EXCLUSIVE: ICM Partners has tapped Caroline Edwards as Director of Podcast Initiatives. In her new role, she will work closely with agent teams to help shepherd ICM Partners' clients into podcast projects, from creative inception through the sale and the launch of the project idea to podcast networks. She will report…

EXCLUSIVE: Akira Akbar has inked with ICM Partners. Akbar recently starred as Lashana Lynch's daughter, Monica Rambeau who sees a mentor in Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel which recently crossed $1 billion at the global box office. Akbar also portrayed the younger child version of Susan Kelechi Watson’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Gretchen Carlson has inked with ICM Partners for representation across multiple platforms; including television broadcasting, unscripted, marketing, branding and publishing. The former seven-year co-host of Fox News Channel’s morning show Fox and Friends filed a sexual harassment lawsuit in July 2016…

EXCLUSIVE: ICM Partners has signed filmmaker Justin Kelly, whose upcoming film JT LeRoy starring Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern hits theaters in April. Early on in his career, Kelly cut his teeth directing and editing music videos for artists such as Gossip, Hunx and his Punx and Tiny Hearts and working as an…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of their film Sister Aimee making its world premiere at Sundance in the Next section, married writing/directing duo Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann have inked with ICM partners. The pic, starring Anna Margaret Hollyman and Amy Hargreaves tells the story of America’s most famous evangelist, a…

EXCLUSIVE: UK talent agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates has appointed producer Tracy Brimm (Grabbers) to the newly-created role of Creative Affairs Executive. Brimm, a former agent at ICM and executive at TF1 U.S., will lead the search for potential material and IP for clients and will be on the hunt for new…

EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Benson, who for the last seven seasons has portrayed queen-bee Hanna Marin on Freeform/ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars, has inked with ICM Partners. Benson will next star opposite Elisabeth Moss in Alex Ross Perry's independent film Her Smell which will begin production in New York this…

EXCLUSIVE: Jasmin Savoy Brown, one of the stars on Shonda Rhimes' new ABC drama For the People, has signed with ICM Partners. Brown stars alongside Britt Robertson in the Paul William Davies-written series, which is set in the Southern District of New York Federal Court, aka "The Mother Court," and follows brand-new…

EXCLUSIVE: I Wanna Marry Harry producer Zig Zag Productions is set for a renewed push into the U.S. after signing up with talent agency ICM. The UK production company, which is run by Chief Executive Danny Fenton, has switched from CAA to ICM as it pushes through this expansion. Zig Zag has produced over 200 hours of…

Philippe Van Leeuw, director of the acclaimed film Insyriated, has signed on with LINK Entertainment for representation. The French-Belgian produced drama, which is set in Syria, was awarded the Europa Cinemas Berlinale label after being named the Best European Film in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section. The…

HBO. Sony. Netflix. WME. UTA. ICM. Being hacked in Hollywood was once an exclusive club, but it's rapidly expanding. Criminals have taken notice of the easy pickings at entertainment companies, according to two leading IT security experts asked about the recent attack on HBO. Hackers earlier this week obtained an…

EXCLUSIVE: Bad Boys and Midnight Run scribe George Gallo has teamed with his Middle Men collaborator Andy Weiss to pen The Bummy Davis Story, an independent feature which New York City real estate developer Peter Fine will produce and finance. Fine came to the project after reading Ron Ross' novel about the legendary…