When the Antitrust Police Poke Around Hollywood Agencies

Chris Silbermann
Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/WireImage
Matthew Belloni
February 4, 2022

Last time I was at the ICM Partners headquarters, a few years ago, for a very nice book party for Sherry Lansing, I remember being struck by the odd space it occupied, both physically and metaphorically. ICM was once arguably Hollywood’s most powerful talent agency, but it had long been outgunned by rivals CAA, WME, and UTA in size, revenue and glamourous clients—the accepted units of penis measurement with which agents typically judge each other.