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16 May, 2005 By Adam Dawtrey Source: Variety.com Laura Linney and Julie Walters will star with “Harry Potter” star Rupert Grint in “Driving Lessons,” the directorial debut of Brit screenwriter Jeremy Brock. Pic is the first from RubberTreePlant, the newly formed production banner of former Industry Entertainment exec Julia Chasman (“25th Hour,” “Quills”). Shooting starts […]

17 October, 2005 By Staff Reporter Source: Mipcom listing Fireworks International 19 Heddon St London W1B 4 BG, UK Tel: (44 – 207) 851 6500 Fax: (44 – 207) 851 6504 e-mail: [email protected] website: www.fireworksentertainment.com Stand: R30.26 Contact: Greg Phillips, pres; Saralo MacGregor, VP, sales; Kathryn Rice, VP, sales Europe; Victoria Ryan, dir., sales admin., […]

13 October, 2005 By Staff Reporter Source: Mipcom Daily News Fireworks International has signed a raft of deals for Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, with Sony Pictures Television International taking season five for its AXN channels in Japan, Israel and Central Europe. The new season has also been sold to Spain and Germany. French cable and satellite […]

29 November, 2005 Source: Worldscreen.com John Schmidt, CEO, ContentFilm Greg Philips, President, Fireworks International In the international distribution business it is said over and over that a sales team must believe in their product. Nowhere has this yielded better results than at Fireworks International, the London-based concern that used to be the sales arm of […]

18 August, 2005 By Staff reporters in New York Source: ScreenDaily.com IFC Films will partner with The Weinstein Company to distribute Duncan Tucker’s hot-button road movie Transamerica. 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 […]

17 October, 2005 Fireworks International combines scripted drama with reality television in Streetsmartz, a teen series originally produced by Australia’s Nine Network about what teens get themselves into during their free time.

19 September, 2005 By Dominic Schreiber Source: Broadcastnow.co.uk London-based Fireworks Entertainment is back on the hunt for new programming following its acquisition by the UK’s Content Film this July, and has kicked off the process by picking up the Australian kids drama series Streetsmartz. “A combination of having remained as traders, kept the sales team […]

14 October, 2005 By Staff Reporter Source: C21 Media MIPCOM NEWS: Fireworks International’s Saralo MacGregor has been promoted to exec VP of worldwide distribution, while Kathryn Rice is now SVP of European sales and acquisitions. MacGregor will now oversee Fireworks International’s day-to-day sales and marketing, based out of LA, while Rice gets to run sales […]

25 November, 2005 By Geoffrey Macnab Source: film.guardian.co.uk Although the sun is shining, the cold is beginning to bite. The work is taking its toll on the 67-year-old director. Verhoeven left for Hollywood in the mid-1980s, where he made his name with ultra-violent flicks such as Robocop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers. In the US […]