Following parent company ContentFilm’s decision to shift its focus towards library content with last summer’s acquisition of Fireworks International, ContentFilm International’s managing director Jamie Carmichael said his company aimed to represent ten to 12 titles a year, co-financing approximately two-thirds of that annual slate. “In this new incarnation of ContentFilm International, the library we built […]
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17 January 2006 :: …Felicity Huffman, best known for Desperate Housewives, won best dramatic film actress for Transamerica. Huffman, who plays a transsexual, said she saluted “the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are”. The Globes are seen as an indicator to […]
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27 October 2005 :: Fireworks International, a division of the UK’s ContentFilm, has racked up a number of sales for Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, following Mipcom last week. Among the deals are: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) licensing series five for its AXN channels in Japan, Israel and central Europe; Calle 13/Universal picking up the rights […]
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17 January 2006 :: …Best dramatic acting honors went to the Huffman/Hoffman juggernaut, as Felicity Huffman was named best dramatic actress for embodying a man in the process of becoming a woman in “Transamerica” and Philip Seymour Hoffman was named best actor for playing Truman Capote in “Capote.” Cheered on by her “Desperate Housewives” castmates, […]
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24 Jan 2006: NATPE NEWS – Launching a new Canadian-produced scripted comedy here in Vegas, Greg Phillips of ContentFilm-owned Fireworks International said the company is back on track and aims to secure distribution rights to new programming worldwide. Last April, UK-based ContentFilm acquired international rights to the Fireworks library, effectively transferring the company, formerly a […]
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The Business Variety.com | Derek Elley in Edinburgh 24 August 2005 :: The Business (U.K.). A Pathe Entertainment release of a Vertigo Films presentation of a ContentFilm production, in association with Monkey Prods. Produced by Allan Niblo, James Richardson. Executive producers, Rob Morgan, Rupert Preston. Co-producer, Andy Eliot. Directed, written by Nick Love. Frankie – […]
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ContentFilm already occupies a niche as a production, sales and financing company based in London, with strong ties to the US film industry, and plans to further exploit that niche by combining forces with newly-acquired television distribution company Fireworks International. July of this year saw the acquisition of London-based Fireworks International by ContentFilm, a company […]
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Bernal’s presence may be the principal selling point of a film that invests a typical bunny boiler scenario with a more abstract, dream-like quality along the lines of The Virgin Suicides. It’s not in the same league as Sofia Coppola’s admired directorial debut but should emerge as a festival fixture and solid specialist release. Co-written […]
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The film’s central character, a Christian transsexual played by Felicity Huffman, is seen as a potent Oscar vehicle for the Desperate Housewives actress. The two companies, who already share a broadly defined strategic alliance, will jointly share the distribution of the film, which premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. IFC Entertainment’s President Jonathan Sehring […]