Nonfiction Agent Jacy Schleier Joins Verve

Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald has won the €50,000 ($54,000) Series Mania Seriesmakers award.

Manchester United have been tipped to make a huge move for Napoli striker Victor Osimhen by an Italian agent.

EXCLUSIVE: After spending 21 years at A3 Artists Agency — and Abrams Artists Agency, as it was formerly known — veteran talent agent Sharon Paz has transitioned to management with the launch of the L.A.-based Paz Talent.

As Deadline revealed last night, former Verve CEO Bill Weinstein has joined Paradigm along with former Verve colleague Devon Schiff. Both join as agents in the Literary Content department and will be working out of Paradigm’s Los Angeles office.

EXCLUSIVE: YMU, the UK agency that reps Simon Cowell, Graham Norton, and Nicole Scherzinger, has confirmed its sale to private equity company Permira under a £60M ($76M) deal.

The Curtis Brown Group is pushing into the UK unscripted space.

Katcy Stephan Verve has hired longtime agent Valarie Phillips. The news comes just two weeks after the agency brought on non-fiction agent Jacy Schleier from CAA. Phillips, who brings more than two decades of agency experience to Verve, was most recently co-head of the motion picture literary department at A3 Artists Agency.

Jaden Thompson Scott Kenyon, a longtime agent at Innovative Artists, died suddenly on February 15. He was 39. Kenyon’s death was confirmed by Innovative Artists.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Oscar contenders and Berlin prize-winners will be among the European films being represented by visiting companies to FilMart that are making use of the European Film Promotion umbrella stand within the annual Hong Kong market. In total 29 European film sales companies are making the trip, including more than a dozen from France under the Unifrance banner. Prominent rights brokers include Charades, Goodfellas, Fandango and Filmax.

Scott Kenyon, a longtime Innovative Artists agent, died on February 15, 2024. No cause or location was given.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran talent agent Fatmata Kamara has joined Independent Artist Group, the agency’s Head of Global Talent, Andrew Rogers, announced on Friday.

EXCLUSIVE: CESD Talent Agency has expanded its theatrical talent agent roster with two new hires from the former A3 Artists Agency. Aron Giannini has joined CESD as Co-Head of its L.A. Theatrical Talent Department and Ross Silver as an Agent in its New York Theatrical Talent Department. Their new roles are effective immediately.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran rep Pietra Ingenito has joined Prototype Talent Agency as a senior talent agent. Ingenito comes to Prototype following a 5-year stint with A3 Artists Agency, which recently ceased operations.

Katcy Stephan Doug Fronk has joined the television literary department at Gersh as an agent and senior vice president. Fronk spent the last three years at A3 Artists Agency as a partner and head of television literary. Before that, he spent 19 years at Paradigm, where he worked his way up to become co-head of the television literary department.

EXCLUSIVE: Former A3 agent Rob Cassandro has joined the talent department at Innovative Artists.

The Holdovers collaborators, director Alexander Payne and screenwriter David Hemingson, are working on another film together—a Western, in fact—and during a Q&A following a screening of The Holdovers at Soho House in West Hollywood on Friday, Hemingson revealed there’s a part earmarked for Paul Giamatti.

Anneliese van der Pol has been active in the entertainment industry for more than two decades, but she no longer has an agent and can’t find one to represent her right now.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Moore Agency today announced the hire of Ben Izzo and Lucy Powis, both former A3 Artists Agency theatrical literary agents, along with Rose Quealy, former Vice President of Productions for the Paramount Theatre, in Aurora, Illinois.

A crooked letting agent who stole more than £40,000 from her boss was caught out when she used the company bank card during her holiday in Benidorm.

Katcy Stephan Verve agents Jake Dillman, Matthew Doyle and Devon Schiff are leaving the literary boutique in the wake of Bill Weinstein‘s departure, Variety can confirm. It appears Weinstein has plans to set up shop on his own, as alluded to in a statement from Verve leadership. “We are aware that Bill may be trying to create his own agency and we wish him the best,” the statement reads.