All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 157
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Sundance Channel buys five Latin American pictures
US cable station Sundance Channel has acquired US television rights to five Latin American titles which will be broadcast in August as part of Arte Latino, a tribute to Latin American film-making.The films are Martin Rejtman's Silvia Prieto from Argentina, Mercedes Garcia Guevera's Hidden River from Argentina, Carlos Bolado's Bajo ...
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Ledwith gets promoted to vp at Universal Int'l
Jack Ledwith has been promoted to vice president, international distribution, at Universal Pictures reporting to Nadia Bronson, the studio's president of international marketing, distribution and operations.Ledwith joined Universal in 1996 as director of planning and analysis, international distribution; previously he had worked at Carolco Pictures as director of international sales ...
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STAR gets DreamWorks films for India & Pakistan
News Corp-owned STAR TV has concluded a deal with DreamWorks SKG to broadcast nine films on its STAR Movies channel in India and Pakistan. The titles include The Peacemaker, Deep Impact, Forces Of Nature, Antz and The Prince Of Egypt.The DreamWorks deal joins product from 20th Century Fox, The Walt ...
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Carrey tops US box office, Chickens in at two
20th Century Fox claimed the top spot at the North American box office in the week that studio chief Bill Mechanic resigned his post. But the $24.2m opening for grossout comedy Me, Myself & Irene could be considered a disappointment for the studio which had been heralding the picture as ...
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Alliance strikes output deal with Telecinco
Alliance Atlantis Pictures International has signed an output deal with Spanish TV network Telecinco for genre titles from its Le Monde Entertainment division. The agreement will begin with Second Skin, a thriller starring Natasha Henstridge, Angus MacFadyen and Peter Fonda, which was shot on location in South Africa. The deal ...
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Me, Myself And Irene
Dirs: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly. US. 2000. 117 mins.Prod co: Conundrum Entertainment, 20th Century Fox. Worldwide dist: 20th Century Fox. Exec prods: Charles B Wessler, Tom Schulman. Prods: Bradley Thomas, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly. Scr: Farrelly, Farrelly & Mike Cerrone. DoP: Mark Irwin. Prod des: Sidney J Bartholomew. Ed: Christopher ...
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Universal takes territories on FilmFour's Gray
Universal Pictures has clinched a major multi-territory deal with FilmFour on Gillian Armstrong's Charlotte Gray starring Cate Blanchett which will start shooting early next year. Universal has taken rights to the film in France, Benelux, Scandinavia, Spain, Italy, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.The deal was negotiated by Carl Clifton, acting ...
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Aardman to make Wallace And Gromit movie
Aardman, the celebrated UK animation company which this weekend sees the US release of its first film Chicken Run, is planning a feature based around its popular characters Wallace and Gromit for release in 2004.The Wallace and Gromit film will be produced after the next Aardman film The Tortoise And ...
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Lusomundo, Forum sign on for Joe Roth films
Joe Roth's Revolution Studios has closed the final international deals on its debut slate of 36 films to be made over the next six years. Lusomundo in Portugal and Forum Film in Israel have taken the films for their territories joining Senator Films (Germany), Toho-Towa and Pony Canyon (Japan) and ...
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Good Machine Int'l unveils Cannes sales deals
Three year-old Good Machine International has unveiled a string of sales closed during and after the Cannes Film Festival, extending its relationships with key foreign independents such as Entertainment Film Distributors in the UK, Bac Film in France and Constantin Film in Germany, while striking first-time deals with Medusa Film ...
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Shaft - Top guy at the US Box Office with $21.1m
Paramount Pictures, hot on the heels of Mission: Impossible 2, has scored another summer smash with its updated remake of 1971 blaxploitation classic Shaft. Featuring Samuel L Jackson as New York cop Shaft with original star Richard Roundtree as his uncle John, the movie grossed $21.1m over the three-day weekend ...
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Alliance sews up world sales on Stardom
Alliance Atlantis Pictures International has sold Denys Arcand's Stardom, which closed this year's Cannes Film Festival, to a slew of territories including Germany, where the picture went to Arthaus, and Rentrack in Japan.The film also went to Spring Cinema for Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, Cinemien for Benelux, Triangle Films ...
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Paramount worldwide acquisitions chief to quit
John Ferraro, senior vice president, worldwide acquisitions and co-productions at Paramount Motion Picture Group, is to leave the studio after 20 years to pursue other interests. A well-known figure on the international festival and market circuit, Ferraro was most recently instrumental in acquiring British comedy Kevin & Perry Go Large ...
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Fine Line gets domestic rights to Human Nature
Fine Line Features has acquired North American rights to Human Nature, the much anticipated movie scripted by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich) and directed by Michel Gandry.The film, a Good Machine production which is being sold internationally by StudioCanal, is produced by Good Machine's Ted Hope, Anthony Bregman, Kaufman and ...
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Shaft
Dir: John Singleton. US. 2000.Prod cos: Scott Rudin Productions, New Deal Productions, Paramount Pictures. US dist: Paramount. Int'l dist: UIP. Exec prods: Adam Schroeder, Paul Hall, Steve Nicolaides. Prods: Scott Rudin, John Singleton. Scr: Richard Price, Singleton & Shane Salerno, story by Singleton & Salerno based on the novel by ...
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The Prompter
Dir: Hilde Heier. Norway. 1999. 97 mins. Prod cos: Wildhagen Produksjon AS, CO Film, Norwegian Film Institute & Swedish Film Institute. US sales c/o Menemsha Entertainment (+1 310 712 3720). Int'l sales: Norsk Filminstitute (+47 2247 4575). Prod: Christian Wildhagen. Scr: Hilde Heier. DoP: Harald Gunnar Paalgard. Prod des: Aida ...
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Tom Quinn promoted at Samuel Goldwyn Films
Tom Quinn has been named director of acquisitions for Samuel Goldwyn Films and will relocate to the company's New York office immediately. Quinn joined Goldwyn in 1997 as manager of production and acquisitions; prior to that he was executive assistant to Samuel Goldwyn Jr and worked in publicity for the ...
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Ex-Searchlight publicist Robertson opens PR shop
Michele Robertson, former executive director of national publicity at Fox Searchlight Pictures, has launched her own boutique PR agency in Los Angeles called MRC. Kicking off with two film accounts - Fine Line Features' Saving Grace and Trimark Pictures' Skipped Parts - Robertson plans to work with both studios and ...
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Roth lines up $3bn for Revolution Studios launch
Joe Roth's eagerly-awaited film and internet production outfit, to be henceforth known as Revolution Studios, has finally hit the ground with an initial $3bn in financing and distribution commitments from three key investment partners who will collectively control own around a quarter of the company.Roth's Revolution - not to be ...
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Bhaman Naraghi joins Miramax as executive vp
Bahman Naraghi has joined Miramax Films as executive vice president of finance and operations. Naraghi will oversee all aspects of the company's finance, accounting, reporting and human resources as well as supervising certain business development efforts and arranging new financial arrangements for film projects. He will report directly to co-chairmen ...