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EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed four-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams. Williams currently stars opposite Tom Hardy in the Marvel film Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which set a pandemic-era record during its opening weekend and has since earned more than $185 million at the global box office .  She reprises her role from…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor, comedian and social media personality Desi Banks has signed with CAA for representation. Banks, whose online reach exceeds 12 million followers across multiple social media platforms, crosses the cultural zeitgeist of comedy, music and sports. As an actor, Banks appeared in Will Packer's film Little…

UPDATED, 4:30 PM: A U.S. District Court Judge is allowing former Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco’s lawsuit against Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson, to proceed. Manson’s legal team attempted to dismiss Bianco's lawsuit on statute-of-limitations grounds. The lawsuit, originally filed by Bianco and attorney Jay…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Octavia Spencer has signed with CAA for representation in all areas including her production company ORIT Entertainment, which she runs with partner and producer Brian Clisham and Head of Production and Development Stephanie Kluft. Bryan Lourd will lead the team. Projects under the ORIT banner…

(Updated with more from Code Conference) "No," a blunt Ari Emanuel told the Code Conference on Tuesday when asked whether he would buy UTA now that CAA has acquired ICM Partners. "We don't need it," the Endeavor CEO told conference attendees at the Beverly Hilton, stressing that WME is still “the largest agency in the…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed The Summer I Turned Pretty star Lola Tung for representation in all areas. Tung will make her television debut in the lead role of Belly in Jenny Han's anticipated Amazon YA drama series The Summer I Turned Pretty, based on The New York Times bestselling trilogy of the same name. The…

CAA’s acquisition of ICM Partners, the biggest shakeup in the Hollywood representation space in over a decade, continues a tradition of consolidation in the agency business. CAA and Endeavor both were launched by star agents who left established powerhouses WMA and ICM, respectively. The fastest way to grow is through…

After Deadline broke the news Monday that CAA said was acquiring ICM Partners in the first major Hollywood agency tie-up since the WMA-Endeavor deal in 2009, the bombshell news has began sinking in around the industry. One sector that will be interested are the Hollywood unions, and SAG-AFTRA became the first to react…

The bombshell acquisition of ICM Partners by CAA will strengthen a collective commitment to client representation, the principals behind the deal said in an interview with Deadline on Monday morning. Among other issues, CAA's Richard Lovett, Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane and ICM Partners head Chris Silbermann told…

UPDATED: CAA has made it official, this blockbuster deal we have chased all weekend. Find release below the original Deadline scoop. EXCLUSIVE: Creative Artists Agency is acquiring ICM Partners, a mammoth deal that would be the biggest joining forces of two major agencies since WMA and Endeavor. Expectation is that…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Michael D. Ratner, the director of hit documentary features Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, which opened this year’s SXSW, and the upcoming Justin Bieber: Our World. The agency has also inked Ratner’s OBB Media. CAA will rep producer-director-entrepreneur Ratner and his company across…

Matt Fechter has joined Hyperion to launch their Comedy Department. Fechter comes from CAA where he worked as an agent in both the comedy and talent departments working closely with such actors, directors, and comedians as Aristotle Athiras, Courtney Parchman, Jim Rash, Jeff Garlin, Laura Terruso, Madelaine Petsch…