We couldn’t resist… check it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/business/27steal.html?_r=1

Lit agent Nick Reed exiting ICM… and Exec VP of Production and President of the Business Group Scott Lambert was also let go from Relativity today…

Established talent management / production company with offices in LA and NY has two positions in the Los Angeles office to fill:
Assistant to Talent Managers.   Minimum one year of relevant administrative experience within the entertainment industry.  Prior agency experience preferred and college degree a plus.  All of the regular duties.  
Head of Talent Division.  Minimum of five [...]

Hearing that the major agencies will be closing for the holidays on Monday, Dec. 21st and won’t re-open for business until Monday, January 4th.  Additionally, CAA will be taking a half-day on Friday, Dec. 18th, while ICM takes the entire day off.
**Please note that we’ll be off here too at trackingb, so we’ll see you back here in the [...]

Sort of a Black List for books… check the comments for the list.

On Nancy Meyers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/magazine/20Meyers-t.html?hpw

**SOLD TO LIONSGATE!  PETER CORNWELL (THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT) ATTACHED TO DIRECT**
**ORIGINALLY WENT OUT MAY, 2007!**
PANOPTICON
Representation: Blair Belcher & Julien Thuan (UTA)
Written by: Craig Rosenberg
Thriller.  An ordinary medical salesman receives a mysterious package.  He opens it to discover it contains a video from himself that tells him the world is about to end and only he [...]

**SOLD TO PARAMOUNT… WAS PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED FOR BRUCE WILLIS, BUT NEVER PRODUCED**
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF DOC HOLIDAY
Represented by: Ava Jamshidi (ICM)
Written by: The Black List’s THE DAYS BEFORE writer Chad St. John
Action adventure period Western with a supernatural twist in the vein of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN.  Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing.  Liz Raposo overseeing for the [...]

**SOLD TO MICHELLE KRUMM PRODUCTIONS… BARBET SCHROEDER (SINGLE WHITE FEMALE, MURDER BY NUMBERS) ATTACHED TO DIRECT.  SUSAN HOFFMAN, BETTINA VIVIANO, COLLEEN CAMP, GIGI GASTON PRODUCING**
ORIGINALLY WENT OUT:  END OF FEBRUARY , 2009
**HEATING UP… RED WAGON INTO SCREEN GEMS & SONY… JOSEPHSON INTO FOX & FOX ATOMIC… MANDALAY INTO SUMMIT, UNIVERSAL, & RELATIVITY/ROGUE** 
**HEARING LOTS OF REQUESTS FOR TERRITORIES** 
CRASHERS
Representation: Ava [...]

Hearing that Becca Many Rosenberg has been promoted to manager at Principato-Young Entertainment.  Congrats!

On THE MUPPET MAN (#1 Black List selection):
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2009/12/muppet-fur-flies-over-jim-henson-script.html
Golden Globe noms:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/awards/2009/12/list-of-67th-annual-golden-globe-nominations.html

We can confirm that CAA lit agent Josh Krauss has exited the agency to become a lit manager at Management 360.