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CAA Signs ‘Mad Men’ Star Jon Hamm

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 19, 2012 @ 3:52pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Big Deals TV, CAA, David Oyelowo, Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot signing before the biz goes away for the holidays. CAA has just signed Jon Hamm, the Mad Men star who recently left ICM Partners early last month following the exit of his longtime agent Carol Bodie. Hamm had taken meetings with a few of the agencies — WME was the other major player — but he’s headed for CAA. Hamm should have a bright future in features. Like Alec Baldwin, he can play comedy as well as drama, and has done several inspired turns on Saturday Night Live and in the film Bridesmaids. He played serious in the Ben Affleck-directed The Town, and those blue-chinned guys like Hamm also work well in macho franchises. READ MORE »

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David Oyelowo Attached To Play Sugar Ray Robinson In ‘Sweet Thunder’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 19, 2012 @ 3:02pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, David Oyelowo
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: David Oyelowo is ready to play iconic boxer Sugar Ray Robinson in a biopic based on the Wil Haygood biography Sweet Thunder: The Life And Times Of Sugar Ray Robinson. Moneyball producer Rachael Horovitz and Game Change scribe Danny Strong will produce, and Oyelowo will be executive producer. Haygood wrote a draft of the script and depending on who the director is, Strong might come on and do a rewrite.

All of this came together on the set of the Lee Daniels-directed The Butler, the film that Oyelowo stars in with Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker. Strong wrote that script, based on Haygood’s Washington Post article, and the three of them found the beats of the boxing movie. Read More »

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