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On the one hand, writer and director Nancy Meyers (It’s Complicated, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday, What Women Want, Baby Boom) has been a loyal and longtime Jeff Berg client spanning decades. On the other, she cannot possibly say she hasn’t been well represented. Notoriously not an easy client, Meyers may be headed to WME.
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If your reputation is “notoriously not an easy client”, expect to be abandoned when the bad times kick in.
Wow, that’s quite a quality list. Drooling, superficial female lifestyle porn. Go Nancy, you cinema legend
Her difficulty comes from her insecurity. She is talented but needs to stop doing 35 takes of the sink being turned on. She also should stop poaching ideas as a writer. She doesn’t need to.
She also wrote Private Benjamin with two other writers. She is very funny.
This is really sad. Jeff Berg represented her well. It’s to bad he doesn’t let anyone at the Agency help him or get invested in the few clients he has left. He is so strange people run the other direction when they see him. The Agents are certainly not compensated when they do help and blamed when things go wrong. I personally like and respect Jeff on some levels but he should be smart enough to know when to leave the party. The Agency business is so horrible at the moment, why bother. I feel bad for all the other Agents at ICM. Their clients must be wondering “what the f–k is going on. They can’t package or cast anything. All the stars are gone. There really are only two Agencies WME and CAA. UTA and ICM should merge soon and than those two nasty places can devour each other. The only sad thing about this is so many Agents will be on the street. There will be no place to left for them to go. Oh well.
SD, it wasn’t all that long ago that ICM packaged the
LORD OF THE RINGS films which made a few dollars I believe.
On the TV side, 9 of out the top 15 shows on television
currently are ICM packages. And need I mention how many
ICM authors are consistently on the weekly Top 10 NY Times
Books list.
Berg and ICM did an amazing job for her and t gets me every single time an artist blames others when the work done on their behalf is always superlative. Berg took world class care of her as did that entire agency. What a shame.
WME is on the up and up…I give them 5 years and they will be on top again ahead of CAA. Mark my word.
It’s complicated.
And the champagne is flowing at ICM. What an impossibly obnoxious person.
I am only a studio minion, but I’m privy to the conversations of those who are not. Nancy Meyers is universally hated by studio executives and by talent. I’ve never heard one nice thing about her.
I too work for a studio that has worked with Meyers, and having personally interacted with her and had several colleagues who have as well I can report that she was nothing but a complete pleasure to work with. Nice to everyone and a true talent who fully immersed herself in every aspect of the process. I’m sure if Nancy made the decision to leave ICM it was well thought out and for just reason. Good luck to her on her new endeavor.
I agree. Jeff Berg would be the first to admit that she was a wonderful person. She is a true pro. Actors, executives who are over 21 and most of the Industry love Nancy. She may be a bit short with a hand full of fools who she and other directors find just plain ignorant. I for one have loved working with her and would again in an instant. I wish the best to her and to Jeff I have enjoyed working with both of you and the results have been great.
I was told her version of THE PARENT TRAP was a post production nightmare. The studio was fighting with her about the length. The film was 2 weeks over schedule and she was NOT HAPPY with the cut she turned in. SHe wanted more time.
You can tell that same story about pretty much every director on every movie kid. Welcome to the business…
Four straight movies with worldwide grosses over 200 million…yea, the champagne is really flowing at ICM. I’m sure a lot of female directors, or any directors for that matter, can say that. She was loyal to that agency and Jeff Berg when many others would’ve left ages ago. And as for being difficult, if being hard working and actually caring about the work she puts out makes her difficult, i’m sure she’d be happy with that title. Whoever lands her will be getting a huge talent.
She has a secure niche in the business– gets to make what she wants with very nice budgets. Do we guess she wants to have easier access to top talent @ WME or CAA?
One of my friends was an extra on one of Nancy Meyers’ movies, and Meyers wanted her to stand in a different place, and quite literally, in front of a room of hundreds of extras and cast and crew, yelled “Hey, Fat Girl!” through a bullhorn. A BULLHORN!! I wish I were kidding.
