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EXCLUSIVE: Management 360′s Evelyn O’Neill tells me it’s a “very amicable parting” and she hopes he comes back since she and Jake Gyllenhaal go back such a long time — 8 years. “Sometimes people like change in their life. I think he’s amazing, I’m very proud of the work he did together, he was nominated for an Oscar, I want him back, and the door is always open. It is what it is.” I understand Gyllenhaal is not leaving for another manager and he’s not leaving his talent agency CAA. I have a feeling this may be the start of a trend as the movie biz is so muddled with the box office slump that stars who can’t put people in theater seats will see projects falling apart one after another. Rough sledding for the rep business.
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CAA is fairly manager unfriendly. I think they view managers as a nuisance and a way for their clients to leave. They slowly work to under-mind the manager/client relationship, and sometime it works.
Not true, especially with 360, CAA is very manager friendly. He has every right to try other things and not saying this is the case with him at all but no matter what you do for a client, when things are great and their movie or tv show is #1, they take full credit and when the chips are down and they have a few unsuccessful flops, it’s the fault of their manager. Good luck Evelyn, you are a pretty damn good at what you do, hopefully he will come back to you.
Hear Hear!
Yeah, but Management 360 is kind of like CAA East.
It’s been said that paying CAA and 360 is kind of like paying CAA twice.
That is absolutely correct…
Jake will do very well on a TV show.
He is good actor, I especially liked Brokeback Mountain and the Source Code. But he looks strange ever since he finished his last movie End of Watch. As if he is a 40 year old homeless person with one pair of ugly green trousers, a horrific coat and is unable to shave himself. In any business it´s important to be outgoing and well groomed. No matter what manager or agent you have.
“Under-mind” is not a word. Undermine is the word you meant to use. I can’t imagine you know much about this if you don’t know that.
Guy has bills to pay man. Can’t always be splitting everything, can’t have redundancies. Jay-Z said it “I’m not a businessman, I’m a BUSINESS man!”…Cutbacks
One of the classiest responses to the loss of a client I have heard of in a long time.
I wonder what the deal is now? Many films out these days suck as a whole–the actor is merely the player. Still, the last film I remember Gyllenhaal that was any good was Donnie Darko. He completely ruined ‘Prince of Persia.’
@Aidy: Uh can you say Brokeback Mountain? Oscar nom Also he was good in The Good Girl, Zodiac, Brothers, and Love and Other Drugs–the movie was flawed and tonally confusing but his performance was good.
I don’t think a big action/comic movie like PoP is his strong suit; he seems to do better w/drama and dramedy.
Well, I’d rather see him leave CAA. I think he’d do a lot better with another talent agency. Can someone please explain the distinction between a manager and an agent?
yes a manager makes calls and creates opportunities and a agent commissions them.
“I wish I knew how to quit you…”
Wait, I do!
I think as we’ve seen before: CAA agents tell all their clients to fire their managers, wait a year or so, then leave CAA and become managers themselves so they can tell these same clients how much they actually do need managers after all – and guess what? I’m the perfect person for that!
kim is not becoming a manager. come on. He got sick of talking to Evelyn every day about the same shit he hears from Kim. to be clear though, its not the money, he makes enough.
Perhaps it’s the “I need someone to blame” for slumping box office numbers. Personally, I never got what anyone saw in him. If he hadn’t been side by side with the amazing Heath Ledger I don’t think we would even know who he is. Next……..
could be right about that. ledger was awesome.
Don’t know Jake, don’t know Evelyn, but this by far the smartest, classiest statement I’ve ever seen released. Compared to all the fuming, foaming Deadline comments posts that usually follow an actor’s leaving an agency or manager, this woman doesn’t lash out, doesn’t blame, doesn’t do anything but express admiration, understanding, and hope. I, for one, hope others can take notice.
Evelyn is a genius and Jake comes off here as ungrateful. Look at his foreign value. It’s huge, despite this so called slump. He’s going to miss her big-time.
Or…
in this economy, if you don’t need an extra 15% going out when your agent can handle things and is the one who actually works your deals…
I question whether people need a manager once they reach his level. Agent–yes. Lawyer–yes. Publicist–okay. Manager–???
