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EXCLUSIVE: After 15 years as co-CEO of international production group Umedia, Adrian Politowski has stepped down to launch LA-based production and finance outfit Align. The new company, co-founded by Umedia’s Nadia Khamlichi, intends to deploy $150M from now through 2022, focusing on three-five English-language…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of an August production start on I Kill Giants, Umedia, with backing from London-based Ingenious, has come on board to finance the picture. Anders Walter is making his feature debut on the adaptation of Joe Kelly’s graphic novel. Zoe Saldana and Madison Wolfe star. XYZ is handling world sales on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Brian Knappenberger's Truth And Power screened last week as part of the Berlin Film Festival’s budding Drama Series Days section. Its slot came as non-fiction was included for the first time. Filmbuff began selling the timely series at the EFM, closing an important offshore deal with Israeli broadcaster…

Dean Devlin's Electric Entertainment has taken all foreign rights to Ridley Scott's untitled PBS Civil War drama. The six-part series, a blend of hospital drama and family saga, will be shot in Virginia and is scheduled for a winter 2016 premiere. The sales team will introduce the series to foreign buyers at the…

Renny Harlin, who most recently helmed Summit’s The Legend Of Hercules starring Kellen Lutz, has boarded Fallen Cross, a Chicago-set actioner from Umedia that is set to go into production this winter. The pic, scripted by David Christopher O’Neill, centers on a reformed ex-Mafia enforcer Timothy Cole in his desperate…

The VFX industry has seen recent mass migrations to tax-friendly locales overseas. Until now Belgium hasn’t been one of those major runaway destinations. But European film company uMedia has unveiled a new financing deal through its VFX division uFX offering up to 40% of a project’s VFX budget for work done in-house…

European film group uMedia and veteran French sales company Celluloid Dreams partnered during the EFM in Berlin this year and are now embellishing that collaboration. The pair will join forces for the Cannes market on international acquisitions and sales on films that include Takashi Miike's Competition title Shield Of…

International film production, finance and distribution group uMedia has appointed Karl Richards and Peter Bevan to expand the company's London office and set up shop in Los Angeles, respectively. Lauraine Heftler has also been named head of the new Paris office. Richards and Bevan produced the uMedia-backed Mariah Mun…

uMedia To Remake Johnnie To’s ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Heart’ Brussels-based uMedia has secured the remake rights to Johnnie To's Don’t Go Breaking My Heart for an English-language redo. The 2011 romantic comedy is a Hong Kong-set love triangle. UMedia, whose finance and production division, uFilm, has been involved with…

BRUSSELS. uMedia, co-producer of the multi Oscar-winning The Artist has hired former Lakeshore International President Peter Rogers to head up its new international sales division uConnect, part of the company's expanding London based operations. uMedia, the production, finance and distribution powerhouse behind films…