Los Angeles: Billionaire Thomas Barrack Jr. and other investors in the Miramax film company, the owner of Oscar-winning movies including “Shakespeare in Love,” are in exclusive talks to sell the business to Qatar-based broadcaster BeIN Media Group, people with knowledge of the matter said. A sale could be completed by the end of the year, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. BeIN Media Group was formed in January 2014 in a spinoff from Qatar’s Al Jazeera Media Network. The current owners of Miramax bought the company for $660 million in 2010. A deal would give BeIN a foothold in Hollywood as it works to diversify from sports into general entertainment programming. Though they are older films, Miramax pictures like “Good Will Hunting” and “Pulp Fiction” continue to be popular fare on US television.