Paradigm’s Andrew Rogers Joins ICM

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• Let me be the first to say, Andrew Rogers is a great guy. Anybody who says otherwise is just a hater and has never had an real success in hollywood, thus has time to troll these boards. What about me? I haven’t had any real success either. But that doesn’t mean Andrew is not a good guy.

  Comment by not a hater — Monday February 8, 2010 @ 7:41pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Rogers is a complete and total hack. He’s about to become Toni Howard’s bitch boy.

    I don’t know who the bigger hack is, Andrew Rogers or Sam Gores and Steve “lazy” Small for promoting him to run the talent department. The guy has one client, Michael Cera, who is proving to only be a character actor and not a break out star. Who are these other actors? And this is the agent that was running a talent department, albeit at a small boutique.

    Comment by paradigmfinallygetsit — Monday February 8, 2010 @ 9:12pm PST  Reply to this post

• icm is a boys club, but rogers still won’t fit in. ts likely that clueless silberman sees him as the future of icm. However, once tyranasauraus howard figures him out and sees that he’s a talentless backstabber, he’ll be toast.

  Comment by boyz club — Monday February 8, 2010 @ 9:51pm PST  Reply to this post

• Thanks Michael, loved you in Superbad. Is that supposed to be a department head’s client list?

  Comment by hater — Monday February 8, 2010 @ 10:30pm PST  Reply to this post

• To all the “Posters/Posers”, here, read this so you can figure out the nuts and bolts of Hollywood before it’s too late:

  Stop hating because your contract either: A) Didn’t get picked up at Paradigm, aka (fired) or B) You got thrown out of ICM because your numbers didn’t add up.

  Get over it. Learn how to compete.

  First off, no one “steals” clients–everyone works with teams of representatives in Hollywood–agents too–the clients go wherever they want, feel most comfortable, and think they are represented the best–period.

  2nd off, “hacks” don’t find or develop clients, or run with the same lists for years, the agent discussed has only lost a handful of self destructive clients, who are on milk cartons hoping someone will find them as we speak……the agent discussed has had all of his clients an average of 4-5 years–and has a kung fu grip on them…, look out the window, a charter just pulled up to ICM!

  3rd off, who cares, aren’t they all tyranasorases, fire breathers–with a little car salesman thrown in for good measure?? Dude, he isn’t even like that. All of his former Assistants were either promoted or assisted in finding their desired position in other facets of Hollywood.

  Hollywood Cry Baby, look here, if your numbers add up, and you’ve been excelling at a smaller shop=more difficult to sign and keep, you get to move to better agencies and develop your business further. If not, you stay put and hope you can keep your hair dark enough and your chicklets white enough so they don’t replace you with a younger agent with more upside.

  Oh, one more thing, when an agent sits down with dozens of A,B,C, list actors in the last few years, and they all say: “you know, I like you, I would sign with you, but I’m just not sure about your agency…” You fix the problem. Problem solved. Any of the three letters minus the squared will work.

  And, if you still can’t figure it out, I hear there is a Joe Blaze seminar starting at RFD in 15 minutes…now go, maybe he can smack some Hollywood sen$e into your stuck on stupid mentality.

  Comment by To all the Hollywood Cry Babies: — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 12:33am PST  Reply to this post

  • good post, Rogers. Nonetheless, you won’t last more than a year at ICM

    Comment by puhleeze — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 10:31am PST  Reply to this post

  • Dear Andrew Rogers’ Asssistant/Former Assistant:

    1) You do realize that it’s possible for people to form a negative opinion of someone based on legitimate reasons (ie, not “hating,”) right? Different people have different opinions of others. For example, your apparently positive opinion of Rogers seems to be based on the fact that he hooked you up in some way (perhaps recommended you for a promotion?). On the other hand, if he had screwed you over, or just been an ass to you (as he has to dozens upon dozens of others), you would probably have a negative opinion of him.

    2) Despite your ignorant assertion to the contrary, it is possible for one agent to “steal” a client intra-agency. Yes, most clients have “teams.” We all get that. But there’s usually one (maybe two) rainmaker agents who actually sign the client to the agency (the Huvanes and Lourd’s of the world) and then in the signing meeting they introduce the client to their “team.” The “team” is always supposed to check everything with the rainmaker, since that person is the “lead agent” on a given team. But what if one of the team’s “covering” agents suddenly goes rogue and unilaterally starts calling the client, setting up appointments without running anything through the “lead” agent, to the point that they have now installed themself as the “lead” agent? Then they have “stolen” the client intra-agency. And that’s what Rogers did with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, whom he did NOT sign to the agency. That’s what he did with Michael Cera, whom he did NOT sign to the agency. That’s what he attempted to do with Melissa George, whom he did NOT sign to the agency. etc, etc., etc.

    We all get it, you’re a former Rogers assistant, so you want to be loyal. But try to maintain some sense of objectivity before you lose all credibility.

    Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 1:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• First order of business…
  Package Michael Cera and Burt Reynolds to remake Cloak and Dagger.

  It will own the summer of 2011.

  Comment by huh — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 1:14am PST  Reply to this post

• good for rogers. paradigm is a waste of time. it is sad that he has the best list there and i never heard of half of the clients. cant imagine the no bodies that fill up the rest of the lists.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 7:36am PST  Reply to this post

• Rogers is a smart, tough agent. Good to see he’s moving up.

  Comment by E Taylor — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 9:35am PST  Reply to this post

• Rogers is the man! He doesn’t have that gansta limp because he’s a “hack.”

  Comment by crazy horse — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 9:48am PST  Reply to this post

• Hipsters have no business agenting.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 2:24pm PST  Reply to this post

• Rogers is just the shot in the arm that ICM needs to spark some momentum in its aging talent department. He’s got a group of young hot clients that gives the stagnant and stale department something fresh and exciting to talk about. In recent months, all the ICM talent agents have been forced to service that hundred-year-old troll Toni Howard, who limps through the hallways like an old wounded dog barking orders and making veiled job-security threats to underpaid junior agents. Meanwhile, she herself hasn’t signed a meaningful piece of business in more than a decade, as she’s too busy getting her hair dyed puke yellow at Juan Juan. ICM needs to hire more like Rogers and less like Howard if they want to have a shot at competing with other mid-level agencies.

  Comment by I heart UTA — Wednesday February 10, 2010 @ 12:26am PST  Reply to this post

  • OMG. I interned there this past summer and that person nailed it right on the head about Howard!

    Comment by ellentheintern — Wednesday February 10, 2010 @ 10:19am PST  Reply to this post

  • lol….Juan Juan

    Comment by Hehehe — Thursday February 25, 2010 @ 9:18pm PST  Reply to this post