All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 100
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Independent peppermint gets in with The Guys
peppermint, the worldwide distribution company that has recently undergone a management buy-out from Helkon Media AG, has acquired international distribution rights to The Guys, the film of Anne Nelson's hit play which deals with the aftermath of 9/11. The film, which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival yesterday, ...
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Toronto Comment - Collective Experience Is Everything
There's nothing like watching a film in a theatre with an audience. It's an experience that stubbornly outstrips all competition - whether it be theme parks, DVD or VHS, computers or even TV. After Sept 11 last year, the theatrical box office boomed and continues to grow throughout the world. ...
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Toronto Comment - Oscar's Foreign-Language Race
While we revel in the scope of international movies selected to screen at the Festival, a different kind of selection process is going on in over 50 countries around the world. The question: which film will represent that country in the race for the best foreign language film Academy Award'While ...
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Alliance Atlantis gets international rights to Sundance victor
Alliance Atlantis has picked up international rights (excluding the English-speaking world, Latin America and Italy) to Personal Velocity, the highly acclaimed triptych directed by Rebecca Miller which won the grand jury prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. United Artists bought North American and the remaining territorial rights during Sundance.The ...
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Alliance Atlantis gets international rights to Sundance victor
Alliance Atlantis has picked up international rights (excluding the English-speaking world, Latin America and Italy) to Personal Velocity, the highly acclaimed triptych directed by Rebecca Miller which won the grand jury prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. United Artists bought North American and the remaining territorial rights during Sundance.The ...
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Miramax buys domestic rights to Mullan's Venice winner
In its second acquisition of the Toronto International Film Festival, Miramax Films has clinched domestic rights to Venice Golden Lion winner The Magdalene Sisters directed by Peter Mullan. Miramax beat out other buyers including Fine Line Features and Sony Pictures Classics. Over the weekend, Miramax also bought rights in the ...
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Miramax buys domestic rights to Mullan's Venice winner
In its second acquisition of the Toronto International Film Festival, Miramax Films has clinched domestic rights to Venice Golden Lion winner The Magdalene Sisters directed by Peter Mullan. Miramax beat out other buyers including Fine Line Features and Sony Pictures Classics. Over the weekend, Miramax also bought rights in the ...
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Noe shocker gets US distribution through Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films closed a deal yesterday in Toronto to buy US rights to Gaspar Noe's super-controversial Irreversible, the scandale of this year's Cannes Film Festival which is also screening at this week's Toronto International Film Festival. Kicked off by a harrowing rape scene, Irreversible tells its story in reverse ...
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Noe shocker gets US distribution through Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films closed a deal yesterday in Toronto to buy US rights to Gaspar Noe's super-controversial Irreversible, the scandale of this year's Cannes Film Festival which is also screening at this week's Toronto International Film Festival. Kicked off by a harrowing rape scene, Irreversible tells its story in reverse ...
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Alliance Atlantis takes international rights on Toronto twosome
Alliance Atlantis is to handle international sales rights on Benoit Jacquot's Benjamin Constant's Adolphe starring Isabelle Adjani and to Dylan Kidd's Roger Dodger starring Campbell Scott and Isabella Rossellini. Charlotte Mickie, managing director, international motion picture sales at Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group is handling the two films which are both ...
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HFF buys French rights to The Good Girl from Myriad
Hachette Filipacchi Films (HFF), the company formerly known as Film Office, has acquired French rights to Miguel Arteta's US hit The Good Girl from Myriad Pictures. The deal was sealed at the Deauville Festival Of American Film where the film received its international premiere.Mars Film will release the film theatrically ...
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Cowboy Pictures takes Morvern Callar to the US
New York-based Cowboy Pictures has acquired US rights to Samantha Morton's critically acclaimed Morvern Callar which premiered in Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Cowboy president John Vanco negotiated the deal with Charlotte Mickie, managing director of international motion picture sales for Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group ...
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Cowboy Pictures takes Morvern Callar to the US
New York-based Cowboy Pictures has acquired US rights to Samantha Morton's critically acclaimed Morvern Callar which premiered in Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Cowboy president John Vanco negotiated the deal with Charlotte Mickie, managing director of international motion picture sales for Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group ...
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Carmichael to head London-based Content International
ContentFilm, the aggressive one year-old production company launched by Edward R Pressman and John Schmidt, has launched an international sales arm Content International to be based in London and headed by sales veteran Jamie Carmichael.Carmichael, who will be managing director, will oversee the sale of ContentFilm's titles overseas as well ...
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Miramax gets Jet Lag as French comedy kicks off Toronto deals
Miramax Films has paid $1m for rights in the US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to Daniele Thompson's French romantic comedy Jet Lag which teams Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno and which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend. As of yesterday (Sunday), it was ...
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IN-motion exits Myriad as D'Amico reclaims company
Myriad Pictures president Kirk D'Amico was on bullish form at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, confirming that former majority shareholder IN-motion AG now holds no further interest in the company. "I am sole president," he said and "I have a majority interest in the company. They haven't funded ...
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Long Way Home wins top jury prize at Deauville
Peter Sollet's Long Way Home, which has been renamed Raising Victor Vargas for its North American release via Samuel Goldwyn Films and Fireworks Pictures' joint distribution venture IDP, has won the grand jury prize in the competition section of the Deauville Festival Of American Film which finished yesterday (Sunday).The film, ...
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Echo Lake ties up three international directors
Echo Lake Productions, the Los Angeles-based production and finance company behind Things Behind The Sun and 13 Conversations About One Thing, has closed writing and directing deals with Singaporean film-maker CheeK (Chicken Rice War) and India's Santosh Sivan (Asoka, The Terrorist) to direct two films in English in the $2m ...
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Echo Lake ties up three international directors
Echo Lake Productions, the Los Angeles-based production and finance company behind Things Behind The Sun and 13 Conversations About One Thing, has closed writing and directing deals with Singaporean film-maker CheeK (Chicken Rice War) and India's Santosh Sivan (Asoka, The Terrorist) to direct two films in English in the $2m ...
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Picture This! picks up US video rights to DAYS and Abandoned
Doug Witkins' PictureThis! Entertainment, which specialises in the distribution and internationalsales of gay, lesbian and bisexual cinema, has picked up LauraMuscardin's DAYS from Italyand Arpad Sopsits' Abandonedfrom Hungary for US video release and festival bookings. Abandoned, which was screened at the Montreal, Toronto andBerlin film festivals among others, is the ...