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WME has upped Becky Gardenhire to co-head of the Nashville office where she will work alongside current co-heads Scott Clayton, Joey Lee and Jay Williams. The new position makes Gardenhire the highest-ranking female leader at any Nashville based agency. In her new role, she will oversee WME's day-to-day operations in…

WME has filed a motion to dismiss the WGA's counterclaims in a federal antitrust lawsuit in which the guild is asking the court to declare that agency packaging fees are illegal. The WGA East and West and several writers sued the Big 4 talent agencies in April, but last month the WGA withdrew its claims and refiled the…

EXCLUSIVE: WME just signed Nick Rowland, one of the emerging directors coming out of the Toronto Film Festival. Rowland’s first feature, Calm With Horses, made its debut last weekend. The film stars Barry Keoghan, Cosmo Jarvis and Niamh Algar. It was produced by Daniel Emmerson at DMC Film and co-produced by Element…

EXCLUSIVE: Marlon Wayans has signed with WME. The news comes as he most recently took on seven lead roles in Netflix's Sextuplets, a comedy he also wrote and produced that bowed on the streaming service in August. He next will be seen in Sofia Coppola and Apple-A24's On the Rocks, opposite Bill Murray and Rashida…

EXCLUSIVE: David Duchovny, who has headlined two successful TV series, The X-Files and Californication, has signed with WME. He was most recently with ICM Partners. Duchovny  recently reprised his Golden Globe-winning role as Special Agent Mulder on Fox’s X-Files revival, which aired for two seasons, bringing the hit…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Bloodline and Captain Marvel actor Ben Mendelsohn for representation in all areas. Mendelsohn can be seen next in David Michôd’s dramatic feature The King at Netflix opposite Timothée Chalamet and Robert Pattinson. He will also appear in Shannon Murphy's dramedy Babyteeth. Both are set to…

EXCLUSIVE: Seems Hollywood's top legal mandarin has hit a raw nerve with the re-election seeking head of the WGA West and the latter wants the former to stay in his lane. "Ken Ziffren is an experienced lawyer, which means there are some things he should know and some things he fully understands that he can’t know,"…

"Seeing the handwriting on the wall, two days ago the WGA dismissed without prejudice its state court case against the four agencies and simultaneously filed a counterclaim to the suit that was brought against three of the agencies for antitrust violations on the part of the guild," Ken Ziffren said Wednesday as he…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Kristen Stewart for representation in all areas. During the beginning of her career, Stewart starred in films like Panic Room and Cold Creek Manor before breaking out in the wildly popular Twilight franchise. She has shown her range in a diverse array of films including The Runaways, Adventure…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Luis Gerardo Méndez, who is on the rise after starring in and executive producing Netflix’s first Spanish-language original series Club de Cuervos and recently broke out on the streamer’s Adam Sandler-Jennifer Aniston movie Murder Mystery. The move comes as Méndez shoots the Focus Features fil…

The talent agencies had a greatly reduced presence at the May upfronts. Amid stalled negotiations between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents, which broke off in April with no deal, triggering the firing of agents by more than 7,000 writers, most agency parties were canceled or dramatically scaled back. As…

BREAKING: WME just signed Matthew McConaughey, the Oscar-winning actor. McConaughey had been at CAA, and his move follows the exit of his longtime agent Jim Toth, who left for a big job at Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi in March. McConaughey won his Oscar for 2013’s Dallas Buyers Club, and his credits include Dazed and Con…