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UPDATED with more details: CAA and WME have asked a federal judge to deny the WGA East and West's request for an eight-week continuance of the hearing date on the agencies' motion for a preliminary injunction that would force the guilds to drop their group boycott against the agencies. A hearing is currently scheduled…

Bryan Lourd stepped out Wednesday from behind the CAA curtain to express hope for both a post-COVID-19 return of movies and the theater-going experience, and an agreement with the WGA over the contentious practice of packaging – if the guild will pick up the phone. "I fully expect that at some point in the near…

CAA’s Bryan Lourd will take over as the keynote speaker for the 44th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium Wednesday, replacing Bob Greenblatt, the former Chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment. In a virtual sit-down interview with powerhouse attorney Ken Ziffren, the uberagency Managing Partner and Co-Chairman will now…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA last night signed Joe & Anthony Russo, the sibling filmmakers who, after setting the all-time global box office gross record with a $2.79 billion tally for Avengers: Endgame, just saw the AGBO thriller Extraction become Netflix’s most watched movie — 90 million subscribers– and spawned a sequel that Joe…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has announced its plans to weather the coronavirus pandemic that brought Hollywood to a screeching halt. The agency announced this to staff this morning. The broad strokes: no layoffs, but companywide paycuts up to 50%, on a progressive scale. CAA toppers Richard Lovett, Bryan Lourd & Kevin Huvane will…

EXCLUSIVE: The end of Sen. Kamala Harris' bid for the White House today had bicoastal fallout that includes some of the most powerful people in Hollywood, including Donald Trump's former agent. Endeavor co-CEO Ari Emanuel was among the co-hosts for an A-lister fundraiser for California's junior senator that was set to…

CAA partner Bryan Lourd has gone the unusual route and issued to Deadline a statement on behalf of himself and daughter Billie Lourd disavowing Carrie Fisher: A Life On The Edge, an upcoming book by Sheila Weller published through the Farrar, Straus and Giroux imprint Sarah Crichton Books. This came after the family…

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama isn't running for any office but the former First Lady can sure draw a well heeled crowd that would be the envy of any politician, as was the case last night at Bryan Lourd's place. Just 48 hours after appearing on-stage with Gayle King at this year's Essence Festival in Atlanta, the…

The first meeting since the beginning of a now eight-week standoff between the Association of Talent Agents and the WGA on Friday lasted about 45 minutes in face-to-face time, ending with new proposals on the table from the agencies’ side that the writers guild said it would respond to next week. The meeting, which…

Ryan Gosling has signed with CAA, a move that brings him fully into the major agency star factory for the first time. Bryan Lourd brought him in. Gosling, soaring off his Oscar nominated turn in the Best Picture front runner La La Land, hasn’t had an agent since 2013, when his longtime rep Ilene Feldman folded her IFA…

EXCLUSIVE (Updated with statement from CAA attorney): Things are really getting personal in the agent poaching legal battle between UTA and CAA, with both sides naming names. Nearly two weeks ago, it was CAA slamming UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer and others in the agency's higher ranks over the "illegal" snaring of five senior…

Though she was in town last week, it's been nearly a month since Hillary Clinton was last in L.A. hoovering up that reliable Hollywood cash – but fear not, the former First Lady is coming back in less than two weeks. Long time Clinton supporter and CAA head honcho Bryan Lourd is set to co-host a $10,000 top ticket…