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Worldscreen.com: Fireworks Serves Up New Drama Series (10 March 2006) Fireworks International
Fireworks International is bringing to MIPTV the new one-hour drama series Whistler, produced by Blueprint Entertainment and Boardwatch Productions for broadcast on The N and CTV later this year. More |
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C21media.com: Fireworks sounds trumpet for Whistler (9 March 2006) Fireworks International
Fireworks International, now part of the UK’s ContentFilm, has picked up the overseas TV rights to a sporty new US/Canadian drama coproduction set in the world of winter sports. More |
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C21media.com: Jane makes MipTV debut (7 March 2006) Fireworks International
Fireworks International is launching Canada production house Shaftesbury Films’ oddball half-hour comedy series The Jane Show at MipTV. More |
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Variety.com: ‘Last’ is first for Schepisi (13 February 2006), ContentFilm International
Fred Schepisi is set to direct his long-mooted Vietnam War drama “Last Man” this summer, with ContentFilm handling worldwide sales. More |
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Video Age : Britannia at Crossroads : Challenging Times in a Changing U.K. Market (January 2006), Fireworks International
Greg Phillips, president, Fireworks International is also concerned that, “British independent Producers have a major problem inherent in the way British broadcasters run their schedules and their businesses – and that is that no one will commission a long running, multi-episode drama in the way that the Americans – and to a certain extent the Australians – do” More |
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Oscar.com : Best Actress Oscar Nominations (31 January 2006), ContentFilm International
Felicity Huffman in TRANSAMERICA nominated for Best Actress Oscar More |
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Oscar.com : Original Song Oscar Nominations (31 January 2006), ContentFilm International
Dolly Parton’s ‘Travelin’ Thru’ from TRANSAMERICA nominated for Music (Song) Oscar More |
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BBC.com : Oscar Nominations (31 January 2006), ContentFilm International
Mountain is leading the field with eight nominations… Felicity Huffman nominated for Best Actress Oscar More |
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C21media.net : Fireworks explodes back into life (24 January 2006), Fireworks International
Launching a new Canadian-produced scripted comedy here in Vegas, Greg Phillips More |
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HollywoodReporter.com: Felicity Huffman wins Globe’s best dramatic actress (17 January 2006), ContentFilm International
Felicity Huffman wins the 63rd Golden Globe for her role in Transamerica More |
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bbc.com: Felicity Huffman named 63rd Golden Globe’s best dramatic actress (17 January 2006), ContentFilm International
Felicity Huffman wins a Globe for her role in Transamerica More |
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Screendaily.com: Transamerica is a big hit internationally for ContentFilm (20 December 2005), ContentFilm International
ContentFilm PLC announced a raft of sales for its newest acquisition, Transamerica, whose star, Felicity Huffman, received the nomination More |
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Videoageinternational.com: Singapore to Showcase TV Growth at the Asian TV Forum (1 December 2005), Fireworks International
Lately, when a TV distributor is asked which territories are becoming more receptive to their international business, he or she will often mention Asia More |
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Worldscreen.com: Focus on John Schmidt and Greg Philips (29 November, 2005), Fireworks International
In the international distribution business it is said over and over that a sales team must believe in their product. More |
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Film.guardian.co.uk: Homeward bound (25 November, 2005), ContentFilm International
Paul Verhoeven, the director who brought us Robocop, has left Hollywood to go back to his roots: freezing weather, coffins and pig muck in the Netherlands. Geoffrey Macnab reports. More |
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Variety.com: Content closes circle on ‘Ring’, Coin ready for Attenborough (5 November, 2005), ContentFilm International
ContentFilm Intl. is providing the necessary financing for actor-director Richard Attenborough to begin helming the long-gestating “Closing the Ring,” starring Shirley MacLaine. More |
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Screendaily.com: ContentFilm International boosts AFM slate with The Moguls (28 October, 2005), ContentFilm International
ContentFilm International has lined up a prestigious slate of titles for AFM including work by Peter Greenaway, Keith Gordon and Paul Verhoeven. More |
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Fireworks sales rocket after Mipcom (27 October, 2005 ), Fireworks International
Fireworks International, a division of the UK’s ContentFilm, has racked up a number of sales for Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, following Mipcom last week. More |
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Mipcom Daily News: Content crosses platforms (19 October, 2005), Fireworks International
