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I forgot to post last Friday that CAA signed Tom Selleck. My question is simply: “Why?” Granted he needs new agents since his career is cold as ice. But CAA has more than enough out-of-work actors bitching and moaning under Richard Lovett’s 100% market share philosophy…
Endeavor had in its fold writer/director John Hamberg (Zoolander, Meet The Fockers, Along Came Polly), lost him to CAA about a year ago, and now has snatched him back.
Kevin Bisch (Hitch) whose latest script sold to Sony for over $1 million, is leaving ICM and taking meetings at other agencies. His manager, former ICM agent Brian Sher of Category 5, keeps pulling clients from the tenpercentery.
Paradigm signed Brittany Murphy. (I guess Lindsay Lohan may be next since, after signing Mischa Barton, Paradigm is trying to rehab the careers of Actresses Gone Wild…) This weekend, the agency’s loyalties were divided. It reps High School Musical 3 director/choreographer Kenny Ortega, writer Peter Barsocchini and the producers Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush plus the editor Don Brochu. But it also reps two of the guys behind the Saw franchise.
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Tom Selleck was great in LAS VEGAS. It’s a pity this show has been cancelled by NBC. Maybe they could revive it as a remake of HOTEL BABYLON…
And William Morris has signed….noone of any importance.
Paradigm has an exciting, smart, hungry group of agents that have really impressed me recently.
Selleck’s career is cold as ice?
Nikki, Nikki, Nikki: Tom has a great career going.
Why he has…, well give some time…, oh yeah, the every other year Jesse Stone CBS movie of the week that DOESN’T air during sweeps.
Always a good sign!
Wanna bet Tom’s next move is to take Chuck Heston’s place at the NRA?
Perhaps, the out of work actors will be made availabe for fundraising telethons, or a new version of Peace Corps wherein non working actors do needed work in problem areas of the world , including USA.
1. Tom Selleck’s Jesse Stone TV movies appear to be doing well, since he’s here in Nova Scotia every autumn as regular as the changing leaves to make another one.
2. Were the agencies using him as a chip in a poker game? They’re passing him around like a doobie.
3. Yet another case of a major agency letting someone go and thinking that it won’t lure away their clients. Will they ever learn? Probably not.
4. Good luck to Paradigm, they’re going to have their work cut out for them with some of those actresses.
There’s no reason Tom Selleck can’t stage a Travolta-like comeback if given the right part in the right indie.
Kevin Bisch is a moneymaker, and for some, that’s all that’s important. But there’s absolutely zero artistic merit to them.
It hard to keep track of which agency is “winning”. Does anyone keep a running scorecard of agent/talent defections and additions?
Paradigm is the only agency in town with a legitimate business model and the resources to back it up.
I know why you forgot, no one cares about the lame out of work writers and actors switching from one asshole to another.
Paradigm has 2 of the SAW guys..Darren is at Endeavor and APA has the writers of the last 3 and the director of the most recent one
Way too harsh, Nikki.
Selleck is still a big name in TV, where CAA is hoping to package him in a hit series.
Know what the packaging fees and profits are like for a hit series?
Perhaps there should be an agency just for Troubled Young Actresses and Old Passed-Over Actors.
Seriously? We give a shit about who “wrote” and “directed” SAW? This is how much discussions of agencies has devolved?
Paradigm has no business model just a shitload of money. Anytime an agency starts touting a “unique business model,” run…that is what got WMA into this fine mess, from which it will not return. When they couldn’t sign any big name, big money actors and directors, they decided the “sell” would be that they are not an agency, rather an entertainment company and went after corporate clients…thsi was as much to stroke Tweedle Die Wiatt’s ego as it was a strategy. The strategy essentially was go secure Wiatt an annual invite to Allen and comapany, but did nothing for WMA’s bottom line and people there forgot that they are in a personal representation business. Music has thrived, but that’s almost solely due to economic realities and Peter Grosslight’s leadership.
F, there is one — ICM
APA (Boxerbaum) had the smarts to snatch up the SAW guys after ICM blew their representation… Another nail in ICM’s coffin
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In reply to ‘Dixon Steele’: Paradigm innovated the model of representation by using teams of agents per each client.
Mailroom Ace – the “teams of agents” model is largely inefficient, as most agents are concerned about the clients they signed and are point people for. Once in a while an agent will get an audition for another agent’s client when they are incredibly perfectly obviously right for a role. Otherwise most agent’s seem to look out mostly for the clients they signed. That’s been my experience at least. Your thoughts?
Mailroom Ace — your post made me LOL!
I’ve been in Hollywood for nearly ten years, and I’ve had meetings with (and been repped by, among others) CAA, ENDEAVOR, ICM, WILLIAM MORRIS, APA…
… and EVERY agency boasts “We’re not like the other agencies. We work as a team. We have no ego here — just what’s best for the client.”
And not one of them means it any more than Paradigm.
Guys? Back me up here.
Get out of the mailroom, buddy, the air will do you good.
Nikki…
As this is being written, Tom Selleck is in Halifax, Nova Scotia, shooting the sixth in the series of Jesse Stone movies for CBS…actually, the only movie franchise which exists in today’s television universe. The first four have already aired…each of them in a sweeps period…and all of them were successful enough for CBS to continue to order more. Quite an achievement considering that no other Network and practically every Cable Network is out of the movies for television business. Hardly an indication of a “career as cold as ice.”
Tom Sellick “cold as ice”. 95% of the working actors in hollywood would like to be as “cold as ice” as Tom’s career is
My grandmother is very excited for the 6th JESSE STONE movie.
Mailroom Ace,
WTF? Paradigm invented what? Paradigm is b-list all the way!
And their agents are below pond scum…. they memorized the junior agent playbook at the Barbizon Agency before they got on a Greyhound bus in Florida somewhere, went west and set up shop in Hollywood… even pond scum gets lucky if they have deep pockets to stay in the game long enough.
And, what’s more insulting is the fact that they don’t even put an original spin on the agent handbook.
Pure cheese!
Teams of Agents – Yes, point agents have greater concern for their own client rather than that of a covering agent..but that’s relative to a given department. I think the model I speak of is very efficient; otherwise agencies wouldn’t be coordinating their “teams” to help leverage an artist’s talent across various service areas.
Fruit Plate – Sorry to hear it took you 10 years to score some meetings. After all that name dropping you’re still bitter towards agencies?? You should have signed with an agent who’d work for you rather than pray for you.
Smelling of Cheese – First, I wrote ‘innovated’ not ‘invented’. Second, as minimal as it is, it’s a shame your retarded story is taking up web space.
Tom Selleck + 2008 = Andy Griffith + 1988
MATLOCK = Jesse Stone