"Currently, casting directors release a list of roles not already packaged or precast to services that then distribute the information to talent reps. The industry leader, and de facto monopoly on this service for the past 27 years, is Breakdown Services, Ltd. (http://www.breakdownservices.com/agreement/agree.html ), which delivers to agents around 100 theatrical and commercial breakdowns daily by messenger and now over the Internet where they pay $42 a week for the information."
"The Link (http://www.submitlink.com/), with its nearly exclusive access to the casting breakdowns and its impressive roster of talent from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' venerable Players Directory, would seem to have the leading edge in the market."
"While some have taken sides in the competition between Castnet and the Link, most casting directors and agents are in a wait-and-see mode, looking at both services to see which they like best -- and to see where the chips fall."
"Rick Millikan, who casts "The X-Files" and "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch," says, "My assistants have [an online casting system], but I feel like by the time they've turned it on and I've gone through it with them, I could have been through a stack of pictures."
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