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EXCLUSIVE: Mobile streaming service Ficto has formed several new content partnerships and fleshed out its content offering of more than 50 shows as it prepares to go live in the first quarter of 2020. Led by CEO and co-founder Mike Esola, a former agent at UTA and WME, Ficto was first announced about a year ago. The…

Fiction Riot has launched Ficto, a subscription-based platform that delivers short-form premium programming designed to be consumed through mobile usage. Ficto launches with 20 series currently in production, available to consumers early next year. Fiction Riot will be meeting with content creators to secure and…

Days after leaving WME, lit agent Mike Esola has landed at UTA, in the agency’s motion picture literary department. He had a strong list of writers and directors, and is expected to bring many of them once the dust cleared. As Deadline revealed last week, Esola decided to leave WME where he began his career in the…

Longtime WME lit agent Mike Esola has left the agency. Word is that Esola and the agency came to a parting of the ways over a number of issues, including wanting to become a partner right away. As a result, Esola decided to leave. Unlike most agents who make that kind of a stand, Esola chose not to have another agency…