Good Friday has put Hollywood on pause for tomorrow, but today the Writers Guild said it has a very big Easter delivery for the uberagencies coming on Monday.

It’s been nearly a week after talks completely broke down between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents over the new anti-packaging Agency Code of…

(UPDATED with WGA statement) Hours after the WGA launched its expected anti-packaging lawsuit this morning against the Big 4 agencies, representatives for UTA, WME, CAA and ICM Partners hit back in a dispute that has Hollywood on the precipice.

“This development is ironic given that the Guild itself has agreed to the l…

United Talent Agency has signed Cindy McCain in all areas, the agency announced Thursday.

McCain’s daughter, The View panelist Meghan McCain is another prominent client.

Cindy McCain, widow of the late Sen. John McCain, is an advocate of early childhood education and activist in the fight against human trafficking, UTA…

For a second time in three years, the talent agencies find themselves in an awkward situation heading into the May upfronts. And this time, it may result in the cancellation of most agency parties.

The same time in 2017, the major agencies were planning their soirees under the threat of a WGA strike as the guild was in…

Conversations about diversity and inclusion have become a necessity in Hollywood considering the demand and need for authentic representation in TV and film. Earlier this week, UTA hosted their second Diversity Showrunner Panel with Tanya Saracho (Vida), Aida Croal (Y, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones), Marco Ramirez (The Twil…

The United Talent Agency (UTA) announced today that they have signed author and youngest Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai and her father, activist and author Ziauddin Yousafzai. Both are co-founders and board members of Malala Fund. UTA will work with both of them as they continue to inspire global audiences with…

EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author Erik Larson has signed with UTA. His books have been catnip for movies and TV, and UTA will broker those deals. His bestseller The Devil In The White City was recently set as a Hulu/Paramount TV series with Martin Scorsese exec producing with Leonardo DiCaprio and his Appian Way. That…

EXCLUSIVE: United Talent Agency (UTA) announced today that they have signed 18-year-old writer and director Freddy Macdonald in all areas.

Based in Zurich, Macdonald is known for writing and directing many short films — one a year since he moved to Switzerland in 2015 to be exact. Recently, his short Sew Torn, which…

UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer told his writer-clients Wednesday night that they won't be the only artists affected if the WGA gets its way and puts the agencies out of the packaging business. “These decisions impact a broad section of the TV ecosystem," he wrote on Tuesday in a message to the agency's writers. "Lots of people…

With a week to go before WGA members begin voting on a new code of conduct that act as a fatal silver bullet through the heart of the agencies' lucrative packaging plans, UTA tried to strap on a new Kevlar vest of data Wednesday.

In a pithy 10-page TV Writing Data Analysis released this morning seeking to shatter the g…

Just hours before resuming negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents for a new franchise agreement, the WGA released a 16-page report this morning that accuses the major agencies of running a vertically integrated "cartel" that has cornered the market on Hollywood's talent.

The Writers Guild and agencies will …

Less than a day before the Writers Guild of American and the Association of Talent Agents are set to have their first formal meeting in nearly a month, and two weeks before a big Code of Conduct vote that could see scribes exiting their agencies in droves, UTA’s Jeremy Zimmer has admitted to clients that “we aren’t…