All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 143
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Sundance-Toscano script lab projects named
The Sundance Institute International Program has selected ten projects for its annual Sundance-Toscano Screenwriters Lab which is set to take place Feb 14-18 in Oaxaca, Mexico. The lab will allow the participating screenwriters to collaborate in story meetings with a group of creative advisors to develop their works. Those advisors ...
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John Burnham moves to ICM from William Morris
John Burnham, one of the most senior talent agents in Hollywood, has left the William Morris Agency (WMA) to become head of the motion picture department at International Creative Management (ICM).He is known to have clashed with WMA's new chairman Jim Wiatt, who himself defected from ICM last year. Burnham ...
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Sundance Channel buys US TV on The Woman Chaser
The Sundance Channel has acquired US TV rights to The Woman Chaser, Robinson Devor's debut feature which screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival in the American Spectrum section. It was released theatrically in 14 US markets last summer by Bob Berney's Inwood Films.The deal was negotiated by Larry Greenberg, ...
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Valentine can't edge out Wedding Planner from No 1
Columbia Pictures' The Wedding Planner - sold internationally by Intermedia - held on to the number one slot at the North American box office over the weekend, taking in an estimated $11m to bring its ten day total to $28.2m. The romantic comedy beat out competition from Warner Bros' teen ...
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Corman, Schwarzenegger, Zellweger get AFMA Honours
The American Film Marketing Association (AFMA) is to launch its own awards ceremony at this month's American Film Market (AFM), giving out a series of "AFMA Honors" to celebrate the talent integral to independent film-making.The first awards event will take place on the beach near the Loews Santa Monica Beach ...
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Alliance Atlantis confirms domestic Maelstrom sale
Alliance Atlantis Communications has confirmed that Arrow Features has acquired US rights to Denis Villeneuve's Maelstrom, which world premiered at the Montreal Film Festival last year and screened last week at the Sundance Film Festival.The deal was announced by Patrice Theroux, president of Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution, and Dennis ...
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The Wedding Planner
Dir: Adam Shankman. US. 2001. 100 mins.The Wedding Planner is an exceptionally lame romantic comedy only partially redeemed by a charismatic turn from lead actress Jennifer Lopez. Lopez rises above the sub-standard material and shows great promise as a romantic comedy star. The film opened with a respectable $13.5m over ...
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Billy Elliot, Gladiator, Chocolat lead SAG noms
The nominations were announced yesterday for the 7th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, set to take place on March 11 in Los Angeles. The nominees were chosen by 4,200 randomly selected SAG members and are dubbed the only acting awards voted on entirely by the actors' peers.In the five ...
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DeLaurentiis, Lehman, Cardiff get Oscar honours
Octagenarian Dino De Laurentiis will be presented with the Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award while Ernest Lehman and Jack Cardiff will receive honorary Oscars at this year's Academy Awards ceremony on March 25.De Laurentiis, whose films range from La Strada and Nights Of Cabiria in Italy to Serpico, Death Wish, ...
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Sundance/NHK Filmmakers Awards announced
The winners of the 2001 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award were announced at the weekend at the close of the Sundance Film Festival. The award was created to honour and support emerging film-makers with their next screenplays - one each from the US, Europe, Latin America and Japan.The winning filmmakers and ...
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Sundance: ARP gets European rights to Haiku Tunnel
French independent ARP concluded its buying streak at the Sundance Film Festival, taking continental European rights to American Spectrum entry Haiku Tunnel. ARP had already bought French-speaking rights to David Siegel and Scott McGehee's The Deep End and Joel Hopkins' Jump Tomorrow, in both instances before the US domestic buyers ...
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Showcase buys Dumped and Code Conspiracy
LA-based independent producer/distributor Showcase Entertainment has picked up international sales rights to two new pictures - romantic comedy Dumped and high-tech thriller The Code Conspiracy.Dumped, which is written and directed by former child actor Oliver Robbins (one of the children in Poltergeist), stars Dana Barron as a young woman who ...
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Sundance: Artisan buys US on Sundance rape docu
Artisan Entertainment, which has picked up a film every year at Sundance for the last three years, made it four on Friday, closing a deal to acquire North American rights to the documentary Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent, which is playing in the festival's American Spectrum section.The film examines ...
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Wedding Planner tops Superbowl Weekend
The North American box office continued to look healthy, improving some 55% on the same weekend last year this Superbowl weekend, when the competition from sports on television is traditionally intense.Heading the pack was Columbia Pictures' romantic comedy The Wedding Planner - a co-production with IMF and Intermedia (which has ...
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Lions Gate buys US rights to Double Whammy
In the second deal of the Sundance Film Festival, Lions Gate Films has bought North American distribution rights to Tom DiCillo's latest film Double Whammy, which screened in the Premiere section, for an estimated $1m. The deal was negotiated between Lions Gate Films co-presidents Tom Ortenberg and Mark Urman with ...
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Sundance Channel buys three sports films for US TV
The Sundance Channel has picked up US TV rights to three independent films - P David Ebersole's feature Straight Right which premiered at last year's Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, Katya Bankowski's documentary Shadow Boxers which was in the Toronto Film Festival 1999 and Greg Stiever's documentary Poles Apart. All ...
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Noreen Ward named senior vp at Good Machine
Noreen Ward has been promoted to the position of senior vice president of operations at Good Machine Inc, overseeing all business administration for both Good Machine and its sister company Good Machine International.The promotion comes in the company's tenth - and most profitable - year to date and was announced ...
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Lot 47 signs three year US deal with Blow-Up
Blow-Up Pictures, the digital film-making production outfit behind Series 7 - Contenders and Chuck And Buck, has signed a three year, multi-picture distribution agreement with US independent distributor Lot 47 Films whereby Lot 47 will provide domestic distribution for at least 50% of Blow-Up's film productions to Jan 2004.Films under ...
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Sony Classics buys Polish Brothers' Jackpot
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired rights in North America, Australia and New Zealand to Jackpot, the second movie from Mark and Michael Polish whose first film Twin Falls Idaho was also picked up by SPC at Sundance 1999. Currently in post-production, Jackpot was written by both Polishes but directed by ...
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Fox Searchlight buys the world on Super Troopers
In the first deal of the Sundance Film Festival, Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Supertroopers, a crazy comedy directed by Jay Chandrasekhar which screened as a midnight movie on Friday.The company is believed to have paid some $2m for the picture which was represented by John Sloss ...