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CAA Promotes Two to Executive, 14 to Agents
Major talent agency giant CAA has promoted 16 rising employees to agent or executives. Khalil Roberts becomes an executive in the agency’s book department after he joined CAA in 2019 as a receptionist, and most recently served as a coordinator. And London-based Sarah Phillips, who also joined the agency in 2019, has been upped to […]
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Terrence Howard Sues CAA Over ‘Empire’ Salary
Terrence Howard is suing CAA for an alleged conflict of interest in the agency’s dealings over his compensation on Empire. In the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, Howard alleges his agents who packaged the deal with Fox prioritized the interests of themselves and the show’s producers, which it also represented, by […]
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CAA Power Agent Risa Gertner to Retire
Longtime Creative Artists Agency motion picture agent Risa Gertner is set to retire, the firm announced Wednesday. After around 27 years at CAA, she will depart the talent agency after it acquired a new majority owner in Jan. 2024. Gertner’s A-list talent roster includes Tony Gilroy, Barry Jenkins, Kenya Barris, Ron Howard and Simon Kinberg. […]
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“Anti-Racist” Dinner Party Hosts Say CAA Dropped Them Over Israel “Genocide” Rhetoric
CAA has dropped a pair of female BIPOC entrepreneurs who’ve gained attention in recent years for holding “anti-racist” dinner parties for an affluent white women audience, according to one of the founders who says they offended their agent with their vocal support for Palestine following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. […]
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CAA Leaders Outline Ambitious Expansion: An Investment Bank to Fuel Big Deals
There’s a lot of dealmaking to come in the entertainment, sports and media sectors over the coming years, and CAA wants to take a bigger slice of that pie. On Monday, the Artemis-owned talent agency announced a new venture: CAA Evolution, an investment bank and advisory firm focused on sports, entertainment and media clients, one […]
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CAA’s Music City Office to Relocate to Nashville Yards
Creative Artists Agency has signed an agreement to move its rapidly growing Nashville office to a new luxury development downtown in late 2025, the company announced Monday. CAA’s Music City headquarters is home to more than 130 employees across music, digital media, sports, brand consulting, property sales and CAA ICON, which is a strategic management […]
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Maha’s Problematic Post: Can Hollywood Move On?
Last November, CAA held a town hall on antisemitism, part of a series hosted through CAA’s Amplify Presents program, described as “a network of changemakers” working toward “systemic change for communities of color.” The program was introduced by agent Maha Dakhil, who said it was “focused on fighting antisemitism and promoting allyship.” Next up was […]
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CAA Global Brand Consulting Signs T-Mobile
CAA Brand Consulting is now the sports and entertainment agency of record for T-Mobile and will advise the company on partnership activations and talent management, the mobile giant announced on Friday. “Sports and entertainment sponsorships play a big part in how we bring the un-carrier story to life for consumers — and as T-Mobile has […]
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CAA’s Ted Chervin Says ‘Ted Lasso’ Impact Is “A Great Lesson in the Power of Entertainment to Influence Sports”
CAA’s Ted Chervin joined The Hollywood Reporter senior business editor Ashley Cullins on Wednesday for a keynote conversation at THR’s annual Power Business Managers event to discuss the intertwining of Hollywood and the sports world. Chervin acknowledged that there’s been a breakdown of barriers between sports and entertainment, and even within entertainment itself, because of […]
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Aaron Sorkin Drops CAA After Maha Dakhil’s Israel-Hamas Post: “She’s Just Wrong”
Aaron Sorkin has dropped CAA and returned to WME over a post critical of Israel made by its co-chief of the motion pictures department, Maha Dakhil. “Maha isn’t an antisemite, she’s just wrong. She’s a great agent, and I’m very proud of the work we did together over the last six years. I’m excited to be […]
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Why Ari Emanuel Can’t Help Himself
Oops, he did it again. At 62, Ari Emanuel is now lord and master (or more precisely, CEO) of not one but two publicly held companies. Still, he could not resist bashing his longtime rivals at CAA when presented with a mic at the Bloomberg Screentime conference. And those weren’t the only comments that made […]
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CAA’s Bryan Lourd Fires Back at Ari Emanuel: He’s “Erratic” and “Self-Serving”
CAA chairman and CEO Bryan Lourd has responded to his longtime agency competitor Ari Emanuel. Emanuel on Wednesday criticized CAA — and specifically Lourd and his colleague Kevin Huvane — over a lawsuit accusing the agency of being complicit in Harvey Weinstein’s crimes. Emanuel said that Lourd should step aside pending an independent investigation. “Look, […]
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