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After much speculation, literary management outfit Grandview has officially been acquired by global investment firm Tpg and will merge with the already Tpg-owned talent management firm Untitled.

The combined company will be known as Untitled, while Tpg has announced that its entertainment-centric outfit which it launched in the summer when it acquired a majority stake in Untitled will be named Initial Group. In today’s announcement, Tpg noted that Grandview will bolster Untitled’s efforts in lit representation.

Jeff Silver and Matt Rosen, who co-founded Grandview, will be named managing partners with Untitled’s founding partners Jason Weinberg and Stephanie Simon. Grandview’s Merideth Bajana, Jeremy Platt, and Ben Rowe will join Untitled partners Evan Hainey, Elise Konialian, Jennifer Levine, Jason Newman, Steven Nossokoff, and Alissa Vradenburg.

Grandview’s client list includes top filmmaking names like Joseph Kosinski, Hiro Murai, Adam Wingard, and Dan Trachtenberg.

“Ten years ago, we started...

Exclusive Updated: Private equity firm Tpg has revealed the name of the talent management-centric company it launched in June in conjunction with acquiring a majority stake in Untitled Entertainment. Named Initial Group, the subsidiary has made a second investment, completing the long-rumored acquisition of literary management firm Grandview. It will be combined under the banner of the larger, actor-focused Untitled, significantly bolstering its lit representation capabilities.

Jeff Silver and Matt Rosen, who co-founded Grandview, have been named Managing Partners of the combined company, joining Untitled’s founding partners Jason Weinberg and Stephanie Simon.

Additionally, Grandview’s Merideth Bajana, Jeremy Platt, and Ben Rowe will be joining the Untitled partner ranks that include Evan Hainey, Elise Konialian, Jennifer Levine, Jason Newman, recently promoted Steven Nossokoff, and Alissa Vradenburg.

Tpg, which a year ago sold its majority stake in CAA, in June acquired the Untitled majority stake from Canada-based Boat Rocker and...

Tpg, the private-equity firm that had a majority stake in CAA before selling it to Francois-Henri Pinault last year, said Friday that it has formed a new talent management company whose first investment will be in Hollywood management biggie Untitled Entertainment.

The new Tpg company, which will “acquire, invest behind, and build a diversified global business centered on talent management, representation, and adjacent verticals,” acquired the Untitled majority stake from Canada-based Boat Rocker Inc in a deal for about Cad $51.6 million ($37.7M) and 8.8% of the outstanding common equity in Tpg’s new company.

Michel Pratte, former president of Boat Rocker Media, has been named CEO of the newly established company. Eric Taitz, former EVP of Corporate Development and Strategy at Boat Rocker, will serve as COO.

Untitled’s founding partners Jason Weinberg and Stephanie Simon will each have “significant” financial interest into the new entity alongside Boat Rocker. They will...

Tpg is getting back into the talent business.

The private equity giant, which sold its stake in CAA last year to French billionaire François-Henri Pinault, is launching a new company that will “acquire, invest behind and build a diversified global business centered on talent management, representation and adjacent verticals.”

Michel Pratte, former President of Boat Rocker Media, will be CEO of the new company while another former Boat Rocker exec Eric Taitz will be COO.

Tpg announced that the company’s first investment will be in the talent management firm Untitled Entertainment, led by Jason Weinberg and Stephanie Simon. The pair will continue as co-CEOs of Untitled, and will roll a significant portion of their equity into the new venture, alongside Boat Rocker, which was Untitled’s majority owner.

According to Boat Rocker, Tpg is buying out most of its stake for $51.6 million Cad, and will retain an 8.8% stake in the new venture.

Exclusive: Tyrese Gibson (The Fast and Furious franchise) and Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs) have signed on to star in the action thriller The Wrecker.

The pic is currently shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. Filmmaker Art Camacho is directing from an original screenplay by Niko Foster, who also stars in the pic.

The film’s plot follows a dishonorably discharged ex-marine named Tony, now turned car mechanic, whose life takes an unexpected turn when his reckless brother makes a bad decision gaining the unwanted attention of a notorious crime boss.

Foster produces for Chasing Butterflies Pictures alongside Al Bravo for Al Bravo Films. Additional producers include Colin Bates, Eduard Osipov, Michael Pizzimenti, and Hemdee Kiwanuka. Stuart Alson, Nicole Holland, and Elias Axume, Premiere Entertainment CEO, serve as executive producers. Jiarui Guo and Michelle Wang Deppe co-produce.

Camacho recently directed the action film Ruthless, starring Dermot Mulroney and Jeff Fahey. The pic...

Exclusive: Two more core thirtysomething cast members, Melanie Mayron and Polly Draper, have signed on to appear in ABC’s pilot thirtysomething(else), a sequel to Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick’s beloved 1987-91 drama series.

Mayron and Draper will reprise their respective roles as Melissa Steadman and Ellyn Warren in recurring arcs on the potential series. They join fellow original thirtysomething cast members Ken Olin, Mel Harris, Timothy Busfield and Patty Wettig, who are reprising their characters as supporting series regulars.

