EXCLUSIVE:UTA has signed director, producer, writer, advocate and Academy Award-nominated actor Ellen Page for worldwide representation in all areas.
Page was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the Jason Reitman-directed comedy Juno and starred in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film Inception. She recently…
EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with WGA statement: The Big Three talent agencies, locked in an antitrust lawsuit with the WGA, have asked a federal judge to temporarily stay discovery on certain documents sought by the guild, saying there is a "clear possibility" the guild's counterclaims against them will be dismissed.
On…
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed McMillion$ filmmakers Brian Lazarte and James Lee Hernandez as well as their company Fun Meter Productions for worldwide representation in all areas.
Lazarte and Hernandez’s critically acclaimed six-part docuseries McMillion$ bowed in February. The project, which was from Unrealistic Ideas…
Battered by the rapidly spreading coronavirus and its economic fallout, UTA is slashing salaries today to keep staff employed and the lights on.
“Like companies across the industry and our country, UTA is taking some immediate and painful steps to ensure we get through the current public health and economic crisis as…
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed filmmaker Diane Paragas for worldwide representation in all areas.
Most recently, Paragas directed, wrote and produced her narrative feature debut, Yellow Rose. The musical drama was acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and will be released by SPWA's film production label Stage 6…
UPDATED, March 13:The Gotham Group has joined UTA, ICM Partners, Paradigm, CAA and Viacom in initiating work-from-home mandates amid the growing coronavirus threat.
The Gotham Group Founder and CEO Ellen Goldsmith-Vein made the announcement in a memo to employees Friday. The order takes effect Monday, March 16.
“As…
Live entertainment giants Live Nation and AEG have teamed up with Creative Artists Agency, William Morris Endeavor, Paradigm, and United Talent Agency to created a global task force they hope will ensure best practices in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The group’s first recommendation Thursday is to cancel all…
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed Portuguese actress Alba Baptista, who has the lead role in upcoming Netflix fantasy series Warrior Nun.
Lisbon-born Baptista most recently starred in Marco Pontecorvo's upcoming feature Fatima opposite Harvey Keitel, as well as Gonçalo Waddington's drama Patrick, which was in competition at…
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has inked actress Monica Barbaro who stars as 'Phoenix,' the sole female fighter pilot, in upcoming Paramount/Skydance-Tom Cruise sequel Top Gun: Maverickdue out on June 26.
The San Francisco, CA native recently appeared in ABC's Stumptown and reprised her recurring role in Splitting Up Together for…
EXCLUSIVE: In some big podcasting news, Serial Productions, creator of hit podcasts Serial and S-Town, has hired writer-producer and film director Neil Drumming as its new managing editor.
Drumming will lead the expansion of Serial Productions' development slate, recruiting producers, writers and reporters
to develop…
EXCLUSIVE:UTA has signed Mexican actor Armando Espitia in all areas. Espitia most recently starred in Heidi Ewing's drama I Carry You With Me, which premiered at Sundance and won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Award in the Next! categories.
Espitia first came to prominence with his leading role in Amat Escalante's…
UPDATED with WGA statement: The WGA and the Big 3 talent agencies have agreed to try to resolve their ongoing legal dispute through mediation – a standard procedure ordered by the presiding judge that doesn't signify a breakthrough in the case, in which each side is accusing the other of antitrust violations over…
