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Motion picture and television talent agent/manager J.J. Harris died of what is believed to be natural causes on Friday afternoon and was found today in her Beverly Hills home by her staff. She was 62. Always classy and funny but never a pushover, she at one time was among the top women talent agents and sole…

Brian Bunnin went from being an ICM talent agent to SVP of development and production at Streamline Television And Film a year ago. This month he joins bicoastal Station 3 Management & Production as SVP and Head of Talent.

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Gold has been manager to the popular TV daytime talk show star Ellen DeGeneres since after her ABC sitcom was cancelled in 1998 and she was out of work. I’ve learned today they parted ways after the first of the year but kept the news quiet. But it leaked out through rival reps to me. There are two…

Personal managers took it on the chin Tuesday in U.S. District Court when Judge Dean Pregerson wouldn’t touch California’s Talent Agencies Act. Instead the judge threw out an outrageously broad lawsuit filed by the National Conference of Personal Managers seeking to overturn the state's ban on managers "procuring"…

EXCLUSIVE: This is a cautionary tale for every Hollywood manager who’s spending a lot of time producing. Such is the case with Erwin Stoff. The 3 Arts Entertainment president has repped Keanu Reeves for something like 32 years (ever since the actor was 16 years old). The Stoff-Reeves relationship has long been…

The Black List 2011: Screenplay Roster The Black List 2011: By Agencies MANAGERS – by number of scripts Management 360 5 Mosaic 4 Kaplan/Perrone 4 Benderspink 3 H2F 3 Circle of Confusion 3 The Gotham Group 3 The Safran Company 2 Energy Entertainment 2 Four Floor Productions 2 Oasis Media Group 2 Caliber Media…

EXCLUSIVE: Director and actress and producer Penny Marshall has signed with Shelter Entertainment Group President Alan Iezman for management, and with APA for agency representation in all area.  The helmer of such classics as Big, Awakenings (an Oscar Best Picture contender), and A League Of Their Own was the first…

LOS ANGELES, CA – July 21, 2011 – Management 360 today announced the addition of Scott Lambert as a manager and producer, effective immediately. With more than twenty years of entertainment industry experience, Lambert has held influential posts at the William Morris Agency and Relativity Media. "Having worked closely…

EXCLUSIVE: Jill McElroy is joining Management 360 as a literary manager from Benderspink where she was a manager and producer for over a decade. Joining her are writing clients including John Hlavin, Karl Gajdusek, Andrea Berloff, Kyle Ward, Stacey Harman, Marc Haimes, Tom Smuts, among others. Many of her clients had…

EXCLUSIVE (UPDATED BELOW): There’s been no announcement yet. But Ann Blanchard is already being accused of breaking Hollywood protocol by not first informing those agents repping her Mosaic Media Group’s TV management clients of her change of employment. Instead, she’s calling those clients today and trying to…