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Chris Hemsworth Leaves IFA Talent: Won’t Take New Agency Meetings For Months

By NIKKI FINKE AND MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 24, 2012 @ 3:50pm PDTTags: Chris Hemsworth, IFA

Chris HemsworthHe is Hollywood’s hottest new action movie star, so there’ll be a feeding frenzy when Chris Hemsworth decides to take new agency meetings. ”He is not taking meetings for now but maybe in a few months,” an insider tells us. Hemsworth is the star of Thor, Snow White And The Huntsman and its expected sequel or spinoff, The Avengers, the upcoming Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse, and of course Marvel’s upcoming Thor 2 and The Avengers 2. He had been with IFA talent president Ilene Feldman for about 4 years. The actor is staying with ROAR Management’s William Ward who discovered him about 5 years ago. But we hear the problems with Feldman developed first around the negotiations for Thor 2 and intensified around the time Spielberg decided to cast him as the lead in his scifi epic Robopocalypse in mid-July. “They had a fallout over several things. She just played everything wrong,” a source tells us. “They just were not on the same page for the last month or two. But the last thing he wanted to do was to hurt Ilene.” One of the key jobs for his new agency is raising Hemsworth’s salary: Marvel pays very little, and Hemsworth received $5M for the Huntsman role. Really hard to predict where Hemsworth is ultimately headed. His brother Liam is repped by Ward and WME. Ward’s wife Louise Ward is a UTA agent repping Channing Tatum. And CAA now represents a lot of Marvel’s top talent including almost all The Avengers stars and will no longer be hamstrung by its no-poaching agreement with Feldman. Stay tuned.

Related: Spielberg Wants Chris Hemsworth To Star In ‘Robopocalypse’ 

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‘Downton Abbey’s Ed Speleers Inks With IFA

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday August 10, 2012 @ 11:41am PDTTags: Agency Signing, Downton Abbey, IFA

IFA Talent Agency’s Ilene Feldnman and team have added Ed Speleers to their roster. In the spring it was announced that the actor would be joining ITV’s period drama series as Jimmy the footman. Downton Abbey’s third … Read More »

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Mighty Thor Chris Hemsworth To Star Opposite Kristen Stewart: Closes ‘Huntsman’ Role In Snow White Saga

By NIKKI FINKE AND MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 13, 2011 @ 7:07pm PDTTags: Chris Hemsworth, IFA, Universal Snow White and the Huntsman

EXCLUSIVE: Now that ‘Thor’ opened strongly around the world, its star Chris Hemsworth is one hot Aussie hunk. He’s just closed a deal for the good guy role opposite Twilight Saga starlet Kristen Stewart as the Huntsman in Snow White … Read More »

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EMMY: Agency Breakdown For Actor Noms

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday July 21, 2010 @ 5:55pm PDTTags: 62nd Emmy Nominations, APA, CAA, Emmy, ICM, IFA, Innovative Artists, Paradigm, The Gersh Agency, UTA, WME

emmysI can’t do a full agency breakdown of the Emmy nominations yet because the series producers have not been announced. For now, here’s the rep breakdown of the acting categories floating around the tenpercenteries:

WME: 22 Nominations
Amy Poehler, Andre Braugher, Claire Danes, … Read More »

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