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Paradigm Forms Joint Venture With Electronic Dance Music Agency AM Only

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 12, 2012 @ 9:26am PSTTags: Paradigm, Sam Gores
Mike Fleming

Paradigm owner Sam Gores just issued this internal memo about the addition of Electronic Dance Music to its music touring business. Below is the Gores memo, followed by the formal announcement:

I’m pleased to announce that AM Only, the largest and most respected Electronic Dance Music agency in the industry is joining the Paradigm family effective today. I want to personally welcome Paul Morris, the head of AM Only, and his talented team to Paradigm. Paul and his team personify the values that we hold dearly at Paradigm and we could not be prouder to be partnering with them.

This is another significant milestone for Paradigm. Electronic Dance Music is the fastest growing genre in the touring business and already a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide. I also want to thank Chip Hooper, Marty Diamond and Greg Bestick for the great work they did to make this significant deal a reality for us.

AM Only will keep their name and continue to operate out of their Brooklyn, NY offices. Paul Morris and his agents will be joining us at the next Paradigm Now meeting this coming Tuesday, January 17th and we will give you more details at that time. You can learn more about them at www.amonly.com

Thank you

Sam

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SHOCKER! Ex-CAA Vet Agent Rand Holston Hired By Paradigm

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday December 6, 2011 @ 11:36am PSTTags: CAA, Paradigm, Rand Holston, Sam Gores
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paradigm has landed Rand Holston, the 28-year CAA veteran agent who exited that agency late last month. Holston will bolster the motion picture lit and financing departments and gives Sam Gores’ agency a well established dealmaker who played on a high level as a film agent at CAA. For Paradigm’s motion picture business, Holston is the highest-profile addition since Paradigm got close in courting the late Ed Limato when he left ICM, only to see that iconic dealmaker choose WME as a landing place for himself and his star clients.

At CAA, Holston had a strong list of writer and director clients, and the immediate question will be who stays and who goes. That list includes Stephen King, Rob Reiner, Wolfgang Petersen, Robert Towne, John Moore, Marshall Herskovitz, Jordan Kerner, Ed Zwick, Jim Ivory, Bruce Robinson and Jon Avnet. There will be a chase for those clients, and Holston’s impact will be partly measured by which ones stay with him. But he will also put Paradigm in the conversation for signings and business they might not otherwise have had a shot at in the past. Read More »

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