The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has officially announced its first permanent exhibit, one dedicated to the Jewish history of the film industry.
The museum presents “Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital,” which will be on view beginning May 19, 2024. Presented in English and Spanish, the exhibit tells the origin story of filmmaking in early 20th-century Los Angeles, spotlighting the impact of the predominately Jewish filmmakers whose establishment of the American film studio system transformed Los Angeles into a global epicenter of cinema.
“The American film industry began developing amid an influx of immigration to the United States by Jewish émigrés escaping European pogroms and poverty,” curator Dara Jaffe said in a press statement. “Most of Hollywood’s founders were among this wave of Jewish immigrants and recognized that the infant movie business presented an opportunity to raise their marginalized status in an industry that didn’t...
The museum presents “Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital,” which will be on view beginning May 19, 2024. Presented in English and Spanish, the exhibit tells the origin story of filmmaking in early 20th-century Los Angeles, spotlighting the impact of the predominately Jewish filmmakers whose establishment of the American film studio system transformed Los Angeles into a global epicenter of cinema.
“The American film industry began developing amid an influx of immigration to the United States by Jewish émigrés escaping European pogroms and poverty,” curator Dara Jaffe said in a press statement. “Most of Hollywood’s founders were among this wave of Jewish immigrants and recognized that the infant movie business presented an opportunity to raise their marginalized status in an industry that didn’t...
- 4/11/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Psychological thriller recently wrapped production in Paris.
Sony Pictures Classics (Spc) has picked up North American rights to the French-language thriller, continuing its association with the director after the 2011 drama Carnage.
RatPac Entertainment will partner on distribution with Spc, who negotiated for the rights with Jeff Berg of Northside Services.
Emmanuelle Seigner stars as a Parisian author with writer’s block who encounters a mysterious woman at a book signing played by Eva Green. Wassim Beji of Wy Productions serves as producer.
Olivier Assayas and Polanski adapted Based On A True Story from Delphine de Vigan’s novel of the same name.
“I am very pleased that Sony Pictures Classics will be distributing Based On A True Story in North America,” Polanski said. “Sony Classics is a company that has long tradition in supporting European cinema. I am looking forward to working again with Michael Barker and Tom Bernard.’
Spc said: “Based...
Sony Pictures Classics (Spc) has picked up North American rights to the French-language thriller, continuing its association with the director after the 2011 drama Carnage.
RatPac Entertainment will partner on distribution with Spc, who negotiated for the rights with Jeff Berg of Northside Services.
Emmanuelle Seigner stars as a Parisian author with writer’s block who encounters a mysterious woman at a book signing played by Eva Green. Wassim Beji of Wy Productions serves as producer.
Olivier Assayas and Polanski adapted Based On A True Story from Delphine de Vigan’s novel of the same name.
“I am very pleased that Sony Pictures Classics will be distributing Based On A True Story in North America,” Polanski said. “Sony Classics is a company that has long tradition in supporting European cinema. I am looking forward to working again with Michael Barker and Tom Bernard.’
Spc said: “Based...
- 2/14/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Breaking: David Unger has become co-ceo of Three Six Zero Entertainment, a new venture that will create a bridge for the youth music-centric company to branch into entertainment management and production. He’ll run the venture with Mark Gillespie and Dean Wilson, who run Three Six Zero Group and manage such Edm music powerhouse clients as Calvin Harris, Frank Ocean, Deadmau5 and Duke Dumont. The venture will operate in partnership with Shawn “Jay Z” Carter’s Roc Nation.
Unger had been a long time talent agent at ICM, and took a leap with Jeff Berg when the latter formed the talent agency Resolution. Launching a traditional talent agency without multiple revenue streams is a near impossible pursuit, and Resolution hit the wall when a promise of funding from China didn’t materialize in time. Despite the crash and burn–Unger didn’t jump, he went down with the ship–his...
Unger had been a long time talent agent at ICM, and took a leap with Jeff Berg when the latter formed the talent agency Resolution. Launching a traditional talent agency without multiple revenue streams is a near impossible pursuit, and Resolution hit the wall when a promise of funding from China didn’t materialize in time. Despite the crash and burn–Unger didn’t jump, he went down with the ship–his...
- 2/12/2015
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
Joey Stanton has joined CAA as an agent in its motion picture talent department. Stanton joins the agency from Resolution, where he worked since 2013. He was previously with Paradigm. Among the clients joining Stanton at CAA are Caleb Landry Jones (Roland Emmerich‘s “Stonewall”), Sam Keeley (Ron Howard‘s “In the Heart of the Sea”), Glen Powell (“Expendables 3”), and Daniel Henshall (“Snowtown”), among others. Resolution chief Jeff Berg was forced to shut down Resolution last month. As a result, several of its agents have moved on to greener pastures, including Abram Nalibotsky and Pamela Goldstein to Verve as well as Rich Green and.
