Robert De Niro Has Defected From CAA
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ENDEAVOR talent agency is challenging Creative Artists Agency for supremacy in Hollywood. While CAA has long had the biggest stable of actors and directors, Endeavor scored a coup Wednesday evening when Robert De Niro defected from the powerhouse - with his producing partner, Jane Rosenthal, and their company, Tribeca Productions. While CAA helped further De Niro’s career with $18 million comedies such as “Meet the Fockers,” serious roles have been drying up. According to deadlinehollywooddaily.com, De Niro’s exit from CAA was amicable - their long association had simply run its course. De Niro’s surprise move caps one of the more eventful weeks in the history of Ari Emanuel’s Endeavor, which just hired exiting UTA agents Nick Stevens, Lisa Hallerman and Sharon Sheinwold, and brought Ben Stiller into the fold. Other clients, Jack Black included, may move from UTA to Endeavor, as well.
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Published on April 11th, 2008
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Robert DeNiro’s Fake NY Shoot
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THE citizens of Stamford, Conn., should brace themselves. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are shooting their thriller “Righteous Kill” today in the model apartments for the upcoming 34-story Trump Parc Stamford. The Post’s Lois Weiss reports tech wizards will later add the New York skyline to the windows in the “Manhattan-style” building, where apartments range from $650,000 to $3 million. The film has been shooting around New Haven and Norwalk for two months as the producers take advantage of an incentive program to lure Hollywood to Connecticut.
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Published on September 27th, 2007
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Robert De Niro Is Steaming Mad At David Bowie
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It’s Raging Bull vs. the Thin White Duke.
Robert De Niro, who co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival, is said to be steaming mad at David Bowie, who’s curating the upstart High Line Festival, a 10-day “mash-up of music, film, comedy, visual art and performance,” which begins three days after De Niro’s highly commercial extravaganza ends on May 6. The High Line series is being touted as younger, hipper and edgier.
“I hear it’s driving Robert De Niro crazy,” an insider tells nymag.com, the Web site of New York magazine. “And that’s just great because he’s a big, old wrinkled thug versus these young guys.” At 63, the Oscar winner is only three years older than rock legend Bowie, but he’s ancient enough to be the father of High Line producers David Binder, 39, and Josh Wood, 33.
“Ours happens to be a little younger and rougher around the edges and more multidisciplinary than theirs,” Binder and Wood boasted to nymag.com.
But a source at the Tribeca festival sniffed to Page Six: “I think they are envisioning themselves as Slamdance to our Sundance and living off the success of Sundance.”
Some High Liners believe De Niro has already sabotaged them by keeping Tribeca’s public relations team, Rubenstein Communications, from doing press for High Line, the Web site reports. De Niro’s flack had no comment. But one longtime De Niro pal insisted, “He could care less.”
Rubenstein Communications President Steven Rubenstein denies there’s any feud, adding that Bowie was set to attend last night’s Tribeca kickoff party sponsored by Vanity Fair. Bowie told us in a statement: “I am afraid I have no control over the inexplicable comments from the High Line producers. I think the Tribeca Film Festival is unique and irreplaceable.”
In five years, Tribeca has become a fat-cat festival - it’s sponsored by American Express, for which De Niro shills in ads, and this year will premiere the summer blockbuster “Spider-Man 3.” High Line is backed by budget-fashion giant H&M and features hot alt bands like Air and the Polyphonic Spree, as well as comic Ricky Gervais.
Robert De Niro, who co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival, is said to be steaming mad at David Bowie, who’s curating the upstart High Line Festival, a 10-day “mash-up of music, film, comedy, visual art and performance,” which begins three days after De Niro’s highly commercial extravaganza ends on May 6. The High Line series is being touted as younger, hipper and edgier.
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De Niro’s Restaurant ‘Cheats Workers Out Of Pay’
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Robert De Niro has come under fire from the Us Department Of Labor for having allegedly cheated his restaurant workers out of $328,000 in pay.
Employment officials claim more than 100 staff at exclusive Japanese eatery Nobu, in New York City, have seen their overtime pay wrongly slashed and the restaurant has been ordered to make up the huge shortfall.
De Niro, who is thought to earn around $20 million a movie, co-owns the restaurant with Japanese chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa.
Published on January 24th, 2007
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