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EXCLUSIVE: In between giving interviews, Jeff Berg keeps signing new agents. The latest is Marc Helwig who just left ICM for Berg’s Resolution Agency which is ramping up its international filmmakers’ coverage. The multilingual Helwig’s clients include Mama director Andy Muschietti and his sister, Mama co-writer and producer Barbara Muschietti, director Neil Marshall from Game Of Thrones who is helming the first episode of Starz Entertainment’s and Michael Bay’s Black Sails, Danish film director/actor/producer Ole Bornedal (Possession), and British writer Joe Ahearne who co-wrote the upcoming Trance for director Danny Boyle and just sold an untitled supernatural pitch to Warner Bros. Helwig worked in London and agented at Paradigm before joining ICM in 2010.
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Old dog, pretty decent tricks. And moving quickly. Impressed.
Icebergs have a lot more goin’on below the surface… ships are advised to post a sentry on deck when passing by.
This is all very exciting, but it’s all being run like a silicon valley start up, i.e., lots of cash to burn through and no revenue. $200 million will not last long and then Resolution will be Dissolution.
Creepy. It’s Ovitz/AMG all over again. Lots of money to poach lots of agents. Lots of press, etc. Time will tell the real story.
I was part of AMG. He grossly overpaid to get agents. Even guys who were barely agents ie: MA. And paid then obsene money. Berg is doing same. Big difference, Iceberg is in a liked position Ovitz was blackballed. Can you believe it? Iceberg looks well liked compared to Ovitz. Resolution will do fine. Just fine.
Now, fuck off!
Looking forward to adding Resolution’s “unfortunately we do not accept unsolicited material…” rejection letter to my collection.
The new endeavor agency is being formed before our very eyes.
Not unless it leads by “accepting unsolicited material” will it be a leader, not just another “old boy’s club” – no pun intended – recruit/new member of the current listing of agencies.
Funny, there is a company called The MAK company that says on their website, “we accept unsolicited material and always will.” Hmmm.
LOVE Marc! He was too much of an all-star for the crumbling ICM, and will do very well at this new agency. ICM should just shut down and lock the doors – it’s becoming a morgue.
Helwig is fantastic. Does ICM even have an MP Lit department left?
I think at this point it’s Harley Copen, Doug MacLaren, Emile Gladstone, Todd Hoffman, Lars Theriot, Bruce Kaufman, Kathleen Remington, and (incredibly) John Burnham. (Departures – Lazar, Helwig, Jamshidi, Weinstein, Holodnik, Clemens.) Then again, just because people occupy offices doesn’t make it a functioning department.
Good luck to one of the best agents I’ve dealt with at ICM.
Go Mark! Talented, smart and an all round good guy. Resolution is lucky to have him.
who is left at icm? and why hasn’t maclaren left for resolution?
You answered your own question z
Don’t forget us, we’re global! Just yesterday we made some very important calls to Mexico. Ok, it was New Mexico, but that’s close enough.
The difference between Endeavor and Resolution is the age and hunger of those involved. Endeavor you could argue was much more like CAA in its early days. Resolution smells of AMG – a collection of guys who couldn’t make it at the other tenpercentries taking a last shot at owning something. But no young star will go there, nor will any talent with a sizable career to lose. Berg should’ve retired a long time ago … but I guess he has money and reputation to burn. It’ll trundle along, but it isn’t as exciting as Endeavor was, nor even as exciting as what ICM Partners could be, and certainly nowhere close enough to threatening CAA’s dominance in film.
Bob you sound like a pretty lonely guy. It gives me comfort knowing that you will be sitting on your thumbs watching Resolution’s business unfold thinking to yourself how unfortunate it is that everything you say is wrong.
By the way, the ocean looks pretty spectacular from my office. How’s the mid-city Starbucks view?
Should have left “nor even as exciting as what ICM Partners could be” out. Dead giveaway
Classy guy and one of the best that was left at ICM. Good move for Berg.
OK. Now, after Jeff hires all these agents will he follow the same practices as his competition OR wise up and have his talent agents look at newcomers – not just youngsters without many credits but potentials at ‘any’ age – to sign? Too many ‘diamonds-in-the-rough’ just never get a chance to audition for roles because they can’t get in the circle. And don’t tell us there’s no such thing as “the circle.” Jeff… break the cycle and break new ground. Not many of us have a chance to be remembered as a Legend. Now’s your chance. Be the leader you say you are. The Resolution is revolution. Thanks.
No – they will not start to look at complete unknowns like you. That’s not how this works. If we all just signed loads of people with no credits, we would spend all day on people who make no money and then we would get fired because we don’t bring in enough money. If you are new and want to break in – go get a manager.