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UPDATED, 3:20 PM: APA observed Blackout Tuesday by holding A Conversation for Action, part of its APA Elevate series, to focus on education and identify ways in which to fight for real and meaningful change. In addition to APA staff and clients, the Zoom webinar audience included showrunners, managers, studio and…

During a time where people of color — specifically Black people — and members of marginalized communities are being treated with injustice, CAA is looking to push the needle with new efforts that aim to foster the agency’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. CAA has taken action and appointed Lisa Joseph Metelus to…

The Big 3 talent agencies, having already won a partial victory in their yearlong legal battle with the WGA over packaging fees, now are asking a federal judge to dismiss all of the guild's remaining claims. In a 25-page motion filed Wednesday, WME, CAA and UTA asked U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birotte Jr. to toss…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed actor Sebastian Stan. He’s taking his first agent in awhile, at a time when he’s got a lot going on. He is starring alongside Anthony Mackie in the Marvel Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, reprising the Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier role he has played in the Captain America and…

CAA is launching "Screening Room With The Stars," a weekly series that will feature a livestream of a Hollywood movie hosted by talent from the film exclusively on Facebook. The initiative, to benefit organizations helping communities impacted by the coronavirus crisis, kicks off Thursday with Rocky and will be hosted…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed filmmaker Mona Fastvold. Fastvold made her directorial debut with The Sleepwalker. The Norwegian-American drama premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014 in the U.S. Dramatic Competition and was acquired by IFC Films. The film was written by Fastvold and Vox Lux director Brady Corbet…

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) will launch the virtual edition of CAA Moebius, an annual two-day screening series showcasing diverse Los Angeles-based graduate student filmmakers from the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory, School of Film/Video at CalArts, UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, and USC…

After a stinging loss in federal court two weeks ago, the WGA has filed its first amended complaint in its ongoing legal battle with the Big 3 talent agencies over packaging fees. The latest filing reframes many of the guild's claims that U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birotte Jr. threw out on April 27, including his…

Former Paradigm managing partner and co-head of talent Scott Metzger is joining CAA in the Motion Picture Talent department. Among the clients joining Metzger at CAA are Zoë Kravitz and Ezra Miller, with others to be unveiled at a later date. He will be based in the agency's New York office. Metzger was a 20-year…

CAA has told employees in its Los Angeles, New York, Nashville and London offices to continue to work from home until at least August 1. The agency said that offices with fewer employees in other U.S. cities and elsewhere could have different timing on when to come back. The agency doesn’t want to be the first canary…

UPDATED with agencies’ response: The WGA on Thursday accused the Big 3 talent agencies of making "multiple misrepresentations" to a federal judge who's presiding over their yearlong legal battle over packaging fees. The guild now is requesting that a hearing that had been taken off calendar be reinstated so oral…

The WGA and Hollywood's Big 3 talent agencies have filed supplemental briefs in federal court about the scope of discovery in their yearlong battle over packaging fees, with the agencies seeking to limit the mountain of documents the guild is still seeking even though U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birotte dismissed m…