All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 96
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Eagle and Elysee first buyers for Summit's Blackout
Eagle Pictures in Italy and Les Films de L'Elysee in Benelux are the first major independents to buy territories on Summit Entertainment's thriller Blackout starring Ashley Judd, Samuel L Jackson and Andy Garcia.Directed by Phil Kaufman (The Right Stuff, Rising Sun), the film is produced by Kopelson Entertainment and Intertainment ...
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Eagle and Elysee first buyers for Summit's Blackout
Eagle Pictures in Italy and Les Films de L'Elysee in Benelux are the first major independents to buy territories on Summit Entertainment's thriller Blackout starring Ashley Judd, Samuel L Jackson and Andy Garcia.Directed by Phil Kaufman (The Right Stuff, Rising Sun), the film is produced by Kopelson Entertainment and Intertainment ...
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Universal, Gaga form Japanese joint venture
Universal Pictures Japan and Gaga Communications have teamed up to form a two-picture joint venture which will see Gaga handle theatrical distribution rights on Universal's Blue Crush and Universal handle video rights on Gaga's Kill Bill. The ground-breaking joint venture was initiated by Gaga which approached Universal about Imagine Entertainment's ...
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Rick Sands gets COO stripes at Miramax
Rick Sands, the chairman of worldwide distribution at Miramax Films, has been promoted again, this time to chief operating officer. Sands, a familiar face on the international festival and market circuit who oversees all international deals for the company, will continue to oversee domestic and international sales and distribution and ...
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Pandora picks up international rights to Polish Brothers' latest
LA-based sales and financing outfit Pandora has acquired international rights, excluding English-speaking territories, to Northfork, the latest film from the eccentric film-making duo of Mark and Michael Polish (Twin Falls Idaho, Jackpot).Paramount Classics has all English-speaking rights to the film which was directed by Michael Polish from a script by ...
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Age of Realism kicks in for MIFED
There's a joke among US sellers that "even the buyers that don't pay aren't buying" at the moment. These sellers certainly lean towards gloom and doom in their conversations; indeed it's unlikely that a movie the size of Gangs Of New York could generate the eye-popping sales numbers today which ...
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Age of Realism kicks in for MIFED
There's a joke among US sellers that "even the buyers that don't pay aren't buying" at the moment. These sellers certainly lean towards gloom and doom in their conversations; indeed it's unlikely that a movie the size of Gangs Of New York could generate the eye-popping sales numbers today which ...
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Evelyn
Dir: Bruce Beresford. US-Ire. 2002. 94 mins. Evelyn might well benefit from a worldwide roll-out in the wake of unlikely box office blockbuster My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It has the same softness of touch, dearth of dramatic conflict and ethnic cutesiness which is obviously proving reassuring and heartwarming to ...
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New Line signs Metropolitan to its first output deal
New Line International (NLI) has completed extensions to 2005 on two major output deals - with Village Roadshow in Australia and Svensk Filmindustri in Scandinavia - and closed a third, also to 2005, with Metropolitan Filmexport in France. It is the first time NLI has struck an output deal with ...
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New Line signs Metropolitan to its first output deal
New Line International (NLI) has completed extensions to 2005 on two major output deals - with Village Roadshow in Australia and Svensk Filmindustri in Scandinavia - and closed a third, also to 2005, with Metropolitan Filmexport in France. It is the first time NLI has struck an output deal with ...
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Dick Sano promoted to senior vp at BVI-Japan
Dick Sano, vicepresident and general manager for Buena Vista International (BVI)-Japan, hasbeen promoted to senior vice president & general manager for the company.He will continue to report directly to Mark Zoradi, president of BVI and BVHEI.Sano willcontinue to lead BVI's theatrical distribution and marketing efforts inJapan following on from huge ...
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Lions Gate International brings Cabin Fever to market
Lions Gate Films International, the international theatrical sales arm of Lions Gate Entertainment run by Nick Meyer and Sergei Yershov, has acquired international rights to Cabin Fever, the surprise horror hit of the Toronto International Film Festival which its domestic arm Lions Gate Films bought after its first midnight screening ...
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Dubin named Los Angeles rep for ARD, Degeto, Telepool
Kristina Dubin of DubinMediahas been enlisted by three German networks as head of their US operations. Shewill represent ARD, Germany's largest broadcaster, Degeto, which is theARD-network contact for films, series and miniseries and Telepool, theall-rights distributor for German-speaking territories."The newconstellation of three companies under one head in the US, which ...
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The Truth About Charlie
Dir: Jonathan Demme. US. 2002. 104minsIf Steven Soderbergh can gross $400m worldwide with a remake of Ocean's Eleven, then why can not Jonathan Demme do the same with a remake of Charade' The reason is simple: the first Ocean's Eleven is a movie which never inspired much love and Soderbergh ...
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MGM quits Cold Mountain, Miramax talks to new partners
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)has withdrawn from the currently shooting Civil War epic Cold Mountain, leaving Miramax Films with the whole burden of the$80m-plus budget. Miramax is already in negotiations with other potentialpartners to co-finance the production which has now returned to Romania againafter a stint in North Carolina. Miramax confirmed that it ...
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THINKFilm buys North America on The Heart Of Me
THINKFilm has acquired all North American rights to UK drama The Heart Of Me which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and which is the closing night presentation at the London Film Festival next month (Nov 21). Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan, the film stars Helena Bonham Carter, Paul ...
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Chicago audiences vote for Columbine, Real Women
Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine won the audience choice award at the 38th Chicago International Film Festival, with the silver plaque going to Patricia Cardoso's Real Women Have Curves.Moore attended the festival, participating in a two-hour Q&A following the screening of his popular documentary which world premiered at the Cannes ...
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New Los Angeles producer Ovation moves on three new projects
Ovation Entertainment, the new LA company which teams former Trilogy Entertainment Group co-head Richard B Lewis with former eBay president Jeff Skoll as the lead investor, has hired Gregory Widen, the writer of Highlander and Backdraft, to rewrite action adventure movie The Rising originally written by Jeffrey Miller as well ...
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IDA names best documentary nominees for 2002
The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced the films which will vie for the prizes at the annual Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards to be announced at the benefit gala on Dec 13 in Hollywood.The awards are presented in four categories - feature length films (see nominees below), short films, limited ...