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In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
  Paul Fischer Interviews Mike Newell
Mike Newell is a director whose diversity is apparent.
Newell believes that it's possible to take such an established franchise as the Potter films and make it your own.
All of this is in stark contrast to Newell's Mona Lisa Smile, a 1953-set drama about a forward-thinking art history teacher determined to reach out to a cluster of conservative young women.
www.filmmonthly.com /Profiles/Articles/MNewell/MNewell.html   (928 words)

  
  Mike Newell (footballer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mike Newell represented 13 different clubs in his career, playing a total of 530 league games and scoring 120 goals, overall he totalled £3,585,000 in transfer fees.
Mike Newell replaced Chris Turner as manager of Hartlepool United mid-way through the 2002/2003 season and despite ensuring Hartlepool got promoted, he was removed from the position of Hartlepool United manager.
It was widely reported that Mike Newell won a Pop Idol style poll to become manager but truth be told he was offered and signed a contract before the "results" were announced.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Newell_(footballer)   (316 words)

  
 Mike Newell (director) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Cormac Newell (born 28 March 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television.
Newell continued his successes in the film industry with Enchanted April (1992), an adaptation of the 1922 novel The Enchanted April; Miranda Richardson received a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical and Joan Plowright won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy/Musical.
In 2005, Newell was presented with an honorary degree of Doctor of Arts by the University of Hertfordshire.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Newell_(director)   (405 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Mike Newell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Disambiguation Michael Cormac Newell (born March 28, 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television.
Mike Newell most recently directed Pushing Tin starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton and Donnie Brasco starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp, which was Oscar nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Newell continued his successes in the film industry with Enchanted April, an adaptation of the 1922 novel The Enchanted April; Miranda Richardson received a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical and Joan Plowright won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy/Musical.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mike-Newell   (409 words)

  
 UAM-Mike Newell
Newell was introduced to the media at a news conference at the University of Arkansas System Office in Little Rock May 8.
Newell’s three seasons at Lamar were marked by on-court success and off-court political struggles with a new administration that soured him on college athletics.
Newell became a scout for the NBA’s Miami Heat, spent one season as coach of the Shreveport Storm of the Continental Basketball Association, then jumped back to the NBA as a scout for the Detroit Pistons.
www.uamsports.com /staff/newell.htm   (1007 words)

  
 Mike Newell: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Four weddings and a funeral is a 1994 british romantic comedy film directed by mike newell....
Mona lisa smile is a 2003 film that was produced by revolution studios and columbia pictures, directed by mike newell and written by lawrence konner...
Mike leigh (born 20 february 1943) is an award winning british film director....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/mike_newell.htm   (1728 words)

  
 Mike Newell Biography
Newell's The Man in the Iron Mask, made for American TV but shown in cinemas elsewhere in the world, was a much more stylish and fluent version of the old Dumas chestnut than either of the two more recent films.
If what Newell's career needed at this stage was a high-profile hit, it certainly received one with Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), a record-breaking comedy with some richly funny lines.
With some concessions to the 1990s, this was somewhat in the traditions of such films established by the Boulting Brothers several decades earlier, but with a string of eye-catching performances from an enthusiastic cast headed by Hugh Grant, whose own career received an inestimable boost from its success.
www.britmovie.co.uk /biog/n/004.html   (359 words)

  
 Telegraph | Entertainment | I was so fearful of breaking the spell
In his time, the veteran director Mike Newell has tackled a remarkably wide range of film genres, and has yet to be defeated by any of them.
Newell concedes that this fourth Harry Potter film is even more intense than its immediate predecessor, The Prisoner of Azkaban.
Newell, 63, is of a generation of filmmakers such as Stephen Frears, Michael Apted and Richard Eyre who worked long years in British TV drama before moving into film.
www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/10/28/bfpotter28.xml   (1179 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Luton Town | FA to meet Newell over bung claim
Luton boss Mike Newell will meet with the Football Association next week to discuss his shock allegations that transfer bungs are rife in football.
Newell claims that "a lot of people involved with the agents and doing the deals are taking back-handers" and has made it clear he will name offenders.
Newell is also concerned that resources are being drained from football and suggests there is only one winner as things currently stand.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/teams/l/luton_town/4605184.stm   (692 words)

  
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I propose that the Kinsella brothers (and cousin) should be forced (against their will, of course) to fight the Oldham brothers in a no-holds-barred steel cage match to the death to confirm which larger musically-inclined family reigns supreme over the Indie Rock Kingdom, the glittering brokedown palace full of lost souls and failed solo projects.
Newell sees the story as "a piece of anthropology, in that a person from one culture finds themselves living inside another culture, and fails to adjust to the new rules of the tribe.
Mike Newell, perhaps best known for "Four Weddings and a Funeral," was supposed to direct "The Constant Gardener," a film based on the John le Carré thriller, which opens on Aug. 26.
www.lycos.com /info/mike-newell.html   (473 words)

