Comic Chris Rock has signed with WME for illustration in all areas together with performing, directing, comedy touring, books, and extra.
Rock had been in play since December when his longtime agent Eddy Yablans was impacted by the CAA layoffs. (Yablans subsequently joined administration firm LBI Leisure as a accomplice.) Rock had been with Yablans for 30 years, at ICM after which at CAA, a tenure that included the record-setting on the time $40-million take care of Netflix in 2016 for 2 standup specials.
Rock’s 2023 Netflix particular Selective Outrage additionally made historical past because the platform’s first-ever world live-streamed occasion.
He has received 4 Emmy Awards — for The Chris Rock Present, Kill the Messenger, and two for Deliver the Ache — in addition to three Grammy Awards for Roll with the New, Larger & Blacker, and By no means Scared..
Rock is ready to direct and star within the characteristic Misty Inexperienced, primarily based on an authentic script he wrote. He is also connected to helm the U.S. remake of Oscar-winning Danish movie One other Spherical and a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic produced by Steven Spielberg for Common Photos.
Most not too long ago, Rock served as govt producer and narrator of All people Nonetheless Hates Chris, a reimagined animated model of his autobiographical household comedy All people Hates Chris, which is streaming on Paramount +. His latest performing credit embody the characteristic Rustin and Season 4 of FX’s present Fargo.
Rock continues to be repped by Untitled Leisure and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
