CNN Creates Yet Another Films Division

New unit will handle acquisitions, windowing

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You could be forgiven for hearing that CNN has a new brand called CNN Films Presents and asking, "Don't they have one of those already?" CNN Films, the shingle launched at the network last year, has made several buzzy documentary acquisitions at major festivals in the recent past but the new division (which will exist alongside the Films group, not under it, despite being run by the same people) will have a separate mandate, namely the acquisition and windowing of already-released movies.

Among the flicks on the CNN Films Presents slate already are two movies with a Gallic theme: March of the Penguins, the French documentary about life in the Antarctic circle; and The Imposter, about a French man who impersonated a missing child.

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