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PLACIDO RIZZOTTO2001 (THE MAN WHAT’S COOKING TWIN SOUL DRIANA WHO DEFIED THE CORLEONE Opened Sundance 2000 Festival. Supernatural Thriller CHIESA MAFIA BOSSES) Drama (106 min.) Director: Karin Thome Drama / Action (110 min) Director: Gurinder Chadha Cast: TBA ENTERPRISES Language: Italian (English Subtitles) Producer: Jeffrey Taylor Delivery Status: Packaging AAdriana Chiesa Enterprise srl, Via Director: Pasquale Scimeca Cast: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, A bereaved mother searches for the truth Barnaba Oriani, 24/A, 00197, , Producer: Arbash Film Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre about the mysterious circumstances . Tel: 3906.807.0400. Fax: Cast: Marcello Mazzarella, Vincenzo Woodard surrounding the death of her son. 3906.8068.7855. Albanese, Carmello Di Mazzarelli, Gioia Delivery Status: Completed (Screening at TURNING BLUE At Cannes: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma Spaziani AFM) Comedy (President), Rossella Gori (Sales Delivery Status: screening Four families with very diverse Director: Alain Zaloum (“Suspicious Manager) A legendary film about a man who defied backgrounds facing contemporary Minds”) Office: Hotel Carlton, Salon du Bridge, the Corleone Mafia bosses: the tragedy of problems in prepare for their Producer.: Jean Zaloum Tel: 334.9306.4100, Tel/Fax: life, passion, love, friendship and death. Thanksgiving dinner. Cast: TBA 334.9306.4101 SOUTH SIDE STORY (SUD SIDE ORDINARY SINNER Delivery Status: Casting UNFAIR COMPETITION STORI) Drama (93 Minutes) In a case of mistaken identity, a small time (CONCORRENZA SLEALE) Musical Comedy (78 min) Director: John Henry Davis thief escapes from Chicago owing the mob Drama Language: Italian (English Subtitles) Producers: William Mahone, Chris $50,000 and gets mistaken for New York’s Language: Italian (English Subtitles) Director: Bongirne, J.B. White #1 heroic police officer. Producer: GAM Srl Director: Cast: Brendan Hines, Elizabeth Banks, DEALING WITH DONNA Producer: Mass Film Cast: Forstine Ehobor, Bobo Rondelli Delivery Status: screening Kris Park, A. Martinez Comedy Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Sergio in the year 2000 are a Delivery Status: Completed (Screening at Director: Richard Turner Castellitto, Diego Abadantuono black woman and a white man who Cannes) Producer: David Hannay Delivery Status: Screening struggle for the right to love each other Ð A dropout from an Episcopalian seminary Cast: Lucy Lawless (“Xena”), Rebecca SLEEPLESS (NON HO SONNO) music unites them, prejudice divides them. solves the murder of his mentor, a gay Gibney (“Lucky Break”), Andrew Gilbert Thriller (117 min) BRANCHIE AN INDIAN DREAM priest. (“Paperback Hero”) Language: English Adventure (105 min) BLAZIN Delivery Status: Packaging Director: Dario Argento Language: Italian (English Subtitles) Action An off-beat comedy about a teenage girl Producer: Opera Film Director: Francesco Ranieri Martinotti Delivery Status: Completed (Screening at who wins a beauty contest. Cast: Max Von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Producer: Iter Film, Alia Film Cannes) BEVERLY HILLS LOVE STORY Delivery Status: screening Available: World excuding , Romantic Comedy Delivery Status: Screening Videogames. Comics. Dreams. Canada (?), Director: TBA Dario Argento’s spellbinding return to his Nightmares. A fantastic voyage to India THE ASPERN PAPERS Producer: Karin Thome/Multimedia all-time classic thriller. A masterful blend which becomes an exploration of the Drama Corp. Int’l of Deep Red, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, meaning of life and death. Director: Mariana Hellmund Cast: TBA The Bird With the Crystal Plumage takes Producer: Abe Shainberg Delivery Status: Packaging us one step beyond into chilling crime and Cast: Probable: Eric Stoltz, Karen Allen A Mexican archaeology student and a star AKA MOVIES Delivery Status: Packaging boxer moves to L.A. and falls in love with death. AKA Movies, L.A. 6464 Sunset ASK ME IF I AM HAPPY (CHIEDIMI Based on the famous story by Henry a female manager which leads to Boulevard, Suite 920, Los Angeles, CA James and set in Latin America. heartbreak and romance. SE SONO FELICE) 90028 USA. Tel: 323.464.7345. Fax: Comedy (109 min) THE FINGER KICKS AGAIN ESKIYA” (“THE BANDIT”) 323.464.7396. E-mail: Action/Comedy Drama (121 min) Language: Italian, English subtitles [email protected] Director: Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo e At Cannes: Arthur Kananck (President), Director: Steve Wang Language: Turkish Language/English Massimo Venier Michael Kananack (Vice-president of Producer: Aki Komine Subtitles Producer: A.GI.DI Ð Medusa Film Sales), Claude Kananack (Director of Cast: Mark Dacascos Director: Yavuz Turgul Cast: Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo Sales & Acquisitions) Delivery Status: Preproduction Producer: Mine Vargi Delivery Status: screening Office: E-5 in the Riviera Building. A legendary movie superstar Cast: Sener Sen, Ugur Yucel, Sermin “Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo break all box Cannes residence Tel/Fax is: mysteriously disappears during the filming Sen. office records with their new comedy that 33.4.93.99.47.12 of his last motion picture but reappears to Delivery Status: Completed confront an evil villain and his deadly After spending 35 years in prison, a is both intelligent and personal…all in THE WAR BRIDE team of henchmen in the fight sequence of hillside bandit sets out on a journey to great style.” Drama his life. Istanbul to find the man who betrayed him CUBAN FIRE Director: Lydon Chubbeck Delivery Status: Completed THE LINK and stole his sweetheart. Musical Sci-Fi Action FAKIN DA FUNK Language: Spanish, English subtitles Producer: Alistair MacLean-Clark Cast: , Brenda Fricker, Molly Director: Sam Kim Comedy (90 min) Director: Brian Ramsay Cast: Jung Hwa Um, Joo Sang Yun, Director: Tim Chey Producer: Steel Film Production Parker, Aden Young, Loren Dean Set during World War II, the story follows Young Kyu Park Producer: Harry Yoo Delivery Status: Screening the fortunes of two young women Delivery Status: Preproduction: Cast: Pam Grier, Dante Basco, Chris Vibrant musical traditions burn across the who marry two Canadian soldiers. When A brilliant Korean scientist creates a Spenser screen with live performances by Cuba’s they move to Canada while their husbands DNA-altering chemical and years later, in Delivery Status: Completed most world-renowned artists. go off to fight, they find the new families the throes of a deadly virus outbreak, a An accidental switch at an adoption TEENAGERS (CARUSO ZERO IN hostile and reality far harsher than their young man discovers he is telekinetic. agency sends a newborn Chinese baby to CONDOTTA) dreams. When his pregnant girlfriend disappears, an African American family, creating Comedy NOMAD, THE TWO WORLDS the “link” he carries is the key in a battle to comedic and poignant results. Language: Italian, English subtitles (ALLEGORY) save all. RISQUE Director: Francesco Nuti Director: Russell James JAGUAR Sexy Comedy Producer: Medusa Film Producer: Linda York Action Adventure Director: Roger Cardinal Cast: Francesco Nuti, Cecilia Dazzi Cast: , Vicky Andran, Estella Director: Kevin Pike Producer: Karin Producer: Gary Goch (“Porky’s”) Delivery Status: screening Warren Thome/Multimedia Corp. Int’l Cast: TBA The funny and moving story of a Delivery Status: in production. Delivery Cast: TBA Delivery Status: Packaging widower’s journey into his teenage fall 2001 Delivery Status: Packaging. A dancer at an exotic dance club gets her daughter’s puzzling secret world when he Super models journey through the American treasure hunters encounter the wish to own her own club and opens seeks to save her from ruining her life. Australian outback with Nomad in a ancient Jaguar tribe in the jungle “Chez Risque” just across the street from HOLY TONGUE (LA LINGUA DEL surrealistic and wholly interactive time- and together they fight off the evil army of the club of her former mobster boss. SANTO) travelled adventure/action picture. a powerful drug lord. THE DEVASTATING PATTEN Comedy (117 min) DIMENSION WALK Action Language: Italian (English Subtitles) Family Sci-Fi Thriller Cast: TBA Director: Director: TBA Delivery Status: Packaging Producer: Rodeo Drive Ð Medusa Film E-mail elspeth or Cast: TBA After an American businessman has Cast: Antonio Albanese Ð Fabrizio Delivery Status: Packaging launched his new hi-tech business Bentivoglio betsy @ Synopsis: An ex-CIA agent and her old enterprise at a party in Johannesburg, he Delivery Status: Screening boyfriend embark on a rescue mission and his family are hi-jacked. His wife is A crazy delightful moving comedy of two to the future to save her children from killed and his daughter is kidnapped. He heroes, two impossible losers who steal thebusinessoffilm.com evil extra-terrestrials and corrupt exacts revenge with the help of his hi-tech the sacred relic of St. Anthony. terrestrials. skills and a local gold miner.

