In the midst of a pivotal career moment, Troye Sivan is trying to get at the truth. A supporting player in Boy Erased—Joel Edgerton's adaptation of a memoir by Garrard Conley—the Australian singer-songwriter earnestly admits to the learning curve involved with his first prominent onscreen role. "I just haven’t done as…

Bloom became more than the average foreign sales company last fall when Endeavor Content acquired a majority stake from co-owners Alex Walton and Ken Kao. While agencies have held cozy relationships with different sales agents in the past, this was the first to be openly and directly connected to a holding company…

EXCLUSIVE: BLOOM will launch international sales at Cannes for the Julius Onah-directed Luce. The just-wrapped film stars Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth and Mudbound‘s Kelvin Harrison Jr. The film is based on J.C. Lee's play, which was adapted by Lee and Onah. John Baker, Onah and Andrew Yang are producing…

Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway is in negotiations to star in Mudbound director Dee Rees’ political thriller, The Last Thing He Wanted. The story is based on the 1996 novel by Joan Didion and will be produced by Elevated’s Cassian Elwes. The Fyzz Facility’s Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones will produce and finance. Bloom…

Michael Fassbender and David Sandberg are set to star in action-comedy Kung Fury, which Sandberg will direct and produce under his Laser Unicorns' banner. David Hasselhoff is also joining the cast following his role in Sandberg’s original short film of the same name, which ran in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2015…

Jean-Marc Vallée, who with his longtime producing partner Nathan Ross were behind HBO’s awards-season juggernaut Big Little Lies, have launched Crazyrose, a full-service production company that will develop, finance and produce original content. They have inked a first-look deal with Endeavor Content-owned Bloom, the…

EXCLUSIVE: WME/IMG has closed a deal to acquire a majority interest in Ken Kao and Alex Walton's film financing/sales company Bloom. The deal is being announced internally as you read this, but the agency has confirmed it to Deadline. The agency said while it will use its resources to help grow Bloom, that company…

Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Common and Clive Owen are set to star in Andrea Di Stefano's Three Seconds, based on the best-selling Swedish novel by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström. Bloom is handling international sales and introducing the title to buyers in Cannes this week. The action-thriller was written by Matt…

EXCLUSIVE: As projects for Cannes start to trickle through, here's a starry title set to bow on the Croisette this year: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda and Candice Bergen are attached to star in upcoming comedy Book Club, the directorial debut from A Walk in the Woods producer Bill Holderman. Holderman will direct from his…

Bloom has boarded international sales for Johannes Roberts' The Strangers 2, which the outfit will launch to buyers in Berlin next week. Roberts directs from a script written by Bryan Bertino and Ben Ketai. Bertino wrote and directed the original 2008 instalment, which grossed $82M worldwide. The Fyzz Facility…

Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn are set to star in the crime thriller Dragged Across Concrete. Written and directed by Bone Tomahawk's S. Craig Zahler, this is a hot project for the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, where Bloom is handling international sales. This marks a re-team for Gibson and Vaughn. Gibson…

Alex Walton's Bloom has boarded international sales for Woody Harrelson's directorial debut Lost In London, which it will introduce to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin next month. Harrelson, who also wrote the project, stars alongside Owen Wilson and Willie Nelson and, as reported last month, it's being…