All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 27
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Samuel Goldwyn Films takes US rights to Cold Souls
Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up US rights to Cold Souls, Sophie Barthes feature debut which recently played in US dramatic competition at Sundance. The film stars Paul Giamatti alongside David Strathairn, Emily Watson and Lauren Ambrose.Goldwyn is planning a late summer release for the comedy in which Giamatti plays ...
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Anchor Bay picks up US, UK and Australia to Not Forgotten
Just days after Anchor Bay Films announced it had picked up North American rights to David Mackenzie's Sundance premiere Spread, the company has sealed another deal, this time picking up rights in the US, UK and Australia to Dror Soref's thriller Not Forgotten from Myriad Pictures.Not Forgotten, which stars Simon ...
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Awards Countdown - Oscar nominations - By the numbers
MERYL STREEP'S OSCAR HISTORY1978 The Deer Hunter (supporting)1979 Kramer Vs Kramer* (supporting)1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman1982 Sophie's Choice*1983 Silkwood1985 Out Of Africa1987 Ironweed1988 A Cry In The Dark1990 Postcards From The Edge1995 The Bridges Of Madison County1998 One True Thing1999 Music Of The Heart2002 Adaptation (supporting)2006 The Devil Wears Prada2008 ...
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Endgame
Dir: Peter Travis. 2009. UK. 109 mins. A fascinating subject - the behind-the-scenes negotiations between the ANC and South African government to end apartheid in 1985 - gets an intelligent if unremarkable screen treatment in Endgame, a made-for-TV thriller which had its world premiere at Sundance. Encompassing too many plot ...
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Benjamin Button tops Oscar nominations
Paramount/Warner Bros co-venture The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button led the pack at the 81st annual Academy Award nominations announcement in Los Angeles with 13 nominations including best picture, best director and best actor for Brad Pitt. Only two films in Oscar history - All About Eve in 1950 and ...
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Film Sharks takes on international sales to Tear This Heart Out
Guido Rud's Argentina-based Film Sharks International has picked up sales rights outside Latin America to Roberto Sneider's Tear This Heart Out (Arrancame La Vida) which is on the shortlist of nine films for this year's best foreign language film Oscar.The film, which has drawn over two million admissions in Mexico ...
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FeaturesAwards People: Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas talks to Mike Goodridge about her latest film I’ve Loved You So Long.
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In Focus: the 2009 Hollywood blockbusters
Some of the world's biggest film-makers, including James Cameron, Peter Jackson and Martin Scorsese, have new films this year, while the latest in the Harry Potter, Terminator, X-Men and Twilight franchises will hope to build on their existing fanbases.Some - Knowing, Surrogates and The Box, for example - are new ...
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NewsSundance hope for new indie dawn
This year’s Sundance Film Festival is a crucial bellwether for the independent film business.
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New dawn for Sundance Indies
This year’s Sundance Film Festival is a crucial bellwether for the independent film business. Even as end-of-year hits such as Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler, The Reader and Milk pack theatres across North America, the domestic acquisitions business has been sluggish to say the least.Very rarely, these days, do distributors thrash ...
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