to Weinstein’s crimes. After she was assaulted, she said her agents at the time, who were allegedly told by another client that Weinstein proposed sex in exchange for career opportunities, discouraged her from reporting the incident to law enforcement.

In an order rejecting dismissal of the case, New York judge Suzanne Adams found on Monday that the allegations “suggest that CAA knew or had reason to know of a potential assault by Weinstein” that could constitute a breach of agency’s fiduciary duties to Ormond, who rose...

A judge on Monday allowed Julia Ormond to proceed with allegations that Disney and CAA failed to protect her from Harvey Weinstein in the mid-90s.

Suzanne J. Adams, a state court justice in Manhattan, denied the companies’ motions to dismiss the lawsuit, which claims that the entertainment conglomerate and the agency enabled Weinstein’s predatory behavior because he “made them too much money.”

Ormond sued the companies last October, alleging that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in New York in December 1995. CAA represented Ormond the the time, and had negotiated a deal for her at Weinstein’s company, Miramax, which was owned by Disney. Miramax was also named as a defendant.

The British actress rose to stardom in the mid-90s with lead roles in “Sabrina” and “Legends of the Fall.” She alleges that after the assault, her CAA agents, Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane, discouraged her from reporting the...

(Updated with CAA statement) Julia Ormond’s lawsuit against Disney, CAA and Miramax over an alleged 1995 sexual assault by the now-incarcerated Harvey Weinstein will be going forward.

“Upon the foregoing documents, and oral argument having been held before the court on May 20, 2024, it is ordered that the motions of defendants The Walt Disney Company, Creative Artists Agency, LLC, and Miramax Film NY, LLC are denied,” New York State Judge Suzanne Adams ruled today.

Read the order rejecting Disney, CAA and Miramax’s move to have Julia Ormand’s suit over an alleged 1995 sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein here.

Not trial date has yet been set for the negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, battery and more action by the Emmy winning Ormond. However, unless the two studios and the mega-agency make a settlement deal Asap, trial is where this is headed.

While a black-eye to the defendants, such dismissal attempts are...

Garden State was released in theaters on July 28, 2004, telling the offbeat story about a struggling actor who finds love and a new lease on life after returning to his hometown following his mother’s death.

The romantic dramedy, which currently boasts an 86 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes, grossed more than $35 million at the worldwide box office and won best first feature at the 2005 Independent Spirit Awards. Its acclaimed soundtrack also made fans flock straight from the cinema to the nearest record store, with the album later beating Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol. 2 and Shrek 2 for the Grammy for best compilation soundtrack album.

Despite being helmed by and starring Zach Braff, who was in the midst of becoming a major TV star on Scrubs, and starring Natalie Portman, Garden State faced numerous roadblocks. It struggled to secure financing and was ultimately made with a constrained budget of $2.5 million.

Supporters of Joe Biden and Donald Trump planned to hold watch parties across the country for CNN’s presidential debate, seizing on the event to energize their bases.

In Los Angeles, three Democratic governors — Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Andy Beshear of Kentucky and Jb Pritzker of Illinois — were gathering at the home of James Costos and Michael Smith for a fundraiser and watch party. Co-hosts of the event are Martha Karsh and Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner, with proceeds going to the Biden Victory Fund, per an invite.

Vice President Kamala Harris will be headlining another fundraiser on Saturday, a Pride garden party featuring a performance by Idina Menzel. Co-hosts include the Reiners, Chad Griffin and Charlie Joughin, Costos and Smith, Dustin Lance Black, Ted and Helen Boutrous, John and Mike August, Kevin Huvane, Lyn Davis Lear, Mary Fisher, Adam Shankman, Max Mutchnick and Erik Hyman, Yeardley Smith, Adam Umhoefer,...

Inking movie and TV show brand deals is a practice that goes back decades in Hollywood. Now CAA is formalizing a new department specifically to forge partnerships between brands and their IP, media companies and star talent.

The newly formed Media & Entertainment Partnerships department will look to help the Century City-based agency’s clients develop, finance and launch films, TV, social and digital series. For the major entertainment and sports talent agency, the goal is securing a new source of film and TV production financing via brand partnerships.