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JUSTICE ACHAB FILM THE 51ST STATE PLANET PATROL Drama Achab Film, Viale Gorizia 24 C, 00198 Action Comedy Sci Fi Action (72 min/1999) Cast: TBA Rome, Italy. Tel: 3906.854.7230. Fax: Director: Ronny Yu Director: Russ Mazzolla, Producer: Kirk Delivery Status: Packaging 3906.853.55692. Producers: Andras Hamori, Samuel L. Edward Hansen Based on ’s last At Cannes: Jef Nuyts (Director of Jackson, Seaton McLean, David Pupkewitz, Cast: Michael David, Anthony Furlong, novel (“Weir of Hermiston”) of love, International Sales), Enzo Porcelli Malcolm Kohll, Jonathan Debin Robert Garcia deceit and adventure set in the Scottish (Producer) Exec. Producers: Julie Yorn, Eli Selden, Four teen members of the galactic patrol, lowlands during the early days of the last Office: c/o Intramovies stand J1 Riviera, Stephanie Davis dedicated to protecting the citizens of the century. Tel: 334.92.99.33.03 Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Universe from evil intelligence forces, THE BLACK SWALLOW OF DEATH LONG LIVE THE MONKEY (VIVA Emily Mortimer, Rhys Ifans, Ricky face the battle of a as they Bio/Drama LA SCIMMIA) Tomlinson, Sean Pertwee, Meatloaf confront Lord Doom and his nasty Director: TBA Grotesque Comedy (80 min) Delivery Status: Post-production minions and gigantic killer monsters. Cast: TBA Language: Italian (English subtitles) Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American TOTEM-HORROR Delivery Status: PACKAGING Director: Marco Colli master chemist, who becomes embroiled (80 min/1999) The true story of James Bullard, the first Producer: Enzo Porcelli, Claudio Vecchio in a web of double-dealing as he’s escorted Director: Martin Tate Producer: Kirk African-American , who flew for Cast: Giuliana Del Sio, around ’s underworld and rave Edward Hansen in WWI and became a hero of An explosive cocktail spiked by a tyrannical scene by rabid local hood who hates all Cast: Marissa Tait (“The Bold & the France and the toast of in the mother, two hysterical sisters, a nympho maid, things American. Beautiful”), Jason Faunt, Eric Edwards “Roaring 20’s.” a thieving priest and a sacrilegious monkey. WORLD TRAVELER Three TV-handsome teenage guys and THE LAST OUTLAW Drama their prom-queen wanabee friends find Western Director: Bart Freundlich themselves mysteriously drawn against Cast: TBA ALLIANCE ATLANTIS Producer: Tim Perell their will to a forgotten cemetery in the Delivery Status: Preproduction Alliance Atlantis, 121 Bloor St. East, Cast: , Billy Crudup middle of nowhere one stormy night A famous outlaw having finished his Suite 1500, , , Canada Delivery Status: Post-production where they find themselves fighting off a prison sentence travels back to his home M4W 3M5. Tel: 416.967.1174. Fax: What would it be like to just pick up one ancient stone Totem that comes to life. and discovers that he has been robbed by 416.960.0971. Website: day and run away from your life? Cal does POWDER BURN his son which causes him to seek www.allianceatlantis.com just that when he impulsively leaves his Action Thriller (96 min/1999) restitution and end up being chased by the At Cannes: Mark Horowitz (President, wife and child, hitting the road on a cross- Director: Stephen Prime, Producer: same sheriff who had incarcerated him Alliance Atlantis Pictures International), country voyage of self-discovery. Gillian Phillips before. Ariel Veneziano (Director, International CLAIRE’S HAT Cast: Blazey Best and Nicholas Bishop BLACK MAMBA Sales, Alliance Atlantis Pictures Film Noir Caper This frantic rollercoaster ride of quick Thriller International), Patrice Theroux (President, Director: Bruce McDonald guns, rotten friendships, twisted hopes Cast: TBA Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Producer: Robert Lantos and sex, drugs & rock’n roll will take Delivery Status: Packaging Distribution), Victor Loewy (Chairman, Exec. Producer: Seaton McLean you far and away to the middle of A big, bad snake goes crazy in Central Motion Picture Group), Seaton McLean Cast: Juliette Lewis, Gina Gershon, Kelly Harms nowhere and back. Shot on location in Park. Available worldwide except (President, Motion Picture Production) Delivery Status: Post-production Australia. Office: 23 rue Macé, 4th Floor, 06400 Over a 24-hour period, Claire is on the run THE DOORMAN Cannes and gets in way over her head by being in Action (93 min) the wrong place at the wrong time. Director: Jesse Johnson, Producers:Chris ACCESS MOTION Heist Caper H. Ullrich, Meg E. Gould PICTURE GROUP Director: Cast: Dominiquie Vandenburg (“Gangs of Access Motion Picture Group, 280 S. Producer: Stephen Woolley, John Wells, ALLIED NewYork”) , Nil Allen Stewart, Sarah Beverly Blvd., Suite 208, Beverly Hills, Seaton McLean ENTERTAINMENT Bowen CA 90212 USA. Tel: 310.285.0458. Fax: Exec. Producers: Kristin Harms, Neil An ex-mercenary soldier, on a spiritual 310.246.9038. Web: Jordan, Thierry de Navacelle GROUP, INC. path to settle down, gets a job as a www.entertainmentcapital.com Cast: , Tcheky Karyo, Said Allied Entertainment Group, Inc., 8899 bouncer at an L.A. club, where he soon he Company Type: North American Taghmaoui, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Gerard Beverly Boulevard, Suite 911, West realizes that the streets of Hollywood are Ditribution (International Through Darmon, Mark Lavoine, Hollywood, CA. 90048 USA. Tel: as brutal as the battlefields of the Worldwide Entertainment) Delivery Status: In production 310.271.0703. Fax: 310.271.0706. E- Balkans. At Cannes: Robert Cheren (President Based on Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob Le mail: [email protected] JERKS CEO, Access Motion Picture Group), Flambeur. As he haunts the black-jack At Cannes James Moder (Chairman ), Drama (90 min/1999) Michael Baumohl (President International tables in the early hours, down-on-his-luck Michelle Glenn 9Director of Sales & Director/Producer: Ted Grouya Operations, ECG), Robert Steuer (Ex VP gambler Bob Montagnet plans one last, Servicing), Yuan Liu (VP Sales Cast: Sarah Wynter (“The Sixth Day” North American Operations, ECG), spectacular heist in Monte Carlo. Associate) w/, in theatres Susannah Darcy (Director of OWNING MOLONY Office: Carlton # 134 Fall 2000) Acquisitions, Access Motion Picture Drama HOME SWEET HOBOKEN Also, Emmanuel Xuereb, Francis Fallon, Group) Director: Richard Kwietniowski Comedy Patrick Sheehan and Scott Mallon Office: Relais de la Reine, 42/43 La Producers: Andras Hamori, Seaton 92 min/2000 Watch what happens when beautiful Croisette, Apt. C-32 McLean, Alessandro Camon Director: Yoshifumi Hosoya, Producers: Celeste has to choose between the “Jerk” Tel: 334.93.06.60.06, Fax: Exec. Producers: Edward R. Pressman, Yuko Yoshikawa & Daisuke Sekiguchi who says he