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Comedian Chris Rock has signed with WME for representation in all areas including acting, directing, comedy touring, books, and more. Rock had been in play since December when his longtime agent Eddy Yablans was impacted by the CAA layoffs. (Yablans subsequently joined management company LBI Ente…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor, filmmaker, singer, and writer Dyllón Burnside has signed with Artists First for management. Known for his starring role as 'Ricky Evangelista' on all 3 seasons of Ryan Murphy's Emmy-nominated FX series, Pose, Burnside is a frequent collaborator of Murphy's. He also starred in…

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Zovatto has signed with Gersh for representation. Zovatto can most recently be seen starring opposite Anna Kendrick in her directorial debut, Woman of ther Hour, for Netflix. He was also recently seen in The Pope’s Exorcist opposite Russell Crowe from director Julius Avery…

EXCLUSIVE: Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect multihyphenate Rebel Wilson has inked with the United Talent Agency for representation. The news comes in the wake of Wilson making her feature directorial debut, the musical, The Deb, at TIFF which garnered 80% fresh with critics on Rotten Tomatoes. The…

Innovative Artists Entertainment has received a strategic investment from Los Angeles-based private equity firm Coral Tree Partners. Coral Tree takes a minority stake in the agency, which will continue to be led by Innovative Founder and CEO Scott Harris and his management team. The investment from…

EXCLUSIVE: Authentic Talent and Literary Management has a new banner signing, or three. The company has signed Patricia Heaton and David Hunt and their production company FourBoys Entertainment. The Middle and Everybody Loves Raymond star and Hunt, who has appeared in series such as 24, Home…

EXCLUSIVE: Ennis Esmer has signed with Buchwald for representation. The actor is best known for his role in CTV's Children Ruin Everything, for which he earned back-to-back Canadian Screen Awards for Best Supporting Role in a Comedy. He currently recurs in The CW's Sight Unseen. Elsewhere…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress, singer, producer and director Emmy Rossum has signed with WME for representation. Rossum's performance in the indie musical feature Songcatcher (2000) earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance. For her portrayal of ‘Christine’ in the Joel…

Rising star Shiraz Tzarfati has signed with Gersh. Tzarfati is an emerging talent in the entertainment industry who is poised to break out in Prime Video's The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, the anticipated spinoff of the popular series The Terminal List that hits the streaming service later this…

EXCLUSIVE: Manager Jared Ceizler has joined Brillstein Entertainment Partners from MGMT Entertainment. Among the filmmaking, writing and acting clients following him to BEP is filmmaker Lee Cronin (Evil Dead Rise), along with his production company Doppelgängers, which has a first-look deal…

EXCLUSIVE: Independent Artist Group has signed Purple Intuition, a full-service production company that specializes in producing equitable content with and for marginalized individuals. The collaboration between IAG and producers, Marie Alyse Rodriguez and Edgar Lacey Rosa, seeks to elevate the…

EXCLUSIVE: Independent Artist Group has signed showrunner, writer and director Robert Munic in all areas. Munic has created, executive produced and written multiple successful series including Power Book IV: Force on Starz, Ice for Direct TV and The Cleaner for A + E. In addition, Munic…