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Clay Epstein’s Los Angeles-based distribution agency Film Mode Entertainment (FME) talks to buyers in the virtual market in Cannes on As sick as they made us and Dig, set up a Consulting business.

FME Consulting will help filmmakers navigate all phases of filmmaking from development to financing, production and distribution.

The division is managed separately from the distribution business, so that Film Mode will not necessarily handle the sale of films from advisory clients unless it suits both parties. Likewise, sales staff will only access consulting services if they so wish.

Epstein and his team recorded virtual market talks on As Sick As They Made Us, which is in production and tells of a newly divorced woman who has found love and is trying to make peace with her dysfunctional family. Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen, Simon Helberg and Dianna Agron star.

The Cannes Market’s virtual sales list includes the thriller Dig, starring Emile Hirsch, Liana Liberato and Thomas Jane, about a widower and his deaf daughter taken hostage at the demolition site of their house by a couple determined to salvage something of value become.

Recent sales credits include Anti Life (Breach) with Bruce Willis, Slayers with Thomas, Jane, Malin Ackerman and Abigail Breslin, and Chick Fight with Alec Baldwin, Ackerman and Bella Thorne.

FME entered into a joint venture with Screen Media in 2019 to represent its library of more than 600 titles, including What’s Eating Gilbert Grape with Leonardo DiCaprio and Monster with Charlize Theron in their Oscar-winning performance.

The company has a first-look partnership with financier BondIt Media Capital, which includes the upcoming Slayers with Kerman, Abigail Breslin and Thomas Jane, Stage Mother with Jacki Weaver, Lucy Liu and Adrian Grenier, and Crypto with Kurt Russell. Luke Hemsworth and Alexis Bledel.