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26 October, 2009 By Geoffrey MacnabSource: Screen Daily On the eve of the AFM, ContentFilm International has taken worldwide sales rights to action thriller The Fallout to be directed by Xavier Gens (Hitman). The film is due is due to start principal photography in Feb 2010 in Eastern Europe. The Fallout, set in a post-apocalyptic […]

9 March, 2009 By Frank Hatherley in AdelaideSource: Screen Daily Dir: Glendyn Ivin. Aust. 2009. 96 mins A gritty father-son road movie, Last Ride goes down some of the bumpiest, least-travelled roads in Australia. With Hugo Weaving on top form as the aggressive, unpredictable father, and impressive 10-year old newcomer Tom Russell as his at-risk […]

14 January, 2009 By Jeremy KaySource: Screen Entertainment website Jaman.com has begun its international expansion plan by launching its first localised site in the UK. Former executive vice president and managing director of MySpace and Fox Interactive Media David Fischer, is named managing director of Jaman’s UK and international operations. Based in London, Fischer will […]

23 February, 2009 Japan’s “Departures” won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in one of the few surprises at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Either Israel’s “Waltz With Bashir” or France’s “The Class” had been widely expected to take the trophy. Also nommed were Germany’s “The Baader Meinhof Complex” and Austria’s “Revanche.” “Departures” (or “Okuribito”), directed […]

1 December, 2003 By Adam Dawtrey and David Rooney Source: Variety 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. Deal is structured as a reverse takeover of Winchester, which itself recently merged with Alton […]

1 December, 2003 By Ian Mohr and Stuart Kemp Source: Hollywood Reporter Ed Pressman and John Schmidt’s 2-year-old ContentFilm unit is expected to unveil a reverse takeover of financially embattled U.K.-based production, distribution, and financial banner Winchester Entertainment. Through the deal, Winchester will be absorbed into the ContentFilm fold, but remain based in the United […]

24 October, 2008 By John AndersonSource: Variety F/x whiz Toby Wilkins’ “Splinter” is a spare, effective and genuinely frightening retro-nightmare that will have teenage gore girls trooping to the movies like lurching swarms of George Romero’s living dead. The socio-sexual-psychological attraction of “Splinter” — which just won a rash of awards at Screamfest in Los […]

11 February, 2008 By Wendy Mitchell in Berlin Source: ScreenDaily The film has gone to UK & Australia/New Zealand (Icon), Italy (DNC), The Middle East (Gulf Film), Mexico (Gussi), Czech and Slovak Republics (AQS), Poland (Best Film), The West Indies (Caribbean Film Services), Singapore (Cathay), Venezuela (Cinematografica Blancica), Russia & CIS (Civic Impex), Thailand (J-Bics), […]

23 October, 2009 By Jeremy KaySource: Screen Daily ContentFilm International gets Heartless in run-up to AFM. ContentFilm International has boarded international rights excluding the UK, Portugal and the Middle East to Philip Ridley’s Heartless following hit screenings at Sitges in Spain and Frightfest in London. ContentFilm will commence sales on the Faustian horror tale-psychological thriller […]