- 11/3/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
A version of this story first appeared in the Oct. 24 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. At around 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3, Jeff Berg, the chairman of Resolution, left his Century City office and drove to the Brentwood headquarters of Sitrick and Co., a PR firm that specializes in crisis management. There he sat face to face with its partners, Mike Sitrick and James Bates, as the future of Berg's ballyhooed 20-month-old talent agency hung in the balance. It wasn't their first meeting: Berg and Sitrick had started discussing Resolution's problems in late June
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- 10/15/2014
- by Stephen Galloway
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Verve has hired well-respected agents Abram Nalibotsky and Pamela Goldstein from Resolution. Both are starting immediately, it was announced Mondayday by the Verve partners. Nalibotsky is an experienced literary agent who got his start in the mailroom at the Intertalent Agency and moved up the ranks at UTA and Gersh, where he eventually became head of the Motion Picture Literary Department. Also read: Jeff Berg's Talent Agency Resolution to Close Doors on Friday Nalibotsky was most recently at Resolution, where he worked with writers and directors including Steven Quale, Thor Freudenthal, John Pogue, Jon Amiel, Simon Barry, Kathy Greenberg and Emily Cook,...
- 10/13/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this occasional column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business.
Fleming: Peter, you are spending some time in Europe, but here in the U.S., sounding taps for Jeff Berg’s 18 month old agency, Resolution, was a bummer. A sad but maybe inevitable outcome for a talent agency which brought in some star deal makers from places like CAA who took big paychecks, could not hang on to their clients, and then refused to take pay cuts and left. The surprise was Resolution’s collapse being attributable to broken funding promises from its Chinese backer, Bison Capital. In his long career, Berg is one of the most important agency heads in the last 30 years, and at one time repped everyone from James Cameron to George Lucas (I’ve...
Fleming: Peter, you are spending some time in Europe, but here in the U.S., sounding taps for Jeff Berg’s 18 month old agency, Resolution, was a bummer. A sad but maybe inevitable outcome for a talent agency which brought in some star deal makers from places like CAA who took big paychecks, could not hang on to their clients, and then refused to take pay cuts and left. The surprise was Resolution’s collapse being attributable to broken funding promises from its Chinese backer, Bison Capital. In his long career, Berg is one of the most important agency heads in the last 30 years, and at one time repped everyone from James Cameron to George Lucas (I’ve...
- 10/12/2014
- by Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
Expendables 3 co-financier, Le Vision Pictures, is set to be the latest Chinese film company to set up shop Stateside with an La-based operation. It will look to launch with a $200M fund geared towards making tentpoles for the global marketplace. While skepticism in Hollywood may be high over the glut of Chinese investment in the business without much tangible progress so far — witness the fallout over Jeff Berg’s just-shuttered Resolution Talent Agency following claims Chinese investor Bison reneged on its financial commitments — Le Vision does have the benefit of a deep-pocketed parent in LeTV, one of China’s top three online video platforms. In August, LeTV announced plans to raise $430M through a round of share issues to aid its expansion across a range of innovative online and finance products. That round valued LeTV at over $6B. Le Vision Pictures, which ranked third in overall box office in China...
- 10/7/2014
- by Ali Jaafar, Special To Deadline
- Deadline
Less than two years after Resolution opened its doors, Jeff Berg‘s agency will be closing them as soon as this Friday, an individual with knowledge of the situation has told TheWrap. Berg confirmed the upcoming closing to his staff on Monday morning. It appears that China-based Bison Capital, which recently took a financial stake in Resolution, has pulled its backing. The agency launched in Jan. 2013 with Jahm Najafi as the primary investor. Also read: Resolution Becomes First Hollywood Agency to Take Chinese Investment Resolution has significant overhead and while it does boast some well-known clients, the bookings have not been able to justify the.
- 10/6/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Jeff Berg's Resolution talent agency is winding down, Berg told employees on Monday. The agency has been besieged for months by rumors about its future. Berg, the former longtime ICM chairman, launched Resolution in January 2013 with financial backing from Phoenix-based investor Jahm Najafi. Resolution set about aggressively hiring agents and moved into lavish offices in Century City, but without major stars and lucrative television packaging fees, the agency has lagged behind competitors. In March, Berg announced that China-based Bison Capital would take a stake in Resolution, becoming the first Chinese company to invest in a U.
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- 10/6/2014
- by Matthew Belloni
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Jeff Berg’s Resolution has hired new agent Brehan Fitzgerald from the ranks of 20th Century Fox’s casting division. The former VP of Fox feature casting is starting to make calls around town as she transitions into her new gig repping talent at the agency, effective today.
