All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 129
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Ridley & Tony Scott sign three year deal with Fox
Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and their production outfit Scott Free have closed a three year-producing and directing deal with 20th Century Fox to develop and make movies with all producing divisions of Fox. In addition to producing films for Fox, the brothers have committed to direct at least one ...
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Melissa Mazgedian upped at Paramount int'l group
Melissa Mazgedian has been promoted to vice president, international motion pictures, for Paramount Pictures Motion Picture Group.Mazgedian will work closely with Paramount's international distribution unit United International Pictures (UIP) to coordinate sales and marketing for the international release of feature films. She will continue to report to Joanna Johnson, executive ...
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Apes passes $150m, AI $100m in international takes
Two more movies have hit powerful international box office milestones in the past week. 20th Century Fox's Planet Of The Apes topped the $150m mark over last weekend, while Warner Bros' AI Artificial Intelligence soared past $100m.Planet Of The Apes has now taken $156.4m after seven weeks on release. Over ...
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Michael Nathanson renews contract at MGM Pictures
Michael Nathanson, the president and COO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Pictures, has entered into a longterm agreement with MGM to remain in charge of the production division. He has been in the job since 1997 and is one of the few senior managers to have survived the transition of management at ...
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US theatres plan Sept 11 charity day next Tuesday
Theatre circuits across the US are banding together to create a "Victims Benefit Day at the Movies" next Tuesday (Sept 25) on which 100% of ticket and concession sales will be donated to the September 11th Fund of the United Way and the American Red Cross.50% of the proceeds will ...
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Lions Gate buys domestic on Lovely & Amazing
Lions Gate Films has bought North American theatrical distribution rights to Nicole Holofcener's Lovely & Amazing which screened yesterday at the Toronto International Film Festival - although its scheduled premiere screening on Tuesday was cancelled due to the terrorist attacks in the US. The film was first seen at the ...
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Toronto deals: Miramax close to Sun, Soldiers
Before coming to an abrupt halt, buying was hotting up at the Toronto International Film Festival with Miramax Films close to buying worldwide rights on Walter Salles' Behind The Sun and closing in domestic rights to Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers. Meanwhile Sony Pictures Classics is circling Jill Sprecher's ensemble piece ...
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Lot 47 acquires US rights to Inuit film Atanarjuat
Lot 47 Films has acquired US rights to the highly acclaimed Inuit film Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner directed by Zacharias Kunuk. The first film ever written in the Inuit language, Atanarjuat won the Camera d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and has played in the Edinburgh, Telluride and ...
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Sony Classics takes North America on Secret Ballot
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has bought North American rights to Secret Ballot (Raye Makhfi), the Iranian film written and directed by Babak Payami which won the Best Director award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. SPC acquired the title from Celluloid Dreams, the prolific French sales company which has ...
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Willi Geike gets expanded role at Warner Germany
Willi Geike, the well-respected head of Warner Bros' theatrical operations in Germany has been promoted and will now also oversee the home video unit for Germany and Austria. His newly created position is vice president & managing director, Warner Bros Pictures Germany and Warner Home Video, Germany & Austria.His expanded ...
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LA Film Fest moves to June, goes international
Independent Feature Project (IFP)/West is moving the Los Angeles Film Festival away from its April timeslot to June and has earmarked June 21-29 for next year's event. In addition, Rachel Rosen, most recently associate director of the San Francisco International Film Festival, has been named director of programming for the ...
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Strand buys two for US - Hush! & Lan Yu
Marcus Hu and Jon Gerrans' Strand Releasing has acquired US rights to two Asian films - Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan's latest picture Lan Yu and Japanese director Hashiguchi Ryosuke's romantic comedy Hush!Lan Yu is set in Beijing just before the Tiananmen Square revolt and tells the story of the ...
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Pressman & Schmidt team to form ContentFilm
Veteran producer Edward R Pressman and John Schmidt, a former partner in October Films, have teamed up to form a new company called ContentFilm which plans to finance, produce and arrange distribution on an initial slate of 12 to 15 features to be shot mainly on digital video with budgets ...
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Palm picks up worldwide rights to Sweetie Pie
Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Sweetie Pie, a digital feature film which marks the directorial debut of Asher Levin and Cisco Adler who have dubbed themselves The Lost Angels. Levin and Adler also wrote the film, and Adler produced it. Set against the backdrop of Southern ...
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The Musketeer leaps to top of US Box Office
The Musketeer, an athletic new version of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, led the pack at the North American box office over the weekend as the fall season kicked in. Independently financed by producers Moshe Diamant and Rudy Cohen and Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide, the film grossed an estimated $10.7m ...
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Chartier, Shapiro form sales & financing co
International sales executives Nicolas Chartier and Dean Shapiro have teamed up to found Vortex Pictures, a new financing and foreign sales outfit based in Santa Monica which already has three films on its books from Los Angeles production outfit Gold Circle Films.Chartier, who was formerly vice president of sales and ...
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Karlin & Green buy, remold Bjorck consultancy
International sales veterans Penny Karlin and Kelly Green have acquired Bjorck Film Corporation, the distribution consultancy founded by Lennart Bjorck in 1977 and renamed it Karlin-Green Media. Bjorck will remain with the company as a consultant.Karlin, who joined Bjorck in 1996 as president, and Green, who has been with the ...
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Erik Lomis named president of MGM Distribution Co
Erik Lomis has been named president of MGM Distribution Co, the distribution arm of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios. He will report to Bob Levin, president of worldwide theatrical marketing and distribution.Lomis, who was previously executive vice president, will continue to be responsible for the sales and distribution of the company's theatrical ...
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Chicago has cream of world cinema at Oct fest
The Chicago International Film Festival has unveiled 18 films which will screen in its next event (Oct 4-18) including some of the most acclaimed international titles from this year's festival circuit.Already lined up for Chicago are Nanni Moretti's Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Son's Room, Danis Tanovic's award-winning Bosnian drama ...
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MDP reports 45% increase in net income
LA independent sales and financing outfit MDP Worldwide Entertainment has reported its financial results for the third quarter ended June 30, 2001, and the first three quarters of the fiscal year. The company trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange.Those results show a 45% increase in net income of C$837,000 ($553,000) ...