  
 Dark Horizons: Interview - Mike Newell for "Mona Lisa Smile" & "Harry Potter 4"
Los Angeles, CA Mike Newell is a director whose diversity is apparent.
Newell believes that it's possible to take such an established franchise as the Potter films and make it your own.
All of this is in stark contrast to Newell's Mona Lisa Smile, a 1953-set drama about a forward-thinking art history teacher determined to reach out to a cluster of conservative young women.
www.darkhorizons.com /news03/mona2.php   (965 words)

  
 Mike Newell brings balance to Hogwarts - INQ7.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Newell: There is a competition around which this story is written, and the competition has three tasks in it.
Newell: I had read the first one and seen both films, because at that stage there were two not three.
Newell: The producers said to me, "Read the book and if you can see a movie to make, then we should talk." And I read it and I thought of a way to do this.
news.inq7.net /entertainment/index.php?index=1&story_id=56222   (1937 words)

  
 Plotki - Onet.pl Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mike Newell jest przekonany, że film "Harry Potter i czara ognia" jest tak dobry dzięki jego oryginalnemu podejściu do młodych aktorów....
Mike Newell nakręciłby jeszcze kilka filmów o Harrym Potterze, chociaż jeszcze niedawno krytykował producentów, którzy żałowali mu pieniędzy na kilka ekstrawaganckich pomysłów....
Mike Newell próbował dawać wskazówki Julii Roberts, jednak ostatecznie aktorka postawiła na swoim....
film.onet.pl /O,4112,plotki.html   (82 words)

  
 Mike Newell at Hollywood.com
Newell enjoyed a critical and commercial triumph with the multi-Oscar-nominated "Enchanted April" (1991), a romantic comedy remake also starring Miranda Richardson, and followed up with "Into the West" (1993), a charming children's adventure set in Ireland.
Newell made the rare jump from film to television with a stint as executive producer on the medical drama, “Huff” (Showtime, 2004-), starring Hank Azaria as a successful psychiatrist who gets a wake-up call—both professionally and personally—after a patient commits suicide during a session.
For his next feature, Newell was set to hit pay dirt when he signed on to “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (2005), becoming the first British director to helm an installment of the successful franchise.
www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Mike_Newell/190999   (1790 words)

  
 Harry Potter's "Wedding" Director - Aug 11, 2003 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Newell, who had been in negotiations with Warners since last month, will be getting a Gringott-sized salary of $1 million to guide the now 14-year-old lightning-scarred boy magician into his fourth year at Hogwart's School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, a term in which Harry will take part in the life-threatening inter-school Triwizard Competition.
Newell follows Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron, who took over the reins for the third installment, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, from original director Chris Columbus, who piloted the first two films in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to blockbuster success.
Newell's biggest hit to date was the 1994 romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral, starring Hugh Grant and Andie Macdowell, which grossed north of $244 million worldwide.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,12304,00.html   (683 words)

  
 QCTimes.com - The Quad-City Times Newspaper Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It was that core story — Newell calls it the “scaffolding” — on which he kept his focus in condensing the huge book to a 2½-hour movie, retaining only frills and baubles that would connect to the main plot.
Newell grew up a film fan but was more preoccupied with live theater, working as a stagehand, prop maker and bit player in an amateur theater his parents ran.
Newell moved into television drama, then scored his first film success in the late 1970s with “The Man in the Iron Mask,” made for British TV but released theatrically overseas.
www.qctimes.net /articles/2005/11/20/features/arts_leisure/doc437ff850e2b54574678652.txt   (1172 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Dance with a Stranger (Widescreen): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
With a smart, tough little script by Shelagh Delaney, Mike Newell's noir-ish film is a dissection of the human frustration and complex class issues surrounding her crime.
Director Mike Newell keeps polemics to a minimum, treating his subject as a carefully observed study of class tension and sexual obsession.
Mike Newell has taken a wonderful slice of an evocative era and portrayed a tragedy that we must hope, could never have reached such an awful conclusion today.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000053VAT   (1377 words)

  
 Mike Newell @ Filmbug
This was followed by Bad Blood, the telefilm Birth of a Nation and the haunting and sensuous mystery Dance with a Stranger with Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett, which garnered Newell international acclaim and positioned him on the list of the world's top directors.
More recently, Newell served as executive producer on Photographing Fairies with Ben Kingsley and Best Laid Plans directed by Mike Barker and starring Josh Brolin and Reese Witherspoon.
Both films were produced by Newell's Dogstar Films.
www.filmbug.com /db/34877   (385 words)

