All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 144
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Crouching Tiger the real winner at Globes
In a year when no one film has taken the lead in the race for the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night offered no pointers. While Ridley Scott's Gladiator was named Best Picture (drama), its victory was overshadowed by the success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden ...
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Save The Last Dance leads, Snatch opens strongly
Paramount and MTV Films' teen drama Save The Last Dance continued to lead the North American box office over the weekend, taking an estimated $16m for a ten day total of $46.9m. It is the first hit of the year and looks set to head for the $80m mark.Meanwhile 20th ...
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Strand to re-release Kiss Of The Spiderwoman in US
US independent distributor Strand Releasing is to re-release Hector Babenco's classic 1985 independent film Kiss Of The Spiderwoman in the domestic market together with Independent Cinema Restoration Archive.The film, for which William Hurt won an Academy Award for Best Actor, was produced by David Weisman and written by Leonard Schrader ...
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Adam Schlesinger leaves Doumanian to join ErgoArts
Adam Schlesinger, formerly director of development at Jean Doumanian Productions, has joined ErgoArts Inc as vice president of business affairs and production, a newly created post at the New York-based production outfit.Formed in 1999 to conduct the feature film activities of Rigas Entertainment, ErgoArts is headed by Ellen Rigas Venetis ...
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Matt Brodlie promoted to senior vp at Miramax
Matt Brodlie has been promoted to senior vice president of acquisitions at Miramax Films, with continuing responsibility for covering the US independent scene as well as Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Brodlie, who was formerly vice president of acquisitions, attends the major film festivals around the world scouting films and ...
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Anthony Bregman upped to senior vp at Good Machine
Anthony Bregman has been promoted to the position of senior vice president of production at Good Machine Inc, the ten year-old production and distribution outfit which is enjoying a banner year led by the success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.In the past year, Bregman has produced Michel Gondry's Human Nature ...
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Mike De Luca out, Toby Emmerich in at New Line
It was a turbulent day at New Line Cinema yesterday as president of production Michael De Luca left the company and president of music Toby Emmerich was named to replace him.The irrepressible De Luca had spent eight years in the job, turning New Line from a successful genre company into ...
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Deluxe, Film Finances back E-Studio website
Film processor Deluxe Laboratories, completion bond company Film Finance Inc and individuals including Cecil B Demented producers Joe Carraciolo Jr, John Fiedler and Mark Tarlov and former studio production chief Fred Bernstein are among the backers of a new entertainment website called E-Studio Network. The site is a free-of-charge service ...
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ALWAYSi launches pay subscription service
The moment that this year's Academy Award nominees arerevealed to the entire world at a pre-dawn ceremony broadcast live from LosAngeles tomorrow morning, there will be the usual gasps at some of the omissionsand more questions raised about why some of the year's best-knowndocumentary features have failed yet again to ...
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Regent International sells Chippendale's movie
Regent Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Just Can't Get Enough: The Chippendales Story and will offer it to international buyers at the upcoming AFM through sales arm Regent International.The film, written and directed by Dave Payne and produced by Sam Irvin, is a look at the famed 80s nightclub ...
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Eagle signs three year, nine-pic deal with Mutual
Mutual Film Co has closed a three year, nine-picture output deal with Italy's dynamic distribution outfit Eagle Pictures kicking off with Tomb Raider, the Paramount Pictures action adventure which Mutual is co-financing.Eagle's deal also includes any Tomb Raider sequels and indicates aggressive renewed activity by Mutual's Gary Levinsohn, who is ...
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Last Dance, Crouching Tiger drive holiday record
The North American box office continued the record pace set in December with a massive four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend, up 38% from the same weekend last year and the biggest Martin Luther King Day weekend ever.Driving the box office was Paramount Pictures' Save The Last Dance, the latest ...
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Shooting Gallery buys six more for 3rd film series
The Shooting Gallery has announced the films it has acquired for its third film series at Loews Cineplex Entertainment theatres across North America.The six independent films which will screen over a three month period in 16 markets are Pawel Pawlikowski's British critical hit Last Resort and Kieron Welsh's Irish comedy ...
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Two Soderbergh movies could split the vote
Steven Soderbergh, nominated just once before for his original screenplay of sex, lies and videotape in 1989, has swiftly and effortlessly assumed the mantle of America's most intelligent film-maker with a string of entertaining and provocative films. But while he's won every critics' award going for Erin Brockovich and Traffic ...
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RAI Cinema picks up four from Intermedia, New Line
Italy's RAI Cinema has bought a three-picture package from Intermedia including Harrison Ford-starrer K19: The Widowmaker as well as Irwin Winkler's family drama Life As A House from New Line International. The films were acquired on RAI's behalf by Lakeshore International which has signed an exclusive multi-year acquisition agency agreement ...
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IFC Films picks up Modern Cannibal Tale docu
IFC Films, the domestic theatrical releasing division of the Independent Film Channel's IFC Entertainment, has acquired North American distribution rights to its fourth film - David and Laurie Gwen Shapiro's documentary Keep The River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale - from New York-based Next Wave Films, itself ...
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Overseas Filmgroup renamed First Look Media
21 year-old Overseas Filmgroup has been renamed First Look Media, incorporating five divisions - Overseas Filmgroup, First Look Pictures, First Look Home Entertainment, First Look Artists and First Look Internet.Co-chairmen Robbie Little and Chris Cooney announced the reorganisation yesterday to reflect the expansion of the company following a $17m equity ...
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Nadia Bronson quits Universal after 24 years
The only senior executive with a French background has resigned from Universal Pictures which recently came under the French ownership of Vivendi. International marketing veteran Nadia Bronson has left Universal after 24 years at the studio following the promotion last year of domestic marketing chief Marc Shmuger to vice chairman ...
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Forman & Zaentz together again for Goya biopic
Director Milos Forman and producer Saul Zaentz are to reteam for the third time on a new film about the life and times of Spanish painter Francisco Goya. The previous collaborations between the two, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Amadeus (1984), both won Academy Awards for Best ...
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Hollywood stars face off European upstarts
New European stars face off against Hollywood screen legends in the best actor race for the Academy Awards this year.At time of going to press, Tom Hanks had been named Best Actor by the New York Film Critics Circle for Cast Away, while Michael Douglas was given the same nod ...