Dear Vincent,
Since you clearly dont work in the film industry your comments appear a bit naive. Broadway Danny Rose and his 15% commission hasn’t existed since the dawn of personal computers. managers get 10%, or no commission if they are producers. If you compare the work hours and smaller client lists manager have vs the agents I think you will see most managers earn their 10% by hard work. And sometimes 10% doesn’t feel like much in the age of dwindling salaries.
No one said they don’t work hard. He just questioned whether the guy needed the servicing. It’s a reasonable question for anyone to ask.
You’re wrong to associate a 15% commission with some illegitimate “Broadway Danny Rose”-type hanger-on. Many managers still charge more than agents, because they argue that they’re more hands-on. For developmental clients that require more attention, more push with fewer actual jobs, the 15% is totally justified. For larger clients, who earn exponentially more and serve as much to bolster the appearance of the LIST, they very well may pay less. A lot less.
Wow! In fact, shocking, considering he seemed to be on a steady incline of success! Head up Evelyn, you’re awesome…we’ll see how it plays out.
Long term I don’t see scope for people to have both a manager and an agent. With less work around, talent cannot afford two slugs of commission coming off the top of what they earn. I think we’ll see a gradually rationalization of the rep business as people opt for agent or manager, but not both.
correction: CAA is very manager unfriendly…
…unless you’re Jason Weinberg, Management 360, or someone who represents someone they want. Until they get him.
Evelyn O’Neill is a lousy manager. Just look at the stellar career of Reese Witherspoon. This girl keeps doing one turkey after another. I hear the McG movie at FOX is unreleasable. Not so sure what Evelyn is so proud of with Jake. Prince of Persia?
Best thing he did was remove her from his advisory board…If you ask me.
burtsbees
Want to hear something really funny Burt? Reese Witherspoon actually TURNED DOWN the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie THE MASTER to do that crappy McG movie. No lie. Someone suggested it was a better career move to do a crappy film with McG over a PTA film that he makes as often as the Olympics airs and she agreed. The role, and probable Academy Award nomination, went to Amy Adams.
I don’t know who advised her to do this, but this person needs to be fired IMMEDIATELY. This dumb decision will come back to haunt Witherspoon for the rest of her career. She better hope that a) the PTA film isn’t as good as people are saying it’ll be; b) that McG movie isn’t a complete commericial and critical failure; c) that not too many catch on that’s what she did.
Yes, Reese has serious career troubles ( the mighty has fallen big time ), and she is married to an agent. You would think her hubby would help guide her film career , and give Witherspoon sound career advice.
I have worked with a few incredible agents at CAA who were VERY manager friendly and treated me with the utmost respect. In fact, it was when my client left CAA, that her new agent whispered in her ear, and ultimately I lost her to a larger company.
In today’s business model with the agencies, every single client should have a manager. If you think for one second that a giant talent agency with a model closer to corporate america than anything is really looking out for a client in an equal and fair way and really paying attention to the creative process you are lying to yourself. Agents problem with managers stems from the fact that if there is someone to provide a system of checks and balances they can’t control the information and just focuse on creating an internal game plan based on pushing the highest earners or potential earners for the biggest projects and then working their way down the list. A good manager doesn’t allow that to happen and forces the agencies to be more focused on repping clients equally and letting the creatives make the decisions based upon their own preferences. And that process absolutely happens on every level, not just with developmental actors.
So true.
well put, thank you for supporting us!
Jake will come back after his career plummets under the laziness of CAA who only care about the bottom dollar (and not the longevity of one’s career). This often happens with actors who think they are such big stars that they no longer need management. The list of the clients who came back (or tried to come back) to Management 360 is long – Meg Ryan, Chris O’Donnell, Marisa Tomei are just a few. Unfortunately sometimes it’s too late and the damage of a lazy agent can’t always be undone.
Evelyn lives and breathes her job and work and is an unbelievable manager. Jake is making a mistake. But he’ll realize it in about 24 months when he can barely get a supporting role in an A-list movie and starts mulling over TV offers…….