loves her and the life long 334.93.06.60.26, Mobile: Sean Furst Cast: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, friend who shows her how she deserves to 44.77.6834.7059 Cast: Richard Kind (“Spin City”), Aida be treated. You can’t always “have your DINNER RUSH Delivery Status: In production Turturro (“”) cake and eat it too!” In the spirit of Drama/Comedy Owning Molony is based on the true story of Beth is a waitress in a Hoboken diner who’s Sundance festival favorite. Language: English Brian Molony, an unassuming bank manager raised two good-for-nothing grandsons. SWINGERS Director: Bob Giraldi who quietly embezzled millions over a year When an appraiser offers her cash for some Grotesque- Horror (90 min/1988) Producer: Lou DiGiaimo and Patti and a half to feed his secret gambling habit. old jewelry, she discovers that a ring she Director/Producer: Joe Tornatore, Greaney MOVERN CALLAR thought was worthless is actually a rare Executive Producer: Maurice Smith Cast: Danny Aiello, Eduardo Ballerini, Drama Louis XV diamond valued at $10 million! Cast: Linda Blair (from the hot re-release Vivian Wu, Mike McGlone, Kirk Director: Lynne Ramsay MAXIMUM JUSTICE of “The Exorcist”), Donna Wilkes, Tab Acevedo, John Corbett, Sandra Bernhard, Producer: George Faber, Charles Action Thriller (92 min/1999) Hunter Summer Phoenix Pattinson, Robyn Slovo Director/Producer: Jesse Dell A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a Delivery Status: Complete Ð screening Exec. Producer: Seaton McLean, Andras Cast: L.P. Brown III, Timothy Bottoms, family’s vacation home in the mountains The exciting downtown scene of New Hamori, David Thompson, Barbara Scott Valentine, Martin Kove & Roxana Zal and slaughters the entire family, except for York City’s TriBeCa finds Louis the aging McKissack McQuade poses as the leader of a feared one daughter who gets away. As the gang owner (Aiello) of a neighborhood bistro Cast: Samantha Morton biker gang to infiltrate the mob-controlled pursues her through the snowy mountain dealing with its transition to the trend- Delivery Status: Post-production L.A. Harbor. After being set up, betrayed side, they realize they in turn are being setting establishment; his turbulent son the A darkly comic tale of a disaffected and and left for dead, he must regain his chased by a mysterious and murderous head chef, its patrons, and 2 local hoods dispassionate young woman who disposes strength, so he can take revenge-exacting creature. eager to become partners. of her boyfriend’s body, then hits the road his unique brand of Maximum Justice. SEASIDE SEDUCTION to take a walk on the wild side from the PUPS Erotic Fantasy (98 min/1999) bleak Scottish highlands to the raves of Action Drama (95 min/1999) Writer, Producer, and Director: Patrick sunny Ibiza. Director: Ash Coppola THE BUSINESS OF TWENTYNINE PALMS Producer: Daniel Berger Cast: Belinda Carroll, Monique Parent, Caper Thriller Cast: , Mischa Barton and Vick Andrews FILM Director: Leonardo Racagni (“Sixth Sense,” “Notting Hill”) Cameron A beautiful young stripper dreams of Producer: J. Todd Harris, Bryan Lord, Von Hoy escaping the sleepy, honky-tonk beach Los Angeles Office Marc Forby As a post-modern response to the growing town of Seaside. When the body of her Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook, Jeremy trend of senseless gun-related violence lover washes ashore she becomes the 5150 Wilshire Blvd. Davies, Chris O’Donnell, Jon Polito, amongst youngsters, “Pups” chronicles the prime suspect, tangled between Roy, a Michael Rapaport story of a rebellious “latch-key” teenager who dangerous heroin dealer, the police, her Los Angeles Delivery Status: Post-production finds his mother’s gun, and instead of heading stripper friend Lacy, and Michael, a California 90036 All hell breaks loose in a one-horse desert to his suburban school, he embarks on a mysterious stranger who has wandered town when a black bag full of money is stolen. spontaneous bank robbery with his girlfriend. into town.

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BELINDA ATLANTA BLUE/DEATH FORCE SEVERED CROSSING OVER Director: Pamela Gibbons Action, 89 Horror, 89 Supernatural-Thriller, 90 Producer: Bedrich Kabriel Language: English Language: English Language: English Erotic Drama (97 min/1999) Director: David Heavener Director: Matt Green Director: Ash SMith Cast: Deanne Jeffs, Mary Regan, Robyn Producer: Ray Gutrhie Producer: Ken Porter Producer: Ron Lavery Moase Cast: Stephanie Snow, Jim Issa, Phil Cast: Vanessa Sanchez, Peter Rah, Mark Delivery Status: Development A group of get entangled in a net Devona, David Heavener Harris What if you were being haunted by a of underworld crossfire; they live to dance, Delivery Status: Complete Delivery Status: Complete ghost.. What if the ghost knew your they dance to stay alive. Innocence is a It takes a dirty cop to clean up a city. Headless corpses turn up around the city. deepest secrets and worst fears. What if state of grace, it’s always under siege. About the dark and sordid under world or Police call in the “Specialist” when two of this ghost was you? TOO MUCH SEX drugs and police corruption. their own are found. Romantic Comedy (80 min/1999) BAD TRIP ONLY A DISTANCE IN TIME Director: Andrew Ainsworth, Producer: Action, 88 Drama, 88 AMAZING MOVIES Tina Grewal and Jeffrey Berman Language: English Language: English Amazing Movies, 7471 Melrose Ave. #7, Cast: Michael McMurtry, Janet Kidder, Director: Walter Viveiros Director: Roy Sartipi Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel: Murray Furrow and Christine Donato Producer: Brian Frank Producer: Roy Sartipi 323.852.1396. Fax: 323.658.7265. E- After receiving a divine warning from his Cast: Kells James, Brian Frank, Emanuel Cast: Rick Slater, Lori Mendez, Abraham mail: [email protected]. Website: guardian angel, a young girl-crazy sex addict C. Albino Willock www.AmazingPix.com has to suppress his erotic desires in fear that Delivery Status: Complete Delivery Status: Complete Company Type: Sales Agent his next female conquest will be his last. Three boys from the hood try to make it Romance Thriller - Just when he thought it At Cannes: Douglas Witkins (President), SPRING FEVER USA big after taking over a friends distribution was safe to love again. Milda Witkins Comedy (90 min/1990) business. DARK SECRETS Office: Riviera (J4) Director: Bill Milling THE CHAMELEON Erotic, 85 A DIRTY LITTLE BUSINESS Cast: Renee Shugart and Darrel Guilbeau Action, 90 Language: English Sexy Comedy (87 min.) One can only imagine what happens when Language: English Director: John Bowen Language: English a group of college guys hit Lauderdale, Director: Gary Kroeger Producer: William Witrock Director: Len Richmond Florida in search of -not much, just the