It’s True! Robert De Niro Has Fired CAA

COMMENTS (37)

• If that post really was from a CAA agent, maybe the reason DeNiro left was that you didn’t know that his Levinson movie was called “What Just Happened?” not “Something Happened” and that Pacino’s new movie is called “88 Minutes” not “86 Minutes.” Maybe CAA agents should start spending more time learning their business and less time at Craft.

  Comment by errolmorrisfan — Friday April 11, 2008 @ 12:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Good Shepard was clearly the best movie of last year…

  Comment by Jason — Friday April 11, 2008 @ 2:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Regardless of what Bob has evolved into regarding his multi careering as a businessman, restauranter, Tribeca mastermind et al… it is simply crass to ignore that without his contribution to American cinema in the 70′s, 80s And 90′ (that’s 30 years people…) The credibility of of ‘Alternative mainstream’ (yeah, yeah a contradiction of sorts – whatever…) cinema wouldn’t be where it is today. Bob and a handful of others broke the mould at a time when Hollywood simply didn’t want to know that movies could be something other than popcorn brainwash fodder… Keep up this infighting and the east coast muck merchants will snigger all the way to the top of the food chain again. Oh, and regarding Bob… he’s still making movies I believe…
  Milo
  Dublin

  Comment by Milo — Tuesday April 15, 2008 @ 1:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I am a DeNiro fan and i thought the Good Shepard was an excellent and authentic film, however the beginning was very slow and needed a little better editing to keep the film moving.

  Comment by Jimmy — Wednesday April 16, 2008 @ 12:54pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Dear “A CAA Agent”:
  What part of The Bucket List was “very selective, very particular, and protect[ed] the brand”? errolmorrisfan stole my thunder on the mistakes you made…If you’re really an agent, Hollywood’s deader than De Niro’s self-parodying routine.
  Sincerely,
  A nobody

  Comment by Thomas — Wednesday April 16, 2008 @ 2:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Better to be a schmuck for one night, than a nobody for a lifetime.

  Comment by anonymous — Wednesday April 16, 2008 @ 8:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• When agents have made the inarguable and formidable contributions to the cinema that Robert De Niro has perhaps they can sit in judgement of him. Until then I remind you of something said of their ilk by Marlon Brando: ” They’re exhaust pipes looking for an engine.”

  Comment by michael — Friday April 18, 2008 @ 2:58am PDT  Reply to this post

• When agents have made the inarguable and formidable contributions to the cinema that Robert De Niro has perhaps they can sit in judgement of him. Until then I remind you of something said of their ilk by Marlon Brando: ” They’re exhaust pipes looking for an engine.”

  Comment by Anonymous — Friday April 18, 2008 @ 4:31am PDT  Reply to this post

• Take note of the agent’s description of an actor: a “brand”. The very people(if they can be so described) presumed to be responsible to and understanding of actors have determined that they are nothing more than Coca-Cola, Kleenex or MacDonalds. Agencies are now nothing but corporations with all the pathological avarice that word implies in 21st century America and no agency contributed more singular effort to this end than CAA. Their very name exhibits willful disregard for those from whom they amassed their vulgar fortunes- are there any artists who are not creative? Or perhaps the titular adjective modifies “Agency” in which case it is safe to say that a grievous display of presumption (and usurpation) is intended. Certainly on the evidence of their unprecedented wealth, it is safe to assume that not a dollar of the
  commissions paid to CAA from the work our agent friend criticizes was
  ever rejected. I doubt equally that the agent or his associates delivered
  an ultimatum to Mr. DeNiro firmly declaring their willingness to disassociate. The very degradation of Hollywood movies ( “product” as it is now called) like so much else in America has not been achieved without the consent and initiative of organizations like CAA or their corporate predecessors. The fields of creativity that the agents were meant to tend have instead been razed by locusts. There is precious little left to sustain artists. Robert De Niro is yet an authentic, breathtaking talent however much he has been lulled into a sleep. An artist’s life is struggle and then, if fortunate, distraction. He will awake
  from his slumber. They will swarm to another crop.

  Comment by cw — Friday April 18, 2008 @ 6:06am PDT  Reply to this post

• “And he could of concentrated on…”
  Dear Semi-literate CAA Parasite,
  I believe the English language equivalent you are looking for is “…could have…”. Your evident lack of basic grammatical skills prompts at least two concerns:
  1. Did agents conspire to orchestrate the degradation of our intelligence via increasingly moronic movies in order to render the rest of us equally subhuman?
  2. Did your lack of interest in a real education simply deprive you of the ability to read any script beyond a second grade level resulting in only those screenplays being produced?

  Comment by kr — Saturday April 19, 2008 @ 3:43am PDT  Reply to this post

• two words-
  romantic comedy.

  Comment by hj — Friday September 26, 2008 @ 12:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The agents comments may be on the mark. DeNiro may have a certain talent but his choices are mediocre in terms of partnerships in life as well as art. And then there is the business/money angle where there is never enough money to feed all those who have attached themselves to his train. He did chose the lower road rather than the higher one and the life and the work reflects that. But it does not negate that there was a talent there,it is just a worn and compromised one.

  Comment by c — Saturday December 5, 2009 @ 1:16pm PST  Reply to this post