“2016: Obama’s America,” the hit documentary critical of President Obama’s record, is getting a last-minute digital push in Spanish in a bid to boost Mitt Romney’s chances ahead of the Nov. 6 election, the producers of the movie told TheWrap on Friday.

The producers, who already have digital distribution in English with Lionsgate, have struck a new deal with digital company Yekra to release it in Spanish on Friday.

"We’re just finalizing the link -- it’s ready to go," said another individual working on the film. The streamed version in Spanish will cost $2.99 and will be aimed at independent voters in Spanish-speaking communities.  

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In buying Lucasfilm for a stunning $4.05 billion on Tuesday, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger has made yet another bold gamble for the future of his media company, betting on a beloved but dusty franchise in need of a radical reimagining for a new generation.

The Lucasfilm purchase seems significantly riskier than the $4 billion purchase of Marvel in 2009 -- and certainly of Pixar, a hit machine that brought a house full of talent with its $7.4 billion price tag.

In Marvel’s case, the purchase came with a wide array of characters and comic-book properties that had been recently in the cultural bloodstream, whether Iron Man or The Hulk.

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Jeff Berg, the veteran talent agent and former chairman of ICM, told TheWrap on Friday that he would be starting a new talent agency within weeks and had no interest in retiring despite a rich buyout after more than 35 years in the business.

ICM announced Berg’s departure on Friday, and the agency's former chairman and CEO told TheWrap: “I’ve raised money, I will be one of the investors. That’s the path I’m going on.“

Executives close to the agency told TheWrap on Friday that longtime leader Berg was fired after they found out he was planning to launch a new agency. Berg would not confirm the report, nor would he comment on whether veteran agent Carol Bodie, who also left ICM on Friday, would be joining him in his new venture.

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The passing of Newsweek is really sad. And inevitable.

But first, it’s just sad. I started my journalism career at Newsweek, while I was still a student. (Julius Genachowski, currently the head of the FCC, beat me out to be Columbia University’s first “campus correpondent, “ but I got the job the next year. Ah, the stuff you remember.)

Once a week, I’d head downtown for my internship, get off on 50th Street and walk to Madison Avenue, where the cool glass building felt like the very heart of Important Journalism.

Editors spoke softly and tiptoed into large meetings. On Friday nights, the place buzzed until late as the magazine closed, changing things until the last minute, debating the cover line and often the cover story itself.

Back then Newsweek was its own sovereign nation, journalistically speaking, with a caste system...