‘This Is Our Life’s Work’: CAA’s Leaders on WGA Fight, Dealmaking Challenges and Succession Planning
Kevin Huvane, Richard Lovett and Bryan Lourd are mad as hell. Exasperated, frustrated and, by their own admission, a little beaten down after a nearly two-year battle with a most unexpected foe: the Writers Guild of America.
The three longtime leaders of CAA have had enough of being told by outsiders what they should and shouldn’t be doing to run Hollywood’s most powerful agency and what they can and can’t do to keep pace with the media giants that command the global entertainment business.
CAA’s ruling triumvirate got so fed up with the WGA impasse — which keeps the agency from representing writer clients — that they broke with their tradition of staying out of the press to speak out about what they see as existential threats facing the myriad artists they represent. CAA also took the rare step of making more than a dozen department heads and...
The three longtime leaders of CAA have had enough of being told by outsiders what they should and shouldn’t be doing to run Hollywood’s most powerful agency and what they can and can’t do to keep pace with the media giants that command the global entertainment business.
CAA’s ruling triumvirate got so fed up with the WGA impasse — which keeps the agency from representing writer clients — that they broke with their tradition of staying out of the press to speak out about what they see as existential threats facing the myriad artists they represent. CAA also took the rare step of making more than a dozen department heads and...
- 11/25/2020
- by Cynthia Littleton and Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
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