Bloom (company)

American film entertainment company

Bloom Media

Formerly| MDP Worldwide (1993–1998, 2000–2003)
Behaviour Worldwide (1998–2000)
Media 8 Entertainment (2003–2012)
Industry| Entertainment
Predecessor| Capella Films
Lauren Films
Araba Films
Founded| 1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Founder| Mark Damon
Defunct| 2019; 5 years ago (2019)
Fate| Acquired by WME-IMG in 2017 and folded into Endeavor Content in 2019
Successor| Endeavor Content (now Fifth Season)
Headquarters| Los Angeles, California, United States
Products| Motion pictures
Parent| Endeavor Content (2017–2019)
Website| Official website

Bloom Media (formerly MDP Worldwide, Behaviour Worldwide and Media 8 Entertainment) was an American independent film entertainment company engaged in financing, development, production and worldwide distribution of theatrical feature films in various forms of broadcast media.

## Overview

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The company was formed in 1993 by Mark Damon as MDP Worldwide (the "MDP" itself is short for Mark Damon Productions).

In 1998, it was sold to Behaviour Communications, a Canadian production company from the assets of Malofilm for $19 million, which subsequently changed its name to Behaviour Worldwide.[1] In 2000, citing the struggles of Behaviour themselves, Damon's investors opted to buy back the company, which was reverted to the MDP Worldwide moniker.[2]

MDP Worldwide posted net income of C$5.5 million ($3.4 million) on revenues of $33.5 million for the year ended September 30, 2002.[3] The company had offices in Los Angeles, California and Montreal, Quebec.

On October 9, 2003, MDP Worldwide was renamed Media 8 Entertainment.[4][5] On May 15, 2004, it was announced that Media 8 Entertainment wanted to focus on film production following the success of the film Monster, and chose to focus on eight movies budgeted on the $10-$50 million range.[6]

On October 14, 2004, founder Mark Damon announced that he would resign his post as chairman-CEO of the Media 8 Entertainment studio.[7] After leaving Media 8, on January 23, 2005, Damon would eventually form a new studio Foresight Unlimited, to focus on production, with Media 8 executive Tamara Stuparich De La Barra serving as vice president of production at the studio.[8]

In 2007, Media 8 Entertainment acquired the Spanish-based film companies Lauren Films and Araba Films, which then began to focus on the cinema theater business, until they became dormant in the 2010s.

In April 2012, Media 8 filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and it was reorganized as Bloom Media following a merger with Capella Films.[9]

In August 2017, Bloom was acquired by WME-IMG, with Bloom continuing to function as an entity within the company.[10] In October 2018, it was announced that Bloom's operations would be integrated into those of its parent Endeavor Content's, with Bloom's employees being transferred to Endeavor Content.[11]

## Films produced by Media 8

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* The Ramen Girl (2008)
* Man About Town (2006)
* Running Scared (2006)
* Wedding Daze (2006)
* Santa's Slay (2005)
* Havoc (2005)
* The Upside of Anger (2005)
* Love Wrecked (2005)
* Monster (2003)
* The I Inside (2003)
* 11:14 (2003)
* The United States of Leland (2003)

### MDP Worldwide

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* FeardotCom (2002)
* Extreme Ops (2002)
* The Musketeer (2001)
* The Body (2001)
* Knock Off (1998)
* Orgazmo (1997)
* Deceiver (1997)
* The Blackout (1997)
* The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997)
* Men of War (1994)
* Bad Blood (1994)
* Deadly Heroes (1993)

### Behaviour Worldwide

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* Love & Sex (2000)
* Eye of the Beholder (1999)
* Grizzly Falls (1999)

## Films distributed by Media 8

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* The Ramen Girl (2008)
* Local Color (2006)
* Man About Town (2006)
* Running Scared (2006)
* Santa's Slay (2005)
* Havoc (2005)
* The Upside of Anger (2005)
* Love Wrecked (2005)
* Monster (2003)
* 11:14 (2003)
* The I Inside (2003)

### MDP Worldwide

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* Free Money (1998)
* The Jungle Book (1994)
* Crackerjack (1994)
* Bad Blood (1994)
* Night Eyes 3 (1993)
* Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993)

### Behaviour Worldwide

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* Love & Sex (2000)
* Eye of the Beholder (1999)
* Grizzly Falls (1999)

## References

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1. ^ Kelly, Brendan (1998-03-27). "Canada's Behaviour buys MDP". Variety. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
2. ^ "Behaviour changes moniker to MDP". Variety. 2000-05-31. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
3. ^ Tillson, Tamsen (February 20, 2002). "MDP Worldwide posts record profits".
4. ^ Cathy Dunkley MDP changes name, focus Variety. Retrieved on May 24, 2013
5. ^ Jeremy Kay MDP Worldwide changes name to Media 8 Entertainment Screen Daily. Retrieved on May 24, 2013.
6. ^ Dunkley, Cathy; Harris, Dana (2004-05-15). "Media 8 reshapes". Variety. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
7. ^ Dunkley, Cathy; Harris, Dana (2004-10-15). "Damon late of Media 8". Variety. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
8. ^ Mohr, Ian (2005-01-24). "Damon shows Foresight". Variety. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
9. ^ "busbk.com". Retrieved September 26, 2012.
10. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (30 August 2017). "WME/IMG Acquires Ken Kao & Alex Walton's Sales/Financing Company Bloom". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
11. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (10 October 2018). "Endeavor Content Bolsters TV & Film Ranks, Fully Integrates Global Sales Company Bloom; Alex Walton Is EVP, Dan Guando Sr Veep". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 4 January 2022.

## External links

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* Archives of this company's former website

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* United States