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Dan Limerick has been promoted to chief operating officer of WME, the agency said Monday, moving up from his previous role as Head of Business Affairs at Endeavor Client Group. In the newly created position, he will now work with Endeavor Client Group president and WME chairman Lloyd Braun and WME president Ari…

A video designed to lure athletic recruits to the University of Southern California has been pulled by the school after backlash on its insensitive tone. The video showed Trojans players and coaches attending a fake premiere and Hollywood Hills pool party. It was created by the school’s new BLVD Studios, a creative…

Not everyone in Kazakhstan loved the first Borat film or the character’s depictions of the country. But with the success of Borat 2, aka Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, the tourism board of Kazakhstan is making lemonade out of the sour taste created for the country in some quarters by the first Borat comedy. Capitalizing…

EXCLUSIVE: APA has signed Jamal Hill, the writer and director behind the Queen Latifah-produced drama Brotherly Love. Hill recently directed True To The Game 2, the sequel to the 2017 drama starring Vivica A. Fox, Andra Fuller, Erica Peeples, Niatia "Lil Mama" Kirkland, Iyana Halley, and Jeremy Meeks. The pic is due…

EXCLUSIVE: Sebastian De Souza, who is a series regular on the new Hulu period comedy, The Great, has signed with Anonymous Content for representation. De Souza stars opposite Fanning and Nicholas Hoult in The Great, created by Oscar-nominated writer Tony McNamara. The show chronicles a genre-bending, anti-historical…

EXCLUSIVE: Bobby Smith Jr and his production company, Bobby Smith Jr. Productions, have signed with management and production outfit The Cartel for representation in all areas. Smith Jr recently sold Disney+ a pitch for Inner City Symphony, a live-action movie on the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles and its…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Late Night with Seth Meyers writer and performer Jeff Wright. Before joining the NBC late-night show, Wright rose to fame on social media for creating and starring in short sketches that poke fun at social media and pop culture brands. One of his most recent sketches takes on Quibi’s shutdown…

Macey Chipping, the star of the BBC series Mystic, based on the best selling YA novels written by Stacy Gregg, has signed with Inspire Entertainment for management. The series follows Issie (Chipping), a girl who struggles to fit in after moving to New Zealand from the UK with her mother following the death of her…

The reverberations of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's stunning Quibi shutdown are being felt both in financial circles — where the $2 billion failure cements itself as a cautionary tale — and in Hollywood’s beleaguered creative community where many believe Quibi’s demise will make it harder for the next big idea…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Jojo Rabbit star Archie Yates. Yates earned a Critics' Choice Award nomination for his portrayal of Yorki in the Taika Waititi-directed Jojo Rabbit. He is currently shooting the lead role in the Disney+ reboot of the Home Alone franchise, directed by Dan Mazer. Yates recently voiced the lead…

EXCLUSIVE The Good Fight executive producer Jacquelyn Reingold has signed with Verve for representation in all areas. The New York-based playwright, TV writer and producer recently developed the pilot Best of Both Worlds for Warner Bros TV, with John Wells attached to produce. Reingold began her TV career writing on…

Innovative Artists has announced the signing of Adrian Martinez to its roster. Martinez was most recently a series regular on ABC's Stumptown. Other TV credits include heavy recurs on CBS All Access' No Activity and NBC's The Blacklist: Redemption. In films, Martinez will soon be seen in Disney+ Lady and the Tramp,…