All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 73

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    Knots to close Gen Art Film Festival on Apr 20

    2004-04-06T04:00:00Z

    Greg Lombardo's comedy Knots has been named the closing night film of this year'sGen Art Film Festival on April 20 in New York City.The festival which starts onApril 6 is now in its ninth year and was founded in 1996 to showcase emergingUS independent film-makers. Among the films it has ...

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    CTFDI's Gothika surges to $6.1m weekend

    2004-04-06T04:00:00Z

    Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) saw its horror thriller Gothika surge to $6.1m on 1,737 screens over the weekend oninternational release, including a strong $2.6m opening in the UK on 306screens for third position in the market.The Halle Berry-starrer hasnow totaled $58.1m in CTFDI territories which consist of all internationalexcept ...

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    Tarantino plots anime prequel to Kill Bill

    2004-04-05T06:00:00Z

    Quentin Tarantino isconsidering a continuation of his Kill Bill epic by writing and producing an anime prequel whichtells the early life story of Bill before the fatal events in his two-volumepicture.Tarantino said he wouldwrite and oversee the picture and David Carradine would voice Bill. The filmwould be animated in the ...

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    Scorsese to present The Leopard at Lake Placid

    2004-04-05T04:00:00Z

    Martin Scorsese will presenta special screening of Luchino Visconti's The Leopard at this year's Lake Placid Film Festival which takesplace June 2 to 6.Scorsese will talk about thefilm which will then screen in a restored version which runs to 180 minutes.The director has always cited Visconti's 1963 epic as one ...

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    Warner wins international weekend with Scooby off the leash

    2004-04-05T04:00:00Z

    WarnerBros opened Scooby Doo 2 in 27markets over the weekend for an estimated total of $15.5m from 3,800 screens.After two weekends on release, the film has now taken $17.7m.Thefilm opened top in the UK, with an estimated $6.3m, more than double the secondfilm in the country The Passion Of The ...

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    Wolfe steps up US theatrical, buying Thoughts, City

    2004-04-05T04:00:00Z

    California-based USindependent Wolfe is continuing its expansion into theatrical distribution withthe acquisition of Achim Von Borries' German drama Love In Thoughts which made its world premiere at the Sundance FilmFestival and Spanish director Cesc Gay's latest picture In The City.The 20 year-old company hasbeen established as a video company of ...

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    Goldmann named president of Atmosphere Entertainment MM

    2004-04-05T04:00:00Z

    Bernie Goldmann has beennamed president of Mark Canton's LA-based Atmosphere MM Entertainment. He willoversee Atmosphere MM's film and TV development and production activities, willtake an equity stake in the company as well as a seat on its board ofdirectors.A former president ofproduction for Village Roadshow Pictures Entertainment, Goldmann most recentlyproduced ...

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    Miramax takes Stratus' Hostage for North America

    2004-04-05T04:00:00Z

    MiramaxFilms has acquired North American rights to Hostage, the Bruce Willis action thriller financed byStratus Film Company and scripted from his own novel by Robert Crais.FlorentSiri (The Nest) is directing thefilm, which is currently shooting in Los Angeles, and Stratus, Equity Picturesand Cheyenne Enterprises are the production entities. The film's ...

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    Polly takes another $5m for Universal, Dead opens well in Mexico

    2004-04-05T04:00:00Z

    UniversalPictures/UIP opened hit comedy Along Came Polly in eight more territories this weekendincluding Korea, Russia and Sweden for an estimated total of $5m at 2,000 sitesin 32 countries.Theinternational total on the film is now $69m, with ten more territories still toopen including New Zealand and Panama next weekend.Polly's holdovers included ...

  • Reviews

    The Prince And Me

    2004-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Martha Coolidge. US. 2004. 110 mins.The Prince & Me is a contemporary fairy tale romance which will enchant pre-teen and teenage girls around the world, but few else. If that core demographic signs up at the box office this weekend in North America, girl power will likely follow suit ...

