All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 97
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First Look picks up North American rights to Angela
First Look Pictures hasacquired North American rights to Roberta Torre's Italian drama Angela which had its world premiere in Directors Fortnightat the Cannes Film Festival this year and recently played in the TorontoInternational Film Festival. First Look Pictures president MJ Peckos negotiatedthe deal for the film with sales agent Adriana ...
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Los Angeles' AFI FEST announces full lineup of 134 films
AFI FEST, the internationalfilm festival held by the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles Nov7-17, has announced its lineup, which is composed of 134 films from 37countries.The festival is divided intovarious categories: International feature competition, internationaldocumentary competition and international shorts competition, AmericanDirections, Asian New Classics, European Showcase, Latin Cinema ...
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Gill leaves Miramax, joins Gordon, Yari in new venture
Mark Gill,president of Miramax LA and one of the lynchpins at the studio since 1994, isleaving the company to join veteran producer Mark Gordon and financier Bob Yariin Stratus Film Company, a new production vehicle with a mission to make amininum of three to four "high quality" productions a year ...
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Albert Page hired as development director at Hoberman's Mandeville
Albert Page has been hired as director of development for Mandeville Films, David Hoberman's Disney-based production outfit which has been rekindled after Hoberman exited Hyde Park Entertainment earlier this year.Page comes to Mandeville from DreamWorks-based Jinks-Cohen Company where he spent two and a half years developing project such as Family ...
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Made In Germany lineup unveiled for AFI FEST
AFI FEST, the Los Angeles International Film Festival which is organised by the American Film Institute (AFI), has announced the line-up of Made In Germany, a featured section of contemporary German film which has been put together for the first time in partnership with the Export-Union Of German Cinema. Made ...
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The Ring
Dir: Gore Verbinski. US. 2002. 109 mins.DreamWorks looks set for a hefty hit with The Ring, a slick, dread-laden horror movie adapted from the 1998 Japanese smash of the same name which just about delivers the chills necessary to keep people talking about it and keep it in theatres for ...
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Mexico's Diego Luna takes lead role in Dirty Dancing sequel
Diego Luna, who grabbed worldwide attention opposite Gael Garcia Bernal in Y Tu Mama Tambien, has landed the lead role in Havana Nights, the second instalment in a planned Dirty Dancing franchise which is being co-produced by Miramax Films and Artisan Pictures.Guy Ferland, whose credits include recent made-for-Showtime feature Bang ...
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Madame Sata wins Gold Hugo at Chicago
Karim Ainouzi's Madame Sata, a Brazilian/French co-production about real-life street fighter and transvestite Joao Francisco dos Santos in 1930s Rio, won the Gold Hugo at the 38th Chicago International Film Festival on Saturday night. Cited for its "multi-faceted image of an extraordinary era, an extraordinary milieu and an extraordinary character, ...
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Focus sells Moonlight Mile rights for Hyde Park
Focus Features has confirmed that it will handle sales of continental European rights to Brad Silberling's Moonlight Mile starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon on behalf of Hyde Park Entertainment. Focus' international sales team under David Linde will screen the film at MIFED.Moonlight Mile is the first picture ...
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Bollywood / Hollywood
Dir: Deepa Mehta. Canada. 2002. 103mins.Canada-based Indian emigre Deepa Mehta lets her exuberant affection for her home country's film conventions run wild in Bollywood/Hollywood. A bloated comedy which awkwardly attempts a blend of the two cultures against a dreary Toronto setting, the film suffers in comparison to Mira Nair's 2001 ...
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Agnes Varda named as IDA Pioneer Award winner
French directing legend Agnes Varda will receive the International Documentary Association (IDA) Pioneer Award for distinguished lifetime achievement at the annual IDA Awards gala benefit in Hollywood on Dec 13. 'The Pioneer Award is presented to individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to advancing the non-fiction form,' says IDA President ...
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Cinecitta backs Ferretti exhibition, screening series in Los Angeles
Italy's Cinecitta Holding, the parent company of the famed Rome-based Cinecitta Studios, announced yesterday that it will be involved in an exhibition of the work of renowned production designer Dante Ferretti at the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences in Los Angeles as well as a film series featuring ...
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AWP picks up Chopin, Anarchist Cookbook
Mark L Lester's American World Pictures (AWP) has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Polish biopic Chopin: Desire For Love and international rights to US ensemble The Anarchist Cookbook. The films will be screened for buyers at MIFED for the first time. Chopin: Desire For Love stars Danuta Stenka and Piotr ...
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Menemsha gets rights to Same Love, Same Rain
Neil Friedman'sLA-based sales and distribution outfit Menemsha Entertainment has picked upworldwide rights outside of Argentina and Spain to Same Love, Same Rain (El Mismo Amor, La Misma Illuvia), an Argentinian drama from the sameteam behind the enormously successful Son Of The Bride which won an Oscar nomination last yearfor Best ...
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Corporate development vp Isaac Palmer promoted at Viacom
Isaac Palmer has beenpromoted to senior vice president, corporate development, at ViacomEntertainment Group from vice president, corporate development. Palmer is a keyfigure at Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures in finding financing partners onmovies, and structuring, negotiating and administering the transactions.He also serves on the boardof director of international theatrical exhibitor UCI, Canadian ...
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Wellspring buys US rights to Claire Denis' Friday Night
US independent distributorWellspring Media has acquired domestic rights to Friday Night (Vendredi Soir), the latest film from Claire Denis, with plans to release ittheatrically in spring 2003. The movie, which had its world premiere screeningat Venice last month, also played at Toronto and screens Friday night this weekat the New ...
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Chicago opens with Evelyn, closes with Frida
Bruce Beresford's Evelyn will open the 38th Chicago InternationalFilm Festival which will screen 95 films from 35 countries in its 15 days fromOct 4-18..Star and producer of Evelyn Pierce Brosnan will attend the screening and receive the Gold Hugo onstage beforehand. Julie Taymor's Frida will close the festival on Oct ...
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Marlo Thomas options BBC thriller for US remake
Famed US actress/producerMarlo Thomas and her New York-based production outfit Open Road Productions haveoptioned the US remake rights from the BBC to two-part TV thriller Deceit. Thomas will star and produce the remake which willbe broadcast in the US on popular women's network Lifetime Television.Based on a novel by ClaireFrancis, ...
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American World picks up Chopin, Anarchist Cookbook
Mark L Lester'sAmerican World Pictures (AWP) has acquired worldwide distribution rights toPolish biopic Chopin: Desire For Love and international rights to US ensemble The Anarchist Cookbook. The films will be screened for buyers at MIFED forthe first time.Chopin: Desire For Love stars Danuta Stenka and Piotr Adamczyk and featuresclassical performers ...
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US DVD rental revenues top $2bn in 2002
DVD rental revenues havealready surpassed $2bn in 2002, according to figures announced by the VideoSoftward Dealers Association (VSDA), eating into the home video rental marketwhich has so far amassed $4.12bn this year. 'DVDscontinue to contribute significantly to the video rental market and showunprecedented growth in an otherwise sluggish economy,' said ...