What I’m Hearing: CAA’s Twin Crises & Ari’s Take-Private Endgame

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Events P.S.A.: Wednesday night I hosted the first of my new off-the-record Leadership Series receptions in L.A. with Tendo Nagenda, producer and former Netflix and Disney film executive. Thanks to everyone who came out for a fun evening, thanks to Manatt and Max for sponsoring, and thanks to the team at Puck for producing a great event. We’ll do more of these.

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The Best-Laid Plans of Ari and Bryan

Amid the labor strikes and diminishing Hollywood economics, Ari Emanuel’s Endeavor may go private and Bryan Lourd’s CAA is dealing with twin scandals—a series of events that have forced the super-agent arch-rivals to press pause on their coronations.

MATTHEW BELLONI

Earlier this week, I was chatting with a pretty veteran CAA agent who was trying to convince me how disgusting it was that rivals WME and UTA had been calling clients to ask if they were still comfortable with their representatives. He was referring, of course, to the fallout from...

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