All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 137
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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 and ...
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Storm, ChickFlicks team for Coyote horror movie
H Michael Heuser's Storm Entertainment has teamed with Sara Risher's LA-based ChickFlicks to finance and co-produce Coyote - a comic special effects-driven horror movie about a pack of coyotes taking revenge against some schlocky Hollywood film-makers in Los Angeles.Heuser will produce alongside Risher, Steven Wolfe and Leslie Tobin Bacon; Dorothy ...
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Nu Vision, Paradiso leap at Pandora films
Pandora has concluded some major deals on the first four films in its new incarnation as the LA-based specialised production and sales arm of Gaylord Films.Nu Vision has taken all Latin American rights on A Walk To Remember, the love story adapted from the Nicholas Sparks novel starring Mandy Moore ...
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Bronson launches marketing and distrib consultancy
Nadia Bronson, the international marketing veteran who exited Universal Pictures after 24 years earlier this year, has formed Nadia Bronson Associates (NBA), her own international marketing and distribution consultancy. She has also entered into an affiliation with PR firm Dennis Davidson Associates (DDA) to work jointly on a number of ...
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Summit wakes up to new Alcon picture trio
Summit Entertainment has struck a three-picture deal with Alcon Entertainment, producers of Christopher Nolan's Insomnia which is on Summit's Cannes sales slate. None of the three pictures has yet been specified but a deal has been struck for Summit to raise additional equity from a few select key territory sales. ...
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Miramax seals five picture pact with Japan's Gaga
Miramax International has sealed a five-picture output deal with Gaga Communications in Japan for a reported $15m, marking the biggest deal the company has ever scored in the territory and signalling a new aggression among Japanese buyers.The films are James Mangold's Kate & Leopold starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, ...
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Crystal Sky unleashes Voight films with Apollo
Steven Paul's Crystal Sky Worldwide Sales has teamed with German film fund Apollo Media on two new films: kung fu fighting talking dog saga Unleashed co-starring Jon Voight, Simon Rex and Jaime Pressly and Façade, a $25m heist thriller which teams Voight with Julia Ormond under director Danny Cannon.These two ...
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Ben Ammar to bankroll Samaha's Dante outfit
The irrepressible Elie Samaha has formed a new financing, production and distribution venture Dante Entertainment with Paris-based Tarak Ben Ammar and his Quinta Communications. The deal will see Quinta bankrolling Dante - which plans to produce four films a year - to the tune of between $200m and $300m.Although separate ...
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MTV, Paramount start dancing to Britney's tune
MTV Films has boarded the Britney Spears movie What Are Friends For as co-producer, while MTV sister company Paramount Pictures is in advanced negotiations to take domestic distribution rights on the film which is being sold by Summit Entertainment.MTV and Paramount have a history of youth-oriented hits which include Save ...
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Granat, Anschutz become classroom mates
Former Dimension Films president Cary Granat has teamed up with billionaire (and now exhibition mogul) Philip Anschutz to create a new production outfit Walden Media with plans to make films, TV programming, new media and publishing initiatives "that educate, foster curiosity and an ongoing interest in learning."Walden Media's key executive ...
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American Rhapsody to open 6th Nantucket Film Fest
American Rhapsody, produced and sold internationally by Fireworks Pictures and to be distributed domestically by Paramount Classics, will have its world premiere as the opening night film of the sixth annual Nantucket Film Festival on June 20.20 films will be presented at the festival which runs from June 20 to ...
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Searchlight's Lisa Fragner joins Rudolph & Beer
New York entertainment law firm Rudolph & Beer (R&B) has formed a new division R&B FM (Film & Music) to be headed by Lisa Fragner, formerly head of east coast production and development for Fox Searchlight Pictures. Fragner has been at Searchlight for four years in production and development, ...
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The Mummy Returns is a monster; opens on $70.1m
Universal Pictures celebrated the second biggest opening in cinema history at the North American box office this weekend, as its adventure sequel The Mummy Returns grossed a spectacular estimated $70.1m. Only one film - Universal's own The Lost World: Jurassic Park - had a bigger three-day take of $72m in ...
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The Mummy Returns is a monster; opens on $70.1m
Universal Pictures celebrated the second biggest opening in cinema history at the North American box office this weekend, as its adventure sequel The Mummy Returns grossed a spectacular estimated $70.1m. Only one film - Universal's own The Lost World: Jurassic Park - had a bigger three-day take of $72m in ...
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Full rundown of Writers Guild contract agreement
The first potentially catastrophic labour strike which has hung over the Hollywood film industry for over a year now has been averted. In a press conference called for Friday afternoon, the Writers Guild Of America (WGA) said that it had reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance Of Motion Picture ...
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Hart Sharp pacts with UK's FilmFour
UK film giant FilmFour and New York-based production outfit Hart Sharp Entertainment have formed a co-production alliance to produce a slate of specialised US features, expanding FilmFour's US production ambitions and cementing the international reputation of Hart Sharp whose credits includeBoys Don't Cry and You Can Count On Me.Under the ...
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Paltrow to produce her first film for Miramax
Gwyneth Paltrow will take a producing credit for the first time on Me Times Three, a film of the novel by New York Times style reporter Alex Witchal, which was acquired this week by Miramax Films. Bobby Cohen, who produced Bounce and View From the Top both starring Paltrow, will ...
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Meyer & Yershov share top job at Lions Gate Int'l
Following the departure of Joe Drake in March, Nick Meyer and Sergei Yershov have been named co-presidents of Lions Gate Films International as part of a restructuring. They will share responsibility for the international sales, distribution, marketing, finance and co-productions of Lions Gate strategy.The joint appointment scotches speculation about which ...
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Millenium teams with Van Damme on The Monk
Jean-Claude Van Damme is to star in The Monk, an actioner to be shot in China, Bulgaria and New York and directed by Ringo Lam (City On Fire). The film marks Van Damme's third venture with Avi Lerner's Millenium Films after The Order and Replicant; Lerner, Danny Dimbort and Danny ...
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Bob Levin joins Creative Domain with global plans
Bob Levin, former president of worldwide marketing at Sony Pictures Entertainment, has joined LA-based marketing and advertising agency Creative Domain as president of newly formed Creative Domain Enterprises.He will focus on expanding the company's theatrical marketing activities beyond audiovisual, print and interactive marketing services into marketing consultations and planning, promotion, ...