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The 'Masked Singer' judge has linked up with his new agency in all areas. Robin Thicke has signed with ICM Partners in all areas, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. He was previously with UTA. The R&B singer is currently a judge on Fox's hit competition series The Masked Singer, now in its second season. His 16-year solo music career includes multiple gold and platinum certifications, peaking with 2013's diamond single "Blurred Lines," featuring T.I. and Pharrell. The song earned Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and spent 12 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Meanwhile, its corresponding album of the same name was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammys and also spent some time at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. (Thicke has two previous Grammy nominations for Album of the Year for producing Usher's Confessions and Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, also featuring as an artist on the latter.) Earlier this year, Thicke … [Read more...] about Robin Thicke Exits UTA for ICM Partners

EXCLUSIVE: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actress Madisen Beaty has joined Suki Waterhouse and Inanna Sarkis in horror Seance, which has been shooting in Canada. Simon Barrett’s (V/H/S) feature is set in an all-girls boarding school haunted by a vengeful spirit. Beaty will play Bethany, a top student at the school who joins the girls in holding a seance. Waterhouse leads as Camille, a young woman who arrives at the school after a student’s sudden and untimely death and must play detective to solve the mystery. Dark Castle, HanWay and Ingenious are jointly producing with Addictive Pictures’ John Schoenfelder, Russell Ackerman (Hold The Dark) and Tomas Deckaj. Adam Wingard (Godzilla vs Kong) and Alex Mace are also producing and Hal Sadoff is executive producing for Dark Castle. Based on a screenplay by Barrett, the project marks the third collaboration between the filmmaker and HanWay who have also worked closely on Barrett’s scripts The … [Read more...] about ‘Seance’: ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Actress Madisen Beaty Joins Suki Waterhouse & Inanna Sarkis In Horror

Robin Thicke, a five-time Grammy award nominee, actor, and one of the stars of The Masked Singer has inked a deal with ICM Partners for representation in all areas, the agency announced Wednesday. Thicke launched his solo music career in 2003, and two years later he found commercial success with the chart-topping ballad “Lost Without U.” He reached international success in 2013 with the hit “Blurred Lines.” The platinum-selling track featuring feat. T.I. & Pharrell, climbed to #1 on the Billboard Top 200. The single also made history when it sat at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks. In the aftermath, Thicke became “the first artist to simultaneously occupy #1 on the Hot 100 and Top 200 since 2012.” While “Blurred Lines” became a smash hit, it also sparked a years-long copyright infringement battle with Marvin Gaye’s estate. Thicke has since moved on, and earlier this year released the single “That’s … [Read more...] about Musician And ‘The Masked Singer’ Star Robin Thicke Signs With ICM Partners

Joel Lubin, a member of the host committee for this weekend's Art Los Angeles Contemporary, is adding artists to his roster of megastars (including Tom Cruise and David Oyelowo) as the industry increasingly values the clout and creative cred of collecting. In 2011, Joel Lubin, co-head of CAA's motion picture talent department, bought his first painting. He hadn't intended to start collecting art but was introduced to artist Alex Israel by a mutual friend — former actress-model China Chow — around the time she was hosting Bravo's art-world reality competition Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. Israel, who has since become one of the L.A. art world's most in-demand figures, was looking for help booking talent on his own show, the web interview series As It Lays, a sly satire of Hollywood and celebrity. Lubin, who ended up helping to identify some talent for the show, got to know Israel and found his artistic process intriguing. "The art world felt really opaque to me, and I … [Read more...] about How a CAA Agent Is Leading the Charge in Hollywood’s Art Boom