All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 124
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Harry flies past $200m, still at the top
Despite a strong assault by 20th Century Fox of patriotic war actioner Behind Enemy Lines (pictured), Warner Bros held on to the top spot for the third consecutive weekend with its blockbuster Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone which took an estimated $24.1m over the three days.Harry Potter's 17-day total ...
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Loeb & Loeb lawyer Greg Schenz joins Intermedia
Greg Schenz, formerly of LA entertainment law firm Loeb & Loeb LLP, has joined Intermedia's Los Angeles office as vice president, business/legal affairs. Schenz reports to vice chairman Jon Gumpert and focuses on film finance and talent transactions.As an associate at Loeb & Loeb, Schenz's practice focused on development, ...
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US PGA renames awards, adds two to Hall of Fame
The US Producers Guild Of America has renamed its annual awards from the Golden Laurel Awards to the Producers Guild Awards, and announced that The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Network (1976) will be inducted into its hall of fame.The awards will be presented at the 13th annual awards show will ...
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Children Underground, Startup.com share IDA prize
The International Documentary Association (IDA) has named its 2001 distinguished achievement awards to be presented on Dec 7 in Los Angeles. Edet Belzberg's Children Underground and Startup.com co-directed by Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujam share the top honours in the feature length competition.Eric Simonson's On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps To Freedom ...
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ThinkFilm buys Sundance premiere Altar Boys
Canadian-financed North American distributor ThinkFilm has picked up all North American rights to Peter Care's The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys which will receive its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next year.The film is produced by Jodie Foster's Egg Pictures and stars Foster along with Kieran Culkin, Jena ...
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Universal targets Latino market with Arenas Group
Universal Pictures has teamed up with The Arenas Group, an advertising, PR and talent management firm focused on the US Latino market, to form Arenas Entertainment, a new film label to acquire, produce, finance, market and distribute films for Hispanic audiences worldwide.The deal was struck to form the company by ...
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Spy Game opens well, but trails Harry and Monsters
It was another phenomenal weekend for Warner Bros' Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone across North America. Over Thanksgiving Weekend, the film took a mighty estimated $58.5m from Friday to Sunday and a whopping $83.5m for the five-day period Thursday to Sunday (the official holiday was last Thursday). Those were ...
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Artisan gets Kushner-Locke rights in North America
Artisan Entertainment has secured the North American rights to service the library assets of The Kushner-Locke Company. Subject to bankruptcy court approval, Artisan will become the sales agent controlling North American TV and home entertainment rights to over 300 Kushner-Locke titles.The titles produced or licensed by Kushner-Locke include feature films, ...
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The New Hollywood style: Part II
Abstracted from Screen International - Part IITo read the previous article, enter: Mike Goodridge into the Screendaily search barPivotal to the symbiotic relationships developing between the US studios and independent production companies lies the purchasing power of TV. "What international broadcasters want is big-budget movies," explains Jay Firestone, chairman and ...
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Universal crosses $1bn in international grosses
Universal Pictures became the first Hollywood studio this year to cross the $1bn mark in international grosses over the weekend. It is only the second time in the studio's history - 1999 was the first - that the milestone was crossed and continues a blisteringly successful year for the company ...
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USA Films picks up star-laden Eight Women
USA Films has acquired domestic distribution rights to Francois Ozon's Eight Women - the all-star French musical murder mystery produced by Marc Missonier and Olivier Delbosc of Fidelite Productions. The deal was made with French sales agent Celluloid Dreams.Eight Women features eight French screen actresses - including the legendary Catherine ...
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Clooney, Soderbergh together again on Solaris
Actor George Clooney and director Steven Soderbergh are reteaming for the third time on Solaris, an erotically charged film version of Stanislaw Lem's 1961 science fiction novel which will start production in April 2002 for James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment and 20th Century Fox. Clooney will star in the film which ...
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US is wild about Harry
Warner Bros scored the biggest opening in North American box office history over the weekend as Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, the film of the best-selling novel by JK Rowling, grossed a phenomenal estimated $93.5m in the three day period from Friday to Sunday.The film also broke the ...
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Nadia Bronson & Associates buys stake in DDA
Nadia Bronson & Associates (NB&A), the entertainment consultancy launched by industry veteran Bronson at Cannes this year, has formalised its relationship with Dennis Davidson & Associates (DDA) taking a minority equity stake in the longstanding PR consultancy. Bronson and associate Thomas Castaneda immediately join Davidson and partner, president and CEO ...
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Soderbergh's next gets new title - Full Frontal
Steven Soderbergh's next film, formerly known as How To Survive A Hotel Room Fire has been retitled Full Frontal, and has begun production (Nov 6) in Los Angeles.Financed and distributed worldwide by Miramax Films, the contemporary comedy - a sequel "of sorts" to sex, lies and videotape - has an ...
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Pathe acquires UK rights to Dog Soldiers
Pathe Distribution has acquired UK rights to horror thriller Dog Soldiers from Victor Films following a bidding war for the film at London Screenings and MIFED.The film, produced by LA-based Kismet Entertainment, had its premiere screening at London. "The picture screened so well in London that we were confident it ...
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The new Hollywood style: co-dependents
Abstracted from Screen International in three parts: Part IIt's an ongoing process, but the balance of power in Hollywood is shifting out of all recognition. With more films now co-financed between independents and the seven Hollywood majors (49 out of the 101 to be released this year), it seems any ...
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Palm Springs Film Fest 2002 set for Jan 10-21
The 13th annual Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival will take place in Palm Springs, California, from Jan 10 to 21, 2002, with the deadline for submissions set as Nov 15, 2001. The festival was co-founded by Sonny Bono and festival director Denis Pregnolato in 1989 and last year ...
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Radar Pictures signs three international partners
Ted Field's Radar Pictures has sealed three longterm strategic partnerships with foreign distributors - TMG/Concorde in Germany, Lauren Film in Spain and Sandrew Metronome International in Scandinavia - as part of its efforts to become a co-financier of its own productions.The deals were struck by Radar's exclusive sales agent Good ...
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New Country, No Man's Land win top AFI Fest prizes
Swedish road movie The New Country and Bosnian favourite No Man's Land won the top awards at this year's AFI International Film Festival in Los Angeles, which finished last night with the world premiere of Marc Forster's Monster's Ball.The New Country, directed by Geir Hansteen Jorgensen, won the jury's feature ...