All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 60
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Splendid's Klein teams up with Doc Hollywood Studios
Splendid Film CEO AndreasKlein has teamed up with LA-based production outfit Doc Hollywood Studios toassist in the development and production of two films over the next two years.As part of the arrangement,Klein will advise Doc Hollywood Studios CEO Steven Saxton in the developmentand management of a $50m film finance gap ...
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National Lampoon family brand begins first film in LA
National Lampoon Clubhouse,a new family brand created by National Lampoon Inc and Lorenzo Doumani'sMajestic Entertainment, has started production in Los Angeles on its firstproduction National Lampoon Clubhouse's Trick Or Treat.The film is a familyHalloween comedy about a 15 year-old boy spending the fateful night at homebabysitting his younger siblings who ...
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Hong Kong's Pang Brothers begin Ghost House horror pic in Canada
Kristen Stewart, the teenageactress who played Jodie Foster's daughter in Panic Room, is heading the cast of Ghost House Pictures'upcoming, untitled horror movie directed by Oxide and Danny Pang. The filmstarted shooting this week in Saskatchewan, Canada.Dylan McDermott, PenelopeAnn Miller and John Corbett co-star in the film which is written ...
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Sith breaks all-time preview record in Japan for Fox
20thCentury Fox has recorded record-breaking previews of Star Wars: Episode III:Revenge Of The Sith in Japan, wherethe film opens on July 9. The previews grossed $4.59m ('495m), higher than theprevious record held by The Matrix Reloaded at $3.52m ('416m).Episode I's preview grosses reached $2.35m ('285m), while EpisodeII topped that at$3.01m ...
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Roadside Attractions buys US rights to Sarah Silverman concert film
US independent distributorRoadside Attractions has acquired US theatrical and TV rights to comic SarahSilverman's feature concert film Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic based on Silverman's politically incorrectoff-Broadway show which takes on topics such as Sept 11, AIDS and theHolocaust.The film, selected recentlyfor this year's US Comedy Arts and SWSW film ...
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Doelger, Scoffield to form new US/UK production company
LA-based independentproducer Frank Doelger and Tracey Scoffield, who is currently head ofdevelopment at BBC Films, are teaming up to create a new US/UK productionoutfit which will make both theatrical feature films and TV programming.The as-yet-unnamed companyis currently in negotiations with HBO and the BBC for overall deals with thenetworks and ...
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Jellysmoke, Grain Of Sand win top prizes at LAFF
The Los Angeles FilmFestival (LAFF) closed last night with its annual prize-givingceremonywhere Mark Banning's Jellysmokewon the Target Film-maker Award for best narrative feature and Beth Bird's EveryoneTheir Grain Of Sand won thedocumentary prize. Each award carries with itan unrestricted cash prize of $50,000 - one of the largest cash prizes ...
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Saperstein joins Weinsteins to head production for Dimension Films
Richard Saperstein (pictured),the former president of development and production for Artisan Pictures, hasjoined the Weinstein brothers as executive vice president and head ofproduction for Dimension Films.He also assumes the title ofexecutive vice president of production for The Weinstein Company, and will workclosely with Harvey Weinstein on films being produced by ...
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Industry rejoices at Supreme Court's internet piracy decision
The US Supreme Court'sunanimous 9-0 decision yesterday to hold file-sharing software accountable forcopyright infringements committed by users of the services was greeted withjubilation by Hollywood yesterday.The case of MGM vs Groksterin which 28 of the world's largest entertainmen companies brought a lawsuitagainst the makers of the Morpheus, Grokster and KaZaA ...
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Newell named winner of BAFTA/LA's Schlesinger award
Mike Newell has been namedthe recipient of this year's John Schlesinger Award for artistic excellence atthe 2005 Britannia Awards ceremony, held by BAFTA/LA in Los Angeles on Nov 10.The award coincides with theworldwide openings of Newell's Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, the fourth instalment in the popular film ...
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McInnis takes film festival specialist role at Loyola Marymount in LA
Kathleen McInnis, the formerdirector of the Slamdance Film Festival and a veteran of the SeattleInternational Film Festival, has taken up the inaugural role of film festivalspecialist at the Loyola Marymount University School Of Film And Televsion(SFTV) in Los Angeles.The role is part of theSFTV's new office of external affairs which ...
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Sundance Documentary Film Editing and Story Lab underway in Utah
The Sundance Institute hasnamed the seven fellows and four projects which are participating in its annualDocumentary Film Editing and Story Laboratory which started on June 24 and runsto July 1 at Sundance Village in Utah.Seven fellows (projectdirectors and editors) are working with six creative advisors (four editors andtwo directors) to ...
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Cheung to receive award, restrospective at Asian American film festival
The 28th annualAsian American International Film Festival will kick off on July 15 in New YorkCity with a screening of Olivier Assayas' Clean starring Maggie Cheung, who will attend thescreening. Cheung is also the recipientof this year's CineVisionary award, honouring her contributions tointernational cinema. A mini-retrospective of her career will ...
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First Look acquires worldwide rights to Emmanuel's Gift
Los Angeles-based First LookMedia has acquired worldwide rights to Emmanuel's Gift, a documentary produced and directed by Lisa Lax andNancy Stern about a young disabled man from Ghana, West Africa, who rode abicycle across Ghana on one leg to eradicate the country's negative perceptionof the disabled.FirstLook Pictures plans a domestic ...
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Magnolia, SPHE acquire domestic rights to Nine Lives
MagnoliaPictures and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) have teamed up to acquireNorth American rights to Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives, which played as a premiere at Sundance this yearand screened this week at the Los Angeles Film Festival.Magnoliaplans to release the film theatrically in Sept with subsequent DVD and videodistribution to ...
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Gellar to inhabit Alice for Universal
Sarah Michelle Gellar is attached tostar in Alice, a new film based on the video game AmericanMcGee's Alice, for Universal Pictures. Marcus Nispel is set todirect.AmericanMcGee's Alice is a popular Electronic Arts computer game createdby McGee, one of the lead designers on the Quake and Doom series. Usingcharacters and concepts ...
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Darwin's Nightmare wins Silverdocs
Silverdocs, AFI/DiscoveryChannel Documentary Festival, ended on Sunday night with its annual awardsceremony which gave Hubert Sauper's Darwin's Nightmare the top prize, the Sterling Award.The film shows the impact ofglobalization and the scourge of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa through themicrocosm of life on the shore of Lake Victoria in Tanzania.The festival, ...
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Picturehouse assembles distribution team
Picturehouse, the USdistribution joint venture formed by New Line Cinema and HBO, has unveiled theNew York-based distribution team which will handle the release of the films intodomestic theatres.Rob Schwarz has been namedchief operating officer, Bill Thompson (pictured) is senior vice president andco-general sales manager, John Lange is senior vice president ...
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Herbie: Fully Loaded
Dir: Angela Robinson. US.2005. 95mins.The latest in a gradualrecycling programme of Disney's back catalogue (after Flubber, The ParentTrap, Freaky Friday), Herbie: Fully Loaded is an effective familypicture which will be a big hit for the studio in the US - where it opens onJune 22 - and one likely to ...
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Nantucket Film Festival gives top prize to Hustle & Flow
The Nantucket Film Festival finished its tenth edition last night(Sunday) with its prize-giving closing ceremony which saw Craig Brewer win thebest writer/director award for Hustle & Flow.Jessica Sanders won a prize for best storytelling in a documentaryfilm for After Innocence, Murderball won the audience award for best feature, Mighty Times: ...