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    Hellboy scores heavenly bow for Revolution and Sony

    2004-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Itwas another strong weekend at the North American box office, with overallticket sales for the top 12 films up 39% from the same weekend last yearcontinuing an upward trend on 2003 for the sixth consecutive weekend.RevolutionStudios' well-reviewed comic book actioner Hellboy directed by Guillermo Del Toro opened at number onewith ...

  • Reviews

    Kill Bill Vol 2

    2004-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Quentin Tarantino.US. 2004. 136 mins.Rather like ThePassion Of The Christ, weknow how Quentin Tarantino's four-hour-plus epic Kill Bill will end. Yes, plot spoiler ahead, she killsBill. The pleasure, of course, comes in the journey, and, in contrast to thehigh style and stylized action of Vol 1, Vol 2 is ...

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    Kill Bill Vol 2 review

    2004-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Quentin Tarantino.US. 2004. 136 mins.Rather like ThePassion Of The Christ, weknow how Quentin Tarantino's four-hour-plus epic Kill Bill will end. Yes, plot spoiler ahead, she killsBill. The pleasure, of course, comes in the journey, and, in contrast to thehigh style and stylized action of Vol 1, Vol 2 is ...

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    IFC backs documentary about Z Channel from Cassavetes

    2004-04-01T04:00:00Z

    The Independent Film Channelhas unveiled its latest original documentary Z Channel: A MagnificentObsession which is the feature directorialdebut of Xan Cassavetes. The film looks at the ground-breaking LA film channelof the 1970s and 1980s and its brilliant but troubled programmer Jerry Harvey,who committed suicide after murdering his wife in 1988.The ...

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    Straight Jacket to open Miami Gay & Lesbian festival

    2004-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Straight Jacket, Richard Day's follow-up feature to Girls Will BeGirls, will open the 2004 Miami Gay& Lesbian Film Festival which takes place for the sixth time from April 23to May 2.The festival will alsopresent Miguel Albaladejo's Cachorro (Bear Cub) as thecenterpiece gala screening and will close with a gala screening ...

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    Focus brands new genre label Rogue Pictures

    2004-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Focus Features has unveileda new film label Rogue Pictures which will produce and distribute suspense,action, thriller and urban films to be released on a wider scale in thedomestic market than the traditional Focus specialized fare.The announcement was made byFocus co-presidents David Linde and James Schamus at Showest yesterday andincluded three ...

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    Spider-Man 3 to hit theatres on May 4, 2007

    2004-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Spider-Man 3 is a go. Sony Pictures vice chairman Jeff Blakeshowed a new trailer to Spider-Man 2 last night and announced that Spider-Man 3 would open in US theatres on May 4, 2007 with TobeyMaguire and Kirsten Dunst in the roles of Peter Parker and Mary-Jane Watson and SamRaimi once ...

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    Valenti on the screener ban: 'I would have done it differently'

    2004-03-24T00:00:00Z

    MPAA chairman and CEO JackValenti expressed regret at how he handled the awards screener ban at his pressbriefing yesterday morning for the opening of ShoWest in Las Vegas.When asked why he had leftthe imposition of the ban till so late in the year last year, he said that withthe wisdom ...

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    Williams-Jones re-surfaces at Miramax International

    2004-03-23T04:00:00Z

    Michael Williams-Jones, theveteran distribution executive who left United International Pictures (UIP) totake a self-imposed sabbatical, is back in the picture and has taken thepresident job at Miramax International.Based out of the company'sLondon offices, Williams-Jones will oversee the marketing and distribution ofMiramax's films outside North America and will report to co-chairmen ...

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    Myriad promotes Rappaport, Chiu, Chordia

    2004-03-23T04:00:00Z

    Los Angeles- and London-based MyriadPictures has made three promotions, according to a statement from presidentKirk D'Amico.JC Rappaport has beenpromoted from manager of acquisitions to director of acquisitions anddevelopment in the company's LA office; Linda Chiu, also in the LA office, hasbeen promoted to creative executive, international production. Both will reportto ...