All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 94
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Palm buys North America and UK rights to entire Cremaster Cycle
Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired NorthAmerican and UK rights to Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, five films, the last of which Cremaster 3 screens in the Frontier section of the Sundance FilmFestival next week.The films will be the first to be distributed by Palm'snew Arthouse Films label in North America ...
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Gold Circle to establish UK presence, pre-buy US rights
Gold CircleFilms - the LA-based production/financing outfit run by Paul Brooks whichscored the runaway hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding last year, is to establish a presence inthe UK with the imminent hiring of an acquisitions executive. The new executivewill likely be joined by one or two further Gold Circle ...
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Verhoeven, Mamet enter Franchise fold for AFM
ElieSamaha's Franchise Pictures may be busying itself for its Aug 5 trialdate in its ongoing legal battle with Germany's Intertainment AG, but itcontinues to board new projects and has three new ones available for pre-saleat AFM -Paul Verhoeven's next picture Void Moon, the next from David Mamet entitled Spartan with ...
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The Pianist sweeps National Society Of Film Critics awards
Roman Polanski's The Pianist swept the board at the National Society Of Film Critics awards voted on by 55 US film critics at Sardi's Restaurant in New York City on Saturday night. The film won best picture, best director, best screenplay and best actor categories, continuing the divided awards season ...
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Harry Potter sweeps past $500m
Warner Bros Pictures, celebrating its biggest international gross of all time in 2002, scored its first triumph of the new year as Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets whipped past the $500m mark at the box office over the weekend. Already the fifth biggest international grosser of all time, ...
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Hero
Dir: Zhang Yimou. China. 2002. 98 mins. One of the most eagerly awaited films in Asian film history - and already a box office blockbuster in China and Hong Kong - Zhang Yimou's Hero is an intoxicatingly beautiful, structurally enigmatic and decidedly brief epic which will struggle to escape comparisons ...
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Daldry, Nolan get honours at Palm Springs Film Fest
Hotshot UK director Stephen Daldry will be honoured as international film-maker of the year at this year's Palm Springs International Film Festival during the festival's gala ceremony on Saturday (Jan 11).Daldry's second film The Hours, which was nominated for seven Golden Globes last month, will be screened in Palm Springs ...
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Hungary passes new film law, offers new tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
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Hungary passes new film law, offers new tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
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Hungary passes new film law offering tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
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Hungary passes new film law offering tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
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Jay Sands promoted to senior vice president at CTFDI
Jay Sands has been promoted to senior vice president,international operations, for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI).Sands, who wasmost recently vice president, international operations, for CTFDI, isresponsible for sales administration of Sony Pictures' internationaltheatrical business. His functions include building worldwide data sharingsystems, creating artificial intelligence to support release planning andmonitoring dating ...
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Catch Me If You Can
Dir: Steven Spielberg. US. 2002. 140mins (TBC) Steven Spielberg's customary polish graces the Christmas Day domestic release of Catch Me If You Can, another accomplished, somewhat soulless offering from the world's most famous director which is set to steal a large chunk of box office change from the world's multiplex ...
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The Hours
Dir: Stephen Daldry. US. 2002. 114mins. What must have appeared a risky proposition going into production, The Hours is one of those rare book-to-film projects which flourishes in its cinematic realisation. Making it look like as if it were effortless, writer David Hare and director Stephen Daldry have turned Michael ...
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UK power-directors Daldry, Winterbottom team with Rudin
Top UK directors Stephen Daldry and Michael Winterbottom have boarded pictures for Scott Rudin, the New York-based producer who is one of Paramount Pictures' chief suppliers as well as a force in US theatre.Daldry, who directed this season's highly touted awards contender The Hours for Rudin, has taken over from ...
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Menemsha takes Marooned, Taraneh
Neil Friedman's LA-based sales and distribution outfit Menemsha Entertainment, which enjoyed success in 2000 with Majid Majidi's Iranian hit The Color Of Paradise, has acquired two new Iranian films for worldwide representation - Bahman Ghobadi's Marooned In Iraq and Rasoul Sadrameli's I'm Taraneh, 15 which is Iran's submission for this ...
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
Dir: Peter Jackson. New Zealand-US. 2002. 179mins.The second film in Peter Jackson's trilogy of JRR Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings is one of the year's best. Having introduced the elaborate story and its myriad characters in the much-garlanded first film The Fellowship Of The Ring, Jackson is now free ...
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Gangs Of New York
Dir: Martin Scorsese. US. 2002. 165 mins.In terms of old-fashioned spectacle, few films today come anywhere near Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York. Already a part of movie folklore, the shooting of Gangs on mammoth sets at Rome's Cinecitta Studios is probably the last of its kind. A gargantuan undertaking, ...
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Treasure Planet
Dir: John Musker & Ron Clements. US. 2002. 95 mins. Walt Disney Feature Animation follow up the delightful Lilo & Stitch with a more conventional holiday programmer in Treasure Planet, an entertaining, but perfunctory animated adventure which will come third on kids' wishlists after live-action family movies Harry Potter And ...
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Menemsha picks up international on Kamchatka
Neil Friedman'sLA-based sales and distribution outfit Menemsha Entertainment has acquiredinternational rights to Kamchatka,Marcelo Pineyro's latest film which is representing Argentina in theforeign language film category of the Academy Awards.Friedman picked up the filmfrom Argentina's Patagonik Film Group, for which Friedman had alreadysold Son Of The Bride, lastyear's Argentinian submission and ...