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10 November, 2006 And it’s not for nothing that HEAVY has garnered more international headlines than Britney Spears’ love child to Pope Benedict XVI, or the 110 year old Masai warrior who took up hip-hop and six months later opened P.Diddy’s ‘Bling and you Miss’ Tour kicking off in Miami. Ok, ok so maybe it […]

21 September, 2006 Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North America, Australia/New Zealand and India film rights to famed director Paul Verhoeven’s “Black Book,” which is also the Dutch entry for the 2006 Academy Awards.  The film received Netherlands’s “Golden Film Award” (given to Dutch films with more than 100,000 visitors opening weekend) after its first […]

20 May, 2006 By By IAN MOHR Source: Variety.com Pic made its world preem at the Tribeca film fest in Gotham, and is screening here. Brock’s semi-autobiographical British comedy-drama toplines Julie Walters, Rupert Grint and Laura Linney. Pic follows a struggling young poet who accepts a summer job with a former star of stage and […]

13 February, 2006 By Adam Dawtrey Source: Variety.com Fred Schepisi is set to direct his long-mooted Vietnam War drama “Last Man” this summer, with ContentFilm handling worldwide sales. The £20 million project is based on the true story of five soldiers from Australia’s Special Air Service operating behind the lines in Vietnam. The story is […]

7 March, 2006 By Staff Reporter Source: C21media.com Following a year of retooling that included funding roadblocks and casting changes, Fireworks International is launching Canada production house Shaftesbury Films’ oddball half-hour comedy series The Jane Show at MipTV. Jane makes MipTV debut Set to premiere on Canadian commercial broadcaster Global Television in the spring, The […]

A Content Film Intl. presentation of a RubberTreePlant production. Produced by Julia Chasman. Executive producers, Edward R. Pressman, Alessandro Camon. Co-producer, Alexandra Ferguson. Directed, written by Jeremy Brock. With: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura Linney, Nicholas Farrell, Michelle Duncan, Jim Norton, Tamsin Egerton.

22 March, 2006 Please find a selection of quotes from reviews of THANK YOU FOR SMOKING in the US media. What some monthly magazines have to say: ROLLING STONE – NY “This stinging satire is easily the best and wickedest comedy of the new year.” Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE PREMIERE – NY “…Aaron Eckhart at […]

28 March, 2006 Director Richard Attenborough started production Monday in Belfast on Closing The Ring, an epic love story that stars Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Brenda Fricker, and Pete Postlethwaite. Jo Gilbert is producing with Attenborough, with Martin Katz co-producing. Closing the Ring is a presentation of the UK Film Council, Scion Films, […]

21 March, 2006 By Wendy Mitchell in London Source: ScreenDaily.org Distributor Tartan Films has acquired all UK and Ireland rights to Driving Lessons, starring Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, and Laura Linney. The film is the directorial debut from Mrs Brown screenwriter Jeremy Brock, who also wrote the original story about an aging actress (Walters) who […]