Producer: Phil Wurtzel Cast: Monique Parent, Justin Carrol, Producer: Zoe Edgerton ultimate party and world’s most beautiful Cast: Seymour Cassel, Tom Dahlgren, Julie Strain Cast: Michael York, Prunella Gee, women! Follow Larry and “Animal” with a Adrianne Duncan Delivery Status: Complete Beverly D’Angelo week on their hands and lust in their hearts. Delivery Status: Complete Enter the glittering world of hilltop Delivery Status: completed JOKERS WILD Retired from the Chicago mob, he used to mansions and the under ground sex clubs Budget: $2 million Comedy Thriller (90 min/1991) be the man. Now he’s just the hit. where your wildest fantasies couple. A Russian immigrant buys a sexual Director: Bill Milling THE GRUE CREW DANCE OF DESIRE novelties shop and finds himself in bed Cast: Dick Van Patten and Priscilla Action, 89 Erotic, 86 with the mob. Barnes Language: English Language: English ALEC TO THE RESCUE! A gifted screenwriter sails off on an Director: Scott Ross Director: Keith Holland Action/Adventure (85 min.) adventure with his beautiful girlfriend and Producer: Jerry Connell Producer: Michael Haddad Language: English father-in-law only to fall into an adventure Cast: David Shipley, Bob Salie, Phillip Cast: Brian Cooper, Monique Parent, Director: Derrick Louw entailing sharks, casinos, and a tangled Devona Jennifer Barlow Producer: Derrick Louw web of comic and an ending you have to Delivery Status: Complete Delivery Status: Complete Cast: Oliver Tobias, Barbara Carrera, Ben see to believe ! Hitmen kill their victims and dispose the An aspiring film director lands a job with Jeffrey LOVE UNTIL bodies in bizarre ways. an erotic production company. Delivery Status: completed Romance (91 min/1999) CHASING THE DRAGON SMOOTH OPERATOR Budget: $2 million Director: Bedrich Kabriel, Drama, 90 Comedy, 93 A young boy must save his archeologist Producer: Bedrich Kabriel and Karel Language: English Language: English father from ruthless kidnappers. Kabriel Producer: John Garrett Director: Tom Logan BELLYFRUIT Cast: Rachel Blakely, Dino Marnika and Director: Alexander Samaan Producer: Blair Wells Drama (86 min) Maureen O’Shaughnessy Cast: Lisa Marie, Jessee Woodrow, Cast: Samuel Combs, Jr., April Language: English An unsophisticated peasant from a small Samuel Ball Bogenshutz, Richard Lemay Director: Kerri Lee Green Czech village falls in love with a stylish Delivery Status: Complete Delivery Status: Complete Producers: Bonnie Dickenson and Robert English woman, who introduces him to the Life is a drug-induced haze for Claire Nurses and interns explore the political Bauer cultured life of Prague, but in the end he Oberon (Lisa Marie) in her remote correctness of dating with gags and humor. Cast: Tamara LeSeon Bass, Tonatzin must choose between this exquisite mansion addicted to heroin. ISLAND GIRL Mondragon, Kelly Vint woman and his simple wife. Sometimes TEA CAKES OR CANNOLI Comedy, 88 Delivery Status: completed when you change your life, your heart will Drama, 90 Language: English Budget: $1 million change your mind. Language: English Director: C. Allen Post Three teenage girls struggle with CHRISTMAS MAGIC IN CHICAGO Director: Nino Pepicelli Producer: Dana Middleton unexpected pregnancy amid the chaos of Romantic Comedy (92 min/1999) Producer: Francine Pellegrino Cast: Pinky Balais, Lisa Robertson, urban life. Director: Timothy J. Elliott Cast: Abe Vigoda, Carmen, Conor Dubin Lindsay Fussell CENTURION FORCE Producer: John Condne III and Thomas Delivery Status: Complete Delivery Status: Complete Action/Adventure (93 min.) Juarez Tea Cakes or Cannoli is a Boston based Misadventures the Oxford family have Language: English Cast: Christopher Nendick, Steve “coming of age” love story about a 16 year when a beautiful foreign exchange student Director: Troy Cook Matuszak and Nicole Soltis old boy growing up in Boston’s Italian turns out to be a cannibal. Producer: Faruque Ahmed A frustrated, uninspired artist stuck in a North End.. STAGE GHOST Cast: John Savage, Jennifer Barker, dead-end job, receives advice from a TITLE TO MURDER Western-Thriller, 89 Charles Napier, Rhino Michaels guardian spirit on how to forget his lost Drama, 92 Language: English Delivery Status: completed love, while he finds himself falling for his Language: English Director: Stephen Furst Budget: $2.5 million mischievous best friend’s girlfriend Director: Steven Furst Producer: Gloria Everett A renegade centurion guard launches a Producer: Thomas Seiler Cast: Christopher Adkins, Edward one-man assault against a powerful tyrant. Cast: Maureen McCormick, Christopher Albert, Keith Ewell JAMES DEAN: LIVE FAST, DIE ALPHA FILM GROUP, Atkins, Fredrick Burton Delivery Status: Complete YOUNG INC. Delivery Status: Complete The stagecoach pulls in on schedule but BioPic (90 min) It’s murder in deed. A routine title without the driver or passengers Ð just a lot Language: English Alpha Film Group, Inc., 216 South Main Director: Mardi Rustam Street, Alpharetta, Georgia 30004 United examination puts Leah in the middle of a of blood and a note “GIVE IT BACK!” racketeering ring’s real estate swindles. LAST CHANCE Producer: Mardi Rustam States. Tel: 770.740.1962. Cast: Casper Van Dien, Dianne Ladd, Fax: 770.740.1046. E-mail: PARANOID Action, 88 Horror, 92 Language: English Robert Mitchum [email protected]. Delivery Status: Completed Website: www.alphafilmgroup.com Language: English Director: A.C. Herrera Director: Ash Smith Producer: Ace Cruz Budget: $2.5 million Company Type: Distributor The true life story of James Dean. At Cannes: Ray Guthrie (CEO), Ron Producer: Ray Guthrie, Ron Lavery Cast: Todd Bridges, Jamie Bay, Judy Lavery (Producer), Ash Smith (Director) Cast: Shanda Besler, Summer Lapan, Ann Santos Acquisition Executive: Ron Lavery Shawn Wright Delivery Status: Complete Office: Riviera J7 Delivery Status: Complete One man’s fight for freedom, a woman’s ASIAN TASK FORCE Look behind you, he might be there... heart and the road to trouble. Action “The Conscience Killer.” High School THE GREY HOUSE MURDERS Send Your Language: English students put on a haunted house to raise Supernatural-Thriller, 90 Director: Ace Cruz money, but a new scare is added when the Language: English Producer: A.C. Herrera infamous “Conscience Killer” strolls into Director: Ash Smith Cast: Blain Tyer, Ace Cruz, Sunshine town. Producer: Ron Lavery Press Releases to: Cruz Delivery Status: Development Delivery Status: Complete L.A. Office Phone Afifteen-year-old girl is accused of murdering Everything changes when you hear the her parents during the height of an electrical [email protected] first shot world of rivalries, revenge and storm. They said the storm drove her mad and lust entangled with the Asian Task Force. (323) 935-8228 sentenced her to a mental institution.

