Invoice Maher has fired CAA.
Sources say the host of HBO’s Actual Time fired CAA, his reps for greater than 20 years, on Monday after he was not invited to CEO Bryan Lourd’s non-public Oscar occasion at his dwelling on Saturday night time.
Maher, in keeping with sources, was livid that he was snubbed for the occasion — which was scheduled reverse the Movement Image & Tv Fund’s Night time Earlier than bash. The occasion at Lourd’s dwelling drew the likes of J.J. Abrams, Barry Diller, Kamala Harris, Margot Robbie, Bob Iger, Alan Bergman, Dana Walden, Brian Robbins, Jason Blum, Brian Grazer, Donna Langley, Pam Abdy and such CAA shoppers as Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston, amongst others, in keeping with trade e-newsletter Puck.
Lourd’s non-public occasion got here a day after CAA toasted nominees together with Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Cillian Murphy, Jeffrey Wright, Annette Bening, Carey Mulligan, Emily Blunt, Danielle Brooks, Jodie Foster and Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph, amongst others, on Friday night time at Sundown Tower. (Maher was seen Friday night time at WME’s Oscar occasion at Hearst Property in Beverly Hills.)
Maher had been repped at CAA by Steven Lafferty, who additionally serves because the company’s head of tv.
Information of Maher ditching CAA comes after the company not too long ago negotiated a two-year extension for Actual Time, which takes the weekly speak present by its twenty fourth season in 2026. The collection is considered one of HBO’s longest-running originals. It launched in 2003 and is second within the premium cable community’s historical past, behind solely the not too long ago concluded Actual Sports activities With Bryant Gumbel, by way of the variety of seasons it has run.
Reps for Maher didn’t instantly reply to THR‘s request for remark.