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UTA Adds Paradigm Talent Agent To Boost NY Office

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 20, 2012 @ 12:00pm PSTTags: UTA

Chris Highland had been at Paradigm since early last year and before that spent seven years at Gersh. He joins UTA‘s New York office as a talent agent covering theater as well as TV and film. His client list includes Victor Garber, Josh Hamilton, Adam Rothenberg, Patina Miller, Aya Cash and Dagmara Dominczyk among others. The move follows the addition of theater rep Mark Subias’ move there in April, and is part of the agency’s NY push to boost its legit business in Broadway, off-Broadway, regional and London theater.

Related: UTA Promotes Literary Agent Kassie Evashevski To Partner

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UTA Signs China Screen Star Li Bing Bing

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 19, 2012 @ 2:11pm PSTTags: UTA
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Li Bing Bing, already a superstar in Chinese cinema, has signed with UTA for representation in all areas in the U.S. and internationally. This is her first time with a Hollywood agency. Li’s recent hits in … Read More »

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UTA Promotes Literary Agent Kassie Evashevski To Partner

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday November 9, 2012 @ 12:03pm PSTTags: Stephenie Meyer, UTA

UTA Book Department Co-Head and literary agent Kassie Evashevski has been made Partner at the agency, it was announced today. “Her partner promotion reflects her invaluable contributions to the agency over the years and the … Read More »

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‘Man Under’ Adds Tim Robbins, Michelle Pfeiffer & Chloe Moretz; Robbins To Direct

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday November 7, 2012 @ 5:05pm PSTTags: Chloe Moretz, Michelle Pfeiffer, Movie Casting, Tim Robbins, UTA

Tim Robbins, Michelle Pfeiffer and Chloe Moretz have all signed on for Man Under. Robbins will also direct the dysfunctional family … Read More »

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ICM’s Andrew Francis Joins UTA Licensing

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 2, 2012 @ 4:00pm PDTTags: ICM, UTA

Veteran licensing and endorsements agent Andrew Francis has joined UTA. He previously had been an agent at ICM Partners since 2008. Francis will work in the agency’s branding, licensing and endorsements division headed by UTA partner Lisa Jacobson. He’ll focus on licensing opportunities between brands and talent. Jacobson welcomed Francis as “a terrific addition to our team”. At ICM, Francis secured deals in various fields including music, film, TV, fashion, and sports. He closed deals with Dancing with the Stars and Joes Jeans as well as on-air talent, especially with actors and personalities working in alternative television.
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UTA Promotes Mike Jelline To Co-Head Of TV Talent

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 29, 2012 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: Mike Jelline, UTA
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A little over a year after he left ICM to join UTA as an agent in the TV Talent department, Mike Jelline has been promoted to co-head of the department. Jelline, who is based in Los Angeles, will co-run UTA‘s TV Talent department with current co-head Nancy Gates, who is based in the agency’s New York office. Ruthanne Secunda, who co-headed the TV talent team with Gates, will re-focus on client representation.

This marks Jelline’s return to administrative duty — he headed ICM’s TV Talent department before he left the agency last summer after 12 years. Read More »

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Michael Camacho Resigns From UTA

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 8, 2012 @ 1:16pm PDTTags: Michael Camacho, UTA
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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Camacho, United Talent Agency partner and head of the agency’s alternative department, has resigned from UTA after five years and is leaving agenting. The move comes two weeks after Camacho’s former client, reality television producer Scott … Read More »

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Top Agency Count: Primetime Emmys 2012

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday September 28, 2012 @ 9:12am PDTTags: APA, CAA, Gersh, Hollywood agencies, ICM, Paradigm, UTA, WME

Emmy 2012 Winners AgenciesSummary

WME – 30 Winners
CAA – 29 Winners
UTA – 15 Winners
ICM - 10 Winners
APA – 4 Winners
Paradigm – 2 Winners
Gersh – 2 Winners
Innovative Artists – 1 Winner

Names of Winners

WME - 30
Writing For A Drama Series: Homeland
Written by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff

Lead Actor In A Drama Series
Damian Lewis, Homeland

Lead Actress In A Drama Series
Claire Danes, Homeland

Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or A Movie
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story

Directing For a Miniseries Or A Movie
Jay Roach, Game Change

Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie
Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys

Miniseries or Movie: Game Change
Jay Roach, Executive Producer

Outstanding Drama Series: Homeland
Alex Gansa, Executive Producer
Howard Gordon, Executive Producer
Michael Cuesta, Executive Producer
Gideon Raff, Executive Producer
Avi Nir, Executive Producer
Ran Telem, Executive Producer
Alexander Cary, Co-Executive Producer
Meredith Stiehm, Consulting Producer
Cindy Chupack, Co-Executive Producer

Outstanding Children’s Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program: Sesame Street: Growing Hope Against Hunger (PBS)
Kevin Clash, Producer

Outstanding Nonfiction Special: George Harrison: Living In The Material World (HBO)
Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Executive Producer For Sikelia Productions
Produced by Martin Scorsese

Outstanding Special Class: Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Programs: Children’s Hospital (Cartoon Network)
Rob Corddry, Executive Producer
David Wain, Executive Producer

Outstanding Variety Series: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Jill Katz, Producer

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
Kevin Bleyer, Writer
John Oliver, Writer
Jason Ross, Writer
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‘Night Moves’ Director, Producers, UTA Sued By Edward Pressman & Edward Abbey Widow For Copyright Infringement

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Saturday September 15, 2012 @ 12:56pm PDTTags: Hollywood lawsuit, Kelly Reichardt, UTA

