All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 126
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King, DiCaprio and Scorsese re-team for Alexander
Two years exactly since triggering a buying frenzy in London with Gangs Of New York, Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is to team with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese again on the ultimate indie epic - the story of Alexander The Great.King has bought the script Alexander in a ...
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Sacker and Savay-Ross form CUE
Neil Sacker and Julie Savay-Ross have teamed up to form Creative Union Entertainment (CUE), a new LA-based international sales and financing outfit which kicks off with Wesley Snipes-starrer When The Ride Is Ruff.Sacker, a former executive vice president, business and legal affairs at Miramax Films and senior counsel at Warner ...
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Beatrix Wesle joins Menemsha Entertainment
Beatrix Wesle, well-known on the European market circuit from stints at Advanced Medien and Tobis Filmkunst, has joined Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment as senior vice president of international sales.Based in Munich, Wesle will co-ordinate European financing and sales for Menemsha, which has built a reputation as a leading seller of ...
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Lions Gate takes int'l rights on Nine Queens
Lions Gate Films International has picked up international distribution rights to the Argentinian hit Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas) which was acquired for North American distribution earlier this year by Sony Pictures Classics. The pick-up echoes Lions Gate's acquisition of another Latin American movie, Amores Perros, which became a breakout hit ...
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Overseas takes Julie Walking Home worldwide
Overseas Filmgroup has acquired worldwide distribution on Agnieszka Holland's new film Julie Walking Home and has partnered with Pierce Brosnan's Irish Dreamtime to take on international sales on Bruce Beresford's Evelyn.Julie Walking Home, which is currently shooting in Holland's native Poland, stars Miranda Otto, Lothaire Bluteau and William Fichtner. It ...
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From Hell wins box office race
20th Century Fox scored another number one hit over the weekend as its R-rated Jack The Ripper thriller From Hell directed by Allen & Albert Hughes opened with an estimated $11.3m in North America.Starring Johnny Depp as a Scotland Yard inspector and Heather Graham as a Whitechapel prostitute and one ...
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Fiona Watts returns to Warner Bros marketing in LA
Fiona Watts, a veteran international marketing executive who spent ten years at Warner Bros Pictures from 1988 to 1998, is returning to the studio in Los Angeles after two years as a consultant in the UK.She is being appointed senior vice president, international marketing, reporting directly to Sue Kroll, president, ...
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Foreign films enjoy bumper year in North America
Sony Pictures Classics widened Jacques Rivette's Va Savoir from three to seven prints last weekend, scoring $67,268 for a fine $9,610 screen average. The success of that film, added to First Look's hit Italian release Bread And Tulips and Menemsha's long-running Philippine American hit The Debut ($64,670 on just six ...
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Himel & Jack join Drake at Senator International
Senator International, the LA sales arm of Germany's Senator Entertainment, has made a further two appointments, hiring Paula Himel as vice president, sales, and Brent Jack as vice president, international marketing.The announcement follows the appointment earlier this month of Brian Goldsmith as CFO and executive vice president of operations and ...
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Sandy Reisenbach to step down from Warner Bros
Hollywood marketing veteran Sandy Reisenbach, who is currently executive vice president, marketing and planning, at Warner Bros will step down from his day to day responsibilities at the end of the year and become an active consultant.He will continue to serve as a senior analyst to studio chairman and CEO ...
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Klein & Messick take up senior roles at Mutual
Producers Jennifer Klein and Kevin Messick are to join Mutual Film Co as senior production executives. Reporting to Mutual chief executives Gary Levinsohn and Don Granger, the two will be responsible for identifying and securing projects for the company to produce and finance as well as overseeing their development and ...
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Warner Bros takes over Kinowelt's New Line deals
New Line International's output arrangement with the financially troubled German distributor Kinowelt has finally unravelled. In a deal hammered out last week, Warner Bros has assumed the distribution of New Line Cinema features in all German-speaking territories, eastern Europe and Russia effective immediately and through 2003.The announcement was made in ...
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Graham King steps down from Splendid board
Graham King, the chief executive of Initial Entertainment Group (IEG), has stepped down from the board of Splendid Medien, the public German distributor which owns a 49% stake in IEG.The move comes as no surprise since the two operations have been somewhat estranged in the last few months, especially since ...
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Bandits underwhelms with $13.4m
Warner Bros' Training Day remained at the top of the box office over the weekend with an estimated $13.55m gross, some $90,000 more than MGM's Bandits which opened in second position with $13.46m. It was a disappointing performance for the action comedy starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate ...
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The Sales Co changes its name to The Works
London-based The Sales Company, one of the oldest sales operations in the business, has changed its name to The Works, a new brand which will be launched during the run up to London and MIFED.The new name coincides with a new modus operandi at the company under chief executive Aline ...
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Senator International to back Nothing from Natali
Vincenzo Natali, the Canadian film-maker behind Cube and Pandora's upcoming Company Man, has signed to direct the movie Nothing for Senator International.Senator is executive producing, providing principal financing for and will handle worldwide distribution on the film; The Klockworx Co holds all rights in Japan. It is the first Natali ...
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Yoshimitsu Kaji joins SPE Japan as mktg manager
Yoshimitsu Kaji has joined Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan (SPEJ) as theatrical marketing manager, having been marketing director at Warner Bros International Distribution for the last two years.Reporting jointly to Nigel Clark, executive vice president of international marketing for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) and to Keiko Aoki, general manager ...
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AFI Fest unveils lineup including new Jaglom pic
AFI Fest 2001, the Los Angeles International Film Festival, announced its full lineup at a reception on Wednesday night. Joining the already announced opening night film (Dark Blue World), centrepiece gala (Lantana) and closing night film (Monster's Ball) are 57 feature films including eight world premieres. 49% of the entire ...
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Alliance Atlantis buys int'l rights on Baran
Alliance Atlantis Pictures International has acquired international rights excluding Italy to Majid Majidi's Iranian drama Baran which played in the New York Film Festival this week.Miramax Films has rights in North America and Italy, and Alliance Atlantis will release the film through its ongoing distribution agreement in Canada.Baran, which won ...
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LA German Festival starts with The Tunnel on Nov 9
The second annual Festival Of German Cinema Los Angeles has been set for Nov 9-15, kicking off with Roland Suso Richter's The Tunnel and closing on Nov 15 with Oliver Hirschbiegel's The Experiment.Organised by the Export-Union Of German Cinema, the festival has confirmed the attendance of Richter and Hirschbiegl along ...