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It’s True! Robert De Niro Has Fired CAA
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Sheesh.
All these firings, hirings, and defections among the “tenpercentery” is like Hollywood is playing musical chair at 78 RPM.
You better get a chart put together, just so people, even the actors and agents, can no who is with who now.
Really. REALLY? All this agency action is interesting and all, but the only thing I want to know when they happen is why? What catclysmic event decided all these actors to take stock in their lives and change their managment. I mean at the DeNiro level… isn’t it just trading a Zune for an iPod. We can argue endlessly over the particulars, but all they really have to do is play the music.
iPods (i.e. CAA) are much better than Zunes.
It’s a very easy way to get in the news. Maybe a little publicity?
I think the last straw was when he got cast as a flying pirate last summer. He’s a great actor, but has been saddled with some odd scripts after Casino. Flying Pirates? “Rocky and Bullwinkle”?
C’mon, Nikki,
Unless you start “‘splainin’” stuff, it is going to look like Endeavor is now the cool place to be for creative people in Hollywood, at least to those of us who live outside it. Should those of us who are full of the rarest and most profound creative insights and uncompromising artistic integrity start sucking up now?
So he picks bad movies and fires his agency? Standard.
TRAVIS BICKLE – BEST. COMMENT. EVER.
deniro is a megastar being mismanaged.
where are the killer roles for him in david fincher calibre crime movies, crime movies WITHOUT 50 fucking cent in them? when is he going to do a killer, cerebral science fiction movie with a cutting edge director? when is he going to do a movie with the director of ‘this is england’? he should be with the elite directors of moviemaking instead of the lame last ten years of movies we fans have experienced. why can’t he find a private eye franchise? why can’t they remake sinatra’s ‘first deadly sin’ for deniro? there’s his franchise. when is he going to portray wilhelm reich in the film version of ‘book of dreams’?? this is all deniro material.
it is a joke that ROBERT DENIRO is becoming marginalized. can’t accept the argument that movies suck now, even it is true.
Why did Bobby leave us?
They promised they could turn back time.
They promised they could get him 20m a picture.
They promised they could get a release for his “Something happened,” a Barry Levinson show biz pic that’s has no market, and Mark Cuban lost a fortune on.
They promised they could get him the $1m production fee on every picture he does, that he and his partner put their names on, and do nothing to earn.
They promised they could convince Hollywood that they should still pay that 1m vig on top of his acting fees.
They promised him they’d find a respectable release for the Pacino picture he did last summer, that basically stars two 65 year old guys as detectives – while the audience is under 35, and has no interest in seeing.
As I said, they promised him they could turn back time, and make him 50 again, and relevant, and hot, and interesting to today’s movie going audience.
And they probably promised that they’d find a way to erase the memory of all of America about the number of god-awful paycheck films he did during the past ten years.
DeNiro had a choice ten or so years ago. He could either go the Nicholson route – very selective, very particular, protect the brand – or go out sending himself up in tripe like Analyze this, which made money but turned him into that “old psycho guy.”
And he could of concentrated on quality stuff, but instead wanted to keep funding his little empire in New York.
A year ago, Bobby came to us complaining that he was losing a fortune underwriting the film festival every year, and wanted us to find bigger corporate sponsors.
We tried, but the stumbling block was always the same thing: The corporations all thought that the Tribeca film festival was a not-for-profit organization, sponsored by the city. But when they got under the hood, they found out that it was all for the greater glory of Bobby and Jane and her husband, and the corporate stuff shied away from it. Bobby held us responsible for his own greed, his own avarice, and his own megalomania.
And it’s just like the studios now ask us: Why should we pay this guy – who doesn’t open a movie – the payoff to his production company, just so he can add his name as a producer.
Sure, there’s more; he thought we should have delivered an Oscar for his paint-drying slow 3 hour Good Shepard. But we couldn’t.
