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EXCLUSIVE: Gersh Agency bosses have backed a new African streamer with a seven-figure investment. The Streamline Content mobile-first free SVoD will roll out across Sub-Saharan Africa shortly, combining local content with Hollywood fare in seven FAST and several VoD channels. It will have more than…

Marking the first time in 70 years that it hasn't been totally owned within the family, The Gersh Agency has sold a 45% stake to New York-based private equity firm Crestview Partners. The talent agency hasn't divulged the amount of equity its new partner is investing, but both sides said the aim is…

EXCLUSIVE: Jayson Council has joined Gersh in the position of Head of Culture. It is a new position, and representative of the talent agency’s commitment to inclusion, equity and belonging, the partners said. Council is a cross-industry social impact innovator veteran with 20 years of experience in leading equity…

He was super agent Phil Gersh’s signature client from the start of his acting career through his death in 1957, all through his heyday in the 1940s and 1950s in The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The African Queen, Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Caine Mutiny. Now, Humphrey Bogart is back with the Gersh…

EXCLUSIVE: WGA West executive director David Young has acknowledged that he told WME partner Rick Rosen that he "should kick his ass" during a heated phone call in August, but denied that he ever threatened to "kill" him, as Rosen alleged in a declaration filed in federal court last month. Young's version of the phone…

Gersh Agency leaders Bob and David Gersh issued an internal missive to staff in which they pledged support for Black Out Tuesday, and plan to match donations made to Black Lives Matter causes. The brothers have also pledged to “begin a more proactive dialogue with studios and production companies…to develop projects…