Independent financing and production studio studio IM Global and music rights management company Kobalt have formed a co-financing and administrative partnership to handle music publishing and distribution/marketing services. Kobalt will handle domestic and foreign releases of soundtracks and manage the rights to…

EXCLUSIVE: Stuart Ford’s sales, finance and production powerhouse IM Global just added a new string to its bow: management company. Ford is teaming up with talent managers Carlos Bobadilla and Brandon Guzmán to launch joint venture Valor Entertainment Group. Bobadilla and Guzmán will oversee the Literary division and…

EXCLUSIVE: Hoping to tap a new vein in the young adult vampire genre that made Twilight Saga such a global hit, Reliance Entertainment and IM Global are co-financing the first installment of a new film franchise based on the six-volume Richelle Mead young adult novel series that will come to the screen as Vampire Acade…

Anil Ambani’s sprawling Indian conglomerate Reliance and China’s Wanda Group have announced plans to create long-term joint ventures in cinema exhibition in India and the United States, Reuters reports. Plans also call for Reliance and Wanda to build real estate projects in India involving a combined area of about 20…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATED: So far, Reliance has been known in Hollywood for its film investments, primarily as financier of Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios. Now the Indian media giant is venturing into American television, backing a new 10-episode pirate series for NBC eyed for a March premiere, which will likely be <a href="https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/rosen__120509195409.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…

BBC Earth and Reliance Big Entertainment will be partnering on a trio of film titles including the $65 million-budgeted Walking With Dinosaurs 3D, a continuation of the popular series that was first broadcast in 1999. The film will be co-directed by Pierre De Lespinois of Evergreen Films. Reliance’s international arm…

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg has committed to next direct Robopocalypse, a Drew Goddard-scripted adaptation of the Daniel H. Wilson epic novel about the human race’s attempt to survive an apocalyptic robot uprising. Deadline broke the story that Spielberg was eyeing the novel as a directing vehicle last March, before…

EXCLUSIVE: Here is what happens when Steven Spielberg plucks you out of obscurity to play the lead in his next film. Jeremy Irvine, who makes his feature film debut as the lead in the Spielberg-directed War Horse, has signed with Spielberg’s agency, CAA. Irvine began his career at The National Youth Theatre and…