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THE HOUND OF LONDON PIPSQUEAK’S PLANET & AMERICAN CINEMA AMSELL Horror PIPSQUEAK’S PLAY SPORT INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT Director: Craig Bowlsby Animation (104 x 3 min) American Cinema International, 4640 Producer: Craig Bowlsby Language: English Lankershim Blvd., Suite 500, Tel: INC. BLACK FRIDAY Director: Jordi Muray Amsell Entertainment Inc., 12001 Ventura 818.985.8500. Fax: 818.985.4848. E- Action/Adventure (90 min) Producer: Animation Enterprises HK Ltd Place #404, Studio City, CA 91064 USA. Director: & Cromosoma mail: [email protected] Tel: 818.766.8500. Fax: 818.766.7873. Company Type: Distributor Producer: Gary Daniels, William Doane, Pipsqueak walks towards sustainability to E-mail: [email protected] Vannessa Righton improve environment and brings sport At Cannes: George Shamieh (CEO), Company Type: Sales agent Chevonne O’Shaughnessy (President) Cast: Gary Daniels near kids to teach them the true meaning of At Cannes: Alan M. Solomon (President), Delivery Status: Completed sportsmanship. Office: Salon Lerina Joseph Beral (Director of International Tel: 334.92.99.70.00. Fax: Dean Campbell (Gary Daniels) is a high SKIPPER & SKEETO Servicing) powered attorney who returns home from Animation (26 x 15 min) 33.4.92.99.70.11 Office: Cannes Beach Rseidence, 11, FLYING VIRUS the office to find his family is being held Language: English Avenue Pierre Senard, Cannes La Bocca for ransom by nuclear terrorists. Director: Clennell Rawson Action/Disaster, 96 minutes 06150, France. Tel: 334.92.193.000, Language: English SOMETIMES A HERO Producer: Animation Enterprises HK Ltd Fax: 334.92.193.009 Action/Adventure (90 min) & Egmont Imagination Director: Jeff Hare RUDE BOY Director: Jalal Merhi Delivery Status: Completed Producers: Vince Ravine, George Action Producer: John Danylqiw A delightful children’s series tells the tale Shamieh Director: Desomnd Grumbs Cast: Christina Cox, Bryan Genesse, Josh of an unlikely friendship between two best Delivery status: Pre production Producer: Bentley Evans Cast: Mark Danvers, Jimmy Cliff, Beenie Barker friends Ð Skipper and Skeeto, a Mole and Top secret experiment in biological Delivery Status: Completed a Mosquito. warfare becomes “public” knowledge at Man, Marsha Griffith, Ninja Man Delivery Status: In Production Two rival gangs battle for territory in a WONDERS & WONDERS 35,000 feet. Can a journalist save the lives different kind of Cold War. Animation (13 x 30 min) of the plane passengers? It’s man verses An aspiring DJ is given the opportunity to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming an G.O.D. -GUARANTEED Language: Mandarin nature in a fight to the death. OVERNIGHT DELIVERY Director: Joseph Lai & Louisa Ma WINDFALL internationally renowned rap artist…for a price…to cary a suitcase full of Action Thriller (90 min) Producer: Animation Enterpirses Hong Action/Disaster, 96 minutes Director: Dean Russo Kong Ltd & Asso Investments Ltd. Ct Jin Language: English contraband to the United States in echange for a visa and passport in order to obtain Producer: John Danylqiw Ming De, Shi Zhao Jie, Fang Yuan Quing Director: Gerry Lively the American Dream. Cast: Olivier Gruner, , Delivery Status: Completed Producers: Vince Ravine, George ROCKET’S RED GLARE Jalal Merhi An outstanding education series with the Shamieh, Ion Ionescu Action Drama (102 min) Delivery Status: Completed combination of live action and animation. Cast: Casper Van Dien Director: Joseph Manduke Security Guard Ray Stanton watches in Inspired by the world’s greatest inventions, Delivery Status: Pre production Producer: Victor Bardack horror as the Bank he’s protecting is the kids roam about the universe and the Hurricane Brenda throws a curve into the Cast: Chris Potter, Amanda Foreman, robbed and his innocent wife is gunned natural world, unbounded by time and plan to pull off the biggest casino heist Tony Denison down in the street. space, to experience endless surprises. ever. Unable to escape Mother Nature, a Delivery Status: completed THE CUTOFF SWIFT AND THE LITTLE CIRCUS con artist and his right hand man turn over The story of a Vietnam vet forced into the Action (90 min) Animation (26 x 30 min) a new leaf in an effort to outwit the thief dark world of the Mob in order to support Director: Art Camacho Director: Oumar Ndiay and survive. his handicapped brother. Producer: Gerald Waller Language: English PHASE IV FINAL STAB Cast: Michael DePasquale, Joe Lewis, Delivery Status: In Production Action/Disaster, 96 minutes Horror (85 min) Keith Vitali Through the wonderful adventures of Swift Language: English Director: David DeCoteau Delivery Status: Completed and his struggles to find his place among Director: Bryan Goeres Producer: Gary Barkin & David DeCoteau A down-and-out private detective who, the very special members of a traveling Producers: Vince Ravine, George Cast: Jamie Ganno, Erinn Carter, Melissa while trying to keep his financially circus to examine the fundamental issues Renee Martin, Chris Boyd strapped NY-based agency above water, which children take very much to heart Ð Shamieh has his whole world turned inside out by intolerance, loneliness, love and hate. Delivery Status: Pre production Delivery Status: Completed It begins as a fun weekend of scary stunts the brutal mob-directed murder of his IRON NOSE Four students die mysterious in younger brother. Animation (52 x 15 min) “unrelated” accidents—only connection when a group of college kids are invited to a remote estate to participate in a “murder STARFORCE Language: English being participants in an experimental drug Action Adventure/Sci-Fi (90 min) Director: Prakash Topsy program. The doctor in charge of the mystery” game. SECRETS OF THE SHELL Director: Cary Howe Delivery Status: In production program is desperate to expose the Producer: Tony Kandah A mysterious knight in helmet and armor conspiracy before he too is eliminated. Erotic Thriller (90 min) Director: Anthony Maharaj Cast: Michael Bergen always barred Littlbro’s evil plan and POWER PLAY Producer: Anthony Maharaja Delivery Status: Completed protected the King and his faithful subjects Action/Disaster, 96 minutes Cast: Richard Norton, Laural Wiley, On a distant planet, a brutal intergalactic from their despicable enemies! Language: English Chuck Jefferys massacre leaves two survivors Ð a soldier ANIMAL CRACKERS Director: Joseph Zito Delivery Status: Completed named Temetrian and a toddler called Zed. Animation (39 x 30 min) Producers: Vince Ravine, George The rhythm of the waves creates an ideal L.I.N.X. Language: English Shamieh setting for a story of lust and desire which Action, Sci-Fi (90 min) Director: Nadja Cozic Delivery Status: Pre production leads to murder mystery unravels on this Director: Bryan Bagby Delivery Status: Completed An investigative reporter links