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The Business: AFM Heats Up

More than $800 million changed hands as 8,000 execs packed the Santa Monica film market

George Clooney arrived on a bike to boost deals on The Ides of March. Exclusive Media Group and Cross Creek Prods. are financing and co-producing his next directorial outing, along with Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smoke House and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way. Based on Beau Willimon's play Farragut North, the pic also stars Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood. CAA, which packaged and raised financing, is handling domestic distribution rights.