EXCLUSIVE: CAA is letting go of quite a few brokers right now. I hear the cuts are primarily impacting the tv — scripted and unscripted — and the movie departments. A few of the notifications are nonetheless occurring however general, the workers reductions are stated to contain round 20 folks.
As Deadline reported final month, CAA in October began the method of year-end evaluations and division critiques that was anticipated to end in departures; right now’s cuts are stated to be a part of that.We are going to replace with extra data because it turns into obtainable.
A rep for CAA, which workers about 3,400 folks, declined remark.
The transfer comes amid intense scrutiny, with lists of CAA brokers rumored to exit, together with veterans with established consumer rosters, circulating round city over the previous couple of weeks. It additionally joins the same spherical of end-of-year workers cuts at UTA final week.
Right this moment’s departures comply with CAA’s March layoffs when slightly below 20 folks have been let go throughout a handful of departments in content material areas, together with expertise.
CAA simply crossed the one-year mark underneath its new proprietor, Francois-Henri Pinault’s Artémis, which accomplished a majority stake acquisition in September 2023. Simply earlier than that, in August 2023— amid the double WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike — about 60 CAA staffers have been laid off in departments corresponding to TV Lit, music and IT.
