All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 152
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AFMA elects new board members for 2001
The 2001 board of directors for the American Film Marketing Association (AFMA) was elected yesterday at the organisation's annual membership meeting. 'The new board continues the tradition of a strong, diverse and experienced group of industry executives, one that reflects the breadth of the independent industry that we represent,' said ...
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Altavista builds slate of exportable Mexican films
Altavista Films - the two year-old production arm of Mexican entertainment giant Corporacion Interamericana de Entretenimiento (CIE) - has lined up a production slate headed by Tear This Heart Out aka Arrancame La Vida, a $4.2m period epic to which Salma Hayek is attached to star.Roberto Sneider, who was once ...
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Bialek, Jonas form US-German 310 Entertainment
Sales and marketing veteran Chris Bialek has teamed up with Stefan Jonas, co-founder of Germany's post-production facility Das Werk, to form 310 Entertainment, a new independent production and financing outfit with bases in Los Angeles and Munich and plans to make both live action and animated films and TV series.The ...
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Legends 2, new Exorcist storm US box office
Although the North American box office was some 21.6% down on the same week last year, at least it picked up on last weekend by about 15% as a result of two new horror movies on the market. Or rather, one new horror movie and one very old horror movie ...
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The Weight Of Water
Dir: Kathryn Bigelow. US-Fr. 2000. 110 mins.Prod cos: Manifest Film Co, Palomar Pictures, Miracle Pictures. Int'l sales: Le Studio Canal Plus (33) 1 44 43 98 00. Exec prods: Lisa Henson, Steven-Charles Jaffe. Prods: Janet Yang, Joni Sighvatsson, A Kitman Ho. Scr: Alice Arlen, Chris Kyle, from the novel by ...
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Goldberg to emcee BAFTA LA Spielberg tribute
Whoopi Goldberg will emcee the BAFTA LA 10th Annual Britannia Award presentation to Steven Spielberg to be held in Los Angeles on Nov 4. Spielberg will be honoured with the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence In Film.A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Shoah Foundation of ...
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Chinese Film Festival kicks off in LA on Monday
The Chinese Film Festival, an annual showcase of new Chinese cinema presented by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) with the goal of fostering dialogue and cultural exchange between China and the US, kicks off in Los Angeles on Monday (Sept 25) with the US premiere of Zhang Jianya's Crash Landing.Seven ...
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Lions Gate takes over US on The Golden Bowl
Lions Gate Films has picked up North American rights from Merchant Ivory Productions to James Ivory's The Golden Bowl which was orginally bought at Cannes 1999 by Miramax Films. Miramax announced that the rights had reverted back to Merchant Ivory this week as the two had disagreed over the final ...
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Erin Austin promoted to senior vp at Artisan
Artisan Entertainment has promoted Erin Austin to the post of senior vice president, business and legal affairs. In addition to her current responsibilities for supervising business and legal affairs with respect to the company's theatrical productions, Austin will expand her role to include responsibility for Artisan's TV productions and Artisan's ...
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Buena Vista Film Sales is closed down
As anticipated, Buena Vista International (BVI) has closed down its international sales division Buena Vista Film Sales (BVFS) in the wake of the departure of executive vice president of acquisitions and business affairs Jere Hausfater. Very much a Hausfater initiative, BVFS handled such films as The 13th Warrior, He Got ...
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Dennis O'Connor joins Universal Focus as vp
Dennis O'Connor, who was previously senior vice president, specialised theatrical, at Trimark Pictures, has joined Universal Focus, the studio's fledgeling specialised division, as vice president, distribution.Reporting to Nikki Rocco, president of distribution at Universal Pictures, and Paul Hardart, senior vice president at Universal Focus, he will handle the distribution of ...
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Jason Cassidy leaves USA Films for Miramax
Jason Cassidy has been named vice president of marketing at Miramax Films, responsible for marketing films in addition to helping develop the company's internet businesses. He will also serve as the liaison between his department andt he company's internet group.Based in New York, Cassidy will report to David Brooks, executive ...
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Catch 23 acquires two Melissa Banks short stories
Catch 23 Entertainment has announced that it has acquired the film rights to two stories from Melissa Banks' short fiction collection The Girl's Guide To Hunting And Fishing. The stories are The Worst Thing A Suburban Girl Could Imagine and My Old Man, personal favourites of Catch 23 chairman Bob ...
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Almost Famous
Dir: Cameron Crowe. US. 2000. 121 mins.Prod co: Vinyl Films, DreamWorks Pictures. US dist: DreamWorks. Int'l dist: Columbia TriStar. Prods: Cameron Crowe, Ian Bryce. Scr: Crowe. DoP: John Toll. Art dirs: Clay A Griffith, Clayton R Hartley. Eds: Joe Hutshing, Saar Klein. Mus: Nancy Wilson, Danny Bramson. Main cast: Billy ...
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waydowntown, Crouching Tiger top Toronto prizes
Gary Burns' waydowntown, a comedy about a group of young people who make a bet about who can last the longest without going outside, won the Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at this year's Toronto International Film Festival which finished on Saturday. A domestic distribution deal for the ...
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Lions Gate buys worldwide rights on comedy Vulgar
Reflecting its ambitious expansion plan among North American independents, Lions Gate Films announced its second acquisition at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday, taking worldwide rights on Vulgar, the comedy starring and executive produced by Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier, the talents behind Dogma, Chasing Amy and Clerks, and directed ...
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Almost Famous shines at Olympics-struck box office
The North American box office reached a stunning low over the weekend as the Olympic Games TV coverage began. The weekend grosses were down 33% from the same period last year and represent the lowest since Sept 11-13, 1998.Only DreamWorks SKG's Almost Famous - which is co-financed by Columbia TriStar ...
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Gaylord Films, Warner Bros sign co-financing pact
Nashville-based Gaylord Entertainment Company, which last year bought Paris-based Pandora Cinema, has created a new company Gaylord Films and entered into a co-financing and production deal with Warner Bros Pictures which could result in as many as ten films over the next four years.Headed by veteran producer Hunt Lowry, Gaylord ...
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Odeon Films buys Andersson's Songs for Canada
International sales company The Coproduction Office has sold Canadian rights to Roy Andersson's Cannes competition entry Songs From The Second Floor to Odeon Films, a subsidiary of Alliance Atlantis Communications.Latina Film in Mexico and Gutek Film in Poland have also acquired the film which screens in the Toronto International Film ...
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Mexican hit Amores Perros goes to Lions Gate in US
Lions Gate Films has completed its deal to acquire all US and Canadian rights to Amores Perros, the critically lauded Mexican film directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Lions Gate Films International took the film on for foreign sales prior to Cannes where it screened in Critics Week, winning the Grand ...