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For a trial probing potentially millions in profits denied Robert Kirkman and other executive producers of The Walking Dead, some real star power showed up Friday on this battlefield of the zombie apocalypse blockbuster series. "The representation to me was we would be treated the same as if it was made by Lionsgate…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has inked Emmy winner and BAFTA- and Tony Award-nominated Chris O'Dowd. O'Dowd will star in the upcoming Theodore Melfi-directed feature drama The Starling alongside Melissa McCarthy. The Irish actor is known for such movies as the hit Universal Paul Feig-Judd Apatow comedy Bridesmaids, Aaron Sorkin's Mo…

EXCLUSIVE: Spanish language star Mauricio Ochmann, whose credits include El Señor de los Cielos and its spinoff El Chema, the latter being the highest rated television show in the history of the Telemundo Network, has moved to UTA for representation in all areas. Ochmann's feature film credits include Hazlo Como Hombre…

EXCLUSIVE: A big move just happened. Scott Henderson is leaving Paradigm and we hear he’s heading to CAA. Henderson reps Aquaman director and Conjuring franchise architect James Wan, who counts well over $6.3 billion at the global box office (in directing, EP and producing credits) and the rep has been with the…

The second day of Robert Kirkman's mini-trial over profits from The Walking Dead started with fireworks over who knew what and when – and not over the millions of dollars the creator of the long-running and highly successful zombie apocalypse series claims AMC swindled out of him and other executive producers. On a…

EXCLUSIVE: The marathon will continue on streaming and in the hands of Oscar-nominated director Ava DuVernay. Just one day before her new OWN series Cherish the Day debuts on Oprah Winfrey’s outlet, DuVernay has been set to direct a feature-length documentary on the late, great Nipsey Hussle for Netflix. A…

When the zombie apocalypse does come, downtown Los Angeles may or may not be an epicenter of societal breakdown. But it sure felt like it today as the first of several The Walking Dead profit-participation trials that kicked off in the City of Angels. "If AMC Networks paid 100% of the production of The Walking Dead…

EXCLUSIVE: The Painted Bird director Vaclav Marhoul is set to make his English-language debut on McCarthy, a biopic of notorious former U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. Ironbark scribe Tom O’Connor has scripted the intriguing package, which will take a personal look at the influential former politician who rose to fame…

Frank Darabont and CAA on Tuesday responded to a December motion for summary judgment from AMC, which is looking to dismiss the profits lawsuit brought by the former The Walking Dead showrunner and his agency. In a memorandum of law filed Tuesday in New York state Supreme Court, the parties say the suit, over Modified…

EXCLUSIVE: Portrait Of A Lady On Fire star Adèle Haenel has signed with CAA. The multi-award winning French actress recently received a Best Actress César nomination for her role in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait, and previously took the prize for 2014’s Les Combattants (Love At First Fight). Portrait Of A Lady On Fire was…

EXCLUSIVE: Olivier Award-winning and Tony and Emmy-nominated actor Rufus Sewell has signed with CAA. Sewell can currently be seen as Sidney Luft opposite Renée  Zellweger in Oscar-nominated Judy. He also can be seen in a starring role alongside Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman and Imogen Poots in Florian Zeller's The Fat…

As part of her ice-breaking duties as host tonight at the WGA Awards west coast ceremony, SNL alum Ana Gasteyer gave praise to those agencies in the room that signed the guild’s franchise agreement –specifically Verve, Buchwald  and Gersh– then poking fun at CAA. “CAA bought four tickets to the show tonight even…