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EXCLUSIVE: Erich Bergen, who co-stars opposite Téa Leoni on CBS’ Madam Secretary, has signed with Industry Entertainment for management. Bergen has portrayed Blake Moran on Madam Secretary since the launch of the CBS series, which premieres its sixth and final season this fall. Bergen received praise for his portrayal…

Skai Jackson, whose just wrapped the final season of her Disney Channel series Bunk’d, has signed with Lighthouse Management & Media. She is also repped by Paradigm, Abrams Artists and Artist & Brand Management. Bunk’d was the spinoff series of Disney Channel’s hit Jessie, in which Jackson starred alongside Debby…

EXCLUSIVE: Indie production-finance company Bold Films has signed a first-look deal with management/production company Industry Entertainment to develop feature films. The newly formed partnership adds to recent production deals on Bold Films' résumé which includes Ben Stiller's Red Hour and Jake Gyllenhaal's Nine Stor…

Star Wars veteran Mark Hamill has signed with Industry Entertainment where he will be managed by partner Dan Spilo. This is the first time in awhile that Hamill has taken in theatrical representation as for the past two decades, he had done primarily voice-over work. That changed recently as Hamill returned to studio…

Paradigm talent agent David Lillard is exiting the company to join Industry Entertainment Partners as a manager. The news just dropped internally at the agency. Before joining Paradigm in 2013, Lillard had been a partner at the boutique IFA Talent Agency since its inception in 1995. Among his clients joining him at…

Producing partners Danielle Fishel and Ibrahim Ashmawey have signed with Industry Entertainment for talent and literary projects. They are developing projects for the TV, feature and online markets. Fishel played Topanga Lawrence on the long-running series Boy Meets World and reprised the role for Girl Meets World…

Former New Wave Entertainment execs Mark Rousso and Paul M. Brown have joined Industry Entertainment Partners. The pair, both of whom were VP Management and Production at New Wave, will bring with them clients including Alexis Bledel, (Gilmore Girls) Laura Prepon (Orange Is The New Black), Noel Fisher (Shameless)…

EXCLUSIVE: Kyle Luker, a founding member of The Group Entertainment, has left to join Industry Entertainment. He’s bringing his client list with him, including Krysten Ritter (co-managed with Steve Caserta), Patrick Heusinger, Gillian Alexy, Josh Salatin, Ryann Redmond, Liza Bennett and Marnie Schulenburg. Luker will…

Industry Entertainment led all management companies with seven scripts by its clients among the top 70. That’s a very solid 10 percent of the total, topped only by (and break out your Blackberries, you hungry manager types, to start dialing) the projects with no management company involved. In some cases, that’s…

Private equity firm Veronis Shuler Stevenson pretty much likes what it sees in media related businesses in today’s mid-year update to its influential annual VSS Communications Industry Forecast. It projects total spending this year of $1.19T, up 5.6% while the U.S. economy is expected to grow 4.4%. And the industry…

EXCLUSIVE: Literary manager Stephen Crawford and former ICM agent Ava Jamshidi have joined the Literary Department at Industry Entertainment Partners as managers. Crawford most recently handled the lit side of Luber/Roklin Ent. All his clients are expected to follow. Crawford started his career at Industry…

Laura Hersh and Michael Botti have worked their way up and have been promoted to managers at Industry Entertainment. Meanwhile, at WME, Ian McAllister, David Lubliner’s assistant, has been promoted to coordinator in the motion picture lit…