All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 104
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Signpost teams with Matthew Lillard for romantic comedy
Stewart Till's Signpost Films has teamed with Scooby-Doo star Matthew Lillard and Mosaic Media Group to develop a romantic comedy with writer Shana Leslie Stern, the former assistant to director Gary Fleder who makes her first screenwriting sale with the project.As yet untitled, the script revolves around two people, one ...
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Samuel Goldwyn confirms US acquisition of I Capture The Castle
Samuel Goldwyn Films has confirmed its acquisition of Distant Horizon's I Capture The Castle, Tim Fywell's film of Dodie Smith's classic novel which premiered in the market at Cannes recently. There Samuel Goldwyn beat out other interested buyers such as Paramount Classics and THINKFilm to take North American rights.Executive produced ...
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Windtalkers
Dir: John Woo. US. 2002. 134mins. Finally the war may be over. The surge of expensive World War II movies which was kicked off by Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line four years ago now looks like it's coming to an end with John Woo's often admirable but ...
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Artisan buys South African music doc Amandla!
Artisan Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to the award-winning documentary Amandla! A Revolution In Four Part Harmony which was produced in association with HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films. The theatrical sale marks a departure for HBO which traditionally premieres its documentaries on its own channel."We're excited about the opportunity to ...
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Blue Magic Pictures unveils five including new films from Rebecca Miller, Alejandro Springall,
New New York-based production outfit Blue Magic Pictures, which was formed at the beginning of the year by Lemore Syvan, has unveiled five new films including the next project from director Rebecca Miller and a co-production with Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson's Cosmic Entertainment.Syvan is partnered with senior ...
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Polley, Rea, Perabo join cast of The I Inside
Stephen Rea, Sarah Polley, Stephen Lang and Piper Perabo have joined Ryan Phillippe in the cast of Roland Suso Richter's UK-set thriller The I Inside which is being financed by Los Angeles-based sales and financing company MDP Worldwide. The film started shooting on Friday in the UK.Based on Michael Cooney's ...
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DTS renews credit line from Comerica
Comerica Entertainment Group, the entertainment lending subsidiary of Comerica Bank-California, has struck a new two year revolving line of credit facility with digital audio technology outfit DTS (Digital Theater Systems Inc), a client since 1997. Comerica has also increased the company's borrowing power from $7.5m to $10m.A pioneer in multi-channel ...
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Barbara Hannegan tops restructured publicity team at Universal International
Barbara Hannegan has been promoted to vice president, international publicity, at Universal Pictures, completing a restructure of the studio's international publicity team which sees the arrival of three new staff publicists - Larry Angrisani, Mark Markline and Elena O'Gorman.Hannegan will report to Randy Greenberg who is senior vice president of ...
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Nicole Guillemet gets top job at Miami Film Festival
Nicole Guillemet, the former co-director of the Sundance Film Festival who left Sundance early this year, has landed in Florida as the new director of the Miami Film Festival.Scheduled to start her new job on July 15, Guillemet is charged with revitalizing an event which last year suffered a drop ...
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Portman, Hoffman, Ribisi, Gleeson to climb Cold Mountain
The glittering cast of Anthony Minghella's upcoming epic Cold Mountain is taking shape, with the addition of Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Giovanni Ribisi and Brendan Gleeson this week. Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger play the three lead roles in the film, which is a co-production between Miramax ...
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Intertainer launches European broadband VOD co
Jonathan Taplin's US broadband video-on-demand (VOD) venture Intertainer has teamed up with Italian new media giant Freedomland to launch an Internet Protocol (IP) VOD service for broadband customers throughout Europe. As part of the deal, Freedomland has made an equity investment of E10 million in Intertainer in return for a ...
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Graham Bradstreet's Montage merges with Viastar
In a deal concluded at Cannes last month, Graham Bradstreet's Montage Media & Capital has merged with publicly traded Viastar Holdings VISH and Bradstreet has been appointed chairman of the new group.Viastar, which is run by CEO George Malasek, is an outfit dedicated to developing portfolio companies in the media ...
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Kino takes North American rights to restored Metropolis
New York-based arthouse distributor Kino International has licensed North American distribution rights to the digitally restored 35mm presentation of Fritz Lang's 1927 silent masterpiece Metropolis from Munich-based Transit Films. The film will premiere in New York on July 12, followed by a national expansion.Not to be confused with the 1984 ...
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Cowboy picks up North American rights to Sinclair's Toy Love
New York-based Cowboy Pictures has acquired North American rights to Toy Love, the comedy from hot New Zealand director Harry Sinclair, which had its market premiere at Cannes. John Vanco of Cowboy negotiated the deal with Kathleen Drumm of the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) at Cannes and plans to ...
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Lew Wasserman 1913-2002
Hollywood was paying tribute yesterday to the last great movie mogul Lew Wasserman, who died at the age of 89 on Sunday in Los Angeles. The patriarch of Universal Studios - or MCA/Universal as it was in his day - who ate lunch at his usual table on the lot ...
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
Dirs: Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook. US. 2002. 84mins. There's no denying the passion and expertise that went into Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron, the third traditionally animated movie from DreamWorks SKG. But this perfunctory and serious story about a wild stallion in the untamed American frontier struggling to maintain his ...
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Warner expands European production push
Warner Bros Pictures has hired Crisilde Dominici as director, local production, Italy as part of its expansion drive into European production and acquisitions, and has declared its intentions to embark on a Spanish local production plan later this year.Dominici, who has worked with directors such as Nanni Moretti, joined the ...
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Germany remains weak as Miramax strikes multi-territory deals
Miramax International may have completed a string of deals here but one territory it wasn't closing on was Germany. "We've seen everyone, but the offers are just too low," said worldwide distribution chief Rick Sands. "Their mission was to push down pricing, but we have to tough it out. Germany ...
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Miramax Australia makes debut acquisition with debut film
Miramax Films has acquired the Australian and New Zealand distribution rights to Anthony Mir's directorial debut You Can't Stop The Murders, marking the first acquisition for Miramax's newly formed Australian office under Victoria Treole.The film is a comedy which also features stand-up comedian Mir alongside fellow comedians Gary Eck ...
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Menemsha ties knot on Bride deals
Neil Friedman's LA-based sales agency Menemsha Entertainment has sold Argentinian Oscar nominee The Son Of The Bride to Movienet in Germany and Tandora in Singapore. The film, directed by Juan Jose Campanella, is a family drama with Ricardo Marin, Norma Aleandro and Natalia Verbeke.The film, which has been confirmed as ...