Night Moves might be stopped before it is even started. In a copyright infringement civil suit (read it here) filed Thursday, Edward R. Pressman Film and Clarke Abbey, widow of author Edward Abbey, are asking federal court to shut down the film because of its similarity to Abbey’s 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. Abbey and Pressman, who owns the film option to the novel, are also seeking unspecified damages from the defendants. And there are a lot of defendants named in the eight-page suit. Director Kelly Reichardt, her screenwriting partner Jonathan Raymond, Night Moves executive producers Todd Haynes, Larry Fessenden, Alejandro De Leon, Film Science, and RT Features CEO Rodrigo Teixeira are among those named. So is The Match Factory GmbH, the foreign sales agent for Night Moves, who was working at the Toronto Film Festival last week for the film. Also named as a defendant is UTA Independent Film Group. The agency division is the domestic sales agent for Night Moves. Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard are set to star. Read More »

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Toronto: UTA Signs ‘The Sapphires’ Helmer Wayne Blair

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday September 8, 2012 @ 8:13am PDTTags: The Sapphires, Toronto Film Festival, UTA
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EXCLUSIVE: UTA has just signed Wayne Blair, who made his feature directorial debut with The Sapphires. It’s the first U.S. representation for the Australian filmmaker whose musical premiered at Cannes. The Weinstein Company bought U.S. distribution and … Read More »

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UTA Signs ‘Io Sono L’amore’ Helmer Luca Guadagnino

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 4, 2012 @ 4:48pm PDTTags: UTA
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: UTA emerged from a competitive pursuit and has signed Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. UTA becomes the first U.S. agency for Guadagnino, best known for helming I Am Love (Io Sono L’amore), the film that starred Tilda Swinton. It was nominated last year for Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Guadagnino already is capitalizing on the film that put him on the map. He’s next going to direct a remake for Studio Canal of the 1969 pic La Piscine, which will be entitled A Bigger Splash. Scripted by Dave Kajganich, the film will begin production early next year. Read More »

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UTA Signs Director Kenzo Digital

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 9:45am PDTTags: Agency Signing, UTA

EXCLUSIVE: New media artist and director Kenzo Digital has signed with United Talent Agency. The former Wieden & Kennedy creative director will be represented by the agency in film and television. Known for his elaborate … Read More »

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Barry Sonnenfeld Has To Pay UTA $325K For ‘Men In Black 3′ As Arbitration Is Upheld

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday August 23, 2012 @ 2:51pm PDTTags: Barry Sonnenfeld, Men In Black 3, UTA

A federal judge has ruled that director Barry Sonnenfeld does have to pay his former agency UTA up to $325,000 in fees for Men In Black 3. The decision by U.S. District Court Judge S. James Otero denied … Read More »

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Sharon Osbourne Exits WME For UTA

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday August 15, 2012 @ 1:21pm PDTTags: America's Got Talent, Sharon Osbourne, UTA, WME

EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Osbourne has signed with UTA for representation in television and film. The Emmy-winning television producer and TV personality and author currently co-hosts the CBS daytime talk series The Talk. But she just made headlines for quitting as a long-time judge on America’s Got Talent. She accused NBC of discriminating against her son Jack and unhiring him from the new reality series Stars Earn Stripes after his multiple sclerosis diagnosis earlier this summer. NBC has denied the discrimination allegation. But the fact is that Osbourne, by departing her series early, remains under contract with NBC which she says can stop her from being a judge on another network for 5 years. Given that, it’s understandable that she is changing agents. But this multitalented and popular TV star should be creating reality or talent shows, not just judging them given all her experience with them.  Read More »

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Jennifer Lopez Drops UTA For CAA: Is This The Start Of Another Career Shake-Up?

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday August 13, 2012 @ 12:05pm PDTTags: Hollywood agencies, Jennifer Lopez, UTA

UPDATE: So what else is new? J-Lo over the years has disposed of more Hollywood agencies than boyfriends including CAA, ICM, Endeavor, and William Morris – sometimes more than once. So now she’s returned to CAA after a … Read More »

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Oscilloscope Picks Up ‘Only The Young’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday August 7, 2012 @ 8:23pm PDTTags: Documentaries, Oscilloscope Laboratories, UTA

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired the North American rights to Only The Young. The coming of age documentary follows three teens in a Recession-plaqued SoCal desert town. Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims directed Only The Young. The film … Read More »

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CAA Signs ‘Borat’ Scribe Dan Mazer

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday June 28, 2012 @ 8:00am PDTTags: CAA, UTA

Dan Mazer CAAEXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Dan Mazer. The Borat and Bruno screenplay writer, who was also an executive producer on Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator, is currently in post-production on his directorial … Read More »

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UTA Signs ‘Desperate Housewives’ Darcy Rose Byrnes

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday June 25, 2012 @ 12:17pm PDTTags: Agency Signing, Desperate Housewives, UTA

Darcy Rose Byrnes has signed with UTA. The teen starred as Penny Scavo on Desperate Housewives from its seventh season in 2010 until the ABC series ended this year. She also starred on The Young and the Restless. Byrnes is working now … Read More »

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Ron Livingston Joins ‘The Pretty One’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday June 22, 2012 @ 3:57pm PDTTags: Jenee LaMarque, Movie Casting, Ron Livingston, The Pretty One, UTA

Ron Livingston has joined the cast of The Pretty One. The Office Space and Band of Brothers actor joins Zoe Kazan and Jake Johnson, who were announced earlier, in the film. Jenee LaMarque is directing. … Read More »

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