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EXCLUSIVE: Tv agent Brandon Finkelstein is leaving CAA to hitch Drew Comins’ Artistic Engine Leisure as VP of Manufacturing and Improvement. He’s one in every of a number of executives Comins is bringing in as he’s constructing out Artistic Engine beneath the corporate’s first-look take care of Fifth Season.
“Brandon’s wonderful style, entrepreneurial spirit and robust expertise relationships make him an ideal match for Artistic Engine,” Comins mentioned. “He brings an unimaginable vary of data and relationships to his work, plus a robust dedication to championing filmmakers. It’s an thrilling time for the corporate and I’m assured he’ll be an integral a part of serving to us develop the vary and scale of our enterprise.”
At CAA, Los Angeles-based Finkelstein, who joined the corporate out of school in 2016 and was promoted to agent in 2020, was thought-about a rising star. He labored with administrators, writers and producers, together with Comins who signed with CAA a few years in the past.
“All through my time at CAA, I’ve had the distinctive alternative to be taught the TV enterprise by my work with most of the most proficient individuals in our trade – shoppers, colleagues, and buddies,” Finkelstein mentioned. “Once I met Drew, I used to be energized by his creativity, ambition, and motivation, and instantly knew that he can be an unimaginable collaborator. I’m impressed by what Drew has constructed and am excited to dive deeper into the inventive and tales that we may help share with the world.”
Comins government produces Yellowjackets, whose present third season on Paramount+ with Showtime is at an all-time excessive in viewership, up 39% over Season 2. He shared within the present’s two Excellent Drama Collection Emmy nominations.
At Artistic Engine, Finkelstein succeeds Max Greenspan, who served as VP for the previous three years. The corporate’s improvement slate contains such high-profile initiatives as Lena Dunham’s spy sequence Covers for Netflix; The Holdout, starring Amy Adams at HBO with Business creators Mickey Down & Konrad Kay; The Stowaway with Oscar Isaac at Apple TV+; Reverb at Peacock, starring Renée Elise Goldsberry with John Legend’s Get Lifted Movie Co.; and They Each Die on the Finish, from Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen and EP Dangerous Bunny.