“The Media & Entertainment Partnerships department is a testament to our commitment to generating all the best possible opportunities for clients to succeed. Having an exceptional team of dedicated content and marketing experts crafting meaningful collaborations among storytellers, platforms and brands gives CAA clients an unprecedented advantage in the marketplace,” CAA co-chairman Kevin Huvane said in a statement.

After the success of Mattel and Warner Bros.’ Barbie movie,...

Creative Artists Agency on Monday morning announced its promotion of 15 to Agent or Executive: Kelly Berger, Dillon Dailidonis, Peter Dakich, L Davis, Andrew Devian, Shayna Ehrlich, Julie Flanagan, Claire Garrison, Carson Goodwyn, Zach Grove, Tia Ikemoto, Michael Johnston, Rahny Longley, Ines Maza and Abby Rizzo.

Berger has been promoted to Motion Picture Literary Agent; Dailidonis, to Agent in the Digital Media department; Dakich, to Agent in the Media Finance department, led by Benjamin Kramer and Roeg Sutherland; Davis and Devian, to Agents in Baseball; Garrison, to Agent in Talent Business Ventures; Goodwyn, to Agent in Fashion; Grove and Longley, to Agent and Business Affairs Executive, respectively, within the agency’s Commercial Endorsements department; Flanagan, Ikemoto and Johnston, to Agents in the Books department; Maza, to Agent in the Podcast department; Rizzo, to Agent in the Speakers department; and Ehrlich, to Music Marketing Executive in the agency’s Music Touring department.

Creative Artists Agency has promoted Emma Banks, Darryl Eaton and Rick Roskin as the new co-heads of its global touring business.

The trio will oversee the department’s 340 employees across music, comedy and podcast touring, brand partnerships, tour marketing and private events. Banks is promoted after co-leading CAA’s London music office, while Eaton and Roskin have been co-heads of contemporary music for North America, running the day-to-day operations of that key regional touring department.

CAA represents touring talent like The Weeknd, Harry Styles, Katy Perry, Dua Lipa, John Mayer, Rüfüs Du Sol, Jelly Roll, Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen and David Guetta.

The new triumverate at the major talent agency follows Rob Light, who spent 25 years as head of global touring, recently being elevated to CAA managing director, working alongside CAA co-chairman and CEO Bryan Lourd, co-chairmen Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett and president Jim Burtson on strategic business and operational matters.

Nine years after the debut of “Mad Max: Fury Road” in the South of France, George Miller is once again the toast of the Croisette. The audience at the world premiere of the director’s prequel “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” went wild for his latest high-octane action film, showering the movie with an enthusiastic six-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night.

Taylor-Joy blew kisses into the camera as the clapping continued, performing a theatrical bow. Hemsworth looked teary-eyed at the rapturous response.

“We worked very hard on this film, and it’ll be very interesting to see what you make of it,” Miller said briefly, taking a microphone to address the crowd. “Thank you for having us.”

Set in a post-apocalyptic world before the events of “Fury Road,” “Furiosa” stars Taylor-Joy, taking over in the title role from Charlize Theron. Early in the film, a young...

Meryl Streep has been one of the most prolific actresses working in Hollywood. The actress has often been regarded as one of the best of all time and has won three Academy Awards and eight Golden Globe Awards to prove it. The actress also has a record 21 nominations for the Oscars and has featured in multiple successful films and shows.

One of her most beloved films is the musical Mamma Mia!. The film, which was based on a musical of the same name, was released in 2008 and opened second at the box office, behind the Christian Bale starrer The Dark Knight. The musical ended with $694M at the box office. Streep recently revealed that she was open to working on another sequel to the 2008 hit.

Meryl Streep Is Open To Work On A Mamma Mia! Sequel Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia!

The legendary Meryl Streep was reportedly honored with the...

Frank Jung, co-head of CAA Digital Media, is launching his own company, Franchise Media Collective.

Jung started CAA’s digital media division alongside David Freeman, who will continue to oversee the department. He’s stepping away from the major talent agency to start the new company as a professional network and marketplace for elite executives, consultants, advisors and founders for the entertainment industry and creator economy.

Franchise Media Collective will offer cultural insights, host events and provide data analytics to industry consultants, advisors and company founders.

