Bill Block takes control of his own destiny Bill Block has grown up ... and grown into a new role. Once known as an attention-seeking, gun-collecting, hotshot InterTalent and ICM agent and onetime head of Artisan Entertainment, Block is now co-chief of QED Intl., the 2-year-old financing, sales and production company backed by $10 million in private equity whose riskiest play to date is the complete financing of Oliver Stone's $30 million "W." The George W. Bush biopic and pseudo-satire launches on 2,100 screens Oct. 17 -- two weeks ahead of the presidential election. It's going out via Lionsgate, backed by another $25 million from print-and-ad fund Omnilab. The politically charged pic was unable to land a studio or a specialty distrib -- not even Paramount, which released Stone's last picture, "World Trade Center." But Block...
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