All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 101
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Killer strikes first-look deal with Warner Bros
Killer Films,the prolific New York-based production company which is synonymous with theindependent film movement of the 1990s, has signed a one year, first-look dealwith Warner Bros Pictures. The deal is primarily for films in the $10m to $25mrange such as Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven or Mark Romanek's One HourPhoto ...
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Fox Searchlight reteams with Broken Lizard on Club Dread
Fox Searchlight Pictures isreteaming with director Jay Chandrasekhar and his Broken Lizard comedy group,the team behind its Sundance acquisition hit Super Troopers, on Broken Lizard's Club Dread. The film, which has already started principalphotography in Mexico, also stars Bill Paxton.Searchlight picked up SuperTroopers at Sundance 2001 andgrossed $18.5m on its ...
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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 ...
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Far From Heaven
Dir: Todd Haynes. US. 2002. 107 mins.In painstakingly recreating the style and mood of a Douglas Sirk melodrama, Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven attempts to show that prejudice is as rampant in the complacent America of the new millenium as it was behind the twitching net curtains of Sirk's affluent ...
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Lorenzo di Bonaventura steps down at Warner Bros
Lorenzo diBonaventura has stepped down from his corporate position as executive vicepresident, worldwide motion pictures, at Warner Bros to become an independentproducer for Warner Bros Pictures. He has been co-president or president ofproduction at the studio since 1996 and is one of the best-known productionexecutives in Hollywood."I lovefilmmaking, but the ...
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Telluride world premieres Schrader, Clark, Reggio movies
The TellurideFilm Festival, one of the worlds most secretive festivals whichdoesnt announce its lineup until the event itself begins, kicked off its29th festival today (Friday) in the Colorado mountain-top resort andwill screen four world premieres in its four-day schedule including new filmsfrom Paul Schrader and Larry Clark.The festival,run by Bill ...
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Lions Gate takes North America on Loach's Sweet Sixteen
Lions Gate Films has boughtall North American rights to Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen from London-based The Works. The film will bereleased theatrically in spring 2003 and continues a relationship between LionsGate and Loach which began with Bread And Roses in 2001. The film was in competitionat Cannes this year where ...
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Herwitz sells Last Party 2000 to ID in France
Andrew Herwitz's NewYork-based producers rep outfit The Film Sales Company has closed a sale ofdocumentary Last Party 2000 to IDDistribution in France, just a week before the film screens in the Panoramasidebar of the Deauville Festival Of American Film.The film, directed byDonovan Leitch and Rebecca Chaiklin and produced by Stanley ...
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TLA Releasing takes three for US including Food Of Love, KM 0 from Spain
TLA Releasing, the oneyear-old Philadelphia-based US distributor specialising in independent, foreignand gay/lesbian-themed films, has picked up rights to three new pictures- Ventura Pons' Spanish drama Food Of Love, Steve Guttenberg's directorial debut PSYour Cat Is Dead! and Yolanda GarciaSerrano and Juan Luis Iborra's Spanish comedy KM. 0. Food Of Love, ...
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Simone
Dir: Andrew Niccol. US. 2002. 124mins A third slice of near-futuristic fantasy from Andrew Niccol, the creator of The Truman Show and Gattaca, Simone is a silly souffle of a movie that has some good ingredients but turns out overcooked and stodgy. The film's awkward tone - not to mention ...
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Palm Springs Short Film Fest announces winners
US student live action shortThe Wormhole directed by JessicaSharzer won the Best Of Festival Award worth $2,000 at the eighth annual PalmSprings International Festival Of Short Films which ended last weekend (Aug11). Over 290 films from 25 countries played during the six-day event whichlasted Aug 6-12.The $15,000 Future FilmmakerAward went ...
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Clifford joins staff of AFI Conservatory
Australiandirector and editor Graeme Clifford has been appointed senior lecturer in thedirecting discipline at the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory.Clifford, whose editing credits include The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Postman Always Rings Twice and whose directing credits includeFrances, will train the 50 first and second year directing fellows ...
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O'Neal stars in New York indie The Technical Writer
Tatum O'Neal, WilliamForsythe and Michael Harris are the stars and Scott Saunders the director of TheTechnical Writer, an independentfeature which went into production in New York City this week. The film marksthe first feature from production outfit Damage Control which was formed in NewYork by David Leitner and Michael Yanko ...
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Chuo joins Artisan as vice president, acquisitions in Los Angeles
Artisan Pictures has hired Monica Chuo as its vice president of acquisitions based in Los Angeles. She will report directly to the company's executive vice president Patrick Gunn, and fills the space left by senior vice president, acquisitions, Leilani Forby who left Artisan recently to join former Artisan colleague John ...
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Transmission Films launches first phase in online distribution system
New York-basedTransmission Films has launched a high-speed download system on its online filmdistribution site today (Aug 12), marking the first phase in thecompany's launch strategy. Transmission offers an online forum forindependent and foreign feature films for access by the online film-viewingcommunity while planning to create a revenue stream for film-makers ...
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Cinecitta launches Masterclass, USC summer workshop
Famed Romestudio facility Cinecitta Studios has launched two new educational initiatives- a lecture series featuring more than 20 film-makers and technicians whohave worked at the studio and a six-week summer workshop at the studio forstudents at the University Of Southern California (USC) School OfCinema-Television.In addition,Cinecitta has hired executive producer and ...
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XXX
Dir: Rob Cohen. US. 2002. 124mins.While the film-making on show here is about as sophisticated as an episode of Baywatch, XXX possesses a powerful quality which has been lacking from most studio-level action adventures in some time: an attitude. A perfect vehicle for its viciously charismatic star Vin Diesel, XXX ...
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HBO's Real Women goes theatrical after all via Newmarket start-up
Only two months after HBO Films president Colin Callender publicly reconfirmed that all its movies would premiere on the HBO channel in North America, the company has announced that it will release crowd-pleasing festival favourite Real Women Have Curves in theatres this October. The film will be a joint distribution ...
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Austin Powers In Goldmember
Dir: Jay Roach. US. 2002. 94minsDirector Jay Roach and his multi-talented star and co-writer/co-producer Mike Myers have little new to add to the two previous Austin Powers film with the third instalment in the franchise. An intermittently funny confection which wears the joke dangerously thin, Austin Powers In Goldmember will, ...
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MGM to launch branded channel in Greece with NOVA
MGM Networks, the TV channel arm of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), has entered into an agreement with NOVA, the first digital-satellite platform in Greece, to launch a round-the-clock branded channel in the country. The channel - dubbed The MGM Movie Channel - will be customised for the market to include Greek subtitles ...