“These past two decades have been a gift, collaborating with artists whose brilliance and creativity have made a deep impact on the industry. I am also immensely grateful to have worked with so many talented and inspiring CAA colleagues, creating unforgettable memories together,” Jung said in a statement on Wednesday.

While with the CAA Digital Media department, Jung helped establish its talent representation, corporate...

Exclusive: Meryl Streep says that a meeting is “imminent” where she’ll hear about the proposals for her to return for a third helping of Mamma Mia!

The acting legend, honored with an Honorary Palme d’Or at an emotional presentation Tuesday night during the Cannes Film Festival’s opening ceremony the Grand Théâtre Lumière, confirmed that “of course, I want to do it,” but first she wants to hear how producer Judy Craymer has resolved the issue of how Streep’s character Donna Sheridan can return for MM3 when it was revealed during the during the 2018 sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again that Donna had died.

Will there be some sort of resurrection, I wondered. “I don’t know how they’re going to do it. They have an idea. I haven’t heard it yet but it’s in [my diary] and I’m going to hear about it pretty soon,...

Meryl Streep, the most celebrated screen actress of her time, added another prize to her collection — one of the few that she hadn’t received already — when she was presented with an honorary Palme d’Or during the opening ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday night.

Upon being called to the stage and handed the gold-plated emblem of the city of Cannes by French actress Juliette Binoche, the 74-year-old received a thunderous 2.5-minute standing ovation from the more than 2,000 guests who packed the Grand Lumiere Theatre. Among them was Greta Gerwig, Streep’s Little Women director and this year’s Cannes jury president, who wiped away tears as Streep basked in the applause.

“You changed the way we look at women,” said Binoche, choking up with emotion as Streep comforted her.

“This prize is unique in the world of cinema and I’m very, very honored to receive it,...

Creative Artists Agency has reintroduced managing directors, naming nine today, and announced a big expansion of its agency board as its leadership structure evolves.

Managing directors, a group reintroduced after years, include leaders across select areas, who will work alongside CAA Co-Chairman and CEO Bryan Lourd, Co-Chairmen Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett, and President Jim Burtson on a wide range of strategic business and operational matters.

Named Managing Directors are: Rob Light (music), Howard Nuchow (sports), Joe Cohen (TV), Michael Levine (sports) , Joel Lubin (motion picture), Maha Dakhil (motion picture), Chris Silbermann (TV), Tiffany Ward (TV), and Paul Danforth (sports). Of the nine, all but Silbermann come from the CAA side of the company.

CFO Carol Sawdye and Chief Legal Officer Hilary Krane continue to serve in their leadership roles.

CAA’s expanded Agency Board will now hone in on specific goals. It will work with the CAA Co-Chairmen and...

Creative Artists Agency has appointed nine managing directors and changed up its agency board membership.

The new managing directors include Rob Light, Howard Nuchow, Joe Cohen, Michael Levine, Joel Lubin, Maha Dakhil, Chris Silbermann, Tiffany Ward and Paul Danforth. CFO Carol Sawdye and chief legal officer Hilary Krane will continue in their roles.

The managing directors will work alongside CAA co-chairman and CEO Bryan Lourd, co-chairmen Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett and president Jim Burtson on varying strategic business and operational matters.

The agency board will work with the CAA co-chairmen and president “on ensuring the continued strength of the company’s highly regarded culture of service, collaboration, and opportunity, built for personal client service,” including dealmaking, training and development and innovation. The move marks the latest rework for the agency since its sale to Artémis, the investment firm controlled by François-Henri Pinault, last September.

Members of the agency board include Katie Anderson,...

Updated, 4:27 Pm: CAA’s offices are closed for the rest of the day due to a security threat, but things will be returning to normal tomorrow.

Everyone will be back in the office Friday, sources at the uber-agency tell Deadline. The threat that led to its Los Angeles headquarters to be evacuated this afternoon has been resolved, we hear.

Previously, 1:29 Pm: CAA’s headquarters in Century City has been evacuated after a threatening phone call was made to the uber-agency Thursday, prompting the quick exit of all personnel from the building at 2000 Avenue of the Stars.

