Content adds The Machine to action slate
by Annika Pham
UK-based ContentFilm plc, headed by Jamie Carmichael, has added muscle to its Cannes slate already filled with action/thriller/slasher films. The company has picked up world-wide rights to Ironclad: Battle for Blood and the sci-fi action thriller The Machine.
Written by Jonathan English and Steven McDool, the UK film Battle for Blood is the follow up the 2011 hit Ironclad [+see also:
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From its office at 32 rue du Commandant André (corner Croisette) in Cannes, ContentFilm is continuing pre-sales on the action thriller The Number Station starring John Cusack and Malin Akerman, which was picked up by several territories in Berlin, including Scandinavia (Svensk Filmindustri AB) and German-speaking countries (Wild Bunch Production), and on Mike Figgis’s erotic psychological thriller Suspension of Disbelief starring Sebastian Koch and Lotte Verbeek.
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