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UPDATED with more details: Innovative Artists has joined the list of agencies that have signed a deal with the Writers Guild of America. With the signing, the Association of Talent Agents, which has been at loggerheads with the WGA since last April, now has three members of its 16-member board of directors whose…

It was bicoastal Promotion Day at Innovative Artists as the ageny upped a trio of assistants to agent status. The Los Angeles office saw coordinator Dara Finkel upped to agent in the talent department and Jacqueline Kim in the comedy unit. Out in New York, Christopher Stego has been promoted to agent in the talent…

EXCLUSIVE: Actors represented by Innovative Artists have recently received letters from the agency, notifying them of a possible computer breach. In response to an inquiry from Deadline, a rep for Innovative Artists provided details of the incident and the agency’s response: There was a burglary of three computers at…

Innovative Artists veteran Ken Lee is leaving the talent agency to become a manager. He will be joining Brillstein Entertainment Partners in March, working out of the company’s New York office in Tribeca. "Ken has a great eye for developing talent and has cultivated a fantastic network in the New York creative…

Actress Mishel Prada, who stars in the Fear The Walking Dead: Passage web series, has inked with UTA. Prada is set as one of the series regular in the new Starz Latinx drama series Vida from showrunner Tanya Saracho. The show centers on two Mexican-American sisters, Emma (Prada) and Lyn, from the Eastside of Los…

Innovative Artists is expanding its footprint in the world of celebrity endorsements. The agency has tapped Vice President Maury DiMauro to oversee the newly renamed bi-coastal Strategic Marketing and Endorsements department, and has hired Jason Pinyan as a senior agent in the department, based in the Los Angeles…

Innovative Artists has promoted Tamra Goins to head the agency’s comedy division. She’ll manage the department alongside agent Steven Muller and the agency’s EVP Nevin Dolcefino. "Once Tamra joined our team three years ago, her positive impact was immediately evident," said Innovative's President Scott Harris in a…

Four months after Warner Bros sued Innovative Artists over what it called the "blatantly illegal" online distribution of films given out as Oscar screeners, the parties have settled the case — just days before the Academy Awards. Warners’ copyright-infringement suit had claimed that, “Beginning in late 2015…

A fairly contrite Innovative Artists is hoping that saying sorry might be enough to calm the waters with Warner Bros after the studio took the agency to court yesterday over copyright infringement. "Innovative is sorry for the improper sharing of the screener movies and will seek to resolve this matter with Warner…

EXCLUSIVE: Just as studios are getting ready to send out screeners for this year’s Oscar hopefuls, Warner Bros Entertainment today hit talent agency Innovative Artists with a wallop of damages over the “blatantly illegal” online distribution of films like 2015’s Creed. “Beginning in late 2015, Innovative Artists set…

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Ferrara, who co-hosts the U.S. version of Top Gear and was a regular on FX’s Rescue Me, has signed with Innovative Artists. Ferrara has starred since 2010 on Top Gear, History’s stateside adaptation of the BBC’s gearhead series. Its sixth season premiered April 26. He also played Fire Chief William…

UPDATE, FRIDAY, 7:55 AM: Rose McGowan told Good Morning America she doesn’t care if she’s blacklisted for tweeting what she felt was a sexist casting call announcement that she claims got her dropped from her talent agency. "I don't care, bring it," she said. "You want to to play, let's play." She also said she called…