Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams Signs With UTA

Academy Award-winning writer, director and producer Cameron Crowe has inked with United Talent Agency.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaCameron Crowe, the writer and director of “Jerry Maguire” and “Almost Famous,” has signed with UTA.The Oscar winner was previously at CAA. UTA will work with Crowe’s longtime manager, Irving Azoff, to represent Crowe in all areas, including film, television and other media.Crowe won an Academy Award for writing the script for “Almost Famous,” his semi-autobiographical look at the rock scene of the 1970s.

Also Read: David Crosby Sells Music Catalog to Irving Azoff's Iconic ArtistsSome of his other directing credits include “Vanilla Sky,” “Singles,” “Elizabethtown” and “We Bought a Zoo,” and he also wrote the screenplays for the ’80s classics “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and “Say Anything.” As a documentary filmmaker, he’s been behind “Pearl Jam Twenty” and “The Union.”Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” was loosely based on his experience as a young correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine.

The Trotters are in their best form of the season so far, being unbeaten in their last six games. They have won their last four games on the bounce and can make it five should they pick up three points against Barrow tomorrow.

Alan Robert Murray, a two-time Oscar winner and sound editor who has worked on films such as “American Sniper,” “Joker” and “Letters From Iwo Jima,” has died. He was 66.Murray’s passing was confirmed by his family via Kim Waugh, an executive with Warner Bros.

UTA has signed writer-director Dylan Meyer. Meyer has become an increasingly in-demand screenwriter.

Orlando von Einsiedel, the British filmmaker who won the best documentary short Oscar in 2016 for The White Helmets and was executive producer on last year’s winner Learning to Skateboard in Warzone (if you’re a girl) via his prolific Grain Media production company, has lifted the lid on his secretive debut scripted project.

UTA has signed filmmaker Roger Ross Williams and his production banner, One Story Up, for representation. Williams is the first African American director to win an Academy Award for his short film Music by Prudence.

UTA has inked Academy and Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and writer Roger Ross Williams and his production banner, One Story Up, in all areas.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHarlan Coben has signed on for representation with UTA.He will continue to be represented by literary agent Lisa Erbach Vance of The Aaron Priest Literary Agency and attorney Michael Gendler of Gendler & Kelly.Coben has penned over thirty novels, includingNew York Times bestsellers “The Boy From The Woods,” “Run Away,” “Fool Me Once,” “Tell No One,” and the Myron Bolitar series.

Robert C. Jones, the esteemed film editor who shaped such classics as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Love Story, The Last Detail and Bound for Glory and shared a screenplay Oscar for Coming Home, has died.

Robert C. Jones, an Oscar-winning writer and editor whose credits include It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Coming Home and Love Story, has died. He was 84.

Natalie Oganesyan editorRobert C. Jones, the acclaimed film editor behind 1960s and ’70s classics “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and “Love Story” who garnered a screenplay Academy Award for the war drama “Coming Home,” has died.

Dame Julie Andrews has led tributes to The Sound Of Music and Knives Out actor Christopher Plummer, who has died at the age of 91. Dame Julie, 85, who starred alongside Plummer in the iconic 1965 musical, said: "I treasure the memories of our work together and all the humour and fun we shared through the years.

Christopher Plummer, the legendary actor known for “The Sound of Music” and countless other iconic roles including “Knives Out,” “A Beautiful Mind” and his Oscar-winning “Beginners,” has died.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn June 2019, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo set up an exhibition, Quebrantos, in Bogota’s main Bolivar Square, opposite Colombia’s parliament, and wrote in broken glass the names of 165 activists killed since – not before – Colombia’s peace agreement in 2016. “If we forgot them, if we don’t remember their names, we’re killing them a second time,” she explained.Colombia, Colombians themselves complain, are good at forgetting.

LOS ANGELES -- Cloris Leachman, an Oscar-winner for her portrayal of a lonely housewife in “The Last Picture Show” and a comedic delight as the fearsome Frau Blücher in “Young Frankenstein” and self-absorbed neighbor Phyllis on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died. She was 94.Leachman died in her sleep of natural causes at her home in Encinitas, California, publicist Monique Moss said Wednesday.

Jared Leto may have won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his work in the 2013 drama “Dallas Buyers Club”, but that wasn’t enough to get him to watch the movie.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Emmy-winning British production company Rise Films is developing the first major television drama series on the phone-hacking scandal that shook the very foundations of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in the early noughties.