And finally, if really want to understand why now, why today, look at the review today in Variety for the Pacino “86 Minutes” stinker. It’s directed by Jon Avnet, (a career ending review), who just happens to be the director of Bobby’s next movie. (With Pacino.)
Bobby blames everybody but himself for the way he’s squandered his career, and refused lots of quality pictures because they wouldn’t give him producer credit.
Good luck in the Hotel Business, pal.
According to CNN: CAA has replaced Robert DeNiro with…
MIKE HUCKABEE
So my hopes for the Chuck Norris/Mike Huckabee crime fighting show CHUCK & HUCK NUNCHUK DUCKS will finally come to pass!
Last words De Niro muttered to his CAA agent: “You BLEW it . . . you BLEW it!!!”
C’mon, Nikki,
Unless you start “’splainin’” stuff, it is going to look like Endeavor is now the cool place to be for creative people in Hollywood, at least to those of us who live outside it. Should those of us who are full of the rarest and most profound creative insights and uncompromising artistic integrity start sucking up now?
Isn’t there some famous expression or truism that it’s always better to be # 1? “Careful what you wish for,” etc. Let Endeavor take the crown for a couple of years while UTA and maybe a somewhat struggling (though that’s doubtful) CAA have more time to coddle their clients.
It’s all cyclical, and I agree with MT that it’s all getting a little silly.
And funny, half the movies Hwood makes still suck. So what does that change?
VERY well said mk.
If a CAA agent really typed those comments, that is really sad.
Switching between agencies and agents is like switching between different deck chairs on the Titanic.
Ever since DeNiro hooked up with his partner Jane Rosenthal he has done one bad movie after another. Talk about Brando squandering his talent. He was selective. DeNiro throw away his talent for a fast buck for himself and the Rosenthal’s. He is a characteture of his former self. The glory days with Scorcese are gone.
When it opened, Stardust was better than 95% of what had come out last year. Granted, this was pre-Oscar season, but it was a really fresh and ambitious movie. And DeNiro totally stole the show. I hear he was actually really happy with that part, particularly because it cracked the typecast he’d been confined by the last few years.
Brilliant posting from MK (at 10:51)
MK crystallized the direction De Niro’s been heading and should be managing De Niro’s career.
Appreciate the CAA agent comment which sounds legit……
Hey Nikki,
I have an idea. You – Write a book. Hire Pellicano (BAD idea) to find out which CAA agent posted on DHD their anger (on behalf of CAA? or just for his or her need to blow off some steam? that had built up clearly, inexorably, for 10 years and had finally exploded.
I’d read that book if you wrote it Nikki.
Robert works all the time. Some of his work would have been better left in the dead script pile. He is a mega talent and a bit lazy. If you can make 20m sleeping wouldn’t you? He can still hit the notes that made him a part of one of the most successful collaboration teams in history. Maybe this will be just what he needs to find those notes again.
As far as the Jane Rosenthal; make a fast buck rumour; Who knows? Robert works; Jane produces. Although his full platform is not being excerized. She doesn’t seem to be able to get him the Director or producer deals.
Thanks, Travis Bickle, MK, Marcia Silverstein, anonymous, and CAA agent. Responses like those make this blog so much fun and so informative about what happens in this industry. As I understand it, DeNiro said CAA can go f- itself because it is an incompetent failure and CAA says DeNiro can go f- himself because he is an aging washed up money grubbing loser. Now I understand.
“And he could of concentrated on quality stuff, but instead wanted to keep funding his little empire in New York. ”
what a joke coming from the mouths of CAA. What CAA agent wouldn’t sell out his or her mother to feed the Death Star.
I was involved with Stardust and De Niro’s performance was outstanding. Yes, he could stick to making crime dramas but is so much better and broader as an actor, he can do drama, action, comedy, anything. Stardust itself is easily one of the best movies of 2007 (see it if you have doubts) but it flopped since Paramount’s marketing department is the worst in town.
Paramount makes some great movies but they couldn’t sell a drink to people dying of thirst. After seeing the Stardust promos even I didn’t want to see our movie.