All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 142
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Ang Lee wins third best foreign-language Oscar nod
It was an extraordinary morning for Ang Lee, the Taiwanese director overlooked by the Academy for Sense And Sensibility in 1995 and The Ice Storm in 1997. Not only did he win picture and director nominations for his box office sensation Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but he won his third ...
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Gladiator, Crouching Tiger lead Oscars race
Gladiator and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon led the field in the 2000 Academy Award nominations announced this morning in Los Angeles, which generated a few surprises and set some unusual records.Crouching Tiger became only the third foreign-language film in history to win a Best Picture nomination as well as a ...
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Threshold to produce customised CG animated movie
Larry Kassanoff's Threshold Entertainment has started production on a $50m CGI animated movie set in a supermarket called Foodfight! through its subsidiary Threshold Digital Research Labs (TDRL). The difference with this film, however, is that it will be produced by animators - and feature consumer brands - from around the ...
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UK's Nicola Usburne wins Silverman Fellowship
Nicola Usborne, the UK producer of FilmFour's Sundance hit Jump Tomorrow, has been selected as the recipient of the 2001 Mark Silverman Fellowship which supports "visionary independent producers who have committed to a film project and still face the challenge of moving forward into production."The award is bestowed by The ...
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FULL LIST OF AFM SEMINARS & CONFERENCE AGENDA
The American Film Market has announced the lineup for its AFM Seminars at the Le Merigot Hotel as well as the participants in the AFM Finance Conference which will take place on Feb 23 from 9.00 to 12.30 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel.FEB 23:The two panels at the Finance Conference ...
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Judi Dench rejoins Hallstrom, Miramax in News
Judi Dench has joined the cast of The Shipping News, Lasse Hallstrom's movie version of the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E Annie Proulx, which is currently in pre-production and is set to start shooting in March. Produced and financed by Miramax Films, it marks the fourth Miramax picture in ...
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Beacon, UPI reteam to sell The Palace Thief
Beacon Pictures is reteaming with Universal Pictures International (UPI) to sell one of its newest projects in international territories - The Palace Thief, a drama to star Kevin Kline and be directed by Michael Hoffman (One Fine Day, Soapdish). Per its long term domestic distribution deal, Universal Pictures will handle ...
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Lenormand confirmed as new StudioCanal chief
As expected, Richard Lenormand has been appointed chairman and CEO of StudioCanal to replace Vincent Grimond who has resigned following his appointment as senior executive vice president, operations and finance, at Universal Studios Group. The board of directors at StudioCanal unanimously appointed Lenormand. The 38 year-old was most recently senior ...
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Lions Gate buys US theatrical rights to Liam
Lions Gate Releasing has acquired US theatrical distribution rights to Stephen Frears' drama Liam, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year. Starring Ian Hart, Claire Hackett, Anne Reid and introducing Anthony Burrows, the film is set in the Irish Catholic quarter of Liverpool in the 1930s and examines ...
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Manager John Carrabino joins Catch 23
Catch 23 Entertainment, the newly formed LA production outfit formed by financier and philanthropist Robert B Sturm, has hired talent manager John Carrabino as executive vice president of Catch 23's as yet unnamed talent management division.In his new position, he will help build and oversee the division which plans to ...
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Showtime, Zone Vision launch Showtime Turkey
US cable giant Showtime Networks has entered into a joint venture with Zone Vision, a UK-based broadcaster and distributor of thematic channels throughout Europe, to launch Showtime Turkey. Launched on Jan 15, 2001, the channel is available on the new direct-to-home platform DigiTurk, which is currently available in Turkey.The announcement ...
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Hannibal cannibalises US box office with $58m
It was a sensational weekend for Hannibal Lecter at the North American box office. The long-awaited sequel to 1991 classic The Silence Of The Lambs mesmerised the country with an estimated $58m opening weekend gross, giving director Ridley Scott another megahit after last year's Gladiator and MGM, which has domestic ...
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GMI to sell Ed Burns' next film Ash Wednesday
Good Machine International (GMI) has acquired international rights to Ash Wednesday, the fifth film to be directed by Edward Burns. Burns has written, will direct and star in and co-produce the film with Margot Bridger, producer on his last film Sidewalks Of New York.Set in 1983 New York, Ash Wednesday ...
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US strike rules pave way for international bonanza
International acting talent and non-US movie companies are set for a boom time later this year as The Screen Actors Guild guidelines to shooting outside the US should an actors strike take place in June became clear yesterday.The Screen Actors Guild Board of Directors issued the following position on work ...
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Moonstone backs new Mike Figgis four-frame pic
Mike Figgis has started shooting The Hotel, his second digital video production which will feature four frames of simultaneous onscreen action, with financing from Etchie Stroh's Moonstone Entertainment.Shooting started on Monday in Venice of the movie, a dark comedy which looks at the goings-on in a Venetian hotel and follows ...
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Miramax boards Le Gout Des Autres at last minute
With insiders saying that is a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination, Miramax Films has partnered on the domestic release of Agnes Jaoui's critically acclaimed Le Gout Des Autres (The Taste Of Others) with Offline Releasing. The announcement comes on the eve of the movie's release this Friday (Feb 9); the ...
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Some Body
Screened at Sundance (Dramatic Competition). Dir: Henry Barrial. US. 2001. 80mins.Henry Barrial's Some Body is an admirable example of how a low-budget production, shot on digital video, can also be a dramatically satisfying movie. Much of the credit for that should go to Stephanie Bennett, the lead actress who also ...
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Jane Startz signs first-look deal with Miramax
Producer Jane Startz has signed a first-look production deal with Miramax Films which will allow her to bring projects to the company to produce as well as serving as a consultant on various family entertainment projects.Startz, who previously produced The Mighty for Miramax, is currently producing Ella Enchanted, a film ...
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Spielberg, Schwartzman join BAFTA LA board
The British Academy Of Film & Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA LA) has elected Steven Spielberg and retiring chairman Arnold Schwartzman to the Board of Governors. They joing current governors Peter Beale, Barbara Broccoli, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Su Lesser, Ronald Neame, Michael Oliver, Marion Rosenberg, Martin Scorsese and Peter ...
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Kevin Bacon joins Canton/Senator's 24 Hours
Kevin Bacon has signed star alongside Charlize Theron and Courtney Love in Luis Mandoki's latest picture 24 Hours which is being produced by The Canton Company, Mandolin Entertainment and Propaganda Films.A thriller about a family in jeopardy, the film is produced by Mimi Polk Gitlin and Mandoki and executive produced ...