The news broke last night that ICM Partners’ Motion Picture Co-Head Spencer Baumgarten had left the agency after just under three years. Now we know the former partner is also taking his ex-agency to court for wrongful termination and defamation.
“On or around August 15, 2019, defendant Ballard insinuated that Baumgarten had defecated on the bathroom floor of the New York office and interrogated Baumgarten about the defecation incident in the restroom,” the wide spread but unspecified damages seeking suit asserts of ICM Partners Hr chief Cindy Ballard and a contentious meeting between the duo over a very weird situation this summer.
“Defendant Ballard insinuated Baumgarten was responsible for the defecation because the defecation was reported after Baumgarten used the restroom,” the vivid and jury trial desiring 28-page complaint details (read it here). “Later, word spread throughout the ICM offices that attributed Baumgarten to the defecation incident, and then subsequently, outside of ICM,...
“On or around August 15, 2019, defendant Ballard insinuated that Baumgarten had defecated on the bathroom floor of the New York office and interrogated Baumgarten about the defecation incident in the restroom,” the wide spread but unspecified damages seeking suit asserts of ICM Partners Hr chief Cindy Ballard and a contentious meeting between the duo over a very weird situation this summer.
“Defendant Ballard insinuated Baumgarten was responsible for the defecation because the defecation was reported after Baumgarten used the restroom,” the vivid and jury trial desiring 28-page complaint details (read it here). “Later, word spread throughout the ICM offices that attributed Baumgarten to the defecation incident, and then subsequently, outside of ICM,...
- 10/8/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Three years after joining ICM Partners as the agency’s co-head of film literary representation, Spencer Baumgarten has left the company, an ICM spokesperson said.
At present the company has no plans to replace Baumgarten, who joined ICM in November 2016 after 12 years at CAA. Harley Copen and Doug MacLaren continue to serve as co-heads of that department.
No reason was given for Baumgarten’s exit from ICM, but in a terse memo published by Deadline, which first reported the news, the company told staffers on Monday night: “Spencer Baumgarten is no longer with the agency. We thank him for the contributions he made and wish him the best going forward.”
Also Read: ICM Partners Promotes Kevin Crotty and Sloan Harris to Co-President
During his tenure at CAA, Baumgarten represented a roster of film directors, writers, and producers that included Gore Verbinski, Pierre Morel, Kurt Wimmer, Donnie Yen, and Jon Favreau.
At present the company has no plans to replace Baumgarten, who joined ICM in November 2016 after 12 years at CAA. Harley Copen and Doug MacLaren continue to serve as co-heads of that department.
No reason was given for Baumgarten’s exit from ICM, but in a terse memo published by Deadline, which first reported the news, the company told staffers on Monday night: “Spencer Baumgarten is no longer with the agency. We thank him for the contributions he made and wish him the best going forward.”
Also Read: ICM Partners Promotes Kevin Crotty and Sloan Harris to Co-President
During his tenure at CAA, Baumgarten represented a roster of film directors, writers, and producers that included Gore Verbinski, Pierre Morel, Kurt Wimmer, Donnie Yen, and Jon Favreau.
- 10/8/2019
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Deadline has learned that ICM Motion Picture Co-Head & Partner Spencer Baumgarten is exiting the agency after three years.
There are no plans to immediately fill the vacancy, as Baumgarten was one of three co-heads of the Motion Picture Lit division, a department which Harley Copen and Doug MacLaren continue to lead. There’s no word yet on where Baumgarten will land. He has been at ICM since November 2016.
Prior to ICM, Baumgarten was at CAA for 12 years where he repped such clients as Jon Favreau, Neil Burger and Gore Verbinski. At ICM, Baumgarten was involved with the teams for such clients as John Woo, Robert Orci, actress Jingchu Zhang, and filmmaker Joseph Kahn, among others.
The following memo was sent to ICM staffers on Wednesday about Baumgarten’s departure:
Dear Colleagues,
Spencer Baumgarten is no longer with the agency. We thank him for the contributions he made and wish him the best going forward.
There are no plans to immediately fill the vacancy, as Baumgarten was one of three co-heads of the Motion Picture Lit division, a department which Harley Copen and Doug MacLaren continue to lead. There’s no word yet on where Baumgarten will land. He has been at ICM since November 2016.
