#talent agent

[unbfacts]

Hugh Grant revealed in interviews that for four years, he pretended to be his own talent agent, using the name James Howe Ealy. He created a fictitious email account and even used a Scottish accent on the phone to communicate with industry professionals. 'I saved myself an absolute fortune,' he said.

[fanetiquette101]

I'm Feeling Very Suspicious...

A lot has been bubbling away in the celebrity team space, and in the general film and TV space. And it's making my brain itch. So I decided to take a craft break and go on a dive into the rabbit hole and see what was what, who was who, and where everything was sitting right now. Because in terms of Team Stan and Team Wallis, mainly Team Stan, something feels suspicious and I can't put my finger on it.

Sebastian is managed by Emily Gerson Saines of Brookside Artist Management (BAM). His talent Agency is Creative Artists Agency (CAA). His PR is run by Evelyn Karamanos at Relevent PR.

Annabelle is managed by Jason Weinberg at Untitled Entertainment. She has 3 talent agents: United Agents in the UK, United Talent Agency (UTA) in the US, and MN2S. I dont know why 3. She has no independent PR team, Untitled handles clients PR for the most part.

This is Emily Gerson Saines, who founded BAM in 1998 under the company name "Gerson Saines Management".

This is Jason Weinberg, who co-founded Untitled Entertainment in 1999 after moving from working in PR. He also has a couple of acting credits under his belt.

On the 16th of June it was announced that Untitled acquired BRM with Emily taking a position as Partner at Untitled, alongside Jason a Co-Founder. Which means Sebastian and Annabelle are now both managed by the same Agency, with each of their managers in leadership positions.

"I couldn’t be happier to officially be in business with Emily. She was one of the first people to support us when I became a manager and has remained a trusted collaborator and confidante for years,” said Jason Weinberg, a founding partner of Untitled which launched a year after Brookside. “What she built at Brookside is very exciting, and having her and her team join Untitled feels like a natural evolution of a long-standing partnership and friendship."

- Deadline

If Sebastian drops Evelyn and Relevant they'll probably both have the same PR team too, but so far thats still separate. I wouldn't weep if he dropped Evelyn, we know how i feel about their work of late.

I didn't realise when I started digging that Jason was Annabelles manager. Id read in passing she was with Untitled, but as I only started looking at Untitled really with this the intricacies were lost on me. I didn't know either that Emily and Jason were friends, confidants and collaborators. It really puts the PR relationship theory in a new light. That link is suspicious, especially because there's a lot of speculation amoung groups in the Standom about who's team is leading and managing PR strategy, as it can feel like Annabelle comes off more favourably in a lot of instances, with Sebastians absence and not showing much if any attachment to the pregnancy or even relationship in public. That there could easily have been behind the scenes plans between Sebastian and Annabelles managers even before the companies merged seems more likely.

Both Emily and Jason were invited to become members of The Academy, in the Artist Representation category, which was announced on the 24th of June. This means they are eligible to vote for The Academy Awards.

- The Ankler

In July of 2025 CAA invested significantly in Moonvalley AI, a generative AI startup that aims to create industry only AI at a cinematic level, proportedly using licenced video to train their AI model. The goal is to safeguard clients from unauthorised AI use in film and TV apparently. We know how I feel about Gen AI.

So Sebastian & Annabelles management teams have joined forces, and Sebastians agency are invested in a film & TV Gen AI company. Which I believe Sebastian is against, although I cant cite a source on that claim. Its just... Something is afoot.

If I come up with more, youll be the first to know!

