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26 June, 2007 By DIANE GARRETTSource: Variety.com Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has picked up rights to “Outpost” for a series of territories, most of them English-speaking. Sony will distribute the ContentFilms thriller in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, in addition to South Africa, Greece and Israel. Story follows mercenaries in war-torn […]

20 December, 2007 By Jeremy Kay in Los Angeles Source: Screen Daily The film, the first to be produced and financed by fledgling Los Angeles-based L+E Productions, will receive its world premiere on January 21. Fleming and Pam Brady co-wrote the story, which stars Coogan as a high school drama teacher who creates a musical […]

13 September, 2007 By John DeForeSource: The Hollywood Reporter It’s a self-portrait, to a great extent, as the film’s most effective passages come straight from the man’s typewriter: impassioned speeches, witty letters, and soul-baring confessions that he wrote, read by actors who remind us how lovely it can be simply to sit and listen to […]

11 September, 2007 By Wendy Mitchell in Toronto Source: Screen Daily Coogan stars as a high school teacher who tries to save the school’s drama department by writing his own sequel to Hamlet. Andrew Fleming (Nancy Drew, The Craft) will direct from a script he wrote with South Park veteran Pam Brady. Shooting starts September […]

2 November, 2007 By Jeremy Kay Source: Screen Daily Magnolia Pictures’ new genre label Magnet has swooped on its second acquisition in the last couple of days and taken North American rights to Toby Wilkins’ directorial debut Splinter. The film is nearing completion and centres on a young couple on the run that finds themselves […]

17 January, 2007 By Jeremy Kay in Los Angeles Source: Screen Daily The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:Days Of Glory Algeria (dir Rachid Bouchareb)Water Canada (dir Deepa Mehta)After The Wedding Denmark (dir, Susanne Bier)Avenue Montaigne France (dir Daniele Thompson)The Lives Of Others Germany (dir Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)Pan’s Labyrinth Mexico (dir Guillermo […]

8 September, 2007 By Wendy Mitchell in Toronto Source: Screen Daily Liebesman previously directed 2006 hit The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Chloe Sevigny is attached to star and further casting will be announced soon. Manbreak is about four people who sign up for a psychology research study but discover they are actually subjects in […]

1 July, 2005 The King Dir: James Marsh. US. 2005. 105mins. Last year Gael Garcia Bernal was the face of Cannes, with his contrasting performances in Bad Education and The Motorcycle Diaries. This year, he extends his range even further, smouldering with bad boy sex appeal as a prodigal son in The King, an English-language […]

27 October, 2005 By Jo Anne Kenny Source: c21media.net 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 […]