All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 136
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Alliance sells Egoyan's Ararat to Miramax in US
Miramax Films has acquired US distribution rights to Ararat, the latest film from Canada's Atom Egoyan, from Alliance Atlantis and Serendipity Point Films. The film is the first Egoyan picture to be released by Miramax in the US since Exotica in 1994; The Sweet Hereafter in 1997 was handled by ...
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Benjamin, Dubrow promoted to head Pacifica
IMF-backed Pacifica Film Development, a wholly owned subsidiary of Internationalmedia and sister company to Intermedia, has promoted Linda Benjamin and Chris Dubrow to the positions of co-presidents. Dubrow will continue to oversee production and development, while Benjamin oversees business affairs and operations.Both will report to Internationalmedia co-chairmen Moritz Borman, Nigel ...
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First Look buys world on Griffin Dunne comedy
First Look Media has acquired worldwide rights to Griffin Dunne's digital video film Lisa Picard Is Famous which first screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival 2000 with the title Famous. First Look's international sales division Overseas Filmgroup will handle international sales while domestic distributor First Look ...
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Miramax buys Korean martial arts film Bi Chun Moo
Miramax Films has acquired rights in North America, Mexico, Argentina and South Africa to Korean ancient martial arts movie Bi Chun Moo from Taewon Entertainment. The sixth highest grossing film ever in Korea, Bi Chun Moo was directed by Young Jun Kim, and as part of the deal, Miramax ...
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ICM UK partners with Catch 23
Catch 23 Entertainment, the LA production company funded by Denver-based financier Bob Sturm and run by president Jeremy Barber, is to launch a UK production arm with a £1.5m development fund and an advisory committee composed of ICM (UK) chairman Duncan Heath and European head of international operations Lyndsey Posner.Barber ...
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Cecchi Gori back in buying ring with Ali
Cecchi Gori film has acquired Italian rights to Michael Mann's Ali from Initial Entertainment Group (IEG), marking a return to major rights buying for the company after a couple of years of retrenchment.The deal was finalised here between Cecchi Gori USA president Gianni Nunnari and IEG CEO Graham King. Cecchi ...
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FilmFour boards Van Sant film starring Matt Damon
UK film powerhouse FilmFour has boarded Gus Van Sant's latest project Jerry in which Matt Damon - Oscar-winning co-writer and star of Van Sant's Good Will Hunting - and Casey Affleck, who also played in Good Will Hunting, are attached to star, according to sources on the Croisette.The William Morris ...
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Jour De Fete buys Big Eden for US
LA-based microdistributor Jour de Fete Films has acquired US theatrical distribution rights to Chaiken Films' Big Eden, a gay romantic comedy which is the directorial debut of Thomas Bezucha. Arye Gross, Louise Fletcher, Eric Schweig and Nan Martin star in the film which will open in Los Angeles and San ...
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USA greenlights Who Goes There'
USA Films has greenlit Who Goes There', the first production it is bankrolling from its three-year deal with Charles Finch and Luc Roeg's London-based company Artists Independent Network (AIN).The film is to be directed by AIN client Ben Ross (RKO 281, The Young Poisoner's Handbook) and to star Jamie Bell ...
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US buyers go to war at Cannes
North American buyers continued an aggressive streak yesterday as new deals were unveiled on at least four films and a bidding war erupted over well-liked Bosnian competition contender No Man's Land.Sony Pictures Classics acquired North American rights to Fabian Bielinsky's Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens), a box office sensation in its ...
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Myriad, Tapestry team for co-production alliance
LA/London financing, production and sales outfit Myriad Pictures has teamed with LA production outfit Tapestry Films for a multi-year co-production alliance under which Myriad will provide Tapestry with a development fund and the two will co-produce two films a year. Myriad will retain international distribution rights to all the titles. ...
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The Mummy 2 smashes competition; Knight opens OK
The Mummy Returns, Universal Pictures' blockbusting sequel, dominated the North American box office for a second weekend with a powerful $32.2m for a ten-day total of $116.5m. Although the film lost 53% of its audience, it is still on track to become the first film of the year to gross ...
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Weinstein teases Bac's Labadie, then regrets it
Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein became the unwitting talking point of this year's Cannes Film Festival after poking fun at Jean Labadie, the head of French distribution house Bac Films and also Miramax's regular theatrical partner in the territory.Taking the microphone at this year's annual luncheon held by Miramax International ...
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Camela Galano named president of New Line Int'l
Camela Galano, who has been living in London as executive vice president and European supervisor of New Line International (NLI), has been named president of New Line International. She takes over international duties from Rolf Mittweg whose job at New Line Cinema was recently expanded when he was named president ...
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Vine teams with Samaha brother on Spheeris comedy
Samaha Productions, the LA production outfit run by Elie's brother Demetri Samaha, has teamed with Marie Vine's London-based Vine International Pictures to co-finance Penelope Spheeris' Spam On Rye which will be distributed domestically by Warner Bros. Vine will handle international sales.A dark comedy about an unambitious young man who unwittingly ...
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Good Machine closes string of deals on They
Good Machine International is close to completing its international sales patchwork on suspenser They, which is the first film from its exclusive foreign sales arrangement with Ted Field's Radar Pictures. Bac Films has taken France, Entertainment the UK, Concorde Germany, Nu Vision Mexico and Sandrew Metronome Scandinavia. Starring Laura Regan, ...
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New Line's German rights fall back in the Ring
New Line Cinema, whose massive media event for The Lord Of The Rings kicks off today, is looking for a new partner in Germany. When the three year output deal it struck with Kinowelt Medien in Oct 1998 comes to an end in December, New Line's worldwide marketing and distribution ...
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Miramax promotes Gatineau to VP acquisitions
Maeva Gatineau has been promoted to vice president of acquisitions at Miramax Films. Gatineau, who has been working in Miramax's UK office for four years, will continue to oversee European acquisitions alongside Elizabeth Dreyer, vice president of acquisitions. They will both report to Agnes Mentre, executive vice president of acquisitions ...
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Cobalt storms Boorman's Castle
Cobalt Media Group has boarded John Boorman's next film Knight's Castle, based on the novel by Edward Eager. The aggressive financing and sales outfit, which confirmed its co-financing deal with BBC Films and BBC Worldwide on a slate of films today, is also backing new films from David Cronenberg and ...
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Cobalt storms Boorman's Castle
Cobalt Media Group has boarded John Boorman's next film Knight's Castle, based on the novel by Edward Eager. The aggressive financing and sales outfit, which confirmed its co-financing deal with BBC Films and BBC Worldwide on a slate of films today, is also backing new films from David Cronenberg and ...