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12 February, 2008 PROMOTIONS AT FIREWORKS INTERNATIONAL   LONDON February 12, 2008. Greg Phillips, President of Fireworks International, has today announced the promotion of Jonathan Ford to Senior Vice-President, Digital Acquisitions and Distribution, and Diana Zakis to Vice-President, Sales, Latin America and Asia. Ford joined the company in 2006, charged with responsibility for the licensing of […]

10 April, 2008 STEEP is a feature documentary about bold adventure, exquisite athleticism and the pursuit of a perfect moment on skis. It is the story of big mountain skiing, a dangerous and exhilarating sport that barely existed 35 years ago. STEEP features many of the sport’s greatest athletes including Bill Briggs, Stefano De Benedetti, […]

17 September, 2008 CFI has brought to the international market films such as Jason Reitman’s ‘Thank You For Smoking’, ‘Black Book’ directed by Paul Verhoeven, Duncan Tucker’s ‘Transamerica’ and more recently ‘The Messenger’ directed by Oren Morverman and ‘Extract’ from cult director Mike Judge. Carmichael said, ‘Whilst we will continue to search out high quality […]

21 January, 2008 FIREWORKS INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF THE CBC INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUEFireworks International is delighted to announce its collaboration with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, whereby Fireworks will acquire the international distribution rights and assets currently managed by CBC’s division responsible for international sales. The deal includes the sale of CBC’s programme catalogue of approximately […]

4 April, 2008 FIREWORKS INTERNATIONAL MIPTV NEWS newsletter View our online MIPTV Newsletter here. THE ASSISTANTS HIT CANNES MIPTV sees the arrival of The Assistants, an hilarious 13 x 30’ comedy series set amidst the exaggerated world of Tinsel Town. Struggling to survive one another and the unpredictable whims of their eccentric movie mogul boss, […]

8 November, 2008 ContentFilm International has acquired all International rights to Japan’s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film for the 2009 Oscars, the award winning DEPARTURES. An emotional, inspiring and often amusing story DEPARTURES has all the ingredients of the next ‘Life is Beautiful’ and has to date recorded 3 million admissions in […]

28 July, 2008 BBC Films, the UK Film Council and Limelight are pleased to announce that principal photography has begun on FISH TANK – Academy Award®-winning writer and director Andrea Arnold’s follow-up feature to Cannes “Prix du Jury” winner, Red Road. Artificial Eye has acquired the UK theatrical rights; ContentFilm International is handling worldwide sales. […]

13 October, 2008 Other titles sold by Melling and Brodie include Paul Verhoeven’s BLACK BOOK, Richard Attenborough’s CLOSING THE RING, Duncan Tucker’s TRANSAMERICA, Alex Proyas’ THE CROW, Abel Ferrara’s BAD LIEUTENANT, Wayne Kramer’s THE COOLER, HEARTBREAKERS starring Sigourney Weaver, William Friedkin’s RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, Kevin Costner’s OPEN RANGE, Jerry Zucker’s RAT RACE and Jeremy Brock’s […]

3 April, 2008 London, 03rd April 2008 – Fireworks International, the television distribution arm of ContentFilm plc, today announced a range of deals for titles from the Harmony Gold library, secured by the distributor since its agreement last year to handle international sales for the catalogue, which comprises over 300 hours of programming. Harmony Gold’s […]