Cal Boyington, a veteran TV talent and packaging agent at ICM Partners and Paradigm who co-founded Vital Artists Agency and also worked on The Osbournes and executive-produced TV series including Workaholics, died November 18 in Los Angeles. He was 53. His brother B.G. Dickey confirmed the news…

EXCLUSIVE: Former ICM Partners agent Justin Ongert has joined APA as SVP, Alternative & Factual Programming. He will be the department's key liaison with the talent, comedy, and music departments, reporting to Kyle Loftus, Head of Content Development and Hayden Meyer head of Alternative and Factual Programming at…

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Herold, who served as Partner and Head of Theater at ICM Partners for nearly two decades, has moved to UTA as an agent in the Theatre division. He will be based in New York and report to Partner & Head of Theatre, Mark Subias. Herold is the latest ICM agent to leave following the agency’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Kyle Jaeger has joined 2AM as a manager and will focus on representing emerging creators across film, television and theater. Jaeger spent the past six years at ICM Partners as an agent in the firm’s TV literary group. He was involved in the sale of numerous high-end development to FX, HBO Max and…

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Cohan has joined Brillstein Entertainment Partners as a manager. Cohan comes to the company from ICM Partners, where he worked in the Motion Picture Department since 2017, parting ways with the company following CAA’s acquisition. He was previously at WME for 11 years…

EXCLUSIVE: Brittany Perlmuter, who most recently was a comedy talent agent at ICM Partners, has joined Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment as a New York-based manager. Perlmuter comes from the comedy department at ICM Partners’ New York office, where she was promoted to Talent Agent in 2019. A rising young agent…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Smith, a 21-year ICM veteran, including the last 10 as a partner, has joined APA as SVP, Global Concerts & Talent. Smith will work alongside Max Burgos who heads APA’s comedy touring department. While he has strong background in comedy touring, at ICM Smith worked across departments on deals for…

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Hayes, who was an agent with ICM Partners for nearly 17 years, has joined APA as Senior Vice-President, Global Music. At ICM Partners, Hayes represented a slew of clients, many of whom are expected to make the move to APA, including The Go-Go's, Belinda Carlisle, Jon Bellion, Ryan Adams, Phantom…

Andrew Rogers, a 12-year ICM veteran, has joined APA as a new Partner and Global Head Of Talent. Rogers, who also was a partner at ICM, was part of the final wave of agents who departed the company on the eve of its acquisition by CAA. As Head of Talent, Rogers succeeds Jim Osborne who was promoted to President…

Almost nine months to the day after the surprise Deadline scoop that CAA would acquire ICM Partners, the deal finally got government approval and closed. This creates a mega agency in the biggest linkup in the space since the WMA-Endeavor merger in 2009. Sources close to the situation said the Department of…

The steady trickle of agents leaving ICM Partners over the past nine months has grown into a stream in the last week, with dozens of reps making inquiries to other agencies and management companies as they mull their future ahead of the pending Department of Justice ruling on ICM’s proposed acquisition by…

Veteran television agent Will Kircher has moved from ICM Partners to JLL, a professional services firm that specializes in real estate and investment management, as a Senior Associate in its Century City office. In his new role, Kircher will specialize in working with entertainment and media companies on their…