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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 the Canadian media company CanWest […]

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Crash lands the top prize at Deauville Screen Daily.com | Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte in Paris 11 September 2005 :: Paul Haggis took home the grand prize Sunday night at the 31st Deauville Festival of American Film for his directing debut, Crash. The ensemble look at race relations in Los Angeles, is the first time behind the […]

31 Jan 2006: … Brokeback Mountain is leading the field with eight nominations at the 78th Academy Awards, including best film. Ang Lee won a best director nomination for the cowboy romance – building on his Golden Globe success, while its star Heath Ledger is up for best actor. Fellow best film nominees are Good […]

Following parent company ContentFilm’s decision to shift its focus towards library content with last summer’s acquisition of Fireworks International, ContentFilm International’s managing director Jamie Carmichael said his company aimed to represent ten to 12 titles a year, co-financing approximately two-thirds of that annual slate. “In this new incarnation of ContentFilm International, the library we built […]

17 January 2006 :: …Felicity Huffman, best known for Desperate Housewives, won best dramatic film actress for Transamerica. Huffman, who plays a transsexual, said she saluted “the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are”. The Globes are seen as an indicator to […]

27 October 2005 :: 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 13/Universal picking up the rights […]

17 January 2006 :: …Best dramatic acting honors went to the Huffman/Hoffman juggernaut, as Felicity Huffman was named best dramatic actress for embodying a man in the process of becoming a woman in “Transamerica” and Philip Seymour Hoffman was named best actor for playing Truman Capote in “Capote.” Cheered on by her “Desperate Housewives” castmates, […]

24 Jan 2006: NATPE NEWS – Launching a new Canadian-produced scripted comedy here in Vegas, Greg Phillips of ContentFilm-owned Fireworks International said the company is back on track and aims to secure distribution rights to new programming worldwide. Last April, UK-based ContentFilm acquired international rights to the Fireworks library, effectively transferring the company, formerly a […]