All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 110
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MGM deals Bond with RTL in Germany, Viacom in US
MGM Worldwide Television Distribution has concluded two major deals on its James Bond franchise. Germany's RTL Television has signed an exclusive licensing agreement for German free-TV rights to the next Bond movie Die Another Day which teams Pierce Brosnan with Halle Berry, as well as broadcast rights to four classic ...
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Tribeca Fest unveils 24 international titles, adds Insomnia, Ya-Ya
The inaugural Tribeca Film Festival has announced the 24 films to screen in its International Film Showcase and added two high profile Warner Bros films to its world premiere list - Callie Khouri's Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Christopher Nolan's Insomnia.The festival, which takes place from May 8-12, ...
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Changing Lanes races to the top with $17.6m
Critically acclaimed drama ChangingLanes topped the domestic box officefor Paramount Pictures over the weekend with a powerful estimated gross of$17.6m. Directed by British film-maker Roger Michell, the film stars BenAffleck and Samuel L Jackson as two men who wage war on each other after aminor car accident.Changing Lanes, which Paramount/UIP ...
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Austin Powers allowed to display his Goldmember
Austin Powers will get his Goldmember-ship after allcourtesy of an agreement reached yesterday between New Line Cinema and James Bondstudio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) The film, AustinPowers In Goldmember,will be released as just that on July 26, but according to the agreement, all futuretitles will be subject to MGM's approval if they ...
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Former Canton executive joins Senator in LA
Former Canton Coexecutive Nathan Kahane has joined LA-based Senator International as executivevice president, motion pictures, following the conclusion this week of asyndicated loan of 230m euros ($202m) by parent company Senator Entertainment.Kahane will headthe development and acquisition of feature films for Senator Internationalreporting to president Joe Drake and Senator Entertainment ...
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Seattle gives first Alpha Cine Award to Ching Ip
The Seattle InternationalFilm Festival (SIFF) has named Ching Ip as the recipient of the first annualAlpha Cine Filmmaker Award for her feature film See You Off The The Edge OfTown. Ip's film will receive afree transfer to 35mm and a gala world premiere screening of the new printduring the final ...
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Blockbuster gives its first Indie Filmmaker Award
Blockbuster Video hasawarded its first ever $100,000 Independent Filmmaker Award to writer/directorDean Pollack on the basis of his debut feature Show And Tell, which has screened at various film festivalsincluding the Austin Film Festival where it won the second place award.Set in the world of tabloidTV, Show And Tell is ...
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Jeff Coleman promoted to evp, production, at MGM
Jeff Coleman has beenpromoted to executive vice president - worldwide feature physicalproduction - for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's film units MGM Pictures andUnited Artists. He will report jointly to Michael Nathson, president and COO ofMGM Pictures, and Bingham Ray, president of United Artists.Coleman will oversee all aspectsof production from inception through post-production for ...
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Buyers back Gangs move to Dec 2002
International buyers ofMartin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York are all supporting the shift of the film to a Christmas US release dateand many are expected to go day-and-date with the US, according to InitialEntertainment Group (IEG) president Graham King who majority financed the filmto the tune of $67m."Itnever really warranted ...
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Duchovny stars in Myriad/Zoetrope's My Dark Places
David Duchovny has taken thelead role in Robert Greenwald's upcoming film of James Elroy'sautobiographical novel My Dark Places which is being produced by Francis Ford Coppola's AmericanZoetrope and financed by Myriad Pictures.The film, originally set upby Myriad and then taken over by Zoetrope under the two companies' jointventure to produce ...
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Ford, Spielberg to present Lucas BAFTA/LA honour
Harrison Ford and StevenSpielberg will both serve as presenters at this Friday's 11thannual Britannia Awards held by the British Academy Of Film & TelevisionArts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) in Los Angeles.They will honour GeorgeLucas, who will receive the BAFTA/LA Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for excellencein film at the event. Both Ford and ...
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Indian Int'l awards rain down on Lagaan
Epic historical drama Lagaan was the big winner at the third annual InternationalIndian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards at a glitzy ceremony held in Malaysia onSaturday night. Ashutosh Kovariker's film, which was nominated for a foreignlanguage film Oscar recently, won ten trophies including best film, bestdirector and best actor (Aamir Khan) ...
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High Crimes shut out by Panic Room
Thriller queen Ashley Juddcouldn't beat out Jodie Foster to the top spot at the North American boxoffice over the weekend, as Panic Room reigned for the second weekend in a row with an estimated $18.5m take.Judd's latest High Crimesin which she is reteamed with Kiss The Girls co-star Morgan Freeman ...
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Major studios team to standardise digital cinema
The seven Hollywood studioshave clubbed together to develop technical standards for digital cinematechnology. The companies - Disney, MGM, Paramount, Sony, 20thCentury Fox, Universal and Warner Bros - are creating an entity to ensurethat competing digital exhibition formats are "open, compatible andinter-operable" and weigh up strategies for deploying digital exhibitionsystems in ...
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Pichirallo quits Searchlight for evp role at USA
Joe Pichirallo, one of theoriginal executives who founded Fox Searchlight Pictures in 1994, has left thecompany to join USA Films as executive vice president of production.Reporting to president ofproduction Glenn Williamson, Pichirallo will be responsible for bringing inprojects and supervising them through production; he will be based in thecompany's LA ...
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Ice Age speeds to $56m international gross
20th CenturyFox's Ice Age continued itsbox office rampage around the world, racking up $56.15m to date - some$27.35m in the last seven days. The film opened in South Africa over theweekend, breaking the record for the highest animated opening ever with$248,289 from 71 screens and registering the third highest opening ...
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Billy Wilder 1906-2002
With the death last week of Billy Wilder at the age of 95,the world lost one its greatest ever film-makers, a brilliant screenwriter andendlessly innovative director who created some of Hollywood's finestfilms.The director of Sunset Boulevard (1950),The Lost Weekend (1945), DoubleIndemnity (1944), Some Like ItHot (1959) and The Apartment (1960) ...
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Panic Room locks up Easter record with $30.2m
Sony Pictures Entertainment(SPE) kicked off its high-powered 2002 slate of event movies with a bang overEaster Weekend, as Jodie Foster-starrer Panic Room debuted with the biggest Easter opening of all timeof $30.2m in three days. Directed by David Fincher, the taut R-rated thrillerreceived mainly favourable reviews and gives SPE a ...
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THINKFilm makes first worldwide rights acquisition
Recently formed NorthAmerican distributor THINKFilm has made its first acquisition of worldwiderights to a film - Thom Fitzgerald's ensemble drama The Event.Currently in production, the picture marks a returnto theatrical film for the acclaimed director of The Hanging Garden and Beefcake after his USA Networks TV movie Wolf Girl. Starring ...
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Richard Saperstein leaves New Line for Artisan
High-ranking Hollywoodproduction executive Richard Saperstein, who spent the last nine years at NewLine Cinema, has joined Artisan Pictures as president of development andproduction. Reporting directly toArtisan Pictures CEO Bob Cooper, Saperstein is charged with overseeing thecompany's daily theatrical film development and production activities.Saperstein will work closely with Cooper to assemble ...