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Richard Weitz and Christian Muirhead have been upped to co-chairmen of Endeavor’s WME talent agency, succeeding Lloyd Braun who will step down as chairman at the end of 2022 when his contract is up. Both are agency veterans, having come from the two companies that formed WME, Endeavor (Weitz) and WMA (Muirhead), and…

EXCLUSIVE: While WME dropped C&W star Morgen Wallen back in February after he used racist language in comments to his friends on a private video that made the rounds on the internet, top WME exec Lloyd Braun today addressed agents in the music department after word surfaced that the agency might still be quietly…

EXCLUSIVE: At today’s year-end virtual meeting, WME minted its largest partner class ever. The agency named 25 new partners, spanning a variety of WME departments and offices. WME also announced internally that compensation is being fully restored, across the entirety of Endeavor, starting January 1. Pay reductions cam…

Endeavor is consolidating its representation and management businesses in a new unit run by Lloyd Braun. The former ABC Entertainment Television Group chairman has been named President of Endeavor’s Client Group, which includes entertainment agency WME; fashion management companies IMG Models, The Wall Group, Art +…

MGM is extending its relationship with Lloyd Braun. The company has renewed its existing TV and film deal with Braun’s Whalerock Industries until 2017. MGM originally inked a TV production deal and a first-look feature pact with Whalerock’s predecessor, BermanBraun, in 2013. MGM is distributing internationally…

MGM has landed feature film rights to screenwriter Terry Hayes' debut novel, the just-released espionage thriller I Am Pilgrim. The scribe, whose film credits include Payback, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior and Dead Calm, will adapt his book, and Lloyd Braun will produce the film through his Whalerock Industries…

Seven months after promising a redesign of Moviefone, owner AOL  and partner Whalerock Industries unveiled the revamped website today with a key new feature: Television shows will now be offered in addition to movies on the search site. “We set out to answer a true market need by addressing the universal question…

In light of the recent exit of co-founder Gail Berman, BermanBraun has been renamed Whalerock Industries, a name said to have special meaning to co-founder and now full owner Lloyd Braun. The company also has folded scripted television, which had been overseen by Gene Stein, into film, with Andrew Mittman, who has run…

Gail Berman just made the announcement amid ongoing speculation that the former top Fox and Paramount executive might be mulling a return to the executive fold. In her statement, Berman indicates that she is considering “several unique opportunities” with an announcement about her next gig expected “very soon.&#8221…

If you look at the Moviefone’s amateurish looking site, which AOL bought for $400M in 1999, you’ll see why it needs work. The company says today that it has enlisted BermanBraun “to reimagine Moviefone and give the iconic entertainment brand a new design and enhanced user experience.” Early next year the site will…

EXCLUSIVE: Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun’s production company BermanBraun has signed with WME for representation. At the agency, the company’s entertainment division will be handled by co-CEO Ari Emanuel and head of the TV department Rick Rosen. The move formalizes BermanBraun’s existing relationship with WME as Berman…

EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment has hired Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan to adapt and direct Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, based on the 1992 John Gray book that highlights the vast differences between men and women, and attempts to bridge the differences. Elfont and Kaplan will turn the title into a…