Category: Info

7 February, 2009 ContentFilm International has acquired worldwide sales rights to Award-winning writer-director Tom DiCillo’s riveting film WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE. This feature documentary about the iconic rock band The Doors tells the band’s story through vintage footage, much of it previously unseen. WHEN YOU’RE STANGE uncovers historic, rare footage from the illustrious rock quartet and […]

27 October, 2008 The film is currently in production in New York. Starring the inimitable Sam Rockwell and fast rising star Emma Roberts, comes the hilarious story of a washed up basketball coach who must learn to overcome his love of booze, his chauvinistic attitude towards women and his overdeveloped macho nature, in order to […]

31 December, 2008 By Jeremy KaySource: Screen Sundance has added the world premiere of Jim Strouse’s comedy The Winning Season starring Sam Rockwell as a misfit brought in to coach his local girls high school basketball team. Emma Roberts, Rob Corddry, Shareeka Epps and Emily Rios also star in the film, which will play out […]

24 August, 2010 Source: Screen Daily CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA 22nd of May, dir. Koen Mortier (Belgium) [world premiere] Africa United, dir. Debs Gardner-Paterson (UK) [world premiere] Aftershock, dir. Feng Xiaogang (China) [North American premiere] All About Love, dir. Ann Hui (Hong Kong-China) [international premiere] Anything You Want,dir. Achero Mañas (Spain) [international premiere] Bad Faith, dir. […]

14 March, 2010 By Jeremy KaySource: Screen Daily Apparition and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) have taken domestic rights to Sundance premiere Welcome To The Rileys starring Kristen Stewart, James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo. The distributors did the seven-figure deal with UTA Independent Group and plan to release later this year. Gandolfini plays a […]

9 February, 2010 By Geoffrey MacnabSource: Screen Daily London and Los Angeles-based sales outfit Content International has taken international rights to Jake Scott’s WELCOME TO THE RILEYS. The film, which stars Kristen Stewart and James Gandolfini, was screened in Sundance last month and will have its international premiere in Berlin’s Panorama section this month. North […]

6 May, 2010 By Geoffrey MacnabSource: Screen Daily Principal photography is due to start in late summer 2010 in Canada. On the eve of Cannes, ContentFilm International has snapped up worldwide rights to the live-action, CGI-heavy, The Dog Squad: 3D, to be directed by Les Mayfield (Flubber, Blue Streak, Miracle on 34th Street.) The script […]

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 […]

31 March, 2008 London, 31st March 2008 – Fireworks International, the television distribution arm of ContentFilm Plc, announced today that it has secured multiplatform distribution rights to a selection of brand new original productions as part of its continued relationship with UK based animation studio ZAC Toons. International TV, Broadband, Video, Mobile and VOD rights […]