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UPDATES UTA Loses Helmer Wes Anderson To WME
Just a few weeks ago, WME trumpeted its signing of Wes Anderson away from his longtime rep, UTA chairman Jim Berkus, and also agent Rich Klubeck. Now the Fantastic Mr Fox director has left WME and returned to UTA. ”There’s no question that Wes has been loyal to Berkus…” an insider tells me. UPDATE: Anderson initially blamed UTA for the underperformance of Fantastic Mr. Fox and then decided his “several assumptions” had been wrong, so went back.
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why would he jump back to UTA so quickly?
WME is in such a mess…
To go to WME these days, you have to be someone like Kevin Costner… Already rich and past his prime and just looking to throw up a hail mary and get millions of dollars for one of his pet projects with lottery-type odds of recoupment. You’re just hoping WME might know some rich idiot that CAA doesn’t… Other than that, you avaoid WME like the plague.
that’s just fucking idiotic. did WME actually SIGN him? or was it posturing? And if they did, going from one agency to another and back to the first in a matter of weeks? God, this business if fucked up and stupid. And yet, here i am.
Damn, that was quick.
Fantastic Mr. Fox was wonderful. Glad he’s back where he belongs. He’s a very special talent and needs people that understand that.
I heard that Anderson has asked his agents to stop using him as a chip in their monthly poker game. It’s getting confusing for the poor guy.
I heard that you’re a dweeb. Stop trying to be Mr. Insider by piggybacking off of Nikke’s site and go away.
Good to hear he’s back with Berkus but Robert Newman would’ve been a killer for him.
Your comment is not only stupid but makes very little logical sense.
Now WME has bragging rights on breaking even financially – if they’re lucky, that is – on Wes Anderon’s forthcoming projects that will surely continue the trend of flaunting the incurable infatuation he has with himself while alienating all audiences outside of ironic hipsters.
I would say to your insider, since Anderson did in fact fire Berkus and go to WME for a time, that there is SOME question as to his loyalty…
Yes, a wonderful director Wes is but let’s be honest, he’s a niche guy. I will line up for anything he does but he will never be mainstream.
I’m glad i didn’t date any of these people in high school.
Whoever licenses Kinks music that goes well with slo-motion will be happy.
Actually that doesn’t make any sense.
What did WME tell him he needs a commercial hit or the studios will stop ponying up the big budgets and he didn’t like that? This would be news if Anderson made movies that people outside of the critical establishment wanted to see.
Please let this = hit movie
all WME could offer him was an uncomfortable cocktail party
Is it just me, or is Wes Anderson turning into kind of a douche?
After “Rushmore”, “The Royal Tennenbaums”, and his other early work, it became apparent that his films were touching a generation of people, and probably have inspired more imitation in popular culture over the past 10 years than anything else.
Right before “Fantastic Mr. Fox” came out, we heard stories filtering out about him being unreasonable and overly demanding with his stop-motion animation team, who it turns out, were doing all the work that made the film so beautiful.
Now, he’s turned into a Hollywood-type agent-switcher. The excuse is lame, the drama is boring, and the directorial hope of a generation has been reduced to a cliche.
Very disappointing when a talent gets the kind of ultra-rare creative leeway afforded this guy and he blows it with tedious self-indulgence.
Add entitled arrogance to the mix and I say, please, just go away.
Shia Labeouf, Robert DeNiro, Josh Brolin, Wes Anderson are just a few examples of name talent leaving WME. And they only had Anderson for a month. That place is not the shining example of a successful merger everyone there makes it out to be. They’re having real problems.