Gersh Names Talent Agent Daisy Wu Partner, Promotes Coordinator Gaby Cohen To Agent, Elevates 6 Assistants

EXCLUSIVE: Labid Aziz has joined Wayfarer Studios as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer based in the Los Angeles office. The former Starzione executive is charged with the operational and financial health of the newly established company including development and oversight of corporate strategy, governance and growth along with oversight and management of all company investments.

A Los Angeles-based union sent a "field team" to campaign for Democrats in the Georgia Senate runoffs days before signing a petition calling for four weeks of "strict" stay-at-home orders in Los Angeles County last week, the Washington Free Beacon reported. Unite Here Local 11 posted about its ground game in Georgia on Dec.

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association on Sunday determined their picks for the year's best in film. Small Axe was tapped as best picture.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJessica Chastain’s “Ava” has skipped a theatrical release in China, but is instead to get the widest possible online outing in the Middle Kingdom. From Saturday it is available on China’s four largest generalist streaming platforms: Tencent Video, Alibaba-owned Youku, iQIYI and Mango TV.The maneuver was piloted by Los Angeles and Beijing based Leeding Media.

Robert P. Cohen, who served as an assistant director on The Breakfast Club, National Lampoon's Vacation, Back to School and Pee-wee's Big Adventure,and as a producer on 24, has died.

A teachers union, which also represents nurses, counselors, and librarians in Los Angeles, is urging the county Board of Supervisors to order a mandatory four-week shutdown and give workers a financial stimulus to help struggling residents deal with the worsening coronavirus pandemic.  The petition-- signed by several union groups as well as medical experts-- urges local officials to close all non-essential businesses and activities in the county for the first four weeks of January to stop the

Weta Digital has tapped Ken Kamins, and former Disney COO Tom Staggs, and Google SVP Jeff Huber to its Board of Directors. The appointments comes as the Peter Jackson studio has offices planned in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The trio join Weta Digital board members Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Sean Parker, Joe Letteri and CEO Prem Akkaraju.

(Special to the Los Angeles Blade) My name is Rosalynne (Rose) Montoya, I am a Latina, bisexual, transgender woman. I am a social media content creator and before Monday December 14th, 2020, I had grown my audience to 300K+ followers on my TikTok account. (@RosalynneMontoya).

Who said there wouldn’t be any awards before the end of 2020? There are critics groups handing out (virtual) trophies in the weeks ahead and instead of New York or Los Angeles going first, we begin with their peers in Boston. And in what may be a familiar refrain, The Boston Society of Film Critics capped off their annual year-end winners by selecting “Nomadland” as Best Film.

Hello Sunshine and Reese Witherspoon's Book Club is joining forces with book subscription company Literati to help spread some holiday cheer to children. Literati, Hello Sunshine and Reese’s Book Club have partnered to distribute 11,000 new books to The Book Foundation in Los Angeles, it was announced Friday.The Book Foundation aims to promote literacy by placing new books into the homes of low-come children.Since March, the Book Foundation has donated over 100,000 books.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterGersh Agency principle David Gersh has voiced his support for CAA’s position on the role of talent managers in the agency’s larger fight with the Writers Guild of America.In a declaration filed Friday in federal court in Los Angeles, David Gersh asserts that WGA West executive director David Young told him that the guild would continue to ask talent managers to help find jobs for writers in order to keep the pressure on CAA and WME, the two largest agencies that

Richard King, a founding partner of King World Productions, the syndication powerhouse that was behind such programs as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, has died. He was 79.

Time magazine will announce its 2020 Person of the Year tonight in a first-ever broadcast special, but editors named their picks for Entertainer and Athlete of the Year on Twitter today: South Korean K-pop boy band BTS and Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James.

Ron Gilbert, an Emmy-nominated producer and partner with David Susskind in the powerhouse independent production company Talent Associates, died Friday of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, a family spokesman said. He was 87.

Ron Gilbert, an Emmy-nominated producer and partner with David Susskind in the indie production company Talent Associates Ltd that was behind TV series like Get Smart and movies including Straw Dogs and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, died of heart failure December 4 at his Los Angeles home. He was 87.