And yeah, my friend is Rubenesque, but hardly fat, and certainly did nothing personal to Meyers to deserve that kind of treatment. And this was behavior from one of the few Hollywood filmmakers who “understands women.”
I’ve hated Meyers ever since.
Shit. That’s disgusting behavior. I quite despise her too now.
Sometimes, not unlike a sports franchise, one’s roster needs tweaking. An injection of new energy may be needed. Or she’ll not find green grass on the other side and be right back again in a few months. Seems like a win-win.
yes, she co-wrote private benjamin – a very funny movie.
unfortunately, that was over 100 years ago — and since then, she’s churned out sparkly, overly-glossy, ultra-polished, ‘white-people-in-the-hamptons-during-the-holidays’ flicks. all very ‘adult’ and ‘knowing’… kinda like nora ephron, but more carbonated.
I think Nancy Meyers needs to step out of her comfort zone and visit a third world country or something…or something beyond Montana avenue or wherever she sips her overpriced lattes. Her last film, in which Meryl designed her dream kitchen (when the one she had was fucking big enough) showed how OUT OF TOUCH she is. Studio bound fantasy films with set design worked in the STUDIO era. Nowadays, you’re just likely to drum up contempt from viewers (ala SEX AND THE CITY “I wanted jewelry!” 2). At the very least she can write a fish out of water story ala Private Benjamin based on her discomfort.
You know what? Thank you for saying this. It’s long been an issue with me.
It’s unfortunate a client like Nancy can’t be grateful towards JB- He has been loyal, supportive, and an instrumental force in her career. No other person will be as patient with her difficult demands…good luck to her next agent
say what you want about Jeff Berg, but at least admit that he is and has always been one of the smartest in the business. Those clients whom he chooses to represent get extraordinary and elegant representation. Jeff’s still in the business only because he wants to be. Not for the money (he already has that) and not for the title (he could give a s…t about the title so he gave it to chris silberman who still cant believe that he runs an agency.. jeff, this was not a great move, the guy’s a moron and knows zilch about talent, music, etc.). Nancy Myers is clearly talented but would not have had the success she’s had without Jeff’s taste and smarts.
I do not know Nancy Meyers or Jeff Berg personally but I have followed their careers for years. Relationships run their course and the point is to know when to fold and move on gracefully. Attachments are good when they are productive and personally gratifying, but there comes a time when it’s time to let go. Not sure why the industry is jumping in airing dirty laundry. I worked side by side with one of the most talented and talked about film directors of our time, Robert Altman. Had I listened to what my studios friends in LA had to say about him, I never would have accepted the job. What a shame that would have been for me. Nancy Meyers gets ‘top shelf’ treatment in my world ~ she is a class act with many more curtain calls to come. Keep on Rockin!
Completely agree. When is this ridiculous hater cesspool going to end? If anyone is any good at what they do in this town there are going to be people (mostly aspirants or bitter malcontents) who resent it. The business is tough enough without this kind of nonsense. NF should seriously consider Julie Zhuo’s Op-Ed in today’s NYTimes. The anonymous trolls should be banned from Deadline Hollywood. It might then actually become worthy of its’ mantel as the defacto trade news outlet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/opinion/30zhuo.html?_r=1&hp
Ok speaking outside the business…Nancy Meyer’s films are the best around. I don’t care where she gets her inspiration from…I go to the theater knowing I will not be wasting my time or money…yes the actor’s are important but Nancy’s films are dependable and very upbeat and great eye candy all the way around. I always look forward to her set design and stories. I hope no matter what change she makes that it will only benefit her and her audience.
Her movies are very formulated…in a white, wanna-be uppper class setting (and if you really listen to the drab dialogue they are pretentious, glib and have little substance…are these movies supposed to reflect the shallow, vain, self-obsessed Americans she sees her audience as? I’d say her characters are more a reflection of who she actually is.
Hi Nancy I just saw the movie Holiday for the first time and I love it a lot!I had just broke up with my boyfriend and I needed a movie to cheer me up and it did, silly me is still watching it even in the middle of January.I was wondering if you could consider doing Holiday2 with the same cast maybe children older, the adults getting marry or going though some life relationship changes.I think it could be another delightful movie again for 2012.