Sundance has added the world premiere of Jim Strouse's comedy The Winning Season starring Sam Rockwell as a misfit brought in to coach his local girls high school basketball team.

Sundance has added the world premiere of Jim Strouse's comedy The Winning Season starring Sam Rockwell as a misfit brought in to coach his local girls high school basketball team.

World premieres of new films by Sally Potter, Maren Ade, Rebecca Miller and Rachid Bouchareb are among ten titles confirmed so far for the Competition programme of the 2009 Berlinale international film festival joining the opening film The International by Tom Tykwer.

The four world premieres selected for the Competition programme by festival director Dieter Kosslick are:

Alle Anderen by Maren Ade (Germany)

London River by Rachid Bouchareb (Algeria/France/Great Britain)

Rage by Sally Potter (Great Britain/USA)

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller (USA) - out of competition

ContentFilm International has taken on international rights to Yojiro Takita's Departures, which is Japan's submission for the foreign-language Oscar race.

Milla Jovovich has joined the cast of William H Macy's directorial debut KEEP COMING BACK. Macy and Steve Buscemi will also star in the coming-of-age story.

Milla Jovovich will star as an alcoholic former stripper in William H Macy's directorial debut; "KEEP COMING BACK"

ContentFilm International has acquired international rights to the new comedy The Winning Season, directed by award-winning James C. Strouse.

"Splinter" is a spare, effective and genuinely frightening retro-nightmare that will have teenage gore girls trooping to the movies....

MIPCOM NEWS: UK-based rights company ContentFilm International is in Cannes with a range of shows, including comedy drama Metropolitan and documentary The Pervert's Guide to Cinema.

U.K.-based sales and finance entity Content Film Intl. is ramping up its Stateside operations by moving into bigger-budget U.S. features.

ContentFilm Plc, has announced that Jamie Carmichael, President of its film division ContentFilm International (CFI), has re-located from London to the group's Santa Monica office.

Content Film Intl. has picked up international sales rights on Mike Judge’s forthcoming laffer “Extract,” starring Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck and Mila Kunis. Clifton Collins Jr. (“Star Trek”), T.J. Miller (“Cloverfield”), Kristen Wiig (“Knocked Up”), Dustin Milligan (“90210”), J.K. Simmons (“Juno”) and Dave Koechner (“Anchorman”) also star.

ContentFilm International has acquired international sales rights to Mike Judge's comedy Extract starring Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Ben Affleck, Clifton Collins Jr, TJ Miller, Kristen Wiig, Dustin Milligan, JK Simmons and Dave Koechner.

Peace Arch Home Entertainment, a company jointly owned by Peace Arch Entertainment Group and ContentFilm acquired North American rights to the Jean-Claude Van Damme action/comedy, "JCVD" ahead of its North American preem at Toronto, where it's opening the Midnight Madness section.

Rising Brit thesp Michael Fassbender has boarded Andrea Arnold’s sophomore feature “Fish Tank.”

Andrea Arnold has started shooting her follow-up to Cannes prize winner Red Road. The new feature Fish Tank stars Hunger lead Michael Fassbender with Kate Jarvis, Kierston Wareing, Rebecca Griffiths, and Harry Treadaway.

Michael Fassbender will star opposite a cast of newcomers including Katie Jarvis in Andrea Arnold's sophomore movie "Fish Tank," the backers said Monday.

Glendyn Ivin starts shooting Last Ride today in South Australia's Flinders Ranges.

Glendyn Ivin starts shooting Last Ride today in South Australia's Flinders Ranges.

Political thriller Balibo will start principal photography in Darwin, Australia and East Timor on June 30 (Monday).

The (in)famous image of cig-puffing Sean Penn paddling a raft through watery New Orleans helps explain his plucking from Amerindie sea of volunteer-recruitment docu "The Third Wave" to serve as Cannes fest's first-ever jury prexy pick. Following efforts of four unpaid relief workers, ...

ContentFilm International will handle international sales on Kid Cannabis, written and directed by John Stockwell. ICM will handle North American rights.

ContentFilm International will handle international sales on Kid Cannabis, written and directed by John Stockwell. ICM will handle North American rights.

Aussie thesp Hugo Weaving has boarded helmer Glendyn Ivin’s “The Last Ride.”

ContentFilm International has come on for international sales on Glendyn Ivin's The Last Ride.

Karl Urban, who previously appeared in STAR TREK, THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, joins the cast of HORSE for ContentFilm Intl.

Cannes 08 competition Jury president Sean Penn has selected The Third Wave as an unprecedented Special Presidential Jury Screening to be held Friday at 7:15 pm. ContentFilm International is now handling international sales.

Moverman to shoot road movie

Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone and Eamonn Walker have now joined Ben Foster in Oren Moverman's The Messenger.

Princess Ka'iulani, formerly titled Barbarian Princess, has ended the four-week Hawaiian leg of its shoot. The production will now move to shoot for 10 days in Norfolk, England by the end of April.

Metrodome Distributions has acquired full UK rights to extreme-skiing documentary Steep, which it plans to release towards the end of 2008.

As previously reporter, Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, Will Patton and Shaun Evans star.

ContentFilm International is handling worldwide sales on the forthcoming drama Barbarian Princess to star Q’orianka Kilcher (The New World), Shaun Evans, Barry Pepper and Will Patton.

Oren Moverman, writer of Jesus’ Son and I’m Not There, is set to make his directorial debut with The Messenger.

ContentFilm International has taken on international rights (excluding the UK and Germany) to comedy-horror Release, to be directed by 2007 Screen International Star Of Tomorrow Stephen Leslie.

ContentFilm International has pre-sold Jonathan Liebesman's The Killing Room to the UK (Momentum), Germany (Square One), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Spentzos), The Middle East (Gulf), Brazil (Paris Filmes), Romania (Media Pro), The West Indies (Caribbean Film Services) and Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia (Continental).

ContentFilm Intl. has announced the first sales for Chloe Sevigny-starrer "The Killing Room." Momentum in the U.K., Square One in Germany, Lusomundo in Portugal, Spentzos in Greece, Gulf Film in the Middle East, Media Pro in Romania, Caribbean Film Services, Continental in Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia have all pre-bought the psychological thriller.

ContentFilm has announced a number of sales on supernatural thriller The Daisy Chain, which stars Samantha Morton and Steven Mackintosh.

BERLIN -- Ben Foster will star in "The Messenger," a drama from Oren Moverman, who is making his directorial debut with the film.

ContentFilm ("Thank You for Smoking") is handling foreign sales starting todayFri at the European Film Market in Berlin.

ContentFilm International has acquired international rights to action thriller Horse, which is being represented in the US by CAA.

London-based ContentFilm Intl has picked up international rights to action-thriller "Horse" starring Diego Luna and Luiz Guzman. Laurence Malkin ("Five Fingers") is helming. Adriana Barraza ("Babel") and Benito Martinez ("Million Dollar Baby") also star.