All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 159
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Trimark to re-roll Cube
Dir: James Ivory. US. 2000. 135 mins.Prod Co: Merchant-Ivory. Int'l Sales: TF1 International. Prod: Ismail Merchant. Exec prods: Paul Bradley, Richard Hawley. Scr: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Henry James. DoP: Tony Pierce Roberts. Prod des: Andrew Sanders. Ed: John David Allen. Mus: Richard Robbins. Main cast: Kate ...
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Artisan, Miramax do some Dirty Dancing
Two of the unlikeliest dance partners - US rivals Artisan Entertainment and Miramax Films - are teaming up to co-produce and co-finance Dirty Dancing 2, the sequel to one of the most successful independent films of all time.The film will be a 50/50 worldwide joint venture and Artisan will handle ...
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Eagle swoops on Seven Arts
Recapitalised Italian distributor Eagle Pictures has sealed another package of pictures - with Seven Arts International - to go with the two picture deal with Summit and a three picture deal with Intermedia which it concluded at AFM.Eagle has taken theatrical rights to seven movies from Seven Arts including Rules ...
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Ormond adopts Bluevision Child
Julia Ormond is the latest actor planning to get behind the cameras - she has announced that she will direct a movie of Harold Pinter's script The Dreaming Child to be backed by new US independent Bluevision Media.Based on a story by Karen Blixen, The Dreaming Child is set in ...
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Caton-Jones, De Niro reteam for Franchise
Robert De Niro and director Michael Caton-Jones are reteaming for true life crime epic City By The Sea - one of two new big budget pictures on offer from powerhouse indie supplier Franchise Pictures. Franchise is also backing the next picture written and to be directed by David Mamet - ...
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Seven Arts International joins Rat Race
Seven Arts International will partner with Paramount Pictures on Rat Race, a big budget action comedy from producers Jerry Zucker (Ghost, Airplane) and Sean Daniel and Jim Jacks, whose production outfit Alphaville was behind The Mummy and The Jackal. Andy Breckman wrote the movie which is about a road race ...
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Warner international chief Frumkes calls it quits
Ed Frumkes, the president of international distribution and marketing for Warner Bros Pictures, is to leave the studio when his contract expires in December.The 13 year-old veteran of the studio, who took over from Wayne Duband as head of Warner International in Feb 1996, leaves on a high, after his ...
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Weinsteins commit to seven more years at Disney
Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the inimitable co-chairmen of Miramax Films, have extended their contracts with The Walt Disney Co for another seven years, scotching any speculation that they might be lured away from the company they co-founded in 1979."It is our pleasure to continue our association with Disney," said the ...
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George Litto Pictures sues insurance giant AXA Re
Producer George Litto has initiated arbitration proceedings against French insurance AXA Re for revoking two insurance contracts to provide the funding for five films. According to Litto's complaint, George Litto Pictures (GLP) obtained two lines of credit from Chase Manhattan Bank worth more than $100m. The issuance of each loan ...
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Cami Winikoff named COO at Trimark Pictures
Cami Winikoff has been promoted to chief operating officer at the LA-based independent producer/distributor Trimark Pictures. Previously executive vice president and chief administrative officer of Trimark, she will now oversee all operational facets of the company, reporting to chairman and CEO Mark Amin.Winikoff has been at Trimark for ten years ...
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Jerry Giaquinta upped to executive vp at SPE
Jerry Giaquinta has been promoted to executive vice president, corporate communications, for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). He will continue to report to SPE co-president Yuki Nozoe.Giaquinta joined SPE in 1998 as senior vice president, corporate communications, after a four year stint in Silicon Valley as vice president of corporate marketing ...
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Dot-coms tie up with MIF, MITIC, American Pavilion
Dot coms will invade the Croisette this Cannes Film Festival with several online companies firmly aligned with staple institutions such as The Cannes Market, The American Pavilion and MITIC.Communications giant Intel is equipping the American Pavilion with a high-speed internet capability to support new sponsors POP.com, InternetStudios.com, ReporterTV.com, E! Online ...
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I Dreamed Of Africa
Dir: Hugh Hudson. US. 2000. 114 mins.Prod cos: Jaffilms. US dist: Columbia Pictures. Int'l dist: Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International. Prod: Stanley R Jaffe, Allyn Stewart. Scr: Paula Milne, from the book by Kuki Gullman. DoP: Bernard Lutic. Prod des: Andrew Sanders. Ed: Scott Thomas. Mus: Maurice Jarre. Main cast: ...
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Universal takes domestic on start-up Catch 23
Robert B. Sturm, a Denver-based financier and philanthropist, has formed a new LA production company Catch 23 Entertainment and entered into a deal with Universal Pictures' unnamed specialty film division to handle domestic distribution on the films it produces. Sturm plans to engage foreign sales agents on a picture by ...
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Tykwer to direct Kieslowski's Heaven for Miramax
White-hot German director Tom Tykwer will make his English-language debut directing Heaven, a Miramax co-production that will form the first in a planned trilogy of films based on screenplays by late great Polish film-maker Krzysztof Kieslowski and his writing partner Krzysztof Piesiewicz. Cate Blanchett is in talks to star in ...
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Summit tickled by Haxan's Heart Of Love comedy
Summit Entertainment has boarded Heart Of Love, a broad comedy from the film-making team behind The Blair Witch Project. Summit will act as international sales agent on the film and will introduce it to buyers this month at Cannes.Haxan Entertainment's Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick have written and will produce ...
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Flintstones, Frequency can't sink U-571
Universal's family comedy The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas grossed $10.8m in its first three days at the box office over the weekend but was unable to beat U-571, also from Universal, in its second weekend. The submarine thriller grossed $12.3m, bringing its total to $38.2m after two weekends. Viva ...
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Liliana Cavani to direct Fine Line's Ripley's Game
Liliana Cavani, the Italian director behind The Night Porter who hasn't made a film since 1993, has boarded Fine Line Features' Ripley's Game - an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's classic novel which follows Tom Ripley 25 years after the events portrayed in The Talented Mr Ripley.Cavani is supervising a script ...
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Golan's Back! FilmWorld launches at Cannes
Menahem Golan is back - again - with a new company FilmWorld and his years-in-the-making version of Crime And Punishment almost ready for unveiling. Teaming with Eugeny Afineevsky, his executive vice president and head of business affairs, and Eddie Avalos, vice president and head of international sales, Golan has two ...
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Pop group 'N Sync to promote first film at Cannes
'N SYNC - the US boyband phenomenon - will make its first feature film for LA-based independent production outfits Total Film Group and Phat Free Productions, it was announced yesterday.And the group, which performed with Gloria Estefan at this year's Academy Awards ceremony, will be attending this year's Cannes Film ...