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WME

Matthew Belloni • November 5, 2024

Paramount’s Deal Dance, Costner’s Hubris & Clint’s Revenge

News and thoughts from my notebook on Bob Iger's campaign no-show, Amazon's post-election nail-biter, and initial takeaways from a key SEC filing in David Ellison's takeover of the Redstone empire.
Matthew Belloni • October 4, 2024
CAA’s Scare Tactics
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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.
Matthew Belloni • September 17, 2024
The Plan to CAA-ify Talent Managers
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TPG leveraged its investment in an agency into a $7 billion sale and $2.4 billion return. Can it run the same playbook in the management space?
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Lauren Sherman • September 5, 2024
What Is Fashion Week Worth?
As Ari Emanuel and Silver Lake take Endeavor private, the operating assumption is that all the non-core assets (basically everything outside of live sports and representation) is on the table. A number of investors are kicking the tires on New York Fashion Week. But what are they actually buying? (Plus, some news on The Row mystery…)
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Matthew Belloni • August 16, 2024
Ari Emanuel vs. Casey Wasserman: Behind the Poaching of Billie Eilish
The tabloid drama preceding Billie and Finneas ditching the Wasserman talent agency for WME has exacerbated an only-in-Hollywood frenemy feud between two of the industry’s biggest egos, with potentially major business repercussions.
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Lauren Sherman • May 9, 2024
The Plagemann Year
News and notes on the micro-controversy, real or imagined, stemming from Susan Plagemann’s restructuring of WME Fashion.
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.
Hollywood movie producer Amy Pascal.
Matthew Belloni • November 4, 2022
Why Ari Emanuel Banned Amy Pascal
Emanuel may be the C.E.O. of a public company, but he isn’t above putting the chill on an executive when they refer talent to Bryan Lourd.
Endeavor president Mark Shapiro.
Matthew Belloni • October 16, 2022
Mark Shapiro on Endeavor’s Ultimate Fight
The president of the multi-tentacled entertainment giant discusses the future of live sports, talent representation, all those acquisitions, the streaming economy, UFC, CAA, the company’s post-I.P.O. dip, Ari’s vision, and much more.
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Dylan Byers • July 22, 2022
The Tao of Ari’s Abs & Licht’s Deck Chairs
Notes on the yacht-hosing photo of our age, the latest dish on Apple’s battle with Amazon over N.F.L. rights, and the Chris Licht narrative shift.