All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 139
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Joe Dirt
Dir: Dennie Gordon. US. 2001. 86mins.Saturday Night Live alumnus David Spade who, despite many tries, has failed to front a hit movie (unlike fellow SNL-ers Adam Sandler and Mike Myers), makes another stab at a crossover with this comedy vehicle, co-written with Black Sheep and Tommy Boy collaborator Fred Wolf. ...
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Cannes US Pavilion brings over three top chefs
Bon Appetit Magazine has signed on as the official food and entertaining magazine of The American Pavilion at Cannes this year as well as taking the title of exclusive sponsor of the Pavilion's Culinary programme.Bon Appetit will showcase the talents of three attending chefs at the Pavilion - Mari Batali, ...
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Cannes technology mart fills available floor space
MITIC - the showcase for new entertainment technologies which takes place in Cannes at the same time as the festival and market - has declared that all exhibition floor space at the event has been booked.Located in the Palais des Festivals, MITIC (the Marche International desTechniques et de l'Innovation du ...
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Cutting Edge takes over int'l sales of Pollock
David Glasser's Cutting Edge Entertainment has taken up international sales rights on Ed Harris' Oscar-winner Pollock after the original sales agent Alliance Atlantis Pictures International returned the film to its producers."The producers and I had a disagreement on the post-Oscar direction the international sales effort should take," explained Alliance Atlantis ...
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Post-Crouching Columbia backs four new Asian films
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia - the Asian local production arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment - has announced four new films which it will finance in 2001.The Hong Kong-based company, headed by managing director Barbara Robinson, has enjoyed enormous success since it was launched in early 1999 with Ang Lee's ...
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Natural Nylon boards Mahowny as UK co-producer
UK production outfit Natural Nylon has boarded Richard Kwietniowski's Owning Mahowny, currently shooting in Canada, as UK co-production partner. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver and John Hurt, the drama is now a UK/Canada co production between H20 Motion Pictures (Canada), Alliance Atlantis (Canada) and Natural Nylon (UK). Producers ...
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Showtime buys 20-film ITC package from Carlton
US pay TV network Showtime Networks has bought the domestic premium TV broadcast rights to a package of more than 20 pictures from Carlton International's ITC library. Under the terms of the multi-year arrangement, Showtime will have premium TV rights to films such as On Golden Pond, Sophie's Choice, Farewell ...
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New York opens Los Angeles festival
Ed Burns' fourth feature, Sidewalks Of New York, will have its world premiere as the opening night film of the Los Angeles Film Festival (April 20-28). Paramount Classics has domestic rights to the picture, a romantic comedy starring Burns, Heather Graham, Stanley Tucci, Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson and Dennis Farina. ...
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IEG picks Pickering to head sales thrust
Veteran sales executive Pamela Pickering has, as expected, announced that she is leaving her job as president of Mutual Film International to join Graham King at Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) where she will head up international sales and distribution operations.There she will be responsible for the international sales, distribution and ...
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Miramax tops Easter weekend
Spy Kids topped the box office for the third week running despite stiff competition from three new entries - Miramax Films' Bridget Jones' Diary, Columbia Pictures' Joe Dirt and Universal Pictures' Josie And The Pussycats. Over the three-day Easter weekend, Spy Kids from Miramax/Dimension grossed a sterling $12.8m, bringing its ...
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Dreamworks signs to Universal for five more years
After intense speculation that it was about to clinch a deal with AOL Time Warner's Warner Bros Pictures, DreamWorks SKG has extended for five years its distribution agreement with Universal Studios, now owned by Vivendi Universal.The agreement first struck in June 1995 gives Universal international theatrical distribution rights to live ...
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Alliance Atlantis signs Bedford Falls Co
Canada's Alliance Atlantis has made what is arguably its first foray into the heart of Hollywood, signing an exclusive four year development deal with Bedford Falls Co, the LA-based production company run by Ed Zwick and Marhsall Herskovitz. Under the arrangement, which kicked off on April 1, Alliance Atlantis will ...
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Lord Of The Rings site registers 350m hits
New Line Cinema's award-winning website for The Lord Of The Rings has generated more than 350 million hits worldwide since re-launching on January 12, 2001. Data tabulated by ABC Interactive confirmed that more than 275,463,832 hits were registered on the site in January and February of this year. Since the ...
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Pflug promoted at Artisan Entertainment
Paul Pflug has been promoted to executive vice president, national publicity and corporate communications, for Artisan Entertainment. He will continue to oversee the national publicity campaigns for Artisan's theatrical releases as well as the company's external and internal corporate communications activities. He will also take on an expanded role in ...
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Carson promoted at Warner Bros. Pictures
Nancy Carson has been promoted to senior vice president, international distribution, at Warner Bros Pictures, reporting to Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, president of international distribution. In her new position as Kwan-Rubinek's second in command, she will assume an expanded responsibility for all matters pertaining to international rights, release dates and theatrical distribution ...
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Multithematiques Italia clinches Universal deal
Multithematiques Italia SpA, the Italian arm of pan-European theme channel group Multithematiques SA, has clinched exclusive pay-TV rights to a collection of features and TV series from Universal Studios International.The agreement which will furnish the group's channels including CineCinemas 1, CineCinemas 2, CineClassics and Canal Jimmy includes Universal library titles ...
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Le Placard opens LA six title French film showcase
Francis Veber's The Closet (Le Placard) kicks off the fifth annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels Film Festival in Los Angeles next Tuesday (April 10), an annual showcase of six new French feature films funded by the Franco-American Cultural Fund - a collaborative effort among the Directors Guild Of ...
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First Run gets US home video rights to DEFA films
New York-based independent First Run Features has signed a partnership agreement with Icestorm International to act as exclusive North American home video distributor of the films of DEFA, the state-run studios of the former German Democratic Republic.DEFA (Deutsche Filmaktiengesellschaft) was headquartered in the famous UFA Studios in Babelsberg near Berlin ...
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MJ Peckos named president of First Look Pictures
MJ Peckos has been named president of First Look Pictures, the US theatrical distribution division of First Look Media (formerly Overseas Filmgroup). Peckos, who joined First Look in 1995 as senior vice president of theatrical marketing and distribution, will oversee all aspects of the company's operations including acquisitions, marketing, publicity ...
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Fox TV signs output deal with Antenna TV in Greece
20th Century Fox Television Distribution has signed a film and TV programming output deal with Antenna TV SA in Greece, giving free TV rights to the media group to all new Fox films and TV series as well as product from the studio's library.The deal was concluded between Steve Cornish, ...