the deaths exotic tropical island when the lives of Producer: Bryan Bagby, Lawrence Bagby Take a gang of wacky, wild animals, toss of three people to a high profile three people turn into turmoil as the Cast: Larry Bagby III in a crazy assortment of supporting corporation, and scientists working on secrets of the shells are unveiled. Delivery Status: Completed characters and you get Animal Crackers Ð their privately funded research project are THE RAGE WITHIN Government “search and destroy” mission where the wild kingdom just got a little forced to look beyond the facts and face Action (90 min) to destroy group of renegade wilder and a lot more neurotic. reality—their experiments may be the Director: Mike Norris scientists who have the power to turn JACK & MARCEL cause of a series of killer earthquakes. Producer: Alin Bijan, Jacov Bresler, Dana back time to infinity. Animation (150 x 1 min) THE ELITE Altman Language: no dialogue Action/Adventure, 103 minutes 30 Cast: Richard Norton, Fred Williamson, ANIMATION Director: Gordon Bates seconds Ron O’Neal & David Rael Delivery Status: In production Language: English Delivery Status: Completed ENTERPRISES HONG The four seasons set for Jack & Director: Terry Cunningham Undercover cop is forced to reveal his Marcel’s mini adventures. Through their Producers: Vince Ravine, George identity to save innocent lives and is forcd KONG LIMITED confrontations with the elements of comical and unexpected situations will be born. Shamieh, Ion Ionescu to cross his line in order to save his wife. Animation Enterprises FINAL PAYBACK Limited, Unit C1, 2/F, HK Spinners Ind. Each on eof these adventures echoes our Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Robin Givens, feelings and reactions towards the weather. Maxine Bahns and Steven Williams Action (90 Min) Bldg., Phase 5, 760-2 Cheung Sha Wan Director: Art Camacho KINGS & QUEENS Delivery Status: Completed Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel: Cast: Richard Grieco, Corbin Bernson, 852.2369.8928. Fax: 852.2724.3801. Animation (65 x 5 min) Team of young Special Forces face off Martin Kove, Laura Herring, John Saxon Company Type: Producer & Distributor Language: English with the terrorist who murdered their Delivery Status: completed At Cannes: Steven Ching (President & Director: Eric Cazes families a decade earlier. Action packed story of an ex-cop framed CEO), Catherine Lam (Senior Executive, Delivery Status: Completed LITTLE HEROES 3 for a murder he didn’t commit who sets Business Development) Twelve monarchs live in twelve small Family, 93 minutes out to find the real killer. Office: kingdoms that border each other. Language: English THE CIRCUIT CON CONTROL ECKHART Director: Henri Charr Action Animation (52 x 15 min) Animation (26 x 30 min) Producers: Oceanic and American Director: Jelal Merhi Language: English Language: English Cinema International Cast: Oliver Guner Director: Clennell Rawson Director: John Collins & Jim Miko Cast: Thomas Garner, Brad Sergi, Delivery Status: post-production Producer: Animation Enterprises Hong Delivery Status: In production Candace Bender An ex-champion of an illegal underground Kong Limited The series explores big themes and Delivery Status: Completed fighting society known as “The Circuit” Delivery Status: In Production adventures from a very small perspective Ð The further adventures of two little dogs, comes out of retirement to save one of his Resourceful and brave CONES control cars a small mouse named Eckhart, who is full named Samson and Hercules who students from the corrupted owner of “The that race across the landscape, resuce cars’ of bravery and irrepressible wonderment continue to be hailed as two Little Heroes. Circuit” who is his old enemy. breakdown and safeguard other creatures. about the mysteries of his world.

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ANNEX ANTIGUA PICTURES THE ROMAN BEHIND THE MUSIC THAT SUCKS Antigua Pictures, 9610 DeSoto Ave., Epic/Adventure Animation & Comedy, 5 x 60 min ENTERTAINMENT Chatsworth, CA 91311 USA. Tel: Language: English Language: English INC. 818.709.7400. Fax: 818.709.7489. E- Director: Josef Rusnak Director: Simon Assad mail: [email protected]. Producer: Shimon Arama Producer: Simon Assad Annex Entertainment Inc., 332 Dupont Cast: TBD Cast: Kiss, Puff Daddy, N’Sync, Barbara Street, 2nd Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Website: www.antiguapictures.com Company Type: Foreign Distribution Delivery Status: Pre-production Streisand, Jewel, Marilyn Manson Canada, M5R 1V9. Tel: 416.921.3939. St. Patrick-A Roman noble turned slave, A hilarious parody of VH1’s music show Fax: 416.921.1325. At Cannes: Todd Blatt (President), Alfred Thornton (Exec. Assistant) overcomes great odds to free Europe. which skewers pop musicians no holds At Cannes: Barbara Bernhard (VP SAILMAKER barred. International), Fanny Rayon (Sales Action/Adventure/ Drama LUGOSI: HOLLYWOOD’S Assistant) ARAMA Language: English Office: Riviera Booth E9/F10 Director: Christian Duguay Documentary, 60 minutes FALL: THE PRICE OF SILENCE ENTERTAINMENT Producer: Shimon ARama Language: English Thriller/Comedy (120 min) Arama Entertainment, 18034 Ventura Cast: International Case Director: Gary D. Rhodes Cast: Michael Madsen, Daniel Baldwin, Blvd., #435, Encino, CA 91316 USA. Tel: Delivery Status: Pre-production Producers: Don Rhodes, Richard Chad McQueen, 818.788.6400. Fax: 818.990.9344. E- Mutinous sailors find themselves Sheffield, Gary D. Rhodes Delivery Status: available immediately mail: [email protected] sentenced to a desert prison, and plot an Cast: Bela Lugosi Budget: $3 million Company Type: producer ingenious escape back to the sea.. Delivery Status: Completed A professional thief has no choice other At Cannes: Shimon Arama (Chairman), SUDAN Reveals the life, career and scandals of than to turn state’s evidence on his Mafia Elaine Arama (Co-chairman) Action Adventure Bela Lugosi, famous and cultural boss and to enter the witness protection Acquisition Executive: Beppe Brezzo Director: TBD icon. program. Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 139, Tel: Cast: International cast LEVITATION BOOZECAN 04.97.06.85.59, Cel: 06.18.63.19.61, Delivery Status: Pre-production Drama, Run Time: 99 minutes Drama Direct fax: 04.97.06.85.59, cel: A renegade US pilot and a beautiful French Language: English Cast: Justin Lewis, David Cronenberg, 06.18.63.18.67, Hotel Tel: 04.92.98.77.00 UN doctor find each other and become Director: Scott D. Goldstein Kenneth Welsh CHAPTER ZERO heroes against the backdrop of the current Producer: Shelly Strong, Scott D. Delivery Status: Available Immediately Comedy (105 minutes) civil war in Sudan. Inspired by a true story. Goldstein Budget: $2 million Language: English Cast: Ernie Hudson, Jeremy London, “Boozecan” an illegal establishment where Director/Writer: Aaron Mendelsohn ARRI MEDIA Sarah Paulson, Ann Magnuson Ð drugs, sex and alcohol. A Producer: Tony DiTocco Delivery Status: Completed subculture of bikers, strippers, nighthawks, Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, Dylan Walsh A beautiful teenager sets out on an doctors, lawyers and celebrities WORLDSALES Delivery Status: Complete Arri Media Worldsales, Türkenstr. 