While on one coast the Tribeca Film Festival was opening with a well-received music documentary The Apollo, Ron Howard’s latest foray into documentary filmmaking, Pavarotti, was unveiled on the other coast Wednesday evening for a capacity screening at CAA. The audience was an invited industry crowd that also included…

Good Friday has put Hollywood on pause for tomorrow, but today the Writers Guild said it has a very big Easter delivery for the uberagencies coming on Monday.

It’s been nearly a week after talks completely broke down between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents over the new anti-packaging Agency Code of…

EXCLUSIVE: Flying in the face of WGA leadership’s expectations that agencies might lay off dealmakers who’ll form rival boutiques to rep writers exiting percenteries that refuse to sign the WGA’s Code Of Conduct, CAA president Richard Lovett addressed the entire agency this morning and made assurances.

He said no one’s…

(UPDATED with WGA statement) Hours after the WGA launched its expected anti-packaging lawsuit this morning against the Big 4 agencies, representatives for UTA, WME, CAA and ICM Partners hit back in a dispute that has Hollywood on the precipice.

“This development is ironic given that the Guild itself has agreed to the l…

For a second time in three years, the talent agencies find themselves in an awkward situation heading into the May upfronts. And this time, it may result in the cancellation of most agency parties.

The same time in 2017, the major agencies were planning their soirees under the threat of a WGA strike as the guild was in…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed screenwriter and author Nick Hornby.

Hornby’s novels adapted for the screen include High Fidelity, About A Boy, Fever Pitch, A Long Way Down and Juliet, Naked. His books have sold 6 million copies worldwide. As screenwriter, he adapted the 2014 film Wild, which starred Reese Witherspoon and…

EXCLUSIVE: Stage directors Warren Carlyle, Jamie Lloyd and Sammi Cannold have signed with CAA for representation.

Carlyle (above, right), a choreographer as well as director, is currently handling both duties Hugh Jackman’s world tour, and choreographed the new Broadway production of Kiss Me, Kate starring Kelli…

Having entered a guilty plea today and facing potential prison time, Felicity Huffman is now extremely contrite about the “transgression” of the big bucks she paid out to get one of her daughters in a top school in the college bribery scheme.

“I am pleading guilty to the charge brought against me by the United States A…

EXCLUSIVE: Director-writer Kate Herron has inked with CAA for representation.

Herron most recently directed the second half of the breakout Netflix series Sex Education which stars Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson. Sex Education launched on Jan. 11 in 190 countries, and has been hailed by Deadline sister…

EXCLUSIVE: In a shocker, top CAA agent Jim Toth is leaving the agency to join Jeffrey Katzenberg's short-form content incubator Quibi. Toth has just given notice at the agency, I'm told. He will take the title of Head of Content Acquisition and Talent at Quibi.

Toth has worked at the agency for moer than 23 years – wor…

With a week to go before WGA members begin voting on a new code of conduct that act as a fatal silver bullet through the heart of the agencies' lucrative packaging plans, UTA tried to strap on a new Kevlar vest of data Wednesday.

In a pithy 10-page TV Writing Data Analysis released this morning seeking to shatter the g…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed four-time Emmy Award nominee Tituss Burgess for representation.

Burgess broke out on the Netflix’Tina Fey-Robert Carlock comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt which recently ended its four season run on the streaming giant back in January.

Burgess began his career on Broadway appearing in su…