All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 45
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Bold and The Orphanage to produce supernatural thriller Legion
Bold Films, the LA-based production company behind Bobby, is teaming with visual effects outfit The Orphanage to produce Legion, a supernatural action thriller about a group of strangers stranded in a desert truck stop that bands together to stop an army of demonic creatures bent on fulfilling an age-old prophecy ...
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Cinema Libre joins Participant for Angels
Cinema Libre Studio has partnered with Participant Productions to handle domestic distribution and international sales on Participant's Angels In The Dust which looks at the AIDS crisis in South Africa through the eyes of orphans. It is set to open in select US cities in autumn 2007.Louise Hogarth's film recently ...
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Seville steps to Quebec with Maple Pictures
Seville Pictures has signed an agreement with Maple Pictures, the Canadian distributor of Lionsgate product, for the distribution of new releases and catalogue films in Quebec.The agreement, which covers all distribution rights, starts with the theatrical release of Hostel II on June 8.Seville, which also handles product from Warner Independent, ...
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Mexican film-makers land at Universal, Focus International
Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo Del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu have formally announced their production partnership cha cha cha and partnered with Universal Pictures and Focus Features International (FFI) on the financing, sales and distribution on five upcoming films.Under the terms of the deal, the three will maintain creative control over ...
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Shoreline closes several deals on Man In The Chair
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has closed a slew of deals in the first few days of Cannes.AB Groupe took French rights to three films: Inside Out starring Kate Walsh from TV's Grey's Anatomy, Dan Turner's science fiction horror movie Experiment and Kardia, which won the Alfred P Sloan Foundation's feature ...
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Bold, The Orphanage to produce supernatural action thriller Legion
Bold Films, the LA-based production company behind Bobby, is teaming with visual effects outfit The Orphanage to produce Legion, a supernatural action thriller about a group of strangers stranded in a desert truck stop that bands together to stop an army of demonic creatures bent on fulfilling an age-old prophecy ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino won the Palme d'or at Cannes in 1994 with Pulp Fiction, his second feature. He also chaired the Jury in 2004 and returns to the festival again this year with the recut version of Death Proof.'I love Cannes. I remember reading about Cannes when I was a little ...
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Universal launches ambitious international production division
Universal Pictures has formally announced its international production plans, confirming the appointment of Christian Grass as president, production for Universal Pictures International (UPI) and signing a local production and distribution deal with Russian director Timur Bekmambetov and his Bazelevs Productions.In addition, the studio has announced the first Brazilian title in ...
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Killer unveils production slate, first project with THINKFilm
Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler's Killer Films, which produced tomorrow's Quinzaine entry Savage Grace, has unveiled its new project slate including its first title with THINKFilm following the two companies' recent finance and distribution partnership.THINKFilm will handle international sales on The Electric Slide, the story of Eddie Dodson, one of ...
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Foundas and Hoberman join NYFF selection committee
The 45th New York Film Festival, which will take place Sept 28 to Oct 14 this year, has added two new members to its selection committee - US critics Scott Foundas and J Hoberman. They join The Film Society Of Lincoln Center's Richard Pena and Kent Jones and Entertainment Weekly ...
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Vantage sells first movie Marc Pease Experience at Cannes
Paramount Vantage, which is launching its international sales division in Cannes, has introduced its first picture to buyers - The Marc Pease Experience, a comedy starring Ben Stiller and Jason Schwartzman which has just wrapped. Todd Louiso (Love Liza) directs and co-wrote the film which tells the story of a ...
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Magnolia, Red Envelope acquire Hallam Foe for North America
Magnolia Pictures and Red Envelope Entertainment have teamed up to acquire North American rights to David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe which had its world premiere in competition at Berlin this year. The film, which stars Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles and Ciaran Hinds, is the story of a young man searching the ...
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H2O sign Lajos Koltai to two films
Andras Hamori and Mark Horowitz's H20 Motion Pictures has signed Lajos Koltai to direct two features - Under The Frog and Born Of Fire.Oscar-nominated cinematographer Koltai directed Hungarian Holocaust epic Fateless and next month's US release Evening for Focus Features with a cast including Meryl Streep, Claire Danes, Glenn Close, ...
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Polyband takes German rights to The Turtle's Song
Munich-based Polyband Medien, a subsidiary of Splendit Medien, has acquired German rights to Nick Stringer's The Turtle's Song, a documentary following the epic journey of a baby loggerhead turtle. The film is produced by UK-based Film & Music Entertainment and made in collaboration with Stringer's Big Wave Productions. Mike Downey, ...
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Magnetik in three-film deal with Relativity
Mario Kassar and Erick J Feitshan's recently formed sales and consulting outfit Magnetik Media has signed three projects from Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media which it is selling here. They are:James Mangold's 3:10 To Yuma, starring Russell Crowe and Christian BaleRob Minkoff's Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan and Jet Li And ...
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Kassar, Feitshan form Magnetik, sign three from Relativity
Mario Kassar and Erick J Feitshan's recently formed sales and consulting outfit Magnetik Media has signed three projects from Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media which it is selling in Cannes - James Mangold's 3:10 To Yuma starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, Rob Minkoff's Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan and Jet ...
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H20 Motion Pictures to make film on Politkovskaya
Andras Hamori and Mark Horowitz's recently launched H20 Motion Pictures has acquired the rights to three books by Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist who was shot to death in a suspected contract killing in Moscow in Oct 2006.H20 will develop a film about the woman, who was a bold and ...
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The new US independent model
New York-based IFC Entertainment is in the second year of its day-and-date programme whereby 24 films a year hit theatres and VoD in 40 million homes on the same day. On the eve of Cannes, Mike Goodridge spoke to president Jonathan Sehring about the future of independent distribution. When the ...
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West 32nd
Dir: Michael Kang. US. 2007. 83mins. Michael Kang's second feature West 32nd is an ambitious thriller set in the Korean underworld of Manhattan. While rich in atmosphere and a set-up which promises to peel the layers off a sinister world of crime, it ultimately promises more intrigue and complexity than ...
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Rise: Blood Hunter
Dir: Sebastian Gutierrez. US. 2007. 94mins.A genre thriller without much of a bite, Rise: Blood Hunter is nevertheless a well-mounted affair with a sense of humour and a solid starring turn by Lucy Liu as a woman who finds herself among the living dead. Premiered at Tribeca recently and opening ...