All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 109
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Industry vets start new US indie distributor MAC
A new independent US distributor has been founded by industry veterans Mike Marcus, Andy Gruenberg and Craig Baumgarten. Named MAC Releasing, the company intends to capitalize on untapped commercial opportunities in the distribution of independent films and kicks off with the release of A Shot At Glory starring and produced ...
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Sundance Film Festival changes HQ to Prospector Square
The Sundance Film Festival has moved its official Park City headquarters for next year from the Shadow Ridge Hotel to the Park City Marriott in the Prospector Square area of the town.The recently renovated Marriott, formerly the Olympia Park Hotel, housed a screening room for the 2002 festival and is ...
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American World gets foreign to Night At The Golden Eagle
Mark L Lester's American World Pictures has acquired international distribution rights to Night At The Golden Eagle, a US independent feature which opened on a limited release in New York and Los Angeles last weekend.Produced by Steve Bing and Adam Rifkin through Shangri-La Entertainment, the film was written and directed ...
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Spider-Man (Spider-Man)
Dir: Sam Raimi. US. 2002. 121mins.Even in the face of new Star Wars, Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings movies, no film this year can have the want-to-see already generated by Columbia Pictures' Spider-Man, a lavish $150m live-action movie of the beloved comic strip, which has been in gestation ...
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Fox departs online distribution joint venture with Disney
Fox Entertainment Group is exiting Movies.com, its joint venture with The Walt Disney Company intended to provide movies and other entertainment content on demand to US consumers through digital cable systems or broadband internet. The partners have now chosen to pursue other strategies to distribute their films to the broadband ...
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Senator International takes international rights to Sundance film XX/XY
Senator International, the LA sales arm of Germany's Senator Entertainment, has acquired international rights to XX/XY, the romantic drama written and directed by Austin Chick which played in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. IFC Films has domestic distribution rights on the film which stars Mark Ruffalo, Maya Stange and ...
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Palm/Manga sign domestic video deal with WEA
The home entertainment division of Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures, which releases films from both Palm and Palm-owned Japanese animation label Manga Entertainment, has struck a domestic distribution deal with WEA Home Video to replace a previous arrangement with RYKO Distribution.The Palm/Manga catalogue consists of over 300 titles including live action ...
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New York Lesbian & Gay Fest opens with CHO, closes with Lan Yu
The 14th annual New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival will open with Margaret Cho's latest performance film The Notorious C.H.O. from Wellspring Media and close with Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu from Strand Releasing.The event, which takes place June 6-16, also hands out annual film-maker awards decided by the audience ...
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Peter Hoffman launches new sales arm under David Lamping
Peter Hoffman, chairman of Seven Arts Pictures, has launched an international sales division Seven Arts International and hired veteran David Lamping as president. Lamping will head into Cannes with a broad slate of films including the next pictures from Bronwen Hughes (Forces Of Nature), Paul McGuigan (Gangster No 1, ...
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Alfonso Cuaron is guest director for LA Film Fest
Alfonso Cuaron, currently enjoying a major US specialized hit with Y Tu Mama Tambien, will serve as guest director for the 2002 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival which this year has moved to June (dates are June 20-29), started an international section and scored a host of new sponsorship deals. ...
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Lightning strikes with first acquisition: American Gun
Lightning Entertainment, the new LA boutique sales outfit run by Richard Guardian, has made its first acquisition, buying worldwide rights to the completed feature American Gun starring James Coburn, Virginia Madsen and Barbara Bain.Written and directed by Alan Jacobs, who last directed Nina Takes A Lover, and produced by Brent ...
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Tony Manne to leave Columbia TriStar, set up NY consultancy
Tony Manne, the international distribution veteran who has worked at Columbia Pictures for 30 years, is leaving his post as executive vice president of international marketing and distribution for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) and setting up his own distribution and marketing consultancy. Manne will move from Los Angeles ...
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Wellspring gets worldwide rights to Margaret Cho concert film
Wellspring Media, the specialized US distribution outfit which is now independent of former owner Winstar Communications, has acquired worldwide rights to Margaret Cho's stand-up movie Notorious C.H.O. (pictured). The film is a 90-minute film of Cho's July 4, 2001, Seattle concert, part of her 37-city North American tour which went ...
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Myriad's D'Amico resigns from IN-motion board
Kirk D'Amico has resigned from the executive board of directors of IN-motion AG, the German media outfit which bought out his Myriad Pictures in July 2000. D'Amico, who took up his post on the board in 2001, will continue to be president of Myriad which is an international sales company ...
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Woody Allen names new film Anything Else, Capitol Films to sell
Anything Else will likely be the title of the next Woody Allen film which the prolific director is planning to start shooting on June 3 in New York City. Starring Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Glenn Close and Danny De Vito, the film is a more serious comedy than his more ...
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Murder By Numbers
Dir: Barbet Schroeder. US. 2002. 120mins.Murder By Numbers is an ambitious attempt to make a multi-layered murder investigation film, loosely retelling the chilling Leopold and Loeb case which has intrigued everyone from Alfred Hitchcock in Rope to Tom Kalin in Swoon. And with Barbet Schroeder behind the camera, the film ...
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Joseph Woolf joins entertainment group at GKM
Joseph S Woolf has joined New York-based investment banking firm Gerard Klauer Mattison (GKM) as a prinicipal in its entertainment media advisory group in Los Angeles. Woolf joins GKM from Trowbridge Capital, a financial consulting firm he founded in 2001. Prior to Trowbridge, Woolf helped create the entertainment lending division ...
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Joseph Hobel named COO at Infinity
Jospeh Hobel has been named chief operating officer of Infinity International Entertainment, Michael Ovohen's LA-based production and financing outfit which has a non-exclusive deal with German production fund Cinerenta to supervise its funds for US production.Hobel will be based in the LA headquarters of the company and report to president ...
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Universal completes three-territory deal on Gosford Park
Universal Pictures has completed its acquisition of rights in Germany, Japan and South Africa to Robert Altman's Academy Award-winning Gosford Park from Capitol Films. USA Films, now ironically again a part of the Vivendi Universal media empire, had domestic rights to Gosford Park and grossed over $40m from it.Other distributors ...
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Hollywood Ending gets its international fest premiere before Cannes at San Francisco
Woody Allen's latest comedy Hollywood Ending will close the San Francisco International Film Festival on May 2, two weeks before it opens the Cannes Film Festival. It's unusual for Cannes organizers to allow a film to play at another international film festival before it is unveiled on the Croisette but ...