WME: The Theory of Everything director James Marsh has shifted from CAA for WME. He previously won the BAFTAs’ highest domestic honor for the 2008 documentary Man on Wire, which also won best documentary feature at the Academy Awards. He is in postproduction on another true story, Deep Water, starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz to be released this fall by StudioCanal.
CAA: Actress Sophia Bush has signed with the agency. She played the lead on WB/CW’s long-running One Tree Hill and currently stars on NBC’s Chicago P.D. On the film side she starred in Dave Meyers’ The Hitcher with Sean Bean along with the films The Chalet Girl and Table for Three. She also has a skincare and perfume line, i smell great.
WME: Alex Rodriguez, who is retiring from baseball after the 2017 season, has signed with WME. A-Rod has been an All-Star 14 times and was honored as the MVP of the American League three times. He won the World Series in 2009 with the New York Yankees. In 2015 A-Rod scored 83 runs and 33 homers, his best since 2008. He’s had more career at-bats (10,341), runs (2,002), hits (3,070), home runs (687) and RBIs (2,055) than any other active player in MLB.
ESA: Filmmaker Matthew Newton has signed with Varun Monga, Martin To and Paul Alan Smith’s Equitable Stewardship For Artists (ESA) for representation in all areas. He is the director behind From Nowhere which made a successful debut at this year’s South By Southwest Film Festival. He previously helmed the 2008 dramedy Three Blind Mice, which premiered at SXSW in 2009 as was acquired after by IFC. As an actor, Newton starred on the Australian television series Underbelly and was seen on Queen of the Damned, Face to Face and The Sideways Light.
Paradigm: Tommy Tune has signed with signed with Paradigm’s theatrical literary head Jack Tantleff. The director-choreographer has won 10 Tony Awards. He is currently working with Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer-director James Lapine, on Barbara Cook: Then And Now, scheduled to begin performances April 12 at off-Broadway’s New World Stages.
CAA/Cinetic: Filmmakers Kris Avedisian, Jesse Wakeman and Kyle Espeleta have signed with CAA and Cinetic. They are the filmmakers behind the feature Donald Cried, based on their Slamdance short of the same name, which debuted at South by Southwest. Jesse Wakeman starred in the film about Peter Latang who returns home to working-class Warwick, RI where he meets up with childhood friend Donald Treebeck and what starts as a simple favor and turns into a long van ride into two friends’ past. The feature version was also selected for the IFP labs and also screened at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s New Directors / New Films.