Prior to ICM, Baumgarten was at CAA for 12 years where he repped such clients as Jon Favreau, Neil Burger and Gore Verbinski. At ICM, Baumgarten was involved with the teams for such clients as John Woo, Robert Orci, actress Jingchu Zhang, and filmmaker Joseph Kahn, among others.
The following memo was sent to ICM staffers on Wednesday about Baumgarten’s departure:
Dear Colleagues,
Spencer Baumgarten is no longer with the agency. We thank him for the contributions he made and wish him the best going forward.
- 10/8/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Final ranked with storylines and reps info after noon post: The Black List, Hollywood’s annual rundown of unproduced screenplays, unveiled its titles today in Easter Egg fashion, hiding all 73 screenplay selections in a six minute-42 second second short The Last Days of Tj Staggs which starred Paul Scheer as an agent who pulls a Rip Van Winkle in 1998, wakes up 20 years later, and realizes how the town has changed.
The short was directed and co-written by Noga Pnueli (who also has the script Meet Cute on the list with 12 votes). Danya Jimenez, Hannah McMechan and Kevin Oeser also wrote as well and the short featured such talent as Sunita Mani, Constance Wu, Jay Ellis and Yvette Nicole Brown.
Topping this year’s list is a Social Network-like story, Elissa Karasik’s Frat Boy Genius, which follows a disgruntled employee of Snapchat who tells the story about the rise of her former Stanford classmate,...
The short was directed and co-written by Noga Pnueli (who also has the script Meet Cute on the list with 12 votes). Danya Jimenez, Hannah McMechan and Kevin Oeser also wrote as well and the short featured such talent as Sunita Mani, Constance Wu, Jay Ellis and Yvette Nicole Brown.
Topping this year’s list is a Social Network-like story, Elissa Karasik’s Frat Boy Genius, which follows a disgruntled employee of Snapchat who tells the story about the rise of her former Stanford classmate,...
- 12/17/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Chris Sawtelle, who has spent the past four years at Anonymous Content, has joined ICM Partners as an agent in the Motion Picture Literary department. He will be bringing clients with him but that list has not been finalized, we’re told.
Department co-heads Spencer Baumgarten, Harley Copen and Doug MacLaren just unveiled the hire.
Sawtelle was a talent manager at Anonymous. Before that, he worked as an assistant in the Motion Picture Talent department at CAA and at Brillstein Entertainment.
Department co-heads Spencer Baumgarten, Harley Copen and Doug MacLaren just unveiled the hire.
Sawtelle was a talent manager at Anonymous. Before that, he worked as an assistant in the Motion Picture Talent department at CAA and at Brillstein Entertainment.
- 8/22/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Talent agency ICM Partners has promoted three to agents.
ICM upped Celestine Au and Madeline Feder to agents in the talent department, and Viviane Telio to agent in the motion picture literary department.
Au started at ICM in 2015, spending two years as a talent department assistant before being promoted to talent department coordinator last year. Au was recognized as one of Variety’s 10 Assistants to Watch in 2017 and is part of Time’s Up Next Gen. She was born in Hong Kong and raised in Shanghai before moving to the U.S. to attend UCLA, where she completed 12 internships and graduated with a degree in communication studies. She is fluent in Mandarin and has traveled to China with ICM agents, acting as an interpreter, and helping the team close deals and sign clients.
Feder interned at ICM Partners immediately following high school for talent agent Toni Howard, whose clients included Spike Lee,...
ICM upped Celestine Au and Madeline Feder to agents in the talent department, and Viviane Telio to agent in the motion picture literary department.
Au started at ICM in 2015, spending two years as a talent department assistant before being promoted to talent department coordinator last year. Au was recognized as one of Variety’s 10 Assistants to Watch in 2017 and is part of Time’s Up Next Gen. She was born in Hong Kong and raised in Shanghai before moving to the U.S. to attend UCLA, where she completed 12 internships and graduated with a degree in communication studies. She is fluent in Mandarin and has traveled to China with ICM agents, acting as an interpreter, and helping the team close deals and sign clients.
Feder interned at ICM Partners immediately following high school for talent agent Toni Howard, whose clients included Spike Lee,...
