CAA Seeks Ten Percent Of The Entire World
Today's LAT looks at CAA's recent bloodthirsty rampage through their competition's staff and client lists; it seems that in a relentless push for "100% market share," the agency doesn't just want talent—it wants all the talent, a ten-percent lust not seen since Michael Ovitz's tanks regularly rolled down Wilshire Blvd. Even high-powered studio execs seem cowed by CAA's surging clout:
CAA has been able to expand its reach without yet damaging its reputation as the industry's best-run and most strategic agency, according to studio executives and even several rival agents.
"They get teamwork," says Nina Jacobson, president of Disney's Buena Vista motion picture group. "[They] don't work at cross-purposes with each other, unlike some people in the business."
For example, if someone mistakenly eats a baby left in the fridge overnight (but clearly marked in Sharpie with the owner's name) at one of the other, less teamwork-oriented agencies, it's likely that a fistfight would break out over the selfish transgression. But at CAA, the baby-snacker knows to replace it with a fresh tyke and a note of apology. There are more than enough babies to go around, bro.