Renee Zellweger Leaves CAA For WME

COMMENTS (23)

• This is boring. Instead of spending the next 12 months trying to steal each others clients, I wish they’d put their energy into figuring out a way for people to actually make movies and television shows in this town. What’s the point of having all the clients if there are no jobs for them? Talk about missing the point…

  Comment by Garbo — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 1:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why does CAA get its logo in the similar post from yesterday, but WME doesn’t in this post?

  Comment by Photo — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 1:23pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Is it any wonder why all these people’s careers are tanking? They are jumping from agency to agency hoping that things will change. Renee, you are no longer a movie star no matter which agency you are with. I bet any amount of money that Renee will star in the next CSI spinoff in a few years.

  Comment by brad12c — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 1:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Fantastic! I’m looking forward to these two agencies putting their egos ahead of their clients and producers to ensure that nothing gets done! Hooray!

  Comment by thebig28 — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 2:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• SHARK WEEK

  Comment by Cain and Abel — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 2:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• @Photo sounds like a whiny WME’er. Meanwhile, this is the same agency that posted comments that a logo is not that important after its logo was vilified.

  Is this how it’s gonna be? Bunch of whiny boys in a d–k measuring contest instead of using their energy/resources to do something interesting.

  Comment by Darwin — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 2:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• brad12c, read Garbo’s post. Could it be that Renee doesn’t have a career because her agents are busy poaching clients from other agencies? Plus if you would know anything about this business you’d know that there is what’s called a honeymoon phase when you switch to a new agency and that phase might be the only time the agents put actual work into their clients’ careers. Hence, all the clients forever chase that phase.
  I hate this about Hollywood and have been saying for years that there should be some kind of honorary agreement between the big five that nobody can poach unless a client announces that he or she is a free agent. Imagine the time agents could spend putting projects together and getting their clients jobs. Here is the sad part, I bet 90% of agents would prefer that than the constant ass kissing they have to do to steal clients.

  Comment by bradfool — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 3:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Just…Wow!

  Comment by wowowowowowowow — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 3:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Renee:

  How about dumping John Carrabino? He’s the laughing stock of the industry.

  Comment by Anonymous — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 3:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What’s really clear from this is that WME is not even remotely integrated as one agency.

  Comment by sickophant — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 3:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Okay lets get this straight. WME takes Renee Zellweger from CAA. Zellweger hasn’t done anything substantial in years. Maybe WME can get her on “CSI: Albuquerque.” CAA takes TV writer Jenji Kohan creator/executive producer of Showtime hit Weeds as well as Matt Weitzman, co-creator and exec producer of American Dad from WMA. Nice TV money. Also Tommy Lee Jones leaves WME for CAA. Tommy Lee Jones is a great actor that directors love and will always work. And he is experiencing a nice little resurgence after his great performances in “No Country for Old Men” and “In the Valley of Elah.”

  WME signs Milos Foreman. Milos Foreman is a great, two-time, Academy Award winning director who really hasn’t made a substantial movie since 1999′s flop “Man on the Moon.” That would have been a great sign in 1977. Also WME signs Lynne Ramsey, the 2000 BAFTA Most Promising Newcomer (Ratcatcher). Ummm…it’s 2009. Sorry Ari, a little late on that one. Looks like WME is taking out CAA’s trash. I don’t think CAA has much to worry about. Plus they have such a nice logo that doesn’t look like it was taken off of the Periodic Table of Elements.

  Comment by Showbuzzz — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 3:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Shark Week huh? Does that make clients the chum? Boy, we need a union for that.

  Comment by F. — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 5:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• No, bradfool, Renee doesn’t have a career because nobody will pay to watch her “I just sucked on a lemon” face for two hours. She needs to realize she’s not a leading lady.

  Comment by anonymous — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 7:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Directors love to work with Tommy Lee Jones? You have obviously never been on set with the man. NOBODY loves working with TLJ.

  Comment by WawaLisa — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 8:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• @ Anonymous

  How dare you? “I just sucked a lemon face”? I am appalled by your comment…and laughing on the verge of puking. BTW, what the fuck was her role in Appaloosa, an otherwise classic western? I get it, a woman breaks up the bromance between the two cowboys. But over her????

  Comment by Irving Thalberg's Ghost — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 9:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• She’s one more chemical peel and an agent or two away from superstardom.

  Comment by Jack — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 9:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Suck it CAA. Nice new music division concept. Too bad you’re 10 years behind Willy Mo on that. Time for a power shift.

  Also time to have a note pinned to your back for Mom and Dad to read when you get home. Check minus, CAA. Check. Minus.

  Comment by BoutTime — Friday June 12, 2009 @ 1:19am PDT  Reply to this post

• Don’t know much about WME but I do know CAA is a classy agency who treats its employees well and all the partners smile and make their underlings feel welcome.

  Comment by Holden — Friday June 12, 2009 @ 12:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Good move for Renee. Maybe actors need to realize that if CAA reps every TOP actress, it’s hard to get first read.

  Comment by realworldperson — Friday June 12, 2009 @ 1:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• these comments are hilarious. the gloves are off for sure!!! (and john carrabino is a joke… that, both sides can agree on!)

  Comment by lovethistown — Friday June 12, 2009 @ 4:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Brandt and Jenny are really good agents, congrats! CAA must spend most of it’s time getting clients discounts on botox and making them thinking they are being serviced well when all they do is they pass around offers and give them to whoever is most antsy. And Carrabino may be a fat slob but he’s a smart manager who’s built an amazing business by leveraging RZ. He’s got a deeper list than Jason Weinberg (who doesn’t nothing) without all those has-beens and randoms. John’s list has got to be one of the Top 5 in town. I don’t even like the guy but I respect him a lot.

  Comment by Producer — Friday June 12, 2009 @ 10:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hm..I don’t know Carrabino, but he’s got an amazing list as Producer observes..so his clients must take him seriously, and with the commissions he’s pulling in, I’m sure he doesn’t give a rats ass what people on this blog think of him!

  Comment by ronnie — Saturday June 13, 2009 @ 3:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I heard about this at the big self congratulation rally on Friday just before they kicked me to the curb. Boy that was creepy! It felt like some sort of AmWay pep rally. I was just waiting for everyone to start speaking in tounges. There was a lot of talk about “World Domination”. The only not creepy moment occured when everyone stood up and gave Norman Brokaw a lengthy standing ovation simply for being in the room. Now there is an honorable, kind and approchable man – a real legacy. I know what WmE stands for now:
  World Megachurch Endtimes

  Comment by Former Staff — Sunday June 14, 2009 @ 11:20am PDT  Reply to this post