All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 147
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Web deals for Mary Pickford, early Russian cinema
article27, a worldwide online entertainment syndicator, has acquired global streaming rights to five silent feature films starring Mary Pickford and North American streaming rights to a group of early Russian films from New York-based Milestone Film & Video. The Pickford films are Amarillo Of Clothes-Line Alley, Daddy Long-Legs, My Best ...
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Sundance Premieres, World Cinema complete line-up
The Sundance Film Festival followed the announcement yesterday of its dramatic and documentary competition and American Spectrum sections with the high-profile Premiere and World Cinema sections today, as well as Frontier and Midnight Screenings.Opening the festival on Jan 18 is My First Mister, the feature directorial debut of award-winning actress ...
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Vertical Limit
Dir: Martin Campbell. US. 2000. 126 mins. Prod co: Columbia Pictures. US dist: Columbia Pictures. Int'l dist: Columbia TriStar. Exec prod: Marcia Nasatir. Prods: Lloyd Phillips, Robert King, Martin Campbell. Scr: Robert King, Terry Hayes from a story by King. DoP: David Tattersall. Prod des: Jon Bunker. Ed: Thom Noble. ...
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Angelina Speare named executive vp at Warner
Angelina Speare has been promoted to the newly created position of executive vice president, international operations & finance, at Warner Bros Pictures. She will oversee the day-to-day operations, business development and financial planning and reporting for the international arm of Warner Bros as well as the company's international regional offices ...
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Overseas Filmgroup acquires rights to Swimming
Overseas Filmgroup has acquired international sales rights to Swimming, a drama about friendship and love set in a small Carolina town. Starring Lauren Ambrose, Jennifer Dundas Lowe and Joelle Carter, the film is directed by Robert J Siegel and has played at a host of film festivals including Rotterdam, Seattle, ...
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Holland, Croatia get film seasons in New York, LA
Film seasons from The Netherlands and Croatia have been scheduled in the US next month. Dutch Treats 2000: New Films From Holland presents ten recent films at the Quad Cinema in New York (Dec 1-7), while Wednesdays In Croatia (Nov 29-Dec 20) screens classic and new Croatian films kicking off ...
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Lions Gate posts profitable quarter for Jul-Sept
Lions Gate Entertainment has posted net income of $0.5m for the second quarter of 2001 ending Sept 30, 2000. Revenues were $66.5m, net earnings were $2.6m minus a non-cash operating loss of $2.1m in Mandalay Pictures and EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) was $5.3m. The results mark ...
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Kroll and Kwan-Rubinek head Warner International
Warner Bros Pictures has named two executives to replace Ed Frumkes as heads of its international distribution and marketing division. Sue Kroll has been named president, international marketing, and Veronika Kwan-Rubinek president, international distribution, reporting to Alan Horn, president & COO of the studio through Richard Fox, executive vice president, ...
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Unbreakable
Dir: M Night Shyamalan. US. 2000. 107 mins. Prod co: Blinding Edge Pictures, Touchstone Pictures. US dist: Buena Vista. Int'l dist: BVI. Exec prods: Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum. Prods: M Night Shyamalan, Barry Mendel, Sam Mercer. Scr: Shyamalan. DoP: Eduardo Serra. Prod des: Larry Fulton. Ed: Dylan Tichenor. Mus: James ...
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Geoff Ammer leaves Disney, joins Revolution
Geoffrey Ammer has left his position as co-president of marketing for Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group to join Joe Roth's Revolution Studios. He is replaced at Buena Vista by Oren Aviv, formerly his co-president at Disney, who now assumes sole responsibility for creative materials, publicity, promotions, research, media and internet ...
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102 Dalmations
Dir: Kevin Lima. US. 2000.Prod co: Walt Disney Pictures. Worldwide dist: Buena Vista/BVI. Prod: Edward S Feldman. Scr: Kristen Buckley & Brian Regan, Bob Tzudiker & Noni White, from a story by Buckley & Regan and the novel The One Hundred And One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith. DoP: Adrian Biddle. ...
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The Grinch leads record-breaking Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving records collapsed over the five-day holiday weekend led by the phenomenal holdover success of Universal Pictures' Dr Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas. The family adventure took an estimated $73.8m from Wednesday to Sunday - about $52.4m over the Friday to Sunday period - bringing its ten day total ...
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Columbia TriStar buys Temptation from Showcase
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group has acquired rights in North America and multiple international territories to Showcase Entertainment's The Right Temptation, a thriller starring Kiefer Sutherland, Rebecca DeMornay and Dana Delaney.The film tells the story of a female private investigator hired by a jealous wife to uncover her husband's suspected ...
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Winstar to tour 13-film Rohmer retrospective in US
US specialised distributor Winstar Cinema will tour a retrospective of 11 features and two shorts directed by Eric Rohmer in brand new prints across the country starting next year. "Tales Of Rohmer" will also form the centrepiece of a more extensive retrospective being planned at New York City's Film Forum ...
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Kinowelt USA buy Cap'n Ricky script by Mark Perez
Kinowelt USA has acquired the rights to Cap'n Ricky, a new screenplay by hot comedy writer Mark Perez whose credits include The Country Bears which is in pre-production at Disney, The Party Professional which was bought by Universal for Casey Silver's Gone Fishin Productions and Untitled Dave Sheridan Project which ...
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The 6th Day
Dir: Roger Spottiswoode. US. 2000. 124 mins.Prod co: Phoenix Pictures. US dist: Columbia Pictures. Int'l dist: Columbia TriStar. Exec prods: Daniel Petrie Jr, David Coatsworth. Prods: Mike Medavoy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jon Davison. Scr: Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley. DoP: Pierre Mignot. Prod des: James Bissell, John Willett. Eds: Mark Conte, Dominique ...
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46 films set to vie for Foreign-language Oscar
A record 46 countries have submitted films to the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar to be presented during the Academy Award ceremony on March 25.The Academy unveiled the full list which exceeds the previous record of 45 set in ...
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IFC gets North American rights to McKay's Our Song
IFC Films, the US distributor recently formed by the New York-based Independent Film Channel (IFC), has acquired all North American distribution rights to Jim McKay's Our Song - a film produced by IFC's production arm IFC Productions.IFC Films, run by senior vice president of marketing and distribution Bob Berney, is ...
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North America loves The Grinch
Universal Pictures and exhibitors across North America breathed a sigh of relief over the weekend as Imagine Entertainment's Dr Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas broke records with a $55.1m gross at a staggering 3,127 theatres (and on over 4,200 screens).The movie, a lavish live action retelling of the children's ...
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DIC Animation enlists Bain for management buyout
DIC Entertainment chairman and CEO Andy Heyward has partnered with Bain Capital Inc in a management buyout of DIC from The Walt Disney Co. Heyward will continue as chairman and CEO of the animation studio which has more than 2,500 half-hours of programming in its library.DIC became a unit of ...