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EXCLUSIVE:  Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director and Emmy Award-winning producer Oren Moverman has inked with CAA, Deadline has learned. Moverman continues to be managed by Jeremy Plager at 7 Deuce Entertainment and his attorney is Robert Marcus. Moverman received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay The Messenger …

SPOILER ALERT: This post contain details about James Andrew Miller’s book Tinderbox, an oral history of HBO, which was published today.  On the eve of yet another corporate reframing, HBO has received its own Magna Carta with the publication of James Andrew Miller's Tinderbox today. Coming from the keyboard that…

Nigerian-American Tomi Champion-Adeyemi, author of the best-selling young adult fantasy novel Children of Blood and Bone, has signed with CAA. The novel was published by Macmillan. Children of Blood and Bone marked Adeyemi's first novel and is the first in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy. The novel debuted at #1 on the Ne…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has hired Elan Ruspoli as a Partner in the Talent department and the hiring is effective immediately. Ruspoli comes to WME from CAA and was a home grown talent and rising star who worked with such clients as Jonathan Majors, Daniel Kaluuya, Toni Collette, Corey Hawkins, Aaron Pierre, Henry Golding…

EXCLUSIVE: Yomi Adegoke, the author and host of the Slay In Your Lane book and podcast series, has signed for CAA. The London-born commentator has become one of the leading voices on race, feminism and pop culture over the past few years and is pushing into TV, having created last year’s Channel 4 documentary Black Lov…

Creative Artists Agency has promoted four trainees, with Ishaani Saha and Olivia Su elevated to Agent, and Derek McKenna and Lin Yao upped to Executive. The LA-based Saha will work within CAA’s Commercial Endorsements department. There, she will look to create opportunities for clients across on-camera and print…

EXCLUSIVE: Squid Game star Jung Ho Yeon has signed with CAA. Deadline recently revealed how every agency in town has been trying to land Jung and her co-stars as well as the Netflix series’ writer-director, Hwang Dong-hyuk. This marks the first of that group to land at a major agency. Jung made her acting debut as…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Arnett has signed with CAA for representation in all areas. The seven-time Emmy nominee and three-time SAG Award-nominated actor, writer, director and producer is maybe best known for his roles as Gob Bluth in Fox’s Arrested Development and as the voice of Bojack Horseman, everybody’s favorite…

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Daley, who has four Olympic medals as the most decorated British diver of all time, is looking to break into the television business in the U.S. after signing with CAA. The agency has signed Daley, who is married to the Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, and will work with management…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer and award-winning actress Veronica Ferres has signed with CAA and Fourward. Both entities will also represent Ferres' film and TV production company, Construction Film, which she founded in 2013 as a female led label, and is dually based in Munich and Los Angeles. The German-born Ferres can…

EXCLUSIVE: This is turning into an AFM unlike any we can recall, with multiple prestige scripts in the offing in addition to the more traditional brawny fare. A big one just got put in play this morning, and we hear there are already four offers for an untitled script that Oscar-winner Martin McDonagh has written to…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed veteran writer-executive producer Heather Zuhlke for representation in all areas. Zuhlke is currently a writer-executive producer on season two of Starz's new hit drama, BMF. From EPs Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Randy Huggins, BMF is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from…