Sam Gores Goes It Alone – Why That UTA-Paradigm Deal Fell Apart
Price wasn’t the issue. Timing wasn’t the issue. The WGA dispute wasn’t the issue. Culture wasn’t the issue.
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Paradigm CEO Sam Gores Says He ‘Shut Down Discussions’ With UTA
“I have made the decision to shut down discussions and not make this deal,” Sam Gores says in a memo to staff
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Paradigm Hires Motion Picture Lit Agent Ryan Saul and TV Lit Agent Katt Riley
Both will be based in the agency’s Los Angeles headquarters
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Paradigm Taps Liz Morentin to Lead Agency’s Communications
Morentin jumps to Paradigm from Warner Bros.
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Katie Holmes to Star in Movie Based on Rhonda Byrne’s Self-Help Hit ‘The Secret’
The book has sold over 30 million copies
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‘Fruit Ninja’ Video Game Movie Goes to New Line
Film based on mobile game was written by J.P. Lavin and Chad Damiani
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Mike Tyson Joins Janoskians in Prank Comedy ‘Public Disturbance’
Lionsgate film begins production
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Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith Cast in Universal’s ‘Girl Trip’
Female bonding comedy comes out next summer
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Paramount Wins Auction for Cuban Mafia Book ‘The Corporation’ (Exclusive)
Benicio del Toro is attached to star and Leonardo DiCaprio will produce via Appian Way
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Bidding War Erupts Over Cuban Mafia Book ‘The Corporation’ (Exclusive)
Paramount’s bid has Benicio del Toro attached to star, while Oscar Isaac is part of WB’s bid
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Ava DuVernay Jumps to CAA From Paradigm
Agency adds the director of 2014’s “Selma,” which was nominated for Best Picture at Academy Awards
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NYC Indie Film Companies Dig Out From Hurricane Sandy
The Weinstein Company and Oscilloscope are all waiting for the power to come back in the wake of Hurricane Sandy
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Verve: The Little Agency That Could Black List
The upstart agency, along with Paradigm, has more scripts on the list than one-time powerhouse ICM and the long-established Gersh and APA