89, adventure to find her birth mother and LAST TO SURRENDER Novelist must examine his life and understand her magical ability to levitate. Action/Thriller 80799 , Germany. Tel: ambitions when his world is turned upside 089.38.09.1288. Fax: 089.38.09.1433. HALF JAPANESE: THE BAND THAT Cast: Roddy Piper, Han Soo Ong down by a sexy publisher. WOULD BE KING Delivery Status: Available immediately Web: www.arri-mediaworldsales.de THE HEIST Company Type: Worldsales Company Mockumentary, 90 minutes Budget: $3 million Action/Drama (90 minutes) Language: English Two cops in a war against drugs, from At Cannes: Antonio Exacoustos jr. (Head Language: English of World Sales) Director & Producer: Jeff Feuerzeig opposite sides of the world -- the only Director/Writer: Kurt Voss Cast: Jad Fair, David Fair, Penn Gillette, thing they had in common was their Office: c/o Export Union of German Producer: Shimon Arama and Alfred Sapse Cinema Moe Tucker assignment. Cast: Luke Perry, Ice-T, Amy Locane Delivery Status: Completed TIGERCLAWS III MY SWEET Status: Complete Drama, 83 minutes In spirit of ãSpinal Tapä, an underground Action Two brothers, a musician and a parolee, punk rock band gains critical success but Cast: Jalal Merhi, Cynthia Rothrock, Language: German and English turn against each other when confronted Director: Filippos Tsitos never reaches commercial / mainstream Loren Avadon with a chance to get millions of dollars music audiences. Delivery Status: Available Immediately Producer: Thanassis Karathanos found in a stolen armored car. Cast: Harvey Friedman, , HEIGHT OF THE SKY Police detective Rickards and Masterson MICHAELANGEL Drama, 116 minutes encounter an evil force, the spirits of three Monika Hansen Drama (90 minutes) Delivery Status: completed: Screenings in Language: English Chinese Master killers. Richards must Language: English Director: Lyn Clinton master the forbidden Black Tiger Style if the German Series Director/Writer: William Gove MY SWEET HOME is about the search Producer: Lyn Clinton he is to defeat both the crimelord and the Producer: Don Schneider, Igor Barkagan Cast: Jennifer Weedon, Jackie Stewart, three masters. for a foothold in life, a solid ground to Cast: Dennis Hopper, Richard Grieco walk on, a place to call home. Grant Moninger HIGH WATER MARK Delivery Status: Complete Delivery Status: Completed Action Adventure A tormented priest traces his brother’s From the Clinton family, a rural Southern Cast: (suggested) Jim Belushi, brutal murder to a brilliant, abstract ARROW FILMS farming family struggles to survive illness , Dennis Hopper, painter. and poverty. Kiefer Sutherland INTERNATIONAL, INC. EMINENT DOMAIN Arrow Films International, Inc, 11925 Delivery Status: Pre-Production Political Suspense/Psychological Thriller Budget: $6 million Wilshire Blvd., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, ARROW FILM (102 min) CA 90025-6618. Tel: 310.873.9444. Fax: A young computer buff and his gorgeous Language: English female companion match wits and battle 310.873.9445. E-mail: [email protected] DISTRIBUTORS LTD Director: John Irvin website: www.reelplay.com/arrow Arrow Film Distributors Ltd, 18 Watford with an evil psychopath who is determined Producer: Shimon Arama to flood Las Vegas and hold America Company Type: Sales Agent, Distributor Road, Radlett Herts WD7 8LE, UK. Cast: , Anne Archer At Cannes: Tom Conroy (Sr V.P., Sales & Tel: 1923.858306. Fax: 1923.859673. ransom at the Hoover Dam. Delivery Status: Reissue; available in MY BEST FRIEND’S MOTHER Acquisitions), Dennis Friedland Web: www.arrowfilms.com most countries (President), John Cusimano (V.P. Business Company Type: Distributor Erotic/Comedy The sixth-ranking official in pre- Cast: (suggested) Joe Mantegna, Armand & Legal Affairs), Mike Broder (USA At Cannes: Neil Agran (Managing Assante, Natassja Kiniski, Christopher Peristroika becomes a “non- Theatrical & Home Video Manager), Kate Director), Angie Agran (Director) Plummer person” overnight for no apparent Grodd (Director, Acquisitions) Office: 334.93.68.25.22 Status: Pre-production reason. Office: Riviera # F 7 Budget: $4 million MARQUISE ANIMAL ROOM Period Drama (151 min) Thriller, 97 minutes ARTBOX Awkward Harry Bloom agrees to tutor his ARTBOX, a division of France Television popular best friend Tony, while Tony’s Language: French, with English subtitles Language: English Director: Vera Belmont Director: Craig Singer Distribution, Ç Le Barjac È 1, bd Victor sultry mother gives Harry an interesting 75015 Paris, France. Tel: education. Producer: Vera Belmont Producers: Sylvia Caminer, Craig Singer Cast: , Thierry Lhermitte, Cast: Matthew Lillard, Amanda Peet, Neil 331.44.25.01.62/01.49. Fax: THE CHUNNEL 331.44.25.01.95 Action Adventure Lambert Wilson Patrick Harris Delivery Status: Reissue; available in Delivery Status: Completed E-mail: [email protected] Budget: $7 million Company Type: Sales Agent 2000 feet below the English Channel a most countries In the vein of “Clockwork Orange,” a The erotic story of the passionate life of controversial high school program breeds At Cannes: Claudia Rae-Colombani (Vice high speed train roars through the Chunnel President International Sales): mobile : 33 carrying a deadly virus. The train is Marquise du Parque Ð one of the most troubled teens who make their own rules. beautiful and infamous courtesans during ORDINARY MADNESS 6 03 04 79 79, Cyril Perrin ( International hijacked and held ransom with the threat Thriller, 90 minutes Sales ) : mobile : 33 6 61 87 21 80 of disaster. The only people who can stop the reign of King Louis XIV. THE FILM THIEF Language: English Office: RIVIERA N-3 the hijackers are an American cop and his Director: Bernardo Gigliotti MADEMOISELLE French prisoner. Coming of Age Drama Language: English Producers: Dean Anello, Paula Keane, Romantic Comedy (85’) Director: TBD James Smythe Language : French Producer: Cristian Sessa, Shimon Arama, Cast: Ron Carlson, Gary D. Mosher, Director : Philippe Lioret Don Schneider Denise Gentile, Mariah O’Brien Producer : Aliceleo Ð Patrick Godeau L.A. Office FAX Cast: Harvey Keitel Delivery Status: Completed Cast : , Jacques Delivery Status: Pre-production A dysfunctional marriage threatens a Gamblin A film projectionist and a runaway girl handsome and secretive male tenant with Delivery Status : Completed (323) 935-8229 bond through the magic of film that seduction and danger. Preview: Claire is a young woman who leads a changes their lives forever. www.ordinarymadness.com somewhat formatted life.

