All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 83
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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Dir: Stephen Norrington. US. 2003. 110minsThis extraordinary misfire from Blade director Stephen Norrington is like Coca-Cola without the fizz. All the elements are in place but nothing - not the cast, the production design, the effects, the one-liners, the fight scenes, the camp - can bring it to life and ...
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Luther gets US outing through RS Entertainment
Randy Slaughter's newUS distribution outfit RS Entertainment has acquired US rights to Luther, Eric Till's biopic of Martin Luther starringJoseph Fiennes and Peter Ustinov. The film will open on Sept 26 in 45 marketsaccording to Slaughter.Luther was shot in Germany, Italy and the Czech Republiclast year and is produced by ...
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Wellspring buy worldwide rights to Revolution #9
US distributor Wellspringhas acquired worldwide rights except North American theatrical and TV to TimMcCann's psychological thriller Revolution #9 and has set a video/DVD release date in the US forOct 7.The film, which played atlast year's Toronto and Telluride film festivals and won the top juryprizes at the Nantucket and Mar ...
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Universal takes in another $16.4m from The Hulk
Universal's TheHulk took $16.4m from 3,316 printsin 21 territories over the weekend, bringing its total so far to $38.73m with27 countries to open. It opened number one in both France, Spain and Belgiumand is set to open in the UK on July 18, in Japan on Aug 2 and China ...
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Full Throttle scores at international box office in 43 markets
Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) scored the biggest international hit of theweek with Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, which added another 32 territories to its existing 11 and scored$22.3m on 3,982 prints.Although Full Throttle struggled to hold up domestically, drops in those 11foreign markets were less dramatic. For example, in Japan, ...
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Reloaded leaps to $410m and number ten of all time
Warner Bros Pictures/VillageRoadshow's The Matrix Reloaded passedthe $400m mark at the international box office over the weekend; with its $410mtotal, it has now surpassed Spider-Man ($403m) as the tenth highest grossing international hit of all time. It is the first film inhistory to surpass $100m in a single weekend in ...
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl
Dir: Gore Verbinski. US. 2003. 144 mins.Thank heavens for Johnny Depp. The maverick actor who has generally avoided roles in Hollywood event pictures to date survives his first Jerry Bruckheimer production not only with integrity intact but the knowledge that he enhances the end product to such a degree that ...
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Terminator 3 pays off with $72.5m opening
Terminator 3:Rise Of The Machines,the most expensive independently financed movie of all time, paid off for itsbackers Intermedia and parent company IM Internationalmedia AG with anestimated $44.1m opening in the Friday to Sunday period and a total of $72.5msince its first previews last Tuesday night.The $175m epicsci-fi actioner which is ...
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Rywin teams with Atlantic Alliance for Holocaust drama
AtlanticAlliance Pictures, a recently formed joint venture between two US producers anda third in the UK, has teamed up with Lew Rywin and his Heritage Films inPoland to produce its first feature Love Is A Survivor.Heritagecollaborated with both Steven Spielberg on Schindler's List and with Roman Polanski on ThePianist, although ...
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Academy gets tough on Oscar campaigning
The Academy OfMotion Picture Arts & Sciences yesterday issued strict new guidelines overmarketing practices for Oscar contenders. They aren't guidelines anymore,the Academy statement said, they are 'regulations.'The Academythreatens suspension of membership or expulsion if members indulge in campaignactivities which have undermined the letter or spirit of the regulations andeven suggests ...
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Academy gets tough on Oscar campaigning
The Academy OfMotion Picture Arts & Sciences yesterday issued strict new guidelines overmarketing practices for Oscar contenders. They aren't guidelines anymore,the Academy statement said, they are "regulations."The Academythreatens suspension of membership or expulsion if members indulge in campaignactivities which have undermined the letter or spirit of the regulations andeven suggests ...
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Lombardo promoted to president of Cinesite Hollywood
Dan Lombardo has been namedpresident and Jerry Pooler is stepping into a new role of executive director,creative, at Cinesite Hollywood, the LA digital facility which was founded in1992 and opened Cinesite (Europe) in London in 1994.Lombardo, who joinedCinesite two years ago as vice president of production, will also continue inthe ...
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Angels go Full Throttle with $12.5m in 11 territories for CTFDI
Charlie'sAngels: Full Throttleopened with a kick in 11 territories over the weekend, taking $12.5m on 1,386screens for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI).The actioner opened day-and-date with the US in thecountries and topped the charts in nine of the 11. In the remaining twoterritories, it was the highest grossing Hollywood ...
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Yes Nurse, No Nurse is San Fran Lesbian & Gay fest audience favourite
Pieter Kramer's Dutchmusical Yes Nurse! No Nurse! wasthe clear audience favourite at the 18-day San Francisco International Lesbian& Gay Film Festival which finished on Sunday.It won the audience awardfor best feature at the festival which scored over 82,000 admissions to its 121film screenings. Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer's Brother Outsider:The ...
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CTFDI takes most international on Artisan/Marvel's The Punisher
Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI), which will soon see if its investment inacquiring international rights to blockbuster Terminator 3: Rise Of TheMachines paid off, has invested inanother potential hit acquisition, taking rights in most internationalterritories to Artisan Pictures and Marvel Studios' The Punisher.The film, which was sold toCTFDI by Summit ...
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Reloaded flies close to $400m mark for Warner
Warner Bros PicturesInternational continued its spectacular run at the box office over the weekendwith The Matrix Reloaded whichtook another $9.94m from 4,980 screens in 60 countries. Its total internationalgross is poised to cross the $400m mark this week and at Sunday stood at$397.2m.The film dropped just 20.6%in Japan in its ...
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MGM sells 20% stake in channels back to Cablevision
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) isselling its 20% stake in three US cable channels AMC, IFC and WE: Women'sEntertainment back to Cablevision for $500m. Once the deal is done, probably inthe third quarter 2003, the three channels will once again be 100%-owned byCablevision.The deal could haveramifications for both MGM and Cablevision which are ...
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Hulk moves into 12 new territories, takes $11.3m
Universal Pictures' TheHulk grossed $11.3m in 14territories in its second weekend on release from 1,652 sites. With 32territories still to open, that makes its ten-day total an impressive $15.7m.It took $4.6m includingpreviews in Mexico, beating Jurassic Park 3 to become Universal's biggest opening in theterritory and beating openings for The ...
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
Dir: Tim Johnson & Patrick Gilmore. US. 2003. 86 mins. DreamWorks' latest 2-D animated effort is a light-hearted adventure - with no songs - which is a marked improvement on The Road To El Dorado (2000) and the stolid Stallion: Spirit Of The Cimarron last year. But as Disney found ...
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Little steps back from First Look, Lischak is new president
Robbie Little, who foundedOverseas Filmgroup 23 years ago, is stepping back from day-to-day operations ofthe company now known as First Look Media to focus on production through hisown outfit The Little Film Company.Bill Lischak, who has beenat First Look since 1988, first as CFO and later COO as well, has ...