All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 167
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Wajda to receive honorary Oscar
Veteran Polish film-maker Andrzej Wajda will be presented with an honorary Oscar at this year's Academy Award ceremony which takes place in Los Angeles on March 26. Wajda has been selected for the honour for a career that has included some of the most important European films of the post-war ...
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Artisan, Summit team up for Chuck And Buck
Artisan Entertainment, which last year walked away from Sundance with micro-budget The Blair Witch Project, has done it again, teaming with its foreign sales partner Summit Entertainment to acquire worldwide rights to Chuck And Buck, a low budget comedy which is in dramatic competition at the festival.But unlike Blair Witch ...
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American Beauty scores at Golden Globes
American Beauty now officially leads the Oscar race after walking away with the Best Picture (Drama), Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at the Golden Globe awards ceremony in Los Angeles last night. The DreamWorks SKG-produced film, which only cost $15m to produce, won prizes for producers Bruce Cohen and ...
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BAFTA, British Council team up for US screenings
BAFTA LA and the British Council have teamed up to present a series of screenings of new British films in Los Angeles. The series entitled New Blood From Britain is intended to enable BAFTA LA members to see films which they might want to nominate for the Alexander Korda Award ...
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But I'm A Cheerleader
Dir: Jamie Babbit. US. 1999. 90 mins. Prod cos: Ignite Entertainment, The Kushner-Locke Company. Int'l sales: Franchise Pictures, tel (1) 323 822 0730. Exec prods: Michael Burns, Marc Butan. Prods: Andrea Sperling, Leanna Creel. Scr: Brian Wayne Peterson. DoP: Jules La Barthe. Prod des: Rachel Kamerman. Ed: Cecily Rhett. Music: ...
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RKO teams with Bigel/Mailer for remakes
RKO Pictures' independent arm Radio Pictures has signed a three picture deal with Bigel/Mailer Films to produce three remakes from the RKO library. The three pictures include Isle Of The Dead, which will be the second film to be directed by Burt Reynolds following The Last Producer for The Kushner-Locke ...
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Law ducks Searchlight
Lindsay Law is leaving his post as president of Fox Searchlight Pictures to take up a wide-ranging production deal with 20th Century Fox, kicking off with the stage musical of his biggest hit The Full Monty.The studio has yet to announce Law's replacement, although an appointment from within the Fox ...
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Limey, Election lead IFP race
The nominations for the 15th annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards were announced last week, with Steven Soderbergh's The Limey and Alexander Payne's Election leading the field with five apiece.The Spirits, which now take place in Santa Monica the day before the Academy Award ceremony, have grown in prestige in recent ...
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Lions Gate picks up wrestling doc
Lions Gate Films has acquired North American theatrical distribution rights to the wrestling documentary Beyond The Mat directed by Barry W Blaustein. The film, which has been selected as one of the 12 semifinalists in the Best Documentary Academy Award Feature category, follows some of the wrestling world's most popular ...
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Industry boards next project from Bui
Tony Bui, whose debut feature Three Seasons won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at last year's Sundance Film Festival, has signed with LA-based Industry Entertainment to make his next film, The World I Made For Her. Based on the novel by Thomas Moran, the film is a ...