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WME Signs ‘Paranormal Activity’ Helmer Oren Peli

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 13, 2013 @ 11:13am PDTTags: CAA, Oren Peli, Paranormal Activity, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Paranormal Activity helmer Oren Peli. Peli leaves CAA, shaking loose from that agency after longtime agents Martin Spencer and Adam Kanter moved to Jeff Berg’s Resolution. Peli is a big piece of business, at the forefront of the micro-budget found-footage horror craze. He produced and oversaw the sequels of Paranormal Activity, produced and scripted Chernobyl Diaries, and produced Insidious and the Rob Zombie-directed Lords Of Salem. Peli most recently wrote and directed Area 51. Peli also co-created The River for ABC last year. He continues to be lawyered by Linda Lichter.

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WME Signs Writer-Producer Max Mutchnick

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 11, 2013 @ 4:03pm PDTTags: Max Mutchnick, WME
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran TV comedy writer-producer Max Mutchnick, co-creator of Emmy-winning Will & Grace, has signed with WME. Since he started his writing career two decades ago, Mutchnick has been partnered with childhood friend David Kohan. For … Read More »

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WME Signs ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Ellen Pompeo

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 8, 2013 @ 10:07am PSTTags: Ellen Pompeo, Grey's Anatomy, WME
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo has signed with WME. For over a decade she had been at CAA, which got her the star-making role as Dr. Meredith Grey on ABC’s hit medical drama Grey’s … Read More »

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WME Has Kilt It: Signs Oscar-Winning ‘Brave’ Helmer Mark Andrews

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 27, 2013 @ 5:05pm PSTTags: Brave, Disney, Mark Andrews, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Mark Andrews. Sure you know him; he was the only Academy Award winner on Sunday who took the stage in a kilt, when he accepted the Best Animated Film prize for Brave with Brenda Chapman. He wrote and replaced Chapman as director on the Disney film.

Before that, Andrews co-wrote the script for John Carter. His first Oscar nomination came in 2006 for his work on the short film One Man Band. WME will help Andrews work on both live-action and animation projects in the future and explore opportunities in television as well. Read More »

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Nicole David Exits WME; Top Talent Agent Who Voiced ‘Scooby-Doo’s Velma Eyes Next Chapter

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 4, 2013 @ 4:33pm PSTTags: Patrick Swayze, Whitney Houston, WMA, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Nicole David, a stalwart talent agent for Triad and WMA, is leaving WME. She is not retiring, but hasn’t yet figured out if she will resurface as an agent or a manager, or a producer … Read More »

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Adam Isaacs Leaves WME For The Schiff Company

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday February 1, 2013 @ 2:00pm PSTTags: The Schiff Company, WME

BREAKING: Long time WME agent and Partner Adam Isaacs has joined The Schiff Company. Isaacs will be taking several clients with him to his new gig as a manager, including Keira Knightley, Tom Waits, Helena Bonham … Read More »

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WME Mints Seven New Partners

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 5:23pm PSTTags: Partners, Warren Zavala, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: WME has expanded its partner roster by upping seven of its best and brightest to partnership status. The new partners are Warren Zavala, the talent agent who joined from CAA last year and whose clients include Joseph Gordon-Levitt and … Read More »

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Randi Michel Exits WME To Head Principato-Young Gotham Outpost

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 9:38am PSTTags: John Travolta, Principato Young, Queen Latifah, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime WME agent and partner Randi Michel is leaving the agency to head the New York office of Principato-Young Entertainment. They are still working out the particulars regarding clients as she transitions from agent to manager, but it is … Read More »

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WME Ends $1.95M Tommy Lee Jones Legal Face-Off

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday January 24, 2013 @ 3:33pm PSTTags: Hollywood lawsuit, No Country For Old Men, Tommy Lee Jones, WME

Maybe the movie should have been called ‘No Courtroom For Old Men’. WME has pulled the plug on its legal efforts to get Tommy Lee Jones to pay up nearly $2 million in owed … Read More »

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EXCLUSIVE: Oprah Signs With WME

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday January 24, 2013 @ 12:55pm PSTTags: CAA, Oprah Winfrey, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, WME

Oprah Winfrey WME Hollywood AgencyEXCLUSIVE: CAA lost the longtime top client in late December. And now I’ve learned that Oprah Winfrey has signed with WME‘s Ari Emanuel and Rick Rosen and a team of agents. The … Read More »

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Raine Group Partners With China Media Capital For Global Investments

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday January 24, 2013 @ 1:59am PSTTags: China, Raine Group, WME

