All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 9
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NewsIndustry veteran David Stone dies at age 78
David Stone, a producer, distributor and exhibitor best known as the head of Cinegate Film Distribution and the Gate Cinema in west London, has died at the age of 78 after a short illness.
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NewsMemorial service announced for advertising veteran Peter Howard-Williams
Former Rank Screen Advertising MD to receive London memorial service on May 25
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CommentBeware Cannes scams
Crooks are already swindling some festival goers with fake accomodation deals.
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CommentA New Approach To The Window Wars
Some smart exhibitors are looking to get into the VOD business and extend their reach beyond the first window. It makes sense.
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FeaturesMark Tonderai
Director Mark Tonderai talks to Screen about buzz horror House At The End Of The Street, starring Jennifer Lawrence.
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CommentUdo on the go
Udo Kier talks about his seven new film and TV roles, including playing a wedding planner in Lars von Trier’s Cannes competitor Melancholia.
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NewsEgypt's Microphone wins Golden Tulip in Istanbul
Other prize winners include Our Grand Despair, A Useful Life, and Hair.
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CommentThe World Belongs To Rio
The fact that most international audiences saw Rio a week before domestic shows how the North American release is losing its power in dictating the success of film.
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CommentRubbing The Sheen Off Stars
In today’s amorphous online world, personal publicists cannot control the image of the stars like they used to. But maybe the tabloid obsession with actors only serves to fuel their public appeal.
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FeaturesSelling sales to the UK
Screen talks to representatives of Film Export UK as the export budget of the UK Film Council is lost
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NewsExclusive: Amanda Nevill details top priorities for revamped BFI
BFI director Nevill outlines new plans, including addition of a deputy chief executive; 38 UKFC staff who move to BFI stay at same salary level.
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CommentThe Handover
This week, the first 16 UK Film Council staff move over to the BFI as part of the absorption of UKFC functions into a new BFI super-structure. There’s a good deal of common sense at work in the new entity.
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CommentDefending A Serbian Film
Attempts to censor or ban Srdjan Spasovjevic’s shocking horror film miss the point of the director’s intentions and his considerable skills.
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FeaturesFremaux faces A-list deluge in countdown to Cannes
With April 14 set as the day when Cannes festival director Thierry Fremaux unveils his 2011 lineup, Fremaux and his programming team are screening a deluge of titles from A-list European directors which promises a vintage year on the Croisette.
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CommentColombia Pictures
The president of Colombia gave a rousing rallying cry for local cinema at the opening of the Cartagena Film Festival late last month, showing one country that is taking its industry seriously.
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CommentCheer & fear at EFM
The international business was looking robust again for the first time in a long time, but rumblings over the future of the MEDIA programme cast a pall over the future health of European public funding.
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NewsLucrecia Martel to be honoured at Sarajevo
Argentine director first woman subject of a “Tribute to” programme at the festival.








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