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EXCLUSIVE: Motion picture literary agent Doug Johnson is expected to join ICM from UTA this week. Until now, most of the movement has been from ICM to UTA. Johnson’s client list includes Vanessa Taylor (co-executive producer of HBO’s Game Of Thrones and writer of Sony’s upcoming Great Hope Springs with Meryl Streep), director Frank Coraci (The Wedding Singer, Zookeeper), multi-hyphenate Nick Cannon, writer Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend’s Girl) who recently sold a pilot to NBC, screenwriter Michael Gordon (300), and writer Steve Leff.
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Doug is awesome!! ICM is lucky to have him!
I think the facts say everything here. Doug was fired as a manager and now leaving UTA because he’s a loose cannon… and not in a good way. Guys like this never stick anywhere because they just end up pissing someone off and costing his clients jobs.
Doug is an amazing agent and guy! So happy for him.
Great steal for ICM! Way to fight back…
Doug is a very nice person and a good agent.
Doug is a great colleague- smart, funny and a blast to be in the trenches with. Gonna miss you, buddy.
Great agent, great guy. What a loss for UTA.
Is Vanessa Taylor really leaving the TV lit department at UTA? Interesting…
What do Adam Weinstein, Joanne Wiles, Bonnie Bernstein and Doug Johnson have in common? Oh yeah, they all got fired and ended up at ICM…
score one for icm. one of the better-loved agents around.
I knew Doug years ago — sad to watch him go from one place to the next and burn bridges. He’s a good guy who gets in his own way because he often foolishly speaks his mind. Hope he improves at ICM cause there’s nowhere else left for him to go.
Frank Coraci is a big director who knows what he is doing and makes big studio movies. Vanessa Taylor is one of the best character writers in town & Jordan Cahan is hilarious. His other clients are all working. Doug is a smart guy with taste, he’ll do great there. ICM lit dept just got an injection of life.
You know you’re big time when Nikki won’t even name drop you in the headline of an article about YOU.
(To be fair, even calling Doug a ‘movie lit agent’ seems pretty generous at this point. Is there no precedent on Deadline for referring to people as ‘failed managers turned failed lit agents turned wannabe talent agents?)
Doug is one of the more hot tempered ridiculous people in Hollywood. Sadly, his time at ICM won’t be long. He’s that rare breed of agent who will crazy himself out of the business…
Wow! ICM is lucky to get this guy. Big loss for UTA.
nice!!! great move for both Doug and ICM. i <3 ICM.
With all the back and forth about Doug going on here (just how many family members does Doug have, anyway? I refuse to believe he has enough friends to account for the positive comments, because there is no one in Hollywood who believes any of those things), I think we’re missing a key element to this story:
This is the best deal UTA has ever made. By far.
Doug is one of the smartest, hard-working, creative guys in town. He deserves this…so happy for him!
Doug is a great person, always extremely generous with career advice. He is one of the hardest working people I know and will thrive at ICM. Very happy for him.