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Exclusive Media has partnered on Untitled Keith Moon biopic under an expanded relationship with Da Vinci Media Ventures and has also extended its Middle East output deal with Front Row by four years.The arrangement with New Yorks Da Vinci Media Ventures, led by UK-based entrepreneur Toby Moores and Hollywood executive Wendy Rutland, covers a multi-film development and financing deal.First to go is the Keith Moon project, on which The Whos Roger Daltrey and Exclusive Media chairman and CEO Nigel Sinclair have collaborated for years. Rutland will serve as an executive producer.Exclusive, Moores and Rutland announced in Cannes a rolling four-film equity deal under which Moores/Da Vinci took an equity stake in select Exclusive Media titles.The renewed deal with Hisham Al-Ghanim andGianluca Chakra of Front Row Filmed Entertainment covers the Exclusive Media slate through 2017. Titles include Dark Places, A Walk Among The Tombstones, The Woman In stanley cupe Black: Angel Of Death and Pele.President of international sales and distribution Alex Walton and Akshay Mehta negotiated the deal with Al-Ghanim andChakra.TopicsProductionUnited States No comment stanley germany s Related articles stanley espana News Voltage Pictures hires Benan Guz to senior international sales distribut |
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