Sundance festival organisers have added Andrew Fleming's comedy Hamlet 2 starring Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Shue and Amy Poehler to the line-up.

Samuel Goldwyn Films and Red Envelope Entertainment have jointly acquired Peter Askin's documentary Trumbo about the life of blacklisted Oscar winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

Gondry, Spurlock, Levinson, Haneke films to be unveiled at Sundance. The Sundance Film Festival rolled out the star power as they announced the line-up of Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontier and Park City At Midnight films today [Nov 29].

Magnolia Pictures' new genre label Magnet has swooped on its second acquisition in the last couple of days and taken North American rights to Toby Wilkins' directorial debut Splinter.

ContentFilm International has taken on international rights to documentary Trumbo.

Peter Askin directed the project, which premiered in Toronto. The project is about Oscar-winning blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. The film is based on the original play by his son Christopher.

ContentFilm International has acquired worldwide rights to supernatural thriller The Daisy Chain, starring Samantha Morton.

Thrillers stars Anthony LaPaglia

ContentFilm International has taken on world rights (outside Australia and New Zealand) to Robert Connolly's thriller Balibo starring Anthony LaPaglia.

Skiing doc screened at Tribeca

ContentFilm International has taken on international rights (excluding North America) for Steep.

TORONTO -- An invigorating, funny, and moving portrait of a Hollywood hero, the new docu "Trumbo" brings the blacklist to life from the inside -- focusing on what it was like to live in movie industry exile, and the wisdom gained in the aftermath, for one particularly fiery artist. Prospects on the doc circuit are strong, limited only by a subject that moviegoers may assume to be more narrow than it is.

ContentFilm International has come on board for foreign sales for comedy Hamlet 2, starring Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener. CAA is handling domestic sales.

ContentFilm International has taken on foreign sales for suspense thriller Manbreak, directed by Jonathan Liebesman. CAA has domestic sales rights.

World premieres from Lord Richard Attenborough, Renny Harlin, Gillian Armstrong, Alain Comeau, Wayne Wang and Michael Moore are among the highlights as the Toronto International Film Festival unveiled its complete line-up in advance of its September 6 opening.

The Venice Film Festival has announced its line-up. Films from Woody Allen, Ken Loach, Paul Haggis, Todd Haynes, Ang Lee, Wes Anderson, Miike Takashi, Brian De Palma, Andrew Dominik, Peter Greenaway, Kitano Takeshi, Eric Rohmer and Kenneth Branagh among others will play the festival which runs from Aug 29-Sept 8.
Joe Wright's Atonement has previously been announced as opening the festival.

The Toronto International Film Festival has added eight titles to its line-up of Gala and Special Presentations for the September event. TIFF has declined to claim premiere status on the titles, although Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly competed in Cannes.

Toby Melling has joined ContentFilm International as head of film library sales, the company's newly launched division which has a library of 100+ feature films.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has acquired all distribution rights to ContentFilm’s horror thriller Outpost for a package of territories including North America, the UK and Australia.

Studio picks up rights to thriller

Pic sold to Germany, France

ContentFilm International is working with new nature project Elephants Of The Okavango

ContentFilm Intl. has picked up international rights to "Splinter," a U.S. horror-thriller from first-time director Toby Wilkins, which is set to shoot this summer.

Distribution company nabs overseas rights.

ContentFilm Intl. has signed up to handle international rights to Austin Chick's "August," which starts shooting today in New York.

ContentFilm International has taken on worldwide rights to Austin Chick's August, which start shooting today in New York City.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has named the nine films that have made it to the shortlist for the best foreign language Oscar.

Stephen Frears' The Queen leads the nominations for the The Orange British Academy Film Awards, or BAFTAs. The film was recognised in 10 categories.

Following closely were Bond film Casino Royale, which drew nine nominations and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth with eight. Babel followed with seven nominations.

The awards will be presented on February 11 at the awards' new home, the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

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