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The AI entertainment studio Promise has secured new investment from a number of high-profile backers, including Google, ...
When Michael Ovitz asked his mother why she never told him he was related to the artist Joel Shapiro, she replied, “You never ...
Promise, the generative artificial intelligence studio that aims to produce original series and movies using AI technology, ...
James Andrew Miller calls into question some of the retelling of events in 'Who Is Michael Ovitz?' and offers his take on Ovitz's new book. By James Andrew Miller Anyone in the entertainment indus ...
I suppose I should consider it an honor that I was recently agented by Michael Ovitz. I don’t mean that Ovitz represented me in a negotiation, but that I was metaphorically on the other side of ...
In his memoir “Who Is Michael Ovitz?” the former super agent offers his own take on how he became one of the most powerful people in Hollywood. The memoir, due out Tuesday, traces Ovitz’s ...
Michael Ovitz says he was worth every penny of his $140 million severance from Walt Disney, because he solved studio problems that Chairman Michael Eisner couldn’t handle. Eisner and Ovitz ...
Michael Ovitz co-founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 1974 and served as its Chairman until 1995. Over that 20-year period, he grew the agency from a start-up organization to the world’s ...
Five years after the fabled eatery closed, Michael Ovitz, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Sherry Lansing and just about every other power broker tell tales about the countless deals, dish and gossip (way ...
The AI entertainment studio Promise has secured new investment from a number of high-profile backers, including Google, Michael Ovitz’s Crossbeam Venture Partners, Kivu Ventures and Saga Ventures.