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Pinewood-owner Aermont among suitors for £850m Village Hotels | BusinessNewsPinewood-owner Aermont among suitors for £850m Village Hotels | BusinessNews

The major backer of Pinewood Studios is among the suitors vying to buy Village Hotels, one of Britain’s biggest mid-market hotel chains. Sky News understands Aermont, which specializes in real estate-backed investments, submitted an offer last week for Village Hotels, which is owned by KSL Capital Partners. City sources said KSL was seeking offers worth in the region of £850m or more. A number of other parties are also understood to have tabled bids ahead of a deadline last week. Blackstone, the giant private equity firm, is considering making an offer but has not yet done so, according to insiders.…

CAA Signs Documentary Producer CreativeChaosCAA Signs Documentary Producer CreativeChaos

CreativeChaos vmg, a producer of documentary films and series, has signed with CAA for representation. The company, founded by Ilan Arboleda and Tom Donahue in 2010, bills itself as a “venture media group” (hence the “vmg” in its name) and is behind films including HBO’s Casting By and Bleed Out and Netflix’s #MeToo doc This Changes Everythingamong other titles. Casting Bydirected by Donahue, was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy in 2014 and played a role in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences creating a casting directors branch — which eventually led to an Oscar category for…