- 8/6/2018
- by Ellis Clopton
- Variety Film + TV
ICM Partners has promoted Celestine Au and Madeline Feder to agents in the Talent Department and Viviane Telio to agent in the Motion Picture Literary department, from their previous positions as coordinators. Au and Feder will report to Talent Department partners and co-heads Lorrie Bartlett, Dar Rollins and Adam Schweitzer. Telio will report to MP Lit partners and co-heads Spencer Baumgarten, Harley Copen and Doug MacLaren. Their positions are effective immediately.
Au began her career at ICM in 2015, spending two years as a Talent Department assistant before being promoted to Talent Department coordinator last year. Au was recognized as one of Variety’s 10 Assistants to Watch in 2017 and is part of Time’s Up Next Gen. She was born in Hong Kong and raised in Shanghai before moving to America to attend UCLA where she completed 12 internships during her tenure and graduated with a degree in Communication Studies. She is...
Au began her career at ICM in 2015, spending two years as a Talent Department assistant before being promoted to Talent Department coordinator last year. Au was recognized as one of Variety’s 10 Assistants to Watch in 2017 and is part of Time’s Up Next Gen. She was born in Hong Kong and raised in Shanghai before moving to America to attend UCLA where she completed 12 internships during her tenure and graduated with a degree in Communication Studies. She is...
- 8/6/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
ICM Partners has promoted coordinators Andrew Murphy and Will Watkins to agent in the motion picture literary department, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Murphy began his ICM career in 2013 as assistant to Doug MacLaren, who heads the department with Harley Copen. Watkins joined a year later. Both young men were agent trainees before their elevations to coordinator.
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Murphy began his ICM career in 2013 as assistant to Doug MacLaren, who heads the department with Harley Copen. Watkins joined a year later. Both young men were agent trainees before their elevations to coordinator.
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- 2/1/2017
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marcus Mucha is on the rise at Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment, where he’s been serving as Director of Business Development. Now Mucha has been promoted to VP in the department where he helped put together financing on the upcoming Freeman and Diane Keaton comedy Life Itself, which he associate produced. He also raised funds for Revelations’ DigiRev digital startup incubator. Mucha will continue to grow Revelations’ biz dev opportunities and create a strategic roadmap for the company while overseeing day to day operations. Prior to joining the company he was manager of Business Development at the Mucha Foundation, dedicated to preserving the legacy of his great-grandfather the painter and artist Alphonse Mucha, and served as an agent trainee at ICM under Bob Broder, Doug MacLaren and Kevin Crotty.
- 2/25/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
ICM Partners has promoted 11 agents to partner, bringing its leadership group to 38, the agency announced on Monday. Those 11 all gain equity in the agency, which morphed into a partnership after buying out private equity firm Rizvi Traverse and former CEO Jeff Berg last May. The new partners are motion picture literary co-chief Doug MacLaren, publishing agents Kris Dahl and Jennifer Joel, talent agents Hildy Gottlieb and Brian Mann, theater head Patrick Herold, head of global branded entertainment Carol Goll, Mark Siegel and Chris Smith from the concert division, international TV’s Lori York and motion picture production’s Dan...
- 10/21/2013
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
ICM Partners has promoted 11 agents to partners, the agency announced Monday. The agents from the departments of talent, motion picture literary, television, publishing, theater, concerts global branded entertainment and motion picture production in the New York and Los Angeles office join the now 38-person partnership of agents. The 11 agents are: co-head of motion picture literary Doug MacLaren, publishing agents Kris Dahl and Jennifer Joel, Hildy Gottlieb and Brian Mann from the agency’s talent department, theater head Patrick Herold, concerts’ Mark Siegel and Chris Smith, head of global branded entertainment Carol Goll, motion picture production’s Dan Baime,
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- 10/21/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This is the first elevation of agents to the partner level since ICM Partners completed its management buyout in 2012 and brings the number of partners to 38. The promotions come from both coasts and represent the departments of talent, motion picture literary, television, publishing, theater, concerts, global branded entertainment, and motion picture production. The new partners are co-head of motion picture literary Doug MacLaren, publishing agents Kris Dahl and Jennifer Joel, Hildy Gottlieb and Brian Mann from the agency’s talent department, theater head Patrick Herold, concerts’ Mark Siegel and Chris Smith, head of global branded entertainment Carol Goll, motion picture production’s Dan Baime, and international television and media’s Lori York. “Since the formation of our partnership, we have made significant and strategic changes that have elevated our business to the benefit of our partners, associates and clients”, the agency said in a statement. “The culture of professionalism, collegiality...
