All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 61

  • News

    In Memory Of My Father wins jury award at CineVegas

    2005-06-20T00:00:00Z

    The CineVegas Film Festival, which closed on Saturday night in LasVegas with the premiere of George A Romero's Land Of The Dead, gave its grand jury award to InMemory Of My Father. Written and directed byChristopher Jaymes, the film is the story of three siblings at their father'swake and stars ...

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    Mandate restructures, adds new staff after mbo

    2005-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Joe Drake's Mandate Pictureshas restructured the company in the wake of the management buyout in Jan.Rob McEntegart (pictured) has beennamed executive vice president, business affairs, and will oversee rights andtalent deals for development and production, as well as select distributiondeals such as the company's multi-picture distribution deal with Sony.He joined ...

  • Reviews

    Bewitched

    2005-06-17T06:00:00Z

    Dir: Nora Ephron. US.2005. 98 mins.Sony's eagerly awaited movie of the beloved 60s TV series Bewitched has to be one of the most featherweight summerblockbuster prospects in recent memory. Although it's stuffed with A-listtalent from stars Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell down, co-writer and directorNora Ephron has delivered a romantic ...

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    Top Seattle Film Festival prizes go to 4, Swimmers

    2005-06-13T00:00:00Z

    The Seattle InternationalFilm Festival closed its 31st annual edition last night with theNorth American premiere of Gus Van Sant's Last Days, a film of local relevance since it was inspired bythe 1994 suicide of rock star Kurt Cobain.The 25-day festival, thelongest in North America, also announced its award-winners yesterday morning. ...

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    Glen Basner leaves Focus Features

    2005-06-08T04:00:00Z

    Glen Basner has left hisposition as executive vice president of international sales and distribution atFocus Features. He has stepped down immediately from the company, although itis unclear as yet where he will land.Basner, one of themost accomplished sales executives in the business, had worked ininternational sales under David Linde at ...

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    Lin to direct Fast And The Furious 3 for Universal

    2005-06-08T04:00:00Z

    Justin Lin, the youngfilm-maker whose debut feature Better Luck Tomorrow was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002, haslanded the job as director of Universal Pictures' The Fast And The Furious 3 (tentative title).Neal H Moritz, who producedthe first two instalments in the series The Fast And The ...

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    M:I 3 finally gets start date in July in Italy

    2005-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Mission: Impossible 3 will finally start principal photography on July 18in Italy, it was announced yesterday by Paramount Pictures chairman and CEOBrad Grey. The film will be shot on locations across Europe, the US and Asiaand will be released in US theatres on May 5, 2006.Tom Cruise will of coursestar ...

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    Toshiba leads Yellow Dog to Japan

    2005-06-06T04:00:00Z

    Toshiba Entertainment hasacquired Japanese rights to The Cave Of The Yellow Dog, the latest film from Story Of The Weeping Camel co-director Byambasuren Davaa. The deal wasconcluded at Cannes with sales agent Telepool.The film, which will haveits world premiere at the upcoming Munich Film Festival later this month, isDavaa's graduation ...

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    Art Port, Casablanca buy One Love from Sola Media

    2005-06-06T04:00:00Z

    Art Port hasacquired Japanese rights and Casablanca Films has acquired Brazilian rights to OneLove, a Jamaicanromantic comedy starring Bob Marley's son Ky-mani Marley, from Germany's SolaMedia and Atrix Films which are together handling the film.The film, whosesoundtrack is produced by VP Music Group, is set for a UK release on ...

  • Reviews

    Batman Begins

    2005-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Dir:Christopher Nolan. US. 2005. 140 mins.LikeSam Raimi did with Spider-man,Christopher Nolan has gone back to the drawing board with the Batman characterin Batman Begins andemerged with an intensely dramatic, muscular action adventure picture whichshould be successful enough to kickstart the franchise for Warner Bros. Eradicatingany of the camp and tongue-in-cheek ...

