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EXCLUSIVE: Euphoria‘s Angus Cloud has signed with UTA. The talent agency will help create new opportunities across film, television, branding and endorsements, and more for Cloud, who plays Fezco on the HBO hit series. The Sam Levinson drama that stars Zendaya has been renewed for a third season…

UTA has expanded its board of directors, adding Main Street Advisors CEO Paul Wachter and Nexus Management Group founder Ceci Kurzman as independent members. Wachter is becoming board chairman, replacing Jim Berkus, who stepped down a couple of months ago. Even though Berkus is no longer chairing the…

Multi-platinum selling recording artist, producer and philanthropist Zayn Malik has inked with UTA for representation across music, film and television, among other areas. The most recent album release for the British artist, who rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction, was 2021’s…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed award-winning actor, director, writer and producer Steve Buscemi and his Olive Productions banner for representation in all areas. Buscemi currently co-stars opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the TBS anthology comedy series Miracle Workers that’s executive produced by Lorne…

EXCLUSIVE: Shawn Naim has joined UTA as in agent in the TV Talent department. He comes from the A3 Artists Agency where he spent the last seven years. Naim started in the mailroom of A3 (then Abrams Artists Agency) in 2015 upon graduating from college and was promoted to an agent in 2017. Throughout…

(Updated with Roiland lawyer statement) Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland is facing some serious incarceration time over domestic violence charges. In a semi-sealed case kept out of the public until today, Roiland has been charged with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran UTA Motion Picture Literary Agent Bill Zotti has joined Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment as a manager.  Zotti spent the last five years at UTA and before that at CAA, repping high profile writers, directors, and producer that included Scott Neustadter & Michael Weber (Daisy Jones & the…

UTA has acquired Fletcher & Company, a 20-year-old literary agency with a roster of notable fiction and non-fiction authors. As part of the deal, the full team at Fletcher & Company will join UTA in its New York office as the independent company is absorbed by its new parent. Founder and CEO Christy F…

Elon Musk’s reluctant $44BN Twitter buyout and Warner Bros' merger with Discovery were the most market-shifting M&A deals of the year but outside the U.S. there were several major developments that have impacted the global market. Scroll through the gallery above for a reminder of the other splashy M…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed Nkechi Okoro Carroll and her production company, Rock My Soul Productions, for representation in all areas. Okoro Carroll created, showruns, and is an executive producer on Found, which will premiere on NBC in February. Recently, as part of her overall deal with Warner…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed writer and producer Aaron Carew for representation. Carew is a co-executive producer on the CW’s Walker. He’s writing two drama series for CBS from CBS Studios – the legal drama Carver Law, which he is producing alongside Martin Lawrence and Sheila Duckworth; and Guard, a…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actress and filmmaker Katie Holmes and her recently launched production company, Lafayette Pictures, for representation in all areas.  Holmes is best known for her work in features ranging from Christopher Nolan’s tentpole Batman Begins, to such critically acclaimed art…