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EXCLUSIVE: The Umbrella Academy star Justin H. Min has signed with CAA for representation. Min plays the breakout character and fan favorite Ben Hargreeves on the hit Netflix series The Umbrella Academy. In the upcoming third season, he’ll play a new pivotal role as a leader of the Sparrow Academy. The UCP-produced The…

EXCLUSIVE: Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, creators of the viral TikTok smash Bridgerton The Musical, have signed with CAA and Kraft-Engel Management. Since the musical duo posted the first Bridgerton-inspired number on TikTok in January, the songs and performances have notched more than 165 million views and an…

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific writer, playwright and director Sigal Avin, who created the Israeli psychological thriller series Losing Alice, has signed with CAA. Avin created, wrote and directed the eight-episode series Losing Alice, which premiered in Israel in June 2020. Shortly after its debut, Apple TV+ acquired global…

EXCLUSIVE: American Skin is coming to BET+ next week. The Nate Parker directed, penned and starring drama will debut on the ViacomCBS-owned streaming service on April 15, I have learned. This move online for American Skin comes after a lucrative Vertical Entertainment distributed run for the Spike Lee executive…

(UPDATED WITH STATEMENT FROM FIRM) Attorney Howard Weitzman, who had a client list including Michael Jackson, O.J. Simpson, Marlon Brando, Morgan Freeman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ron Meyer and CAA, has died at the age of 81. The Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump LLP founding partner passed away Wednesday in his hometown of…

EXCLUSIVE: Writers Guild Award winner and Primetime Emmy nominee Ryan O’Connell has signed with CAA for representation in all areas. O’Connell is best known as the creator, writer, executive producer and star of Netflix short-form series, Special. Debuting on the streaming service in April of 2019, the comedy is…

Big media companies led by ViacomCBS’ MTV Entertainment Group have teamed up with medical experts to form the Mental Health Storytelling Coalition, a partnership to address a rise in depression, anxiety and suicide — particularly in young people and exacerbated by Covid-19 — and how the entertainment industry can…

On Thursday, CAA kicked off the month of April with the CAA Amplify Town Hall to address the surge of violence against Asians and Asian Americans. These acts of violence and harassment have been at the forefront in the past week with the Atlanta shootings and the most most recent attack in New York City, where a man…

At the top of the pandemic, when former reality show host Donald Trump referred to the coronavirus as the “China Virus” and “Kung Flu”, violence and harassment against Asians and Asian Americans started to surge. This all came to a head on March 16 when Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez, Paul…

2ND UPDATE: Jay Baker, the longtime CAA lit agent who was let go by the agency yesterday for sending a shocking clip from the film Menace 2 Society to manager Jewerl Keats Ross, has responded to the controversy. Basically, he has fallen on his sword and owned his actions. “I deeply regret my actions and the pain I…

Set to go to trial next month, Frank Darabont and CAA's more than seven-year legal battle with AMC over hundreds of millions in profits from The Walking Dead now looks likely to still be going on even after the zombie apocalypse series is over – maybe. Today, New York Supreme Court Justice Joel Cohen pushed the start…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Jack Champion, who joins Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana in the Avatar sequels. Champion plays "Spider" in Avatar 2, which bows on Dec. 16, 2022, and will reprise the role in the next three installments. Avatar recently reclaimed its position as the highest-grossing film of all time, with a…