All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 151
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Meet The Parents scores a whopping $29m
Topping the Columbus Day weekend box office in North America with the highest October opening ever was Universal's comedy Meet The Parents which grossed a stunning $29.1m at 2,614 theatres. The comedy, directed by Jay Roach - the man behind the two Austin Powers films, was another hit for Universal ...
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Lions Gate buys US on Korea's Nowhere To Hide
Lions Gate Releasing will release Lee Myung-Se's acclaimed Korean action thriller Nowhere To Hide in the US, starting with a limited run in New York and Los Angeles in December. The film was sold internationally by sister outfit Lions Gate Films International but this is a separate deal negotiated by ...
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1st German Cinema Festival set for LA next month
The Export-Union of German Cinema is to stage the 1st annual Festival of German Cinema in Los Angeles from Nov 3-9 presenting 16 new feature films, 15 shorts and a selection of shorts from German film students.Films screening will include: Sebastian Schipper's Gigantic, Achim Von Borries' England, Peter Keglevic's Falling ...
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Das Werk takes majority stake in LA's Promark
Publicly traded German post-production facility Das Werk has acquired a 73% stake in 13 year-old LA-based production and sales outfit Promark Entertainment Group.The move gives Promark access to Das Werk's network of post-production facilities while giving Das Werk a foothold in the US and access to Promark's international sales network. ...
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Zanucks strike first-look deal with DreamWorks
Veteran Hollywood producers Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck have signed a two-year, first-look deal with DreamWorks Pictures. Richard Zanuck has already produced Deep Impact for the studio in 1998 with his longterm producing partner David Brown and he is teaming with Dean Zanuck to produce Road To Perdition, ...
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Kinowelt USA buys Let It Ride pitch for Hurd
Kinowelt USA, the US production arm of German film giant Kinowelt, and producer Gale Anne Hurd have acquired the rights to the pitch Let It Ride by Melanie Mayron and Cynthia Mort for a sum in the mid-six figures.The film will be produced by Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures, which has ...
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Artisan acquires comedy script Trifecta
Artisan Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to the comedy script Trifecta - the first feature script from the creators of cult US cable TV series Strangers With Candy. Written by show creators Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert with Strangers actor David Pasquesi (all alumni of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe), ...
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Meet The Parents
Dir: Jay Roach. US. 2000.Prod cos: Nancy Tenenbaum Films, Tribeca Productions. US dist: Universal Pictures. Int'l dist: DreamWorks/UIP. Prods: Nancy Tenenbaum, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, Jay Roach. Scr: Jim Herzfeld, John Hamburg from a story by Greg Glienna & Mary Ruth Clarke. DoP: Peter James. Prod des: Rusty Smith. ...
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LA-based Halcyon unveils four new projects
One year-old Los Angeles-based production outfit Halcyon Entertainment, headed by producer Chris Coen, has unveiled four new projects joining two previously announced ones on its development slate.They are:- Deepwater based on the novel by Matthew Jones and scripted by Tim Metcalfe (Kalifornia, Bones, Killer) is a psychological thriller about a ...
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Pathe takes on Automatic's Season
UK National Lottery studio franchise Pathe Pictures has acquired the comedy pitch The Season from Automatic Pictures, the LA-based production outfit run by There's Something About Mary producer Frank Beddor. An original idea by London-based commercial and video director Aasaf Ainapore, The Season is currently being scripted by agent-turned-writer Sam ...
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Best In Show
Dir: Christopher Guest. US. 2000. 90 mins.Prod co: Castle Rock Entertainment. Worldwide dist: Warner Bros. Exec prod: Gordon Mark. Prod: Karen Murphy. Scr: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy. DoP: Roberto Schaeffer. Prod des: Joseph T Garrity. Ed: Robert Leighton. Main cast: Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Eugene ...
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Imax pacts with E-Citi to build theatres in India
Imax Corporation has signed an agreement with India's E-Citi Entertainment, a subsidiary of the ESSEL Group of Industries, to open a minimum of six IMAX theatres in India over the next four years. The deal includes an option to build up to 20 theatres in family entertainment centres which E-Citi ...
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Sue Blackmore leaves Trimark for Myriad
Sue Blackmore, formerly executive director of marketing and publicity for Trimark Pictures, has joined Myriad Pictures as vice president, marketing and publicity. She will be responsible for conceiving and implementing marketing and publicity campaigns for Myriad's slate including Chen Kaige's Killing Me Softly which stars Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes ...
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Lisa Mundt joins int'l operations at Warner Bros
Lisa Mundt has been named vice president, international operations, at Warner Bros Pictures, a newly created position in which she will have full operational responsibility for a number of territories as well as supervising Warner Bros Pictures' international non-theatrical business.She will take an active role in systems development related to ...
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Storaro to get ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
Vittorio Storaro, the multi-award winning cinematographer, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) at the 15th annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards dinner on Feb 18, 2001.Italian Storaro is one of the most famous cinematographers in the world with Oscars to his name for Apocalypse ...
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Jon Voight to play Jolie's dad in Tomb Raider
Jon Voight has joined the cast of Paramount Pictures' action adventure Tomb Raider currently shooting in the UK and will play Lord Croft, father to Lara Croft played by his real-life daughter Angelina Jolie. It is the first time that Voight and Jolie have appeared together on screen.The casting was ...
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Carol Rossi joins Julie Savay-Ross at Miracle
Carol M Rossi has joined LA-based production/sales outfit Miracle Entertainment as vice president, marketing. She will be responsible for implementing marketing strategies for Miracle's production slate as well as the company's international distribution operations run by president of international distribution Julie Savay-Ross. She will report to Savay-Ross.Rossi's appointment follows earlier ...
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Film Roman's Jon Vein named COO at AMG and APG
Jon Vein, former chief operating officer at Film Roman, has joined Michael Ovitz's Artists Management Group (AMG) and Artists Production Group (APG) as chief operating officer.Vein has been at Film Roman as COO since 1995 where he was responsible for overseeing all business activities of the company as well as ...
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IEG's credit line with Chase raised to $135m
Chase Manhattan Bank has increased its revolving credit line to Graham King's LA-based independent Initial Entertainment Group to $135m according to a statement released yesterday by John Miller, managing director of Chase Manhattan, and Colin Cotter, IEG's COO.The relationship between the bank and IEG began in 1997 when the two ...
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Prinze Jr to star in Miramax martial arts movie
Freddie Prinze Jr will star in an untitled martial arts movie to be produced by Miramax Films which acquired the untitled pitch from Robert Mark Kamen, writer of the Karate Kid series and A Walk In The Clouds.The project tells the story of an American boy raised by Chinese monks ...