Two years on from being promoted to Co-Chairmen of WME, Christian Muirhead and Richard Weitz gave one of their first public interviews, talking about the future of the entertainment business, and in particular, AI, movies on streaming, the future of Paramount and FAST channel services such as Tubi. “Despite the challenges and the disruption, we have real confidence in the power of art, so we feel really good about the future,” said Muirhead at the FT’s Business of Entertainment conference.
Muirhead and Weitz were promoted in September 2022, succeeding Lloyd Braun. Muirhead came from the world of corporate communications, while Weitz was an agent. “We got these jobs at the tail end of a lot of chaos, coming out of Covid, and then we stepped right into a little bit of chaos with the strikes.
It’s been a little bit tumultuous. But for us, I think we have become laser focused on making sure we’re prepared for that tumult and that change.
The past two years for us have really been focusing on the tenants of representation, and making sure that our clients are optimizing and [handling] all the sort of chaos that’s going on around them.
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