Why make the leap from casting exec to talent agent? “Working with artists is very rewarding, but when you work in casting you only get to do it for short period of time,” she told me. “Joining the representation side is much more exciting because when you work with an artist, it’s for the long term.” Fitzgerald had a hand in casting some of the studio’s biggest franchises during her 12 year run at Fox, where she rose to VP in 2012. She helped land Michael B. Jordan and Dane DeHaan in Josh Trank’s low budget sci-fier Chronicle, Toby Kebbel...
Why make the leap from casting exec to talent agent? “Working with artists is very rewarding, but when you work in casting you only get to do it for short period of time,” she told me. “Joining the representation side is much more exciting because when you work with an artist, it’s for the long term.” Fitzgerald had a hand in casting some of the studio’s biggest franchises during her 12 year run at Fox, where she rose to VP in 2012. She helped land Michael B. Jordan and Dane DeHaan in Josh Trank’s low budget sci-fier Chronicle, Toby Kebbel...
- 9/8/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Exclusive: Another high profile hire in the early 2013 launch of talent agency Resolution is exiting. Shari Smiley, the 19-year CAA vet, is joining The Gotham Group as a manager in the Literary and Book department. Smiley had left CAA and operated her own business, The Smiley Group, when she joined Jeff Berg’s new agency. She is best known for negotiating the studio deal with Fox for Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, which David Fincher directed with Ben Affleck, and for selling the Cheryl Strayed memoir Wild, which Reese Witherspoon stars in this fall, as well as Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s […]...
- 8/7/2014
- Deadline
Veteran music agent Terry Rhodes is leaving Jeff Berg's Resolution, according to sources. Rhodes, whose clients have included Bryan Adams and the Beach Boys, is the latest to transition out of the young agency founded by former ICM chairman Berg. Steve Alexander left Resolution earlier this month and joined ICM Partners, taking with him clients including David Duchovny. Earlier this year Resolution saw the departures of COO Jeff Franklin, television literary agent Dennis Kim, and agents Leigh Brillstein, Adam Kanter and Martin Spencer. Photos Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films Where Rhodes is headed is unclear. He had co-run ICM's contemporary music division since
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- 7/29/2014
- by Austin Siegemund-Broka
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ICM Partners has hired talent agent Steve Alexander, who will brings clients David Duchovny, Joy Bryant and Tatiana Maslany with him to his new home. Alexander recently left Resolution, the agency formed by long-time ICM chief Jeff Berg. “Through his years as an agent, executive and manager, Steve has solidified a reputation in the industry as a passionate advocate for his clients and as a collaborative partner. We are pleased to welcome him to ICM Partners,” the agency said in a statement. Also read: ‘Californication’ Finale: What's Next for David Duchovny Alexander rejoined the agency business last year after three years at Atlas Entertainment,...
- 7/25/2014
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
A week after his sudden departure from Jeff Berg’s Resolution, Steve Alexander has landed at the agency Berg once led, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. THR reported last week that he would likely land at ICM Partners, and now he is taking much of his client roster with him, including David Duchovny, Tatiana Maslany and Joy Bryant. “My focus always has been to provide my clients with the best opportunities to enrich their careers,” Alexander said in a statement. “With my new colleagues at ICM Partners, I believe that I can offer clients personal, unparalleled representation across every area
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- 7/25/2014
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Resolution, the talent agency founded by former ICM leader Jeff Berg, has lost another top agent, according to several sources. Steve Alexander, whose clients include David Duchovny and Sela Ward, exited abruptly this week, following on the heels of recent defections in COO Jeff Franklin and television literary agent Dennis Kim. Adam Kanter and Martin Spencer, whom Berg recruited to Resolution from CAA, departed for Paradigm earlier this year. List Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films Berg did not respond to a request for comment. Alexander is said to be headed to ICM Partners, though neither he nor an ICM spokesperson responded
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- 7/18/2014
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Two new agents have joined Jeff Berg’s Resolution as the agency builds up following a number of departures in recent months. Talent agent Rachel Sheedy comes to Resolution after spending sixteen years repping actors in film, TV, and theater for Don Buchwald & Associates in New York. She’ll now work out of Resolution’s La office on Century Park East. Along with Sheedy, Jennifer Good recently joined the company’s TV lit department after departing The Alpern Group, where she repped writers and directors in TV and film with an emphasis on the international marketplace. She also did stints at Susan Smith […]...
- 7/10/2014
- Deadline
Exclusive: Dean Fluker has been promoted to agent at Resolution after joining its talent division when Jeff Berg opened the company’s doors early last year. Fluker, 29, worked his way up from assistant to coordinator in that time. He began his career booking talent as a student at the University of Iowa and worked for then-Senator Barack Obama on his 2008 presidential campaign. Fluker also served as a political appointee working on President Obama’s healthcare bill and on First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Initiative before returning to the entertainment industry. Prior to Resolution, he served as an agent trainee […]...
