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Creative Artists Agency has promoted Allie Cohen, David Romero, Alixandra Haley, Rachel Mathias and Lubna Salad to agents within its Television division. Within the agency’s television department Cohen and Romero will work in scripted, Haley in alternative, and Mathias and Salad in international. "I am thrilled about…

EXCLUSIVE: Eugene Pack, creator of the live stage comedy show Celebrity Autobiography and writer-director of The Pack Podcast, has signed with CAA. Celebrity Autobiography, which played a limited engagement on Broadway in 2018, features celebrities on stage performing the memoirs of other celebrities. The show tours…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed French filmmaker and novelist Audrey Diwan. Her second film, L’Evenement (Happening), won the Golden Lion on Saturday, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. The picture immediately becomes a hot awards-season title, and domestic distribution is being sorted by CAA Media Finance and Wild…

CAA has become the latest media and entertainment company to sue an insurance company for not covering losses suffered during the coronavirus shutdown. The Hollywood agency on Friday filed a civil suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Affiliated FM, citing the insurance company’s “bad-faith refusal” to pay CAA…

Move over, Captain America. There are new heroes arriving in comics land. CAA has signed Comic Republic, billed as Africa’s largest superhero franchise, for representation in all areas. The company is currently working with talent and creatives on multiple titles, including Ireti, Amadioha, Visionary, Trials of the Sp…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has cooked up its latest podcast signing. The agency has signed Dan Pashman, host of food podcast The Sporkful. Pashman, who is also the creator and star of Cooking Channel’s You’re Eating It Wrong, will work with CAA on new opportunities for himself and The Sporkful in television, publishing and…

EXCLUSIVE: Sonya Rosenfeld, the most senior CAA female television agent and one of the most accomplished TV agents in the business, is retiring after a 35-year career at CAA where she is a member of the board. Rosenfeld, who just announced her retirement internally, is set to depart the agency at the end of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Stand-up comedian, writer and actor Brandon Wardell has signed with CAA for representation. Wardell is best-known for his work on Comedy Central and for his appearances on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Netflix’s Special, Like And Subscribe for Verizon, as well as sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave W…

EXCLUSIVE: A year after its founding, CAA experiential entertainment affiliate Constellation Immersive has gotten a “significant” equity investment from 30West, a prominent finance and advisory firm. 30West, a majority stakeholder in Neon as well as series and feature films, joins founding shareholders Crossroads…

UPDATED with additional details from Disney earnings call: The revenue for Black Widow wasn't to be found in Disney's last earnings report Thursday, but the fallout from Scarlett Johansson's explosive lawsuit against the House of Mouse certainly was. Showing a surge in Disney+ subscribers from the same time last year…

EXCLUSIVE: Roman Kantor has signed with CAA for representation in all areas. The Moscow-based screenwriter recently penned an adaptation of Anna Karenina for Netflix. The contemporary reimagining of the Leo Tolstoy classic is the streamer's first-ever Russian original drama series. Kantor previously scripted…

EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians and Hustlers star Constance Wu has inked with CAA, Deadline has learned. She rose to fame in the ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat as Jessica Huang, a role which earned her a Critics Choice Television Award nominatio. She also was lauded as part of Time‘s 100 Most Influential People of…