HOLLYWOOD HUSTLE

{PART 1}

The Talent Agency Business and Antitrust Price-Fixing:

A Historical Record of the Rise and Fall of TV Packaging

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Charles Lenhoff

Journal

Scheduled for publication in the

United States

October 21, 2024

Hollywood Hustle {Part1} is a historic Journal detailing how a few Hollywood Talent Agencies transformed to four “UBER AGENCIES” and monopolized the TV Packaging marketplace in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act…

The Journal takes us into the seedy underbelly of Hollywood. It exposes, step by step, the rise and fall of TV Packaging – a highly profitable industry that generates over $4 billion a year in Packaging Fees & Profits for Talent Agents. All this easy money is fleeced from the Creators of the TV Series and the Craftspeople who work tirelessly on their shows, thanks to the ruthless handiwork of a secret Cartel of just four powerful Uber Agencies operating behind the scenes…

Herein attached are the Exhibits referenced in the historic Journal detailing how a few Hollywood Talent Agencies transformed to four “UBER AGENCIES” and monopolized the TV Packaging marketplace in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act…

Exhibit-2a-Labor-Commissioner-packaging-letters
Exhibit 2b – WGA Franchise Agreement 1976
Exhibit 2c – DGA ATA 1977 Franchise Agreement & Rider D
Exhibit 2d – ICM Fires 4 Top Agents Who Planned to Form Rival Agency
Exhibit 2e – Gavin Polone on TV_s Dirty Secret
Exhibit 2f – Meredith Stiehm_s packaging deadline article
Exhibit 2g – Variety TV Packages Agents share joint custody 6-9-1997
Exhibit 2h – California State Senate Select Committee on Regulation of Talent Agents 9-28-2001
Exhibit 2i – SAG Rule 16(g)
Exhibit 2j – Lenhoff ATA proposal to adopt a Professional Ethics Canon 2006
Exhibit 2k- Lenhoff 1st Interference Notice to UTA
Exhibit-2l-TV-Agents-Smackdown-Four-Top-Sharks
Exhibit 3a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Complaint Filed 2-13-2015
Exhibit 3b – 2001-2002 Scripted Series Packaging Drivers Pie Chart
Exhibit 3c – 2014-2015 Scripted Series Packaging Drivers Pie Chart
Exhibit 4a – UTA & ICM Motion To Dismiss Filed 8-10-2015
Exhibit 5a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Third Amended Complaint Filed 1-22-2016
Exhibit 5b – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Third Amended Complaint Exhibits Filed 1-22-2016
Exhibit 5c – ICM Motion to Dismiss TAC 2-12-2016
Exhibit 5d – UTA letter to Kaplan Blecher re Rule 11 2-5-2016
Exhibit 5e- Kaplan reply to Rule 11 threat 2-8-16
Exhibit 6a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Third Amended Complaint Dismissal Filed 4-20-2016
Exhibit 7a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Motion To Reconsider filed 5-2-2016
Exhibit 7b – Dr. Hunt Declaration March 21, 2016
Exhibit 7c – Dr. Hunt Lenhoff Analysis
Exhibit 8a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Motion To Reconsider Denial filed 6-13-2016
Exhibit 9a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Appeal filed 1-17-2017
Exhibit 9b – ICM Appeal Answering Brief 3-20-2017
Exhibit 10a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Federal Appeal Oral Arguments Transcript
Exhibit 10b – Variety – writers guild accuses talent agencies 3-15-2018
Exhibit 11a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Appeal Denial 3-30-2018
Exhibit 12a – WGA Franchise Agreement Termination letter to ATA 4-6-2018
Exhibit 12b – ATA Proposal to WGA 3-21-2019
Exhibit 12c- WGA proposed Code of Conduct for Agents 3-27-2019
Exhibit 12d- WGA membership notice for Franchise Agreement expiration and Agency termination 4-12-2019
Exhibit 12e – WGA notice to members on firing their agent 4-12-2019
Exhibit 12f – WGA v WME, CAA, UTA & ICM complaint filed 4-17-19
Exhibit 13a – WME v WGA Antitrust Complaint filed 6-24-19
EXHIBIT-13b-WGA-letter-to-ATA-6-28-19
Exhibit 14a – UTA v WGA Answer and Counterclaim filed 8-19-2019
Exhibit 14b – WME v WGA Answer and Counterclaim filed 9-9 2019
Exhibit 15a – WME v WGA hearing transcript 12-6-2019
Exhibit 15b -WME v WGA hearing transcript 1-24-2020
Exhibit 16a – WME v WGA Motion to Dismiss Antitrust claim denied 1-20-2020
Exhibit 17a – WME v WGA 12b6 Motion to Dismiss Denied filed 4-27-2020
Exhibit 17b – General Materials Packaging Agreement
Exhibit 18a – Dokoza drop letter
Exhibit 18b – DOKOZA – LENHOFF 11-3-2014 MEETING CONTEMPORANEOUS NOTES
Exhibit 18c – Dokoza email to Ryan Robo Dial Tracy 11-4-14
Exhibit 18d – California Labor Code 1700-25
Exhibit-18e – Dokoza-v-Lenhoff-LASC-cross-complaint
Exhibit 18f -Dokoza attempted smear The Hollowood Reporter article 12-3-15
Exhibit 18g – Dokoza Deposition Transcript
Exhibit 18h – Dokoza DGA term and issues memo to John 552016
Exhibit 18i – Dokoza Timeline of Litigation
Exhibit 19a – Antitrust Argument – Lenhoff v. UTA – Economic Viewpoint11-19-2016
Exhibit 19b – Packaging Fee Paper-Singer Tatos_v3
Exhibit 20a – Michael Pick vs ICM
Exhibit 20b – Monacella v ICM
Exhibit 20c1 UTA v Poppy Mongomery
Exhibit 20c2 UTA v Poppy Mongomery
Exhibit 20c3 UTA v Poppy Mongomery
Exhibit 20d – Seidman vs WME
Exhibit 20e -UTA vs Forman
Exhibit 20f- WME v scripps
Exhibit 20g – Musero vs CAA
Exhibit 20h – Roseanne Arnold vs. Triad Artist Inc.
Exhibit 20i – Paradigm Talent Agency vs. Charles Carroll, an individual & Kayenta Productions, Inc.
Exhibit 20j – Stein Agency v James Tripp Haith
Exhibit 20k – Burt Bluestein aka Burton Ira Bluestein v Prod Arts mgmt et al
Exhibit 20l – Scott Montoya, Payaso Entertainment Inc. vs. David Shapira & Associates
Exhibit 20m -Lessa v Filmtrix before the DLSE
Exhibit 20n – CAA Frank Darabont v AMC-Motion
Exhibit 20o – CAA vs UTA
Exhibit 20p – Cobb Theatres vs AMC