All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 34
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Strand picks Cherry Blossoms for US from Bavaria
Strand Releasing has acquired US rights to Doris Dorrie's Cherry Blossoms - Hanami which had its world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival this year.Bavaria Film International, which is handling sales on the film, also sold it to Sunrise Film Distribution in Denmark and Edko Films in Hong ...
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Speed Racer
Dirs: Andy & Larry Wachowski. US. 2008. 130 mins.Tatsuo Yoshida's beloved 1960s anime TV series finally gets the big-screen treatment, after many false starts, from the Wachowski Brothers who deliver a large-scale assault on the senses which is as exhausting as it is entertaining. Pitched tonally to young kids, but ...
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Profile: The Latin Amercian Film Company
Eduardo Costantini Jr first met Harvey Weinstein at a dinner during the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.Costantini is the son of an Argentinian tycoon who made his fortune in asset management and commercial real estate. At the time of the Weinstein meeting, Costantini Jr was running the Museum of Latin American ...
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Liz Friedlander to direct film of Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons
Liz Friedlander, a veteran music video director who made her feature debut last year with Take The Lead, will direct a film of Tom Wolfe's best-selling novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, marking the first time Wolfe has allowed one of his novels to be optioned since The Bonfire Of The ...
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Roth's The Little Traitor to open third LA Jewish Film Festival
The third annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival will take place May 8-15 with special honours being presented to Theodore Bikel and Joan Rivers and screenings of over 30 features, documentaries and shorts.Opening the festival is Lynn Roth's The Little Traitor, a drama set in 1947 Israel starring Alfred Molina, ...
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Rob Williams gets key acquisitions job at Liberation Entertainment
Rob Williams, formerly an acquisitions executive at Netflix/Red Envelope Entertainment, has been named vice president of acquisitions and theatrical distribution at aggressive new US independent Liberation Entertainment.Williams will develop and oversee the company's US acquisitions strategy for film and TV across multiple platforms.The announcement was made by Jay Boberg, the ...
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Magnolia picks up North American rights to Red
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Red, the revenge thriller directed by Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky McKee which had its world premiere at Sundance this year.The film stars Brian Cox, Robert Englund, Amanda Plummer and Tom Sizemore in the story of an elderly recluse (Cox) who tracks ...
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Filmaka names first annual contest winner as 21 year-old Londoner
Filmaka, the digital entertainment studio and online creative community, has announced the winner of its first annual feature film competition as the UK's Nuru Rimington-Mkali for his short film And I Refuse To Forget.The 21 year-old will be awarded the opportunity to direct his first feature, which Filmaka will produce.Founded ...
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RiverRun top prizes go to Edge Of Heaven, Up The Yangtze
The tenth annual RiverRun International Film Festival ended on Sunday (April 27) with the announcement that Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven had won the narrative juried competition and Yung Chang's Up The Yangtze had won the documentary competition.RiverRun takes place in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.The audience award for best narrative ...
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Richie Mehta's Amal wins Grand Jury Prize at IFFLA
The sixth annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles finished on Sunday with the announcement that Richie Mehta's Amal, which opened the festival last Tuesday, won the Grand Jury Prize for best narrative feature and Yunus Vally's The Glow Of White Women won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary.Shivajee ...
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Filmaka- the contest Engine
Deepak Nayar's original idea in hatching Filmaka in late 2006 was to create a platform for pitching material that would then be judged by peers and a panel of A-list judges.The concept was that aspiring film-makers submit one to three-minute short films to the site on designated themes. Every month, ...
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Shyer, HandMade set nine year-old Australian Beatty to play Eloise
Nine year-old Australian actress Jordana Beatty has been cast in the title role of Eloise in the new live action feature of children's classic Eloise In Paris being backed by HandMade Films and directed by Charles Shyer.Beatty joins Uma Thurman, who has been cast as Nanny in the contemporary adaptation ...
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Marcie Bloom launches Marcie Bloom Fellowship In Film
Marcie Bloom, a founding partner of Sony Pictures Classics, is launching The Marcie Bloom Fellowship In Film.The New York-based initiative is a mentoring programme designed to introduce up to four students a year to the world of independent film production and distribution. The fellowship will allow the fellows to define ...
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MGM buys domestic rights to How To Lose Friends...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) has acquired domestic rights to How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, Robert B Weide's film of Toby Young's bestselling memoir, and set a US release date of Oct 3 this year.Simon Pegg, currently shooting Star Trek in which he plays Scotty, stars in the film as Sidney ...
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Nayar, Grushow team up for digital studio Filmaka
LA-based producer Deepak Nayar and former Fox TV chief Sandy Grushow have officially launched Filmaka, an ambitious 'digital studio' and online creative community which plans to create a new model for identifying talent and developing entertainment properties.Nayar founded the company, which is based at www.Filmaka.com, in late 2006 as a ...
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Island In The Mainstream: bringing Nim's Island to the big screen
Paula Mazur found the book Nim's Island, by Wendy Orr, in her local Santa Monica library and took it out to read to her seven-year-old son.'What was compelling to me was that the characters were so rich and that's the beginning of a great movie for me,' she says. 'There ...
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Street Kings
Dir: David Ayer. US. 2008. 107 mins.A violent thriller about police corruption in Los Angeles, Street Kings retreads territory already covered by director David Ayer in Training Day and Dark Blue, which he wrote, and Harsh Times which he wrote and directed. Everything here is predictable, from the tired plot ...
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Nim's Island (2007)
Dirs: Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett. US. 2008. 96 mins.A smart and lively family film boasting star draws in Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster and Gerard Butler, Nim's Island is destined to have a long life on multiple platforms over many years. Young children of both genders and, importantly, their parents ...
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Carmen Maura takes key role in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro
Carmen Maura has stepped in to replace Javier Bardem to play a character which has switched gender in Francis Ford Coppola's new film Tetro.Maura will shoot for two weeks in the key supporting role as the mentor to the title character, who is played by Vincent Gallo.Coppola made the following ...
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Dir: Nicholas Stoller. US. 2008. 112 mins.The Judd Apatow comedy machine reaches new heights with this instant classic from director Nicholas Stoller, star/writer Jason Segel and producer Apatow. Consistently funny, remarkably tender and absolutely contemporary in its depiction of young twentysomethings, their social mores and concerns, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is ...