All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 73
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Sundance Channel, Wellspring team up for Cho's third concert film
US pay-cable network TheSundance Channel and independent theatrical and video distributor Wellspringhave teamed up to acquire distribution rights to Margaret Cho's latest comedyfilm Revolution (pictured).Sundance will air the worldpremiere of the film on June 19 as part of its Out Loud programming month andWellspring will then release it on home ...
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Japan's Klockworx makes entry into US distribution
Japanese distributor TheKlockworx Company is boldly stepping into the US distribution market, teamingup with US independent Pathfinder Pictures to buy and release films in the US.Klockworx plans to acquirebetween 20 and 30 films for theatrical and DVD release in its first year ofoperation, about half of which will go theatrical. ...
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Tarantino plots anime prequel to Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino isconsidering a continuation of his Kill Bill epic by writing and producing an anime prequel whichtells the early life story of Bill before the fatal events in his two-volumepicture.Tarantino said he wouldwrite and oversee the picture and David Carradine would voice Bill. The filmwould be animated in the ...
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Polly takes another $5m for Universal, Dead opens well in Mexico
UniversalPictures/UIP opened hit comedy Along Came Polly in eight more territories this weekendincluding Korea, Russia and Sweden for an estimated total of $5m at 2,000 sitesin 32 countries.Theinternational total on the film is now $69m, with ten more territories still toopen including New Zealand and Panama next weekend.Polly's holdovers included ...
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Miramax takes Stratus' Hostage for North America
MiramaxFilms has acquired North American rights to Hostage, the Bruce Willis action thriller financed byStratus Film Company and scripted from his own novel by Robert Crais.FlorentSiri (The Nest) is directing thefilm, which is currently shooting in Los Angeles, and Stratus, Equity Picturesand Cheyenne Enterprises are the production entities. The film's ...
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Goldmann named president of Atmosphere Entertainment MM
Bernie Goldmann has beennamed president of Mark Canton's LA-based Atmosphere MM Entertainment. He willoversee Atmosphere MM's film and TV development and production activities, willtake an equity stake in the company as well as a seat on its board ofdirectors.A former president ofproduction for Village Roadshow Pictures Entertainment, Goldmann most recentlyproduced ...
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Wolfe steps up US theatrical, buying Thoughts, City
California-based USindependent Wolfe is continuing its expansion into theatrical distribution withthe acquisition of Achim Von Borries' German drama Love In Thoughts which made its world premiere at the Sundance FilmFestival and Spanish director Cesc Gay's latest picture In The City.The 20 year-old company hasbeen established as a video company of ...
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Warner wins international weekend with Scooby off the leash
WarnerBros opened Scooby Doo 2 in 27markets over the weekend for an estimated total of $15.5m from 3,800 screens.After two weekends on release, the film has now taken $17.7m.Thefilm opened top in the UK, with an estimated $6.3m, more than double the secondfilm in the country The Passion Of The ...
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Scorsese to present The Leopard at Lake Placid
Martin Scorsese will presenta special screening of Luchino Visconti's The Leopard at this year's Lake Placid Film Festival which takesplace June 2 to 6.Scorsese will talk about thefilm which will then screen in a restored version which runs to 180 minutes.The director has always cited Visconti's 1963 epic as one ...
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Kill Bill Vol 2
Dir: Quentin Tarantino.US. 2004. 136 mins.Rather like ThePassion Of The Christ, weknow how Quentin Tarantino's four-hour-plus epic Kill Bill will end. Yes, plot spoiler ahead, she killsBill. The pleasure, of course, comes in the journey, and, in contrast to thehigh style and stylized action of Vol 1, Vol 2 is ...
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Kill Bill Vol 2 review
Dir: Quentin Tarantino.US. 2004. 136 mins.Rather like ThePassion Of The Christ, weknow how Quentin Tarantino's four-hour-plus epic Kill Bill will end. Yes, plot spoiler ahead, she killsBill. The pleasure, of course, comes in the journey, and, in contrast to thehigh style and stylized action of Vol 1, Vol 2 is ...
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Hellboy scores heavenly bow for Revolution and Sony
Itwas another strong weekend at the North American box office, with overallticket sales for the top 12 films up 39% from the same weekend last yearcontinuing an upward trend on 2003 for the sixth consecutive weekend.RevolutionStudios' well-reviewed comic book actioner Hellboy directed by Guillermo Del Toro opened at number onewith ...
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The Prince And Me
Dir: Martha Coolidge. US. 2004. 110 mins.The Prince & Me is a contemporary fairy tale romance which will enchant pre-teen and teenage girls around the world, but few else. If that core demographic signs up at the box office this weekend in North America, girl power will likely follow suit ...
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IFC backs documentary about Z Channel from Cassavetes
The Independent Film Channelhas unveiled its latest original documentary Z Channel: A MagnificentObsession which is the feature directorialdebut of Xan Cassavetes. The film looks at the ground-breaking LA film channelof the 1970s and 1980s and its brilliant but troubled programmer Jerry Harvey,who committed suicide after murdering his wife in 1988.The ...
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Spider-Man 3 to hit theatres on May 4, 2007
Spider-Man 3 is a go. Sony Pictures vice chairman Jeff Blakeshowed a new trailer to Spider-Man 2 last night and announced that Spider-Man 3 would open in US theatres on May 4, 2007 with TobeyMaguire and Kirsten Dunst in the roles of Peter Parker and Mary-Jane Watson and SamRaimi once ...
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Focus brands new genre label Rogue Pictures
Focus Features has unveileda new film label Rogue Pictures which will produce and distribute suspense,action, thriller and urban films to be released on a wider scale in thedomestic market than the traditional Focus specialized fare.The announcement was made byFocus co-presidents David Linde and James Schamus at Showest yesterday andincluded three ...
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Straight Jacket to open Miami Gay & Lesbian festival
Straight Jacket, Richard Day's follow-up feature to Girls Will BeGirls, will open the 2004 Miami Gay& Lesbian Film Festival which takes place for the sixth time from April 23to May 2.The festival will alsopresent Miguel Albaladejo's Cachorro (Bear Cub) as thecenterpiece gala screening and will close with a gala screening ...
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Valenti on the screener ban: 'I would have done it differently'
MPAA chairman and CEO JackValenti expressed regret at how he handled the awards screener ban at his pressbriefing yesterday morning for the opening of ShoWest in Las Vegas.When asked why he had leftthe imposition of the ban till so late in the year last year, he said that withthe wisdom ...
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Crossroads acquires Acts Of Charity script for Winter to direct
New York-based commercials,music video and movie producer Crossroads Films has optioned rights to thescreenplay Acts Of Charity by UKscreenwriter Chips Hardy and Alex Winter, the London-based film-maker who isalso attached to direct the film.Alan Rickman is attached toplay the role of British ex-pat journalist in the film which follows the ...
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Myriad promotes Rappaport, Chiu, Chordia
Los Angeles- and London-based MyriadPictures has made three promotions, according to a statement from presidentKirk D'Amico.JC Rappaport has beenpromoted from manager of acquisitions to director of acquisitions anddevelopment in the company's LA office; Linda Chiu, also in the LA office, hasbeen promoted to creative executive, international production. Both will reportto ...