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UTA on Monday took the wraps off a new logo, the agency’s first brand revamp since 2011, with the abstract, three-dimensional shape meant to emphasize the agency’s “continued and evolving commitment to uniting ideas, opportunities and talent,” it said. The logo is already on the agency’s website, and building signage…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has created the UTA Opportunity Fund, which will provide support to current and prospective employees facing financial challenges as they build and maintain their careers in entertainment. The fund is primarily financed through employee contributions and is in line with UTA's commitment to a diverse and…

EXCLUSIVE: Seems Hollywood's top legal mandarin has hit a raw nerve with the re-election seeking head of the WGA West and the latter wants the former to stay in his lane. "Ken Ziffren is an experienced lawyer, which means there are some things he should know and some things he fully understands that he can’t know,"…

"Seeing the handwriting on the wall, two days ago the WGA dismissed without prejudice its state court case against the four agencies and simultaneously filed a counterclaim to the suit that was brought against three of the agencies for antitrust violations on the part of the guild," Ken Ziffren said Wednesday as he…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed director, screenwriter, editor and cinematographer Victor Kossakovsky. Kossakovsky’s documentary Aquarela premiered during the festival circuit in 2018 to critical acclaim and screened at Sundance and SXSW. The film, which is a visual narrative that captures the power and beauty of bodies of…

The talent agencies had a greatly reduced presence at the May upfronts. Amid stalled negotiations between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents, which broke off in April with no deal, triggering the firing of agents by more than 7,000 writers, most agency parties were canceled or dramatically scaled back. As…

UTA has signed TV host, actress, singer/songwriter, producer, playwright and author Kathie Lee Gifford for representation in all areas. Gifford is best known for co-hosting NBC's Today alongside Hoda Kotb. In 2019, she won an Emmy for Best Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host for her work on the program, which she…

EXCLUSIVE: Tamara Kotevska, the Macedonia-born filmmaker-screenwriter whose feature documentary Honeyland won multiple prizes at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has signed with UTA. The news comes as the narrative docu she co-directed with Ljubomir Stefanov hit theaters this past weekend via Neon, which acquired…

EXCLUSIVE: Whitney creator and 2 Broke Girls co-creator Whitney Cummings has signed with UTA. The multihyphenate comedian, actor, writer, producer and director Cummings is best known for creating and starring in her self-titled NBC series Whitney, as well as co-writing and co-creating the Emmy-nominated series 2 Broke…

UTA on Wednesday said it has made a significant investment in the powerhouse sports agency Klutch Sports Group, led by its founder and CEO Rich Paul, a move that among other things will create UTA Sports and bring Los Angeles Lakers stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis into the agency fold. As part of the partnership…

UPDATED with WGA response, UTA statement: UTA has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the WGA East and WGA West, accusing the guilds of engaging in an "unlawful group boycott" against UTA and other talent agencies in the guild’s 11-week-old campaign to realign the agencies’ interests with those of writers. The suit…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-comedian Billy Gardell, star of Chuck Lorre’s new CBS comedy series Bob ♥ Abishola, has signed with UTA in all areas. This marks the second series with Lorre for Gardell, who also starred opposite Melissa McCarthy on Mike & Molly, which aired on CBS for six seasons. Bob ♥ Abishola was developed and…