All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 125
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Miramax prepares ingenue for Oscar run
Abstracted from the weekly edition of Screen InternationalNo doubt smarting at missing out on foreign-language megahit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon last year, Miramax Films has done everything in its considerable power this year to bag the cream of the world crop.But all its many international pick-ups this year - which ...
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Fireworks, Samuel Goldwyn pick up Me Without You
Fireworks Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have acquired all North American rights to Sandra Goldbacher's female relationship drama Me Without You.The US partners bought the film, which stars Michelle Williams, Anna Friel and Kyle MacLachlan, from the UK's Capitol Films. The acquisition was announced by Meyer Gottlieb, president of Samuel ...
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Columbia, Winchester take over New Best Friend
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group and UK and US-based Winchester Films have taken over New Best Friend, the college-age drama which was originally on MGM's slate for the US.Columbia has taken North and Latin American and Asian rights excluding Japan and Korea on the picture, formerly known as Mary Jane's ...
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Lions Gate seals deals on three key titles
Lions Gate International has closed key territory sales on its three hottest titles - Bret Easton Ellis adaptation Rules Of Attraction, Argentinian thriller Nine Queens and drama Monster's Ball.Icon Entertainment bought UK, Australia and New Zealand on Rules Of Attraction which stars James Van Der Beek and Kip Pardue. Metropolitan ...
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Mosaic's Roven assesses Till synergy
A day after unveiling a production deal with Stewart Till's new distribution network, Mosaic Media Group producer Charles Roven says he is now studying how the deal can work in synergy with his existing MGM, Helkon Media and Toho-Towa partnership."We believe that there is a great possibility that the two ...
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Franchise boards Ryan and Douglas & Crystal pics
Elie Samaha's Franchise Pictures, which has a five year co-financing and domestic distribution deal with Warner Bros, has boarded Meg Ryan starrer Against The Ropes with Paramount and taken international rights on Warner's remake of The In-Laws to star Michael Douglas and Billy Crystal.Against The Ropes marks the first collaboration ...
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Myriad Pictures to finance Imagining Argentina
Myriad Pictures is to fully finance and handle worldwide rights on Imagining Argentina, a film based on the Lawrence Thornton novel which is set to star Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson. Myriad is in discussions with Spanish and UK co-production partners on the project which will be shot in Spain ...
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Sony Pictures Classics in multi-territory deals
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has revisited two former domestic acquisitions - Renaissance Films' The Luzhin Defence and Winchester Films' Last Orders to pick up additional territories. On the former, it has bought Germany and Australia/New Zealand and on the latter it has bought Germany.The moves not only signify the increasing ...
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Universal's K-PAX takes the crown at box office
K-PAX, the Universal drama starring Kevin Spacey as a man who claims he's an alien, opened at the top of the North American box office with an impressive estimated three-day gross of $17.5m. The movie was co-financed by Intermedia, which screened it to international buyers for the first time at ...
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Greg Sims launches Iron Entertainment
Devin International president Greg H Sims has launched a new company called Iron Entertainment with US theatrical and home video distribution capacity as well as financing, production and sales. Sims is joined in the outfit by Herbert N Dorfman, the former president of Orion Home Video, who has been named ...
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Good Machine ties up Almodovar, Parker deals
Good Machine International (GMI) has tied up key territory sales on Pedro Almodovar's latest picture Hable Con Ella (Talk To Her) and Oliver Parker's The Importance Of Being Earnest. But the deals were not done at Mifed. GMI did most of its business in London last week and president David ...
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Miramax strikes a host of long distance sales
Miramax International may have opted not to attend London and MIFED but it is closing deals by phone in New York and has sold a four-picture package to Gaga Communications for Japan. Gaga, the only Japanese buyer attending the markets in force, stopped in New York en route to London ...
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London: Intermedia in discussions to buy IEG
Intermedia, the independent giant which floated on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt 18 months ago, is in discussions to buy Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG), the independent maverick which has backed mega-projects such as Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York and Michael Mann's Ali.Buyers at London Screenings this ...
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Warner Germany strikes deal with Target Media
Warner Bros Pictures Germany has entered into a long-term, multi-picture deal with Target Media Entertainment covering the production and distribution of German- and English-language films to be released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Target Media is a recently established, Berlin-based joint venture betweeen Cartoon Film, Comet Film, Cometstone International and ...
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Paramount Classics goes for Mostly Martha
Paramount Classics has acquired North American, other English-speaking and Lation American distribution rights to Mostly Martha, the German-language romantic comedy written and directed by Sandara Nettelback, from Bavaria Film International. The film, which world premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and then screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, stars ...
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Amelie joins cast of foreign-language Oscar race
The foreign-language Oscar race hotted up yesterday as Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain aka Amelie was named the French submission for the Academy Award, ending speculation that other French films might deprive the phenomenal hit of its chance in the Hollywood spotlight.The submission now gives US distributor Miramax ...
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IEG signs on to Douglas' Racing With Monsoons
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is deepening its in-house production programme, striking a deal with Michael Douglas' Furthur Films to develop and finance Racing With Monsoons.The action-adventure is written by Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, who co-wrote Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom and American Graffitti. Set in ...
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Renaissance finds domestic safety in double deal
The UK's Renaissance Films has seen two of its productions secure North American distribution homes, with Paramount Classics taking domestic and a slew of international rights to Paul McGuigan's The Reckoning and now also IFC Films grabbing domestic rights to Rose Troche's The Safety Of Objects. Both deals were confirmed ...
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Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn gets Myriad money
Myriad Pictures has committed to fully finance romantic comedy Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn, which is set to star Jennifer Love Hewitt.Hewitt, who herself played Hepburn in a recent ABC miniseries, will be directed by Ryan Murphy, the writer and producer of hit US TV show Popular. She plays ...
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Global starts pre-sales on Six Bullets From Now
Peter Elson's Global Cinema Group is launching pre-sales on Ridley Scott-produced action film Six Bullets From Now, one of three titles the US sales outfit is handling for Los Angeles production operation Miracle Entertainment.Stephen Kay, whose credits include The Last Time I Committed Suicide and Get Carter, is directing the ...