Cuba Gooding Jr. has signed with the Gersh Agency.

The “Jerry Maguire” Oscar winner -- who first defined "quan" (or "coin" in a novel pronunciation) for audiences -- has most recently starred in “Wrong Turn at Tahoe,” “Hardwired,” “The Devil’s Tomb” and “Harold.” Gooding’s resume also includes high-profile turns in “American Gangster,” “Daddy Day Camp,” “Norbit,” “Radio,” “Snow Dogs,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Men of Honor,” “Instinct” and “Boyz n the Hood.”

Gooding will next star in “Red Tails,” a World War II film about the real-life Tuskegee Airmen from executive producer George Lucas that is currently in post-production. The actor also has the action thrillers “The Hit List,” “Sacrifice” and “Ticking Clock” lined up for takeoff.

Gooding continues to be repped by Michael Rotenberg at 3 Arts Entertainment and attorney Jake Bloom.
 

“Cold Case” star Kathryn Morris is in negotiations to come aboard the Columbia Pictures baseball film “Moneyball.”

The new feature gig comes on the heels of signing with the Gersh Agency for representation. Morris parted ways with WME in April.

In the film, which stars Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Stephen Bishop, Morris will play the second wife of Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane (Pitt). She loves baseball as much as her husband, so she understands and shares his passion for the game.

Bennett Miller is directing the project, written by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, which starts shooting in L.A. next week. Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca and Rachel Horovitz are producing.

Also repped by Mosaic Media Group, Morris has starred on the CBS procedural “Cold Case” for seven seasons. She has also appeared in the features “Minority Report,” “Resurrecting the Champ” and “Paycheck.”

Morris will next appear in the indie film “Mother’s Little Helpers,” which opens in theaters in December.

“Ali” screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson have signed with Gersh. They were previously repped by CAA. The writing pair is currently working on the screenplay for “Jonestown” for Overbrook Entertainment at Sony as well as “The Green Wave” (formerly called “Mulkey”) for director-producer Michael Tollin (“Radio”), ESPN and New Line. Rivele and Wilkinson co-wrote the script for “Nixon,” which earned them Oscar nominations for original screenplay along with director Oliver Stone. They also wrote “Copying Beethoven” and worked on the script for the forthcoming Columbia release, “Moneyball.” The writers are additionally repped by attorney David Weber of Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.

The Gersh Agency has signed award-winning independent filmmaker Debra Granik and her writing-producing partner Anne Rosellini. At last month’s Sundance Film Festival, Granik’s latest film, “Winter’s Bone,” won the grand jury prize in the dramatic competition. She and Rosellini were also honored with the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for their adaptation of the Daniel Woodrell novel. Rosellini produced the dark drama.

How did the major agencies do in today’s Oscar-nomination frenzy? Let’s take a gander. (They just love it when we do this.) But first, some asterisks: