All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 95
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Miami Film Festival under Guillemet opens with Other Side Of The Bed
Hit Spanish comedy musical The Other Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado De La Cama) will open the 20th annual Miami International Film Festival on Feb 21 to Mar 2 next year. The festival, which is the first to be programmed by former Sundance Film Festival co-director Nicole Guillemet. ...
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Anonymous Content, Strong/Morrone merge
LA management and production company Anonymous Content is to merge with talent management outfit Strong/Morrone Entertainment effective Jan 1, 2003, the two companies announced on Friday. Beverly Strong and Jeff Morrone along with managers Maani Golesorkhi, Nils Larsen and staff will transfer their base of operations into Anonymous Content's headquarters ...
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Devdas dominates the first annual RACE awards in India
India's Oscar submission Devdas has won eight awards in the first annual RACE (Rajkamal Academy Of Cinematic Excellence) National Awards, which will be presented at a ceremony in Mumbai, India, on Dec 21, 2002.RACE was established in Oct 2002 by Kiran Shantaram to develop the Indian film industry; as well ...
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Adaptation
Dir: Spike Jonze. US. 2002. 114mins "The best script I've ever read" is a line oft spoken, by star Meryl Streep among many others, of Adaptation, the eagerly awaited reunion of writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze after 1999's Being John Malkovich turned American movies on their head. The ...
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Shoujyo, City Of God win top prizes at AFI FEST
FernandoMereilles' Brazilian crime epic City Of God continued its run of festival success bywinning the audience award for best international feature film at AFI FEST inLos Angeles which ended on Sunday night with a screening of PedroAlmodovar's Talk To Her.Other audienceaward winners were Tasha Oldham's The Smith Family which won ...
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Fine Line signs on for The Recipe
Fine Line Features has acquired the script The Recipe by Ruth Graham which will be produced by Janette Day and Ruth Graham. The story of an aspiring chef who is bequeathed her grandmother's infmaous aphrodisiac recipe and then travels to Italy to seek out its origins.The deal was negotiated by ...
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Gene Hackman gets Cecil B DeMille trophy at the Globes
Gene Hackman has been named as the recipient of this year's Cecil B DeMille Award at the 60th annual Golden Globe Awards show on Jan 19 next year. The honour was announced yesterday by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) which gives out the Globes and Hackman was cited for ...
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Spice Factory, Bigel Mailer team for The Great Turrell
UK production company The Spice Factory has optioned the rights to The Great Turrell, a script by Michael Mailer which it will co-produce with New York-based Bigel Mailer Films. The script is based on the 19th Century French novel Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Fournier and is a coming-of-age story ...
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Pac Man eats up big screen via Crystal Sky and Gaga
Pac Man is coming to the big screen courtesy of Steven Paul's Crystal Sky which is teaming with Gaga Communications and the game's developer Namco to make live-action fantasy Pac Man: The Movie.The movie follows a previous agreement between Crystal Sky, Gaga and Namco to co-finance a movie based on ...
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Myriad weaves again with Tapestry
Myriad Pictures has optioned Nina Coleman's script I'll Be You for Jennifer Gibgot of Tapestry Films who will produce the film. I'll Be You is a romantic comedy about a top-ranking female executive who trades places with her wildly social assistant and embarks on a quest to find love. Myriad ...
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Herwitz reps Romania's Oscar entry
Andrew Herwitz, the former Miramax executive who has set up his own New York-based producer's rep The Film Sales Company, has signed on to represent North and Latin America on Philanthropy, the Romanian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award this year.Written and directed by Nae Caranfil and ...
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Constantin grabs big three from Focus
Flying in the face of a depressed market in general and a sluggish German market in particular, Focus Features has concluded a bumper three-picture deal with Constantin Film for its three new titles 21 Grams, Lost In Translation and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. The deal for the titles, ...
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Bum's Rush adds cast
Jamie Sives, who is Wilbur in Lone Scherfig's Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, and Kevin McKidd are joining Dougray Scott in the cast of Myriad Pictures' The Bum's Rush, a black comedy set in Scotland. The film will be produced by Anne Batz of Hero Films, the UK production outfit ...
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8 Mile
Dir: Curtis Hanson. US. 2002. 110 mins.Flashdance gets an electrifying sex change and upgrade courtesy of director Curtis Hanson and rap icon Eminem in 8 Mile. A loose retelling of Eminem's own troubled youth in the run-down 8 Mile district of Detroit, the film is a downbeat, but not depressing, ...
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Ex-Helkon trio goes Solo
The management of Helkon International Pictures (HIP) - Christian Halsey Solomon, Lee Solomon and Clifford Werber - has formally bought itself out from Helkon Media and relaunched as Solo Entertainment Group (SEG). The company's name affirms its connection to Solo Film Verleiht, the nascent German distribution outfit co-founded by former ...
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Ex-Helkon trio goes Solo
The management of Helkon International Pictures (HIP) - Christian Halsey Solomon, Lee Solomon and Clifford Werber - has formally bought itself out from Helkon Media and relaunched as Solo Entertainment Group (SEG). The company's name affirms its connection to Solo Film Verleiht, the nascent German distribution outfit co-founded by former ...
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Splendid lifts Veil on Stratus debut film
Splendid Pictures has signed on to represent international sales on The Painted Veil, the first film from Stratus Film Co, the independent production outfit unveiled recently by Hollywood super-producer Mark Gordon, former Miramax LA president Mark Gill and financier Bob Yari. Edward Norton and Naomi Watts are to star in ...
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Splendid lifts Veil on Stratus debut film
Splendid Pictures has signed on to represent international sales on The Painted Veil, the first film from Stratus Film Co, the independent production outfit unveiled recently by Hollywood super-producer Mark Gordon, former Miramax LA president Mark Gill and financier Bob Yari. Edward Norton and Naomi Watts are to star in ...
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Miramax goes BVI route in Germany
Miramax Films' newly-promoted chief operating officer Rick Sands (pictured) has confirmed that Miramax Films will no longer be selling its films to independents in Germany, but will instead set up its own marketing operation and partner with sister company Buena Vista International (BVI) to handle physical distribution. Miramax already has ...
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Miramax goes BVI route in Germany
Miramax Films' newly-promoted chief operating officer Rick Sands (pictured) has confirmed that Miramax Films will no longer be selling its films to independents in Germany, but will instead set up its own marketing operation and partner with sister company Buena Vista International (BVI) to handle physical distribution. Miramax already has ...