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EXCLUSIVE: BrickHouse Talent is bolstering diversity and inclusion in the industry by launching the first agency division to represent culture and inclusivity advisors on set and in the writers’ room. The news comes after filmmakers and studios have recently doubled down on efforts to authentically depict people of…

Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated filmmaker Jake Scott has signed with Range Media Partners. Scott is a founder of music video and creative production company Black Dog Films, and is a director at the Ridley Scott Creative Group and RSA Films. He is currently casting his next film First Ascent, which Scott Free and…

Entertainment marketing outfit Create Advertising Group has hired Callie de Quevedo as SVP and Head of Integrated Marketing. In her new role, de Quevedo, who earlier in her career held public relations posts at NBC, Disney, and Fox Television, will create strategy-driven, integrated campaigns for Create clients which…

Geoff Sawyer, most recently Red Bull's Director of Global Music Services, has been hired by UTA as an agent in its Video Games division. In the newly created role based in Los Angeles, he will focus on fostering collaborations between UTA's music clients and the gaming industry. At Red Bull, Sawyer oversaw a team and…

WME has signed documentary filmmaker Kareem Tabsch, best known for co-directing the Netflix documentary, Mucho Mucho Amor, about the life of Walter Mercado. The docu, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, tells the story of the beloved cultural icon and astrologer who delivered daily horoscopes on…

EXCLUSIVE: Heather Hach, the screenwriter behind 2003’s Freaky Friday and What to Expect When You’re Expecting, has signed with A3 for representation. Hach is attached to pen Sony’s adaptation of Allison Winn Scotch’s Broadway Books novel Time of My Life, Deadline can confirm. Producer Meryl Poster optioned rights to…

Josh Humiston, a music agent and partner at Agency for the Performing Arts, died Wednesday after a stroke, the agency said. He was 48. APA said Humiston was the first agent in its 59-year history to rise from the mailroom to partner. His clients have included Dionne Warwick, Smokey Robinson, Judas Priest, X, Andrew…

EXCLUSIVE: Mikaela Hoover has inked with Buchwald. Most recently, Hoover appeared in Netflix’s holiday hit, Holidate, opposite Emma Roberts and Kristen Chenoweth. The film was the top-streamed item in its debut weekend. She will next appear in James Gunn’s Suicide Squad, as well as the upcoming Netflix feature, Love Ha…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed first-generation Maltese-American filmmaker Alex Camilleri, whose directorial debut Luzzu premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the first Maltese feature to compete in a major international festival. Camilleri also wrote, produced, and edited the film, which revolves around…

Oscar-winning writer, director and producer Cameron Crowe has inked with UTA. The firm will work alongside Crowe's longtime manager Irving Azoff to rep the filmmaker in all areas including film, TV and other mediums. As a documentary filmmaker, Crowe recently produced David Crosby: Remember My Name and other projects…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Vasquez and Roman White, contemporary Christian and country music biz mainstays and the producer and director, respectively, of the upcoming faith-based Netflix musical film A Week Away, have signed with UTA and launched their new banner Rove Productions. They will be based in Nashville. A Week…

A New York jury will not hear the profanity packed emails of original The Walking Dead showrunner Frank Darabont in the trial for the $300 million profits participation battle from the Shawshank Redemption director and CAA against AMC – at least for now. "The Court is not swayed by Defendants' argument that, absent…