- 6/26/2014
- Deadline
Exclusive: Resolution, the talent agency founded by former ICM chief Jeff Berg early last year, continues to change form. The agency has confirmed the exit of Jeff Franklin, the music agent who was COO and a key partner when Berg jumped ship and formed the new agency with backing from Jahm Najafi, a former Salomon Bros banker active in real estate and private equity with investments in diverse companies and brands. I’m told that Franklin shed the COO stripes a year ago. The agency would not comment beyond that. Related: Jeff Berg Opens New Agency ‘Resolution’ Monday; Investor ID’d I had heard that Franklin would […]...
- 6/12/2014
- Deadline
This is one agency war that has ended with a veiled whimper rather than a drawn-out legal drama. More than six months after Jeff Berg’s Resolution took ICM Partners to court over his former agency’s repeated insistence that it was entitled to commissions on deals made by its former agents, the plug has been pulled on the battle. Terms of the settlement have not been revealed, but Resolution filed for a dismissal on March 24. “Essentially, both gangs put down their knives,” a source close to the situation tells me. Related: Resolution Sued By Month-Long Agent Poached From ICM The whole complaint stemmed from ICM, which has seen a number of its agents and their clients pull up stakes to join Berg since he formed Resolution in January 2013, sending claim letters to its former chief’s new agency supposedly “reserving rights,” according to the complaint filed October 9 in La Superior Court.
- 3/28/2014
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Some degree of peace has erupted in the sometimes cankerous world of Hollywood talent agencies. Jeff Berg's Resolution Entertainment and his former company ICM Partners have come to a settlement to end a lawsuit that was brought last October. The case, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleged that ICM had sent letters to agents who left to join Resolution seeking "commissions Resolution earns for some deals Resolution either has negotiated or will negotiate through the agents who used to be ICM Partners employees." Exclusive: Jeff Berg Speaks: Plans for New Agency, What Really Happened at ICM Berg left
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- 3/27/2014
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As Deadline reported last Friday, Paradigm has confirmed that agents Adam Kanter and Martin Spencer have joined the agency after their abrupt exits from Resolution. Word had raced last week that this was happening, as the two agents did not want to take paycuts from their low-seven-figure salaries. The two joined Jeff Berg last year shortly after he left ICM to launch Resolution, and those agents came from CAA. At Paradigm, they should feel right at home alongside former CAA cohorts Bob Bookman, Ken Stovitz, Rand Holston and most recently Manny Nunez. Related: Resolution Agents Martin Spencer, Adam Kanter Exiting; Paradigm Next Stop? So now, the big question is which clients will join them in the move. Here are the ones I’m hearing are most likely to make the jump to Paradigm: Stuart Beattie, Stalingrad helmer Fedor Bondarchuk, Joe Johnston, Mark Steven Johnson, Malcolm Lee, Rob Minkoff, Evan and Shea Mirzai,...
- 3/13/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Adam Kanter and Martin Spencer have joined Paradigm, effective immediately. The duo recently left Jeff Berg's agency Resolution after previously working together at CAA, as TheWrap first reported. An individual familiar with their exit told TheWrap that Kanter and Spencer were asked to renegotiate their contracts and they refused. Also read: Talent Agents Adam Kanter, Martin Spencer Exit Resolution (Exclusive) “Adam and Martin are excellent agents with outstanding clients, taste and relationships and we are excited to have them join Paradigm,” said Sam Gores, chairman and CEO of Paradigm. “Their familiarity and cohesive working relationships with many of our agents will allow them.
- 3/13/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Adam Kanter and Martin Spencer have joined Paradigm effective immediately, the agency announced Thursday. The duo were previously at Resolution, the start-up agency founded by Jeff Berg. Before that, Kanter and Spencer were at CAA, and their hires at Resolution were considered a big deal. However, the pair came with a high pricetag and, according to sources, when they were recently asked to take cuts in pay, decided it was time to move. It is unclear which clients will move with them to Paradigm this stage. Kanter repped lit talents such as director Simon West and writer Babaloot Mandel
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- 3/13/2014
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Breaking: Even as Jeff Berg was locking down an investment in the agency this week from Beijing-based Bison Capital, rumors raced that other less desirable shakeups were about to happen. We are hearing that veteran motion picture agents Adam Kanter and Martin Spencer, longtime CAA agents who left to join Resolution last year, were escorted out of Resolution headquarters tonight and likely are on their way to Paradigm. Each of the agents brought key clients with them — Kanter brought Doug Liman and Pete Segal, only to see them leave. This is the hard part of trying to launch a talent agency in a most competitive climate, luring agents in as you build enough clientele to enable packaging. It tests client loyalties. I hear they were asked to take pay cuts and didn’t want to. More coming as I hear more about a developing situation. Related: Director Doug Liman Returns...
