All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 52
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Cruise/Wagner parts with Paramount in full media spotlight
Tom Cruise and PaulaWagner's Cruise/Wagner Productions is leaving Viacom's Paramount Pictures after13 years at the studio. The news was the talk ofHollywood yesterday (Tuesday) after the publication of a Wall Street Journalinterview with Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone in which Redstone said "As muchas we like [Cruise] personally, we thought it ...
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Showbox picks up UK rights to Edinburgh title Cards
Shoreline Entertainment hassold UK rights to Dead Man's Cardsto Showbox Media Group. The film had its world premiere this week as a BritishGala at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Showbox plans to release thefilm theatrically later this year.The gritty drama stars PaulBarber as a struggling boxer from Liverpool who loses ...
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Nolte, Foster, Suvari board Groundswell's Mysteries
Nick Nolte, Jon Foster andMena Suvari have joined Peter Sarsgaard and Sienna Miller in the cast of TheMysteries Of Pittsburgh, the firstfilm to go before the cameras for Michael London's new financing and productionoutfit Groundswell Productions. Arclight Films has come onboard to handle international sales.The film starts shooting inPittsburgh on ...
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Bauer Martinez settles legal wrangles with McTiernan
Bauer Martinez Entertainmentand film-maker John McTiernan have settled the litigation between them thatarose over the project Crash Bandits which McTiernan was to have directed for Bauer Martinez.The two parties have agreedto the dismissal of the April 26, 2006, complaint by Bauer Martinez and thesubsequent counterclaim by McTiernan."Bauer Martinez and JohnMcTiernan ...
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Stone named director of the year at Hollywood Film Awards
Oliver Stone is to receivethe Hollywood Film Award for Hollywood Director of the Year at the HollywoodAwards ceremony on Oct 23 in Los Angeles.In addition, arestrospective of Stone's films will screen during the Hollywood Film Festivalpresented by STARZ. Titles screening are Salvador, Platoon, Born On TheFourth Of July and World ...
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Viacom upgrades MTV Films, Nick Movies to Paramount labels
Viacom has elevated thestatus of its subsidiary production companies MTV Films and Nick Movies fromon-the-lot producers to "full labels" under the Paramount Motion Picture Group(PMPG) umbrella alongside Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Vantageand Paramount Classics.The company has hiredproducer Scott Aversano (pictured), who is an independent producer on the lotand previously ...
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The Secret to open Tahoe-Reno Film Festival
The Tahoe-Reno International Film Festival, which stagedits first event last year with a specific mandate to showcase sociallyresponsible films, has set The Secret asits opening night film on Aug 23.The film is a historic account of an age-old secret saidto be 4,000 years in the making and known only to ...
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Universal hires Baard to run Australia, New Zealand office
Universal Pictures has hiredMike Baard (pictured) as managing director, Australia and New Zealand. The movecomes in the wake of the restructuring of UIP and the studio's preparations toopen its own theatrical operations in 15 major territories on Jan 1, 2007.Baard will report directlyto Duncan Clark, executive vice president, international distribution.The ...
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jindabyne gets North American deal with SPC
Sony Pictures Classics hasacquired North American rights to Ray Lawrence's jindabyne which had its world premiere in Directors' Fortnightat Cannes this year and which will have its North American premiere at Torontoas a Special Presentation.The April Films production,which is based on Raymond Carver's short story "So Much Water So Close ...
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Emerging to screen Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film in 20 US cities
New York-based digitalcinema network Emerging Pictures is partnering with Thirteen/WNET New York andother local PBS TV stations across the US to screen Andy Warhol: ADocumentary Film in theatricalvenues in 20 cities.The two-part, four-hourdocumentary, directed by Ric Burns, is part of Thirteen/WNET's American Mastersseries. Each PBS station will host the screenings ...
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Sano, Gamst named SPRI managers in Japan, Spain
Sony Pictures Releasing International has named two newterritorial general managers in Japan and Spain.Noriaki Sano has been appointed senior vice president andgeneral manager, Japan, and Ivan Losada Gamst has been appointed generalmanager, Spain.Sano will be based in Tokyo and Gamst in Madrid and bothwill be charged with overseeing sales, marketing ...
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Nelson named to run Warner Bros new direct-to-DVD arm
Diane Nelson (pictured) has been namedpresident of Warner Premiere, a newly created direct-to-DVD production divisionof Warner Bros Entertainment. She will report to both Kevin Tsujihara,president of Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group, and Jeff Robinov, presidentpf production at Warner Bros Pictures.Warner Premiere was founded to develop, produce and market15 features a ...
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TWC acquires worldwide rights to Dixie Chicks doc
The Weinstein Company has picked up worldwide rights toBarbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck's documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up And Sing which will have its world premiere at the TorontoInternational Film Festival next month. It is the first documentary in 14 yearsto be screened in Toronto as a gala presentation.Produced by ...
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Pirates week seven: BVI blockbuster takes $25.5m
In its seventh consecutiveweekend on release, Buena Vista International (BVI)'s Pirates Of TheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest led theinternational box office with a $25.5m take from 51 territories on 6,222screens.The blockbuster has nowtaken $522.7m, the 12th biggest gross in history. Globally the filmhas reached $923.8m, marking it out as Disney's biggest ...
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Snakes falls short of hype with $15.25m domestic opening
Despite the hype, New Line's Snakes On A Plane had a disappointing opening weekend inNorth America, taking $13.85m on 3,555 screens in three days and $15.25mincluding 10pm shows on Thursday night.Over the three days, without previews, the film was actuallybeaten by Sony's Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby in ...
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Diaz, Cinema Libre complete sexually explicit Now And Later
Cinema Libre Studio has completed production on the HDfictional feature Now & Later in LosAngeles. The company best known for its documentary output fully financed thefilm which marks the US debut of Philippe Diaz (The Empire In Africa) who founded Cinema Libre.The film explores the subject matter of America's awkwardrelationship ...
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Brokeback, Kong among World Soundtrack Award nominees
The World Soundtrack Academy has named its nominees for thethree key categories in the annual World Soundtrack Awards, an initiative ofthe Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, which will this year bepresented in Ghent on Oct 14.The Academy, which was founded in 2001 and now includes 250composers, presents awards in ...
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Hollywoodland
Dir: Allen Coulter. US.2006. 126mins.A noir thriller set in 1950s Los Angeles which blendsfact, fiction and speculation, Hollywoodland is so rich in detail, character and atmospherethat it's easy to forgive its narrative failings. This well-crafted, well-castfilm which marks the feature debut of TV veteran Allen Coulter, should stir upplenty of ...
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Scoop
Dir: Woody Allen. UK/US. 2006. 96 mins. After a surge of sortswith last year's Oscar-nominated Match Point, Woody Allen's topsy-turvycareer slumps again with the featherweight Scoop. Having successfullypulled off a dark, Patricia Highsmith-esque thrillerset in London with Match Point, he applies the dizzy slapstick comedy ofThe Curse Of The Jade ...
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Screen, HFF name jury for Hollywood World Award
Screen International and TheHollywood Film Festival have named the panel of international judges assembledto decide on the nominations of this year's Hollywood World Award. The Award, now in its thirdyear, will be presented to the best film in world cinema and presented at theHollywood Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton ...