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Cast & Crew, one of Hollywood's leading payroll companies, said tonight that it's furloughing "a significant percentage” of its employees, and is implementing salary reductions of 50% for executive management and 25% for vice presidents and other senior employees. It's also decreasing work hours "for a portion of the…

Cast & Crew, one of Hollywood's leading payroll and accounting firms, has reached an agreement to acquire one of its leading rivals, Los Angeles-based Media Services. Founded in 1976, Burbank-based Cast & Crew had been acquired in December 2018 by EQT, the giant investment firm based in Stockholm, Sweden, with more…

Production payroll firm Cast & Crew has expanded its geographic reach by acquiring UK peer Sargent-Disc. The deal marks the fifth acquisition in the past four years and the first since private equity firm EQT took control of the company a year ago. Financial terms were not disclosed. Cast & Crew specializes in film…

EXCLUSIVE: Payroll, accounting and production management outfit Cast & Crew has launched Media Guarantors Insurance Solutions. Led by principals and industry vets Fred Milstein and Scott Nicolaides, the completion bond company will run as a separate entity and is looking to innovate amid a changing…

Veteran technology executive John Berkley has been named President at Cast & Crew, the Burbank-based payroll, accounting and production management firm. Berkley will assume his new role as of September 5, moving over from his job as Operating Executive at Silver Lake, Cast & Crew’s lead investor. In that position…

Cast & Crew Entertainment Services has sealed a deal to acquire CAPS Payroll, which will add commercial production, venues, music tours, live events, unscripted TV and independent film sectors to its growing base of payroll and production management services.  It’s the latest pickup for the company since Silver Lake…