- 3/8/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Talent agents Adam Kanter and Martin Spencer have left Resolution, an individual with knowledge of the situation has told TheWrap. Kanter did not respond to TheWrap's request for comment and denied he was leaving the agency earlier this week. Former ICM chairman Jeff Berg launched Resolution in January 2013, and Kanter and Spencer were two of his highest-profile hires after the duo left CAA. At the time, Berg said that the duo would play ”a key role in the development of our new agency.” Also read: Two CAA Veterans Join Jeff Berg at Resolution It is not immediately clear what led to Kanter and Spencer's.
- 3/8/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
In the first deal involving a Chinese company taking a financial stake in a Hollywood talent agency, Jeff Berg’s Resolution said today that Beijing-based Bison Capital Holdings has made an investment in the company. The deal means Resolution will advise and consult for Bison, whose founder Peixin Xu serves as an independent director of China’s Bona Film Group, which is 17%-owned by 21st Century Fox. Also, News Corp China Investments CEO Jack Gao will join Resolution’s board of directors. “This partnership will allow us to fund strategic expansion in the global marketplace,” Berg said in announcing the deal today. Bison’s China-based media investments include AirMedia Group, a provider of advertising platforms outside of the home in China. David Unger, the first agent from Berg’s former home ICM to join Resolution after its founding in January 2013, was key in the Bison deal; in addition to film...
- 3/4/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Bison Capital Holdings, a Beijing-based financial company, has invested in Resolution, Jeff Berg’s talent and literary agency, the companies said Tuesday. Resolution did not disclose the size of the investment, nor how large a stake Bison would take in the year-old agency. Berg has been looking to expand his company’s footprint in China, discussing options with Jahm Najafi, his initial investor, and David Unger, an agent he tasked with mounting a strategy for the world’s largest country. “This partnership will allow us to fund strategic expansion in the global marketplace,” Berg said in a statement. Major agencies CAA and Wme have.
- 3/4/2014
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Paula Deen is looking to grow her brand again less than a year after being dropped from her high-profile gig at Food Network. Paula Deen Ventures — which includes Paula Deen Foods, Paula Deen Media, Paula Deen Restaurants, Paula Deen Cookware and Paula Deen Home — is being backed by Najafi Media, the deep-pocketed content and distribution subsidiary of Najafi Cos. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because it is: Founder and CEO Jahm Najafi was the principal investor and financing partner who with Jeff Berg launched Resolution talent agency in January 2013 — the first major full-service agency start-up in almost two decades. Paula Deen Ventures will be run by retail veteran Steven Nanula, who for the last two years led the development of the Paula Deen Food Company. Nanula told the Wall Street Journal the company is in talks with TV networks and other possible partners, but no deals have been signed.
- 2/12/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Al Pacino has returned to ICM Partners, rejoining the agency almost exactly a year after he left to join CAA. Pacino’s exit came right after the agency restructured and longtime head Jeff Berg left to start the agency Resolution. Berg had been part of the team that repped Pacino, along with John Burnham and Adam Schweitzer. They signed the iconic actor after his agent Rick Nicita left to join Morgan Creek, prompting Pacino to end a 22-year run at CAA. ICM Partners has settled down under its new structure and Burnham and Schweitzer have gotten Pacino back. Nicita is his manager. Pacino is involved in many of the same projects, including a date to play the late Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno in the Edward R. Pressman-produced Brian DePalma-directed Happy Valley, a film about how Paterno’s rep as college’s winningest coach was...
- 12/3/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Agencies fighting over commissions on deals negotiated in the past for clients who have now moved on is nothing new in the courts but fighting over deals yet to happen is certainly a novel twist. Yet that’s what happened today when Jeff Berg’s Resolution filed a declaratory relief complaint (read it here) against his former agency ICM Partners over the latter’s seemingly persistent claims that it is entitled to commissions that “Resolution earns for some deals Resolution either has negotiated or will negotiate through the agents who used to be ICM Partners employees.” Essentially ICM, which has seen a numbers of its agents and their clients leave to join Berg since he formed Resolution in January, wants to enforce the employment contracts it had with the agents who left. To that end, ICM sent the new agency “a number of claim letters” supposedly “reserving rights,” according to...
