Andrew Karpen, Founder and CEO of Bleecker Street, Dies at 59

Andrew Karpen, founder and CEO of Bleecker Street, has died after an extended battle with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. He was 59. Karpen was a mainstay of the independent film industry for much of the 21st century, serving as co-CEO of Focus Features for more than a decade before leaving to found Bleecker Street, which took its name from the New York street where Focus' headquarters was located, in 2014. Bleecker Street made its first film acquisition at TIFF 2014 with "Pawn Sacrifice," which starred Tobey Maguire as chess legend Bobby Fischer. In the decade since, Bleecker . . .