‘May December’ Writer Samy Burch Signs With WME

EXCLUSIVE: Syrian actor Samer Ismail, whose international roles include Darren Lynn Bousman’s Saudi shot horror movie The Cello, has signed with talent management and promotional agency MAD Celebrity.

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Susan Park has signed with Prototype Talent Agency for theatrical representation.

Michael Leach, who was the first White House chief diversity and inclusion officer, has signed with Buchwald for entertainment and literary representation.

Sikandar Kher, who can currently be seen starring in Dev Patel’s feature directorial debut Monkey Man, has signed with Zero Gravity Management.

EXCLUSIVE: Amelia Isaac Jones has signed with Inspire Entertainment. The in demand actress, who had been taking a ton of meetings with other reps, can currently be seen as the lead in season three of Neil Forsyth’s BBC series Guilt alongside Emun Elliott, Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives. The series is currently airing on PBS here in the US.

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based creator, comedian, actor, writer Kyle Gordon has signed wtih CAA for representation.

Katcy Stephan Director James McTeigue has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas. McTeigue is the filmmaker behind several major features and series, including his 2005 directorial feature debut “V for Vendetta,” the cult favorite dystopian comic book adaptation starring Natalie Portman, John Hurt and Hugo Weaving.

Christina Aguilera has officially signed to 5020 Records, leaving her longtime label RCA Records of 26 years, Variety can confirm. Fans have been speculating over the past few months that the powerhouse singer had parted ways with RCA, the label that she’s called home for the entirety of her career, after 5020’s logo appeared on her official website.

Andy Cohen’s viral interview about his friendship with John Mayer, the musician has weighed in on the discourse himself.The “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” hitmaker, 46, has long been friends with the Bravo honcho, who is openly gay, but their friendship prompted much speculation in recent years.Now, the singer has chimed in to set the record straight on the nature of their friendship and slammed The Hollywood Reporter for posing the “deeply flawed” question.Addressing the publication’s co-editor-in-chief Maer Roshan, who conducted the interview with Cohen, Mayer criticized Roshan for bringing up the question in the first place.“I read your interview with Andy Cohen, and was intrigued by your line of questioning regarding our friendship,” the guitarist began.“You posited that ‘your friendship with Mayer has been a subject of intense speculation. People seem dubious that a straight rock star can have a close platonic relationship with a gay TV personality.’ I think this is somewhat of a specious premise.”“First, there is a long and storied history of “rock stars” (not mocking, just won’t refer to myself as one) befriending gay icons and artists,” he continued.“Second, I think that to suggest that people are dubious of a friendship like mine and Andy’s is to undermine the public’s ability to accept and understand diversity in all facets of culture, be it in art or in real life.”Mayer said he hopes the public is “sophisticated enough” to accept the fact that the pair’s friendship is strictly platonic.“That turns the concept of being gay into an ignorantly two-dimensional one, which I know you know it’s not.

John Mayer is hitting back at speculation over his relationship with Andy Cohen.

EXCLUSIVE: British writer, director, and producer Alex Marx will make his feature debut with The Queen of Fashion, a long-gestating biopic of fashion editor, stylist, and iconoclast Isabella Blow, with Academy Award nominee Andrea Riseborough set to produce and play the lead role.

Thania Garcia WME has signed Becky G for representation across all areas. All three of Becky’s full-length albums have debuted in the Top 10 of Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart and she has been nominated for five Latin Grammys, including one for her and Karol G’s global collaborative smash “Mamiii.” Becky embarked on her first headlining tour last year after years of anticipation — she’s made countless key appearances at music festivals like Coachella and appeared as a guest act on tours with Katy Perry and Demi Lovato — and released her first regional Mexican and Mexican pop-infused album, “Esquinas.” In the last few months, the Inglewood, Calif.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and DGA Award-winning actor, director, writer and producer Ben Stiller has signed with WME in all areas.

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Olsen has signed with CAA for representation. Known best for her role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch in films such as Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness. She also earned an Emmy nomination for the role in the Disney+ series WandaVision.

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese-Kiwi actor Yoson An has signed with Sovereign Talent Group. Sovereign will rep An’s writing and directing work. 

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Sandra Hüller, the Oscar-nominated actor of “Anatomy of a Fall,” and four-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe (“At Eternity’s Gate”) are set to co-star in Kent Jones’ “Late Fame,” reteaming “May December” co-screenwriter Samy Burch and producer Killer Films. One of the hottest packages set for a Cannes Launch, “Late Fame” has been boarded by MK2 Films which is hot off an Oscar win for “Anatomy of a Fall” and will represent worldwide sales outside of North America.

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian film director and screenwriter Vincent René-Lortie has signed with WME for representation.

Selome Hailu “Saturday Night Live” has set Maya Rudolph to host its May 11 episode alongside Vampire Weekend as musical guest, while the May 18 episode will by headlined by Jake Gyllenhaal with performances from Sabrina Carpenter. Rudolph was an “SNL” cast member for seven seasons from 2000 to 2007 and returns to the late-night sketch show for her third time as host, having previously hosted in 2012 with musical guest Sleigh Bells and in 2021 alongside Jack Harlow.

Katcy Stephan Actor and “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” cast member Kyle Richards has signed with CAA. Richards has been acting since childhood, earning a wide range of credits, including roles in “Little House on the Prairie,” ‘The Car,” “The Watcher in the Woods,” “E.R.,” “The Housewives of the North Pole,” “Beautiful Wedding,” “Halloween” and “Halloween Kills.” She reprised her role as Lindsey Wallace in “Halloween Ends,” the final film of the franchise, alongside Jamie Lee Curtis. In 2010, Richards joined Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and is the last remaining original cast member.

Mayan Lopez may have daddy issues, but they landed her a television show. George Lopez and his 28-year-old daughter have been sharing their rollercoaster of a journey on the semi-autobiographical show Lopez vs. Lopez, which just premiered it’s second season.