Mark Shapiro and Ioris Francini have been named Co-Presidents of WME | IMG. Shapiro previously served as Chief Content Officer and Francini had been President of IMG Media. As Co-Presidents, Shapiro and Francini will oversee the company's media, events, fashion (including IMG Models, Art + Commerce, and The Wall…

Troma has nabbed rights to Theatre Of The Deranged II and will release the film on Blu-ray and VOD on October 13. No DVD release is planned. The second installment of the anthology series is, as with the first, executive produced by James Cullen Bressack and Jarret Cohen at Psykik Junky Pictures. The movie showcases…

EXCLUSIVE: Paula Vogel, a prolific and engaging writer, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for her drama How I Learned To Drive, which co-starred Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse in a time-spanning play about a young girl’s relationship with her predatory uncle. Vogel currently is playwright in residence at the Yale…

William Morris Endeavor today filed a petition to get Tommy Lee Jones to pay the $1.95 million in commissions the state Labor Commissioner recently ruled the No Country For Old Men actor owes the agency. WME's filing today (read it here) with the California Superior Court arises out of the appeal the Oscar winner filed…

The No Country For Old Men actor today filed an appeal (read it here) of the state Labor Commissioner's recent ruling in favor of his former agency William Morris Endeavor. On October 1, the California State Labor Commissioner rejected Tommy Lee Jones' request to bar the agency’s recovery of $1.95 million in…

EXCLUSIVE: The final arbitration decision came down in mid-December and all sides have been operating under a  strict confidentiality clause. But real estate sources tell me that the Hollywood agency is paying on the low side of what the Beverly Hills commercial property community expected would be 8-figure…

If you can’t reach WME agents this week and think nobody’s working there, you’re not hallucinating. The tenpercentery is holding its retreat at La Costa resort starting Wednesday. Nice weather for it… — Where is WME holding its Golden Globes party this year? At new client Top Chef judge Tom Collichio’s Craft…

Ari Sandel (West Bank Story, which won the 2006 Academy Award for live action short) made this video for WME’s Talent Department. As you know, WME often puts together spoofs (‘Pinkberry: The Movie’ here) for its quarterly meetings. APA was first to forward it because it pokes fun at both WME and CAA. Starring Maz…

We all know that Ari Emanuel is an asshole, but we also thought he was at least a smart asshole. Because he decided to back out of the William Morris Agency’s commitment to lease that big blue Beverly Hills office building after Endeavor took over the venerable tenpercentery. Well, now that decision is biting him on…

Insiders are speculating the deal is worth upwards of $100 million: London / Los Angeles – June 28, 2011 – The Tinopolis Group and A. Smith & Co. Productions announced today that the two entities have joined forces by bringing A. Smith & Co. and its decade of success developing and producing some of the most notable…

EXCLUSIVE: There has been no internal announcement at WME about this. And the feeding frenzy has already started, with manager David Lonner’s phone ringing off the hook with calls from every major agency within minutes of Deadline first scooping the news. Because we’ve learned that Super 8 director JJ Abrams is taking…

EXCLUSIVE: Regis Philbin surprised the TV world with his announcement yesterday morning that he will be leaving Live with Regis and Kelly later this year. Well, it shouldn’t be inconceivable for someone pushing 80 to consider retirement, but the fact of the matter is that Philbin is not retiring. Far from it. He is…