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EXCLUSIVE:  WME has signed Golden Globe winner Gina Rodriguez and her production company I Can and I Will Productions, run by Molly Breeskin, in all areas. The Jane the Virgin actress was previously at CAA. Rodriguez played the title role in the CW series Jane the Virgin for 100 episodes, winning a Golden Globe for…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed comedian, performer, advocate and writer Jenny Yang. Yang is currently an executive story editor on Fox’s Last Man Standing and serves as co-host of Freeform's flagship podcast A Little Forward. She also worked as a performer and writer for Busy Phillip's Busy Tonight on E!. She is also the…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed writer-director Tina Mabry, who is best known for helming the 2009 critically acclaimed film Mississippi Damned starring Tessa Thompson. Mabry is currently attached to co-write and direct Edward Kelsey Moore's New York Times bestseller The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat at Searchlight…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed writer-director-actress Carlson Young, who is fresh off of the Sundance premiere of her feature directorial debut, The Blazing World. Based on Young's 2018 Sundance short of the same name, the film follows a self-destructive young woman who decades after the accidental drowning of her twin…

The WGA's long-running legal battle to reshape the talent agency business is now officially over. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge André Birotte Jr., who oversaw the case, granted a request by the WGA and WME to voluntarily dismiss their antitrust suits, bringing the case to a close with the words, "It is so…

EXCLUSIVE: WME and Anonymous Content have signed young actor Taylor Zakhar Perez, who is coming off of a breakout role on the Vince Marcello-helmed hit Netflix franchise The Kissing Booth. Based on the YA novel by Beth Reekles, the teen rom-com follows the romantic adventures of Elle, played by Joey King, her bad-boy…

WME has dropped Armie Hammer as a client, Deadline confirmed Friday, the latest fallout from the actor’s controversial social media posts that were leaked online. The news today comes after Hammer exited roles in a pair of projects. He was set to co-star opposite Jennifer Lopez in Lionsgate’s film Shotgun Wedding, but…

UPDATED with statements and WGA West letter to members: The WGA has won its historic campaign to reshape the talent agency business, signing WME – the last agency holdout – to its franchise agreement today. All the major agencies now have signed the agreement, which will return them to a 10% commissioning business…

Consequences for Morgan Wallen continue to roll in as WME confirmed that it had dropped the country singer after a video of him saying the N-word made the rounds on the internet. The agency’s retaliation adds to the growing list of actions previously taken by Viacom’s CMT and the singer’s former label Big Loud…

A federal judge has granted the WGA and WME's request for a six-month postponement of their anti-trust trial, which had been set to start on August 24. It's now been pushed back to Feb. 22, 2022. The two sides said in a court filing earlier this week that they sought the delay "to have time to focus on settlement…

The WGA and WME have agreed to a six-month postponement of the trial their long-running anti-trust lawsuits against each other, saying in court filings that they "wish to have time to focus on settlement talks without jeopardizing the overall litigation schedule." They also noted that "certain discovery disputes…

WME says it's in "substantive discussions" with the WGA to end their 21-month battle over packaging fees and the agency's affiliation with a related production entity, Endeavor Content. "We are currently in substantive discussions with the WGA to resolve the ongoing dispute," Endeavor president Mark Shapiro said in a…