All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 84
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Had To Be Made Festival teams with VSDA for independent market
The VideoSoftware Dealers Of America (VSDA) and the Had To Be Made Film Festival(HTBMFF) have teamed up to launch a new video/DVD mini-market at this year's2003 VSDA Home Entertainment convention in Las Vegas (July 29 to 31)."VSDApartnered with Had To Be Made to bring industry professionals together toconnect and find ...
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LA's Panettiere, India's Biswas team to co-produce films
VincentPanettiere's new LA-based production company Thistle Productions is teaming upwith Indian producer Anamika Biswas and her AB Exports to co-produce at leastthree films.The films willbe financed by Biswas through AB Exports and she will serve as executiveproducer on them; Panettiere will act as producer.The titles are: TheAgenda, a thrillerwritten by ...
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This Girl's Life
Dir: Ash. US. 2003. 101 mins. A star is born in This Girl's Life, the fourth independent feature from maverick Brit director Ash (Bang, Pups). Her name is Juliette Marquis, a stunningly beautiful newcomer whose magnetism and self-assuredness shine off the screen and indeed outshine the movie itself. Looking like ...
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Angels sequel disappoints, Hulk plummets
After six weekends of movies opening on grosses of over $50m,Columbia's Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle proved somewhat of a disappointment at this weekend's boxoffice in North America with just $38m in three days. A marketing blitzfeaturing the three lead actresses in the film Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymoreand Lucy Liu ...
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Danish Cannes hit Reconstruction gets US visa from Palm
ChrisBlackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired rights in the US and the Caribbeanto Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction, the Danish drama which won both the Camera d'Or andLabel Regards Jeunes at the Cannes Film Festival this year.The deal was concluded between Palm's David Koh (head of acquisitions andproduction) and Ryan Werner (head of ...
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Mark Gill negotiates to leave Stratus for Warner Bros
Mark Gill, the formerpresident of Miramax LA and currently a partner in Stratus Film Company, is infinal negotiations to leave Stratus and take the helm at Warner Bros'long-in-the-works specialized division. Warner confirmed reports inthe Hollywood trade press yesterday that Gill is in talks for the job, but saidas yet that ...
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Dallas 362
Dir: Scott Caan. US. 2003. 90 mins. Having made a name for himself playing henchmen or simpletons in films like Gone In 60 Seconds, Ready To Rumble and Oceans Eleven, actor Scott Caan - the son of James Caan - shows he is anything but simple with his directorial debut ...
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Sarandon, Tucci join cast of Miramax's Shall We Dance
SusanSarandon and Stanley Tucci will join Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere in thecast of Peter Chelsom's remake of Shall We Dance for Miramax Films and Spyglass Entertainment. Miramaxis handling domestic rights on the film, Spyglass has international exceptJapan where Gaga Communications has rights.Thecast also includes Bobby Cannavale, Lisa Ann Walter, ...
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Overnight
Dir: Mark Brian Smith. US. 2003. 120mins.This candid documentary about Troy Duffy, a blue collar Boston twenty-something who struck a dream movie deal with Miramax in 1997, has the same compelling allure as watching a train wreck. It could comfortably be renamed How To Lose Friends And Alienate People In ...
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Bachmann moves back to Europe to head CTDFI Germany
Martin Bachmann has been named managing director of the German office of Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI). Former German chief Juergen Schau will continue in his role as managing director of Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Co, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Releasing, which is responsible for production activities ...
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AFM on collision course with MIFED in 2004
The American Film Market (AFM) is officially moving to November in an effort to force a two-market calendar and knock out MIFED from the annual market timetable.Yesterday AFMA, the trade organisation which runs the AFM, issued a statement announcing its intentions to hold two AFMs in 2004, one in Feb ...
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It's official: AFM to clash with MIFED in 2004
The American Film Market (AFM) is officially moving to November in an effort to force a two-market calendar and knock out MIFED from the annual market timetable.Yesterday AFMA, the trade organisation which runs the AFM, issued a statement announcing its intentions to hold two AFMs in 2004, one in Feb ...
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Seattle audiences give Whale Rider its top awards
The 25-day Seattle International Film Festival ended its run yesterday with audience awards - aka the Golden Space Needle awards - going to Niki Caro's Whale Rider as best film and Caro as best director. Whale Rider, which is now on release in the US through Newmarket Films, was also ...
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The Hulk
Dir: Ang Lee. US. 2003. 137 mins.Ever since he signed on to direct a film of Marvel Comics' The Hulk, it was a puzzle for many to imagine how a film-maker as artistically autonomous as Ang Lee could possibly enhance the rigid formula of summer comic-book blockbuster. But enhance it ...
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Octane, Shade premiere at CineVegas
Marcus Hunter's Octane starring Madeline Stowe and Damian Nieman's Shade starring Sylvester Stallone and Thandie Newton willhave their world premieres at the fifth annual CineVegas International FilmFestival which kicks off on Friday (June 13) and continues to the followingSaturday (June 21).The festival, whose directorof programming for the second year is ...
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Natasha Little is back in Vanity Fair
Natasha Little,the English actress who made her name playing Becky Sharp in the BBC's 1998 hitminiseries of Thackeray's Vanity Fair, has joined the cast of Mira Nair's new feature film of VanityFair in which ReeseWitherspoon is playing Becky. The film started shooting last month in the UK.Little, whosefilm credits include ...
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Blanchett, Beckinsale ready to board The Aviator
Cate Blanchett is innegotiations to play Katharine Hepburn and Kate Beckinsale is in talks to playAva Gardner in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator which is set to start shooting next month. Theywould join Leonardo DiCaprio who will play Howard Hughes in the film which is budgeted at a reported$100m.Other actors who ...
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Finding Nemo
Dir: Andrew Stanton. US. 2003. 100mins.Pixar Animation Studios has made some of the best American features during the last decade in the two Toy Story films and Monsters Inc; Finding Nemo, which is released in the US on May 30, the first time a Pixar feature has been released in ...
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Autumn Springs in Germany
Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment has closed a deal in Germany on Czech festival favourite Autumn Spring with MFA. The film, directed by Vladimir Michalek, will open in New York City in the US through First Look Pictures at the end of July.Menemsha has also closed deals on the film with ...