[lifewithaview]

Jim Jarmusch,Johnny Depp and Francesco Quinn in Cannes Man (1996)

Dir.Richard Martini and Susan Shapiro

The Cannes Film Festival. It's where deals get made, producers get laid, and stars get paid. It's where all the movie industry meets to buy and sell all the movies on the planet. And it's where the art of the deal can be filled with more laughs than the deal itself. Sy Lerner, the quintessential movie producer, makes a bet that he can take any kid off the street and turn him into a superstar overnight using the universal language of the festival: hype. He meets Frank Rhinoslavsky and turns him into "Frank Rhino, one of the hottest screenwriters to hit Cannes since Faulkner and Hemingway". It's not long before celebrities and producers are lining up to meet this hot young star. Dennis Hopper, Treat Williams, Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, and more, all want to meet the "next Quentin Tarantino". Sy charms them with his own particular blend of hype and substance, and by the end of the festival he has lined up one of the great casts of all time. But Sy Lerner still has a few tricks up his sleeve for his wife, Frank Rhino, and the myriad of people who have invested in this nonexistent, non-scripted film: He drops dead. All the money the invested in his film goes up in smoke. But in the end, Sy Lerner has pulled the ultimate con, making him truly the one and only "Cannes Man".

*Filmed during 48th Cannes Film Festival in May 1995

[pratchettquotes]

"Remember," he said, "I'm looking for Victor Tungelbend and I'm going to make him a star. If anyone sees him, you must tell him." [...]

He strode back to the door.

After he had gone the chattering flowed back like a tide.

"Make him a star? What'd he want a star for?"

"I didn't know you could make stars...I thought they were like, you know, stuck to the sky..."

"I think he meant make him a star. You know, him himself. Turn him into a star."

"How can you make anyone into a star?"

"I dunno. I suppose you compress them right up small and they burst into this mass of flaming hydrogen?"

"Good grief."

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was Cher’s talent agent and we passed a building that said “Grandmothers' Singing Society” and we could hear the grandmothers singing gospel music. Cher wanted to join them so I went and talked to their director and Cher was making a mess of things so I told her to go sit down and then got her into the Grandmothers' Singing Society. Once she was in, she was being rude to me and when we got lunch she gave me soup with watermelon in it instead of regular soup with saffron in it. :/

[machetelanding]

[scifrey]

I am extremely excited to announce that I am now represented by Jennifer Fry and Carol Anne Prosje of Star Talent, Inc. as a Voice Actor! (If you've never heard them before, you can listen to my professional demo reels here.)

Being a professional voice actor has been a dream of mine since I was 13 years old and first watched Sailor Moon. It was then that I realized that there were actors behind the cartoons, and as a child actor at the time, I was determined that one day, I too would be a Moon Princess, or a colourful Little Pony, or a fiesty school girl travelling through the past with a strange half-dog warrior. Basically, I wanted to be whatever strange and fantastical thing animators and mangaka could think up.

My desire to do this for a living was solidified when I purchased a cassette tape of the English Sailor Moon soundtrack (with most songs performed by the incredibly talented Jennifer Cihi - my absolute freaking IDOL). I played that cassette to death, and more than one person pointed at my stereo and asked me if that was me singing.

Me? I sounded like the literal singing voice of Sailor Moon? Wow.

I was quite lucky, then, later in my acting training, to take voice acting classes and workshops with two separate people who were involved in the English dub of Sailor Moon. As I grew as a performer and author, I was also quite fortunate to be either an actor or fellow con guest of so many other amazing VAs, who all gave me great advice.

Since then I've pounded the pavement as a freelance VA for years, and with the guidance of several of those VAs, revised my demos last fall. The lockdown slowed some things down for me, but I started sending out my demos this summer, got some wonderful responses, and had the privilege to choose to be represented by Jennifer Fry.

I want to thank the following people for helping me create an amazing demo, and for pushing me to pursue VA work professionally: Deb, Rodney, Adrienne, Stephanie, Kyle, Roland, Gini, Alyson, and Kirby.

Next stop... hopefully your television screens!

[goodblacknews]

Veteran Talent Agent Lorrie Bartlett Joins ICM Partners Board

Bartlett becomes the first African-American appointed to the board of a major Hollywood talent agency, according to ICM Partners