Paradigm Permanently Lays Off 180 Previously Furloughed Staff

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.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsActor, writer, producer and director Clark Middleton has died. Middleton, known for various roles in Twin Peaks, Law & Order, Kill Bill: Vol.

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Steph Curry, 32, looked like he could win a “Father of the Year” award in his latest family snapshot! The athlete was sitting on a couch with his three kids, including Riley, 8, Ryan, 5, and Canon, 2, in the sweet photo, which was posted to his wife Ayesha Curry‘s Instagram page on Oct. 3, and they couldn’t help but have a cozy moment together. Little Canon had one arm around his dad while Ryan looked on over them and Riley sat on the other side showing them something on a phone.

Elizabeth Hurley is opening up about her late ex Steve Bing, who fell to his death from his Los Angeles, Calif., apartment building in June. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office ruled that Bing died of multiple blunt trauma.

Los Angeles Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong vowed to increase diversity in the newspaper’s coverage and staff in a letter published Sunday along with a series of sweeping, introspective reports into the Times’s long history of racism.“The Times has also mirrored, and in some cases propagated, the biases and prejudices of the world it covers, reflecting and shaping attitudes that have contributed to social and economic inequity,” Soon-Shiong wrote.

James McClain It appears Simon Cowell is in the mood to radically thin his real estate portfolio, or at least the portion of it within the Los Angeles area. Only a month after he sold his main residence in Beverly Hills for exactly $25 million in an off-market transaction, property records reveal the media tycoon has also disposed of another 90210 property in a second off-market deal, this time for $14.5 million.

“If you are the big tree, we are the small axe,” this is the Jamaican proverb that has inspired filmmaker Steve McQueen‘s, “Small Axe,” a collection of five films inspired by real-life events about ordinary people showing courage, belief, and resilience to overcome injustice and achieve something transformative in their West Indian community.

Like most aspects of life, the New York Film Festival looks a little different this year, switching to a mostly virtual format in light of the pandemic.

Yet another showbiz heavyweight is coming to the defence of Ellen DeGeneres.

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Paradigm talent agency disclosed that it would be making permanent staff layoffs of 180 employees that were temporarily cut earlier in the year amid pandemic-related film and TV production shutdowns.

Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen’s films rarely have a light touch. For example, “Hunger” recounts the life of IRA member Bobby Sands, and the group’s organized hunger strike; “Shame” depicts sex addiction; “12 Years a Slave” violently retells the story of a freed Black man kidnapped into slavery; and “Widows” explains the socio-political environment for women and Black people in Chicago.

Dave McNary Film ReporterParadigm has permanently laid off 180 of its 600 employees, six months after those agency staffers were temporarily laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Paradigm chairman and CEO Sam Gores announced the move in a memo to staff.“With disappointment and sadness, today we have informed the temporarily laid off employees whom we have not been able to reinstate that they will be transitioned to permanent layoff,” Gores said on Thursday.“As you know, over the last six

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmBREAKING: Ouch. Paradigm held a conference call this morning where its head of HR told the agency that upwards of 180 employees — mostly operation and administrative, we’re told — had gone from temporarily laid off to permanently exited from the company.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn a focused media blast, former R.E.M.

Chris Willman Music WriterKCRW, one of the most widely heard and influential public radio stations in the country, is suffering major hits amid the pandemic, as close to 20% of its content creators have been cut loose in a buyout. That figure was offered on social media by We Make KCRW (@wemakekcrw), a Twitter account representing the staff of the Santa Monica, Calif.-based outlet.“It’s a crushing blow,” tweeted the staffers’ account.

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart wear their masks while heading into Vicente Food Market on Monday afternoon (September 14) in Santa Monica, Calif.

Richard Madden and Froy Gutierrez carry some bags to the car while stepping out together on Tuesday (September 8) in the Primrose Hill neighborhood of London, England.

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