Los Angeles police are on the scene as all of the staffers have left the offices of the agency led by Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett. No word yet on when the building might reopen.

“It’s a crazy f*cked-up world, and it hit us today,” one...

The network of Hollywood executives and companies alleged to have known about and facilitated sex crimes by Harvey Weinstein is growing, with a lawsuit filed against James Dolan, the live events mogul behind Madison Square Garden Entertainment and AMC Networks.

A former massage therapist employed by Dolan accuses him of pressuring her into an unwanted sexual relationship a decade ago and orchestrating an encounter with Weinstein, who she also claimed sexually assaulted her. She alleges Dolan knew about Weinstein’s predatory behavior after the incident occurred in 2014, a year before he joined as a board member of the Weinstein Co.

E. Donya Perry, a lawyer for Dolan, denied the allegations and called the relationship a “friendship.”

“The references to Harvey Weinstein are simply meant to inflame and appear to be plagiarized from prior cases against Mr. Weinstein,” she said in a statement. “These claims reflect an act of retaliation by...

Jennifer Lopez wears a big fur coat while arriving for a surprise appearance at The Abbey’s Sunday Service drag brunch on Sunday (January 14) in West Hollywood, Calif.

The 54-year-old entertainer showed her support for the bar and it’s founder David Cooley, for the venue’s 33rd anniversary this year. She even got behind the bar and served up some of her Delola cocktails!

As the bar also celebrated her new single “Can’t Get Enough,” JLo took to the stage and surprised super fan and drag queen impersonator Jo Lopez, who was wearing a recreation of her dress from the music video.

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“I have a crusty lace. I have an ugly scar on my chin. My facial hair is coming in. My makeup is oily. And that double chin… I look Crazy,” Jo shared on Instagram story. “but i met Jlo today and nothing else matters.

Last February, David Zaslav made his way to CAA’s offices, accompanied by his film-studio chiefs, Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy. The delegation gathered in agent Maha Dakhil’s office, where Kevin Huvane and Joel Lubin were in attendance. Also there was a prized client: Tom Cruise.

The meeting was the product of a call that De Luca and Abdy had made to Dakhil. They asked Dakhil to pass along a message of thanks to Cruise for working so hard to save theaters. The star was then still in the process of pulling the seventh Mission: Impossible movie together, which he had dragged against heavy odds through the pandemic. Meanwhile, Top Gun: Maverick had restored faith in the viability of movie theaters. Cruise would later promote Barbenheimer, a rare move for an actor who had nothing to do with either film.

The CAA meeting went on for two hours.

“It’s a party in there,” The Holdovers star Da’Vine Joy Randolph said upon making it backstage to the press room after becoming the first Golden Globe winner of the night. She was right, too, as Hollywood’s party of the year went down inside the Beverly Hilton, and a proper bash translates to an overload of action both onscreen and behind the scenes as Golden Globe winners, nominees and guests mingled inside the hotel’s international ballroom by the hundreds. Though the telecast aired for a first time on CBS and Paramount+, cameras could not capture all the noteworthy moments. Below is a wrap-up of some things you didn’t see on television.

Keeping Up With Timothée and Kylie

Timothée Chalamet, nominated for his starring turn in the big-screen musical Wonka, turned up at the big show alongside girlfriend Kylie Jenner in a showing that marked the couple’s first awards show appearance together.

2024 can’t come fast enough.

When the clock strikes midnight on Jan. 1, Hollywood will close the book on arguably the most tumultuous 12 months in a generation, with the town roiled by devastating strikes, the implosion of the superhero movie and deep divisions on everything from AI to Israel. But as Tinseltown ushers in a new year, will it suffer from a monster hangover? Many of the most vexing issues remain unresolved.

“There’s a huge leadership vacuum, and that’s not about to change,” says Michael Nathanson, the former head of MGM Studios and Columbia Pictures.

Nathanson, who started in the film and TV business in the ’70s, notes that Lew Wasserman, Bob Daly and Mike Ovitz commanded respect and fear, and could galvanize the industry in chaotic times like writers and actors strikes.

“Bob Iger is not really that guy anymore. If he hadn’t left [in 2020] and returned, he would be that guy,...

