All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 161
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Harvey Entertainment completes acquisition of PM
The Harvey Entertainment Group has completed its acquisition of George Shamieh's PM Entertainment Group following the securing of a $25m, five year revolving credit facility from Chase Manhattan Bank.$15m of the funds have already been committed, enabling Harvey to complete the acquisition of 100% of the capital stock of PM, ...
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Goodbye Casanova opens LA Italian Film Awards Week
The second annual Los Angeles Italian Film Awards Week will open on April 25 with the world premiere of Mauro Borrelli's Italian/American comedy Goodbye Casanova starring Giancarlo Scandiuzzi, Yasmine Bleeth and Flea, the lead bassist from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.The event which runs April 25-29 is designed to introduce ...
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Mitchell Galin resigns from New Amsterdam Ent.
Mitchell Galin has resigned from his position as president and member of the board at New Amsterdam Entertainment. Richard P Rubinstein will now assume the position of president alongside his current roles as chairman and CEO.Galin, who has relocated to Nashville to set up his own production company On The ...
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Cuaron returns to Mexico with Good Machine
Good Machine International (GMI) has acquired international sales rights outside North America, Spain and Latin America to Alfonso Cuaron's latest film Y Tu Mama Tambien which is currently shooting in Mexico.The film marks Cuaron's return to Spanish-language films in Mexico after two Hollywood films - Great Expectations (1998) for 20th ...
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Allen, DreamWorks seal three-pic deal
Woody Allen has signed a domestic distribution deal with DreamWorks SKG for his next three untitled comedies. DreamWorks, whose film Antz featured Allen's voice, is already distributing the next Woody Allen picture Small Time Crooks in the US. The agreement comes in the wake of the ending of Allen's association ...
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Silver creates low-budget Zinc division
Joel Silver's production outfit Silver Pictures is launching a new low-budget production division Zinc Pictures which will bow with the $5m thriller Proximity directed by Scott Ziehl, whose critically acclaimed first film Broken Vessels premiered at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival two years ago. The company emerged out of ...
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Hyde Park signs output deals in five territories
Ashok Amritraj and David Hoberman's Hyde Park Entertainment has concluded a slew of output deals in smaller territories, sealing the patchwork of worldwide deals on its upcoming slate.Warner Nu Metro has signed a two-year, ten-picture deal with the company in South Africa; three-year deals have been closed in Israel with ...
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Dern, Koteas, Caan in cast of Artisan's Novocaine
Laura Dern, Elias Koteas and Scott Caan have joined the cast of Artisan Entertainment's dark comedy Novocaine which began principal photography this week in Chicago.The film, which toplines Steve Martin and Helena Bonham Carter, is written and directed by David Atkins, previously best known as the screenwriter of Emir Kusturica's ...
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Michael Stone joins sales team at Regent Int'l
Michael Stone has joined Regent Entertainment as director of international sales and servicing as part of the expansion of the company's international sales division. Stone was most recently vice president worldwide distribution at Blue Rider Pictures and previously director of international servicing at Lakeshore International and Trans Atlantic Entertainment. He ...
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Kinowelt bags five-year deal with Gale Anne Hurd
Kinowelt USA, the recently set-up US film production arm of German film giant Kinowelt, has signed its first major producer deal - with Gale Anne Hurd. Kinowelt and Hurd have entered into a multi-year, first-look development, production and distribution arrangement whereby Kinowelt USA will provide Hurd with financing to develop ...
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Brockovich powers Columbia overseas
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) enjoyed a powerful weekend at the international box office, topping charts in nine territories as it unleashed US megahit Erin Brockovich and continued the rollout of family smash Stuart Little.Erin Brockovich, on to which CTFDI parent Sony Pictures Entertainment was invited as a financing ...
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New Line Int'l pacts with newcomer Nexo in Italy
New Line International (NLI) has closed a round of package deals on its upcoming product and is finalising a new partnership in Italy with start-up distribution company Nexo Pictures.Nexo, which was formed by cinema-owner Ernesto Di Sarro, contingent on the New Line deal, has taken eight pictures initially - Frequency, ...
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Film Consortium leads backers on Manchevski's Dust
Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski goes back behind the camera today, finally going into production in New York on Dust, his long-cherished "epic western" which was originally set up in 1995 as a co-production between Robert Redford's South Fork Pictures and Miramax Films.The movie is now being backed by a host ...
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A Paradise Under The Stars
Dir: Gerardo Chijona. Cuba/Spain. 1999. 90 mins.Prod cos: Wanda Film, Institute Of Art And Film Cuba. Int'l sales: Wanda Film. Exec prods: Evelio Delgado, Puy Oria. Prods: Camilo Vives, Jose Maria Morales. Scr: Gerardo Chijona, Luis Aguero, Senel Paz. DoP: Raul Perez Ureta. Art dir: Erick Grass. Ed: Rori Saenz ...
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Columbia TriStar boards New Zealand thriller
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group has boarded Scott Reynolds' New Zealand thriller Shearer's Breakfast and taken all distribution rights to the $2.1m film outside Germany and Australia.Starring Radha Mitchell (High Art, Pitch Black) as a young woman whose roadside diner is invaded by a host of menacing criminals, Shearer's Breakfast ...
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High Fidelity
Dir: Stephen Frears. US. 2000. 113 mins.Prod cos: Working Title Films, Touchstone Pictures in association with Dogstar Films & New Crime Productions. Worldwide dist: Buena Vista/Buena Vista International. Exec prods: Mike Newell, Alan Greenspan, Lisa Chasin. Prods: Tim Bevan, Rudd Simmons. Co-prods: DV DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack. Scr: DeVincentis, ...
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Erin beats off DreamWorks' El Dorado
Universal Pictures' Erin Brockovich starring Julia Roberts continued to reign atop the US box office this past weekend with a third weekend gross of $14.2m, a slight 23% drop from the previous weekend. Its 17-day total now stands at $76.2m.The critically acclaimed movie, which will open in many key European ...
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Artisan promotes Greeman to development VP
Cybelle Greeman has been promoted to vice president of development at Artisan Entertainment. She will now be responsible for the development of film scripts on the company's slate as well as tracking new material and up and coming talent. She will report to Artisan president Bill Block.Greeman was previously director ...
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Warner launches Kubrick web-site
Warner Home Video has launched a website - www.kubrickfilms.com - dedicated to the late film-maker Stanley Kubrick. It is the company's first major web site based around the work of one director and is authorised by and assembled with the help of the Kubrick estate.The site includes sections such as ...
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Canal Plus joins Paramount on Travolta comedy
Canal Plus Image, the film production and distribution affiliate of European media giant Canal Plus, has partnered with Paramount Pictures to co-produce and co-finance big budget comedy Numbers starring John Travolta.Paramount will handle distribution in North America and Asia with Canal Plus Image handling theatrical, video, pay and free television ...