Former ICM Agent Andrea Nelson Meigs Named Partner At UTA

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerBrodie Van Wagenen, who left as co-head of the baseball division at CAA to make the rare transition to Major League Baseball general manager, has been let go by the team.The move came two years into his tenure and just hours after new owner Steve Cohen officially closed his deal to take over the team.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles-based virtual design studio The Third Floor, which has credits including The Mandalorian, Watchmen and Game of Thrones, has added two experienced execs to its board.Chris deFaria arrives having having served as President of DreamWorks Animation, where he guided both creative development and technology advancement.

Cheryl Tiano, an agent for the Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency who represented composers for film, television and video games, died Monday in Los Angeles of complications from heart surgery, a publicist announced. She was 59.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerThe rights to Truman Capote’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s is the subject of a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit.The suit contends a charity trust set up by Capote before his death owns the rights to develop a prequel, sequel or television series inspired by the 1961 film. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday.Alan Schwartz, the trustee of the charity, alleges that rights to the 1958 novella reverted to Capote’s executor after his death in 1984.

Julian Casablancas has interviewed former presidential candidate Andrew Yang as part of a new series.The Strokes frontman has teamed up with Rolling Stone for the new video interview series called S.O.S.

Dave McNary Film ReporterKevin Bacon is joining Travis Fimmel and Colson Baker, also known as recording artist Machine Gun Kelly, in the new action-thriller “One Way.”Andrew Baird (“Zone 414”) is directing from a script by Ben Conway. Principal photography is set to begin in February in Los Angeles and Tulsa, Okla.

Andrea Nelson Meigs is joining UTA as a partner after the talent and lit agent left ICM Partners. Nelson Meigs has been at ICM for fourteen years, having joined the company from CAA.

Last Friday, when we marked the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, one thing that did not get enough attention was the sacrifice of the police, firefighters and other first responders, hundreds of whom were killed that day. First responders is an apt term for them.They are the people who show up.They knowingly charge into the dangers from which most of us flee.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterICM Partners senior motion picture agent Andrea Nelson Meigs is packing up her office in a box to the left.The longtime film rep to luminaries like Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Ellen Burstyn is parting ways with the agency, Variety has learned. Her future plans are presently unknown, though she is said by two sources to be negotiating with another of the big four agencies.An ICM spokesperson said Nelson Meigs left amicably and that they wished her the best.

Cinemas outside of New York City will be allowed reopen at limited capacity on Oct. 23, Gov.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerThe former communications director for the Los Angeles Angels was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for his role in the 2019 overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs.The indictment said Kay told federal agents he provided oxycodone pills to Skaggs, and said he had an ongoing arrangement to serve as the go-between for Skaggs’s drug needs.

Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who led the country’s army for six years under ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been arrested on drug trafficking and money laundering charges at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe increasingly Hollywood-friendly RedBird Capital Partners is making a big splash on the West Coast.The private investment firm is opening a Los Angeles shop with a big new hire as anchor, the veteran Goldman Sachs executive Andy Gordon, who will join the company as a partner in the first quarter of 2021.Recent RedBird transactions include investments in David Ellison’s Sykdance Media, Tencent, and CJ Entertainment.

It’s not just domestic theater chains that are desperate to see cinemas reopen in New York and Los Angeles, but also cinema operators worldwide.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe National Association of Television Program Executives, which puts on the annual TV trade show in Miami, was sued on Tuesday for allegedly failing to pay rent on a Los Angeles office.The plaintiff, 5757 Wilshire LLC, accuses NATPE of breaching the lease by “failing to pay base rent, direct expenses, parking charges, and other sums due.”NATPE used to be headquartered in the building, before moving to an office on Vine Street.

Charlie Amter Los Angeles-based songwriter and producer Andrew Goldstein scored the biggest hit of his career this year via a co-write of Blackbear’s smash “Hot Girl Bummer,” which lit up radio in America for the first four months of 2020 (its spin count is north of 538,700, according to Mediabase).

Ted Johnson Jeffrey Katzenberg, J.J. Abrams and Katie McGrath and other Los Angeles figures hosted a fundraiser on Thursday with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to raise money for the Senate Majority PAC, which aims to win back Democratic control this year.The virtual event also was co-hosted by Katzenberg’s wife Marilyn and Ellen Bronfman Hauptman and Andrew Hauptman.McGrath, CEO of Bad Robot, said in a statement, “The battle for control of the Senate is going to come down to the wire.

The battle over Britney Spears‘ conservatorship rages on.