
CAA has signed Robbie Pickering, who wrote and directed Natural Selection, the film that was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards last week, one for Best First Feature. The movie premiered at the last South By Southwest Film Festival, where it won Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. Pickering, who’d been repped by Verve, is writing with partner Jase Ricci a new Bugs Bunny animated feature for Warner Bros, and the Johnny Knoxville-starrer Moustache Riders at Paramount.


I heard a lot of good things about Natural
Selection… Did it ever get picked up for distribution? How can I see it?
Natural Selection was great. Who signed him at CAA? Look forward to his career.
Nice move Robbie, no one can stand Besser.
He’s da man who had 2 clients – and he just lost one of them. Verve can’t compete.
Robbie, let me guess, Bryan Lourd called to tell you he wants to expose your work to all his clients. He’s already talked to Clooney, Pitt, Sandra about your work.
By the way, that’s the last time you will ever hear from him.
Verve worked their asses off for this guy and actually wanted to develop his career, guess he didn’t want to dance with the date that brought him