Written by Herskovitz and Zwick and to be directed by Zwick, thirtysomething(else) will follow an ensemble of new faces playing the grown-up children of the original cast,Janey Steadman (Odette Annable), Leo Steadman (Chris Wood), Ethan Weston (Patrick Fugit) and Brittany Weston (Auden Thornton), the new generation of thirtysomethings. They are being joined by returning original cast members Olin (Michael Steadman), Harris (Hope Murdoch), Busfield (Elliot Weston...

The 72nd annual Tony Awards honoring the year’s best on Broadway are set for Sunday at Radio City Music Hall in New York, airing on CBS and hosted by Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban. Here’s how to catch all the action.

The three-hour CBS broadcast will air live on the East Coast at 8 Pm Et, but is tape delayed in the West so will air at 8 Pm Pt. Live streaming will also be available in select markets via the CBS All Access subscription service. CBS, of course, has aired the Tonys every year since 1978, and just re-upped a deal that will see the show stay on the network through 2026. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss of White Cherry Entertainment return as executive producers of the broadcast, and Weiss will direct for a 19th consecutive year.

In New York, NY1’s On Stage will offer up its annual coverage with...

Exclusive: Paradigm has signed Lynn Collins. Managed by Untitled Entertainment’s Jason Newman and Stephanie Simon, Collins starred in John Carter and also starred in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. She played Portia opposite Al Pacino in the feature adaptation of The Merchant Of Venice. Onstage, she also played Ophelia opposite Liev Schreiber in Hamlet, and played Juliet in Romeo And Juliet in the Ahmanson Theatre production.

Exclusive: Management/production companies 3 Arts and Untitled Entertainment are in merger talks. I’m not certain they are going to join forces, but they are exploring it seriously. The potential mix of assets of the two companies is intriguing. 3 Arts--run by Erwin Stoff, Michael Rotenberg, Howard Klein, David Miner and Dave Becky--is particularly strong in the producing department. On the TV side, that includes 30 Rock, The Office, Parks and Recreation, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, HBO's Bored to Death, and the FX comedy Louie. Among the features is I Am Legend, Street Kings, and All You Need Is Kill, the latter a priority project at Warner Bros that just got Doug Liman aboard to direct. Untitled, which is run by Jason Weinberg, Stephanie Simon, Guy Oseary, Gene Parseghian and Johnnie Planco, has a strong talent list that include Daniel Day-Lewis, Hilary Swank, Alex Rodriguez, Madonna, Naomi Watts, David Caruso,...

Maverick partner Guy Oseary has partnered with Untitled Entertainment to work as a manager for the management/production outfit headed by principals Jason Weinberg and Stephanie Simon. Oseary will continue as a partner with Madonna in Maverick Records and Maverick Films. The move toward management has grown out of a long-term friendship between Oseary and Weinberg, the duo said, and is a logical step in that Untitled has carved out a niche for representing crossover artists from music to feature film and television. Although an official announcement only mentions Oseary's partnership with Untitled, sources close to the deal said the arrangement may see Untitled move into Maverick's Beverly Hills office. Sources also indicted that announcements are forthcoming about A-list names with whom Oseary will be working.

Carmen Electra has been cast as herself in the upcoming MTV original movie Monster Island. A satire of classic monster movies, Monster will feature Electra as the celebrity host of a fictional MTV beach concert that goes awry when a giant creature crashes the party and flies away with her in its beak. The teen cast tries to rescue her with the help of a mad scientist, who will be played by Adam West, star of the 1960s TV series Batman. The cast is rounded out by Daniel Letterle, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Harrison, Chelan Simmons, Case Beddow and Joe MacLeod. Scheduled to air in first-quarter 2004, Island is being produced in partnership with In Sight Film & Video. The film will be directed by Jack Perez (Wild Things 2). Executive producers are James Shavick, Kirk Shaw and Ilan Briel. Electra is represented by Stephanie Simon at Untitled Management, UTA and attorney Renee Farrell.

Estella Warren and Ashley Scott have teamed to star in the horror film Trespassing for H.S.I. Entertainment/Samy Boy Pictures. James Merendino is directing the project from his own script. Trespassing, which is shooting in New Orleans, centers on a graduate student (Daniel Gillies) preparing his thesis on mythology who leads his friends on a research expedition to an old plantation estate on the outskirts of the Big Easy. The site is reputed to mysteriously cause madness and death to all who enter it. Warren and Scott play Gillies' friends who go along for the expedition. Clayne Crawford and Jeff Davis round out the cast. Producing Trespassing are H.S.I.'s Stavros Merjos and Adam Rosenfelt along with Pop Art Films' Sam Maydew. Samy Boy's Sam Nazarian will executive produce. Louisiana-based Lift Prods. is co-producing. Scott is repped by UTA, Original Management's Jonathan Perry and attorney Marcy Morris at Armstrong, Hirsch, Jackoway, Tyerman and Wertheimer. She appeared on Birds of Prey and next stars in Columbia Pictures' S.W.A.T. Warren is repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment's Stephanie Simon and Morris. Her credits include Kangaroo Jack and Planet of the Apes. She next stars in Wayne Kramer's The Cooler for Lions Gate Films. Merendino's directing credits include SLC Punk! Gillies and Davis are repped by UTA.