All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 115
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Myriad romps with Neil Jordan's Borgia
Myriad Pictureswill finance Borgia,the next film from Neil Jordan, which is being produced by Jordan's producingpartner Stephen Woolley and Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey ofImage Movers. Jordan - who isalso involved as a producer ConorMcPherson's The Actors (seeseparate story) - wrote the script which follows thenotorious Borgia family ...
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Bullish MDP Worldwide posts records results
MDP WorldwideEntertainment, Mark Damon's production and sales outfit which is listedon the Toronto Stock Exchange, has reported its highest ever financial resultsfor the year ending Sept 30,2001. MDP reports a net profit of $3.6m onoperating revenues of $53.6m, a rise of 427% from the previous fiscal year.Earnings pershare were up ...
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Harry Potter is the number two movie of all time
Harry Potter & TheSorcerer's Stone officiallybypassed Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace over the weekend to become the number two movie ofall time after Titanic. TheWarner Bros movie, known in many territories as Harry Potter & ThePhilosopher's Stone, has nowgrossed a worldwide total of $926.1, eclipsing the $922.8m ...
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Mimi Steinbauer is new sales head at Franchise
Following the departureof Lisa Wilson to join Splendid Pictures, Franchise Pictures has hireddistribution veteran Mimi Steinbauer as its new president of internationaldistribution. She will be responsible for selling territorial rights for all ofFranchise's films as well as films produced by the company'sarthouse label Franchise Classics.She will alsooversee the company's delivery ...
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Deakins wins ASC award for Man Who Wasn't There
Roger Deakins won theAmerican Society Of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Award in thefeature film category for his work on The Man Who Wasn't There, the sixth film by the Coen brothers which Deakinshas shot. It was also his sixth ASC nomination and his second award after TheShawshank Redemption in 1994.He ...
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Vortex acquires Emmett's Mark with Roth, Byrne
Vortex Pictures, the newinternational sales outfit run by Nicolas Chartier and Dean Shapiro, has pickedup international rights to Emmett's Mark, a psychological thriller starring Scott Wolf, TimRoth and Gabriel Byrne. WMA Independent is representing North American rightson behalf of the film-makers, writer/director Keith Snyder and producers BradFuller and Graham Taylor.The ...
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Conrad Hall wins ASC honours for Road To Perdition
Conrad Hall, who died on Jan4 this year, took top honours at the American Society Of Cinematographers (ASC)annual Outsanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles over the weekend for hiswork on Road To Perdition. Theaward was accepted by his son Conrad W Hall.Hall beat out MichaelBallhaus for Gangs Of New York,Pawel ...
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Dick Cook named chairman of Walt Disney Studios
Hollywood has a new studiochief in Richard W Cook, the veteran of Walt Disney Studios who was namedchairman of the company on Friday. Cook, who has spent 31 years at Disney,steps into the position vacated eight months ago by Peter Schneider whoresigned in June 2001 after only 18 months on ...
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Avrio acquires Red Green comedy Duct Tape Forever
Vancouver-based independentproducer/distributor Avrio Filmworks which was founded by producer MichaelDerbas has acquired worldwide sales rights to Duct Tape Forever, a $4m comedy produced by Toronto's S&SProductions, and starring TV comic Red Green.The film is the first basedon the hit Canadian TV series The Red Green Show and follows the adventures ...
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Splendid backs new Bille August noir thriller
Splendid Pictures, the newproduction and sales outfit formed from the merger of Germany's SplendidMedien and LA-based Cutting Edge Entertainment, is to produce BilleAugust's next English language feature the noir thriller WithoutApparent Motive.Set to begin production inLos Angeles this spring, the film is being produced by Bob Yari, Faye Schwaband Mary ...
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Denzel's John Q triumphs with $20.6m
Denzel Washington confirmedhimself as a major box office star over the weekend as his latest drama JohnQ opened at the top of the boxoffice over Presidents Day weekend with a powerful estimated $20.6m gross at2,466 sites. The film, released by New Line Cinema, received lukewarm reviews(at best) but its emotional ...
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Nigel Clark promoted again at Sony to senior evp
Nigel Clark hasbeen promoted to senior executive vice president of international marketing atColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), continuing a careerat Sony Pictures Entertainment that has lasted 11 years. Clark, who is thesenior executive in the international division, reports to Jeff Blake,president of worldwide marketing and distribution at the studio."Nigel ...
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Simon Hewlett named head of Fox theatrical UK
Simon Hewlett will replace Peter Dignan as managingdirector of 20th Century Fox's UK theatrical operation, comingfrom his previous role as vice president of marketing, Europe, at Fox HomeEntertainment. From 1998 to 2000, Hewlett worked as marketing director forFox's UK theatrical division.Having spent ten years at Fox, Dignan is relocating toSouth ...
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Catch 23 buys comic book Blackjack for urban label
Catch 23 Entertainment hasacquired film rights to Alex Simmon's graphic novel series Blackjack from LA-based Platinum Studios and has entered intoa co-production agreement with Platinum for the development of a feature filmbased on the material. The project is the firstacquisition for C23's new urban entertainment division Alter EgoEntertainment headed by ...
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BAFTA/LA elects seven new board members
The British Academy of Filmand Television Arts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) has elected seven new officers toits board of directors, bringing its total of members to 18. Those new members serving atwo-year term are actor Ian Abercrombie, distribution executive Duncan Clark,talent manager Melanie Greene, producer Paul Heller, former British Film Officeofficer John ...
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Jennifer Lopez named ShoWest female star of 2002
Jennifer Lopez has beennamed 2002 female star of the year by exhibition convention ShoWest and shewill be on stage to accept the award at the Gala Awards banquet on March 7 inLas Vegas.She will next be seen inMichael Apted's Enough forColumbia Pictures as an abused woman who sets out to ...
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PGA names nominees for PGA Awards
The Producers Guild OfAmerica (PGA) has announced the eligible producers for its Producer Of The Yearawards, putting into practice a new accreditation process whereby only the"real" producers of a movie are nominated. On a specific project, if a particular credited producerthought he/she was excluded after the accreditation process, the producer ...
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Winchester, Columbia team on Little Homies
Winchester Films has signed a deal with Columbia Picturesto co-develop and co-finance Little Homies,a family adventure movie about a group of five Brooklyn kids who find atreasure map and set about searching for the treasure underneath New York City.Described by Winchester president Hadeel Reda as in thevein of Spy Kids, ...
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Lisa Wilson leaves Franchise for Splendid
Veteran sales executive LisaWilson has joined newly formed Splendid Pictures as its president ofdistribution, heading up sales at the company which was created on the mergerof Splendid Medien and Cutting Edge Entertainment. Wilson comes from FranchisePictures where she was president of international distribution.Wilson has spent over 30years in the international ...
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Rings lords over the Oscars with 13 nominations
The Academy Awardnominations, announced this morning in Los Angeles, produced a few surprisesbut as expected were dominated by The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship OfThe Ring which scored 13 nominationsand A Beautiful Mind which scoredeight. Other big winners were Robert Altman's Gosford Park which was nominated in seven categories ...