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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 […]

20 December, 2005 ContentFilm PLC announced a raft of sales for its newest acquisition, Transamerica, whose star, Felicity Huffman, received the nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Dramatic Actress, as did Dolly Parton for Best Original Song. ContentFilm acquired the international distribution rights to the dramatic comedy (excluding North America) in April this […]

30 April, 2005 The winners of the Tribeca Film Festival were announced this evening at a ceremony at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature went to Stolen Life, a film by China’s Li Shaohong. El Perro Nego: Stories of the Spanish Civil War was the winner of the Best […]

13 June, 2005 By Archie Thomas Source: Variety.com Stephen Frears’ London-set period drama “Mrs. Henderson Presents” is among 12 pics world preeming in the publicly funded London U.K. Film Focus market. In all, 43 British films will be screened in the June 27-30 showcase launched last year by Film London to help British sales companies […]

28 October, 2005 By Jeremy Kay Source: Screendaily.com ContentFilm International has lined up a prestigious slate of titles for AFM including work by Peter Greenaway, Keith Gordon and Paul Verhoeven, as well as comedy pick-up The Moguls from Michael Kuhn’s Qwerty Films. Following parent company ContentFilm’s decision to shift its focus towards library content with […]