All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 165
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Bening named ShoWest Female Star Of The Year
Annette Bening has been named ShoWest Female Star Of The Year, rounding out the roster of awards at this year's ShoWest 2000 Awards Night on March 9 in Las Vegas.Bening, one of this year's Best Actress Oscar front-runners for American Beauty, has already won the award for funniest actress in ...
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Artisan invests in education with Baby Einstein
Artisan Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to a collection of developmental video products for children ages 0-4 from The Baby Einstein Company. Simultaneously, Artisan took a minority interest in the company and has signalled its intention to grow the brand into a household name a la Barney or ...
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Levinsohn promoted to head Fox pay-TV
Peter Levinsohn has been promoted to executive vice president, worldwide pay-TV and pay-per-view, for 20th Century Fox. Levinsohn has been senior vice president, international pay television and pay-per-view, since Sept 1997 and will now be responsible for the distribution of Fox's feature film and television programming to all worldwide pay-TV ...
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The Broken Hearts Club
Dir: Greg Berlanti. US. 2000. 91 mins.Prod co: Meanwhile Films. US dist: Screen Gems. Int'l dist: Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International. Prods: Mickey Liddell, Joseph Middleton. Co-prods: Julie Plec, Sam Irvin. Scr: Berlanti. DoP: Paul Elliott. Prod des: Charlie Daboub. Ed: Todd Busch. Mus: Julianne Kelley, Joe Guthrie. Main cast: ...
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Oscar frontrunner Swank logs onto Porchlight slate
Porchlight Entertainment, the LA-based sales and production outfit specialising in family programming, has acquired international theatrical, TV and video rights to Heartwood, a coming of age story starring Hilary Swank and Jason Robards.Swank, who is frontrunner to win this year's Best Actress Academy Award for Boys Don't Cry, plays the ...
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Miramax stages Broadway version of Stoppard play
First it was magazine publishing, now Miramax Films has extended its tentacles onto The Great White Way. The New York-based Disney-offshoot has signed a deal to co-finance the Broadway run of the hit London stage revival of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing.The London cast which is currently in the middle ...
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Valenti enlists moguls to improve trade with China
Jack Valenti, chairman and CEO of The Motion Picture Association, has enlisted a who's who of Hollywood's most influential power-brokers to pressure the US Congress into bolster trade relations with China.Valenti, who will head up a new committee comprised of leading media tycoons and studio bosses, said the lobby group ...
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Dudley-Smith expands WBITD role
Malcolm Dudley-Smith has been promoted to senior vice president, sales and business development, at Warner Bros International Television Distribution where he will now oversee all sales activities in Latin America, Asia and Canada including pay, cable and free TV.Dudley-Smith will also continue to be responsible for identifying equity investments, strategic ...
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Canal Plus, Pathe embark on Mission To Mars
C+P - the joint acquisition and distribution venture between French majors Canal Plus and Pathe - has acquired French rights to mammoth Disney sci-fi picture Mission To Mars from Spyglass Entertainment.Brian De Palma's epic, which is budgeted around $75m, will open in North America on March 10 through Buena Vista. ...
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Artisan bets big on black entertainment
Shrewd US distributor Artisan Entertainment is boosting its product supply once again, this time sealing an agreement this week to distribute 6-8 black-themed films across North America.The films will be made by BET Pictures II, a subsidiary of BET Holdings II, the first and only black-owned and operated entertainment company ...
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Hi-Def crime mockumentary plans Berlin heist
Robbers, one of the first feature films to be shot completely on high-definition video, will be unveiled at Berlin this week by its producers Dan Lupovitz, Timm Oberwelland and Leon Melas.A mock documentary about a film crew following a gang of robbers at work and play, Robbers is the first ...
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Scream 3
Dir: Wes Craven. US. 2000. 116 mins.Prod co: Konrad Pictures, Craven/Maddalena Films. US dist: Dimension Films. Int'l sales: Miramax International. Prods: Cathy Konrad, Kevin Williamson, Marianne Maddalena. Exec prods: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Cary Granat, Andrew Rona. Scr: Ethen Kruger, based on characters created by Kevin Williamson. DoP: Peter Deming. ...
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Scream 3 makes a killing at US box office
Scream 3, the long awaited finale in Wes Craven's Scream franchise, was an instant, not entirely unexpected, box office blockbuster over the weekend in North America. Grossing a whopping $35.2m, the film became in the process the biggest ever February opener, the biggest ever opener for its distributor Miramax Films ...
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Village Roadshow extends Warner co-financing pact
Australia's Village Roadshow Pictures Entertainment (VRPE) and Warner Bros have expanded their two year-old co-financing and co-production agreement which called for 20 pictures between 1998 and 2002, by adding 20 more films over the next five years (2000-2005). The deal extension means that VRPE will have invested more than $1 ...
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Pasolini's The Closer You Get opens US Comedy Fest
The Closer You Get, the eagerly anticipated Irish comedy produced by Full Monty producer Uberto Pasolini, will have its world premiere next Wednesday (Feb 9) as the opening night film of the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado.The festival, which is sponsored by Cinemax, the sister pay-movie channel to ...
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Artisan ups Jones to key marketing role
Artisan Entertainment has promoted marketing executive Amorette Jones to the newly created position of executive vice president, worldwide marketing, Artisan Pictures.Jones will continue to report to Artisan's president of worldwide marketing John Hegeman, but she will assume more of his duties while he takes a more active role in developing ...
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AFM Premiere Screenings unveils line-up
This year's AFM Premiere Screenings will include the world premieres of two high profile Kushner-Locke Co movies: Alfonso Arau's Picking Up The Pieces, starring Woody Allen with a cameo from Sharon Stone, and Burt Reynolds' directorial debut The Last Producer.Sponsored by internet downloading outfit SightSound.com, the Santa Monica screening programme ...
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MGM roars back to financial health, reveals slate
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has announced its strongest quarterly operating results in 12 years, signalling a financial turnaround at the company under its new management structure of Alex Yemenidjian and his second-in-command Chris McGurk EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation), the cashflow measure by which Wall Street evaluates the performance of ...
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New Latin American combo goes on shopping spree
A pan-Latin American buying consortium of independent distributors is gearing up for the American Film Market, having quietly launched late last year in reaction to the increasing appetite amongst Hollywood studios to buy all rights in the region.The consortium - named Entertainment Consortium Ltd - is composed of Gussi in ...
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Summit scores foreign sales on Chuck & Buck
Summit Entertainment has lost little time concluding the first international sales on Miguel Arteta's Chuck & Buck, striking deals with theatrical distributors from Germany, France and South Africa within days of securing the international sales rights to the digital video feature at last week's Sundance Film Festival.Highlight Communications will now ...