Agents at uta

EXCLUSIVE : Shawn Naim has joined UTA as in agent in the TV Talent department. He comes from the A3 Artists Agency where he spent the last seven years. Naim started in the mailroom of A3 (then Abrams Artists Agency) in 2015 upon graduating from college and was promoted to an agent in 2017. Throughout his career as talent agent to date, Naim has emphasized working with inclusive and emerging talent. He has represented such actors as Angus Cloud ( Euphoria ), Richa Moorjani ( Never Have I Ever, Fargo ), Josiah Cross ( A Thousand and One, Lady in the Lake ), Maddison Jaizani ( Nancy Drew ), among others. This marks the third A3 talent agent to leave in the last week or so after a lengthy tenure. Naim joins Pamela Fisher and Justin Baxter who both became managers. … [Read more...] about A3 Talent Agent Shawn Naim Joins UTA

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed award-winning actor, director, writer and producer Steve Buscemi and his Olive Productions banner for representation in all areas. Buscemi currently co-stars opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the TBS anthology comedy series Miracle Workers that’s executive produced by Lorne Michaels. He starred in the HBO drama, Boardwalk Empire , which earned him a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy nominations. He was also nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Emmy for his role as Tony Blundetto in season five of The Sopranos and was nominated for Guest Actor Emmy nominations for his appearances on NBC’s 30 Rock and IFC’s Portlandia . Some of his film credits include Martin Scorsese’s New York Stories ; Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train for which he received an IFP Spirit Award Nomination; Alexandre Rockwell’s Sundance Film Festival Jury Award-winner In the Soup ; Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island ; and many of … [Read more...] about Steve Buscemi Signs With UTA

EXCLUSIVE : Anonymous Content and Federation Studios have appointed UBBA agent Rosalie Cimino as MD and producer for Anonymous Federation, their French joint venture. She will lead the JV alongside Pascal Breton, Lionel Uzan and Patrick Wachsberger on behalf of Federation, and Dawn Olmstead, David Levine and David Davoli on behalf of Anonymous Content. Ciminio begins her new role effective January 30. Among projects already underway, she is working on Veerle Baetens’s new film. The actress and director’s first movie, When It Melts , is currently in competition at Sundance in the World Drama category . Cimino was a talent agent and partner at French talent agency UBBA since 2010 and before that spent eight years at agency Intertalent. She has repped or worked closely with talent including Matthias Schoenaerts, Mélanie Thierry, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Albert Dupontel, François-Xavier Demaison, Alexandra Lamy, Jérémie Guez, Coralie Fargeat, Anouk Grinberg, Nadine … [Read more...] about Anonymous/Federation Appoints UBBA Agent Rosalie Cimino As Managing Director In Paris

EXCLUSIVE : Christina Hall , star of numerous HGTV series, launched her own production company, Unbroken, last year, and she’s starting to bolster her slate. Hall, whose latest series Christina in the Country launched last week, and her husband Josh Hall teamed with Nancy Glass’s Glass Entertainment Group, the company behind Frozen In Time , to launch Unbroken Productions . Unbroken will work alongside Glass Entertainment banner Balthazar Entertainment, which produces Christina in the Country as well as Christina on the Coast , which launched its third season in December, on future series. The first new series to emerge out of this partnership is Coastal Crazy Rich Agents , which features Keven Stirdiv, who along with his family, owns KASE Real Estate in Southern California, which sold over $365 million in real estate last year. Coastal Crazy Rich Agents follows Keven, a former pro-skateboarder, and his family as they run their lavish and fast-paced … [Read more...] about HGTV Star Christina Hall Preps OC Real Estate Series As She Bolsters Her Own Unbroken Production Slate

CAA had the most clients on the 2017 Black List of the top unproduced screenplays in town, while Grandview took the same honor among management companies. The totals were tallied after The Black List organization released their annual rankings this morning. The field seemed more spread out than usual this year, with four agencies scoring 10 or more mentions on the annual list, with UTA taking bragging rights to the voting leader, Matthew Firpo and Ryan Firpo’s Ruin . WME and Verve had 12 mentions apiece, and UTA 10. On the management side, five companies — Grandview, Madhouse Entertainment , Kaplan/Perrone, Lee Stobby Entertainment and Bellevue Productions — had more than four clients among the 76 overall screenplays that made the cut this year. Here’s this year’s tally: Nominations By Agency* CAA – 17 Nominations By Management Company* Grandview – 9 * – Shared representation counted as 1/2-point. Note: Not all screenwriters have and … [Read more...] about Who Reps The Black List 2017 Scripts: The Charts