- 10/10/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Jeff Berg's Resolution talent agency has launched a legal attack on his former company ICM Partners. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Resolution claims ICM has sent letters to agents that left to join Resolution seeking "commissions Resolution earns for some deals Resolution either has negotiated of will negotiate through the agents who used to be ICM Partners employees," the suit contends. Read the Complaint Here Berg, who once ran ICM, left last year to launch Resolution, bringing with him some ICM agents. Sources say those agents, many of whom were under contract to
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- 10/10/2013
- by Matthew Belloni
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in L.A. Superior Court, talent agent Martin Beck accuses Jeff Berg's Resolution Entertainment of treating him unfairly during a month of employment at the new agency, eventually firing him. The lawsuit suggests that Beck's hiring was all part of a plot to take agents away from ICM Partners and poach clients. Beck has been working in the business for more than 50 years, spending three decades at ICM before joining Resolution in July. At the new agency, Beck continued to work under Berg, who himself spent decades at ICM, climbing the ladder to eventually
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- 9/19/2013
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Today saw the first public lawsuit against Jeff Berg’s Resolution Agency since the former ICM chief started his own tenpercentery back in January. Resolution was sued in La Superior Court this morning for fraud, breach of contract, wrongful termination, and emotional distress in a 6-count complaint from Martin Beck (read it here). The La-based agent and 30-year ICM vet joined Resolution on July 8th but was terminated on August 2nd. Beck booked acts for Vegas casinos and was recruited by Resolution COO Jeff Franklin over the early part of the summer. Among Beck’s clients at ICM were Wayne Newton, Tony Orlando and Frankie Valli who’s hot again because of Jersey Boys. Beck claims in today’s filing that he signed a two-year contract with Resolution for an annual salary of around $165,000 and contends that his severe medical issues would be accommodated. He maintains that he was not...
- 9/19/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Recording star Chris Brown has signed with Resolution, the talent agency said Monday. He will be represented by Phil Casey and Everly Lee. Brown just completed working on his sixth studio album, “X”, which boasts collaborations with Nicki Minaj, Rihanna and Ludacris. The album hits stores in November and will be followed by a world tour early next year. It is a big plum for Resolution, which former International Creative Management Chairman and CEO Jeff Berg launched last January. Brown has impressive commercial chops and bridges the worlds of media and music. Also read: 5 Reasons Own Is Up – Including Black.
- 9/9/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Agnieszka Vosloo’s Magnitude 9 is set against Japanese tsunami.
Brett Ratner has teamed up with Poland’s Alvernia Studios to produce Magnitude 9, Agnieszka Vosloo’s updated version of Madame Butterfly.
Ratner will produce the tragic love story set against the 2011 tsunami in Japan as an ambitious Us Navy officer encounters a mysterious local girl as he prepares to return home to his fiancée in Washington.
Production is scheduled for 2014 in Japan and the producers are out to cast. RatPac Entertainment’s John Cheng and Kasia Nabialczyk and Alvernia Studios’ Anna Rozalska will oversee the project.
“Magnitude 9 is one of the more powerful scripts I’ve read in a long time,” said Ratner, currently directing and producing Hercules in Hungary for MGM and Paramount.
“It combines a great love story around a natural disaster and beautifully tells the story of the incredible lengths people will go through for love.”
The project marks Vosloo’s follow-up to her...
Brett Ratner has teamed up with Poland’s Alvernia Studios to produce Magnitude 9, Agnieszka Vosloo’s updated version of Madame Butterfly.
Ratner will produce the tragic love story set against the 2011 tsunami in Japan as an ambitious Us Navy officer encounters a mysterious local girl as he prepares to return home to his fiancée in Washington.
Production is scheduled for 2014 in Japan and the producers are out to cast. RatPac Entertainment’s John Cheng and Kasia Nabialczyk and Alvernia Studios’ Anna Rozalska will oversee the project.
“Magnitude 9 is one of the more powerful scripts I’ve read in a long time,” said Ratner, currently directing and producing Hercules in Hungary for MGM and Paramount.
“It combines a great love story around a natural disaster and beautifully tells the story of the incredible lengths people will go through for love.”
The project marks Vosloo’s follow-up to her...
- 9/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Talent agent Isabella Brewster has left Resolution after six months, according to two individuals with knowledge of her plans. She is leaving for personal reasons rather than any professional hang-up, one of those individuals said. Brewster was one of the first hires at Resolution, the nascent agency run by former ICM chief Jeff Berg. She joined the agency in February after a brief stint as a manager, a position she took up after leaving CAA, where she specialized in up and coming talent. Also read: Jeff Berg on Leaving ICM, Starting New Talent...
