Comments on: Mystery Behind ICM's New Talent Hire

By: Foo Man Choo

Foo Man Choo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:41:39 +0000

Let’s face it people, the place is a fucking dump. They would be better off pulling a Wasserman and dissolving the business then continuing on their slow death.

puh-leeze.

By: MB

MB — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:25:26 +0000

ICM has been on the decline since the great exodus of the late 1990’s. They could never quite get it together after that…

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:00:27 +0000

Whoever wrote “a high level of experience, taste, relationships and an understanding of this business and how best to guide an actors career from it’s early beginnings to superstardom, with integrity” belongs on K Street in Washington, not on Wilshire in LA. Out here we spin better, less transparent bull than this…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:44:20 +0000

Certain agent paychecks were cut, but when the takeover happened…a LOT of agent expense accounts were slashed greatly. MANY of the agents were disgusted.

The best was when they changed offices in both the LA and NY office. The new NY location is a dump compared to their old address and it’s an embarrassment to bring clients there if they had been to the original NY location, in prime midtown location. Richard Abate even pointed this out during his lawsuit trial w/them (in which he slaughtered ICM). The new owners were like chicken’s w/their heads cut off, running around firing people…then re-hiring them after realizing they actually had some knowledge of their newly-acquired business. Refusing to buy simple beverages for the offices…ending the purchases of fresh flowers for the offices, etc. A friend of mine works there and it really WAS/IS that bad. They polished up the turd enough for the new owners to purchase it and once they started peeling back the layers…they realized what they were now the owners of. It was a comedy show, indeed.

…looks like it still is.

By: A.

A. — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:38:37 +0000

Were agent paychecks cut, too?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:17:23 +0000

“…exactly why ICM just hired back alumnus Scott Wexler as its newest talent tenpercenter”?

…uh, how about because ICM has been scraping the bottom of the barrel since the takeover in 2005? Good God, people…ICM has become nothing short of a joke in the last few years. But at least it’s a funny one. From cutting their employee paychecks to their lame-ass excuses for doing so (uh…it was a strategic blah-blah) to their agents jumping ship like rats from the Titanic.

Someone put them out of their misery!

By: Can't Take it Anymore

Can't Take it Anymore — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:56:40 +0000

“Anonymous,” are you Wexler’s mother or something? And if Josh Lucas’ quote is $4 million, why is he starring in a bunch of indie carp with the likes of James Van Der Beek? Not a single one of the movies he’s made or has been attached to since Poseidon even has distribution in the U.S. $4 million, my ass…

By: Elliott

Elliott — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:55:46 +0000

Anonymous @10:20 pm - Hi Mrs. Wexler! When you send your care packages to Scott, make sure you note that ICM has moved, they’re no longer on Wilshire, now they’re on Constellation in Century City

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:20:58 +0000

An NYU Film School graduate, Scott Wexler was promoted after only two years in ICM’s trainee program. After being recruited by Michael Ovitz to join the newly formed AMG, he developed Alexa Davalos, Justin Bartha and Josh Lucas who went from 200 a week to a 4 million dollar quote. He also serviced high profile clients such as Adrien Brody and Laura Linney. From there, he continued to grow his business at 3 Arts and Anonymous until ICM came after him strongly in an effort to bring him back. They did so because not only has he found and developed some of the most exciting talent around, but because he brings a high level of experience, taste, relationships and an understanding of this business and how best to guide an actors career from it’s early beginnings to superstardom, with integrity.

By: Can't Take it Anymore

Can't Take it Anymore — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:26:14 +0000

If Justin Bartha is the 2nd biggest “star” that you represent, you need to find a new line of work. He did play a great retard in the smash hit “Gigli,” though…

By: chrissypoo

chrissypoo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:15:01 +0000

I’m sorry, but isn’t Burtha more of a sidekick, than a movie star?

And isn’t Josh Lucas just Matthew McConaughey light?