CAA and Disney are fighting back against Julia Ormond’s claim that they acted as enablers for Harvey Weinstein and failed to protect her from being sexually assaulted.

Ormond rose to fame in the mid-90s, appearing in “Legends of the Fall” and “Sabrina.” She has alleged that Weinstein lured her to a business meeting in December 1995, then sexually assaulted her at her apartment in New York.

She filed suit in October, accusing Disney, which then owned Weinstein’s company, and CAA, her agency at the time, of failing to warn her of Weinstein’s history of sexual assault because he was “too important, too powerful and made them too much money.”

The companies filed motions to dismiss Ormond’s lawsuit on Tuesday, arguing they did not know about Weinstein’s sexual misconduct before the meeting.

“CAA thus had no reason to believe there was any risk to Plaintiff in...

When Julia Ormond sued CAA faulting the agency for encouraging her to take a meeting with Harvey Weinstein that eventually led to her being assaulted, the suit asked a pivotal question that may decide the case and lead to more legal action against the company depending on the answer: When did CAA’s top agents discover his history of sexual misconduct?

The answer to that question, the agency says, is not too long ago. Moving to dismiss the suit, CAA argues in a motion filed Tuesday that it learned of Weinstein’s crimes when the rest of the world did in 2017 and not before Ormond was allegedly assaulted in 1995.

“Plaintiff’s claims for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty against CAA turn on the premise that the agency allegedly knew of Weinstein’s history of sexual assault and nevertheless failed to protect her,” the filing states. “But the Complaint seeks...

Exclusive: Two months after Julia Ormond sued CAA, Disney and Harvey Weinstein for negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, battery and more over an alleged 1995 sexual assault by the now incarcerated Weinstein, the agency and the Bob Iger-led corporation say they shouldn’t be a part of the suit and want out.

“Accepting the allegations in the Complaint as true, Harvey Weinstein’s alleged misconduct is disturbing and deplorable,” a filing Tuesday by Disney’s New York lawyers Cravath, Swaine & Moore asserts of Ormond’s October 4 complaint. “But the question is whether Plaintiff’s allegations are sufficient to state a claim for negligent supervision against Twdc,” it adds, in respect to the company’s ownership of the Weinstein’s’ Miramax from 1993-2010.

“They are not, with respect to any of the four elements of that cause of action. Therefore, Twdc respectfully requests that the single claim against it be...

Major talent agency giant CAA has promoted 16 rising employees to agent or executives.

Khalil Roberts becomes an executive in the agency’s book department after he joined CAA in 2019 as a receptionist, and most recently served as a coordinator. And London-based Sarah Phillips, who also joined the agency in 2019, has been upped to executive in CAA Search, which recruits C-level and other top corporate executives worldwide across the sports, media, entertainment and technology arenas.

Elsewhere, London-based Gabrielle Fetters and Peppa Mignone have been promoted to agents in the agency’s books department. And Megan Glendinning, Evan Greenberg, Alex Hubert and Ashley King have been promoted to agents in the music touring department, based in Los Angeles.

The latest promotions at the talent agency giant led by Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett follow CAA selling a majority stake to Artémis, the investment firm controlled by François-Henri Pinault, the CEO...

Longtime Creative Artists Agency motion picture agent Risa Gertner is set to retire, the firm announced Wednesday.

After around 27 years at CAA, she will depart the talent agency after it acquired a new majority owner in Jan. 2024. Gertner’s A-list talent roster includes Tony Gilroy, Barry Jenkins, Kenya Barris, Ron Howard and Simon Kinberg.

During her tenure at CAA as a power agent, she has been an internal board member and co-head for 20 years of the Motion Picture Group. Gertner first joined CAA in 1996, representing, among others, Seth MacFarlane, Alex Kurtzman, Susannah Grant and J.C. Chandor.

She also hired many Motion Picture Literary Department’s agents, including Maha Dakhil, Todd Feldman, Joel Lubin, Dan Rabinow and Ida Ziniti.

“I am profoundly grateful to have worked with artists whose brilliance and creativity has shaped popular culture for decades. And to have done so surrounded by the most inspired and passionate colleagues has been a gift,...

Nicole Kidman experienced a career highlight scoring a Best Actress Oscar win in The Hours. But she admitted she had to stop herself from going too far in her role as Virginia Woolf a couple of times.

