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Verve Promotes Melissa Solomon To Agent; As Usual, The Partners Are Clever About It

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 10, 2013 @ 7:33am PDTTags: Melissa Solomon, Verve
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The partners at boutique agency Verve have set a high bar for promoting agents. This is the same gang that promoted assistant Zach Carlisle at partner Adam Levine’s house, where Carlisle was told to go to build a swing set on a hot summer weekend day. And before Carlisle got good news, he was subjected to a career intervention by partners Bryan Besser and Bill Weinstein, and then coaxed into a karaoke rendering of “I’ve Got Friends In Low Places.” When the Verve partners promoted Rob Herting, they enlisted clients and Red scribes Jon & Erich Hoeber and Summit production chief Erik Feig, and staged a bogus meeting forcing staffers to come up with a new title to pitch for the sequel.

So what did they come up with when they decided to promoted coordinator Melissa Solomon? READ MORE »

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Felicia Bargman Joins Verve As TV Lit Agent

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 14, 2013 @ 4:21pm PDTTags: Felicia Bargman, Verve
Nellie Andreeva

Verve has hired former Fineman Entertainment manager Felicia Bargman as a literary agent. At the boutique agency, she joins TV lit agents Amy Retzinger, who was named a partner over a year ago, and Zach Carlisle. … Read More »

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Lit Agent Tanya Cohen Leaves Paradigm, Joins Verve

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday December 3, 2012 @ 4:59pm PSTTags: Paradigm, Verve

EXCLUSIVE: Literary agent Tanya Cohen has left Paradigm and joined Verve. “Tanya’s unique background, sophisticated taste, and passion for storytellers will make her another valuable member of our team,” the Verve partners said in a … Read More »

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Lit Agent Adam Weinstein Joins Verve

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 14, 2012 @ 1:06pm PDTTags: Verve
Mike Fleming

Adam Weinstein VerveEXCLUSIVE: Adam Weinstein has left ICM to join Verve. Weinstein, brother of Verve co-founder Bill Weinstein, is a motion picture literary agent who began his career at UTA and moved to ICM in 2009. His list includes … Read More »

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Verve Hires Lit Agent Aaron Hart

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 2, 2012 @ 2:48pm PSTTags: Verve
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran literary agent Aaron Hart is joining Verve, the agency just announced to its staff. Hart, who started at WMA, was most recently in ICM’s motion picture lit department. The partners confirmed the hiring and gave me this statement: … Read More »

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Verve Signs TV Directors And Writers

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 8:24am PSTTags: Treme, Verve
Nellie Andreeva

Veteran TV director Ernest R. Dickerson has signed with Verve. He is among a number of former Gersh TV lit agent Amy Retzinger’s clients to follow her to Verve, where she joined as a new partner in January. Dickerson, … Read More »

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TV Lit Agent Amy Retzinger Joins Verve As New Partner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 5, 2011 @ 11:40am PSTTags: Amy Retzinger, The Gersh Agency, Verve
Nellie Andreeva

Amy Retzinger & Rob Golenberg Exit Gersh

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Gersh TV lit agent Amy Retzinger, who left the agency last week, is joining boutique agency Verve. Retzinger will be a new partner … Read More »

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Verve Ups Zach Carlisle From Assistant To Agent, But Makes Him Work For It

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 22, 2011 @ 5:18pm PDTTags: Adam Levine, Bill Weinstein, Bryan Besser, Rob Herting, Verve
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Zach Carlisle, one of the original five who left WME to form Verve, was promoted Sunday from assistant to agent. These days, dealmaker-minting ceremonies are becoming more and more like Punk’d episodes, and the Verve partners really strung Carlisle … Read More »

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‘The Grudge’ Scribe Stephen Susco To Verve

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 28, 2011 @ 10:32am PDTTags: Agency Signing, Stephen Susco, The Brink, Verve
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Susco, who scripted the horror hit The Grudge and its sequel, has been signed by Verve. Susco most recently co-wrote and produced with Sam Raimi an untitled Ole Bornedal-directed horror film. Susco, who’d been repped by CAA, … Read More »

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Verve Makes Agency’s First Dealmaker Promotion With Help Of Summit’s Erik Feig

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 1, 2011 @ 3:25pm PDTTags: Adam Levine, Bill Weinstein, Bryan Besser, Erik Feig, Rob Herting, Verve
Mike Fleming

Verve, the upstart lit agency hatched by Bryan Besser, Bill Weinstein and Adam Levine in January 2010, today made its first agent promotion from within by giving Rob Herting his dealmaker stripes. They made it memorable, with help from Summit production chief Erik Feig. Read More »

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Inventive Zombie Spec ‘Maggie’ Acquired By Timur Bekmambetov

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 31, 2011 @ 7:58pm PDTTags: Danny Boyle, Henry Hobson, John Scott 3, Maggie, Timur Bekmambetov, Verve
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Timur Bekmambetov has won a spec auction for Maggie, a script that sparked a spirited auction today, with six bidders. Bekmambetov will produce a film that has a script by John Scott 3, and vfx wiz Henry Hobson set … Read More »

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Agency Verve Expands Into TV With Sales

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 8, 2010 @ 6:30am PSTTags: Aaron Guzikowski, Adam Levine, Agents, Bill Weinstein, Bryan Besser, David Stern, TV, TV Deals, Verve
Nellie Andreeva

Upstart talent and literary agency Verve was launched almost a year ago by three former Endeavor agents, Bill Weinstein, Bryan Besser and Adam Levine, who left WME several months after the Endeavor-WMA merger. Because of the trio’s pedigree – they … Read More »

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