- 10/21/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
The agency announced on Tuesday [30] that Doug MacLaren and Harley Copen have been named co-heads of the partnership’s motion picture literary department.
MacLaren [pictured at left] and Copen will oversee directors, writers, and producers including Woody Allen, Sofia Coppola, Tom Hooper, David Mamet and Stephen Frears.
“Doug and Harley are respected agents in the film business and are ideal choices to continue to build and strengthen our motion picture literary business,” ICM Partners said in a statement.
After joining ICM in 1995, MacLaren served as co-head of the motion picture literary department from 2006 to 2009. Copen was announced as a partner at ICM last year.
MacLaren [pictured at left] and Copen will oversee directors, writers, and producers including Woody Allen, Sofia Coppola, Tom Hooper, David Mamet and Stephen Frears.
“Doug and Harley are respected agents in the film business and are ideal choices to continue to build and strengthen our motion picture literary business,” ICM Partners said in a statement.
After joining ICM in 1995, MacLaren served as co-head of the motion picture literary department from 2006 to 2009. Copen was announced as a partner at ICM last year.
- 7/30/2013
- ScreenDaily
ICM Partners has named Doug MacLaren and nm2471498 autoHarley Copen[/link] the joint heads of ICM Partners' motion picture literary department. Copen has been running the department on an interim basis alongside Emile Gladstone, who just left to help run Chris Morgan's company. MacLaren has been with the agency since 1995 and previously served as co-head of the department. Copen, who became a partner last year, began his career at Broder Webb Chervin Silbermann, the boutique firm that ICM Partners bought in 2006. "Doug and Harley are respected agents in the film business and...
- 7/30/2013
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Doug MacLaren and Harley Copen have been named co-heads of ICM Partners’ motion picture literary department. The move comes on the heels of the exit of longtime agent and department co-head Emile Gladstone, who is transitioning to be the producing partner of ICM client Chris Morgan. Morgan is the hot screenwriter behind the Fast & Furious movies. MacLaren and Copen will now oversee a department representing award-winning directors, writers and producers including Woody Allen, Sofia Coppola, Tom Hooper, David Mamet, Stephen Frears, Vanessa Taylor, Lisa Cholodenko, Vince Gilligan, Thomas Vinterberg, Peter Weir, Joseph Cedar, Tim Robbins, Jack
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- 7/30/2013
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: ICM Partners has named Doug MacLaren and Harley Copen to co-head the agency’s Motion Picture Literary department. They will oversee a department that has writer/filmmakers and producers including Woody Allen, Sofia Coppola, Tom Hooper, David Mamet, Stephen Frears, Vanessa Taylor, Lisa Cholodenko, Vince Gilligan, Thomas Vinterberg, Peter Weir, Joseph Cedar, Tim Robbins, Jack Paglen and Deepa Mehta. The move is the second major one today for ICM Partners, after Emile Gladstone announced he would be leaving to partner with longtime client Chris Morgan in his Chris Morgan Productions shingle. MacLaren, who joined the agency in 1995, is taking a second tour of duty as he was co-head of the department from 2006-2009. It’s the first time for Copen, who began his career at Broder Webb Chervin Silbermann in 2001 and was named partner at the agency last year. Before MacLaren became an agent, he was an investment banker...
- 7/30/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
There is either a couple of football fans or Jerry Maguire/Moneyball with this year’s most liked unproduced screenplay. Close to 300 hundred film executives provided with the Black List creators a top ten of their favorite screenplays of the year and the consensus first overall pick (with 65 votes) comes from the recently featured in Variety (10 Screenwriters to Watch 2012) tandem of Rajiv Joseph & Scott Rothman and their drama which has nothing to do with enlisting in the armed forces. Draft Day – about the day in the life of a fictitious Buffalo Bills Gm appears to currently be in turnaround — which only means I expect to see this greenlight perhaps a little later than sooner – worth noting: top spot almost guarantees that the film will indeed go into production (2006, 2010 and 2011 are the exceptions.) Among the more alluring logline subjects we find on the list, I’d be keen on reading the...
- 12/18/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The Black List of 2010 continues with the second-half of the list showcasing the screenplays that received the most number of votes.
