All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 68
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Vera Drake
Dir/scr: Mike Leigh.2004. UK/France. 125mins.Mike Leigh's latest tourde force takes the subject of illegal abortion in 1950 London and uses it toair issues of moral integrity, goodness and justice never more relevant than intoday's self-serving social and political climate.In Vera Drake, Leighachieves a level of engagement and intensity of which ...
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IFTA takes space at Le Merigot for first Nov AFM
The American Film Market(AFM) has expanded its exhibitor space to include offices in the Le MerigotHotel adjacent to the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel for its first Nov eventwhich runs Nov 3 to 10.The move, say marketorganizers the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), is inresponse to demand by potential ...
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Finding Neverland
Dir: Marc Forster. US.2004. 101mins.It may have been given atitle more redolent of a cheesy TV movie, but anchored by another knockoutperformance by Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland is destined to get plentyof big screen attention later this year.Miramax Films can count onrunaway word-of-mouth and big-time returns both on awards podiums ...
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Summit, Serendipity Point reteam on Egoyan's Truth
Los Angeles-based sales, financingand production outfit Summit Entertainment has signed on as international salesagent for Atom Egoyan's latest picture Where The Truth Lies.The film is produced byRobert Lantos and his Serendipity Point Films which has already teamed withSummit on Norman Jewison's The Statement and Istvan Szabo's Being Julia.Based on the ...
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Avelleneda's Moon tops one million admissions in Argentina
La Luna De Avelleneda(Avelleneda's Moon), Juan JoseCampanella's latest drama starring Ricardo Darin, passed the 1m admissionsbarrier in Argentina this week, becoming his second smash hit after SonOf The Bride.The box office score is even more impressive bearing inmind the current economic crisis in the country, not to mention the fact ...
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Tailor-Made teams with Plan B to co-produce The Apologist
London-based Tailor-MadeFilms has teamed with Brad Pitt, Brad Grey and Jennifer Aniston's Plan B toco-produce the film of Jay Rayner's novel The Apologist.The book, which has alreadybeen published in the UK and will be published in the US in August by Simon& Schuster under the title Eating Crow, is the ...
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Hyde Park sets flag in UK with Brass Hat partnership
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde ParkEntertainment has cemented a five-year partnership with London-based investmentfirm The Brass Hat Group whereby Brass Hat will be Hyde Park's financing andproduction partner in the UK.Brass Hat, which is headedby Nick Hamson and Matthew Goldsmith, has agreed to raise production fundingexclusively for Hyde Park projects in the ...
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She Hate Me
Dir: Spike Lee. US. 2004. 138 mins.There is not a more fascinating - and exasperating -film-maker working today than Spike Lee. He is one of the few directors whosecontrol of the medium is so assured and his style so elegant that a viewercan't help but be sucked into his world. ...
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The Manchurian Candidate
Dir:Jonathan Demme. US. 2004. 130 mins.While not all of the choices made in it are successful, Jonathan Demme'scontemporary revamp of John Frankenheimer's marvelous The ManchurianCandidate is unquestionably one of the smarter, more persuasive films toemerge out of a Hollywood studio this year. Loaded with the intensity you'dexpect a cast led ...
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New NYC film festival launched for young women film-makers
A new film festival wasunveiled in New York City yesterday for young, emerging female film-makersbetween the ages of 16 and 25. Entitled Reel Girls Filmmakers On The Verge,the festival will run Nov 4 to 6.Organised by artsorganization Gen Art and teen magazine YM, the event will feature three seriesof ...
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Nair launches Sundance Institute of the East
Film-maker Mira Nair haslaunched a film-maker laboratory dedicated to developing and supportingvisionary screenwriters and directors from East Africa and South Asia. CalledMAISHA, the initiative is based on the Sundance Institute model.The first annual MAISHA labwill focus on screenwriting and is scheduled to take place in Aug 2005 inKampala, Uganda. From ...
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Day After Tomorrow sweeps past $500m for Fox
The Day After Tomorrow, 20th Century Fox's eco-disaster epicdirected by Roland Emmerich, has passed the $500m mark at the worldwide boxoffice after six weeks on release.As of Tuesday July 6, thefilm's domestic gross was $177.28 and its international gross was $322.84m,bringing its wordwide total to $500.12m.The film opened with 108number ...
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Hollywood Film Festival teams with IDA for documentary showcase
The HollywoodFilm Festival has teamed up with the International Documentary Association(IDA) for a special focus on documentaries at this year's festival which runsOct 12 to 18 in Los Angeles.The documentaryfocus is comprised of Hollywood Docs Showcase which will screen documentarieswith a special focus on social and humanitarian themes, and the ...
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NORTH AMERICA 7 July
Warner Independent Pictures kicked off business over theweekend with the opening of its first picture Before Sunset, a Castle Rock production starring Ethan Hawke andJulie Delpy reprising their roles from the 1995 two-hander Before Sunrise.Both films were directed by Richard Linklater. The movieopened well for the new studio division run ...
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Dan Glickman succeeds Jack Valenti as head of MPAA
JackValenti formally resigned yesterday from his position as president and CEO ofthe Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) after 38 years in the job, ashis successor Dan Glickman (pictured) was named.Glickman,a former Secretary of Agriculture and former congressman from Kansas, will takeup his position on Sept 1 until which time ...
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Bale, Thewlis & Taylor join cast of The New World
Christian Bale, DavidThewlis, Noah Taylor and Q'orianka Kilcher (pictured) have joined the cast of TerrenceMalick's The New World which NewLine Cinema plans to release in Nov 2005.The new cast members joinColin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, August Schellenberg and Wes Studi in thefilm which is Malick's first film since The Thin Red ...
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A Home At The End Of The World
Dir: Michael Mayer. US.2004. 93mins.Can a movie be too short' Broadway theatre directorMichael Mayer and novelist Michael Cunningham have opted for an ultra-concisemovie treatment of Cunningham's celebrated first novel (1990), which traces thefriendship between two boys over 30 years in just 93 minutes. The effect is afilm which feels like ...
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Beautiful Boxer falls to here!
here! Films has acquiredNorth American distribution rights to Thai drama Beautiful Boxer from Arclight Films. The company plans to releasethe film theatrically in the US and Canada in the third quarter 2004.Based on the true story offamed Thai transgender kickboxer Parinya Charoenphol aka Nong Toom, the filmfollows the story of ...
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Summit, Endgame kick off The Alibi with stellar cast
Summit Entertainment's The Alibi which the international production,sales and financing outfit is co-financing with Jim Stern's Endgame startedprincipal photography yesterday in Los Angeles with a stellar cast in place.Joining the previously announced Steve Coogan, RebeccaRomijn-Stamos and James Marsden are Sam Elliot, James Brolin, Selma Blair, JohnLeguizamo, Jamie King, Henry Rollins ...
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Spider-man 2 leaps into 28 territories this weekend
Columbia TriStar puts out the year's most hotlyanticipated film Spider-man 2 in 28territories this weekend day-and-date with the North American opening thisweek, but the studio is waiting until next weekend and the weekend after torelease the blockbuster sequel in Europe to avoid any interference from theEuropean football championships.Major territories which ...