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EXCLUSIVE: Television producers Dana Eden and Shula Spiegel and their production company Donna and Shula Productions have signed with CAA. The duo are best known for producing Tehran, the first international series purchased and produced by Apple TV+. The second season of Tehran premiered in May, shortly after its…

EXCLUSIVE: Former NBCUniversal executive John Pollak and actor, producer, and activist Wilmer Valderrama have launched Allied Management Group, which focuses on partnering with, collaborating, and representing new and existing Latino voices across traditional and digital media. Pollak and Valderrama are co-founders…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran talent agent Matt Jackson has joined MSA Agency as Vice President of the West Coast Theatrical Division, as the agency expands into representation of actors in TV and film. MSA Agency was founded in 2000 by Julie McDonald and Tony Selznick as a creative talent agency representing dancers…

Emmy winner Brett Goldstein, who plays the hot-tempered but bookish star-player-turned-coach Roy Kent on Ted Lasso and also serves as writer and co-executive producer on the series, has signed with WME for representation. Goldstein’s performance as Roy Kent won him the 2021 Emmy Award and 2022 Critics Choice Award for…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-writer-producer Liz Vassey has signed with BRS/Gage for representation in all acting areas. Vassey has appeared as a regular or recurring character on 12 series including ER, Two and a Half Men, Maximum Bob, Necessary Roughness, Brotherly Love, Fox's live action version of The Tick, and The Tick…

It has been a long goodbye for packaging since the WGA and the major agencies’ new franchise agreements, signed in 2020-21 after an epic fight, included a “phase-in of packaging fee prohibition” period that ends tonight. But while for the WGA “it's the end of new packages on guild-covered projects going forward,” per…

The WGA's historic reshaping of the talent agency business will take full effect at the end of business today, after which agency packaging fees will no longer be permitted under the guild's franchise agreement. "The agency campaign was founded on the simple truth that agents are our fiduciaries," said WGA West…

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Majors has signed with WME, reuniting with his first agent Elan Ruspoli at the agency. He is currently in production on Magazine Dreams, in which he stars and serves as an executive producer on the project under his Tall Street Productions. Majors will play a Black amateur bodybuilder who struggles…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 has signed Rainn Wilson. Wilson is Emmy-nominated and a SAG Award winner best known for his scene-stealing role as Dwight on The Office. He is currently in production on Geography of Bliss, a six-part travel docuseries in which he travels around the world to discover the happiest places on Earth. He…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Nigerian-American filmmaker Julius Onah (Luce) for representation. Onah is best known for his 2019 Neon drama Luce, based on J.C. Lee’s play of the same name, in which parents Amy (Naomi Watts) and Peter (Tim Roth) are forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son (Kelvin Harrison…

EXCLUSIVE: Myles Frost, the moonwalking star of Broadway’s MJ The Musical who recently, at age 22, became one of the youngest-ever recipients of the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, has signed with UTA in all areas. UTA will help expand Frost’s career across a variety of verticals, including film…

EXCLUSIVE:  Writer-director Bryan Bertino has inked with WME. Bertino's movie The Dark and The Wicked premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival in 2020 and was met with rave reviews, notching 91% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. In The Dark and The Wicked, two siblings, who are plagued by waking…