“British Producer Mike Goodridge Spoke to the Advantages of Going Global on Tuesday at A San Sebastian Film Festival Event. The Good Chaos Founder Appeared Durying A Fireside Event for the Fest’s Creative Investors’ Conference, Now In Its Second Year, Were Across A Two-Day Event, a myria.”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Good Chaos Founder Appeared Dringing A Fireside Event for the Fest’s Creative Investors’ Conference, Now In Its Second Year, Were Across A Two-Day Event, A myria. Failures and Fears As Execs Try to Keep Up with A Rapidly-Canying Industry.
The ex-protagonist CEO, The Focus of A Recent The Hollywood Reporter Profile Ahead of Venice, Has Had A Wild Festival Run this Summer with Laszlo Nemes’ Historical Drama OrphanImran Perretta’s Coming-of-Age DEBUT Ish, and Helen Walsh’s Erotic Sophomore Feature On the Sea. Hewes to the Fest On Spain’s Northern Coast to Talk Business, But Another of His Heavyweights Is Set to Screen: Edward Berger’s BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER with Colin Farrell.
Speaking with Wendy Mitchell, San Sebastian’s UK and Nordic Delegate and Investor’s Conference Organizer, Goodridge Took Atendees Through His Hotly Anticipated Projects, Including. SISU: Road to Revengeand Pondered Over the Support for the British Film Industry.
“I THINK IT’S BLESSING AND A CURSE We Share The Same Language As The Us,“ He Said About Balancing Britain’s Undeniable Talent and ip with Hollywood Money American Companies. Harry Potter is a british Thing, But It’s Not, It’s American. Same with James Bond. SO OUR Independent Films have to advocate this path through cluster of Americanism. ”
“The UK HAS A GREAT CINEMA LEGacy,“ HE Continued. “IT’s A Great Cinema Country. And Every Year, There’s a Fantastic New Films. I’d Love to Make Some Great Indie Films from The Likes of the British Film Institute (BFI) and BBC Film.
WHEN PRESSED TO ALLWER HEHERE HAGREES THAT The UK IS NOT “Traditionally a Great Co-Powcer” and that Goodridridge is One of Two or Three Producers in Britain. is to look international. And i’m Very Comfortable Doing that, and I Plug in the UK Finance Whenever I CAN. ”
Thought The Travel Brings Perks, The Exec Also Admitted to Facing An Enormous Amount of Difliculty While Trying to Make BALLAD in macau, china, whore the film is set. “Shanghai Surprise (1986), Remember That? With Madonna. Indiana Jones: The Temple of Doom (1984), Now you see me 2 (2016);[But] IT WAS ONE OF The MOST Challenging Things i Ever Had to Do, Get That Film Made. ”
He SAID: “IT’s A VERY SMALL CITY. IS A CITY STATE, REALLY. IT’s A Population of 600,000, SO IT’s Very Hard to Kind of Build Up An Indigenous Industry. You Go. Because they know much about macau either… Edward would point at a piece of Land that he was wanted to shoot on, we couldn’t find out. [Laughs.]SO we couldn’t get permission to shoot that. ” BALLAD is backdroped by the city’s infamous casinos, which also proved tasking. “Shooting the Casinos Was Incredibly Challenging,” Goodridge Said, “Because at any Moment You’re Shooting, There’s A Loss of Revenue to Them.”
Goodridge Went Into More Detail Across The Session About Working with Sean Baker and WHY Attracting A Good Cast Will Always Start with The Film’s Director. He Touched on His Exteensive Ambitions to Get Into Television Production and Teased a Little About an UpcomING ROM-Com HE’S WORKING ON CALLED Paris-Hollywoodadapted from the novel by french film Critic cécile mury. Paris-Based Haut et Court and Good Chaos, Two of the Founding Members of the Fremantle-Backed Indie Production Collective the Creatives, Secured The Film Rights to Mury.
The San Sebastian International Film Festival 2025 Runs Sept. 19-27.