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Exclusive: London-based Alliance Media Partners (Amp) has hired Anthony Buckner as Head of Sales, Acquisitions and Distribution in the run up to the Cannes market.

Former Icon and Kaleidoscope exec Buckner will be overseeing the company’s Cannes slate of genre titles and will be tasked with expansion. He is taking over from longtime Amp partner and sales vet James Norrie who has exited the company.

Amp, founded in 2017 as a production, financing and sales company, is the media arm of Alliance Capital Partners group, a private asset management and finance company based in Dubai. Current titles include The Morrigan with Toby Stephens and sci fi thriller New Life.

Buckner has sold movies including The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, How I Spent My summer Vacation, Coriolanus, Prevenge, Hurricane and Creation Stories.

He spent 15 years at Icon before stints at Magnolia Pictures, Red Bull’s Terra Mater Factual Studios, Kaleidoscope,...

Rambo 5 is gearing up to begin shooting next month, and it was believed that Sylvester Stallone was going to be helming the project. Stallone directed the last installment in the franchise with mixed results. However, new reports state that Get the Gringo director Adrian Grunberg has been tapped to direct the project instead. Grunberg has also worked on several episodes of Narcos as a second unit director as well as the assistant director on Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and on Sense8.

Adrian Grunberg's experience working on Narcos makes him a perfect fit for Rambo 5, since it will be dealing with some of the same themes. The official synopsis for the sequel has John Rambo living on a ranch in Arizona in an attempt to live the quiet life. That all changes when a human trafficking ring starts to abduct young women and bring them across the border.