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Bryan Lourd

David Ellison

At What Point Will Ellison Intervene at CBS News?

With ‘60 Minutes’ in chaos and star correspondent Lesley Stahl hiring superagent Bryan Lourd to guide her future, the Paramount owner may soon need to decide how much he’ll let Bari Weiss disrupt the show—and the news division—before reining her in.
Matthew Belloni • June 5, 2026
Matthew Belloni • April 10, 2026
The Science of Greta Gerwig’s CAA Poach
Greta Gerwig
The A-list Barbie and Narnia director recently left UTA—and her agent of nearly two decades—and provided a rare window into CAA’s playbook in the process.
Eriq Gardner • April 1, 2025
CAA’s $70 Million Question
Bryan Lourd
While its legal battle with Range Media grinds on, the talent agency was quietly handed a major setback in a legal subplot over the equity it allegedly owes to its ex-agents. Meanwhile, CAA’s lawyers are reprising their decade-old strategy from a previous conflict with UTA. The only winner in both cases? Bryan Freedman…
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Matthew Belloni • October 4, 2024
CAA’s Scare Tactics
An agency founded by a group of William Morris agents is now trying to shut down its own defectors over the legal definition of “talent managers.” But CAA’s battle with Range Media Partners isn’t just about preventing former agents from taking clients like Bradley Cooper to a new company.
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Eriq Gardner • August 21, 2024
CAA Hits the Mattresses Against Its Defectors
Bryan Lourd’s CAA is lobbing serious allegations at its former employees, accusing them of contract breaches, loyalty breaches, and tortious interference by coaxing clients and at-will employees to jump ship.
CAA leaders Bryan Lourd, Richard Lovett, and Kevin Huvane pulled off a coup in getting French billionaire François-Henri Pinault to buy out TPG’s stake in the agency.
Matthew Belloni • January 2, 2024
Hollywood’s Scrooge of the Year​​
It’s not the Villain of the Year award, but it’s a no less prestigious honor: This year’s inaugural Scrooge of the Year award goes to CAA leaders Bryan Lourd, Richard Lovett, and Kevin Huvane.
Endeavor’s Ari Emanuel and CAA’s Bryan Lourd.
Matthew Belloni • October 27, 2023
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.
British actress Julia Ormond sued the talent agency CAA for allegedly enabling Harvey Weinstein’s predatory abuse.
Matthew Belloni • October 6, 2023
The Harvey Weinstein Story That Hasn’t Been Told
Actress Julia Ormond’s lawsuit against CAA raises troubling issues about the alleged enabling of abuse in the pre-#MeToo era—murkier, both legally and ethically—and the key subjects are Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane, two of the most powerful agents in Hollywood.
In finding a synergistic private buyer in François-Henri Pinaul, whose $40 billion in assets include Kering and Christie’s, TPG managed to thread the needle.
Matthew Belloni • September 8, 2023
Parlez-Vous CAA?
A French fashion player announces himself in Hollywood as the talent agency’s private equity backers prove that, even if the sky appears to be falling, you can still make a lot of money in this town.
Netflix film chief Scott Stuber has passed on the rare opportunity to spend $150 million on a Nancy Meyers romantic comedy.
Matthew Belloni • March 17, 2023
Netflix Priced Itself Out of the Nancy Meyers Business
Backend “buyouts” allow streamers to compete with studios for top projects and A-level stars. But that system has ballooned up-front fees to the point where Netflix said no to a bankable filmmaker and her $150 million Scarlett Johansson movie.