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2 October, 2007 The film is based on the true events of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. LaPaglia plays Australian TV journalist Roger East, who runs a local news agency but tries to find five missing Australian journalists. Connolly co-wrote the script with David Williamson. The project is set to shoot in […]

2 October, 2007 By Adam DawtreySource: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117973165.html?categoryId=19&cs=1 ContentFilm Intl. has acquired worldwide rights outside Australia and New Zealand to Robert Connolly’s upcoming project “Balibo,” a true-life thriller starring Anthony LaPaglia. Movie is about an Australian journalist caught up in the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. Shooting is set for early 2008. Content is […]

4 July, 2007 By Wendy MitchellSource: Screen Daily Melling had been vice president sales at Granada International and previously worked at BBC Worldwide, Capitol Films and Pandora in Paris. He will also run seek to add new titles and libraries to the division. President of CFI Jamie Carmichael said: “We have a growing slate of […]

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 […]

16 April, 2007 By Wendy MitchellSource: ScreenDaily John Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Adam Scott and Rip Torn will star. Charlie Corwin, David Guy Levy and Clara Markowicz of Original Media are producing alongside Hartnett and Elisa Pugliese of 57th and Irving Productions. Howard A. Rodman’s original script follows a young dotcom entrepreneur in New York who […]

1 October, 2007 By By ADAM DAWTREY LONDONSource: Variety ContentFilm Intl. has picked up international rights to “Steep,” a documentary about big mountain skiing, written and directed by Mark Obenhaus, which Sony Pictures Classics will release in North America. The film had its world premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, and also screened at […]

23 August, 2007 By Denis Seguin in Toronto Source: Screen Daily Also announced were new films from Kenneth Branagh, Paul Schrader, Sidney Lumet, Brian De Palma, Anand Tucker, Julian Schnabel, Jonathan Demme, Jason Reitman and Thomas McCarthy. Among the world premiere Gala titles are Harlin’s Cleaner, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris and Eva Mendes; […]

19 May, 2007 By Adam DawtreySource: Variety CANNES — ContentFilm Intl. is handling worldwide sales on “Elephants,” a feature doc that will follow the annual journey of hundreds of pachyderms across the Kalahari Desert to reach the lush Okavango Delta in southern Africa. Production will begin in the upcoming dry season. The film will focus […]

ContentFilm International is working with new nature project Elephants Of The Okavango and has already closed deals with Germany (Falcom), France (Euro TV), CIS and Baltics (MGN), Hungary/Czech/Slovak Republics (Intersonic), Latin America (SWEN), the Middle East (Gulf) and The Netherlands/Belgium (A Film). The narrative-style documentary feature follows a family of African elephants as they cross […]