
CAA has signed Davis Guggenheim, director of the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Guggenheim, who is at work on a documentary about U2, last directed Waiting for Superman, winner of the Audience Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Guggenheim, who’d been repped by WME, also previously directed and produced the riveting music docu It Might Get Loud with U2′s The Edge, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and White Stripes’ Jack White, and he directed the biographical film on Barack Obama that aired during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. He also directs a lot of television, including The Unit and The Defender, and has an overall deal with CBS/Paramount Television.


I read the title and for a moment there thought Deadline had finally entered the wonderful world of snark.
An Inconvenient Truth was as much “a documentary” as your average Michael Moore project, even though I fully support the position it takes with regard to global warming and its causes.
Any time CAA signs someone I scroll down looking for the phrase, “who had been at WME.” That place seems to be hemorrhaging.