All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 127
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Ford, Delaney, Martinez promoted at Fireworks
LA-based Fireworks Pictures, a subsidiary of Jay Firestone's Canwest Entertainment, has promoted three key staff in its business affairs and sales departments.Maura Ford (nee Hoy) has been promoted to vice president of operations from her previous position as director of international sales. She joined Fireworks in 1999 in a primary ...
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All About Lily Chou Chou
Dir: Shunji Iwai. Japan. 2001. 146 mins.If you thought Tim Blake Nelson's O was an edgy high school movie, take a look at Shunji Iwai's latest film All About Lily Chou Chou - a harrowing portrait of contemporary teenagers in a Japanese school where casual violence, pimping, rape and murder ...
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Senator International hires Goldsmith & Call
LA-based Senator International, the US production and distribution arm of Germany's Senator Entertainment, has made two key appointments, hiring Brian Goldsmith as chief financial officer and executive vice president of operations and Paula Call as senior vice president of business and legal affairs.Goldsmith first consulted for Senator International on Luis ...
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GMI acquires sales rights to Zhou Yu's Train
Good Machine International (GMI) has acquired worldwide sales rights outside Chinese-language Asia, Latin America and the English-language territories to Zhou Yu's Train starring Gong Li and Tony Leung.Directed by Sun Zhou and written by Sun, Bai Chun and Zhang Mei, Zhou Yu's Train is currently in production in the province ...
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Warner Germany scores smash with Polar Bear
Warner Bros Germany has scored a record-breaking opening with its locally produced family entertainment picture The Little Polar Bear (Der Kleine Eisbar), taking DM4,320,651 ($2.04m) on 477 prints over the weekend.The animated German-language film co-produced by Warner Bros Germany with Cartoon Film is the best opening of the year for ...
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Moulin Rouge opens with tuneful $1.9m in France
20th Century Fox scored a powerful opening for Moulin Rouge in France where six months ago the film world premiered as the opening night film of the Cannes International Film Festival. The film's five day total was $1.893m on 343 screens, making it the number one film in France over ...
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Premiere Grp takes US on Electric/Storm's Preacher
Mitch Goldman's new US distribution operation The Premiere Group has signed to handle domestic rights on Preacher, a $22m feature of the comic book series by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon which is being produced by Rupert Harvey's Electric Entertainment and H Michael Heuser's Storm Entertainment.Rachel Talalay (Tank ...
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Bickel sets up new sales outfit at Lexington Ent
Steve Bickel, the international sales veteran who most recently headed sales for The Shooting Gallery, has joined Jeffrey Kramer's Lexington Entertainment Group to head a new sales and marketing venture called Aura Entertainment. He will represent in-house productions, acquire independent and foreign features and selectively develop and produce his own ...
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Speaking Of Sex to close Chicago Film Festival
John McNaughton's comedy Speaking Of Sex will have its world premiere as the closing night film of the Chicago International Film Festival on Oct 18.The film stars James Spader as an over-sexed therapist who becomes involved with a new client (Melora Walters) while a rival doctor (Lara Flynn Boyle) is ...
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Dark Blue World opens AFI Fest, Ball to close it
Jan Sverak's Dark Blue World - distributed in the US by Sony Pictures Classics - will open the AFI Fest 2001 on Nov 1 in Los Angeles, while Marc Forster's Monster's Ball - fully financed by Lions Gate Films - will have its world premiere as the closing night film ...
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Cobalt to finance Chin's Cambodia-set actioner
Cobalt Media Group has teamed up with writer/producer Stephen Chin on Last Place On Earth, an action drama set in Cambodia on the eve of the UN-supervised elections which Chin wrote.Chin will also produce Last Place On Earth, with Cobalt arranging production finance and handling international sales through its London ...
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Training Day opens to $24.2m
Warner Bros' police drama Training Day conquered the box office with ease over the weekend, ending studio fears that audiences wouldn't respond to a story about a crooked cop and validating the move of the film from its original Sept 21 release date. The film grossed a powerful estimated $24.2m ...
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Catch 23 secures credit facility with Comerica
Catch 23 Entertainment, the LA-based production company founded by financier Robert B Sturm, has completed a multi-million dollar credit facility with Comerica Entertainment Group, a division of Comerica Bank Of California.The proceeds from the facility will provide Catch 23 with additional film financing and development capital and will be used ...
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Pliny Porter named production head at Fireworks
Pliny Porter has joined CanWest-owned FireWorks Pictures as head of production and development. He will work with CanWest Entertainment chairman and CEO Jay Firestone and Fireworks president Daniel Diamond in growing the company's production and development activities. He joins the company, which is enjoying current success with Rat Race and ...
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Moulin Rouge worldwide gross passes $100m mark
20th Century Fox's Moulin Rouge passed the $100m mark at the worldwide box office over the weekend, its total gross reaching $102.257m. Its domestic total after 19 weeks on release is $56.58m The movie opened in Italy, Belgium and Norway over the weekend, taking $0.707m on 150 screens in Italy, ...
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Laszlo Kovacs wins ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
Laszlo Kovacs will receive this year's Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society Of Cinematographers (ASC) at the 16th annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards on Feb 17, 2002, in Los Angeles.Kovacs, who was raised in communist Hungary, came to the US in 1957 as a political refugee. He made his ...
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Showcase Entertainment acquires Frost, Judgment
LA-based Showcase Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to action/horror movie Frost: Portrait Of A Vampire written and directed by Kevin VanHook, and international rights to Christian thriller Judgment.Frost is based on the comic book series Jack Frost also created by VanHook. It stars Gary Busey as a former mercenary who ...
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Edges Of The Lord opens Hamptons Film Fest
The ninth annual Hamptons International Film Festival, which takes place Oct 17-21 in East Hampton, Sag Harbor and Westhampton Beach in New York, will feature 11 world premieres including opening night film Edges Of The Lord starring Haley Joel Osment and Willem Dafoe and directed by Yurek Bogayevicz. Miramax Films ...
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Soon En Wong named Asian m'ktg director at CTFDI
Soon En Wong has been named marketing director, Asia, for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International. In his new position, Wong will supervise marketing and promotions activities in the region for all titles produced locally by the studio's Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia division.Based in Hong Kong, Wong will work with ...
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Warner Bros promotes Gornell, Nolan, Schneider
Warner Bros Pictures has made three senior promotions in its London-based international marketing division. Con Gornell has been named senior vice president, European theatrical marketing, Conor Nolan has been promoted to vice president European promotions and special events, and Armin Schneider has been named vice president, European publicity. The promotions ...