If you've missed the first half of the list you can find it here.
13 Votes:
Hunger Games by Billy Ray
“Based on the book by Suzanne Collins. In an America of the future, young boys and girls are forced to participate in a televised battle to the death.”
Agent Creative Artists Agency – Todd Feldman, Brian Kend
Manager Management 360 – Guymon Casady
Lionsgate. Color Force producing
14 Votes:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
“When the mother of future United States President Abraham Lincoln is murdered by a vampire, he begins a lifelong vendetta to rid the world of the heinous creatures.”
Agent William Morris Endeavor – Cliff Roberts, Jeff Gorin
Fox. Tim Burton Productions, Bazelevs Productions producing.
15 Votes:
Are We Officially Dating? by Tom Gormican
“A dating movie told from...
If you've missed the first half of the list you can find it here.
13 Votes:
Hunger Games by Billy Ray
“Based on the book by Suzanne Collins. In an America of the future, young boys and girls are forced to participate in a televised battle to the death.”
Agent Creative Artists Agency – Todd Feldman, Brian Kend
Manager Management 360 – Guymon Casady
Lionsgate. Color Force producing
14 Votes:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
“When the mother of future United States President Abraham Lincoln is murdered by a vampire, he begins a lifelong vendetta to rid the world of the heinous creatures.”
Agent William Morris Endeavor – Cliff Roberts, Jeff Gorin
Fox. Tim Burton Productions, Bazelevs Productions producing.
15 Votes:
Are We Officially Dating? by Tom Gormican
“A dating movie told from...
- 12/15/2010
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
With the publication of the 2010 Black List another compilation of the year's best unproduced screenplays has arrived. This is the fifth year that The Black List has been in existence, and its purpose is to shine a spotlight on what 290 film executives think are some of the best creative executions of ideas worthy for the big screen.
To be nominated and included on The Black List a screenplay can't have been released in 2010. As well, the minimum number of votes that a screenplay needed to have to warrant inclusion on the list is five. Several of the projects listed on Tbl are in development and will be released in the next twelve months. Others might have heat but take years to reach theaters, and there are also many that will never be greenlighted.
In the words of the creators of The Black List, don't take this assembly of screenplays to...
To be nominated and included on The Black List a screenplay can't have been released in 2010. As well, the minimum number of votes that a screenplay needed to have to warrant inclusion on the list is five. Several of the projects listed on Tbl are in development and will be released in the next twelve months. Others might have heat but take years to reach theaters, and there are also many that will never be greenlighted.
In the words of the creators of The Black List, don't take this assembly of screenplays to...
- 12/15/2010
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
The Black List started in 2005 when Franklin Leonard was working for Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company. Leonard was getting drowned in sub-par spec scripts, so he sent an e-mail out to his industry contacts looking for the best unproduced scripts out there. The 2005 Black List and the 2006 Black List were undeniably important in getting a fresh batch of writers on the Hollywood scene. Since then, too many people know about the party and the studio system has learned that people are paying attention. That means that increasingly, scripts have been lobbied into the Black List. [Note: I have no actual evidence I would be able to share, disclose or show you that proves this, so file that assertion under: "Things Dave thinks and gets to write because he's squatted on that soapbox long enough to get squatter's rights."]This year: the majority of the Black List Top Ten has already been sold or optioned. I'm not sure how helpful it is to make a list of good In Production scripts. Certainly less helpful to writer's churning out material that keeps getting passed over (or people who have Not starred in Prison Break...
- 12/13/2010
- LRMonline.com
Back in 2004, a list was compiled of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood of that year. This came to be known as The Black List. It was all started by a young executive at Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way, who polled 90+ peers to send him their 10 favorite, new, unproduced screenplays to read over the holidays. It has since become a tradition at the end of every year, in December, to release this list, which is voted on by a group of individuals in the entertainment industry from producer assistants, talent agency individuals, and many people involved with film development all the way up to VP's.
The 2010 Black List is here, and thanks to Deadline we have the list of best unproduced screenplays. Most of the scripts we've heard of, many of them are in production, some have already wrapped filming, they just wont be released until next year.
The 2010 Black List is here, and thanks to Deadline we have the list of best unproduced screenplays. Most of the scripts we've heard of, many of them are in production, some have already wrapped filming, they just wont be released until next year.
