All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 119
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Julian Levin moves to digital cinema at Fox
Julian Levin, executive vicepresident of sales and distribution for 20th Century FoxInternational, has switched jobs at the studio and been named executive vicepresident, digital exhibition and special projects, a title he will assume onFeb 4.Levin will now reportjointly to Scott Neeson, president of international theatrical, and BruceSnyder, president of domestic ...
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Seattle Women's Fest kicks off tomorrow
The 2002 Women In Cinemafestival will kick off tomorrow (Jan 24-31) in Seattle, a presentation ofCinema Seattle and the Seattle International Film Festival.Films screening in thefestival include Jill Sprecher's 13 Conversations About One Thing, Kasia Adamik's Bark, Clara Law's The Goddess Of 1967, Lone Scherfig's Italian For Beginners, Lucrecia Martel's ...
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SPC buys North American rights to Juana La Loca
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC)has acquired North American rights to Vicente Aranda's Juana La Loca (Mad Love), the historic story of Queen Joan Of Castille and her love for thedecadent Archduke Of Austria Philip The Handsome. The film is the Spanishsubmission for the foreign language Academy Award and was recently nominatedfor ...
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PGA gives Vanguard honour to Pixar Animation
The Producers Guild OfAmerica is to give its inaugural Vanguard Award to Pixar Animation Studios atthe annual PGA Awards on March 3 in Los Angeles.The award was established tohonour the "brilliant and creative contributions in entertainmentproduction in the fields of new media and technology." It will beaccepted by Ed Catmull ...
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Black Hawk Down seizes weekend with $29m gross
Columbia Pictures and Joe Roth's Revolution Studios celebrated a huge triumph at the box office over the weekend as their expensive and epic actioner Black Hawk Down went wide onto over 3,000 screens and grossed a massive estimated $29m for the three days preceding Martin Luther King Jr holiday Monday.The ...
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Regent launches gay division HERE
Regent Entertainment is to launch a gay label called HERE Films which will provide gay films with domestic theatrical distribution capabilities (HERE Releasing) as well as international sales (HERE International) and a pay-per-view and video-on-demand service (HERE Network).The label was announced by Regent partners Paul Colichman and Stephen P Jarchow ...
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Slamdance TV to debut on Canada's Movieola
Canadian short film TV channel Movieola has entered into a production agreement with Slamdance Entertainment to form Slamdance TV, a 26-part series giving an inside look at independent film-making. Slamdance Entertainment is a joint venture between Marco Weber's Atlantic Streamline and the Slamdance Film Festival.The series will start playing on ...
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Sundance: Love to THINKFilm, Sex to Palm
Two more acquisitions were closed in Park City yesterday in arguably the busiest Sundance on record for deals. New distributor THINKFilm, which yesterday completed its acquisition of Gus Van Sant's Gerry, has now taken North American rights on out-of-competition selection Love In The Time Of Money, while Chris Blackwell's Palm ...
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Erlina Suharjono promoted at Warner Bros Asia
Erlina Suharjono has been promoted to the position of vice president, Asia, at Warner Bros Pictures.In her new post, Suharjono will be responsible for supervising distribution and marketing activities in Asia through Warner Bros.' network of affiliate offices and licensees in the region, specifically, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, ...
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Artisan buys John Herzfeld script Jealousy
Artisan Pictures, which is ramping up production under new CEO Bob Cooper, has acquired Jealousy, a comedy script by John Herzfeld as a project for him to direct. Herzfeld's last film was 15 Minutes for New Line Cinema starring Robert De Niro and Ed Burns and he made a splashy ...
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Boeing Digital Cinema retains CAA
The Boeing Company has retained Hollywood talent and literary agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) for consulting services for the launch of Boeing Digital Cinema, its ambitious network which will be used to transmit first-run movies and alternative programming via satellite and fiber-optic network. CAA will counsel Boeing on the business ...
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Spielberg gets ShoWest Lifetime Achievement nod
Steven Spielberg will be awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award at exhibition convention ShoWest this March. He will receive his award at the annual Gala Awards Banquet which will be held on March 7.Spielberg's sci-fi actioner Minority Report opens this summer for 20th Century Fox (DreamWorks is handling international rights) ...
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Miramax unveils Neverland, The Forger
Miramax Films has announced two new pictures - it has signed Marc Forster (Monster's Ball) to direct Neverland, the film of Allan Knee's play The Man Who Was Peter Pan and it has acquired the rights to Paul Watkins' novel The Forger and hired Proof playwright David Auburn to adapt ...
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Perrier teams with Palm for film-maker contest
Bottled water group Perrier is teaming up with Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures and RES to launch "Perrier Across America", a new initiative for 2002 which will select five film-makers from thousands of submissions and then supply them with vehicles, digital cameras, professional producers and other resources to drive across the ...
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Bruce Berman to stay at Village Roadshow till 2007
Bruce Berman, the chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures (VRP), has extended his deal for another four years keeping him in his current position till 2007. The deal was agreed to with 18 months still remaining on his current pact by Berman and Graham Burke, managing director of Village ...
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Sony to unveil Mr Deeds at ShoWest in March
Sony Pictures is to participate in this year's ShoWest exhibitors convention in Las Vegas with a premiere screening of its romantic comedy Mr Deeds and the final day luncheon. The events will take place on March 7.This year is a particularly high-powered one for Sony Pictures with a lineup including ...
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Sundance: Lions Gate buys worldwide rights to May
The third deal of the Sundance Film Festival was closed yesterday as Lions Gate Films acquired worldwide rights to horror picture May written and directed by Lucky McKee. A loose retelling of Roman Polanski's Repulsion, May stars Angela Bettis as a girl who wants to make friends but lacks the ...
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Tragic death of indie film-maker Ted Demme
Ted Demme, the film director who most recently made Blow starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz, died tragically of a heart attack yesterday aged 37.Demme, the nephew of Oscar-winning film-maker Jonathan Demme, had forged a reputation as a film-loving commentator on the Independent Film Channel (IFC) as well as director ...
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Broadcast Critics shower kudos on A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind dominated the Broadcast Film Critics Association awards over the weekend, taking the awards for best film of the year as well as director for Ron Howard, actor for Russell Crowe and supporting actress Jennifer Connelly.Howard tied with Baz Luhrmann for the director prize for Moulin Rouge. Other ...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films gets US on Das Experiment
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Oliver Hirschbiegel's Das Experiment, the German box office hit which is also the Germany entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. The deal was struck by Joe Drake, president of Senator International which represents the film, with Samuel Goldwyn Films' ...