All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 35
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Veteran international executive Sandy Cobe dies in Los Angeles
Veteran international sales executive Sandy Cobe died on Feb 20 in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 79.Cobe's varied career included work in exhibition, sales and production and he served on the board of directors of the AFMA (now IFTA) from 1982 to 1992.Born in New York City, ...
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Mos Def, Gabrielle Union join the cast of Cadillac Records
Mos Def has been cast as Chuck Berry and Gabrielle Union will play Geneva Wade in Sony BMG Film's Cadillac Records, a music drama set in 1950s Chicago and following the turbulent lives of legends like Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess and Elvis Presley.Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyonce Knowles, Columbus Short, ...
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Cast assembled for Ti West's The House Of The Devil
Jocelin Donahue, Greta Gerwig, Tom Noonan, Mary Waronov, AJ Bowen and Dee Wallace head the cast of Ti West's horror thriller The House Of The Devil which has started shooting in northern Connecticut.In the film, which West also wrote, Donahue plays a broke college student who answers an ad seeking ...
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Lionsgate acquires film rights to Einstein thriller The Last Equation
Lionsgate has acquired film rights to The Last Equation, the debut novel by screenwriter Stuart Gibbs.The novel is about the mystery surrounding Albert Einstein's last equation which he named Pandora. The Pandora equation had the potential to solve the world's energy problems but Einstein either hid or destroyed the equation ...
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Editorial - A World-class film-maker
If there was ever a director who could be described as international, it was Anthony Minghella. His career, tragically cut short by his death last week at the age of just 54, was one unhampered by restrictive national borders - a worldview Screen has always sought to serve.Yes, he was ...
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Summit options screenplay The Tomb for Jeff Wadlow to direct
Summit Entertainment has optioned the action screenplay The Tomb by Miles Chapman which is currently in development.Jeff Wadlow will direct the project and Jason Keller has been hired to rewrite. The Tomb marks Summit's second collaboration with Wadlow after Never Back Down. He also directed Cry_Wolf for Rogue Pictures.The Tomb ...
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RiverRun Film Festival opens with Phoebe In Wonderland
The RiverRun International Film Festival, which takes place in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has announced its lineup of films for its 10th anniversary edition which takes place April 23-28.The festival will open with Daniel Barnz's Phoebe In Wonderland while Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me will be the centerpiece premiere on ...
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Ricky Ghai joins Abu Dhabi Media Company overseeing digital media
UAE-based media conglomerate Abu Dhabi Media Company has hired Ricky Ghai as executive director of digital media.Ghai has 20 years' experience in pay and free TV platforms in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. His career highlights include channel development for Universal in Scandinavia, a compliance and regulatory ...
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Arts Alliance America picks up US rights to Chops
US distribution outfit Arts Alliance America, formerly Hart Sharp Video, has acquired US rights to Chops, the documentary which follows high school jazz students from around America who compete in the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival at New York's Lincoln Center.Arts Alliance plans to release the ...
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Voltage takes on Eric Valette's creature car movie Hybrid
Voltage Pictures has acquired international rights to Stallion Media's horror action film Hybrid which will be directed by Eric Valette (One Missed Call, Malefique).Oded Fehr and newcomer Shannon Beckner (pictured) are starring in the film about a female mechanic in a Chicago police garage who spends a night of terror ...
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Titles screening at IFFLA 2008 include Frozen, The Pool, Shot In Bombay
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) has announced the full schedule of films for the sixth edition of the festival which runs April 22-27 in Hollywood.As previously announced, Richie Mehta's Amal will open the festival and the world premiere of portmanteau film Mumbai Cutting A City Unfolds will ...
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Cale Boyter joins MGM in senior production role from New Line
Cale Boyter has been named executive vice president, production, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM), marking the first hire in the worldwide motion picture group by its new chair Mary Parent who joined the company a week ago.Boyter arrives at MGM from New Line Cinema where he has spent ten years, most ...
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Scott Shooman promoted to vice president at SPWAG
Scott Shooman has been promoted to vice president, acquisitions and productions, for Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG). He will continue to report to both Steven Bersch, president of SPWAG, and Lara Thompson, senior vice president of acquisitions for the division.He will continue to acquire both finished films and projects ...
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Miller named evp, worldwide marketing, at nascent CBS Films
Debbie Miller has been named executive vice president, worldwide marketing, for CBS Films which was established in 2007 to develop and produce four to six films a year with budgets up to $50m a film. The films will be released domestically through a new US theatrical distribution unit to be ...
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Alex Ben Block to programme The American Pavilion at Cannes
Historian and journalist Alex Ben Block has been named director of programming for The American Pavilion at this year's Cannes Film Festival.He will develop and oversee all programming for the Pavilion, while also moderating panels, conducting interviews and leading discussions with critics. He reports to Julie Sisk who is founder ...
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Tarantino named Filmmaker On The Edge by Provincetown
The Provincetown International Film Festival, celebrating its tenth year at this year's event (June 18-22), has announced that Quentin Tarantino will be the recipient of this year's Filmmaker On The Edge Award.The announcement was made by film festival executive director Gabby Hanna, artistic director Connie White and director of programming ...
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de Abreu launches Hollywood NetAwards for entertainment on internet
Carlos de Abreu, founder of the Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, is launching Hollywood NetAwards, a competition targeting excellence in the entertainment field on the internet.The NetAwards, which will take place on Oct 22 in Los Angeles, will feature 22 categories including best actor and actress sites, celebrity site, ...
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Blank, Schamus to be honoured by Museum Of The Moving Image
Showtime Networks chairman and CEO Matthew C Blank and Focus Features CEO James Schamus have been selected as this year's honourees at the Museum Of The Moving Image's annual black tie benefit.The event, which takes place on April 30 in New York City, is designed to honour two leaders in ...
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TLA Releasing takes domestic rights to Jung Brothers' horror Epitaph
US independent distributor TLA Releasing has acquired North American rights to Epitaph, the directorial debut of the Jung Brothers from South Korea. The deal was closed at Filmart in Hong Kong last week.The psychological horror film is scheduled to play in New Directors/New Films in New York and the Philadelphia ...
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IFC Films plants Eran Riklis' Lemon Tree in the US
IFC Films has picked up US rights to Eran Riklis' latest film Lemon Tree which premiered in the Panorama section of February's Berlin Film Festival where it won the Audience Award.The Israeli drama features Riklis' Syrian Bride stars Hiam Abbass and Ali Suliman in the true story of a Palestinian ...