How Nicole Kidman found herself becoming too much like Virgina Woolf Nicole Kidman | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Because of circumstances surrounding her personal life, and her devotion to The Hours, Kidman went to extreme lengths to play Virginia Woolf. The Being the Ricardos actor asserted that she lived by herself in a cottage to get a better feel for the late author.

“I wanted to be isolated so that I could be with my thoughts and basically do what Virginia did — read a lot and feel isolated. It was a little like I was captive. For different roles, you do different things. For this, it was very important for me to go into her psychology,...

Exclusive: Scott Metzger is leaving CAA to join Untitled Entertainment as a manager.

Metzger, whose clients include Zoë Kravitz and Lucas Hedges among others, will continue to be based in New York. He’ll start next week. His exit is an amicable one.

“We have worked closely with Scott as an agent since he started out and he has been a great partner with us on clients and feel lucky to have him join the Untitled family,” said Jason Weinberg, Founding Partner, Untitled Entertainment.

Metzger spent the last three years in CAA’s Motion Picture Talent Department. He was previously a managing partner and co-head of talent at Paradigm.

“Scott is a terrific colleague and tireless advocate for his clients,” said Kevin Huvane, Co-Chairman of Creative Artists Agency. “This is an exciting new chapter for Scott and we look forward to continuing to work closely with him.”...

CAA reminded its staff about its common sense social media policy.

The agency held an all-hands meeting this afternoon and one of the topics that came up related to agents and others posting on services and apps such as Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter.

The short of it? Use good judgement.

Social media has once again come into focus with the situation in Israel and Palestine. On one hand, it has been a useful tool to share information, but on the other some of that information is not always correct. Posting and commenting on social media, particularly in turbulent times, can also lead to harassment.

Sources at CAA told Deadline that today’s meeting was about reinforcing these points and making sure that agents and others represent themselves and the company well on the web. There was no PowerPoint presentation about the company’s social media policy, we were told.

Aaron Sorkin has dropped CAA and returned to WME over a post critical of Israel made by its co-chief of the motion pictures department, Maha Dakhil.

“Maha isn’t an antisemite, she’s just wrong. She’s a great agent, and I’m very proud of the work we did together over the last six years. I’m excited to be returning to WME,” the prolific scribe told The Hollywood Reporter. The writer behind The Social Network and The West Wing had been repped by WME until a 2017 move over to rival CAA.

Dakhil, whose A-list client roster includes Tom Cruise, Natalie Portman and Reese Witherspoon, came under scrutiny for an Instagram repost that referenced “genocide” on the part of Israel amid a war in Gaza. That post was later deleted and Dakhil apologized for the remarks.

As the repost reverberated in the industry, the agent stepped away from her...

After apologizing for a social media post critical of Israel made amid the country’s war against Hamas, CAA’s co-chief of the motion pictures department Maha Dakhil is stepping away from her leadership role in the division for now. Additionally, she’s resigning from the Century City-based firm’s internal agency board.

Dakhil, whose clients include Tom Cruise, Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon and Anne Hathaway, came under scrutiny for an Instagram repost that referenced “genocide” as the war escalates. That post was later deleted and the agent apologized for the remarks.

“I made a mistake with a repost in my Instagram story, which used hurtful language,” Dakhil wrote in an Oct. 19 statement. “Like so many of us, I have been reeling with heartbreak. I pride myself on being on the side of humanity and peace. I’m so grateful to Jewish friends and colleagues who pointed out the implications and further educated me.

Maha Dakhil, who was Co-Head of Motion Pictures at CAA, has temporarily stepped away from day to day leadership and resigned from the agency’s internal board after her controversial comments on Israel’s response to the Hamas terror attacks.

Dakhil represents stars including Tom Cruise and Natalie Portman and the move comes after talks with the Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett-led agency.

She will, however, continue working with clients.

CAA just sent out an internal note with the changes.

It comes after she reposted an Instagram story earlier this week that said, “You’re currently learning who supports genocide”.

Dakhil, who also represents the likes of Anne Hathaway, Reese Witherspoon and Olivia Wilde, subsequently apologized in a statement and admitted that she made a “mistake”.

