Music Agents Align To Form Mint Talent Group

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentArgentina and Mexico-based Jaque Content, originator of suspense drama series “The Cleaning Lady,” now set to become a Warner Bros.-produced U.S. drama pilot, has clinched a strategic alliance with Spain’s Grupo Black Panther.Marking Jaque’s first European beachhead, the partnership will see the two companies targeting fiction production, playing off an emerging co-production triangle linking Spain, Latin America and the U.S.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Kevin Bacon is set to direct A Problem Of Providence, a dark comedy scripted by Mike Vukadinovich. AGC Studios is producing and financing the film.Script is a darkly comedic exploration of greed and violence that centers around an eclectic group of residents in a small Alaskan town as they attempt to cover up a murder for hire.

Former “Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus joined myriad people on social media commenting on the now-infamous fly incident at the 2020 vice presidential debate. While Sen.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterMusic agents Jeffrey Hasson (pictured at right) and Matt Meyer have joined UTA.  Both arrive from Paradigm with Hasson based in Nashville and Meyer in Los Angeles.Hasson got his start at Monterey Peninsula Artists in 2005 and has worked with such artists as Young The Giant, Tori Kelly, Surfaces, Jamey Johnson, Dashboard Confessional, and Blues Traveler, among others.Meyer began his career at electronic dance music agency AM Only, which was later acquired by

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorUTA said Tuesday that it has hired music agents Jeffrey Hasson and Matt Meyer, who both had been at Paradigm. Hasson will join the leadership of the agency’s Nashville office, while Meyer will be based in Los Angeles.The latest moves in UTA Music’s ranks come less than two weeks after former WME Head of East Coast Music Samantha Kirby Yoh joined as co-head.

Maren Morris shared a special message in her music video for her newest song "Better Than We Found It," which was released on Friday.

The ever-busy multi-hyphenate Clint Eastwood will direct and star in an adaptation of the 1970 novelCry Macho for Warner Bros. Cry Macho will re-team the filmmaker with his Richard Jewell studio, and will see the Oscar winner play a washed-up rodeo star that takes a job from his former boss to bring the man's young son back to Texas from rural Mexico.

Clint Eastwood has lined up his next project, Deadline reports.

BLACKPINK (Lisa, Jisoo, Rosé and Jennie) is currently working hard for the final step in their three-part comeback; their first official studio album release with BLACKPINK - The Album coming out in a few days time. Before this, we got to witness their How Your Like That and Ice Cream (with Selena Gomez) avatars which BLINKS just couldn't get enough of.

Rebecca Davis editorUniversal Music Group’s Vietnam division on Thursday launched Def Jam Vietnam, a new local label focused on Vietnamese hip-hop and rap to ride the genre’s growing footprint in the region. It is the sixth local Def Jam label set up under the umbrella of Def Jam Southeast Asia, itself established last September, following prior launches in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that The Wrestler Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke has boarded the independent feature The Commando which will shoot in New Mexico next month.The pic, directed by Asif Akbar, follows a DEA agent with PTSD who returns home after a botched mission and must now protect his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.Subscribe to

After the Coronavirus crisis devastated the music touring business and left creators with an uncertain future, former Paradigm agents Patrick McAuliff and Phil Egenthal and ex-William Morris Endeavor agent C. J.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorC.J. Strock, formerly of William Morris Endeavor, joins Patrick McAuliff and Phil Egenthal, formerly of Paradigm Talent Agency to form Mint Talent Group, the new company announced early Tuesday.