When you are dealing with the bigger names at CAA, they are very manager unfriendly – as they like to be in control. Which is fine, as long was what is best for CAA is best for you.
In my opinion (and I work with agents and managers all the time), talent needs a manager even more so than an agent. Some agents are great – but most overplay their importance to their clients – and they do the least of the work. Just a fact. Certainly in development.
When I look up a writer, director or actor to find out who their representation is and see that they have no manager, only a CAA agent, I sometimes don’t even bother. When I see a manager, I always call the manager first.
Jake had a very good run – he’s not a movie star that’s all. He’ll continue to work forever, but not on posters of studio films.
Evelyn is class act.
I agree with the posters on here that question the value of agent plus manager. I’m under the impression that a good agent is responsible for making the phone calls, contacting studios, directors, filmmakers, etc.; knowing what roles are out there for his/her clients and getting those clients in meetings in front of casting and the decision makers. There is a blur that I find confusing – the manager is supposed to be doing that exact thing also for talent? Inefficient, costly business practice for the client if you ask me. I don’t see a lot of actual advising and career guiding I thought were the job responsibilities of a manager. What I seem to always see is the manager waiting to latch on as a producer with talent as soon as the pay scale and money starts accruing around talent who can afford to set up his/her own production banner. In general this industry is way too top heavy with egos who should stay put in his/her defined worker-bee position and sit back, shut up and let the star be the star. BTW am not attributing this to the relationship of Gyllenhaal – O’Neill as I am unfamiliar with their work practices together.
Your assessment is simply wrong. Agents do nothing more that negotiate contracts once the deal is in place. They oversell their value to their clients – but that’s really all they do. Managers do everything you described the agent does above.
If that indeed is the case, “Agents do nothing more than negotiate contracts once the deal is in place,” then how is it that there exists talent working today who have only an agent and not a manager yet still get jobs? Did that deal fall like manna from heaven? The agents I know in my 18 years experience working with agents is that they do all of the above that I enumerated. And jobs have been gotten.
about 1/4 of agents are responsible enough to work for their clients. Most see their clients as employees. Many deals happen between artists and the agent just acts like a booking agent and does the contract. By and large you need a manager. The end.
95% these comments are excellent — for a change.
He always struck me as a fairly manufactured “star” a la Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, etc. He might have some female fans but I don’t think that male audiences respond to him at all. Also, probably the fact that “Brokeback Mountain” was such a PC, Hollywood-friendly film, that probably raised his industry-cred and inflated his profile/career a little.
Agree. He’s a good actor, but he’s not a knock your socks off talent. And Prince of Persia?? Some of the worst miscasting EVER.
Jason
Does “living and breathing your job” as a manager mean coming off as a hysterical basketcase when a client leaves? Get a life….
And when did she come across as a hysterical basketcase? Perhaps you shouldn’t have swallowed that bitter pill this AM.
When you need Managers:
When you start out in the business and you know NO ONE. A manager gets you in to your first doors of casting and Commercial and Legit agency offices.
THEN
When that Manager signs you with a Commercial agent a Legit agent, A Lawyer and a Publicist and you are the star of a TV series or THE Box office draw of the big Blockbuster film, it is the managers job to organize the information from the agent, the attorney, the publicist and the production of the TV or Film’s coordinator/2nd AD for that day and filter it to the client in a manageable, efficient way and be another advisor in regard to script choices.
Managers won’t want to admit it but we use agents to get what we need just like agents use their big-name clients. A bigger agency provides easier access to the best projects because that agency most likely has the writer and the Director already in their fold.
I don’t want to hear the phrase “What”s the difference between Managers and Agents”. I just explained it.
Glorifying Ledger as always. Gyllenhaal is a talented actor. Is he leading role material? Probably not, but to act as though he is inferior to a martyr is unfair. He was a well known hollywood name prior to Brokeback and has showcased his talent with the brilliant films Zodiac and Source Code. Jake excels at being the scene stealer in supporting roles. He’s not box office friendly with the roles he chooses, though, which is why people view him as a dud.