- 12/13/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
The Black List has been released. The annual list is compiled with a poll of 300 (up from last year's 250) development executives and high-level assistants, and contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywoodland, which were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2010 and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year. Basically, the black list contains the hottest projects in Hollywood that you haven't heard of yet. Note: The headline is a slightly inaccurate, because a lot of these screenplays have already been acquired (six of the top ten listed), a bunch are in production now, and some have even finished production. One of this year's top ten screenplays, J.C. Chandor's Margin Call, about the last 24 hours at now-defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers is already in the can and set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival with Chandor at the helm...
- 12/13/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Frank Leonard is the most popular man in Hollywood today. This fine December day marks the release of the 6th annual Black List, a ranked collection of the top un-produced screenplays in the town, compiled by Leonard. Last year the top script was The Muppet Man from Christopher Weekes about “the life and times of the late Jim Henson.” Coming in second was Aaron Sorkin‘s The Social Network script, which is a current frontrunner to sweep the Oscars. The year before was The Beaver, now starring Mel Gibson and set for a release in 2011.
The top one this year, College Republicans, has Shia Labeouf and Paul Dano attached. As for the rest of the list, I’ll be seeing Margin Call (pictured above) at Sundance 2011 and Safe House goes into production next year. We also reported on Oldboy director Park Chan-wook‘s English language debut with Carey Mulligan attached,...
The top one this year, College Republicans, has Shia Labeouf and Paul Dano attached. As for the rest of the list, I’ll be seeing Margin Call (pictured above) at Sundance 2011 and Safe House goes into production next year. We also reported on Oldboy director Park Chan-wook‘s English language debut with Carey Mulligan attached,...
- 12/13/2010
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
What is the international watch list you ask? In their own words it's "an unofficial list of the American film industry's favorite foreign feature and short films from the past year." which is compiled from over fifty Us film executives and their assistants who vote for five foreign features and shorts. Why are we sharing this with you? Well first off to show that there are some people in Hollywood who actually have some good taste in film (shocking, I know) and the other is that we've actually covered many of the films and shorts on this list, and in fact were the first news site (at least among the larger English film community) to bring you news of the top short film with 10 votes, Afterville, and two of the features on the list, Before the Fall and The Square. Not surprisingly, Let the right one in is the top...
- 12/22/2008
- QuietEarth.us
- Call this a post-Oscars afterthought, but I think the inaugural 2005 blacklist for un-produced screenplays is working out to be a fairly good predictor/barometer in discriminating the output of quality films and misfires. The 2005 list (get the full view by scrolling down) had slotted Diablo Cody's Juno as the number two and Nancy Oliver's Lars and the Real Girl as the number three favorites - both were nominated for Best Original Screenplay and we know who won this year. Peter Morgan's The Queen who also happens to be on this list won the previous year. Curiously, filtering through this lengthy list there are a slew of titles that have already hit DVD shelves, or are weeks away from getting a release in theaters and then you have a few that are in various production stages. I was curious in researching some of the top titles, updating those that are familiar,
- 3/10/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Toni Howard has been named the new head of motion picture talent at ICM. She replaces Carol Bodie, who stepped down and continues to be a senior agent at ICM.
The move comes as the agency continues its restructuring while negotiating the departure of agency co-president Ed Limato and follows a series of promotions and dismissals.
Howard, who has been with company since 1991, is one of the highest-ranking female agents in a male-dominated field. Her clients include Halle Berry, Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken and Laura Linney.
The promotion signals that ICM is shoring up its film side and is interested in keeping its top agents from exiting with Limato.
Doug MacLaren and Nick Reed remain co-heads of the motion picture literary department.
Howard was head of ICM's motion picture talent department in 1999.
The move comes as the agency continues its restructuring while negotiating the departure of agency co-president Ed Limato and follows a series of promotions and dismissals.
Howard, who has been with company since 1991, is one of the highest-ranking female agents in a male-dominated field. Her clients include Halle Berry, Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken and Laura Linney.
The promotion signals that ICM is shoring up its film side and is interested in keeping its top agents from exiting with Limato.
Doug MacLaren and Nick Reed remain co-heads of the motion picture literary department.
Howard was head of ICM's motion picture talent department in 1999.
- 7/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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