All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 37
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Film Movement picks up domestic on Barron's Choking Man
US independent distributor Film Movement has picked up domestic rights to Steve Barron's Choking Man, a drama blending fantasy and reality in its depiction of one man's inner demons. The film was recently named Best Film Not Playing at a Theatre Near You at the Gotham Awards.The film stars Octavio ...
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Cool Hand picks up film rights to vampire thriller The Vines
Cool Hand International, an LA- and London-based production outfit run by Matthew Wolf, Simon Kelton and Luke G-Jones, has acquired the option to Barbara Ankrum's novel The Vines, a vampire thriller set in the vineyards of northern California.Brian Austin Green, who is currently starring in US TV hit Terminator: The ...
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Maria Bello to receive award at San Francisco Film Festival
Actress Maria Bello will receive the Peter J Owens Award during the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival which runs from April 24 to May 8.The Owens Award, named after local cultural benefactor and longtime Film Society board member Peter J Owens honours an actor whose work exemplifies 'brilliance, independence ...
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Bob Osher named president of digital production at SPE
Bob Osher has been named president of the digital production division at Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), taking over from Yair Landau who announced this week that he would be leaving the studio to pursue a new games and animation venture. Osher has been with SPE since 2004 as chief operating ...
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Dark Horse signs three-year deal with Universal Pictures
Dark Horse Entertainment has signed a three-year production and distribution deal with Universal Pictures that, for the first time, establishes a studio base for all Dark Horse creative properties going forward. Dark Horse, which is the entertainment arm of Dark Horse Comics, has been working with Universal on Hellboy II: ...
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Stop-Loss
Dir: Kimberly Peirce. US. 2008. 113 mins.Nine years after Boys Don't Cry, Kimberly Peirce finally returns with a second film, but Stop-Loss, a portrait of American men returning from Iraq and the stop-loss policy that keeps sending them back there, is as earnest and heavy-handed as her first film was ...
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Tribeca 2008 announces Discovery, Midnight lineups
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the films in its Discovery and Midnight sections for this year's festival which runs April 23 to May 3 in Manhattan.Discovery features 30 films with 18 world premiers and 11 North American premieres from up-and-coming narrative and documentary directors, while the Midnight section features ...
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Mary Parent hired as chair of MGM worldwide motion picture group
Mary Parent, the former vice chairman of worldwide production at Universal Pictures, has joined MGM as chairperson, worldwide motion picture group. She will be responsible for oversight of worldwide theatrical production, distribution, marketing and business affairs for the company.She reports directly to Harry E Sloan, chairman and CEO of MGM ...
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French blockbuster Land Of Shtis to open COLCOA on April 14
The 12th annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COLCOA) French film showcase in Los Angeles will kick off on April 14 with the North American premiere of Dany Boun's comedy Welcome To The Land Of Shtis which is breaking box office records in France at present.Two films will close ...
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Spike Seldin joins LA-based Wind Dancer as svp
Spike Seldin has joined LA-based production outfit Wind Dancer Films as senior vice president, joining company principal Matt Williams and president Dete Meserve in building the slate following an influx of funding for development and production through private equity.'We look forward to tapping Spike's great eye for material in our ...
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Richie Mehta's Amal to open Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles
Richie Mehta's Amal will be the opening night gala on April 22 at the sixth annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles (IFFLA), while the world premiere of Mumbai Cutting A City Unfolds will close the festival on April 27.The festival, which takes place at the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood, ...
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21
Dir: Robert Luketic. US. 2008. 122 mins.21 is a highly-fictionalised super-slick movie version of the non-fiction bestseller Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich which has just the right doses of MTV flash, pretty young stars and beat-the-system wish fulfillment to make it work at the box office as a ...
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Fenady named president, physical production, at Universal Pictures
Andrew Fenady has been named president, physical production, at Universal Pictures replacing longtime head of physical production James Brubaker who chose not to renew his contract and will move into a senior advisory role with the company.Fenady will report to Jimmy Horowitz, co-president of production and executive vice president for ...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films brings Paris to the US
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Cedric Klapisch's latest ensemble Paris from StudioCanal.The film, which had its US premiere at Rendezvous With French Cinema in New York recently, features a group of intertwined stories set of course in Paris. The star-studded cast included Juliette Binoche, Klapisch's regular collaborator ...
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Hollywood Film Festival launches trailer awards for film previews
Carlos de Abreu's Hollywood Film Festival is launching the Hollywood Trailer Festival and Hollywood Trailer Awards to honour feature film previews. The awards and festival will recognize film previews in 12 categories - action, animation, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, independent, romance, thriller, most original, blockbuster and trailer of the decade.A ...
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Rupert Evans joins cast of Amenabar's Agora
Hot English actor Rupert Evans has joined Rachel Weisz and Homayoun Ershadi in the cast of Alejandro Amenabar's English-language project Agora which goes into production this month in Malta.The film, being produced by Maxmedia, is the story of the efforts by a small group to free the slaves in Egypt. ...
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Diminished Capacity to open Gen Art Film Festival in NYC
The 13th annual Gen Art Film Festival will open on April 2 in New York City with Terry Kinney's Diminished Capacity starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda and Virginia Madsen. The comedy had its world premiere at Sundance in January.The festival - which has a programme of seven features and seven ...
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Tricks, Santiago among winners at Miami Film Festival
The 25th annual Miami International Film Festival closed on Saturday night (March 8) with the presentation of $77,500 in grand jury prizes to five films.The prizegiving, held at the Gusman Center For The Performing Arts, saw the Knight Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema Competition go to Andrzej Jakimowksi's Tricks ...
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Screen analysis- The end of the Line
When Time Warner issued a brief statement last Thursday (March 28) announcing New Line Cinema would be absorbed into Warner Bros Entertainment as a genre unit, it was made very clear New Line's international sales activities would be terminated.'With the growing importance of international revenues, it makes sense for New ...
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LA distributors rep Orange launches film finance division
Mirjam Wertheim's LA-based distributors' rep Orange Entertainment is branching out into film financing through a new division called Orange Film Finance and a first-look deal with Goldcrest Independent.In addition to its existing business, Orange will also serve as a consultant to independent producers helping them secure finance for films by ...