All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 134
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Rival Palm Springs Festival set for October
Craig Prater, former executive director of the Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival, has launched a rival - and competitive - festival in the Palm Springs region called Festival Of Festivals.Set to take place this year between Oct 25 and Nov 4, the new event will screen films in ...
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Kuhn realises Euro studio dream with Fox, Citibank
Former PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE) chief Michael Kuhn is back at the helm of a European-based film powerhouse after unveiling backing from US studio 20th Century Fox and financing house Citibank in London.Kuhn's London-based production and financing outfit Kuhn & Co has struck a multi-picture distribution deal with Fox, which ...
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Tortilla Soup
Dir: Maria Ripoll. US. 2001. 103mins.Here's a conundrum: this remake - or rather "Mexican American retelling" - of Ang Lee's 1994 Oscar-nominated Taiwanese film Eat Drink Man Woman is well crafted and for the most part pleasantly diverting. But why remake a hit specialised movie into another specialised movie' Surely ...
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Final
Dir: Campbell Scott. US. 2001. 111mins.Campbell Scott, who co-directed the hit Big Night in 1996 with Stanley Tucci, finally gets back behind the camera with Final, the fourth digital video production from IFC-backed IndiGent after Bruce Wagner's Women In Film, Richard Linklater's Tape and Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls. Unlike Chelsea ...
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TLA sets up US distribution label with First Run
Philadelphia-based US home video distributor TLA Entertainment Group has launched a new label for alternative films called TLA Releasing and teamed with theatrical distributor First Run Features to release the films theatrically in North America.The first films to be released by the label are Spin The Bottle, a US indie ...
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Artisan in talks to buy Lions Gate Entertainment
After a stormy year in which senior executives have left its ranks, a much-ballyhooed public offering failed to take off and it put itself up for sale, Artisan Entertainment has shifted strategy, taken itself off the block and begun negotiations to buy publicly traded Vancouver-based entertainment indie Lions Gate Entertainment ...
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Strictly Sinatra
Dir: Peter Capaldi. UK. 2001. 97 mins.Peter Capaldi, an actor who made award-winning short film It's A Wonderful Life, makes an assured directorial debut with this darkly comic drama which he also wrote. Boosted by appealing performances by two of Britain's finest young actors, Ian Hart and Kelly Macdonald, and ...
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The Fast And The Furious takes massive $41m
Universal Pictures continued a spectacular summer at the box office over the weekend with a massive $41m take for its high-speed racing car actioner The Fast And The Furious (pictured left). Playing at 2,628 sites, the film, which is directed by Rob Cohen (Daylight, Dragonheart), cost only $38m to produce ...
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Shooting Gallery postpones Fall Film Series
Financially troubled US independent producer/distributor The Shooting Gallery will not release any films through its pioneering film series until 2002. The company has confirmed that the fall series which would release six new titles into 17 major US markets through its partnership with exhibitor Loews Cineplex Entertainment and sponsorship partners ...
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Amy Koster promoted at Paramount
Amy Koster has been promoted to executive director of creative advertising for the motion picture group of Paramount Pictures, continuing to report to Lucia Ludovico, executive vice president of creative advertising and print. In her new position, Koster will work on the development and implementation of creative print advertising and ...
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MGM warns lower revenues for year 2001
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) has warned that its second quarter results for the year as well as its full fiscal year 2001 results will be lower than anticipated "as a result of two theatrical releases which did not meet the company's expectations."Revenues for the second quarter ending June 30, 2001, are expected ...
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Christine Vachon gets Outfest 2001 Award
New York-based independent producer Christine Vachon will receive the 2001 Outfest Achievement Award at this year's Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, next month.Vachon, a pioneer in gay cinema and a partner in Killer Films, has credits including this year's opening night film at Outfest Hedwig And ...
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Columbia buys new territories on Senator thriller
Joe Drake's Senator International has concluded a second multiple-territory deal with Columbia Pictures on Luis Mandoki's action thriller 24 Hours starring Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon, Courtney Love and Stuart Townsend.Columbia had already struck a deal for North America, Spain, Latin America, Benelux, Asia (excluding Japan), Greece, Portugal, Middle East and ...
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Woody Allen eyes Cannes for Hollywood Endings
Woody Allen has completed post-production on his 34th film Hollywood Endings -- co-financed by DreamWorks SKG and Germany's VCL -- and told international press this weekend that he thinks it is his funniest film in years. He added that he is hoping that it will be presented at the Cannes ...
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Creative Light buys international rights to Summer
LA-based sales company Creative Light Worldwide has picked up international rights to Wet Hot American Summer, the summer camp comedy which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. USA Films has domestic rights and will release the film in New York on July 27.The film stars Janeane Garofalo, David ...
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Bob Levin named MGM distribution & marketing chief
Bob Levin, the former head of marketing at both Sony Pictures and The Walt Disney Co, has been named president, worldwide theatrical marketing and distribution, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Distribution Co, uniting into a single job the posts currently held by Larry Gleason, head of worldwide distribution, and Gerry Rich, head ...
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Thomas Garry joins Lew Horwitz Organization
Thomas Garry has been named vice president and entertainment banker at LA-based independent film lending outfit The Lewis Horwitz Organization. Garry, formerly with Union Bank Of California and Sumitomo Bank, joins after arranging financing at Union Bank for films including Three Kings, End Of Days, The Hurricane, Nurse Betty, Thirteen ...
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Terry Sanders buys film rights to Tokyo Rose story
Acclaimed documentary film-maker Terry Sanders has acquired film rights to the screenplay Tokyo Rose by Pat Fielder and Richard Bluel based on the book They Call Her Tokyo Rose by Rex Gunn. He will produce and direct through his company The American Film Foundation; It will mark his first fictional ...
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Laura Rooney leaves ShoWest, joins AFM
Laura Rooney has been appointed director, AFM operations, by the American Film Marketing Association.Rooney comes to the AFMA from exhibitors association NATO of California, most recently as director of annual film trade event ShoWest. She will oversee all operational aspects of AFM and, as the primary contact with the Loews ...
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Y Tu Mama Tambien goes to IFC Films
IFC Films, the theatrical distribution arm of Independent Film Channel, has acquired North American distribution rights to Y Tu Mama Tambien, the erotic Spanish-language Mexican film from director Alfonso Cuaron which last week opened in Mexico to the biggest three day opening of a Mexican film in history.Y Tu Mama ...