UTA Names Matt Rice President of Filmed Entertainment — SkimNews
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- Matt Rice was elevated to President of UTA's Filmed Entertainment Division, expanding from his role as head of the agency's TV department to lead overall strategy across all areas of film and TV.
- Rice represents writer, producer, director, talent and comedy clients including Phil Lord & Chris Miller, Mike Schur, Alec Berg, Bill Hader, and Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg.
- Allan Haldeman, Blair Kohan, Jay Gassner, and Julien Thuan were promoted to Managing Partners of Filmed Entertainment in the newly created leadership group.
- Amanda Hymson and Jordan Lonner were named heads of Motion Picture Literary, Lucinda Moorhead and Mickey Berman will head TV Literary, and Hanley Baxter and John Sacks join incumbent Mike Jelline to head the Talent department.
- UTA formed a Filmed Entertainment board of 16 senior partners — including Berman, Jason Burns, Marissa Devins, Dan Erlij, Chris Hart, Jason Heyman, Jelline, Keya Khayatian, Rich Klubeck, Billy Lazarus, Gregory McKnight, Moorhead, David Park, Theresa Peters, Shani Rosenzweig, and Larry Salz — to pursue client development and new initiatives.
- CEO David Kramer said the reorganization aims to "increase efficiency and collaboration" and sharpen the agency's "competitive edge" as film and TV increasingly converge, calling the new structure "streamlined" and "future-focused."
- Kramer pointed to an extraordinary year in which UTA clients were behind 2026's biggest box office hits and acclaimed TV productions, earning top honors at the Academy Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes, and Tonys.
Why it matters: UTA is consolidating its film, TV literary, and talent businesses under a single Filmed Entertainment unit led by a TV specialist, formalizing what Kramer described as the increasing convergence of film and television. The reorg creates four new Managing Partners and a 16-person advisory board, redistributing authority inside one of Hollywood's largest agencies at a moment the CEO framed as a competitive inflection point.
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