As someone who has been at various times in his life a budding professional soccer player, a top-level film executive and a would-be sports mogul, Stuart Ford is used to reinventing himself. So last summer, when Donald Tang and his Tang Media Partners, the majority shareholders in IM Global, forced Ford out of the company he founded in 2007, the Liverpoolborn scrapper dusted himself off and started over.
In February, with backing from Latin America, Silicon Valley and Abu Dhabi, and taking nearly his entire IM Global team with him, Ford, 48, launched a new production, financing and sales group, AGC Studios, which will have its official unveiling in Cannes. Ford fell out with Tang over the latter’s plans to merge IM Global’s highly profitable film production and international sales…
