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Everything is all cleaned up for the release of Dirty Grandpa. The Robert De Niro and Zac Efron starring pic was at the heart of a nasty legal dispute that broke out this spring between producer Bill Block and his former company QED. Well, after months in the courts with both sides condemning the other, it's all good…

Fortitude International is coming to QED Intl’s rescue just in time for Cannes with Nadine De Barros and her sales team handling sales at the market for the troubled company. De Barros and her Fortitude colleagues will handle remaining sales on QED titles Rock the Kasbah, The Family Fang, Franny, Time Out of Mind and S…

EXCLUSIVE: QED may have taken their former CEO to court on April 1, but the Fury producer is determined to see any dispute handled in arbitration and stop his old company's legal tactics cold. "In contrast to QED's specious claims, Mr. Block has significant legitimate claims against QED and against his former lawyer…

Just hours after the veteran film financier and producer was hit today with a sprawling trademark infringement and unfair competition complaint by the current QED CEOS, the former QED CEO is hitting back. "I have all along been acting in the best interests of QED, our filmmakers, our production partners and the…

EXCLUSIVE: With allegations of at least $1 million for a Bruce Lee movie going in the wrong pockets and supposedly shady foreign distribution deals, former QED CEO Bill Block has been slammed with a trademark infringement and unfair competition complaint by his old company. Instead of performing his executive…

BREAKING: While we’ve got plenty of projects that mix genre staples from zombies to wolves, the town went wild for a highly unusual combination. In heated bidding, QED emerged victorious and acquired Yellowstone Falls, a spec script by Dan Kunka, who most recently sold his script Bermuda Triangle to Warner Bros, with…

Weeks after Deadline revealed that Universal put the brakes on the Peter Billingsley-directed Term Life with Vince Vaughn and Hailee Steinfeld, QED International and Worldview Entertainment have signed on to finance and produce the crime thriller. Universal, which developed the film, will handle U.S. distribution…

BREAKING: Bill Murray will star in Rock The Kasbah, with Barry Levinson directing a script by Mitch Glazer. The film is being backed and produced by QED's Bill Block, Venture Forth's Jacob Pechenik and Shangri-La Entertainment's Steve Bing. They will shop the film to international distribs at Toronto. Pic tells the…

EXCLUSIVE: Logan Lerman is joining Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf in Fury, the WWII tank thriller that David Ayer wrote and is directing for QED and Sony Pictures. Lerman will play Norman Ellison, an Army typist and the youngest and most inexperienced member of the crew who is thrust into being a tank gunner. Sony Pictures…

BREAKING: In what amounts to the biggest spec deal so far this year, Bill Block‘s QED International has paid $1 million for Fury, a WWII spec script by End Of Watch writer/director David Ayer. Ayer will direct, and QED will produce with John Lesher and his Le Grisbi Productions banner. Ethan Smith, Block and Lesher…

LOS ANGELES, August 21, 2012 – QED international has appointed Daniel Diamond as President of International, it was announced today by QED International CEO Bill Block. Diamond comes to QED International from Morgan Creek Prods. where he served as President of International Distribution. Diamond's appointment is part…

John Turturro wrote and will direct the comedy Fading Gigolo starring Turturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, Vanessa Paradis and Liev Schreiber. An October start date is planned for the movie, which revolves around a book store owner (Allen) with a money-making scheme who convinces his friend (Turturro)…