EXCLUSIVE: Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award winner Sam Waterston has signed with Paradigm for representation.
20.06.2024 - 20:25 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Bindery Books, a newly-launched publisher that has social media book tastemakers lead their own publishing imprints, has signed with Atlas Literary and Independent Artist Group for representation.
Boasting a first-look deal with Bad Robot, Bindery brings a groundbreaking angle to the book-to-screen IP pipeline with original stories that are selected and championed by book influencers and their audiences in social media — the same influencers behind breakout BookTok IP like Fourth Wing, They Both Die at the End, and Bunny.
Empowered to acquire unpublished stories they know will resonate with their audiences, Bindery’s tastemakers engage their communities throughout the books’ acquisition and production process, turning their fans into evangelists upon launch and beyond. Since its launch last September, the company co-founded by Matt Kaye and Meghan Harvey has generated significant media attention, hundreds of submissions from leading literary agencies, early audio and foreign rights deals, and viral social media excitement for their inaugural Fall 2024 season. They just announced another season of acquisitions set to publish in Spring 2025.
Bindery books coming up for publication on October 15 include Tiffany Wang’s elemental YA fantasy Inferno’s Heir, acquired by Kevin Norman; Kay Synclaire’s House of Frank (acquired by Jaysen Headley), a whimsical, cozy fantasy about grief; Susan J. Morris’s gothic historical fantasy, Strange Beasts, acquired by Kathryn Budig; and S. Hati’s sweeping climate fantasy And the Sky Bled, acquired by Zoranne Host.
In a statement on the signing, Bindery Books’ co-founder and CEO, Kaye, said that the company’s “new generation of tastemakers has their pulse on the stories people
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award winner Sam Waterston has signed with Paradigm for representation.
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actress Cree for representation in all areas.
A brand new deli is set to open in Manchester this summer. Tucked away on an Ancoats courtyard, Ancoats Deli will open this July.
EXCLUSIVE: Ibiza filmmaker Alex Richanbach is set to direct and produce Single at the Wedding through his Something Something Pictures at New Line.
EXCLUSIVE: Sosie Bacon, most recently seen starring as Rose Cotter in Paramount/Temple Hill’s Smile, has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas.
EXCLUSIVE: Kristy Woodson Harvey, the New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of eleven novels including The Summer of Songbirds and Under The Southern Sky, has signed with Rain for representation.
Ty Myers has signed with Records Nashville/ Columbia Records and will release his new song “Let ‘Em Talk” via the label “very soon,” according to the announcement. Myers is managed by Blake Shelton manager Narvel Blackstock of Starstruck Entertainment. He has enjoyed hits with his songs “Tie That Binds” and “Drinkin’ Alone” (which may be written from experience as he is not yet of drinking age).
Fresh off the success of her Star Wars series, The Acolyte, director Leslye Headland has found new agents as she has signed with CAA for representation.
Bill Skarsgard is not seen in public that often, but we have some new photos of him. And he’s looking buff!
Katcy Stephan TV and film actor Brian Tee has signed with Verve for representation. Tee recently starred alongside Nicole Kidman in the limited series “Expats,” directed by Lulu Wang for Prime Video. Up next, he will appear in Season 3 of Prime Video’s action series “Reacher” alongside star Alan Ritchson.
Katcy Stephan Dr. Mark Hyman has signed with WME in all areas. Hyman is the co-founder and chief medical officer of medical intelligence company Function Health, which offers a membership that includes over 100 lab tests and doctor insights on the results.
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed director and producer Dean Israelite for representation in all areas.
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Alex Ritman CAA has signed Cash Carraway, the Irish-English writer, director and exec producer best known for creating the HBO series “Rain Dogs.” Carraway’s first TV production, “Rain Dogs” — a bleak British dramedy about an unconventional relationship between a working-class single mother, her young daughter and a privileged gay man — was met with critical acclaim when it aired in March 2023. The eight-part series starred Daisy May Cooper, Jack Farthing, Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo and Fleur Tashjian, and later earned a Gotham Award nomination for best breakthrough series, while Carraway was named a BAFTA Breakthrough.
EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has signed filmmaker, author, and digital creator Chris Stuckmann for representation in all areas.
Action star Kellan Lutz, known for his work in the Twilight films and the FBI franchise among others, has signed with Gilbertson Entertainment for management.
EXCLUSIVE: Donni Davy, co-founder of beauty brand Half Magic Beauty and lead makeup designer for HBO’s Euphoria, has signed with CAA.
EXCLUSIVE: Actress and filmmaker Karimah Westbrook, known for her role as Grace James on CW’s All American, has signed with Innovative Artists for representation.
EXCLUSIVE: CM Punk, the WWE star who also goes by “The Best in the World,” has signed with Paradigm for representation in all areas, Deadline has learned exclusively, with an eye toward expanding his presence in entertainment.
EXCLUSIVE: TFC Management has signed Josh Hutcherson for representation in all areas.