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IM Global’s Apsara Makes Pan-Asian Output Agreement With Buena Vista International

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 18, 2012 @ 3:38pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, IM Global, Stuart Ford
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In a move that positions it for expected future movie business growth in Asia, IM Global‘s Pan-Asian rights buying arm Apsara Distribution has closed an output deal with Buena Vista International. The multi-year and multiple-picture pact covers Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Cambodia.

Despite its outsized population numbers, the region has traditionally accounted for a small percentage of a pre-sale business model for a variety of reasons, including a paucity of screens. That is changing quickly and will continue to do so for the next decade, and IM Global CEO Stuart Ford felt it was time to create a stronger distribution infrastructure that is more like a major studio. READ MORE »

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AFM: IM Global Launches Jason Statham-Starrer ‘Hummingbird’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 2, 2011 @ 11:12am PDTTags: IM Global, Jason Statham, Paul Webster, Steven Knight, Stuart Ford
Mike Fleming

IM Global will fully fund Hummingbird, an action drama that will mark the directing debut of Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight. Jason Statham will play a damaged ex-Special Forces soldier trapped in London’s criminal underworld, but he becomes an avenging … Read More »

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AFM: IM Global Selling ‘Dead Man Down’ With Colin Farrell And ‘Dragon Tattoo’s Niels Arden Oplev And Noomi Rapace

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 12:01pm PDTTags: Colin Farrell, IM Global, Neal Moritz, Niels Arden Oplev, Noomi Rapace, Stuart Ford
Mike Fleming

Los Angeles, October 28: Leading independent financing, production and sales company IM Global will fully finance DEAD MAN DOWN, to be produced by Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film and screenwriter J.H. Wyman of Frequency Films, it was announced today by IM Global founder and CEO Stuart Ford and Moritz.

Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will direct the $30 million action thriller, which stars Colin Farrell (Total Recall, Horrible Bosses, Miami Vice, S.W.A.T.) and Noomi Rapace (Prometheus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows).

Moritz (The Fast and the Furious franchise, I Am Legend, XXX) will produce alongside screenwriter J.H. Wyman (Fringe, The Mexican). Original’s Ori Marmur will executive produce with Reid Shane of Frequency.

Following the cinematic phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, director Oplev and leading lady Rapace reunite for another thrilling tale of vengeance, with Colin Farrell joining the prestigious team as Victor, right hand man to an underground crime lord in New York City who is seduced and blackmailed by Beatrice (Rapace), a crime victim seeking retribution. Their intense chemistry leads them spiraling into payback delivered in violent catharsis.

DEAD MAN DOWN, a powerful action thriller and portrait of two people caught in the crosshairs of revenge, is scheduled to start shooting in early 2012.

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IM Global Teaming With Technicolor

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 9:45am PDTTags: IM Global, Stuart Ford, Technicolor
Mike Fleming

Paris (France), Los Angeles (California), 26 September 2011 – Technicolor (Euronext Paris: TCH) and top film financing and sales company IM Global today announce they have entered into a partnership encompassing a multi-year service arrangement. Technicolor will provide IM Global with a broad range of services including front end services, international release and trailer printing and distribution services, including Digital Cinema, for international theatrical and subsequent ancillary platforms to accommodate IM Global’s expanding slate of in-house financed productions.

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Director Madonna To Debut ‘W.E.’ Saturday

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday February 10, 2011 @ 2:19am PSTTags: 61st Berlin Film Festival, Abbie Cornish W.E., Andrea Riseborough, IM Global W.E., James D'Arcy W.E., Madonna, Modonna W.E., Movies, Stuart Ford, W.E.

Madonna, the pop singer-turned-director, will be in Berlin this Saturday to present footage from her W.E. to overseas distributors. Sales agent IM Global will be screening clips to around 200 invited guests but has held back from making any pre-sales until now. This … Read More »

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Lionsgate, IM Global Sign Distribution Pact

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 2, 2010 @ 4:10pm PDTTags: Alex Garland, Boaz Yakin, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Karl Urban, Lionsgate, Movie Deals, Movies, Simon West, Stuart Ford
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Lionsgate has acquired US distribution rights for three films backed by Stuart Ford’s IM Global. Each film has a one word title and falls into the hard core action genre. The first in the deal is Safe, a $30 million … Read More »

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