The news came down this afternoon that ICM agents Robert Newman (the hepcat indie-world guy who reps cool-out-of-school directors like Guillermo del Toro, Baz Luhrman, Robert Rodriguez, etc.) and Matt Solo (nephew of Napoleon, related on his mother’s side to Han) had jumped ship and joined Endeavor as partners. Deadline Hollywood Daily‘s Nikke Finke got the story — “more fall-out from ICM’s recent merger with Broder Webb Chervin Silbermann,” she reasons, plus the apparent fact that Endeavor’s “on a roll.”
