ICM Signs Emmy Rossum

COMMENTS (21)

• LOL – suckers…

  Comment by good luck with that! — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 12:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Signs that you’re not a recognizable talent: When someone needs to look you up on Wikipedia to see who the hell you are.

  Comment by JD — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 12:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Best of luck to them, in dealing with her and her over-involved puppeteering mother. Poor souls don’t know what they have coming…

  Comment by D — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 12:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Good luck with that.

  Comment by Redd_Golde — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 1:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Her manager is one of the best talent reps in the business, and from what I have heard the mom-ager has been basically removed from the day to day equation. So I would not write her off.

  Comment by jewie louie — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 2:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• B ACTOR
  B AGENCY

  Comment by Ollie — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 2:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Could such uniformly snarky comments be the transparent sour grapes from the foot soldiers from her fired agency?

  Comment by Joe Gillis — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 2:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “B ACTOR
  B AGENCY”

  Far from B Actor and… yeah, wont even dignify the second claim with a response.

  Comment by Leland — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 4:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why bother? About five years ago when Rossum was getting work, this would have been a wise idea. At this point, after she disappeared for years to work on an “album”, it’s a complete waste of time. Every role she wouldn’t have been offered goes right to Anne Hathaway nowadays.

  Comment by Dorothy — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 4:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What most don’t know is that CAA and her former manager actually FIRED HER!

  She’s a low rent actress, drama queen and not worth the cost of phone calls, but I’m sure ICM promised her everything that she won’t be able to get.

  Comment by child — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 5:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yikes, looks as if angry CAA agents are posting slams.

  Comment by Hell hath no fury? — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 7:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Emmy’s checklist:

  Step 1: Switch agencies.

  Step 2: Change name.

  Comment by Jon — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 7:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

• who cares? dragonball z? that’s a winner…

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 9:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• She’s a cute girl and a decent actress, but she doesn’t have much in regards to her cinematic career, so this really isn’t a loss for them.

  Comment by Joseph Kastner — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 9:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• People – dont be such douchebags about her. She’s a decent actress and she was pretty great in DARE so if it gets any traction, maybe her career will be helped? Meanwhile, leave the girl drama alone!

  Comment by sanjay — Monday March 30, 2009 @ 10:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If you’ve seen the movie, then you know her career is over. What a P.O.S.!

  Comment by DARE? — Tuesday March 31, 2009 @ 12:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• CAA has a way of burying certain clients careers.

  Fact is, if you try to rep everyone in town, someone you’re representing is getting the short end of the stick.

  As poster Dorothy said ” Every role she wouldn’t have been offered goes right to Anne Hathaway nowadays.”

  Perhaps the right word would be DIVERTED to Anne Hathaway! They both are (or in Emmy’s case were) CAA clients.

  A case could be made that as of 2004, they were every bit equal in stature, but someone (suspicion on CAA) drove Emmys career in the ground.

  Its hard to imagine Emmy getting anywhere near the attention at CAA as she will at ICM, and frankly, that’s why her career has suffered.

  Clearly CAA is the biggest agency (and in some ways that automatically confers best status), but talent has to be careful who they are behind on the agency’s priority list. With so many stars at one place, CAA often seems like the Neverending Woods where careers get lost and pass up for years only to reemerge once they find their way back to ICM, Endeavor, WMA, (or if they really fall apart, Gersh.)

  ICM has been doing a respectable job in developing and resurrecting young careers recently.

  I think its a great match for both – the real test will be to see what happens in the months and years ahead.

  Comment by RHH — Tuesday March 31, 2009 @ 2:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Oh RHH, so naive. You really, REELEE don’t know what you are talking about in this case. Emmy and her crazy mom ruined her career. Maybe she has changed, maybe not. But her recent manager also fired her. I think it’s nice that you are defending a new client and I hope it works out. However, I think this is actually the only case where CAA is not to blame.

  May the force be with you…

  Comment by good luck with that! — Wednesday April 1, 2009 @ 5:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• emmy rossum is a good actress and will succeed at whatever she does.

  Comment by loren — Saturday April 4, 2009 @ 7:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Saw DARE at Sundance and it was the best high school movie I’ve seen in years. And Emmy blew me away. Have to admit, I was not a fan of hers before, but she was pretty damn good and quite sexy.

  Hope it gets a life out there. It rocks.

  Comment by margie — Wednesday May 13, 2009 @ 8:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The real issue here is what do you yourself want, Emmy. You have
  wonderful gifts. You have a MIND. You have refined cultural tastes from your upbringing in NYC. You have a deep and savvy boyfriend. It’s clear that someone’s at home here. And yet, for the past several years, we see you as a moving mannequin, a celebrity from being a celebrity. Earned by absolutely no serious work, and some really icky mediocrities. Appearing on the red carpets of second tier events or the white carpets of timid, uncontroversial charities. With really nothing to say — as anyone can see by your Twitter page, with largely airhead entries, rarely
  an idea. So who do you want to me, Emmy Rossum? Cause the journey down the carpet you’ve been strolling recently is a dead
  end … and in 15-20 years you’ll be wondering what happened? where’s my mind … what did I stand for … what gifts did I neglect … what pose after pose after pase after pose left me,
  and many others who were drawn to my authenticity, sighing, shrugging, forgetting

  Comment by paul gorman — Tuesday June 22, 2010 @ 10:35pm PDT  Reply to this post