Beatles drummer Ringo Starr’s “Rewind Forward” will be out on October 13. This is Starr’s fourth extended play release in three years.
09.09.2023 - 00:15 / variety.com
Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer A studio head once told me that CAA’s top three leaders – Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett – had claws beneath their velvet gloves. It was a backhanded compliment, as the CEO was praising the trio’s devotion to their incredibly famous clients while also bemoaning their hard-driving negotiating style.
Those gloves will now be made by one of the biggest luxury fashion houses in the world, as the mega-agency sold a majority stake to Francois-Henri Pinault’s family investment fund Artemis this week. In a still-incomplete transaction, the French billionaire has snatched up controlling interest in the legendary talent shop and will nestle it in a portfolio that includes Gucci, Saint Laurent and the thousand-dollar–a-bottle winery Château Latour.
It’s impeccable brand placement for CAA, whose clients include Zendaya, Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop and sports stars like Dwayne Wade. And in any other Hollywood but the one we’re living in – in which production has been grounded by labor strife between the major studios and the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA – the sale of a majority stake in CAA to a Paris-based entrepreneur would be an earth-shattering event.
Lourd, Huvane and Lovett have been charting this course for the agency since they took the reins from the agency’s founding fathers in 1995. As their longtime rival WME hulked up and went public under Ari Emanuel’s stewardship, CAA has been looking to transact in a wildly unpredictable landscape over recent years — particularly after ingesting ICM Partners in 2022.
“This transaction is incredible in terms of the numbers attached. It proves that the guys who took over in 1995 knew what they were doing, and it was a
.Beatles drummer Ringo Starr’s “Rewind Forward” will be out on October 13. This is Starr’s fourth extended play release in three years.
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majority stake in Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency, the parties involved said Thursday.Financial details of the deal, in which Artemis will buy the financial stake belonging to private equity firm TPG, were not provided.