With the upfront week upon us, here again is Deadline’s list of events: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MAY 6: Between industry consolidation and the standoff between the Writers Guild and Association of talent agents, this year’s upfront week will feature the fewest presentations and parties in recent memory. TV lit agents…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed David Goggins, the retired NAVY Seal and author of Can't Hurt Me, his self-published book that details his transformation from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world’s top endurance athletes. He will be repped by a team of agents…

EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, whose feature writing and directing debut The Peanut Butter Falcon won the SXSW Audience Award this spring when it had its world premiere in Austin, have signed with WME. Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson toplined Peanut Butter Falcon, a drama that centered on a young man…

Good Friday has put Hollywood on pause for tomorrow, but today the Writers Guild said it has a very big Easter delivery for the uberagencies coming on Monday. It’s been nearly a week after talks completely broke down between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents over the new anti-packaging Agency Code of…

(UPDATED with WGA statement) Hours after the WGA launched its expected anti-packaging lawsuit this morning against the Big 4 agencies, representatives for UTA, WME, CAA and ICM Partners hit back in a dispute that has Hollywood on the precipice. “This development is ironic given that the Guild itself has agreed to the…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Marianne Elliott, director of Broadway’s Angels in America and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time as well as the recent Olivier Award-winning West End revival of the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical Company, for representation in all areas. Elliott’s 2018 Broadway staging…

For a second time in three years, the talent agencies find themselves in an awkward situation heading into the May upfronts. And this time, it may result in the cancellation of most agency parties. The same time in 2017, the major agencies were planning their soirees under the threat of a WGA strike as the guild was…

EXCLUSIVE: Kathryn Newton has inked with WME for representation in all areas. Newton is known for her role as Abigail on HBO's Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning series Big Little Lies and will reprise her role in the second season airing in June. On the film side, she starred in Universal's comedy Blockers for Kay Cannon…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed writer-director team Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, a week after Deadline scooped that they are attached to their feature film writing and helming debut, an untitled pic at Lionsgate that will star Janelle Monáe. The agency will rep the duo in all areas. The pair, who as Bush + Renz…

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Baldoni, the Jane the Virgin co-star whose feature film directorial debut Five Feet Apart hit theaters last weekend, has signed with WME and Management 360. Five Feet Apart, the romantic drama starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse as teenagers with terminal illnesses who meet at the hospital…

With a week to go before WGA members begin voting on a new code of conduct that act as a fatal silver bullet through the heart of the agencies' lucrative packaging plans, UTA tried to strap on a new Kevlar vest of data Wednesday. In a pithy 10-page TV Writing Data Analysis released this morning seeking to shatter the…

EXCLUSIVE: With the clock ticking on the April 6 end of the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents' franchise agreement and a March 27 starting vote by guild members on a new Code of Conduct that could see packaging kicked to the curb, WME's President last night offered the agency’s clients a very blunt assessment…