All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 154
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Myriad acquires foreign rights to Double Whammy
Kirk D'Amico's international sales outfit Myriad Pictures has acquired international distribution rights to Tom DiCillo's latest picture Double Whammy starring Denis Leary, Steve Buscemi and Elizabeth Hurley. The deal was completed between Myriad and the film's producers David Kronemyer and Marcus Viscidi. Kronemyer's Gold Circle Films retains domestic rights.IN-motion AG, ...
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Baldwin, Gallagher land Protection roles
Stephen Baldwin and Peter Gallagher are to star in Protection, a mob thriller being produced by Alliance Atlantis' genre division Le Monde Entertainment. The film, which is scheduled to start principal photography in Montreal on Oct 2 this year, will be directed by John Flynn whose credits include Rolling Thunder ...
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Foreign cash finds its way to Mosaic
More foreign money came flooding into Hollywood this week as Canada's Capital Communications CDPQ, a subsidiary of Montreal-based fund management giant Caisse de depot et placement de Quebec, announced that it will make a "major strategic investment" in Mosaic Media Group. Mosaic is the new name for the merged entities ...
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Norstar seals six-picture deal with New Legend
Toronto-based Norstar Filmed Entertainment has pacted with New Legend Media AG to co-produce six-pictures kicking off with The Fourth Angel starring Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Jason Priestly and Charlotte Rampling.The Fourth Angel is now configured as a co-production between Norstar, headed by Peter Simpson, Allan Scott's Rafford Films and UK-based ...
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Sundance launches Online Film Festival for 2001
The Sundance Institute yesterday unveiled The Sundance Online Film Festival, a showcase of new work specifically developed for the web, which will coincide with next year's film festival, Jan 18-28, 2001. The cyber-festival will launch on Jan 18 on www.sundance.org.The online film festival is open to mixed-media pieces that have ...
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Sapient to sponsor BAFTA LA's Britannia Award
Sapient - a leading creator of new economy businesses - has partnered with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA LA) to sponsor the 10th Annual Britannia Award - now called the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence In Film - which is this year being ...
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Rainbow/IFC buys 5% stake in website IFILM
Rainbow Media Holdings Inc, the Cablevision-owned outfit which manages US cable channel The Independent Film Channel (IFC), has acquired a 5% equity stake in entertainment website IFILM. Rainbow will provide IFILM with on-air promotional time on IFC and the two will exchange content and cross-promote through their web, television and ...
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Total Film Group buys Nebenzal's Lion Cult
Gerald Green's LA-based production outfit Total Film Group has acquired film rights to Harold Nebenzal's third novel The Lion Cult, a thriller set in Zurich about a group of foreign companies who all share a lake-front mansion who are thrust into danger by the greed of competing cartels, Swiss banks ...
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MGM Worldwide TV forms Latin American sales arm
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)'s TV distribution and co-production unit MGM Worldwide Television Distribution has established its first direct sales operation for the Latin American region and appointed Mary Ann Pasante to serve as vice president of Latin America Television Sales. Pasante will be based in Atlanta, Georgia, where the new branch office ...
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Fiennes joins Graham in Kaige's Killing Me Softly
Joseph Fiennes has been cast opposite Heather Graham in Chen Kaige's first English language film Killing Me Softly which is set to go into production in London on Oct 30. The film is being produced and financed by Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock's Montecito Pictures; MGM has domestic rights with ...
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MPAA slams NC-17 rating on Artisan's Requiem
Darren Aronofsky's Requiem For A Dream, a bold portrait of drug addiction which made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this year, has run into censorship trouble in the US where it is being released by Artisan Entertainment.The Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) yesterday gave the film ...
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Dimension greenlights Scary Movie II for 2001
The tagline was "No Mercy. No Shame. No Sequel." but Dimension Films, the genre production and releasing arm of Miramax Films, will break that promise and start production on Scary Movie II later this year. The first film has grossed close to $150m at the domestic box office and will ...
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Hollywood wins case against DVD hacking website
Hollywood's eight movie studios won a significant court battle at the end of last week in its effort to protect DVDs from being copied onto computers.The studios via their advocate organisation The Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) successfully sued website publisher Eric Corley who had made available online software ...
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The Cell tops chart, Spike Lee docu dazzles at 2
New Line Cinema's only release of the summer - serial killer thriller The Cell - took the top spot at the North American box office over the weekend with an estimated $17.2m on 2,411 screens for a strong screen average of $7,134. The very adult movie, in which a psychologist ...
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Harvey buys first film for theatrical distribution
The Harvey Entertainment Company has acquired US distribution rights to UK/French animated family film A Monkey's Tale from Pearson Television International and plans to release it through a distribution partner on a limited 150-screen release at the end of January 2001. Universal Home Video will then release it on video ...
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The Cell
Dir: Tarsem Singh. US. 2000. 108 mins.Prod cos: Caro-McLeod Productions, Radical Media. US dist: New Line. Int'l sales: New Line International (+1 310 967 6700). Exec prods: Donna Langley, Carolyn Manetti. Prods: Julio Caro, Eric McLeod. Scr: Mark Protosevich. DoP: Paul Laufer. Prod des: Tom Foden. Ed: Paul Rubell, Robert ...
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Autumn In New York
Dir: Joan Chen. US. 2000. 105 mins.Prod co: Lakeshore Entertainment. US dist: MGM. Int'l sales: Lakeshore International (+1 323 956 4222). Exec prods: Ted Tannenbaum, Ron Bozman. Prods: Amy Robinson, Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg. Scr: Allison Burnett. DoP: Changwei Gu. Prod des: Mark Friedberg. Ed: Ruby Yang. Mus: Gabriel Yared. ...
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Milk & Honey opens studio facility in Prague
LA-based production and production services outfit Milk & Honey Films has opened a studio facility in Prague to service the international film and commercial production industries as well as its own productions. The facility, called Milk & Honey Studios Letnany, consists of two large stages with a third close to ...
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HBO to launch South Asia movie service on Sept 1
HBO is to launch an English language movie channel HBO South Asia service in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Maldives on Sept 1, 2000. Programming will consist exclusively of films sourced through exclusive licensing agreements with Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and Warner Bros.HBO will manage the new ...
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Space Cowboys, Hollow Man tie at the top
Buoyed by good reviews and strong word-of-mouth, Warner Bros' Space Cowboys tied for the top spot at the North American box office over the weekend with Columbia Pictures' sci-fi thriller Hollow Man, each film taking an estimated $13.1m. Hollow Man fell 50% from its blockbusting opening last weekend, while Space ...