All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 156
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Film Roman hires Bastianelli for int'l expansion
Film Roman, the children's animation outfit which recently expanded to produce live action TV series, specials and feature films, has retained the services of Eileen Bastianelli to create a worldwide presence for the company. Bastianelli, based in Paris, has been engaged as a consultant to form co-productions and establish other ...
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Reid Sullivan named CFO at Village Roadshow Pics
Reid Sullivan - who for the last five years was responsible for all strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting at Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) - has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer at LA-based Village Roadshow Pictures.He will be responsible for all the classic accounting ...
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Warner to release Exorcist with missing reel
Warner Bros Pictures will release a new version of The Exorcist in North America on Sept 22. Entitled The Exorcist - The Version You've Never Seen, it will include more than one reel of long-rumoured footage which was omitted from the film's original release in 1973.The film's director William Friedkin ...
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Lions Gate seals US deal on Cannes closer Stardom
Lions Gate Films has acquired US rights to Denys Arcand's Stardom, the closing night film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, from Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Group and production company Serendipity Point Films. Stardom has also been selected to open the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept 7 this year.The ...
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Matt LeBlanc cast in Atlantic Streamline war pic
Friends star Matt LeBlanc is to head the cast of All The Queen's Men, a $15m German-set comedic drama set in World War II which is being produced by Atlantic Streamline.Bernd Eichinger's Constantin Film has taken rights in German-speaking Europe to the film which is being directed by Stephan Ruzowitsky ...
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Miramax, Affleck, Damon launch writing contest
Miramax Films, Miramax Television, HBO and Good Will Hunting writers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are teaming up to launch a US contest in which a totally unknown writer will have his or her screenplay greenlit.Starting in the summer, anyone in the US can submit a screenplay electronically to www.projectgreenlight.com. ...
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Scary Movie
Dir: Keenen Ivory Wayans. US. 2000. 88 mins.Prod cos: Wayans Bros Entertainment, Gold-Miller, Brad Grey Pictures. US dist: Dimension Films. Int'l sales: Miramax International (+ 1 212 219 4100). Exec prods: Brad Grey, Peter Safran, Bo Zenga, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Cary Granat, Peter Schwerin. Prods: Eric L Gold, Lee ...
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Brokaw's Avenue to merge with e-commerce firm
Cary Brokaw's Avenue Entertainment Group, the production outfit behind The Player, Short Cuts and Drugstore Cowboy, has signed a letter of intent to merge with SolutionsAmerica Inc, an e-commerce company which specialises in facilitating digital business processes for the entertainment industry.In a statement Brokaw said that the merger was intended ...
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Gladiator passes $350m in worldwide grosses
Ridley Scott's Gladiator which was co-financed by DreamWorks SKG and Universal Pictures has crossed the $350m mark at the worldwide box office. Its international gross through Universal/UIP is now at $180m and rising, surpassing the $171m it has generated domestically on its DreamWorks release.The movie is to date the year's ...
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Perry-Melish, Piano join website Reelplay.com
International film sales business-to-business website Reelplay.com has made some key appointments from the film world to join its team.- Chris Perry-Melish, formerly president of international sales at Kushner-Locke Co, has been named senior vice president of sales. Perry-Melish previously held sales and distribution posts at Conquistador Entertainment, Prism Entertainment and ...
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Storm Conquers US Box Office
Channel 4 today confirmed the appointment of Mark Thompson, currently BBC director of television, as its chief executive.Thompson replaces Michael Jackson, who left to become president and chief executive of USA Entertainment in October. He will leave the BBC after Christmas, but not take up his new job until March ...
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Warner Bros whips up US Box Office Storm
Warner Bros' epic disaster movie The Perfect Storm was the champion at the North American box office over the Fourth Of July weekend, grossing $41.7m in the Friday to Sunday period, some $20m more than its nearest competition, Columbia Pictures' opener The Patriot.Playing at 3,407 screens, Wolfgang Petersen's true life ...
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The Perfect Storm
Dir: Wolfgang Petersen. US. 2000. 129 mins.Prod cos: Baltimore Spring Creek Pictures, Radiant Productions. Worldwide dist: Warner Bros. Exec prods: Barry Levinson, Duncan Henderson. Prods: Paula Weinstein, Wolfgang Petersen, Gail Katz. Scr: Bill Wittliff, based on the book by Sebastian Junger. DoP: John Seale. Prod des: William Sandell. Ed: Richard ...
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Things You Can Tell goes straight to Showtime
Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her, the all-female tableau film which world premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and which opened Un Certain Regard at Cannes, will go straight to Showtime in North America, bypassing a theatrical release by rights-holder United Artists (UA).UA, the specialised arm ...
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Amir Malin assumes sole leadership of Artisan
Amir Malin has assumed sole leadership of Artisan Entertainment following the resignation yesterday of co-chief executive officer Mark Curcio. Malin will from now on be responsible for overseeing all areas of the company and its future growth. Bill Block will remain president of Artisan and will take on additional responsibilities ...
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Dana Reid segues into production deal at Artisan
Artisan Pictures has signed a first look production deal with Dana Reid, a former vice president of production at Artisan, and his new company Flash Entertainment. The arrangement covers theatrical and direct-to-video productions.Reid joined Artisan in 1997 from ICM where he worked alongside agent Ken Kamins. While at Artisan he ...
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Universal dubs specialised arm Universal Focus
Universal Pictures has named its domestic specialised film division Universal Focus. Created in 1999 as the studio's marketing and distribution unit for "niche-oriented productions and acquisitions", Universal Focus is run by executive vice president Claudia Gray and senior vice president Paul Hardart and will handle films from sources including WT2 ...
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Regent & Media Asia strike co-production pact
LA-based Regent Entertainment has sealed a co-production deal with Hong Kong's Media Asia kicking off with Gen-Y Cops, the sequel to Media Asia's hit Gen-X Cops, which will star Paul Rudd and a largely Asian supporting cast.Rudd, whose credits include Clueless, The Object Of My Affection, The Cider House Rules ...
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Overseas completes $47m in new financing
Overseas FilmGroup has closed on the $17m equity investment by Rosemary Street Productions, the investment vehicle of New York-based commercial production and studio facilities company EUE Screen Gems Ltd. Overseas has also finalised a new five year, secured revolving credit facility with Chase Securities which has been increased from $30m ...
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Fine Line options script from O'Connor brothers
Fine Line Features has optioned Pride And Glory, a new script from Gregory and Gavin O'Connor, the same team behind Fine Line's Tumbleweeds. The script, which the brothers co-wrote with Robert A Hopes, is currently being reworked by Joe Carnahan, who wrote and directed Blood, Guts, Bullets And Octane.Gavin O'Connor ...