Editor’s phrase: Choice has revived its “Tenpercenteries” column that chronicles the inner-workings and client signings of Hollywood’s prime experience corporations and administration corporations. Tenpercenteries was a staple of Choice from the mid-Nineteen Nineties by way of the early 2010s. We’re fully pleased to hold it once more with a heightened focus on gives and dish involving showbiz’s prime experience illustration corporations.
The youthful (and the frugal) workers members at United Experience Firm have been up in arms remaining week, sources suggested Tenpercenteries, over info from administration that the company was suspending its free lunch service.
What began as a post-pandemic perk to lure workers once more into the office had miraculously and generously lasted until 2025. UTA was serving up dishes from Leora, the restaurant that sits inside the firm’s shadow in Beverly Hills. A turkey membership sandwich will run you $15 and a sesame ginger salad models you once more $22 (very modest prices for Los Angeles eateries, btw).
The free chow was served daily, moreover on Fridays, and continued by way of a brutal interval of industrywide cost-cutting that persists to right now. Free catered lunches have been launched to Hollywood’s office custom by Silicon Valley, the place corporations like Fb would arrange procuring mall-style meals courts to keep up programmers fed and fully pleased. Netflix nonetheless boasts a strong menu of delicacies (scorching and takeaway) at its Sunset Boulevard headquarters.
If UTA’s largest rivals — CAA and WME — ever did provide free lunch, they positively don’t now. Sources at UTA talked about firm heads are presently cooking up dietary dietary supplements like coupons, to roll out inside the coming weeks. Some UTA assistants puzzled aloud to their bosses in the event that they could be compensated for the lunch loss, estimating the meals would introduce a financial burden they haven’t wanted to hold in years.
We’d thankfully pay for lunch to take heed to how these conversations went.
Notable experience firm and administration signings:
Kamala Harris has signed with CAA for illustration in all areas, with a focus on speaking engagements and publishing. She was repped by the corporate sooner than turning into Vice President in 2021.
Constance Wu
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Gersh has signed Constance Wu. She’s most interesting recognized for her roles in 2018’s “Crazy Rich Asians,” 2019’s “Hustlers” and the 2015-2020 ABC comedy sequence “Current Off the Boat.”
UTA has signed seven-time Grammy- and Academy Award-winning artist Jon Batiste for illustration in all areas.
Former President Joe Biden has signed with CAA. Biden was represented by the corporate from 2017 to 2020, following his two phrases as Vice President beneath President Barack Obama.
UTA has signed digital media agency Jubilee Media and its founder Jason Y. Lee for illustration in all areas. Together with the favored format “Surrounded,” Jubilee’s YouTube channels operate such sequence as “Heart Flooring,” “Odd One Out,” “Versus 1,” “30 vs 1,” and “Score.”
Quvenzhané Wallis
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Quvenzhané Wallis has signed with Gersh for illustration in all areas. She is the youngest particular person to be nominated for most interesting actress on the Oscars, for her flip in 2012’s “Beasts of the Southern Wild.”
Almost Friday Media, the digital content material materials neighborhood and comedy manufacturing hub born out of the Instagram meme account Friday Beers, has signed with Range Media Companions. Almost Friday Media is engaged on a TV pilot with Danny McBride’s Robust House Footage.
Writer, director and govt producer Matt Hastings has signed with Gersh. Hastings continues to even be repped by authorized skilled Bob Getman and The Gotham Group. Hastings’ latest drama sequence, “Fallen,” premiered remaining month on Sundance Now and AMC+.
Matt Donnelly is senior leisure and media creator for Choice.
Katcy Stephan is a film reporter for Choice.
Tenpercenteries moreover runs in Choice‘s weekly journal
From the Feb. 26 print model of Choice