  
 Mike Newell to Direct "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' | Entertainment News on The Web Newsroom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Newell will be the first British director to helm a Harry Potter movie; the films are based on the best-selling series of books by J.K. Rowling and are set in the U.K. The first two movies in the Harry Potter series broke worldwide records with a combined box-office gross of nearly $1.9 billion.
Agreed Heyman, "When Alfonso made the decision to focus on completing 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,' we were faced with the daunting task of finding a director to handle the complex challenges of 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' and to follow in the footsteps of Chris Columbus and Alfonso Cuaron.
Mike's rich and diverse body of work show him to be the perfect choice.
www.azreporter.com /entertainment/movies/harrypotter4.html   (568 words)

  
 Mike Newell Confirmed for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - ComingSoon.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mike Newell has agreed to direct Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth film in the smash-hit series for Warner Bros. Pictures.
Newell most recently completed production on Mona Lisa Smile, starring Julia Roberts, and is also known for directing such critical and popular successes as Four Weddings and A Funeral, Enchanted April and Donnie Brasco.
Newell, through his company Fifty Cannon Entertainment, has executive produced such films as Traffic, I Capture the Castle and High Fidelity.
www.comingsoon.net /news.php?id=1026   (556 words)

  
 FilmStew.com • Mike Newell Officially on Harry Potter
Newell becomes the first British helmer to tackle one of the Harry Potter movies.
Newell will be the first British director to helm a Harry Potter movie.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third film in the series, is currently being filmed under the direction of Alfonso Cuarón at Leavesden Studios and on location in England and Scotland.
www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=6495   (545 words)

  
 Mike Newell Movies & News
A film director of sure hand and considerable range, Mike Newell credits his ability to juggle numerous genres and subject matters to his diverse assignments and early experiences in British television.
Newell's U.K. television feature debut, The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) served as his springboard to international success, finding theatrical release in the U.S. Continuing with work in television in the following years, Newell began to concentrate on his attempts to move into feature territory in the late '70s.
Newell's first theatrical feature The Awakening (1980), a U.S./U.K. co-produced adaptation of Bram Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars, earned mixed reviews, though it began to cement Newell's reputation as a talented and versatile director with a gift for getting the best performances possible from his actors.
www.moviesonline.ca /celeb-Mike-Newell.htm   (1036 words)

  
 Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
Mike Newell, the British director of Four Weddings and a Funeral, will direct the fourth Harry Potter movie, Warner Brothers Pictures announced officially over the weekend, the Associated Press reported.
Newell will begin work on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in April 2004, the wire service reported.
Newell, 61, also directed Donnie Brasco and recently completed Mona Lisa Smile with Julia Roberts, the AP reported.
www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-08/11/11.00.film   (198 words)

  
 Mike Newell - Factfile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mike was signed from Nationwide Division One Crewe Alexandra on a 2 year contract.
At 6 foot 2, Newell could prove the ideal striking option for the Conference, and he will bring a wealth of experience to what is currently a very young Rovers front line.
Became a target for abuse by the fans during his time at Belle Vue, and left to join Blackpool in February 2000.
website.lineone.net /~mwest/info/players/newell.html   (192 words)

  
 FilmStew.com • Harry Potter Draws Mike Newell
Still in the very early stages, director Mike Newell and Warner Bros. Pictures have expressed interest in collaborating on the fourth feature film installment of the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Should a deal for Newell come through, he would be the first British director to take the helm on the series, based on British author J.K. Rowling's wildly popular book franchise.
Newell, repped by International Creative Management, is currently attached to direct Julia Robers in Mona Lisa Smile for Revolution Studios.
www.filmstew.com /content/article.asp?ContentID=6376   (307 words)

  
 Harry Potter News: Mike Newell
Director Mike Newell recently spoke about "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" with BBC Radio, where he discussed the growing up of the cast.
Newell and Yanevski to attend Bulgarian 'GoF' premiere
Stanislav Yanevski (Krum) and director Mike Newell are scheduled to attend the "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" premiere in Bulgaria on November 25th.
www.hpana.com /newsbrowser.cfm?tid=79   (1226 words)

  
 Mike Newell, DVD & Vidéos sur Fnac.com
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Mike Newell John Cusack Billy Bob Thornton Cate Blanchett
Mike Newell Alan Rickman Hugh Grant Georgina Cates
www3.fnac.com /item/author.do?category=video&id=188920   (210 words)

  
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Newell will begin work on “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” in April, the company said Sunday.
CBBC and IMDb have announced that Mike Newell may direct the fourth Harry Potter movie: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Newell is most famous for directing "Four Weddings and a Funeral," one of the most successful British movies ever.
www.lycos.com /info/mike-newell--harry-potter.html   (350 words)

  
 Mike Newell
Mike Newell continue sur la voie du succès en donnant un nouveau souffle à la comédie romantique avec le mordant Quatre mariages et un enterrement (1994).
Fort de sa popularité internationale, Mike Newell part à l'assaut d'Hollywood en dirigeant Al Pacino et Johnny Depp dans Donnie Brasco (1997), drame sur un agent du F.B.I. infiltré dans un clan mafieux.
mike newel saura crée la veritable atmosphère (5)
www.allocine.fr /personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=1729.html   (716 words)

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