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A Content Film Intl. presentation of a RubberTreePlant production. Produced by Julia Chasman. Executive producers, Edward R. Pressman, Alessandro Camon. Co-producer, Alexandra Ferguson. Directed, written by Jeremy Brock. With: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura Linney, Nicholas Farrell, Michelle Duncan, Jim Norton, Tamsin Egerton.

22 March, 2006 Please find a selection of quotes from reviews of THANK YOU FOR SMOKING in the US media. What some monthly magazines have to say: ROLLING STONE – NY “This stinging satire is easily the best and wickedest comedy of the new year.” Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE PREMIERE – NY “…Aaron Eckhart at […]

28 March, 2006 Director Richard Attenborough started production Monday in Belfast on Closing The Ring, an epic love story that stars Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Brenda Fricker, and Pete Postlethwaite. Jo Gilbert is producing with Attenborough, with Martin Katz co-producing. Closing the Ring is a presentation of the UK Film Council, Scion Films, […]

21 March, 2006 By Wendy Mitchell in London Source: ScreenDaily.org Distributor Tartan Films has acquired all UK and Ireland rights to Driving Lessons, starring Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, and Laura Linney. The film is the directorial debut from Mrs Brown screenwriter Jeremy Brock, who also wrote the original story about an aging actress (Walters) who […]

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 July, 2006 By TOM BIRCHENOUGHSource: Variety MOSCOW – Commercial fare found favor at the Moscow Intl. Film Festival, which closed July 2, while arthouse pic went home empty-handed. Top Gold St. George prize went to Swedish pic “About Sara” from Uganda-born debut helmer Othman Karim. The special jury prize went to debut helmer Jeremy […]

23 April, 2006 What Oscar hopefuls might emerge this week at the Tribeca Film Festival? Last year Harvey Weinstein acquired “Transamerica” in New York and took Felicity Huffman across America to the Kodak Theater. Now there’s a new diva vehicle in the fest lineup that shows off the long-range acting chops of another respected star. […]

5 September, 2006 By Ray Bennett Source: Hollywoodreporter.com VENICE, Italy — Paul Verhoeven’s World War II drama “Black Book” is an ambitious throwback to the days of rousing all-action wartime pictures in which an intrepid loner risks everything to fight a clearly defined enemy. It succeeds on almost all fronts. The epic film is a […]

17 January, 2006 By Staff Reporter Source: bbc.com …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 […]