The Raine Group, a boutique merchant bank with close ties to WME, has partnered with Chinese fund China Media Capital to invest in the sports, entertainment and digital media sectors in China and on an international level. Raine, which recently took a stake in Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s nascent Important Studios, also has investments in Vice, online game developer Jagex, ecommerce platform OpenSky and Zumba Fitness, among others. CMC, an $800M fund, also controls Star China, a joint venture with News Corp. and in August partnered with DreamWorks Animation in a plan to build The Dream Center theme park in Shanghai. CMC chairman Li Ruigang told The Financial Times that investments would initially be focused in China but that he would also seek out global opportunities. He added he’s working on raising a new privately-owned media investment fund. Below is the Raine press release:

NEW YORK and SHANGHAI — The Raine Group and China Media Capital (CMC) today announced that they have formed a strategic partnership to collaborate broadly across the global media landscape. The partnership intends to leverage the industry and geographic expertise of both firms towards select investments in the sports, entertainment and digital media sectors, both in China and around the world. The new partnership will entail exchanging investment strategies, co-investing with each other, sharing resources and developing focused conferences for Chinese and Western media thought leaders.

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WME Reality Agent Chris Newman Joins UTA

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 15, 2013 @ 4:10pm PSTTags: UTA, WME
Nellie Andreeva

I’ve learned that veteran reality agent and WME partner Chris Newman has left to go to UTA, where he has joined the agency’s alternative department. UTA has been looking to bring in a senior reality … Read More »

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‘South Park’ Co-Creators Announcing Their Own Studio Monday: NYT

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday January 14, 2013 @ 12:31am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Matt Stone, Raine Group, South Park, The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker, WME

Later today Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going to declare their new Important Studios open for business (press release is below). On Monday, reports the New York Times, the South Park and … Read More »

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WME Agents Begin La Costa Retreat Today

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 9, 2013 @ 9:42am PSTTags: WME

If it seems as if WME offices are empty and agents are unavailable that’s because they are. The tenpercentery is retreating at La Costa Resort in Carlsbad for the next few days.

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‘Like Crazy’s Felicity Jones Rejoins Agent Warren Zavala At WME

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 11:05am PSTTags: CAA, Felicity Jones, Like Crazy, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Felicity Jones has reunited with her agent, Warren Zavala, at WME. The young British actress, best known for Like Crazy, becomes the latest thesp to move from CAA with Zavala, who moved to WME … Read More »

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Agency Signings: Breckin Meyer To ICM, ‘Big Bang Theory’s Melissa Rauch To WME

By NELLIE ANDREEVA AND DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday December 7, 2012 @ 3:52pm PSTTags: Gersh, The Big Bang Theory, WME

Actor-writer Breckin Meyer has signed ICM Partners. Breckin stars in the TNT dramedy Franklin & Bash, which has been renewed for a third season. He also created and executive produces the TBS comedy series Men At Work, which has been … Read More »

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Court Rules Dan Aloni-CAA Dispute Can Go To Arbitration

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday December 7, 2012 @ 9:11am PSTTags: CAA, Dan Aloni, WME

Dan Aloni‘s case against his former employer CAA is going to arbitration, an LA Superior Court judge has ruled this morning. “The good guys won”, said Aloni’s lawyer Patricia Glaser outside the downtown courtroom after a brief hearing. Lawyers for Aloni and CAA were facing off after he filed a court order last month to compel CAA into arbitration over the more than $5 million in bonuses and vacation pay he says it owes him. Aloni was fired from CAA in February after being with the agency for seven years. He joined WME as a partner in March, bringing over over all his big clients including Christopher Nolan, David Dobkin, Mike Myers, Jay Roach, David Goyer, Tom Shadyac, Michel Gondry, Raja Gosnell, Mandeville Films and more.

Related: SHOCKER! Chris Nolan’s Agent Dan Aloni Fired From CAA

Judge Ralph W. Dau this morning heard from Glaser and attorney Harold M. Brody representing CAA. The judge had written a tentative ruling the lawyers saw just before the hearing. After hearing from both parties, Dau confirmed that ruling and set the matter toward arbitration as Aloni desired in his initial petition filed November 5. Since then there had seen a series of declarations, motions to strike and proof of service but no settlement talks. Read More »

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WME Signs ‘Argo’s Scoot McNairy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 15, 2012 @ 1:53pm PSTTags: Argo, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: WME has brought up and coming actor Scoot McNairy into its talent stable. McNairy is most recognizable for Argo, for playing the U.S. embassy worker who was most skeptical of the daring rescue attempt that forms … Read More »

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TiVo Recruits Tim Tebow For Ads: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday November 14, 2012 @ 12:44pm PSTTags: Tim Tebow, TiVo, WME

Tim Tebow TiVo SpokesmanTim Tebow officially signed on today to be spokesman for TiVo. It’s the latest in a series of high-profile endorsement deals for the publicity magnet/NFL quarterback since WME snagged … Read More »

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