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UTA Sets Joint TV Production Venture With Valence Media and MRC

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Valence Media Takes $60 Million Minority Stake In ‘Late Late Show’ & ‘Carpool Karaoke’ Producer Fulwell 73
  2. UTA And Valence Media’s MRC Form TV Production And Finance Venture Civic Center Media
  3. UTA Sets Joint Venture With ‘House of Cards’ and ‘Ozark’ Producer Media Rights Capital
  4. All3Media Sets German Joint Venture With Bon Voyage Films

UTA Sets Joint Venture With ‘House of Cards’ and ‘Ozark’ Producer Media Rights Capital

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Robb Report Will Join Penske Media Corporation in a Joint Venture Partnership
  2. Cineflix Media Partners With Duncan Gray’s Twenty Six 03 in Joint Venture
  3. All3Media Sets German Joint Venture With Bon Voyage Films
  4. ‘Game of Thrones’ Producer Frank Doelger to Beta Film-ZDF Joint Venture

Nollywood Actress & ‘Lionheart’ Director Genevieve Nnaji Inks With UTA

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Netflix Acquires Genevieve Nnaji’s ‘Lionheart’ in Worldwide Deal
  2. First Look at Trailer for Genevieve Nnaji’s Toronto Film ‘Lionheart’
  3. Ari Aster, Writer-Director Of Sundance Midnight Pic ‘Hereditary’, Inks With WME
  4. ‘The New Romantic’ Director Carly Stone, An SXSW Winner, Inks With ICM Partners

Amy Schumer Exits Long Time Agency UTA (Exclusive)

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Amy Schumer’s ‘I Feel Pretty’ Zips to $1 Million at Thursday Box Office
  2. ‘I Feel Pretty’ Review: Amy Schumer’s Comedy Tries To Be Like ‘Big’ But Falls Short
  3. Amy Schumer’s ‘I Feel Pretty’ Gets New Spring Release Date
  4. Amy Schumer Detained at Kavanaugh Protest in D.C.

Audrey Wells, ‘Under the Tuscan Sun’ and ‘The Hate U Give’ Writer, Dies at 58

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Audrey Wells, director of ‘Under the Tuscan Sun’ and writer of ‘The Hate U Give,’ dies at 58
  2. ‘The Hate U Give’ Screenwriter Audrey Wells Dies at 58
  3. ‘The Hate U Give’ Screenwriter Audrey Wells Dies of Cancer at 58
  4. Audrey Wells Dies: Latest Film, ‘The Hate U Give’, Opens Today

‘One Day At A Time’ Star Justina Machado Inks With UTA

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. How ‘One Day at a Time’ Star Justina Machado Nailed That Six-Minute Hospital Monologue
  2. ‘Jane The Virgin’: Justina Machado To Recur On Season 3 Of the CW Series
  3. ‘One Day at a Time’ Producer Gloria Calderon Kellett and Star Justina Machado on Reinventing Norman Lear’s Classic Sitcom — IndieWire’s TURN IT ON Podcast
  4. Justina Machado and ‘One Day at a Time’ look to reshape the Latino narrative on TV

UTA Promotes 4 Executives to Partner

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. UTA Ups Four Senior Execs To Partner Level
  2. Fox Promotes Paul Hoffman to EVP of Business Affairs
  3. UTA Promotes 9 Agents to Partner
  4. CAA Promotes 22 Trainees to Agents or Executives

UTA Ups Four Senior Execs To Partner Level

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. UTA Ups Rene Jones, Jim Meenaghan, Rich Shuter, David Spingarn to Partner
  2. ICM Partners Promotes 6 Agents To Partner Status
  3. Lisa Lawrence Dies: Agent & Partner At NYC’s Headline Talent Agency
  4. Disney-Fox deal might cause high-level Fox execs to jump ship

UTA Signs Dash Shaw, ‘My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea’ Creator

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. ‘My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea’ Director Dash Shaw On Pursuing Animated Equivalent Of Indie Film
  2. ‘My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea’ Trailer: Animated Disaster Comedy From Dash Shaw
  3. GKids Buys ‘My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea’ for U.S. Distribution
  4. ‘My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea’ Trailer: Hilariously Bizarre Comedy on the Brink of the End of the World — Watch

UTA Raises Its Voice In DC, Hires Speakers Agent William Lee

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. ‘Billions’ Creators React To Trump Firing U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, Offer Him Gig On Showtime Series
  2. UTA Hires Comedy Central Executive Miro Terrell as TV Agent
  3. UTA Acquires Speakers Bureau Greater Talent Network
  4. Norman Brokaw, Innovative, Powerful Agent at William Morris, Dies at 89

Aasif Mandvi Signs With UTA

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. Aasif Mandvi on Trump’s Press Conference: ‘These Are the First Signs of Fascism’
  2. Aasif Mandvi Getting ‘Younger’; Robert Craighead Joins ‘Future Man’
  3. Hulu’s ‘Shut Eye’ Enlists Aasif Mandvi for Season 2 (Exclusive)
  4. Review: Lerner & Loewe’s Golden ‘Brigadoon’ With Kelli O’Hara and Aasif Mandvi

UTA Sells Minority Stake to 2 Outside Investment Groups

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. United Talent Agency Sells Minority Stake To Investcorp & Public Sector Pension Investment Board
  2. YuuZoo Ups Investment in Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity
  3. Wanda Film Sells $1.24 Billion Stake to Alibaba, China’s Cultural Investment Holdings
  4. Wanda Film Unit Sells $1.24B Stake To Alibaba, State-Owned Investment Group

Viacom Leads $15 Million Funding Round in Kids Entertainment Platform Pocket.watch

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. New Kids-Focused Media Brand pocket.watch Teams With Butch Hartman for 3 Original Series
  2. Pocket.watch Names Stone Newman Its Chief Revenue Officer
  3. WME Leads $12 Million Funding for Artificial Intelligence-Powered Marketing Agency
  4. AMC Networks Leads Adaptive Studios $16.5 Million Funding Round

UTA Launches Esports Division With Acquisition of Press X, Everyday Influencers

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. UTA Steps Into Esports Arena, Buying Press X And Everyday Influencers
  2. United Talent Agency Acquires Esports Companies Press X and Everyday Influencers
  3. Cinedigm Launches eSports-Focused WHAM Network
  4. Annapurna Pictures Launches Interactive Video Game Division

UTA Steps Into Esports Arena, Buying Press X And Everyday Influencers

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. United Talent Agency Acquires Esports Companies Press X and Everyday Influencers
  2. ICM Partners Inks Partnership With Esports Talent Agency Evolved
  3. MLB-Disney’s BAMTech Inks ‘League of Legends’ $300 Million eSports Streaming Pact
  4. IMG Launches eSports Training Platform: Boomeo