All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 121
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Lord Of The Rings strides past $200m
The Lord Of The Rings continued to dominate the North American box office crossing the $200m barrier with a $23m take in its third weekend, while Warner Bros' Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone crossed the $300m mark after eight weeks on release.Playing at 3,381 theatres, the epic three hour ...
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Navarre gets DVD/VHS rights to three from Halicki
Navarre Corporation, a US distributor of PC software, music and home video, has acquired domestic rights to distribute three more action films made by the late HB Halicki on DVD and VHS following its successful re-release of Gone In 60 Seconds last year. The films are The Junkman, Deadline Auto ...
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Mulholland Drive is National Critics' choice
Mulholland Drive was named best picture of 2001 by the influential National Society Of Film Critics on Saturday, completing a remarkable run of success for David Lynch's film which began with a best director prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.The National Society which comprises 52 of the country's leading ...
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AFI Awards go for Lord Of The Rings, Sopranos
The inaugural American Film Institute (AFI ) Awards took place on Saturday night in Los Angeles, awarding its top prizes to The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring for film and The Sopranos for television. Few winners (eight out of 20) actually attended the ceremony - yet ...
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New deals increase US focus for Intermedia
It was a muddy picture at Intermedia parent International Media in the New Year as news, some authorised, some not, trickled out of the independent giant - in one of its most tumultuous periods of growth since floating on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt in May 1999. Co-chairman Moritz Bormann travelled between ...
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2001's $8bn US BO total is a mixed blessing
The $8bn mark may have been broken at the North American box office in 2001, but it was a mixed celebration among the Hollywood majors. Up by 8.5% from 2000's record $7.7bn, the year's total of $8.3bn reflected a rise in ticket prices as opposed to an increase in admissions, ...
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C-2, Intermedia seal T3 int'l deal with CTFDI
Intermedia and C-2 Pictureshave concluded a deal for the majority of international distribution rights onTerminator3: Rise Of The Machines withColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI). Warner Bros hasdomestic rights to the film, and per an agreement made between C-2 prior toIntermedia's involvement, Toho-Towa has the option on Japanese rights.C-2 had ...
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Wise Girls, new Pennebaker/Hegedus join Sundance
The Sundance Film Festivalhas announced several special screenings at this year's event which takesplace from Jan 10-20 in Park City, Utah.They include Wise Girls starring Mira Sorvino and Mariah Carey, Only TheStrong Survive directed by DAPennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Love The Hard Way directed by Peter Sehr and Alfonso Cuaron'sMexican ...
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Rings sparkle for New Line: $350m in 14 days
Shaping up as the fastestgrossing film in history, New Line Cinema'sThe Fellowship Of The Ring, the first in its Lord Of The Rings trilogy, has crossed the $350m barrier at the globalbox office in just two weeks on over 8,000 prints.At the end of Tuesday (NewYear's Day), the film had ...
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New Line's Fellowship is New Year box office champ
New Line Cinema championed the box office for the second weekend in a row as The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring brought in an estimated $37.4m in the Friday to Sunday period Dec 28 to 30. The 178 minute epic played at 3,359 theatres for a ...
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$133.3m in five days for Lord Of The Rings
It was one of the biggest financial risks in the history of the movies, but The Lord Of The Rings has so far paid off handsomely for New Line Cinema. Since Wednesday, The Fellowship Of The Ring, the first in the trilogy of films, grossed $133.3m in 23 territories including ...
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Lord Of The Rings a triumph: $73.1m in five days
It was a spectacular launch, as expected, for New Line Cinema's The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring in the domestic market, taking $73.1m in the five day period from Wednesday to Sunday. In the three day weekend (Fri to Sun), it took $45.25m - a record ...
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Guy East & Nigel Sinclair set to depart Intermedia
Intermedia co-chiefs Guy East and Nigel Sinclair are understood be leaving the indie powerhouse they co-founded, taking the first opportunity to cash in their shares following the company’s flotation.The two executives, who are currently negotiating their exits, could earn up to $60 million each before any deductions by selling their ...
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Sundance launches second online film festival
The second Sundance Online Film Festival started online yesterday at www.sundanceonlinefestival.org, showcasing a selection of new work designed specifically for the web.21 projects are being presented featuring animation, live-action, documentary, interactive, new form and selected shorts from the Sundance Film Festival shorts programme. The festival will run online, sponsored by ...
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Odeon buys Canadian rights to Atanarjuat
Odeon Films, the Canadian specialised distribution arm of Alliance Atlantis, has picked up Canadian rights to Zacharias Kunuk's acclaimed Inuit film Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner, Canada's submission to the foreign language film Oscar category.The film, an action thriller set in ancient Igloolik, won the Camera d'Or for best first ...
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Veteran Warner executive Richard Ma dies at 81
Long-time Warner Bros film executive Richard Ma has died in Canada at the age of 81.Ma joined Warner Bros Pictures in 1945 as assistant manager in the company's Hong Kong office. He held several positions with the company in Hong Kong, New York and Burbank, working his way up through ...
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Beautiful Mind, Moulin Rouge lead Globe nods
A Beautiful Mind and Moulin Rouge came out top in the nominations for the 59th Golden Globe Awards which were announced this morning (Dec 20) in Los Angeles. The films scored six nominations apiece, A Beautiful Mind leading the way in the best drama categories and Moulin Rouge in the ...
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Miramax nears $1bn in worldwide grosses for 2001
Miramax Films has broken a company record for annual worldwide gross in 2001, taking some $950m so far this year and expecting to pass the $1bn mark by year end. Domestic takes from the Miramax and Dimension labels totalled over $600m while international totals through Miramax International partners came to ...
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Curb acquires Dummy with Brody, Jovovich
LA-based sales outfit Curb Entertainment has acquired international distribution rights to Greg Pritikin's romantic comedy Dummy starring Adrien Brody, Illeana Douglas and Milla Jovovich.Brody stars as a shy, unemployed ventriloquist who falls in love with his employment counselor. The film was produced by Richard Temtchine and Bob Fagan through Quadrant ...
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Ross Landsbaum joins Miramax as evp, CFO
Miramax Films has hired Ross Landsbaum as executive vice president of finance and operations and chief financial officer. He will oversee the company's finance, accounting, reporting, information systems, facilities and human resources as well as working on new financial arrangements for film projects.He will report directly to co-chairman Bob and ...