All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 77
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ReviewsThe Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
Dir: Peter Jackson. US / New Zealand. 2003. 201 mins.
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Cold Mountain
Dir: Anthony Minghella. US. 2003. 157 mins. There are a number of coups which writer/director Anthony Minghella has scored with his long-awaited film of the best-selling novel Cold Mountain, not least of which is to soften the focus on the American Civil War - a period in history which has ...
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A world of premieres at Sundance 2004
The Sundance Film Festivalunveiled the remaining sections for its 2004 event (Jan 15 to 25) thisafternoon (see full list below) including the high profile world premieres ofnew films by Walter Salles, Brad Anderson, Marc Evans, Katja Von Garnier, ErnestDickerson and Vondie Curtis-Hall.Meanwhile the World Cinemasection reads like a checklist of ...
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A world of premieres at Sundance
The Sundance Film Festivalunveiled the remaining sections for its 2004 event (Jan 15 to 25) thisafternoon (see full list below) including the high profile world premieres ofnew films by Walter Salles, Brad Anderson, Marc Evans, Katja Von Garnier, ErnestDickerson and Vondie Curtis-Hall.Meanwhile the World Cinemasection reads like a checklist of ...
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A world of premieres at Sundance 2004
The Sundance Film Festivalunveiled the remaining sections for its 2004 event (Jan 15 to 25) thisafternoon (see full list below) including the high profile world premieres ofnew films by Walter Salles, Brad Anderson, Marc Evans, Katja Von Garnier, ErnestDickerson and Vondie Curtis-Hall.Meanwhile the World Cinemasection reads like a checklist of ...
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Morgan Creek wins in lawsuit against Franchise
Morgan Creek Productions haswon its lawsuit against Franchise Pictures and has been awarded close to $2m.Morgan Creek had loaned Franchise $2m and in return Franchise had guaranteedthat it would replay that amount out of revenue corridors of other films.The jury found thatFranchise had "breached the implied covenant of good faith ...
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Specialty division chiefs subpoenaed to appear in Indies V MPAA case
Studiospecialty division chiefs Harvey Weinstein of Miramax Films, Michael Barker andTom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics, David Linde and James Schamus of FocusFeatures and Bingham Ray of United Artists may get their say after all in thebattle over the screener ban, since all have been subpoenaed to appear in USdistrict ...
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Big Fish
Dir: Tim Burton. US. 2003. 125minsIn many ways the perfect vehicle for tall-storyteller Tim Burton, Big Fish is a gently whimsical tale of a man's reconciliation with his dying father and his acceptance of his lifelong penchant for fabulism. Filled with the quirky fables and magical fantasy with which Burton ...
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Sundance reflects a new cinema of discomfort
The Sundance Film Festival,the film calendar's official discovery venue for US independent films, todayunveiled the dramatic and documentary competition lineups for its 2004 event(Jan 15 to 25) today, as well as the titles in the American Spectrum section. Several film-makers who havefilms in dramatic competition are already well-known in Sundance ...
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Indie consolidation continues: ContentFilm merges with Winchester
Ed Pressman and JohnSchimidt's three year-old ContentFilm has completed a reverse merger with theAIM-listed UK film outfit Winchester Entertainment which gives the US companymajority ownership and operational control of the UK production and distributionand international sales operation.Pressman and Schmidt will bejoint CEOs of the combined company, while Jamie Carmichael, who ...
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NORTH AMERICA
The biggest specialised opener in North America last weekend was Focus Features' 21 Grams taking $274,454 from just eight screens in New York and Los Angeles, marking a site average of $34,307.The film, which played in the Venice, Montreal, Toronto and New York film festivals, is a heavyweight Oscar contender ...
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McKenzie promoted to vice president at WBITD
AlastairMcKenzie has been promoted to vice president, legal & business affairs,Europe, for Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD).McKenzie waspreviously director, legal & business affairs, Europe, and in his new rolewill have an expanded role in all aspects of legal and business affairs for thedivision. He will continue to focus on ...
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Independent coalition sues MPAA over screener ban
A group of independent film-makers including Robert Altman, Christine Vachon, John Sloss, Ted Hope and John Penotti has teamed up with IFP/Los Angeles and IFP/New York to file a lawsuit against the MPAA in an effort to have the screener ban lifted immediately.The move comes as the dust was starting ...
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Jones appointed senior programmer at IFP LA Film Festival
Doug Jones has been appointed senior programmer at the IFP Los Angeles Film Festival which this year runs from June 17 to June 26. He will work year-round with the festival's programming director Rachel Rosen.The festival, formerly the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, was taken over by IFP/Los Angeles in ...
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Revolutions takes fast declining $21.5m over third weekend for Warner
The Matrix Revolutions slowed down in its international run over its third weekend in theatres, taking an estimated $21.5m in 94 territories for a cumulative total to date of $230.2m.It appears that the film will stop considerably short of the $454m international total scored by its predecessor Reloaded.In Japan, the ...
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Cat In The Hat jumps to the top with $40.1m
Universal Pictures' Dr Seuss adaptation The Cat In The Hat opened at the top of the box office over the weekend with an estimated $40.1m gross, some $15m less than its 2000 predecessor How The Grinch Stole Christmas.The dismally reviewed fantasy kids movie, produced by Imagine Entertainment and backed by ...
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Manulis-produced LA riots satire starts shooting
John Manulis'Visionbox Pictures has started production in Los Angeles on The LA RiotSpectacular, a satire onthe 1992 Los Angeles riots written and being directed by Marc Klasfield.The movie stars Charles Dutton, TK Carter, Emilio Estevez,Charles Durning, William Forsythe, Christopher McDonald, Jonathan Lipnicki, TedLevine and cameos from Snoop Dogg, George Hamilton ...
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David Attenborough gets career award from IDA
DavidAttenborough will receive the International Documentary Association (IDA)'s2003 Career Achievement Award during the 19th annual IDAdistinguished documentary achievement awards gala in Los Angeles on Dec 12.'Sir DavidAttenborough has made incomparable contributions to advancing our understandingand appreciation of natural history," said IDA President Michael Donaldson in astatement. "His 13-part series Life ...
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Barenholtz et al buy movie rights to comic strip AstroCity
Ben Barenholtz,Kurt Busiek and Jonathan Alpers have teamed up to form the partnership PanamaLeo LLC and acquired all film rights to the comic book series AstroCity.AstroCity, whichdebuted in 1955 at Image Comics, is the brainchild of Busiek and tells storiesof humans living in a wildly superhuman world. Busiek will be ...
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PeaceJam to open Global Peace Fest in Florida
The inauguralGlobal Peace Film Festival, which will take place in Orlando, Florida, from Dec10 to 14 has unveiled its lineup.The openingnight film is PeaceJam,the US documentary directed by Dennis Flippin which follows five teens over asix-year period as they face the realities of growing up in the USA today whileworking ...