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...manager and raiding clients from Creative Artists Agency, the firm just a mile away that he co-founded 23 years ago. Last week, after Robin Williams signed on with Ovitz's new Artists Management Group, seven other actors and directors were told by the Young Turks running CAA to make a choice: Ovitz...
...Hollywood, agents and managers live in a symbiotic world, working together to cater to star egos and pocketbooks. So the seven clients with ties to both CAA and Ovitz's new AMG were appalled at their predicament. The rest of the town was enthralled. THE GREAT CAA-OVITZ WAR: WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?, blared the Hollywood Reporter. Would Madonna make the leap? (Maybe, maybe not.) Would Spielberg? (Absolutely not, he said, since CAA packaged his hit Saving Private Ryan.) But of the seven who got the ultimatum, director Martin Scorsese and actors Marisa Tomei and Mimi Rogers have joined...
...roles of agent, manager and studio chief. Round 1 is building the talent bank: Ovitz first captured two of young Hollywood's brightest stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz, by bringing over their managers, Rick Yorn and his sister-in-law Julie Silverman Yorn. Ovitz then started going after CAA's list of bankable celebs. Yet he has also merged with Gotham Group--a go-go firm of top animators--begun negotiations for a start-up record company, hired an Internet whiz and snooped around for a small TV-production firm...
...negotiate agreements but perform hand-holding services and often get producing credits on their clients' projects). Cyclone Mike's moves are shaking up studios too, because they see him gaining leverage to dictate projects for the likes of Leo. "It's a war--and not just against CAA but against the studios," says a studio boss...
...former Ovitz associate expressed surprise that Ovitz would get into talent hand-holding again given that he was so sick of it when he left Creative Artists Agency in 1995. But managers, unlike agents, can act as producers, so the new Ovitz enterprise could have a broader scope than CAA. Those who doubt Ovitz has the patience to deal with finicky stars should note that he recently stepped in to help Barry Levinson cut a deal with Warner. And Ovitz?s old friends at CAA are painfully aware that he has taken ample office space on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly...