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27 May, 2009 ContentFilm International has acquired international sales rights to THE DETAILS starring James McAvoy. Written and Directed by Jacob Estes (Mean Creek), THE DETAILS stars James McAvoy (The last King of Scotland, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Wanted, Atonement), Elizabeth Banks (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Spiderman […]

Academy Award ® Winner for Best Foreign Language Film, DEPARTURES is an emotional, inspiring and often amusing story that has all the ingredients of the next ‘Life is Beautiful’. Daigo Kobayashi is a cellist whose dream is shattered when his Tokyo orchestra suddenly closes down. Left with no choice but to sell his prized cello, […]

Based on a remarkable true story, BALIBO is a tense piece of bravado film-making, an engaging thriller in the vein of Costa Gavras’s ‘Missing’ and ‘The Constant Gardener’. 1975 – With the eyes of the world distracted by the recent conclusion to the war in Vietnam, five Australian television correspondents go missing when the Indonesian […]

From the Director of the hit prequel ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning’ and the writer of ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’, THE KILLING ROOM blends the thrilling mental edge of ‘Panic Room’ and ‘The Game’ with the intensity of ‘Memento’. Fast-paced, claustrophobic and full of twists and turns, this unrelenting psychological thriller will keep you […]

8 May, 2009 London, 8th May 2009 – Fireworks International, the digital content and television distribution arm of ContentFilm Plc, announced today that it is to collaborate with pioneering multi-platform producers Pure Grass Films as a production and funding partner on the brand new multi-platform thriller SHADOW LINE. Fireworks International will also distribute the prequel […]

16 March, 2009 London, 16th March 2009: Greg Phillips, President of Fireworks International, the television distribution arm of ContentFilm plc, has announced the promotion of Jonathan Ford to Executive Vice-President, Digital Acquisitions and Distribution. In addition to his responsibilities overseeing the licensing of Fireworks International and ContentFilm International’s new and library programming and development content […]

3 March, 2009 London, 03rd March 2009 – Fireworks International, the television distribution arm of ContentFilm plc, today announced details of a significant deal with Virgin Media, the leading UK entertainment and communications company, which will see more than 275 hours of programming made available through the company’s pioneering TV on demand service. The deal […]

23 April, 2009 By Nancy TartaglioneSource: Screen Pedro Almodovar, Lars Von Trier and Quentin Tarantino are among the established names in a Cannes competition line-up that contained few surprises. This year’s heavyweight line-up, announced by festival director Thierry Fremaux this morning (April 23), sees a strong selection from Asian and good presence from British and […]

From arguably the finest African Wildlife Cameramen working today, comes an intensely emotional narrative feature film about of a single herd of elephants and their incredible trek 300 miles across the scorching temperatures of the Kalahari Desert, to the lush paradise of the Okavango Delta. Beautiful, extraordinary and utterly magical – this is the breathtaking […]