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EXCLUSIVE: Director, writer and actor Lily Mariye has signed with with Verve Talent and Literary Agency for representation for directing. Mariye has acted in TV series including ER, Teen Wolf, Criminal Minds, Shameless and others. In addition to acting, she has and continues to showcase her talent as a director. This…

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Watson, creator of Freeform’s fashion mag dramedy series The Bold Type, has inked with Verve. The series, which is based on the life of Hearst chief content officer and former Cosmopolitan magazine editor-in-chief Joanna Coles, was renewed for a fourth season back in May, with Wendy Straker Hauser as…

In May, Verve became the biggest agency to sign the WGA's new Code of Conduct, which bans TV packaging and agency-affiliated production, allowing it to resume representing its writer clients and land high-profile new ones including WGA Agency Negotiating Committee members John August and Meredith Stiehm. While…

Another member of the WGA-Agency Agreement Negotiating Committee has signed with Verve after having previously been represented by a Big 4 agency. Veteran showrunner Meredith Stiehm, WGA West board member and agency negotiating committee co-chair, has signed with Verve, the only notable lit agency that has agreed to…

Verve on Friday scored its first big client signing since agreeing to the WGA’s new Code of Conduct in Big Fish and Aladdin scribe and WGA activist John August. There hasn’t been an influx of new writer clients to Verve in the month since it became the first lit agency to sign the Code Of Conduct, maybe because…

Big Fish scribe and WGA activist John August has just signed with Verve. August had been with UTA most of his career. He has just tweeted out that despite expressing the sentiment he would give his agent his kidney and still would, he still made the move. August’s most recent credit is the Disney event film Aladdin; …

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker David M. Rosenthal has inked with Verve. Rosenthal directed the recent remake of the cult 1990 Jacob’s Ladder. Vertical Entertainment took U.S. rights recently to the LD Entertainment movie and it will hit DISH in an exclusive July window before hitting theaters in August. In Rosenthal's Jacob's La…

EXCLUSIVE: Verve has signed filmmaker Takashi Doscher, the writer and director behind the Freida Pinto and Leslie Odom Jr. starring sci-fi romance film, Only, which had its world premiere at this year’s Tribeca fest. The pic centers on a couple whose future together becomes threatened when an unknown contagion breaks…

EXCLUSIVE: Manal Hammad has joined Verve as a TV literary agent, the first announced agent hire at the company since it signed the WGA’s Code of Conduct last month, making it the biggest lit agency to sign the code since it was implemented in April. Hammad comes from Abrams Artists Agency, a member of the Association…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has paid mid- to high-six figures for Don’t Go in the Water, a Peter Gaffney spec script that has 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Levine and Lit Entertainment’s Adam Kolbrenner producing with Adam Rodin. Script, being called a suspenseful monster movie, is the first spec deal for Verve since…

EXCLUSIVE: Leah Remini, the host and creative force behind A&E’s Emmy-winning docu series Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, has signed with Verve for producing with an emphasis on unscripted programming. Remini recently left APA, which represented her in all areas. Verve signed Remini and her No Seriously…

UPDATED with WGA statement, 1:05 PM: The WGA's new agreement with the Verve talent agency "could substantially and negatively affect both writer income and writer privacy" and "should be of serious concern to agencies of all sizes and, more important, their writer clients," according to a legal analysis by Latham…