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With less than two weeks to go, if there is one phrase that defines how Hollywood’s top Democrats are viewing the election it's "cautious optimism." As in, don't get too fooled again, don't let anything to chance, certainly don't make predictions. "I'd say I've got a cautious optimism going into these last few weeks…

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday reappointed UTA Co-President Jay Sures to the University of California Board of Regents. The reappointment requires confirmation by the state senate and will take effect on March 2, Newsom’s office said. There is no compensation. The talent agency exec, a Democrat, was first appointed to…

UPDATE 8:15 PM: Hours after UTA co-president Jay Sures reached out to WGA West president David A. Goodman with a proposal on behalf of the agencies to restart negotiations with a meeting next week, Goodman responded. “Thank you for your offer to meet, which I accept on behalf of the WGA,” he wrote without providing…

Governor Jerry Brown has named a flurry of appointments, including United Talent Agency co-president Jay Sures to the University of California Board of Regents, the governing board of the University of California.   Sures has been co-president at UTA since 2017, where he was managing director from 1989 to 2017. He…

David Kramer and Jay Sures, both of whom started on the desk of agency co-founder Peter Benedeck, have been named co-presidents of United Talent Agency. Both have also been on the board of UTA for quite some time. Kramer oversees UTA's motion picture group, which includes its literary, talent, independent film…

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton may have skipped out on a couple of Hollywood fundraisers last week due to illness but her running mate was full of nothing but vigor today over the ex-Secretary of State's health and the Democratic ticket's chances in November. "We're going to win this," Sen. Tim Kaine told an enthusiastic…

EXCLUSIVE: She might be still fundamentally keeping away from the press, but it seems that Hillary Clinton can't stay away from that Hollywood cash. The Democratic presidential nominee will be back in Los Angeles next week for two more Tinseltown fundraisers hosted by Seth MacFarlane and Barry Diller & Diane von…

EXCLUSIVE: We won't know until likely tomorrow whether Tim Kaine will be Hillary Clinton's running mate, but we do know that the Virginia senator shares some high-level and deep-pocketed Hollywood support with the former Secretary of State. We also know that Disney's Bob Iger and Warner Bros' Kevin Tsujihara as well…

EXCLUSIVE: Jim Berkus remains chairman and just sent out a notice to staff. Jeremy Zimmer is one of the Hollywood agency’s 6 owners and is a UTA co-founder and managing director. The 53-year-old Zimmer tells me that he took on the CEO role because “it’s important as the company reaches outside its traditional business…

UTA’s TV literary agent David Park has been promoted to partner. Park is a homegrown UTA talent — he started his career in the agency’s Agent Training Program and was promoted to an agent in 1998 in the TV lit department. "Dave is one the best agents working in the entertainment industry today," said Jay Sures, UTA…

UTA has gone outside of the agency world for its latest agent hire. Lucinda Moorhead, Manager of Development at BBC Worldwide Prods., is joining UTA as an agent in the TV Literary Department. She will start at the beginning of the year. Moorhead, who has some agency experience (she started off as an assistant at CAA)…