All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 150
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Nippon Herald takes Intermedia trio for Japan
Nippon Herald Films has clinched a three picture deal with Intermedia that covers the Harrison Ford-starrer K:19 The Widowmaker, K:Pax starring Kevin Spacey and The Wedding Planner with Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey.The deal marks the first multi-picture sale for Intermedia since it unveiled its star-studded slate just ahead of ...
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Gordon's $30m Tree takes root at MGM, Winchester
Chuck Gordon's Daybreak Productions has finally set up the first picture to fall under his independent financing structure now that MGM has committed to taking domestic rights to The Tree, a $30m comedy featuring hot rising star Johnny Knoxville.Winchester Films - which set up the international distribution structure for Gordon ...
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Eddie Izzard plays Charlie Chaplin for Bogdanovich
Ramping up its production activities, Lions Gate Films is to back The Cat's Meow, a drama set against the golden age of Hollywood that intriguingly casts Kirsten Dunst as Marion Davies and Eddie Izzard as Charlie Chaplin under the direction of maverick cinephile director Peter Bogdanovich.Lions Gate, which last week ...
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Warner Bros takes North America on The Dish
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired North American rights to The Dish, the Australian comic drama which opened last weekend in its home territory with the highest opening for a local film in history.The deal marks a rare independent pick-up from Warner, coming at a time when rumours are swirling about ...
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India's PentaMedia acquires Film Roman
Indian multimedia production outfit PentaMedia Graphics is to acquire a 51% stake in LA-based animation house Film Roman for $15m, establishing a US beachhead for the public company which already has satellite offices in the UK and Luxembourg.Best known for producing The Simpsons and King Of The Hill for Fox, ...
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Fox, Lloyd reteam on Fireworks' Interstate 60
Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd, the two stars of the Back To The Future trilogy, are reteaming in supporting roles in Fireworks Pictures' coming-of-age fantasy Interstate 60 which marks the directorial debut of Back To The Future writer-producer Bob Gale. James Marsden, Gary Oldman and Amy Smart are in ...
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New World, Nordisk among buyers for 51st State
New World Films in Spain, Nordisk in Scandinavia and Les Films De L'Elysee in Benelux are among the buyers which have committed to Alliance Atlantis Pictures International's $25m action comedy The 51st State starring Samuel L Jackson. Momentum Pictures has UK rights and Kinowelt has German rights. Other buyers which ...
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Mothman flies at Screen Gems
Screen Gems, the mid-budget releasing division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, has acquired all North American rights to Lakeshore Entertainment's psychological thriller The Mothman Prophecies which is set to start shooting in Jan 2001. Richard Gere will star and Mark Pellington (Arlington Road) will direct. The film is based on a ...
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MDP, Crystal Sky spread Fear.com
Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide and Steven Paul's Crystal Sky have teamed up to handle the worldwide distribution of two new films - Fear.com to be directed by William Malone (House On Haunted Hill) and sports action thriller The Extremists to be directed by Christian Duguay (The Art Of War). The ...
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Neeson replaces Gianopulos as Fox Int'l chief
Scott Neeson, former executive vice president of international marketing at 20th Century Fox, has been appointed president of 20th Century Fox International Theatrical, taking over from his former boss Jim Gianopulos who was upped to chairman of the studio last month.He will oversee the international theatrical marketing and distribution of ...
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DreamWorks walks from Walk The Talk
DreamWorks SKG, which financed and co-produced Australian comedy Walk The Talk on the back of director Shirley Barrett's debut feature Love Serenade, has had a change of heart about releasing the film and is shopping domestic rights. Evidently the film's disturbing nature did not fit well into the company's TV ...
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Parents holds off Bedazzled, Pay It Forward
Neither 20th Century Fox's comedy Bedazzled nor Warner Bros' Pay It Forward could unseat Universal's Meet The Parents from the top slot at the domestic box office. The popular Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro fell just 23% in its third weekend to take $16.3m and bring its total to $81m - ...
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IFC Films gets Together for first acquisition
The Brotherhood Of Wolves, backed by StudioCanal, has attracted a strong 1.5 million admissions in its first five days in France, but the $29m (FFr200m) title has yet to top records set by other domestic films such as Taxi 2 and Asterix Et Obelix Contre Cesar.The Christophe Gans-directed title, which ...
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Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale seduces Summit
Summit Entertainment has taken international rights to Brian De Palma's next picture, the independently-financed noir thriller Femme Fatale, a $30m-$35m by Tarak Ben Ammar's Paris-based production company Quinta and Kirch/Mediaset European buying alliance Epsilon.Shooting is scheduled to start on the film in late November in Europe with Uma Thurman and ...
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Winchester reteams with Wind Dancer on actioner
Winchester Entertainment has extended its relationship with US production outfit Wind Dancer Films to co-produce The Untitled Blake Masters Project, a "character-driven action film" to be produced and directed by Wind Dancer's Matt Williams. Williams made his directorial debut on Where The Heart Is, released domestically earlier this year by ...
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X-Men crosses the $100m international barrier
20th Century Fox's summer blockbuster X-Men has broken the $100m barrier in international territories, bringing its worldwide cumulative gross to over $250m. Bryan Singer's film based on the Marvel Comics characters opened last weekend in Spain and Japan, bringing its international total to $106.1m. It has been on release for ...
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Myriad backs Greenwald in Ellroy's Dark Places
Fast-growing Myriad Pictures, Kirk D'Amico's LA-based production and sales outfit owned by publicly-traded German media outfit IN-motion, is to co-produce and fully finance My Dark Places: An LA Crime Memoir, the film of James Ellroy's autobiographical crime novel. The film will be directed by Robert Greenwald and Myriad is co-producing ...
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Winchester takes on Soul Assassin
Winchester Films has boarded $8m action thriller Soul Assassin starring Skeet Ulrich and Kristy Swanson as international sales agent. Winchester will launch the film, which started shooting on Monday, at London Screenings and MIFED.Directed by Larry Malkin and produced by well-known Dutch distributor-producer San Fu Maltha, Soul Assassin is being ...
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Harrison Ford confirms lead in Intermedia's K-19
Harrison Ford has confirmed that he will star in his first independently distributed movie - cold war submarine thriller K-19: The Widowmaker to be financed and distributed by Intermedia. The film, which immediately jumps to the top of buyers' hit lists for London Screenings and MIFED, is to be directed ...
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Wenders & Shepard reteam for untitled 2001 project
Wim Wenders and Sam Shepard who last collaborated on Wenders' 80s classic Paris Texas are to reteam on the screenplay for Wenders' next feature, an as yet untitled road movie set across the US. The new film which will be produced by Wenders' Berlin-based Road Movies Filmproduktion GmbH is set ...