Jack Cutmore-Scott ( Kingsman, Deception ) has been tapped to star opposite Kelsey Grammer in Frasier , Paramount+’s sequel series to the classic NBC sitcom. Cutmore-Scott will play Frasier Crane’s son Freddy. Also cast in the followup as a series regular is British actor Nicholas Lyndhurst who will play Alan Cornwall, a university professor who is an old college friend of Frasier’s. In the new Frasier series, Frasier (Grammer) is off to a different city with new challenges to face, new relationships to forge, and an old dream or two to finally fulfill. Charming and handsome, Frasier’s son Freddy (Cutmore-Scott) is a nuanced combination of his father and grandfather. Years ago, Freddy rejected following in his father’s footsteps—dropping out of college to become a fireman—and he’s never looked back until now, when recent troubles have left him with no one to turn to in his life. If they can overcome past differences, Freddy and Frasier might finally have a chance to repair … [Read more...] about ‘Frasier’: Jack Cutmore-Scott To Play Frasier’s Son Freddy In Sequel For Paramount+

Tosin Cole was larking about on the set of the Warner Bros House Party reboot in Los Angeles when an email dropped from casting director Kim Coleman ( BlacKkKlansman ) about Emmett Till ’s story. “I was like, ‘I’m filming for months non stop, I want to go home,’ ” he recalls thinking. “They wanted me to go for Medgar Evers , and I was like, ‘I don’t know who that is. Let me think about it.’ “ His agent brought him up short telling him, “No, you got to do it. At least send a tape.” “I was like, ‘I’m doing night shifts in LA. I don’t know when I’ll have time,’ ” he worried. That’s when Barbara Broccoli, an executive producer of UAR’s Till , zinged him a message saying, “We’d love to have you on board, if you can.” That missive sharpened Cole’s mind. Besides overseeing the James Bond universe with Michael G. Wilson, Broccoli’s active in theater and independent film production. She supported Debbie Tucker Green’s play Ear for Eye when it played London’s … [Read more...] about ‘Till’ Star Tosin Cole: From Larking About In The ‘House Party’ Reboot To Portraying A Civil Rights Legend

The award-winning documentary Navalny could be crowned with an Oscar nomination later this month, but the man whose story is told in it has never seen the film. Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, remains behind bars under a lengthy sentence after daring to criticize President Vladimir Putin. “For me, that’s a very bitter part of this,” director Daniel Roher tells Deadline. “It’s very sad that he hasn’t gotten to see the film. One thing I always think of with Navalny is how enthusiastic he was about being a film subject. He’s a very curious man and he’s very, very curious about the filmmaking process… I certainly hope I’ll get to show it to him one day.” The documentary from CNN Films unfolds like a political thriller, investigating the poisoning plot in August 2020 that nearly cost Navalny his life. The charismatic politician gained a big following in Russia by campaigning against corruption by oligarchs, government officials and Putin himself (as long … [Read more...] about Real-Life Thriller: Top Oscar Contender ‘Navalny’ Investigates Poisoning Of Russian Opposition Leader

Seven premiering productions will compete for the Berlinale Series Award next month, with one further world exclusive launch screening out of competition. The winner of the Berlinale Series Award , which was created in cooperation with Deadline, will be chosen on at a presentation ceremony taking place on Wednesday, February 22, by an international jury consisting of actor André Holland ( The Eddy ; Bones and All; Moonlight ); international exec Dana Stern, who founded Shtisel, and Your Honor firm Yes Studios; and screenwriter Mette Heeno, who created Splitting Up Together and Snow Angels . In its ninth edition, the Berlin Film Festival TV screenings will in total present eight world and international premieres, with projects from India, China, Italy and Romania included from the likes of Disney+ and HBO Max. Among those fronting these shows are Silver Bear winner Zhang Dalei, who returns to Berlin after winning for his short Day is Done in 2020, and … [Read more...] about Berlinale Series Unveils Eight World Premieres & TV Jury

Brian Tufano , the veteran British cinematographer who lensed films such as Trainspotting , Shallow Grave , and Billy Elliot , has died. He was 83. Tufano’s agents at McKinney Macartney Management confirmed the news with Deadline. Jon Wardle, Director of the UK’s National Film and Television School, where Tufano was previously a department head, also shared a tribute to the cinematographer on Twitter. “Very sorry to have to share that Cinematography legend and former @NFTSFilmTV Head of Department Brian Tufano has died,” the Tweet read. “He shot so many amazing films and did so much to champion new talent, in particular female DPs. We loved him and will REALLY miss him.” Tufano was born in Shepherd’s Bush, West London, in 1939. He first entered the film industry in 1956 as a pageboy at Lime Grove Studios, a former BBC film and TV studio. Tufano later landed a technical apprenticeship at the public broadcaster, where he went on to spend over 20 years as a … [Read more...] about Brian Tufano Dies: Veteran ‘Trainspotting’ & ‘Billy Elliot’ Cinematographer Was 83