All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 71
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Lord Of War comes together with Cage, Hawke, Leto
Ethan Hawke, BridgetMoynahan, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Wright and Donald Sutherland have joined NicolasCage in the cast of Lord Of War,Andrew Niccol's action-adventure which is being produced by EMC, AscendantPictures, VIP3 Medienfonds, Saturn Films and IMG, with financing being providedby the producers and Rand Merchant Bank in South Africa through IMG.Arclight ...
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Lord Of War comes together with Cage, Hawke, Leto
Ethan Hawke, BridgetMoynahan, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Wright and Donald Sutherland have joined NicolasCage in the cast of Lord Of War,Andrew Niccol's action-adventure which is being produced by EMC, AscendantPictures, VIP3 Medienfonds, Saturn Films and IMG, with financing being providedby the producers and Rand Merchant Bank in South Africa through IMG.Arclight ...
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Fireside looks to sparkle on Cannes debut
Fireside Entertainment, anew Dallas-based film financing and production outfit, is in Cannes for thefirst time with two new projects - Connected and A Knight's Fall- in addition to its completed thriller A Killer Within which is beingsold by Showcase Entertainment.Run by three partners -director Brad Keller, screenwriter Chris Peirson and ...
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Classic rolls with Cottontail
New York-based Classic Media has started production on 3-Danimated film Peter Cottontail: The Movie, inspired by the TV special HereComes Peter Cottontail and ready for delivery by spring 2005.Toy Story producer Ralph Guggenheim is producing the film alongsideEvan Baily, Classic Media's head of production, and Sandra Walters, a partnerin Australia's ...
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Classic rolls with Cottontail
New York-based Classic Media has started production on 3-Danimated film Peter Cottontail: The Movie, inspired by the TV special HereComes Peter Cottontail and ready for delivery by spring 2005.Toy Story producer Ralph Guggenheim is producing the film alongsideEvan Baily, Classic Media's head of production, and Sandra Walters, a partnerin Australia's ...
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Morgan Creek tackles Tenth Victim
Morgan Creek has bought filmrights to The Tenth Victim, the long-gestating remake of Elio Petri'scult 60s futuristic thriller, and will fully finance the film with JohnMcTiernan attached to direct. Universal Pictures is handling domesticdistribution with Morgan Creek International handling sales in internationalterritories in Cannes.McTiernan, whose creditsinclude Die Hard, Predator, The ...
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Lions Gate sews up Saw deals
Lions Gate FilmsInternational has closed key territory deals on its horror thriller Sawstarring Cary Elwes, Danny Glover and Monica Potter. Metropolitan has taken thefilm for France, Kinowelt for Germany, Dea Planeta for Spain, Eagle Picturesfor Italy, Asmik Ace for Japan, Mirovision for Korea, Gussi for Latin Americaand Scanbox for Scandinavia.Company ...
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Horizon takes Eternal rights
HorizonEntertainment has acquired international rights to the thriller Eternalwhich will be released theatrically in Canada by TVA. Written and directed byWilhelm Libenberg and Federico Sanchez, the film was shot in Venice andMontreal and stars Conrad Pla and Caroline Neron in the story of a detectivetracking a female killer who has ...
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Senator sells Long Weekend
Senator International hasclosed multiple deals on Gold Circle Films' comedy The Long Weekendstarring Chris Klein and Brendan Fehr. Universal Pictures, which has a domesticdistribution deal with Gold Circle, took the film for Germany, Aurum for Spain,Pasatiempo for Latin America, Cathay for Singapore, CP International for CISand the Baltics, DFW for ...
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Media 8 bankrolls Binder's Town
Media 8 Entertainment is to fully finance Man AboutTown, the next picture from its Upside Of Anger director MikeBinder, which will star Ben Affleck as a Hollywood talent agent,Binder is the actor and director behind TV series Mind Of TheMarried Man, cult film Sex Monster and Anger which stars JoanAllen ...
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Media 8 bankrolls Binder's Town
Media 8 Entertainment is to fully finance Man AboutTown, the next picture from its Upside Of Anger director MikeBinder, which will star Ben Affleck as a Hollywood talent agent,Binder is the actor and director behind TV series Mind Of TheMarried Man, cult film Sex Monster and Anger which stars JoanAllen ...
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Architect builds on sales
Andrew Herwitz's The FilmSales Company has closed deals for Oscar-nominated documentary My Architectwith Gaga in Japan, Academy Films in Germany, Austria and German-speakingSwitzerland and Films Sans Frontiers in France and French-speaking Switzerland.The film, which is the storyof legendary US architect Louis I Kahn from the point of view of hisillegitimate ...
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Momentum, Aurum love The Dark
UK distributor MomentumPictures and its new sister company Aurum Producciones in Spain have made theirfirst joint acquisition, taking rights in the UK and Spain to Impact Pictures'horror movie The Dark starring Sean Bean and Maria Bello from SummitEntertainment.Momentum and Aurum teamed upwhen Momentum's parent company, Canada's Alliance Atlantis, closed a ...
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Intermedia bags Baghdad Blog
Intermedia has bought film rights to Baghdad Blog, the bookof a weblog written by a 29 year-old Iraqi calling himself Salam Pax aboutdaily life in Baghdad before and after the invasion.Salam Pax has written his own column in The Guardian newspaper inthe UK and has become popular there with his ...
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Summit takes over Myriad's Being Julia
Summit Entertainment is taking over sales duties fromMyriad Pictures on Istvan Szabo's Being Julia starring Annette Bening.The deal is being done between Summit and the film's production companySerendipity Point run by Robert Lantos. Summit previously handled SerendipityPoint's The Statement.Myriad chief executive Kirk D'Amico had no comment yesterday, butSummit's CEO Patrick ...
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Waiting for Lions Gate
Lions Gate FilmsInternational has acquired international rights to twentysomething comedy Waitingwhich marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Rob McKittrick whose creditsinclude Son Of The Mask.The film follows a day inthe life of arrested adolescent roommates Monty and Dean as they negotiate thetreacherous terrain of girls, booze and weed while working ...
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Reda strikes out with Purple Pictures
Hadeel Reda, the formerpresident of Winchester Films, has struck out on her own with a new LA-basedfilm production and financing outfit called Purple Pictures.Reda has secured adevelopment and overhead fund from private European equity investors and optionedthree youth-driven genre projects led by horror thriller The Fearwritten by Eduardo Carrillo and ...
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Summit steps into The Dark, offers The Alibi
Independent sales, financingand production powerhouse Summit Entertainment has added two new pictures toits Cannes lineup - The Dark, thelatest horror movie to emerge from Paul Anderson and Jeremy Bolt's ImpactPictures via its financing deal with Constantin Film and The Alibi, a contemporary thriller, which Summit isco-financing and co-producing with Jim ...
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Herwitz takes on Un Certain Regard thriller Kontroll, four others
Andrew Herwitz of New York-basedThe Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide rights to five films forrepresentation during Cannes led by Hungarian thriller Kontroll from US-born director Nimrod Antal which has been abig local hit and is screening in Un Certain Regard.Herwitz has also beenhandling three films which premiered at ...
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Emmerich goes from global disaster to Shakespeare drama
Roland Emmerich, the Germanfilm-maker behind popcorn blockbusters such as Independence Day, Godzilla and the upcoming The Day After Tomorrow, will take a major change in direction with his nextpicture The Soul Of The Age, anintense 16th century drama about the question of the authorship ofShakespeare.Emmerich is scoutinglocations in the UK ...