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- Introduction to CAA
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- The Split
In recent years, rivals have taken it hard to CAA. There is particular irony in WME’s ascendance, both because it was William Morris from which the founders of CAA fled, spending the next two decades grinding their former employer to near dust; and also because Endeavor, which merged with William Morris to create the new titan, was founded by agent...
In 1925, there were fewer than twelve agencies listed in Hollywood directories, so one could almost empathize with Clara Bow, nationally famous “It” girl, and her professional suffering. Like other actors in pretalkie times, Bow seemed to be on a trajectory toward auspicious stardom, or at least marketable adorability, but also like most actors, sh...
MICHAEL OVITZ: I was student body president for a high school of four thousand students. I was also president of my fraternity at UCLA and dedicated myself to being very well organized. I had a huge appetite for getting deeply involved in everything that interested me. In college, I went to work as a tour guide at Universal. There were ten of us—fi...
It actually started back sometime in 1975. My secretary said, “There’s a man on the phone named Michael Ovitz, from California, do you know him?” and I said no, so she said she’d get rid of him. But she came back a few minutes later and said, “He’s an agent in Los Angeles and he’d very much like to talk to you.” I’m not that hard to reach, so I pic...
RON MEYER: A few years after we started the company, Mike and I had what we used to jokingly call “our walk in Central Park.” We were in New York and went for a long walk and he told me, “I feel like I’m carrying most of the weight here; I’ve got the most important clients; and I’m the face of this company.” And I have to say, at the time, that was...
ERIC CARLSON: I never went onto a desk. I came out of the mailroom and went straight to being an agent. I think I’m the only guy who’s ever done that. What happened was while I was in the mailroom, I wrote a study on all the emerging television markets. It took me three months and was like a thesis. I bound it with all the partners’ names on it, th...
TOM POLLOCK: Twins was a groundbreaking deal at the time. It was not Mike Ovitz who made the deal. Ivan Reitman made it with me personally because I was his lawyer before I left for Universal and there was a writers’ strike going on. We’re five months into the writers’ strike and there’s no product. Ivan had signed his company up to the interim dea...
Walter Yetnikoff was the senior attorney at CBS Records who guided the Sony acquisition of CBS Records, which was a huge success for Sony, both economically and strategically. Yetnikoff developed a close personal relationship with Sony president Norio Ohga, who installed him as CEO of CBS Records and became his key man in the entertainment industry...
KEVIN COSTNER: I didn’t want to have standard deals, and I felt like CAA and Mike would be able to get me away from them. I wanted ownership; and I was willing to be entrepreneurial. ARMY BERNSTEIN: One day Kevin Costner came to my house, and was just really down. I said, “What’s going on?” and he said, “I have this screenplay, I can’t get it made....
IVAN REITMAN: I don’t know what Ronnie’s deal was, but it was way less than Michael had negotiated. Ron was the real workhorse; it was clear Mike relied a great deal on Ron. But Ron saw the writing on the wall, so he made the next smartest deal, and he actually said yes to it. So Ovitz was miserable. And by then all these so-called Young Turks, thi...
Sep 28, 2018 · Ovitz is a keen martial arts practitioner — his Gordon Gekko-style morning routine involved waking at the crack of dawn for a head-clearing training session before tackling calls with his ...
Life’s Work: An Interview with Michael Ovitz. As a cofounder of Creative Artists Agency, Ovitz revolutionized how big deals in film, TV, music, and corporate media were done from the 1970s ...
Michael Steven Ovitz (born December 14, 1946) is an American businessman. He was a talent agent who co-founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 1975 and served as its chairman until 1995. Ovitz later served as president of The Walt Disney Company for only 16 months, from October 1995 to January 1997.
Synopsis. As co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Michael Ovitz earned a reputation for ruthless negotiation, brilliant strategy and fierce loyalty to his clients. He reinvented the role of the agent and helped shape the careers of hundreds of A-list stars and directors, including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Sean Connery, Steven Seagal, Bill Murray, Robin Williams ...
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Dec 9, 2018 · Client Focus: Ovitz was obsessive with making his clients successful. He notes: “I focused intensely on you always turning the conversation away from myself.”. But he was also honest with his ...
