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As Deadline’s Mike Fleming reported back in June of this year, RedBird Capital Partners has today confirmed details in that story. Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Gerry Cardinale are launching an artist-led studio that partners with filmmakers to empower creative vision and broaden access to profit…

Slated, the online film financing, sales, packaging and development marketplace, has hired Tim Wesley as CEO. Wesley recently served as an executive digital consultant for AMC Theatres and is the former general manager of RedBox On Demand. He will report to Slated's newly installed board of directors. Stephan…

Michael Joe, a former executive at Universal, has joined STX Entertainment as Chief Operating Officer of the Motion Picture Group, rejoining Adam Fogelson, who is chairman of the group. The two worked together when Fogelson was Universal chairman and Joe was EVP at the studio. "I had the privilege of working with…

Relativity Media’s key backer Elliott Management Corporation has announced the departure of Michael Joe, the former president of Relativity who was plucked from that post by Elliott to watch its investments with Ryan Kavanaugh. Joe had little to do because Elliott has stopped future funding of entertainment industry…

UPDATE: Relativity Media has closed its deal for Act of Valor, as Deadline revealed earlier today. Press release is below our original break on the deal. Relativity has dated the film for 2012, so I suspect it will be Presidents’ Day weekend in late February. EARLIER EXCLUSIVE, 1:27 PM: In what will shape up as…

EXCLUSIVE: I fear that Ryan Kavanaugh is having a nervous breakdown. I’ve just confirmed with Elliott Associates that their stake in his Relativity Media is not for sale. “Elliott is not selling. They are not shopping,” the investment group told me exclusively just now as an update their reining in Relativity…