All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 153
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UK trio generates midway buzz at Toronto festival
A trio of UK films - Stephen Frears' Liam, Kieron J Walsh's When Brendan Met Trudy and David Kane's Born Romantic - are amongst the titles triggering most interest halfway through the Toronto International Film Festival.The films, all three being handled by London-based The Sales Co, have all been well-received ...
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Menemsha gets five new titles for worldwide sales
Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to five new international pictures, furthering the company's ambitions to become a prolific seller of foreign-language and independent film from around the world. To date, Friedman has handled hit festival titles including Train De Vie, Color Of Paradise and The Life ...
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Franchise to sell foreign rights to Magellan trio
Franchise Pictures has signed a deal with LA-based production outfit Magellan Filmed Entertainment to handle international sales on three pictures kicking off with Rennie's Landing, a drama about four college friends starring Peter Facinelli, Ethan Embry, Scott Foley and Charlotte Ayana.The agreement marks the first time that Franchise has concluded ...
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Good Machine buys international rights to Series 7
Good Machine International (GMI) has acquired international sales rights to Daniel Minahan's Series 7, a dark comic satire to which USA Films recently acquired domestic rights.The film - taking off the phenomenal success of such reality shows as Survivor and Big Brother - imagines that the highest-rated TV show is ...
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Urbania
Dir: Jon Shear. US. 2000. 104 mins.Prod cos: Day-Harris Productions, Commotion Pictures. US dist: Lions Gate Films. Prods: Jon Shear, Stephanie Golden, J Todd Harris. Scr: Shear, Daniel Reitz, from the play Urban Folk Tales by Reitz. DoP: Shane Kelly. Prod des: Karyl Newman. Eds: Randolph K Bricker, Ed Marx. ...
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Skouras, Blackwatch buy the world on Tully
Skouras Films and Blackwatch Releasing have jointly acquired worldwide rights to Hilary Birmingam's directorial debut The Truth About Tully, the major prize winner at this year's Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (LAIFF) when it was known as Whatever Happened To Tully.Skouras plans to release the film in the US in ...
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Bring It On
Dir: Peyton Reed. US. 2000. 98 mins.Prod co: Beacon Pictures. US dist: Universal Pictures. Int'l sales: Buena Vista Film Sales, tel: (1) 818238 1081. Exec prods: Armyan Bernstein, Max Wong, Caitlin Scanlon, Paddy Cullen. Prods: Marc Abraham, Thomas A Bliss, John Ketcham. Scr: Jessica Bendinger. DoP: Shawn Maurer. Prod des: ...
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Our Lady Of The Assassins
Dir: Barbet Schroeder. France-Colombia. 2000. 96 mins.Prod cos: Les Films du Losange, Le Studio Canal Plus, Vertigo Films, Tucan Producciones Cinematograficas, with the participation of Canal Plus. Int'l sales: StudioCanal, tel: (33) 1 44 43 98 00. Prods: Margaret Menegoz, Barbet Schroeder. Scr: Fernando Vallejo from his novel La Virgen ...
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Fine Line reorganises publicity, appoints Hovee
Fine Line Features has promoted Nina Baron to vice president, East Coast publicity and promotions, and Jennifer Stott to vice president, publicity and promotions, while Melinda Hovee has joined the company as executive director, west coast publicity and promotions. Both Baron and Stott will remain based in New York and ...
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Reiko Bradley returns to MDP as sales chief
Reiko Bradley has left her post as head of Filmtown International Sales and returned to work for old boss Mark Damon as executive vice president of distribution at Damon's MDP Worldwide. She previously worked for him at Vision International and later at MDP Worldwide before leaving to head up the ...
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Chinese Coffee
Dir: Al Pacino. US. 2000. 97 mins.Prod cos: CHAL Productions in association with Shooting Gallery. Exec prod: Anne D'Amato. Prods: Michael Hadge, Larry Meistrich, Robert Salerno. Scr: Ira Lewis adapted from his own play. DoP: Frank Prinzi. Prod des: Wing Lee. Ed: Michael Berenbaum. Mus: Elmer Bernstein. Main cast: Al ...
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Fine Line, Overseas buy Before Night Falls
Fine Line Features has bought North American rights and Overseas FilmGroup has taken international rights to Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls, which screened to great acclaim at the Venice Film Festival this weekend. The company, which competed with Sony Pictures Classics for the film, paid just north of $1m for ...
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Quills
Dir: Philip Kaufman. US. 2000. 120 mins.Prod cos: Industry Entertainment. US dist: Fox Searchlight. Int'l dist: 20th Century Fox. Prods: Nick Wechsler, Peter Kaufman, Julia Chasman. Scr: Doug Wright, from his own play. DoP: Roger Stoffers. Prod des: Martin Childs. Ed: Peter Boyle. Mus: Stephen Warbeck. Main cast: Geoffrey Rush, ...
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Bring It On continues at the top of US box office
The Labor Day weekend was another disapppointing one at the North American box office. Estimated figures for the whole four days (Fri-Mon) saw a drop of some 13.5% on the same weekend last year when The Sixth Sense was still atop the charts. It is indicative of the miserable August ...
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Regent International names Gene George president
Gene George has been named president of Regent International, the international division of LA-based independent producer/distributor/exhibitor Regent Entertainment. George, a veteran on the international scene who was most recently president of NewStar Worldwide and before that executive vice president of Arista Films, will oversee all international sales and distribution operations ...
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Sony Classics buys domestic rights to Pollock
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) is understood to have bought US rights to Pollock, the directoral debut of Ed Harris which played in Cinema of the Present this week at the Venice Film Festival and will also play at next week's Toronto Film Festival.Alliance Atlantis Pictures International last week acquired all ...
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Telluride world premieres Pacino, Kaufman pictures
Al Pacino's second film as director Chinese Coffee and Phil Kaufman's eagerly awaited Marquis de Sade drama Quills are receiving their world premieres this weekend at the 27th annual Telluride Film Festival which unveiled its programme to attendees today. The prestigious festival, which has received personal sponsorship support this year ...
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Lions Gate takes on Urbania as Unapix cancels deal
Lions Gate Films has taken over US distribution duties on Sundance Film Festival competition entry Urbania from Unapix Films Theatrical, signalling increasing concern over the future of the ambitious New York-based Unapix Entertainment, which also yesterday said it has terminated its sale of a 25% stake to German entertainment company ...
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Hart Sharp to co-produce UK comedy Lily
Hart Sharp Entertainment - the New York-based production outfit behind Boys Don't Cry and Sundance co-winner You Can Count On Me - has boarded its second UK picture within a year - Lily And The Secret Planting which it will co-produce with the UK's Sarah Radclyffe Productions and Strawberry Vale ...
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IFP/West absorbs LA Indie Film Fest into programme
Independent Feature Project/West, the non-profit organisation for independent film-makers, is to take over production of the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (LAIFF), the April event which to date has been staged by the LA Film Collaborative (LAFC). It will now be incorporated as an ongoing program of IFP/West.Festival director Richard ...