Mixed blessings? "United Talent Agency digital head Brent Weinstein is leaving the shop that represents movie stars such as Vince Vaughn and Johnny Depp to become the CEO of 60Frames Entertainment, a new company dedicated to handling the financing, ad sales and syndication of "professionally produced online content." The company, in other words, will help established movie and film talent create content specifically for the web."
<http://adage.com/article?article_id=119152> "The union question Also unclear is how Hollywood's labor unions will react. Efforts by the Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood's agents to salvage a six-decade-old master franchise agreement fell short in 2002, meaning that agencies could potentially invest in production companies -- previously a verboten practice for agents. (United Talent Agency, for its part, declined to disclose its exact stake in the new venture, and was careful to call 60Frames a "financing entity" and not a production company.)"
