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Content Film And Preferred Content ‘Pact’ For Series Of Genre Films: Sundance

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday January 20, 2012 @ 7:53am PSTTags: Content Film, Sundance, The Pact
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Content Film has made a multi-year production deal with Preferred Content partners Ross Dinerstein and Kevin Iwashina. Essentially, Content will finance as many as six elevated genre films over the next two years. The latest collaboration between Content and Preferred Content is The Pact, the genre film that premieres tonight at midnight. The deal comes after Content and Dinerstein teamed for several genre films that have played the midnight program of festivals including Toronto, SXSW and Sundance. In that scenario, Dinerstein would raise the under $2 million budgets, Content would sell international and Iwashina would sell North American rights. The new deal allows Dinerstein to focus on producing and not have to raise the funds. Iwashina is selling North American with Content’s Jamie Carmichael on The Pact, which was written and directed by Nicholas McCarthy. The two companies previously collaborated on The Killing Room and The Divide, and the first film under the new deal will start production in the spring. “We have had a terrific experience working with Ross on the production side and Kevin on the domestic sales side,” Carmichael said. “ This is a natural next step as we look to ramp up our efforts in this space.”

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AFM: Universal International Takes Content’s ‘Hard Boiled Sweets’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 4, 2011 @ 8:59pm PDTTags: AFM, American Film Market, Content Film, Content Media, Universal Pictures International

Universal Pictures International Entertainment has picked up rights to Content Film’s Hard Boiled Sweets for the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Benelux and Scandinavia, the companies announced Friday. Written and directed by David L. G. Hughes, Sweets is a crime thriller … Read More »

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Toronto: Content Film Acquires Foreign Rights To ‘The Day’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 7, 2011 @ 3:28pm PDTTags: Content Film, Doug Aarniokoski, Film Acquisition, Kevin Iwashina, The Day, Toronto Film Festival

Content Film announced today that it has landed foreign sales rights to Doug Aarniokoski’s action thriller The Day ahead of its world premiere screening in the Midnight Madness section of the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. The film, which stars … Read More »

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Content Takes On Nicholas McCarthy’s Fright Film ‘The Pact’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday August 25, 2011 @ 9:40am PDTTags: Caity Lotz, Content Film, Content Media

Content Media has come aboard to finance and distribute Nicholas McCarthy’s feature ghost story The Pact, which is based on the writer-director’s short that appeared at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and just completed production — a quick turnaround, even … Read More »

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Content Film Nabs Foreign Rights On Documentary ‘Sarah Palin: You Betcha!’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 3, 2011 @ 2:36pm PDTTags: Content Film, Joan Churchill, Nick Broomfield, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, Toronto Film Festival

Content Film has acquired foreign rights to Nick Broomfield’s documentary Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, with the exception of the UK, where Channel 4 holds the TV rights. Cassian Elwes is handling domestic on the film, which has yet to find a U.S. distributor. Broomfield (Heidi … Read More »

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Content Film Acquires Offshore Rights To SXSW Pic ’96 Minutes’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 14, 2011 @ 2:14am PDTTags: Brittany Snow, Christian Serratos, Content Film
Mike Fleming

Content Film has acquired international rights to the Aimee Lagos-directed drama 96 Minutes. Inspired by true events, the thriller is about four young people caught up in a terrifying carjacking. It stars Brittany Snow, Evan Ross, Christian Serratos, Jonathan Michael Trautman and David Oyelowo. Ross won the Jury Award for … Read More »

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