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Bleecker Street, the indie distribution label behind awards season hopefuls and audience-loved horror, is being acquired by Outerlight Entertainment (formerly First Look Entertainment). Bleecker will remain under the leadership of CEO Kent Sanderson, as well as president and CMO Tyler DiNapoli, and will operate independently from Outerlight's other assets. Along with Bleecker, Outerlight's portfolio includes Club Kid producer-financier Topic Studios and Puzzle Pictures. (There is no deal with Bleecker and Topic; Topic will continue to take its projects out to the open market to other distributors.)More from The Hollywood ReporterThe capital from the acquisition will allow Bleecker to continue to operate its film business and build out its event label, Crosswalk. The backer behind the newly titled Outerlight Entertainment is eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar. Bleecker is a presence at every film festival and market, known as a main player in the specialty space. Recent and upcoming releases exemplify Bleecker's varied slate, from the RuPaul-fronted comedy Stop! That! Train!

The producers of upcoming British boxing biopic “In the Shadows” have successfully staged a last-minute rescue mission to save their film after its U. K. distributor True Brit Entertainment filed for administration in late September. The feature — based on the true story of trailblazing British-Somali boxer, model and UNICEF Ambassador Ramla Ali and due to have its world premiere at the London Film Festival on Oct. 9 — will now be self-released theatrically in the U. K. thanks to additional support from its financiers.