ContentFilm

1 December, 2003 By Adam Dawtrey and David Rooney Source: Variety Ed Pressman and John Schmidt’s Gotham-based independent production banner ContentFilm will announce plans in London today for a merger with publicly listed U.K. sales and distribution company Winchester Entertainment. Deal is structured as a reverse takeover of Winchester, which itself recently merged with Alton […]

1 December, 2003 By Ian Mohr and Stuart Kemp Source: Hollywood Reporter Ed Pressman and John Schmidt’s 2-year-old ContentFilm unit is expected to unveil a reverse takeover of financially embattled U.K.-based production, distribution, and financial banner Winchester Entertainment. Through the deal, Winchester will be absorbed into the ContentFilm fold, but remain based in the United […]

24 October, 2008 By John AndersonSource: Variety F/x whiz Toby Wilkins’ “Splinter” is a spare, effective and genuinely frightening retro-nightmare that will have teenage gore girls trooping to the movies like lurching swarms of George Romero’s living dead. The socio-sexual-psychological attraction of “Splinter” — which just won a rash of awards at Screamfest in Los […]

11 February, 2008 By Wendy Mitchell in Berlin Source: ScreenDaily The film has gone to UK & Australia/New Zealand (Icon), Italy (DNC), The Middle East (Gulf Film), Mexico (Gussi), Czech and Slovak Republics (AQS), Poland (Best Film), The West Indies (Caribbean Film Services), Singapore (Cathay), Venezuela (Cinematografica Blancica), Russia & CIS (Civic Impex), Thailand (J-Bics), […]

23 October, 2009 By Jeremy KaySource: Screen Daily ContentFilm International gets Heartless in run-up to AFM. ContentFilm International has boarded international rights excluding the UK, Portugal and the Middle East to Philip Ridley’s Heartless following hit screenings at Sitges in Spain and Frightfest in London. ContentFilm will commence sales on the Faustian horror tale-psychological thriller […]

10 February, 2008 The film will star Ben Foster (“3:10 to Yuma”, “X-Men” franchise) as ‘Derek Montgomery’, a young army officer who is forced to work with a partner he can’t stand, in the least desirable job in the military. When Derek falls in love with Olivia, a soldier’s widow, life becomes even more complicated. […]

12 December, 2008 By Martin Blaney in Berlin Source: Screen Daily In addition, there will be international premieres of Chen Kaige’s Forever Enthralled (Mei Llanfang) and Oren Moverman’s directorial debut The Messenger, starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton. Lukas Moodysson’s Mammoth, with Gael Garcia Bernal, Michelle Williams, and Sophie Nyweide, and “out of competition” […]

14 February, 2009 By Martin Blaney in BerlinSource: Screen Daily Sold internationally by The Match Factory and supported by the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund among others, Llosa’s second feature after her well received Madeinusa centres on a timid 20-year-old girl facing big city life in the Peruvian capital Lima after her mother dies.The evening’s other […]

14 February, 2009 By Scott RoxboroughSource: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i4e22c70790e72ba2874a6a8e22ed8af9 BERLIN — Youth and energy triumphed over experience and political correctness as the jury of the 59th Berlinale, headed by actress Tilda Swinton, chose up-and-coming directors for its top prizes. Peruvian director Claudia Llosa won the Golden Bear for “The Milk of Sorrow,” only her second film, while […]