22 de December de 2024

ContentFilm : News : Latest Press Releases

  • ContentFilm plc is a film production, sales and finance company operating in London, New York and Los Angeles. Its shares are traded on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (“AIM”). ContentFilm has the ability to finance and produce a full range of films, from the smaller budget films that it has produced since it was established in September 2001 to larger scale productions such as “Thank You for Smoking” and “Queen Lara.” ContentFilm will partner on these two new productions with Entertainment Investor, LLP and its principals, Bill Gerhauser and Bradley Adams. The company also recently completed principal photography on the drama “The King,” starring Gael García Bernal and William Hurt. Other ContentFilm productions include “The Cooler,” the acclaimed dark romance starring William H. Macy and Alec Baldwin, for which Alec Baldwin was nominated for an Academy Award, “House of Sand and Fog” which received two Academy Award nominations, and “Open Range” a Kevin Costner film which generated around $60m at the US box office. United Artists also recently released David Gordon Green’s new film, “Undertow”, starring Dermot Mulroney, Josh Lucas and Jamie Bell. For more information on ContentFilm plc, please go to

    www.contentfilm.com

  • Room 9 Entertainment was formed in December 2002 by entrepreneur David Sacks and his partners from PayPal, Inc., the online money transfer service that David Sacks helped to create and lead as COO to a US$1.5 billion acquisition by eBay Inc. in October 2002. The company has an equity fund to develop, produce, and finance high quality independent films. In addition to “Thank You For Smoking” and “Queen Lara,” the company is developing several other projects which it has optioned or acquired since its inception.