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    Hyde Park seals multiple deals on its debut sales slate at Cannes

    2005-05-23T04:00:00Z

    Hyde Park International(HPI), the new international sales arm of Ashok Amitraj's Hyde ParkEntertainment, has reported a host of deals at its debut Cannes on Monkeyfaceand Premonition, the first two films it is 100% financing withoutinitial contribution from a major studio partner.HPI chief Lisa Wilson saidthat the market was hugely successful ...

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    Nexo swoops for three new films

    2005-05-19T04:00:00Z

    Italy's Nexo has acquired three new films here - Steven Shainberg'sDiane Arbus biopic Fur from New Line International, Emanuel Carrere'swell-liked drama La Moustache from Pathe International and Jaume Balaguero'sthriller Fragile from Filmax. The pick-ups continue relationships between Ernesto Di Sarro's companyand the three sellers. Nexo at its inception handled a ...

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    Venice shapes up as star magnet

    2005-05-17T04:00:00Z

    With journalists dailybemoaning the dearth of major American stars in Cannes, The Venice FilmFestival is once again shaping up as a showcase of star-studded prospects fromthe US and Europe. John Madden's Proof, Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm, James Ivory's The White Countess and Fernando Mereilles' The Constant Gardener are just ...

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    Universal plucks North American rights for Black Dahlia

    2005-05-15T04:00:00Z

    Universal Pictures has paidan estimated $10m for North American rights to Brian DePalma's film of JamesElroy's The Black Dahlia starringJosh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank fromSignature Pictures.The studio plans a 2006 releasefor the 1940s-set thriller about the two cops investigating the brutal murderof Elizabeth Short. The film ...

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    Element strikes Five Finger deals

    2005-05-14T04:00:00Z

    Element Films International,the brand new sales outfit run by John Fremes has hit the ground running,scoring deals here on its thriller Five Fingers with DNC in Italy, Gussi Films in Mexico, CaliforniaFilms in Brazil, Lusomundo in Portugal and Hollywood Entertainment in Greece.The film, which has itsworld premiere today, stars Laurence ...

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    Renaissance Living And Breathing with Huston, Suvari

    2005-05-12T04:00:00Z

    The UK's Renaissance Filmshas acquired worldwide rights to Living And Breathing, a black comedy tobe directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (Lost In La Mancha, Brothers OfThe Head). Tom Wilkinson, Anjelica Huston, Mena Suvari and Justin Theroux are setto star. Written by Vincent Villanueva, the desert-set film is setover ...

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    Inarritu's Babel towers into view

    2005-05-11T04:00:00Z

    Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu revealed exclusive details of his latestopus Babel in an interview with Screen from the Morocco set this week. Although he says it is more challenging structurally than AmoresPerros, it has similar themes of 'love and how we deal with it as humanbeings, while on a microscopic level ...

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    King pledges AFM return for Initial

    2005-05-11T04:00:00Z

    Graham King assured buyers this week that his InitialEntertainment Group will have a new slate of films on offer for buyers by AFMin Nov, following the news in April that he has signed a first-look deal withWarner Bros. Speaking from the New York City set of Martin Scorsese's TheDeparted, which ...

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    Weisbein's Green Room takes on two for Mr Mudd

    2005-05-02T04:00:00Z

    PierreWeisbein's nascent sales and production company Green Room Pictures will cometo Cannes with two films it will represent for Mr Mudd, the LA-based productioncompany run by Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich and Russell Smith.Weisbein will beselling worldwide rights on Historya, a powerful drama based on Gary Soto's novel BuriedOnions which followsLatin ...

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    Summit lines up peak slate for Cannes

    2005-04-28T06:00:00Z

    SummitEntertainment has lined up a potent slate of new pictures for Cannes this yearled by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's red-hot Babel, the Adam Sandler-produced comedy Nana's Boy and Beacon's upcoming coastguard actioner TheGuardian which has Kevin Costner andAshton Kutcher attached to star.Alsooffered for the first time is a new Summit in-house ...