- 8/23/2013
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Jeff Berg’s Resolution is launching a TV lit department with the hire of boutique TV lit agency Rothman Brecher Kim partner Dennis Kim, as senior television agent representing writers, producers and directors. Since unveiling Resolution in January, Berg has built up the motion picture lit and film and TV talent divisions of the agency with a number of high-profile hires. The appointment of Kim gives Resolution a toehold in the lucrative TV lit business. “Dennis provides us with a deep set of relationships across the broadcast and cable communities. He is a highly respected agent and will play a key role in developing our television business,” Berg said. “We are fortunate to have him join us as he will be working with many of our film clients as well as the writers and producers he has represented over the years.” Kim began his career at UTA where he...
- 7/1/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany is heading to Resolution. The actress has signed for representation with Jeff Berg's upstart talent agency, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The timing comes after Maslany won a best actress trophy her work in the BBC drama at Monday night's Critics' Choice Television Awards. Story: Jeff Berg Speaks: Plans for New Agency, What Really Happened at ICM (Exclusive) The Canadian actress, who plays just under a dozen different characters on the clone drama Orphan Black, has received a massive groundswell of support following the freshman drama's season finale just weeks ago. Prior to her breakout role,
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- 6/10/2013
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Selects announced on Wednesday [5] its latest acquisition from Cannes, taking Us rights from Resolution’s Jeff Berg to Roman Polanski’s Venus In Fur.
The competition entry stars Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric in the adaptation of David Ives’ Broadway play about a game of cat-and-mouse between a brilliant director and a pushy actress.
Polanski and Ives adapted the screenplay and Polanski’s longtime collaborators Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde produced the Cannes competition entry. Berg is Polanski’s longtime agent.
During the festival Sundance Selects acquired or announced it had acquired Abdellatif Kechiche’s Palme d’Or winner Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Clio Barnard’s Directors’ Fortnight entry The Selfish Giant, Francois Ozon’s competition title Young & Beautiful, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Two Days, One Night starring Marion Cotillard, currently in pre-production.
Screen Media Films picked up in Cannes the French crime thriller Paris Countdown and will release on VoD in September...
The competition entry stars Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric in the adaptation of David Ives’ Broadway play about a game of cat-and-mouse between a brilliant director and a pushy actress.
Polanski and Ives adapted the screenplay and Polanski’s longtime collaborators Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde produced the Cannes competition entry. Berg is Polanski’s longtime agent.
During the festival Sundance Selects acquired or announced it had acquired Abdellatif Kechiche’s Palme d’Or winner Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Clio Barnard’s Directors’ Fortnight entry The Selfish Giant, Francois Ozon’s competition title Young & Beautiful, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Two Days, One Night starring Marion Cotillard, currently in pre-production.
Screen Media Films picked up in Cannes the French crime thriller Paris Countdown and will release on VoD in September...
- 6/5/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Roman Polanski's "Venus In Fur" will head to the U.S. via Sundance Selects, it was announced today. The film -- which just had its world premiere in Cannes -- stars Polanski's wife and frequent collaborator Emmanuelle Seigner as Vanda, an actress who shows up late to an audition for Thomas (Mathieu Almaric), a writer-director with some sadomasochist issues. Read More: 'Venus in Fur' Director Roman Polanski at Cannes: 'I've lived long enough to know I can direct.' The deal for the film was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions & Productions for Sundance Selects/IFC Films with Jeff Berg at Resolution on behalf of the filmmakers. Full press release below: New York, NY (June 5, 2013) – Sundance Selects announced today that the company is acquiring U.S. rights to Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski’s Venus In Fur. With a screenplay by Polanski and David Ives, based on the critically acclaimed,...
- 6/5/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Longtime ICM agent Carol Bodie, who left the agency around the time that Jeff Berg exited to form Resolution, has gone into the management game. She is teaming with Oren Segal to form Radius Entertainment, which launches as a new management and production shingle. Bodie, an agent with both ICM and before that CAA, steered the careers of such actors as Jon Hamm, Claire Danes, Winona Ryder, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Kim Cattrall, Dermot Mulroney, Joel Edgerton, Jim Sturgess, Mark Strong, David Oyelowo, Hailee Steinfeld, Rosie Perez, Calista Flockhart and many others. She learned the business from mentor Ed Limato, the late great talent agent. Bodie has produced before, including Girl Interrupted, which won Angelina Jolie her first Academy Award. Segal has repped the likes of Kate Bosworth, Kim Basinger, Paz Vega, and Michael Polish. He formed Management Production Entertainment in 2011. Before that, he worked at Media Talent Group for more than seven years.