ContentFilm already occupies a niche as a production, sales, financing company based in London, with strong ties to the US film industry, and plans to further exploit that niche by More |
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Video Movie Age International: Fireworks (17 October, 2005), Fireworks International
Fireworks International combines scripted drama with reality television in Streetzmartz More |
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Mipcom Listing: Fireworks International New Products (17 October, 2005), Fireworks International
New Product List More |
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C21 Media: Fireworks execs fly higher (14 October, 2005), Fireworks International
Fireworks Fireworks International’s Saralo MacGregor has been promoted to exec VP of worldwide distribution, while Kathryn Rice is now SVP of European sales and acquisitions. More |
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Mipcom Daily News: Andromeda sparks Fireworks sales (13 October, 2005), Fireworks International
Fireworks International has signed a raft of deals for Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, with Sony Pictures Television International taking season five for its AXN channels in Japan, Israel and More |
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Worldscreen.com: Promotions at Fireworks (5 October, 2005), Fireworks International
At Fireworks International, Saralo MacGregor has been upped to executive VP of worldwide distribution; and Kathryn Rice to senior VP of European sales and acquisitions. More |
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Broadcastnow.co.uk: Fireworks targets UK producers (19 September, 2005), Fireworks International
New London-based Fireworks Entertainment is back on the hunt for new programming following its acquisition by the UK’s Content Film this July More |
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Variety.com: Thank You for Smoking Review (14 September, 2005), ContentFilm International
Slick, stylish and sharp-witted, “Thank You for Smoking” is an entertaining satire on contemporary morality that skewers corporate spin culture. More |
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Screen Daily.com: Duncan Tucker wins Deauville screenwriting prize for Transamerica (11 September 2005), ContentFilm International
Duncan Tucker took the screenwriting prize for his Transamerica starring Felicity Huffman as… More |
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Variety.com: The Business Review (24 August, 2005), ContentFilm International
As one of the Cockney crims in Nick Love’s Spanish-set gangster yarn might put it, “The Business” is the bollocks. More |
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ScreenDaily.com: IFC accompanies Weinsteins on trans-sexual odyssey (18 August, 2005), ContentFilm International
IFC Films will partner with The Weinstein Company to distribute Duncan Tucker’s hot-button road movie Transamerica. More |
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ScreenDaily.com: The King Review (1 July, 2005), ContentFilm International
Last year Gael Garcia Bernal was the face of Cannes, with his contrasting performances. More |
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Variety.com: 12 Pix world preeming at Film Focus Market (Jun. 13, 2005), ContentFilm International
Stephen Frears’ London-set period drama “Mrs. Henderson Presents” is among 12 pics world preeming in the publicly funded London U.K. Film Focus market. More |
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Variety.com: Three thesps ‘Driving’ UK dramedy (16 May 2005), ContentFilm International
Laura Linney and Julie Walters will star with “Harry Potter” star Rupert Grint in “Driving Lessons,” the directorial debut… More |
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Screen Daily.com: ContentFilm picks up Transamerica for International (25 April 2005), ContentFilm International
ContentFilm International has picked up all international rights to Duncan Tucker’s road movie ‘Transamerica… More |
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Variety: Transamerica (25 April 2005), ContentFilm International
“Sideways” turns inside out in “Transamerica.” Laugh-out-loud funny, tartly off-color and ultimately touching, this road movie involving. More |
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Screen Daily.com: Revelation delayed as lead actor breaks ankle (19 April 2005), ContentFilm International
The shooting schedule of Ana Kokkinos’ The Book of Revelation has had to be rapidly re-arranged after lead actor Tom Long broke his ankle on Friday (April 15) More |
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Variety: Deal Crosses Pond, ContentFilm Plc
Three months after announcing merger plans, London-based sales company Winchester Entertainment and Gotham-based production banner ContentFilm have finalized terms of a deal. More |
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Hollywood Reporter: ContentFilm Absorbs Winchester, ContentFilm Plc
Ed Pressman and John Schmidt’s 2-year-old ContentFilm unit is expected to unveil a reverse takeover today of financially embattled U.K.-based production, distribution and financing banner Winchester Entertainment. More |
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Variety: Taking a Shot at Winchester, ContentFilm Plc
Ed Pressman and John Schmidt’s Gotham-based independent production banner ContentFilm will announce plans in London today for a merger with publicly listed U.K. sales and distribution company Winchester Entertainment. More |
