All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 155
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Under Hellgate Bridge wins at Narrowsburg Fest
Michael Sergio's Under Hellgate Bridge was named Best Feature Film at the second annual The Narrowsburg Independent Film Festival in Narrowsburg, upstate New York, last week. The film also won the Best Director prize for Sergio, the Best Actor prize for Michael Rodrick and the Rising Star Award for Brian ...
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Mendes confirmed to direct Hanks in gangster pic
British wunderkind director Sam Mendes will return to DreamWorks SKG for his second film after his Oscar winning debut American Beauty. He will direct megastar Tom Hanks in The Road To Perdition, a film adaptation of a 1930s gangster comic strip novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayners. ...
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Revolution Films seals first look deal with UA
United Artists Films (UAF), the specialised film division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), has entered into a two year, first-look deal with Revolution Films, the UK-based independent production company headed by director Michael Winterbottom and his producing partner Andrew Eaton.The deal, which had been anticipated at Cannes this year (Screendaily, May 14, ...
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Sutherland joins MGM in senior international role
Ian Sutherland, who was previously senior vice president, international marketing, at United International Pictures (UIP) in London, has joined MGM Distribution Co as senior vice president - international theatrical distribution and marketing to be based in Los Angeles.Sutherland, who worked with MGM when it was a partner in ...
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Senator, Mark Canton seal five-year joint venture
Yet another German company is putting its public money behind a Hollywood producer. Hanno Huth's Senator Entertainment has entered into a five-year joint venture agreement with Mark Canton's The Canton Company to develop and fully fund an average of four to six major movies a year.Canton will continue to be ...
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Fox Searchlight buys Al Pacino's Chinese Coffee
Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Al Pacino's second directorial effort Chinese Coffee which stars Pacino, Jerry Orbach, Susan Floyd and Ellen McElduff. The company also had worldwide rights to Pacino's Looking For Richard - a semi-documentary study of Shakespeare's Richard III - which grossed $1.4m in 1996/7.The ...
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Hollow Man - a clear smash at US box office
As expected, Columbia Pictures' adult sci-fi thriller Hollow Man topped the box office chart in North America over the weekend - probably one of the most competitive of the summer so far. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, the R-rated film took an estimated $26.8m, which if the figure holds, would mark ...
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Jerome Le Grand gets vp stripes at BVI and BVHEI
Jerome Le Grand has been promoted from executive director of finance and planning for Buena Vista International (BVI) to the newly created position of vice president, finance and planning, for BVI and Buena Vista Home Entertainment International (BVHEI).Reporting directly to Mark Zoradi, president of BVI and BVHEI, and Lawrence Kaplan, ...
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Artisan buys Hegedus/Pennebaker doc Startup.com
Artisan Entertainment has acquired Startup.com, the new documentary from veteran film-makers Chris Hegedus (The War Room, Moon Over Broadway) and DA Pennebaker (The War Room, Don't Look Back, Monterey Pop) in collaboration with first-timer Jehane Nouhaim. The film follows the development, growth and triumphs of an internet startup - govWorks.com, ...
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Space Cowboys
Dir: Clint Eastwood. US. 2000. 129 mins.Prod co: Malpaso, Mad Chance Productions, Warner Bros, Village Roadshow Pictures/Clipsal Films. Worldwide dist: Warner Bros/Village Roadshow. Exec prod: Tom Rooker. Prod: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Lazar. Scr: Ken Kaufman, Howard Klausner. DoP: Jack N Green. Prod des: Henry Bumstead. Ed: Joel Cox. Mus: Lennie ...
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Clark, Van der Werff, Bachmann upped at CTFDI
In the wake of Duncan Clark's departure from Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), parent company Sony Pictures has promoted three senior executives in CTFDI's marketing department.Nigel Clark, formerly senior vice president of international marketing, has been promoted to executive vice president, international marketing. Susan van der Werff, formerly vice ...
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Hollow Man
Dir: Paul Verhoeven. US. 2000. 114 mins.Prod co: Columbia Pictures. Worldwide dist: Columbia/Columbia TriStar. Exec prod: Marion Rosenberg. Prod: Alan Marshall, Douglas Wick. Scr: Andrew W Marlowe, based on a story by Gary Scott Thompson & Andrew W Marlowe. DoP: Jost Vacano. Prod des: Allan Cameron. Ed: Mark Goldblatt. Mus: ...
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Gianopulos, Rothman take reins at Fox
Following a recent tradition of promoting from within, Fox Filmed Entertainment has named two joint successors to studio chairman Bill Mechanic - former president of 20th Century Fox Film Group Tom Rothman and former president of 20th Century Fox International Jim Gianopulos. The appointments were made by Peter Chernin, president ...
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Nutty Professor II is huge with $42.7m opening
Universal enjoyed a much-needed box office boost - the first since news of its takeover by Vivendi - over the weekend with the opening of Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, one of the summer's more predictable hits. With an estimated $42.7m grossed from Friday to Sunday on 3,243 screens, the ...
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InternetStudios hires three for film sales subsid
LA-based industry website InternetStudios has made three more appointments to its subsidiary OnlineFilmSales, an online digital marketplace for sales of film and television rights.Michael Bremer has joined the company as vice president of sales and marketing responsible for attracting sales companies to present their projects on the site and enlisting ...
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LA ent'ment lawyers Rosen & Anderson merge firms
Two LA-based entertainment lawyers have merged their practices to create what they call "an entertainment convergence media incubator law firm". Entertainment attorney Phillip L Rosen and Joseph B Anderson, a specialist attorney in Internet and entertainment, have created one entity - Rosen & Anderson - which aims to service both ...
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Hausfater quits Disney for Intermedia
Jere Hausfater, one of the most well-known studio buyers on the international film circuit, has ended his near 13 year run at The Walt Disney Co and found a new home at independent giant Intermedia. Hausfater has joined Intermedia, which in May floated on the German stock market with an ...
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Firestone forms Fireworks as worldwide dist'n co
Jay Firestone has consolidated his two LA-based film outfits, international sales company Seven Arts International and domestic distributor CanWest Films into one entity now known as Fireworks Pictures. Fireworks is a subsidiary of Firestone's CanWest Entertainment, itself a division of Toronto-based media giant CanWest Global Communications Corp.The new company now ...
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Artisan to make film about 60s group The Shaggs
Artisan Entertainment has acquired life rights to the true story of 60s pop group The Shaggs with a view to making a film based on their brief rise to fame to be written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann.A three-sister outfit, The Shaggs only produced one album Philosophy Of The World, ...
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What Lies Beneath Above The Rest with $30.1m
DreamWorks SKG had another hit opening in North America over the weekend with its supernatural thriller What Lies Beneath raking in $30.1m to take the number one slot at the box office. 20th Century Fox has international rights to the film which it co-produced with DreamWorks as part of a ...