- 6/3/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
HBO has snagged the North American television rights to the documentary "Seduced and Abandoned" ahead of its premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it'll play as a special screening. Directed by James Toback ("Fingers," "Black and White," "Tyson"), "Seduced and Abandoned" was actually shot during last year's Cannes festival, and explores, according to HBO, "cinema art, money, glamor and death." Toback and Alec Baldwin, who produced the film alongside Michael Mailer, serve as the film's onscreen guides as it offers up profiles of Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Ryan Gosling, Jessica Chastain, Berenice Bejo, Diane Kruger and James Caan. According to HBO's Michael Lombardo, "When James and Alec set out to make this documentary, it took a different turn. What resulted is something uniquely special and wonderfully entertaining." The deal for the film was negotiated with HBO by Jeff Berg at Resolution on behalf of the.
- 5/13/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
HBO acquired all television rights for the U.S. and Canada to James Toback‘s feature documentary Seduced And Abandoned. Produced by Michael Mailer, Alec Baldwin and Toback and exec-produced by Morris Levy, Alan Helene, Larry Herbert and Neal Schneider, the pic will premiere as a Special Screening in the Official Selection this month at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival. Guided by Baldwin and Toback, Seduced And Abandoned is a cinematic exploration of several interconnected subjects: The Cannes Film Festival and cinema art, money, glamour and death. Shot during the 65th Anniversary Festival in 2012, it features original portraits of Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Ryan Gosling, Jessica Chastain, Berenice Bejo, Diane Kruger and James Caan. Seduced And Abandoned is produced by Michael Mailer Films. The deal was negotiated with HBO by Jeff Berg at Resolution on behalf of the filmmakers. International sales are being handled by Hanway.
- 5/13/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Actor Gabriel Mann has signed with Jeff Berg’s Resolution Entertainment. He was at Apa. Mann co-stars as tech billionaire Nolan Ross on the ABC drama Revenge. He will next be seen in Diego Luna’s Chavez, a biopic of civil-rights activist Cesar Chavez. His previous credits include features The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Life Of David Gale and a recurring role on Mad Men. Mann continues to be managed by Van Johnson and repped by attorney Allison Binder.
- 5/3/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Wme has signed Mitch Glazer, the veteran screenwriter who has been spending most of his time recently writing his Starz dramatic series creation Magic City. Glazer had long been a client of Jeff Berg, and moved with him when he formed Resolution. He most recently wrote and directed the art house film Passion Play, which starred Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox, and his scripting credits include Scrooged and Great Expectations.
- 4/23/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Neal McDonough (Captain America: The First Avenger, Boomtown) has signed with Jeff Berg’s Resolution talent agency. He was most recently at Paradigm. McDonough recently did a high-profile arc on FX’s Justified and is currently shooting Frank Darabont’s upcoming TNT period crime drama series Lost Angels. He will next be seen in Summit’s upcoming Red 2. McDonough continues to be managed by Tony Lipp at Anonymous Content.
- 4/16/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Paradigm has secured some good clients of late as filmmakers have followed agents like Robert Bookman into the fold. Here’s a surprise: the agency has signed Roger Donaldson, director of such films as The Bank Job, The Recruit, Thirteen Days, No Way Out, and Cocktail. He also wrote and directed The World’s Fastest Indian. Donaldson was in play when his CAA agent, Martin Spencer, left to join Jeff Berg’s upstart agency Resolution. Everyone expected the filmmaker to follow, but he instead signed with recently minted Paradigm agent Ken Stovitz. Stovitz had been Donaldson’s agent until he left to join Will Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment, but clearly that relationship with Donaldson remained strong.
- 4/9/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Like many of its predecessors, including Pinkberry: The Movie, Yom Kippur At Wme and Staff Meeting: The Movie and The Transfer, another department video from the latest Wme quarterly meeting is making the rounds online. It is pilot season-themed and features the head of the agency’s TV department, Rick Rosen, as a boss from hell commandeering his put-upon second assistant (played by Wme client Nelson Franklin) to deliver gifts to all of the agency’s clients with pilot orders to congratulate them on the start of production of their pilots. The gifts’ recipients include Howard Gordon, executive producer of CBS drama pilot Anatomy Of Violence, along with FX’s Tyrant and TNT’s Legends; Shawn Ryan, writer-exec producer of CBS’ Beverly Hills Cop; and Larry Charles, director of ABC’s Mixology. The short film, written by Tony Dodds and directed by Todd Biermann, also features a jab at Jeff Berg...
- 4/8/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Resolution has signed actress Michelle Yeoh. One of Asia’s biggest stars, Yeoh will figure in Resolution’s international strategy, which is a priority for Jeff Berg’s upstart agency. Yeoh who starred as Aung San Suu Kyi in Luc Besson’s critically acclaimed The Lady and recently voiced a role in Dreamworks animated hit Kung Fu Panda 2. The former Bond girl is best known for her roles in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Rob Marshall’s Memoirs Of A Geisha, Roger Spotiswoode’s Tomorrow Never Dies and Danny Boyle’s Sunshine.
- 3/26/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
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