“I made a mistake with a repost in my Instagram story, which used hurtful language. Like so many of us, I have been reeling with heartbreak.

Oops, he did it again.

At 62, Ari Emanuel is now lord and master (or more precisely, CEO) of not one but two publicly held companies. Still, he could not resist bashing his longtime rivals at CAA when presented with a mic at the Bloomberg Screentime conference. And those weren’t the only comments that made some of his associates cringe.

Emanuel is credited with leading his company into expansion, often with pricey acquisitions. The logic of some of these deals escaped observers — Professional Bull Riders? Ok, but overcoming the odds, he transformed Endeavor into a public company in 2021. And in September, Tko Holdings, the combined UFC and WWE, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Other agents — Mike Ovitz comes to mind — yearned to transcend their client-servicing roles. Emanuel has achieved that dream, yet all these deals later, he is still apparently in the grip of his inner agent.

Creative Artists Agency chief executive officer Bryan Lourd shot back at eyebrow-raising comments by longtime rival agency CEO Ari Emanuel on Thursday, regarding recent litigation brought on to CAA by actor Julia Ormond.

Emanuel, CEO of the parent company to WME, attended Bloomberg’s Screentime conference this week and called for Lourd and his longtime partner, Kevin Huvane, to “take a leave of absence” amid a lawsuit from Ormond. That suit charges The Walt Disney Company and CAA with compliance in abuse that Ormond says she suffered at the hands of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

“We all know Ari Emanuel to be an incredibly performative and erratic and, in my mind, a self-serving human, I think much to the detriment of not just his colleagues, but his clients — the few that he’s got left. More importantly, his investors,” Lourd said during his own session at the Bloomberg conference.

“We all know Ari Emanuel to be an incredibly performative, erratic, and in my mind, always self-serving [person].”

This was CAA cochairman Bryan Lourd wasting little time responding to comments made by Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel concerning Lourd’s agency being named alongside imprisoned former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and the Walt Disney Company in a civil suit filed by actress Julia Ormond. Her suit includes allegations of sexual harassment, battery and retaliation. Lourd responded in the opening moments of his panel while speaking at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.

“The idea that he, in any way, could say that he could hold himself out as morally superior to anyone, but specifically around the issues that are so challenging for women, is odd,” Lourd said. “It’s ironic that the companies that he’s led his group into and the men that he’s partnered with … [are] his advisers on women’s issues.

CAA chairman and CEO Bryan Lourd has responded to his longtime agency competitor Ari Emanuel.

Emanuel on Wednesday criticized CAA — and specifically Lourd and his colleague Kevin Huvane — over a lawsuit accusing the agency of being complicit in Harvey Weinstein’s crimes. Emanuel said that Lourd should step aside pending an independent investigation.

“Look, we all know Ari Emanuel to be an incredibly performative, erratic, and, in my mind, always self-serving human, I think, much to the detriment of not just his colleagues, but his clients — the few that he’s got left — and, more importantly, his investors,” Lourd said Thursday, speaking to Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw in day two of the news organization’s Screentime conference.

“The idea that he in any way could think that he could hold himself out as morally superior to anyone — but specifically around the issues that are so challenging for women — is odd,...

The war of words between agencies bosses continues.

CAA Co-Chairman & CEO Bryan Lourd hit back after Endeavor boss Ari Emanuel said that Lourd and Kevin Huvane should take a leave of absence for their involvement in issues related to Harvey Weinstein and said that his company has more morals.

“We all know Ari Emanuel to be an incredibly performative and erratic and in my mind self-serving human, I think much to the detriment of not just his colleagues, but his clients, the few that he’s got left. More importantly, his investors. The idea that he in anyway could hold himself out as morally superior to anyone, but specifically around challenges to women, it’s ironic that the comapnies that he’s let his group into and the men that he’s partnered with and defends are maybe his advisors on women’s issues, but these are very serious issues,...

Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel said on Wednesday that rival CAA agency bosses Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane should step aside in light of Julia Ormond’s lawsuit against disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein, Disney and their own agency.

Speaking at the Bloomberg Screentime conference Wednesday in Los Angeles, Emanuel said that “they should take a leave of absence. And investigators should come in and they should look at what they did. They didn’t apologize. They didn’t deny it.”

