All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 71
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Classic rolls with Cottontail
New York-based Classic Media has started production on 3-Danimated film Peter Cottontail: The Movie, inspired by the TV special HereComes Peter Cottontail and ready for delivery by spring 2005.Toy Story producer Ralph Guggenheim is producing the film alongsideEvan Baily, Classic Media's head of production, and Sandra Walters, a partnerin Australia's ...
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Fireside looks to sparkle on Cannes debut
Fireside Entertainment, anew Dallas-based film financing and production outfit, is in Cannes for thefirst time with two new projects - Connected and A Knight's Fall- in addition to its completed thriller A Killer Within which is beingsold by Showcase Entertainment.Run by three partners -director Brad Keller, screenwriter Chris Peirson and ...
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Lord Of War comes together with Cage, Hawke, Leto
Ethan Hawke, BridgetMoynahan, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Wright and Donald Sutherland have joined NicolasCage in the cast of Lord Of War,Andrew Niccol's action-adventure which is being produced by EMC, AscendantPictures, VIP3 Medienfonds, Saturn Films and IMG, with financing being providedby the producers and Rand Merchant Bank in South Africa through IMG.Arclight ...
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Lord Of War comes together with Cage, Hawke, Leto
Ethan Hawke, BridgetMoynahan, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Wright and Donald Sutherland have joined NicolasCage in the cast of Lord Of War,Andrew Niccol's action-adventure which is being produced by EMC, AscendantPictures, VIP3 Medienfonds, Saturn Films and IMG, with financing being providedby the producers and Rand Merchant Bank in South Africa through IMG.Arclight ...
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Echo Bridge digs in with Mortuary
Ambitious new independent Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquiredworldwide rights to Tobe Hooper's upcoming horror picture Mortuary whichit says is its first theatrical acquisition.Production on the film is scheduled to begin in July, with awinter 2005 release planned. It marks the latest horror flick from Hooper whosecredits include The Texas Chainsaw ...
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Echo Bridge digs in with Mortuary
Ambitious new independent Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquiredworldwide rights to Tobe Hooper's upcoming horror picture Mortuary whichit says is its first theatrical acquisition.Production on the film is scheduled to begin in July, with awinter 2005 release planned. It marks the latest horror flick from Hooper whosecredits include The Texas Chainsaw ...
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Echo Bridge digs in with Mortuary
Ambitious new independent Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquiredworldwide rights to Tobe Hooper's upcoming horror picture Mortuary whichit says is its first theatrical acquisition.Production on the film is scheduled to begin in July, with awinter 2005 release planned. It marks the latest horror flick from Hooper whosecredits include The Texas Chainsaw ...
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Movision, Invicta team for all-star Pushers
Joan Allen, Claire Danes,Kathy Bates, Brenda Blethyn and Maggie Smith will head the cast of JimmySmallhorne's second feature film Pushers Needed which is being financedby Movision, Invicta and The Irish Film Board. Arclight Films is handling saleshere.The film, which is describedin the vein of The Full Monty and Calendar Girls, ...
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Foley has Pacino for 88 Minutes
Avi Lerner's Millenium Filmsand Randall Emmett and George Furla's Emmett/Furla Films have unveiled theirlatest picture 88 Minutes, a contemporary thriller to be directed byJames Foley with his Glengarry Glen Ross star Al Pacino attached tostar.Scripted by Gary ScottThompson (The Fast And The Furious), the film is budgeted at under $30mand ...
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Media 8 bankrolls Binder's Town
Media 8 Entertainment is to fully finance Man AboutTown, the next picture from its Upside Of Anger director MikeBinder, which will star Ben Affleck as a Hollywood talent agent,Binder is the actor and director behind TV series Mind Of TheMarried Man, cult film Sex Monster and Anger which stars JoanAllen ...
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Media 8 bankrolls Binder's Town
Media 8 Entertainment is to fully finance Man AboutTown, the next picture from its Upside Of Anger director MikeBinder, which will star Ben Affleck as a Hollywood talent agent,Binder is the actor and director behind TV series Mind Of TheMarried Man, cult film Sex Monster and Anger which stars JoanAllen ...
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Reda strikes out with Purple Pictures
Hadeel Reda, the formerpresident of Winchester Films, has struck out on her own with a new LA-basedfilm production and financing outfit called Purple Pictures.Reda has secured adevelopment and overhead fund from private European equity investors and optionedthree youth-driven genre projects led by horror thriller The Fearwritten by Eduardo Carrillo and ...
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Waiting for Lions Gate
Lions Gate FilmsInternational has acquired international rights to twentysomething comedy Waitingwhich marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Rob McKittrick whose creditsinclude Son Of The Mask.The film follows a day inthe life of arrested adolescent roommates Monty and Dean as they negotiate thetreacherous terrain of girls, booze and weed while working ...
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Summit takes over Myriad's Being Julia
Summit Entertainment is taking over sales duties fromMyriad Pictures on Istvan Szabo's Being Julia starring Annette Bening.The deal is being done between Summit and the film's production companySerendipity Point run by Robert Lantos. Summit previously handled SerendipityPoint's The Statement.Myriad chief executive Kirk D'Amico had no comment yesterday, butSummit's CEO Patrick ...
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Intermedia bags Baghdad Blog
Intermedia has bought film rights to Baghdad Blog, the bookof a weblog written by a 29 year-old Iraqi calling himself Salam Pax aboutdaily life in Baghdad before and after the invasion.Salam Pax has written his own column in The Guardian newspaper inthe UK and has become popular there with his ...
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Momentum, Aurum love The Dark
UK distributor MomentumPictures and its new sister company Aurum Producciones in Spain have made theirfirst joint acquisition, taking rights in the UK and Spain to Impact Pictures'horror movie The Dark starring Sean Bean and Maria Bello from SummitEntertainment.Momentum and Aurum teamed upwhen Momentum's parent company, Canada's Alliance Atlantis, closed a ...
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Architect builds on sales
Andrew Herwitz's The FilmSales Company has closed deals for Oscar-nominated documentary My Architectwith Gaga in Japan, Academy Films in Germany, Austria and German-speakingSwitzerland and Films Sans Frontiers in France and French-speaking Switzerland.The film, which is the storyof legendary US architect Louis I Kahn from the point of view of hisillegitimate ...
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Emmerich goes from global disaster to Shakespeare drama
Roland Emmerich, the Germanfilm-maker behind popcorn blockbusters such as Independence Day, Godzilla and the upcoming The Day After Tomorrow, will take a major change in direction with his nextpicture The Soul Of The Age, anintense 16th century drama about the question of the authorship ofShakespeare.Emmerich is scoutinglocations in the UK ...
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Herwitz takes on Un Certain Regard thriller Kontroll, four others
Andrew Herwitz of New York-basedThe Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide rights to five films forrepresentation during Cannes led by Hungarian thriller Kontroll from US-born director Nimrod Antal which has been abig local hit and is screening in Un Certain Regard.Herwitz has also beenhandling three films which premiered at ...
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Summit steps into The Dark, offers The Alibi
Independent sales, financingand production powerhouse Summit Entertainment has added two new pictures toits Cannes lineup - The Dark, thelatest horror movie to emerge from Paul Anderson and Jeremy Bolt's ImpactPictures via its financing deal with Constantin Film and The Alibi, a contemporary thriller, which Summit isco-financing and co-producing with Jim ...