Meet The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen Class of 2024, an immensely talented group of agents, managers, lawyers and executives thriving in the face of contraction and other corporate woes.
To date, they’ve shepherd some of Hollywood’s biggest box-office successes (Sony’s Maia Eyre championed Anyone But You and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules delivered Barbarian) and are responsible for must-see television (you can thank Danielle Pistotnik for introducing you to The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and James Allen for giving you Yellowstone). Entertainment 360’s Ryan Tunick is guiding Hollywood’s favorite scream queen Maika Monroe while WME’s Will Maxfield is making sure movies like The Apprentice and Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck are making it into theaters. And then there’s Michael D. Ratner, who’s built out a booming multimedia production company and studio, and soon will bring Sabrina Carpenter to your TV.
The business may be full of uncertainty, but this much feels clear: these stars — all 35 and under — are poised to lead the entertainment industry, just as Next Gen alumni like Kevin Feige, Bela Bajaria, Ari Emanuel and Donna Langley do today.
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