![]() ![]() “Only in the wake of the Writers Guild’s pressure of revealing said talent agencies’ conflicts of interest, did WME rush to transfer its license for La La Land in Concert to Endeavor Content, its newly created subsidiary, to try to hide its clear breaches of its fiduciary duties,” the action says at one point. Illustrated with an invective-filled (surprise, surprise) cameo by Ari Emanuel, the IP-based suit filed this morning in Los Angeles Superior Court by attorneys Bryan Freedman and Tamar Yeghiayan claims “WME had cynically concocted an illegal scheme, whereby its fixed profit from La La Land in Concert was completely out of line with industry standards for talent agencies.” Resurrecting the demons of packaging that WME and other Tinseltown studios hoped to be forgiven for in their court-fought capitulations to the WGA last year, the civil complaint alleges that Hurwitz was scammed by his own reps out of hefty conducting fees and more so WME could “secure the license for the tour of La La Land in Concert – only to self-deal by competing directly against Hurwitz for the profits from the tour” (read it here). However, unlike the Academy Awards’ Best Picture debacle of 2017, the breach of contract, negligence and fraud complaint by Oscar and Grammy winner Justin Hurwitz against the agency and its now-divested production arm Endeavor Content over a touring “live-to-film concert” of the Damien Chazelle-directed movie seems much more than a mere sleight of hand. PREVIOUSLY, JAN 10 AM: EXCLUSIVE: A stinging lawsuit filed Monday by the composer of La La Land may leave WME wishing they’d been slipped the wrong envelope. The composer is set to appear in Tokyo later this summer at La La Land Live, I hear. Hard hitting Freedman and colleague Tamar Yeghiayan sued the Ari Emanuel-led units earlier this year over an alleged financial reverse bait and switch that saw the now-CAA repped Hurwitz dramatically shortchanged for a touring version of his music from the acclaimed 2016 film from director Damien Chazelle.Īs the matter moves towards trial, WME and Hurwitz still have some other business at hand. “This is clearly an attempt to use a routine scheduling conference to repeat baseless claims that we will defend vigorously.” “It’s ironic that Hurwitz’s counsel has stated that the trial date ‘cannot come soon enough’ when in fact they requested that the date be pushed from May 2023 to September 2023,” a WME spokesperson said Wednesday. WME agreed, but perhaps not in the way the plaintiff’s team would have hoped. Size Of Covid Outbreak That Led To WME Switching To Work From Home Revealed
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