Title: Alexis Lloyd
Content:  In 1993, Lloyd began working on film acquisition and development with Claude Berri, Paul Rassam and Jake Eberts, then on film sets as assistant director in Australia and New York. He moved to London in 1994 to run Guild Entertainment, an independent film distributor, then launched and became managing director of Pathé UK. At Pathé UK, Lloyd supervised the distribution operation, Pathé Distribution, and the production arm, Pathé Pictures, which won one of the three film franchises awarded by the Arts Council of England in May 1997. During his years at Pathé UK, Lloyd was the executive producer of The Claim, It Was An Accident, There's Only One Jimmy Grimble, Love's Labour's Lost, and The Darkest Light. As head of Guild Film Distribution and Pathé Distribution, Lloyd oversaw the co-production and distribution of over 90 feature films, including box office hits Stargate, Austin Powers, The Fifth Element, Sleepy Hollow, All About My Mother, The Blair Witch Project, Memento, and Chicken Run. Under his direction, Guild Entertainment and Pathé UK acquired and distributed independent films such as Bound, Basquiat, Swingers, The Spanish Prisoner, Pi, and The Virgin Suicides.
Title: Lance Acord
Content:  with R.E.M. on a regular basis. Acord made his first foray into narrative feature filmmaking as the cinematographer on Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66. Since then, he has been the director of photography on Spike Jonze's features Being John Malkovich, Adaptation (in which he also made a cameo as himself during production of Being John Malkovich) and Where the Wild Things Are, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, and her short film Lick the Star, as well as Peter Care's The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. In the late 1990s Lance began his transition into directing and in 1998, together with his business partner Jackie Kelman Bisbee, founded the production company Park Pictures. Over the years he has received 35 Cannes Lions for his work with clients 
Title: Barry Ackroyd
Content:  Barry Ackroyd, BSC (born 12 May 1954) is an English cinematographer. Ackroyd has frequently worked with directors Ken Loach and Paul Greengrass. He worked on Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 war film The Hurt Locker as well as the critically acclaimed 2013 biographical thriller Captain Phillips, the former earning him a BAFTA Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. In 2014, Ackroyd became the president of the British Society of Cinematographers.
Title: Abduction (2011 film)
Content:  Lionsgate Films bought screenwriter Shawn Christensen's spec script for Abduction in February 2010, with actor Taylor Lautner attached to the film. The studio won a bidding war for the screenplay, acquiring it for $1 million. Gotham Group and Vertigo Entertainment had developed the script, based on a story idea by Gotham's Jeremy Bell. Lionsgate rushed to start principal photography in July, due to Lautner's schedule to begin work on the last two Twilight films for Summit Entertainment. Writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff was hired to work on the screenplay, and John Singleton signed on to direct in March. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Lee Stollman, Roy Lee, and Doug Davison produced the film, and Jeremy Bell and Gabriel Mason executive produced. Lautner's father, Dan Lautner, also produced, the first film from their Tailor Made Entertainment label.
Title: Richard Jewell (film)
Content:  The project was initially announced in February 2014, when Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill teamed to produce the film, with Hill set to play Jewell, and DiCaprio set to play the lawyer who helped Jewell navigate the media blitz that surrounded him. Paul Greengrass began negotiations to direct the film, with Billy Ray writing the screenplay. Other directors considered include Ezra Edelman and David O. Russell, before Clint Eastwood was officially attached in early 2019. DiCaprio and Hill did not star in the film, though they remained as producers. In May 2019, Warner Bros. acquired the film rights from 20th Century Fox, 
Title: Operation Finale
Content:  On November 16, 2015, it was announced that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had bought an untitled spec script from Matthew Orton, about the team who found and captured Adolf Eichmann. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones co-produced the film through his production company Automatik. On February 24, 2016, Chris Weitz was reported as being in talks to direct the film. A deal was struck in March 2017 that saw Oscar Isaac co-produce and star in the film, taking on the role of Peter Malkin. Chris Weitz was set as director. In June, Ben Kingsley was cast as Adolf Eichmann. In August, Lior Raz joined the production, and in September, Mélanie Laurent, Nick Kroll, Joe Alwyn, Michael Aronov, and Haley Lu Richardson were cast, with filming to begin in Argentina on October 1. The cast was rounded out on October 12, and filming was underway in Argentina. Peter Strauss also joined the cast, on November 30. A clip from the 1959 Douglas Sirk film Imitation of Life featuring actress Susan Kohner is featured near the beginning of this film. Kohner is the mother of this film’s director Chris Weitz.
Title: Dark Harvest (2022 film)
Content:  On September 10, 2019, it was reported that New Regency hired David Slade to direct the adaptation of Dark Harvest with Michael Gillio writing the script and Matt Tolmach and David Manpearl producing. On February 23, 2020, it was reported that MGM acquired the film after New Regency put it on turnaround, and Gillio will also executive produce the film.
Title: The Seven Five
Content:  On March 13, 2015, Sony Pictures purchased the rights of The Seven Five documentary with Yann Demange set to direct and Scott Frank writing the script. On January 25, 2018, Craig Gillespie was hired to direct instead of Demange. On December 16, 2020, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took over the film adaptation documentary with Ben Stiller set to direct from a Tony McNamara script and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in talks to portray Dowd.
Title: The Imitation Game
Content:  Before Cumberbatch joined the project, Warner Bros. bought the screenplay for a reported seven-figure sum because of Leonardo DiCaprio's interest in playing Turing. In the end, DiCaprio did not come on board and the rights of the script reverted to the screenwriter. Black Bear Pictures subsequently committed to finance the film for $14 million. Various directors were attached during development including Ron Howard and David Yates. In December 2012, it was announced that Headhunters director Morten Tyldum would helm the project, making the film his English-language directorial debut.  Principal photography began on September 15, 2013 in Britain. Filming locations included Turing's 
Title: Shawn Christensen
Content:  for Sidney Hall and The Karma Coalition were sold in 2008, with the former being acquired by Scott Free Productions and the latter being acquired by Warner Bros. for $1.5 million, making it one of the biggest spec script sales of the year. On February 10, 2010, Christensen's screenplay for Abduction was solicited to a number of studios, with actor Taylor Lautner attached to star. By the beginning of the next work day, two studios had already begun bidding on the project, which continued on for a week, until Lionsgate Films won the bidding war for nearly $1 million. Lionsgate 

Question: Who was the director of Acquisition?
Answer: James Whitmore Jr.
James Allen Whitmore III.