All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 122
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Beautiful Mind, Ring top Broadcast Critics noms
The US Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced its nominees for the seventh annual Critics Choice Awards which will be announced on Jan 11 in Los Angeles. Leading the way with five nominations was A Beautiful Mind followed by The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring ...
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Dimension, Storyopolis plan Opus animated film
Dimension Films has acquired the rights to develop and produce an animated feature based on the cartoon character Opus, a penguin who first appeared in the first year of Bloom County in 1980. The project is the first film to come from the newly established first-look deal between Dimension and ...
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Artisan Pictures revs up with Garbo Deception
Artisan Pictures has announced its first script project since Artisan Entertainment merged with Bob Cooper's Landscape Entertainment in Sept and Cooper took over as CEO of Artisan Pictures.The company has hired screenwriter Bill Wheeler to draft the feature film script The Garbo Deception based on actual source material recounting the ...
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Kate & Leopold
Dir: James Mangold. US. 2001. 120minsSo here's the pitch: a 19th-century English duke gets caught up in a time warp and is transported from New York in 1876 to 2001 where he meets a high-powered career woman. After much comedy derived from the differences between the two, they fall in ...
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BVI tops $1bn for seventh consecutive year
Buena Vista International (BVI) has become the third distributor this year to cross the $1bn barrier at the international box office, making it seven years in a row for the company. The battle charge was led by Pearl Harbor which took $251.5m in overseas territories, over $50m more than in ...
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Harry has $45m weekend in international market
Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone showed no signs of crumbling fast over the weekend, taking a massive $45.3m or 8.8m admissions from 8,378 prints in 39 countries. Its international total now stands at $313.16m, its worldwide cumulative total at $570m.Over the weekend, the film opened in Korea with an ...
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AFI announces first annual award nominations
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced its nominations for the first annual AFI Awards 2001.which will be presented on Jan 5, 2002, in Los Angeles. Two 13-member committees - one representing films and one representing TV - made the nominations; a 100-person AFI jury will select the award-winners.The film ...
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Universal sets The Hulk for June 2003
Joining a trend for dating movies over 18 months in advance, Universal Pictures has announced that it will open Ang Lee's comic book adventure The Hulk on June 20, 2003. Earlier this month, 20th Century Fox announced that it would open X2, the sequel to X-Men, on May 2, 2003, ...
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Charlotte Gray
Dir: Gillian Armstrong. UK-US. 2001. 121minsWith such elegant novel adaptations previously like Little Women and the under-rated Oscar And Lucinda, it is disappointing to see film-maker Gillian Armstrong falter somewhat in her respectable but muddled film of Sebastian Faulks' best-selling novel Charlotte Gray. The story of a Scottish woman ...
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Cruise hits the top spot again with Vanilla Sky
Tom Cruise proved once again why he is one of the world's biggest box office stars as his R-rated love story-cum-sci-fi fantasy Vanilla Sky opened over the weekend with $25m from 2,742 sites. The Paramount Pictures release, one of the rare pictures for which Paramount has worldwide distribution, had been ...
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Summit, Mandalay extend relationship till 2004
International sales, production and financing outfit Summit Entertainment has renewed its relationship with Peter Guber's Mandalay Pictures for another three year term starting Jan 2002. Summit has provided international sales and distribution for Mandalay since Guber founded the company in 1995, servicing its movies with international partners through its domestic ...
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Winstar bought out, renamed Wellspring Media
Winstar TV & Video, the entertainment arm of Winstar Communications, has been bought out by a group of private investors and re-named Wellspring Media. The buyout includes the theatrical division, Winstar Cinema, as well as the TV, home video, production and direct distribution units.Winstar TV & Video president Al Cattabiani ...
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Paramount Classics buys Jaglom's Cannes comedy
Paramount Classics has acquired rights in North America, Australia & New Zealand, Latin America and Japan to Henry Jaglom's Festival In Cannes - a romantic comedy set among the highrollers of the international film business and shot during the Cannes International Film Festival itself.The movie, which had its world premiere ...
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Palm Springs Fest to open with Monsoon Wedding
Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding, which won the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival, has been named as the opening night film at the 13th annual Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival which will be held Jan 10-21, 2002.A total of 150 films will screen from 45 countries ...
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LA critics choose In The Bedroom as best picture
Todd Field's In The Bedroom continued its winning streak with the end-of-year critics associations, winning the Best Picture of The Year award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) on Saturday night. David Lynch's Mulholland Drive - another frequent citation in the awards to date - was runner-up.Lynch was ...
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Harry to get speedy release in China in Jan, 2002
Warner Bros has set a release date for its worldwide blockbuster Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone in China. The film will open in advance of the Chinese New Year on Jan 31 and continue to play through the Chinese New Year holiday period (Feb 12-18), a period which has ...
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Mulholland Drive is top choice of New York critics
David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (pictured here), a film that was rescued by France's StudioCanal after being rejected as a pilot for US network TV, has been named this year's Best Picture by the New York Film Critics Circle - although the film didn't win a single other award during deliberations ...
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Artisan teams with National Lampoon on Wilder
Artisan Pictures is teaming up with National Lampoon to release college comedy Van Wilder: Party Liaison in North America on March 29, 2002. Set to launch in over 2,000 theatres, the film will be redubbed National Lampoon's Van Wilder as a throwback to the 1978 college hit National Lampoon's Animal ...
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Sundance sets 11 for Screenwriters Lab
The Sundance Institute has named the 11 projects which have been selected for the annual Screenwriters Lab which takes place Jan 4 to 9 at the Sundance Village in Utah just prior to the Suncance Film Festival.At the Lab, writers are given the opportunity to develop their work-in-progress screenplays in ...
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Fox sets X2 release for May 2, 2003
Laying claim to a choice release date 18 months ahead of time, 20th Century Fox has announced that it will release X2, the second film in its X-Men franchise, on May 2, 2003.The dating comes in the week that Warner Bros secured domestic rights to Terminator 3: The Rise Of ...