James Andrew Miller‘s Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency is making waves in Hollywood.
“This book was not sanctioned by CAA,” the agency’s president Richard Lovett recently said at a meeting. The book goes behind the scenes of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of the most powerful and secretive organizations in the movie business. The book has revealed gory details about the executive pay, internal deals and private equity investment. The Hollywood Reporter has more:
CAA is downplaying the impact of the book, but several sources say the disclosures have caused anger, especially among midlevel agents who are not part of the management team, and have prompted rival agencies to ramp up poaching efforts.
According to the report, Hollywood insiders have been sharing the book via a PDF file, which has upset the publisher Custom House.