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:: Secret Agent Men Secret Agent Men is a fast, funny and furious half-hour live action comedy series set in the high tech world of super spies, suave secret agents and over-the-top villains. Except this time, kids are in charge…

17 May, 2006 Cannes, May 16th, 2006 – After five weeks of filming on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, production on Richard Attenborough’s Closing the Ring has shifted to Toronto, Canada, where filming will continue through June 13. “We enjoyed a very successful shoot in Belfast,” says Attenborough. “The local actors and crews were exceptionally […]

21 May, 2006 Sony Classics has picked up the North America distribution rights to “Driving Lessons,” which features Oscar-overdue Julie Walters giving a 100 m.p.h. performance. Fortunately, she’s not behind the wheel, which could prove dangerous considering Walters portrays a flamboyant over-the-hill British actress with a lusty thirst for alcohol. But she hires a protégé […]

28 March, 2006 Fireworks International – now part of ContentFilm – has a new director of international sales in time for MipTV next week, as well as a new film about human trafficking. Diana Zakis has been promoted, adding responsibility for pan-regional sales to Latin America to her existing terrestrial duties in the region. Also, […]

3 April, 2006 Ellis Releasing and Fireworks International have entered into an agreement for Ellis to handle distribution of Fireworks’ extensive factual library where available outside Canada and the U.S. The announcement was announced jointly today by Greg Phillips, President of Fireworks International, and Stephen Ellis, President of Ellis Entertainment. “As a long time distributor […]

3 April, 2006 Heading into MipTV with two new exciting series – Whistler and The Jane Show – Fireworks International is also pleased to announce numerous new deals for some of its most popular signature series from licensees around the world. Fireworks has concluded a renewal of all television rights for all three seasons of […]

:: I’m Reed Fish Screened to rapturous applause at TRIBECA 2006 and starring a fantastic hot young cast, this hilarious, charming and sweetly emotional coming-of-age comedy, follows the laid-back, cool (if a little goofy!) Reed Fish, as he learns, through his many mistakes, how to step out of his fathers shadow and discover who he […]

ContentFilm today announces that it has joined forces with Room 9 Entertainment, the North American production company launched by the former Chief Operating Officer of PayPal, Inc., David Sacks, to co-finance and co-produce two feature films that will begin shooting in the coming months. The films will be the first announced productions with ContentFilm’s financing […]

In this powerful and dramatic thriller about betrayal and bitter revenge, a handsome young US Marine called Elvis (GAEL GARCIA BERNAL – The Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros) returns to his Preacher father’s sleepy hometown dreaming for some kind of reconciliation – having been abandoned by the man as a child. Elvis […]