UTA Signs Oscar Winner Anthony Hopkins

COMMENTS (16)

• Maybe he’s playing his own game of musical chairs to the strange rhythms in his head.

  Comment by Furious D — Monday September 21, 2009 @ 11:10am PDT  Reply to this post

• Just curious – which agency put him in FREEJACK (opposite Mitch Jagger)?

  Comment by The Business — Monday September 21, 2009 @ 11:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• Another jumper… Really, kudos for that? I’m curious what Sir Anthony (he is knighted right?) finds so bothersome about agents. Hmmmm….

  Comment by F. — Monday September 21, 2009 @ 12:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Maybe they can put him in a Hannibal Lecter videogame. Good luck, UTA.

  Comment by mariobavas — Monday September 21, 2009 @ 12:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• UTA should have ol’ Tony Hopkins inhabiting the same roles as Michael Caine is. First and foremost get him in a franchise, preferably a DC or Marvel one, again like Caine.

  They should also be getting him in a room with more young directors. There should be plenty of meaty roles for an actor of his caliber.

  He may be a handful. But who isn’t?

  Comment by Warner Borg — Monday September 21, 2009 @ 12:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow, three firms within 1 year. Is that a record for such a heavy hitter? I hope he’s happy and remains productive under his new agency.

  Comment by sp — Monday September 21, 2009 @ 1:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Best wishes to Tony in finding rep that will do him justice.

  Comment by Sterling Wolfe — Monday September 21, 2009 @ 2:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Another great UTA victory, well deserved also.

  Comment by hopkins fan — Monday September 21, 2009 @ 4:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hello Tony. Your agency merry-go-round indicates you’re unhappy with the current state of your career. It’s very obvious to me that you miss playing me. I was your greatest part. It’s time Tony. Time to play me again. Call Dino De Laurentis and tell him you’re ready. You could have saved yourself a lot of aggravation and agent-changing if you had simply realized this a few years ago. If Ted Tally won’t write another book about me you can still do another movie about me. They have these very talented people known as screen writers and they won’t need another novel of my culinary adventures. I look forward to seeing your next performance at my local cinema.

  Comment by Hannibal Lecter — Monday September 21, 2009 @ 7:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Ted Tally was the screenwriter. Thomas Harris wrote the novel.

    Comment by non-union writer — Tuesday September 22, 2009 @ 12:14am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Ted Tally is the screenwriter. Thomas Harris wrote the novels.

    Comment by accuracyrules — Tuesday September 22, 2009 @ 6:27am PDT  Reply to this post

• Tony is a first class nut; OR what is known as a “representative malcontent” of the highest order. Prior to being represented by the brilliant Rick Nicita, his reps during the previous five years were at least 5 different agents! CAA did a bad job of trying to keep him, this is true–they had checked out and had no further interest. That combined with a changing market and Tony’s overreaching idea of himself, and his natural “classic representative abuser” dna, all predicted this marry go-round. By my guess, it is not over yet!! To further state the case–he fired his excellent and hard working and very experienced attorney of 15 years for a “fringes guy” who is friendly with his current Lady and is not experienced in the ways of the film biz. This is one miserable and not very loyal guy!!

  Comment by Shelly — Monday September 21, 2009 @ 10:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Mr. Lecter – Where have you been? You have been missed so much. I realize that for reasons of secrecy, you have been under the radar.
  I am sure I speak for the entire movie community (and, Dino), when I say … WELCOME BACK! Chianti hasn’t tasted the same since … or, fava beans for that matter – your loving fan!

  Comment by daviddavid — Tuesday September 22, 2009 @ 5:32am PDT  Reply to this post

• Hey, Jeremy Irons just did a LIfetime movie. They’re always hiring!

  I think Anthony isn’t 35, isn’t an action hero/romantic lead, and can’t open a film without Hannibal Lecter. I don’t even think he could land the Sinestro role in the new Green Lantern film (he’s too old). HBO makes two movies and one mega mini-eries a year. So unless he wants to do indy films for no pay that end up direct-to-video, its actually NOT the easiest thing in the world to get Sir Anthony a payday in a big feature. Good luck Sir Anthony and UTA…I don’t sense a big appetite in America to revisit Hannibal Lecter– but as the poster above stated tongue in cheek, he may be your only hope.

  Comment by mariobavas — Tuesday September 22, 2009 @ 7:17am PDT  Reply to this post

• mr. hopkins is a great actor but a deeply troubled man…..everyone thinks if they change their agents they will change their lives while what they need to do is take a hard look in the mirror and change themselves

  Comment by elderstateman — Tuesday September 22, 2009 @ 11:10am PDT  Reply to this post

• he was signed by two lit agents…interesting…

  zimmer is fucking awesome btw. im curious why he hasn’t been more successful of late. he still pulls in 5M a year for doing nothing but i guess that’s the end-game when you start your own agency at age 29…

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday September 23, 2009 @ 5:52pm PDT  Reply to this post