All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 20
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News
Paramount to release My Last Five Girlfriends in UK
Paramount Pictures International (PPI) has taken on UK rights to Willing Pilowsky Media’s romantic comedy My Last Five Girlfriends and set a March 2010 release on over 100 prints.The film, which is directed by Julian Kemp, had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, and was first ...
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Features
Distribution: A Love Story
Overture Films has emerged as one of the main ports of call for independent films looking for US distribution. Key executives Chris McGurk, Danny Rosett and Peter Adee talk to Mike Goodridge about their coming of age
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Comment
D-Day for US studio model
Would you pay $250 to have Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen delivered to your living room on the same day it is released in theatres?
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News
UK Brit List topped by George Kay's Good Luck Anthony Belcher
The 2009 Brit List, a list of the most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays in the UK and Irish film communities, has started circulating in London with Ruby Films’ Good Luck Anthony Belcher written by George Kay coming out on top.
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Comment
Precious poised for perfect Push
So far, so good for Precious as the Toronto People’s Choice award continues the film’s positioning on the road to theatres - and awards.
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News
Fortissimo does strong festival trade with Labyrinth, Wartime
Fortissimo Films has announced a wave of sales closed on its current slate after the Venice and Toronto film festivals.
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News
Ben Chaplin joins cast of Peggy Glanville-Hicks biopic Owl Song
Ben Chaplin will play the young Yehudi Menuhin in Owl Song, the story of Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks which is being produced by MusicArt Dance Films in Australia.
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Comment
Small is beautiful at Toronto
Buyers at Toronto were unwilling to bet big on expensive, star-driven films, preferring the low-risk gamble of smaller foreign-language films and smaller distribution costs.
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News
Metrodome, Rialto buy I Am Love
UK distributor Metrodome Distribution has teamed with Rialto Distribution to acquire rights in UK/Ireland and Australia/New Zealand to Luca Guadagnino’s breakout Venice title I Am Love (Io Sono Amore) starring Tilda Swinton.
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Werc Werk Works to back Jill Sprecher's latest
Werc Werk Works, the independent production and finance outfit behind Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime, will produce and fully finance The Convincer, the latest film from Jill Sprecher (13 Conversations About One Thing)
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Fortissimo closes Italian deal on Venice prizewinner Wartime
Archibald Enterprise Film has picked up Italian rights to Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime just a day before the film won the Golden Osella for best screenplay at the Venice Film Festival.
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Reviews
The Secret In Their Eyes (El Secreto De Sus Ojos)
Dir: Juan Jose Campanella. Spain/Argentina. 2009. 129 mins.