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EXCLUSIVE: Longtime talent agent Sharon Jackson is leaving WME to become a manager. Details of which management firm she will be landing are still being worked out. Insiders say Jackson will remain at the agency till the end of the year. The veteran agent joined Endeavor from UTA in 2008.  She played a major role in…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Victor Fontanez aka VicBlends in all areas. The agency will build his business across non-scripted TV, podcasting, speaking, brand partnerships, licensing and beyond. Fontanez is a 22-year-old barber and entrepreneur who has grown his side hustle from cutting hair in his mom's garage to…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has hired Elan Ruspoli as a Partner in the Talent department and the hiring is effective immediately. Ruspoli comes to WME from CAA and was a home grown talent and rising star who worked with such clients as Jonathan Majors, Daniel Kaluuya, Toni Collette, Corey Hawkins, Aaron Pierre, Henry Golding…

EXCLUSIVE: Max Harwood, who recently made his acting debut as the lead in Amazon’s adaptation of the stage musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie, has signed with WME for representation. In the film currently streaming on Prime Video, Harwood stars as the Sheffield high schooler determined to attend his prom in drag…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian, actor and podcaster Tom Segura has signed with WME for representation in all areas. Segura is best known for his Netflix specials Ball Hog (2020), Disgraceful (2018), Mostly Stories (2016), and Completely Normal (2014). While he’d planned to unveil an additional Spanish-language special on Netflix…

WME has inked stage director, playwright, screenwriter and librettist James Lapine in all areas. Lapine wrote the book for and directed Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Passion, and the multi-media revue Sondheim on Sondheim. He also directed Merrily We Roll Along, as part of Encores…

UPDATED with Endeavor Content comment:  As the sale of Endeavor Content draws nigh, executives from parent company Endeavor said conversations are ongoing with bidders that have been narrowed down to a short list. The upcoming sale of the scripted film and television content business was prompted by a prolonged…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed actor, director, writer, performer, and producer Eugene Lee Yang. In early 2018, he and the comedy quartet, The Try Guys, launched their own independent production company, amassing millions of followers with projects such as a bestselling book, an international live tour, and an upcoming…

Sheri Linzell, who has worked on deals for the likes of Forest Whitaker, Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott, has been promoted at WME. The business affairs executive becomes Head of Scripted Television Business Affairs at the talent agency. She will provide strategic guidance on structuring and negotiating television…

Maybe Jeremy Zimmer and Ari Emanuel need to take it to the octagon. "I thought about it, and I think it makes sense to me that he would not want to, cause we don't fit the profile of the kind of companies he buys," the UTA CEO said Thursday at the Adweek conference about Ari Emanuel's lack of interest in buying the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sylvie Rabineau and Jill Holwager Gillett sold their boutique Rabineau Wachter Sanford & Gillett Literary Agency to WME five years ago. At that time, the pair, who are now co-heads of WME's literary packaging division, were behind films such as The Girl on the Train and series including HBO's The…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed comedian Ricky Velez in all areas. Velez has an upcoming one-hour comedy special titled Ricky Velez: Here’s Everything—executive produced by himself, Judd Apatow, and Pete Davidson—debuting on Oct. 23 via HBO. On the acting front, the Queens native starred in (and co-produced) the 2020 film, T…