Emanuel is bitter rivals with CAA, and is long known for disrespecting his industry competitors, though usually in private. But even so, his broadside against two respected industry veterans was shocking in its directness.

The Tko Group head went so far as to say that Lourd and Huvane’s role in Weinstein’s abuses of vulnerable actresses mirrored Ghislaine Maxwell’s for Jeffrey Epstein — that “they were leading them in to...

Ari Emanuel took some shots during his latest public appearance.

The Endeavor CEO took aim at CAA over their handling of issues related to Harvey Weinstein, calling for Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane to “take a leave of absence” while the matter is investigated.

He also urged the studios and actors to get a deal done even if it means getting “half a loaf”, saying that, “You’re not winning an Oscar for this negotiation”.

Speaking at the Bloomberg Screentime event, he also talked up interest in the rights to WWE’s Raw and teased deals with Netflix for Tyler Perry and David Ellison.

He also took aim at Benjamin Netanyahu over the terror attacks in Israel.

It was a short, but, as ever, wildly entertaining conversation with Emanuel.

On CAA, which along with Disney and Miramax, is being sued by Julia Ormond over an alleged sexual assault by Weinstein...

Endeavor and Tko Group Holdings CEO Ari Emanuel appeared at Bloomberg’s Screentime conference to talk business — and a lawsuit impacting rival CAA — but it was impossible to ignore the story dominating geopolitics.

Emanuel was asked by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw for his thoughts on the attacks in Israel, given his status as one of the most high-profile Jewish executives in the U.S., and he did not hold back.

“It’s not the same as 9/11, but I had that same feeling,” Emanuel said, noting that his grandmother escaped the Bolsheviks. “As a Jew, what happened in Israel this past weekend was one of the worst pogroms in history, not including the Holocaust.”

Emanuel called the Hamas attacks “heinous” and Hamas and Hezbollah “terrorists,” but he also heaped criticism at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling the politician “morally corrupt.”

“In my opinion, a morally corrupt Bibi Netanyahu exposed Israel and its people to rape,...

Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel opened Bloomberg Media’s Screentime conference Wednesday evening with a strong condemnation of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that he left the country vulnerable to the heinous terrorist attacks that began Oct. 7.

“A morally corrupt Bibi Netanyahu exposed Israel to rape and beheadings of babies, children,” Emanuel said in measured tones after moderator Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg’s managing editor of media and entertainment, asked him for his thoughts on the devastation in Israel. Emanuel has been an outspoken advocate on issues of Jewish identity and antisemitism.

“I don’t think this man deserves to be in power,” Emanuel said, to strong applause from the crowed gathered at Hollywood’s Nya Studios. He detailed the recent events in Israel and Netanyahu’s battles with the country’s judicial system “to keep himself out of jail,” he said. “It’s time to we get rid of this man.

Julia Ormond has been “living in fear.” The British actress known for her roles in films like Legends of the Fall, First Knight and Sabrina, as well as an Emmy-nominated turn on television’s Mad Men, alleges that in December of 1995, at the height of her stardom, she was sexually assaulted by film producer Harvey Weinstein. Though she says she’d confided in family, friends, and her powerful CAA agents at the time — Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane — about what transpired, she’s been reluctant to come forward publicly about that horrifying night,...

Actress Julia Ormond is suing Harvey Weinstein, alleging that he sexually assaulted her almost 30 years ago. She is also accusing Disney, Miramax, and CAA of negligence.

Ormond filed a complaint on Wednesday in the New York State Supreme Court, where she accused Weinstein of sexual assault in her apartment after a business dinner. Ormond claims that Weinstein said he would only discuss their latest film project back at a Miramax-provided apartment. Weinstein would then strip naked and force Ormond to perform oral sex.

Ormond then said she told her CAA agents, Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane, and claimed they cautioned her about speaking out against Weinstein, believing it would damage her career. She also claimed the agency “lost interest in representing her, and her career suffered dramatically.”

“The men at CAA who represented Ormond knew about Weinstein. So too did Weinstein’s employers at Miramax and [its parent company] Disney. Brazenly, none of...