All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 107
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Scorsese gangs up again with IEG, Di Caprio
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is backing the next film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio - whatever it turns out to be. Martin Scorsese told Screen International this week that his next film will definitely be either Alexander, his Alexander The Great movie, which IEG bought ...
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Scorsese gangs up again with IEG, Di Caprio
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is backing the next film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio - whatever it turns out to be. Martin Scorsese told Screen International this week that his next film will definitely be either Alexander, his Alexander The Great movie, which IEG bought ...
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Lightning brings two new titles to market
Lightning Entertainment, the new LA-based sales outfit run by Richard Guardian and Mainline Releasing partners Rich Goldberg and Marc Greenberg, has acquired two new pictures for Cannes - taking worldwide rights to medieval thriller Anazapta with Lena Headey, Jason Flemyng and David La Haye and international rights to On_Line, an ...
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New Line rings up fresh quartet of hot titles
New Line Cinema is introducing four new pictures to buyers at Cannes: Secondhand Lions; the long-awaited Dumb And Dumber prequel; action thriller Highwaymen; and clash of the horror titans movie Freddy Vs Jason to be directed by Ronny Yu.New Line, which has its first ever film in competition with Alexander ...
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New Line rings up fresh quartet of hot titles
New Line Cinema is introducing four new pictures to buyers at Cannes: Secondhand Lions; the long-awaited Dumb And Dumber prequel; action thriller Highwaymen; and clash of the horror titans movie Freddy Vs Jason to be directed by Ronny Yu.New Line, which has its first ever film in competition with Alexander ...
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Van Sant takes Last Days with MDP
Gus Van Sant is following up his experimental film Gerry with another low budget picture, Last Days, to be financed by Mark Damon's revitalised MDP Worldwide. The film follows the last day in the life of a rock star and will feature Michael Pitt, the hot young actor who had ...
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Warner Bros wakes up to Insomnia in France and Spain
Warner Bros has picked up rights in France and Spain to Insomnia, the critically acclaimed thriller directed by Christopher Nolan and sold internationally by Summit Entertainment. The film, starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank, world premiered at last week's Tribeca Film Festival and opens through Warner in North ...
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Insomnia
Dir: Christopher Nolan. US. 2002. 117 mins.Christopher Nolan, the promising writer-director behind Following and Memento, makes an elegant and assured transfer to big-budget, star-driven film-making with Insomnia, one of the rare Hollywood remakes of a European film which is as good as the original. Expertly crafted and eminently intelligent, Insomnia ...
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Alliance Atlantis makes pre-Cannes sale to Diaphana of Columbine
Diaphana Distribution has made a pre-Cannes acquisition for France of Michael Moore's documentary Bowling For Columbine which plays in competition on Friday. Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group is handling worldwide sales on the film under managing director, international motion picture sales, Charlotte Mickie."Diaphana is uniquely positioned and qualified to launch this ...
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Alliance Atlantis makes pre-Cannes sale to Diaphana of Columbine
Diaphana Distribution has made a pre-Cannes acquisition for France of Michael Moore's documentary Bowling For Columbine which plays in competition on Friday. Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group is handling worldwide sales on the film under managing director, international motion picture sales, Charlotte Mickie."Diaphana is uniquely positioned and qualified to launch this ...
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones
Dir: George Lucas. US. 2002. 143mins.It must be thankless being George Lucas. He may be wading in money, but critics and fans have treated his new Star Wars prequels with such intense scrutiny and disappointment that he has to realise his reputation as a legendary film-maker of 1970s classics American ...
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Igby Goes Down to open Seattle Film Festival
After world premiering one film from United Artists last year (Ghost World), the Seattle International Film Festival will this year open with another, the world premiere of UA's tragicomedy Igby Goes Down directed by Burr Steers and starring Kieran Culkin, Bill Pullman, Susan Sarandon, Ryan Phillipe, Jeff Goldblum, Amanda Peet ...
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Paramount takes territories on Crusader's Sahara
Paramount Pictures has acquired rights in UK, Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand to Crusader Entertainment's action-adventure Sahara which is set to start shooting on Oct 28. Paramount already had North American rights to the film through a previous arrangement with Crusader. Patrick Wachsberger's Summit Entertainment is selling remaining territories ...
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Jon Fitzgerald named executive director at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Jon Fitzgerald has been named executive director of The Santa Barbara International Film Festival after stints as director of both the Slamdance and AFI Los Angeles International film festivals.Fitzgerald will be working closely with incoming board president Arnold Kossoy. His duties include artistic direction, programming, development, marketing and overall festival ...
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Salesman David Winters is back in business at Cannes
International sales veteran David Winters is back in Cannes with a new sales outfit Alpha Beta Films International and three films to sell. Winters, one of the sales world's more colourful characters, was a child actor and played Arab, one of the Jets, in the Broadway and film musical West ...
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Lions Gate buys North American rights to Alibi's The Hard Word
Lions Gate Films has bought all North American rights to The Hard Word, the Australian crime drama produced by Al Clark and executive produced and sold by UK-based Alibi Films. Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths star in the film which will be released in Australia by Roadshow Film Distributors on ...
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Shoreline acquires three for Cannes led by Moving August
LA-based producer/distributor Shoreline Entertainment has acquired three new films for this year's Cannes Film Market led by worldwide rights to Christopher Fink's Moving August and international rights to the thriller Deceived starring Judd Nelson and Louis Gossett Jr.Moving August, which marks Fink's directorial debut, stars Eddie McClintock, Sarah Wynter and ...
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Intermedia acquires Southpaw Media's Nailed Right In
Intermedia has is in the process of acquiring international distribution rights to Nailed Right In, a coming of age drama to be directed by Griffin Dunne (Addicted To Love, Practical Magic) and to star Hayden Christensen and Leelee Sobieski. The film is written by Sopranos writer Terence Winter and is ...
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Cinemavault acquires worldwide rights to hit Quebecois thriller Savage Messiah
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing has acquired worldwide rights outside Canada to Quebecois psychological thriller Savage Messiah which opened in Quebec on April 26 through Christal Films and looks set to gross over $1m in its first month.The film stars Polly Walker and Luc Picard and is the directorial debut of Mario ...
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Shoreline acquires three for Cannes led by Moving August
LA-based producer/distributor Shoreline Entertainment has acquired three new films for this year's Cannes Film Market led by worldwide rights to Christopher Fink's Moving August and international rights to the thriller Deceived starring Judd Nelson and Louis Gossett Jr.Moving August, which marks Fink's directorial debut, stars Eddie McClintock, Sarah Wynter and ...