Ari Emanuel

Hollywood Mogul Ari Emanuel is turning his creative deal-making skills from Hollywood to Madison Avenue. LeBron James’ ESPN special “The Decision” may have caught fallout from fans and media. But the ESPN special was a success  for co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor, Ari Emanuel who coerced LeBron James’ Creative Artists agents to produce one of the highest-rated telecasts of the year, earning $6 million in ad revenue for partners like the Boys & Girls Club. What’s next for Ari Emanuel? Ari...Read Full Story

Two of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies have announced plans to merge in a power play that attempts to shift leverage from movie studios and record labels back to artists, actors, writers and directors.The 111-year-old William Morris Agency said Monday it will join with upstart Endeavor, a 14-year-old agency cofounded by Ari Emanuel, brother to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and the inspiration behind the character Ari Gold on HBO's "Entourage."The combined entity will be called...Read Full Story

Hollywood Mogul Ari Emanuel is turning his creative deal-making skills from Hollywood to Madison Avenue. LeBron James’ ESPN special “The Decision” may have caught fallout from fans and media. But the ESPN special was a success  for co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor, Ari Emanuel who coerced LeBron James’ Creative Artists agents to produce one of the highest-rated telecasts of the year, earning $6 million in ad revenue for partners like the Boys & Girls Club. What’s next for Ari Emanuel? Ari...Read Full Story

Well, you know all of those big movie stars and big producers that create all those huge movies that we see in multiplexes, TV as well as online?  They’re all represented by several big talent agencies in Hollywood including Creative Artists Agency, William Morris Agency, and Endeavor Talent Agency. It was announced yesterday that the William Morris Agency and Endeavor Talent Agency will merge to form a huge entity called “William Morris Endeavor Entertainment,” or WME for short. James A...Read Full Story

i just realized this: Obama’s chief of staff is a guy named Rahm Emanuel.  Two interesting facts about him i learned from his Wikipedia entry: He was the inspiration for the character Josh Lyman on Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing.  My sister would know better but i believe he was pretty cool Rahm’s brother, Ari Emanuel, is the inspiration for the character Ari on HBO’s Entourage (Jeremy Piven). Is that not an amazing made-for-tv family?!  I wonder if they sit around the dinner table over...Read Full Story

This year, Julia Boorstin interviewed Ari Emanuel, the CEO of William Morris Endeavor (WME), at the Web 2.0 Summit. He shares his perspective on the state of monetizing superstar talent and how technology has shifted the range of opportunities available to them. Considering that we normally focus on smaller and midsize acts, this is a fascinating (read: scary) look into the upper echelons of the entertainment industry. Watch the video below: -- If you stayed turned in until the...Read Full Story

Two of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies are merging.The 111-year-old William Morris Agency said Monday it will merge with upstart Endeavor, a 14-year-old agency cofounded by Ari Emanuel. The combined entity will be called William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.Emanuel is brother to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, and the inspiration behind the character Ari Gold in HBO's "Entourage."The move attempts to shift leverage from movie studios and record labels back to musicians, actors...Read Full Story

OK I don't know what I love more about Rahm Emanuel; that his brother Ari is the prototype for Entourage's Ari Gold OR the fact that Rahm is kind of a like a an Orthodox Jew/Tony Soprano. Can you imagine what their Passover Seder dinner conversations are like? The next 4 years is going to be so fun!!!EMANUEL IN FULLby Lizzie WiddicombeTalk of the TownThe New YorkerWhen Barack Obama appointed Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff last week, a bunch of old stories went back into circulation, clues...Read Full Story

For those in the John McCain camp who spent the last week of the campaign declaring that Barack Obama hung around with antisemites, the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff is a bit of a stunner. To anyone living in the real world, it comes as a revealing first move.If you were expecting Kumbaya from Obama, do try to remember where he learnt politics. It’s Chicago, where Emanuel also practised the dark arts of twisting arms, yelling in people’s faces and counting votes. As one wag...Read Full Story

Raw Story Emanuel: "Fringe Group" Controlling GOPCBS NewsThe high-strung, expletive spewing Ari Gold of "Entourage" is modeled after the youngest Emanuel brother, top Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel. …Rahm Emanuel Thinks Washington Is Working Just FineMediaite.comall 12 news articles » View full post on ari emanuel – Google News Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Reddit Stumble [...]Read Full Story