All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 128
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Imperial renamed Comerica Entertainment Group
Entertainment lending group Imperial Entertainment Group has been renamed Comerica Entertainment Group, following the acquisition of Imperial Bank by Comerica in Jan this year.The completed merger gives the entertainment group, headed by president Morgan Rector, access to increased capital for financing entertainment projects and entities.Comerica Entertainment Group has financed large-scale ...
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Erin O'Neil joins Myriad as vp, m'ktg & publicity
Erin O'Neil has been named vice president of marketing and publicity at Myriad Pictures in Los Angeles. She will be responsible for international marketing and publicity campaigns for the company's production and acquisitions slate which includes Chen Kaige's Killing Me Softly, Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl and Dan Algrant's People ...
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Menemsha gets international rights to L.I.E.
Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment has acquired rights outside North America to Michael Cuesta's L.I.E. which is currently on release in the US through Lot 47 Films. The film world premiered in competition at this year's Sundance Film Festival and was one of the most critically acclaimed titles at the festival. ...
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Nadia Bronson hires Castaneda, O'Dell, Alves
Nadia Bronson, the former international marketing and distribution chief at Universal Pictures, has named three key staff hires at her new company - Nadia Bronson Associates, a one-stop consultancy for international distribution, marketing, promotions and creative services. All three had worked with Bronson at Universal. They are: - Thomas ...
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Word, Zoolander, Hearts revitalise US box office
Americans went back to the movies over the weekend as three new films opened well and box office was up 52% on last weekend and 26% up on the same weekend last year.20th Century Fox's psychological thriller Don't Say A Word, produced by New Regency Productions, was the box office ...
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MGM moves Windtalkers from Nov to summer 2002
Just weeks before its scheduled release, MGM Distribution Company has moved its epic war movie Windtalkers from Nov 9 to June 14, 2002, to avoid any uncertainties that might affect the box office in the wake of the Sept 11 tragedy.Windtalkers is one of the biggest films to emerge from ...
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Universal/UIP cook up $8m German opening for Pie 2
Universal Pictures and its international distribution operation UIP have scored the biggest opening of the year in Germany with American Pie 2. The comedy sequel took an estimated $8m in its first three days this weekend on 900 screens.The movie opened 4% ahead of Pearl Harbor, 17% ahead of Hannibal, ...
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Artisan valued at $160m after Landscape merger
After many months of pursuing strategic alliances, acquisitions and mergers, Artisan Entertainment has closed a deal, merging with Landscape Entertainment, the production company founded by former DreamWorks executive Bob Cooper and backed by Canadian conglomerate Bell Globemedia.The deal, closed last Wednesday, sees Canadian broadcaster CTV, a division of Bell Globemedia, ...
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Pathe, Lions Gate board John Cusack-starrer Max
Pathe Pictures and Lions Gate Films have boarded Menno Meyjes' directorial debut Max, formerly known as Hoffman, which will start principal photography in Hungary on Nov 5 with a cast headed by John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski and Molly Parker.Pathe International will handle international sales and Lions Gate domestic ...
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Academy Awards race starts to take shape
Abstracted from the weekly edition of Screen InternationalThe warm-up for the race for the Oscars began this week as two UK prestige pictures - Iris and Charlotte Gray - received official US release slots in December, joining what is fast becoming one of the most competitive seasons in years.On Dec ...
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Winchester's Last Orders goes to Sony Classics
Winchester Films has closed a multi-territory deal with Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) on Fred Schepisi's Last Orders which had its world premiere at the recent Toronto International Film Festival. SPC bought the film for North America, Scandinavia, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.The film, which was well-received by critics and ...
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US theatres raise $5m for Sept 11 charities
Tuesday's Victims' Benefit Day at the Movies - on which theatre owners and distributors donated all ticket and concessions sales to Sept 11 charities - raised over $5m for disaster relief.50 percent of the proceeds collected will be donated to the American Red Cross and 50 percent will be donated ...
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Kathy Morgan reelected to chair of AFMA
Kathy Morgan, the veteran sales agent and head of Kathy Morgan International, was re-elected chairman of AFMA (aka the American Film Marketing Association) yesterday during the group's annual membership meeting. She will serve another two-year term alongside other newly elected vice chairman Robert Meyers of Meyers Film Entertainment and newly ...
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Prozac Nation
Dir: Erik Skjoldbjaerg. US. 2001. 98 mins.As if proof were needed, Christina Ricci proves she is one of her generation's most fearless actors with a bold and nuanced performance in Prozac Nation, the film of Elizabeth Wurtzel's autobiographical book about youthful depression. Virtually on screen for the film's entire 98 ...
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Deanna Sanchez joins Myriad in business affairs
Deanna Sanchez has joined Myriad Pictures in Los Angeles as director of business affairs. She will be responsible for managing in-house business, operational and legal matters covering all aspects of theatrical features from development through distribution.She reports directly to David Miercourt, Myriad's senior vice president of business affairs.Prior to joining ...
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Absolument Fabuleux
Dir: Gabriel Aghion. France. 2001. 105 mins.A French feature film remake of the iconic BBC TV series, Absolument Fabuleux replaces its source material's uniquely vivacious humour with hamfisted slapstick and overcooked farce. Despite many inventive touches and amusing French renderings of the series' hallmarks, it suffers acutely in the translation. ...
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Iris, Charlotte dated for pre-Oscar US releases
Two high-powered British prestige pictures - Iris and Charlotte Gray - have been set for release in the US and Canada in December, meaning that they qualify for and indeed will be pushed for Oscar consideration.Neither had been certain to open this year. Warner Bros, which has US rights to ...
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Hardball leads the pack again over dismal weekend
It was one of the most dismal weekends of the year at the North American box office, down 7% from the same weekend last year and some 15% from last weekend. The reasons: two films due to open this weekend (Training Day and Big Trouble) were postponed, the one left ...
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Spence, Blackaby join San Francisco Film Festival
The San Francisco International Film Festival has recruited a new programming team for its upcoming 45th annual festival under newly appointed executive director Roxanne Messina Captor, an Emmy-nominated producer and director who joined the festival in Jan this year. Carl Spence joins San Francisco from the Seattle International Film Festival ...
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The Safety Of Objects
Dir: Rose Troche. US. 2001. 120 mins.The multi-story ensemble piece has become fashionable of late, to dazzling effect in the case of Amores Perros or Happiness and with more muddled results in Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her and What's Cooking' Rose Troche's third film The Safety ...