Now, Its Personal The Epic, Inside Drama Behind the New Hollywood Agency Wars. This story first appeared in the June 1. The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Nexus 2 Hollywood Expansion Free DownloadTo receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. On the afternoon of May 1. CAA agents Richard Lovett and Kevin Huvane headed to the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills on a mission to make the best of a bad situation. Smaller rival UTA had just jolted the powerful, seemingly invulnerable firm headquartered in the Century City building infamously nicknamed the Death Star, pulling off a dramatic raid of its comedy division, taking 1. Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms. Screaming hairy armadillos are just tiny tots, only getting up to about two pounds when fully grown. To biologists, a blood curdling wail is just one of many reasons. The Connexus plaza is your ideal entry point to the internet, providing access to your email, and the latest news. Get the latest news on celebrity scandals, engagements, and divorces Check out our breaking stories on Hollywoods hottest starsBut one key player arguably the most valuable still was in play, and Lovett and Huvane prepared a pitch that could help CAA signal that it still reigned when it comes to the all important matter of representing big movie stars. That day, Melissa Mc. Carthy, 4. 4, was winding up press interviews for her upcoming movie Spy. The importance to CAA of keeping her was obvious An established star of television and film, Mc. Carthy also has a potentially gigantic franchise in her future with the Paul Feig reboot of Ghostbusters. In her suite that day, Huvane, 5. Lovett, 5. 4, made this argument If Mc. Carthy sees herself not just as a comedian but as a star who enjoyed her more serious role in St. Vincent with Bill Murray and wants more of the same and sources say she does then CAA is the place to be. Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock are clients who have Oscars, and CAA represents many of the major directors with whom Mc. Carthy might like to work. And they added that none of the defectors led by Jason Heyman, former head of CAAs comedy department had experience with major female stars. Having given it their best shot, Lovett and Huvane were followed by a team from UTA, including Heyman and fellow agent defectors Martin Lesak and Gregory Mc. Knight. Their pitch to Mc. Global Entry is a program of the U. S. Customs and Border Protection service that allows preapproved, lowrisk travelers to receive expedited clearance upon arrival. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. I n the Stateside Churchs first major text of its kind in nearly two decades, the cardinalarchbishop of the nations capital has called the church to be alert to. These are some spacecraft designs that are based on reality. Grid 2 Serial Keygen Patch. So they appear quite outlandish and undramatic looking. In the next page will appear designs that are. News, guides and testing of modern displays. Carthy They really understood her and had been deeply involved in her career since 2. Mike Molly on CBS and just after the first test screening for Bridesmaids sources say she was paid only 6. She had been in eight movies since then, including Identity Thief and The Heat. On the Friday following those Monday meetings, Mc. Carthy phoned to say she had made her choice She and her husband, Ben Falcone would remain at CAA. It undeniably was a big win for Lovett and Huvane, but a key question remained as they flew to New York to be by her side at the Spy premiere on June 1 Did Mc. Carthy make the right choice in picking the agency over the agents That question of agent versus agency also came up at a 2. CAA retreat in Carlsbad, Calif. There, star client Matthew Mc. Conaughey took the stage in a giant conference room to be interviewed by Maha Dakhil, a senior literary agent. Mc. Conaughey was fresh from winning an Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club and living proof of everything the agency was doing right. He had a big endorsement deal with Lincoln, had been chosen by director Christopher Nolan for Interstellar and had earned raves for HBOs True Detective. During the conversation, Dakhil said So let me ask you a question Whats more important, your agent or the agency Mc. Conaughey, 4. 5, whose longtime agent, Jim Toth, was sitting in the audience, then began what a source who was present says was a palpably uncomfortable monologue. Are you kidding me Mc. Conaughey is said to have answered. My agent, not my agency. My agent is the one who fights for me every day. As the crowd shifted awkwardly, the source says the actor went further, saying Dont think I dont know whats going on here. You guys represent my competition Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, George Clooney. Theyre all fighting for the jobs I want, and my agent is fighting for me. Others present refute this account, and Mc. Conaughey couldnt be reached for comment. Of course, Mc. Carthy and Mc. Conaughey stayed at CAA. Pc 2D Chess Games. Nonetheless, the incidents reveal the tensions simmering in the sleek corridors of Beverly Hills and Century City as the decadeslong agency wars deliver a fresh round of subplots of betrayal, money and power these tales with higher stakes than ever before, more gripping than most summer tentpoles. UTAs midnight raid as it was described in litigation filed by CAA on April 2, complete with secret meetings, resignations by letter and allegations of conspiracies, provided an unusual peek into the usually private agency world. Now, some of Hollywoods most feared and influential players have been deposed in the past few weeks, CAAs Lovett, Huvane and Bryan Lourd, 5. But these dramatic scenes merely are tremors along the actual San Andreas With private financier TPG Capital now holding a majority stake in CAA and Silver Lake Partners owning 5. WMEIMG, the agencies are on track for either untold riches or, as their rivals might assert or hope, eventual ruin. In either case, this shift could put an agencys internal culture and its relationships with its clients at risk as the defection to UTA illustrates to some degree. Money, obviously, has redefined the marketplace and played a huge role in defections and dynamics within the agencies. Put simply, many agents just want to go where they can make the most. A talent rep says that the very top people in the agency business earn close to eight figures. The next tier down makes mid seven figures. A day to day agent in his or her early 3. And with the possibility that the largest agencies may go public, many in the middle tier think the odds are slim that they ever will get as rich as their leaders. With CAA and WMEIMG having sold large stakes to equity partners who may be in a rush to cash in, theres even the possibility that an agency could be sold. For his part, Lovett says theres no talk of a sale. Rather, he says, CAAs management feels the excitement, urgency and passion to grow a great company without the distraction of having to have a specific outcome. With respect to speculation that the agencys preferred endgame is to go public, Lovett adds We have no need to go public. Is it an option Of course. WMEIMG co CEO Patrick Whitesell is equally bullish on the opportunities afforded by private equity. When you look at our position in film, television, music, books, commercials, and you add that with golf, tennis, international sports, media rights, fashion, food its a unique proposition for our clients and partners, he says. There arent many companies that touch all of those things like we do. CAAs Lourd right with client Clooney. The tensions and frustrations that arise from the agency wars arent lost on the clients. I feel sorry for agents, Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk, a WME client, said at a recent Hollywood Reporter Roundtable. They work in these companies that have grown and expanded. They start with a genuine love of the work, and it gets beaten out of them. They get so swamped with the extraneous needs of the company, its hard not to lose touch with what they cared about when they started. The agencies are so huge now, I think they also represent onions and flour now, too. I dont know if they represent other vegetables yet, but they will. CAA and WME now are global enterprises, each claiming primacy according to different metrics with more than 5,0. WMEIMG is bigger in staff and revenue. CAA had 6. 47 million in revenue and 1. THR. Both agencies have far exceeded whatever vision lurked in the mind of Michael Ovitz, now 6.