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LES BLESSURES ASSASSINES Dramatic Comedy EYE OF THE STORM (MURDEROUS MAIDS) Language : French ARTIST VIEW Psychological Thriller (90 Minutes) Psycho Drama (94’) Director : François Armanet ENTERTAINMENT Language: English Language: French Producer : Jean Bréhat – 3B Productions Artist View Entertainment, 12500 Producer: Elaine Frontain Bryant Director : Jean-Pierre Denis Cast : Mathieu Simonet, Aurélien Wiik, Riverside Drive, Suite 201, North Director: Marcus Spiegel Producers : Michèle & Laurent Pétin - Cécile Cassel, , Thierry Hollywood, CA 91607 USA. Tel: Cast: Blythe Danner, Leo Burmester, Kurt ARP Lhermitte, Laurent Pialet, Mathias, 818.752.2480. Fax: 818.752.9339. E- Deutsch, Katherine Kendall Cast : & Julie-Marie Thomas Blanchard, Paul Perrier, Alain mail: [email protected]. Delivery Status: Completed Parmentier Bashung, Yolande Moreau At Cannes: Scott J. Jones (President), A beautiful young girl on the run from her Delivery Status : completed Delivery Status : In Production Thomas C. Emma (Senior Vice past, a violent storm and a family with a “Les blessures assassines” explores the In the mid-1960s, the Drugstore “crowd” President), Casey Waskiewicz (Director secret set the backdrop for this haunting bond between the two sisters from was made up of the best dressed and Of Sales), Paul Eyres (Acquisitions And thriller of murder, lies and deceit. childhood, while attempting to understand wildest representatives of a generation Development) LAKEBOAT how and why such a crime occurred. A that believed only in itself and thought it Office: Noga Hilton Room 311 Adventure (92 Minutes) crime is indeed committed but this is also could change the world. ALL OVER AGAIN Language: English a story of unlimited, exclusive and Adventure (90 min) Producer: Eric R. Epperson, Tony absolute love. Director: C. D. Nettles Mammet, Morris Ruskin BELLA CIAO ARTEDIS Producer: Darren Moorman & C. D. Director: Joe Mantegna Drama (105’) Artedis, 12, Rue Raynouard, 75016 Paris, Nettles Cast: Peter Falk, Denis Leary, George Language : French France. Tel: 331. 53.92.29.29. Fax: Cast: Robert Loggia, Craig T. Nelson, Wendt, Robert Forster, Charles Director : Stéphane Giusti 331.53.92.29.20. E-mail: Ean Mering, John Amos Durning. JJ Johnson Producers : Marie Masmonteil & Denis [email protected] What if you’re a teenage boy and a Delivery Status: Completed - Screening Carot – Elzévir Films At Cannes: Muller stranger shows up from out of nowhere, From Pulitzer Prize winner Cast: Jacques Gamblin, Yaël Abecassis, (Director), Chantal Lam (Director), claiming to be an older version of you? comes Lakeboat, a tale about life on a , Vahina Giocante, Isabelle Elphin Delphe (Executive of Sales), EXTREME HONOR freighter on America’s Great Lakes. Carré, Vittoria Scognamiglio Acquisitions Executives: Pierre Richard Action (90 min) CHOKE Delivery Status : Completed Muller (President), Chantal Lam (Vice Director: Steven Rush Thriller (90 Minutes) Italy, 1932. Nella and Orfeo, a young President) Producer: Jeffrey S. Harrier Language: English couple and their two children, Bianca and Office: Les Residence Du Grand Hotel, Cast: Michael Ironside, Dan Andersen, Producer: Traci Vaccaro, John Sjogren Oreste, flee their small village in Tuscany Apt. 7B Bengali, 45, La Croisette, 06400 Olivier Gruner, Michael Madsen Director: John Sjogren and fachism with the dream to sailing to Cannes, Tel/Fax: 04.93.39.97.54 A highly decorated Navy is forced out Cast: Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, America. THE BRIDESMAID of retirement in order to save his son’s life Chelsy Reynolds OUI, MAIS… Thriller and bring justice to the man who destroyed Delivery Status: Post Production Romantic Comedy (104’) Language: French his career. A straight laced businessman finds himself Language: French Director: Claude Chabrol TRASH caught up in a web of extortion, murder Director: Yves Lavandier Delivery Status: Pre-production Thriller (90 min) and blackmail antics of a serial killer. Producers: François Kraus & Denis Based upon the novel from mystery/ Director: Mark Anthony Galluzzo MESSAGE IN A CELL PHONE Pineau-Valencienne Ð Les Films du thriller writer Ruth Rendell, an updated Producer: Todd Feldman Family Adventure (85 Minutes) Kiosque story to be adapted and directed by Claude Cast: , Eric Michael Cole, Language: English Cast: Gérard Jugnot & Emilie Dequenne Chabrol. Jaime Pressly Producer: Steele Hendershot, Karri Delivery Status: Completed TRIGGERED (LES PERCUTES) Filled with wild nights and endless parties, O’Reilly, Eric Hendershot A teenager (Emilie Dequenne) is torn Thriller two young men find themselves lost and Director: Eric Hendershot between her overprotective mother, her Director: Gerard Cuq on the road to total self destruction as they Cast: Nick Whitaker, James Laub, Robbi absent father and her frustrated boyfriend. Producer: Denis Karvil try to deal with the death of a childhood Merrill DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA Cast: Christophe Laubion, Bernard Farcy friend. Delivery Status: Completed Psycho Drama (100’) Delivery Status: completed DIAMOND MEN In a race against time, young boys must Language: French After celebrating a colleague’s birthday, a Thriller (90 Minutes) outsmart the bad guys, crack the voicemail Director: John R.Pepper slightly drunk police detective goes into his Language: English code and find out what the message is. Producers: Marie-Françoise et Yves bank to ask for his credit card that was just Producer: Daniel M. Cohen JEOPARDY Rousset-Rouard Ð Trinacra swallowed by the ATM machine. Events Director: Daniel M. Cohen Action Thriller (90 min) Cast: Léa Drucker & Eric Poulain are triggered and he ends up robbing Cast: Robert Forster, Donnie Wahlberg, Director: David W. Padrusch Delivery Status: Completed security guard escorting a large amount of Jasmine Guy, Bess Armstrong Producer: Randall S. Orcher & William Danny & Roberta, two lonely and money. Delivery Status: Completed Strauss desperate souls, ruined by social problems LA VENDEDORA DE ROSAS (THE An aging diamond salesman is forced to Cast: Frank Beatty, David Conaway, Sally and a violent social society, will learn one ROSE SELLER) train his own replacement, a brash kid Saffioti, Alexandra Adi night to love, dream and hope for a better Drama whose every move rubs him the wrong When two down and out screenwriters life. Learn again to live and exist... Director: Victor Gaviria way. Their job seems simple: protect the finally get their big break, the plot twists TE QUIERO Producer: Erwin Goggel diamonds, sell the diamonds and stay out come fast and furious an dthe results are an Dramatic (85’) Cast: Leidy Tabares, Marta Correa, Yuli of trouble. intense psychological thriller that can only Language : French Garcia ATLANTIS CONSPIRACY lead to murder. Director : Manuel Poirier Lady is only 13 living in Medellin and Thriller (90 Minutes) DEXTER DICKIE Producers : Salomé – Maurice Bernart already a rebel against the world. Language: English Comedy (88 min) Diaphana Ð Michel Saint-Jean THE TARGET TO KILL (LA CIBLE) Producer: Marlen Hecht, Klaus Director: Ted Roesgen Cast : Marine Delterme, Philippe Bas, Comedy/thriller Volkenborn Producer: Ted Roesgen Maruschka Detmers, Patrick Chesnais, Language: French Director: Dean Silvers Cast: Lonnie Quinn, George Caldwell, Sergi Lopez Director: Pierre Courrege Cast: Amanda Donohoe, Jeremy Davies, Morgan Gerk, Nikki Ashley Delivery Status : Completed Cast: Daniel Russo, Hippolyte Girardot, Danton Stone, Bill Sage A fun adventure involving one man’s Jean returns to Lima where he was born to Anemone Delivery Status: Completed political dream and a “B” movie director begin a new life with Sylvia, the woman Delivery Status: completed An intricate thriller involving a beautiful wh o uses models and fake alien acts he loves. She has left France and her Chris, a young navy serviceman desperate woman, a young bookie and a cynical to send his campaign in to a wild tailspin. husband, with a diamond she has stolen to find a lost love, tries to enlist the help on federal agent. Together they are pulled from him, to live with Jean in Lima. There, a TV show to help him find his girlfriend. into a mystery born of suicide that ends they meet a French couple, Murielle and THE SETTING SUN where it began. Franck Devil, to whom they think they Drama HORSE CRAZY could sell this stolen diamond… Director: Tomono Ro Family Adventure (90 Minutes) L’ENFANT QUI VOULAIT ETRE UN Cast: Kato Masaya, Diane Lane, Donald Language: English THE BUSINESS OF OURS (THE CHILD WHO WANTED Sutherland Producer: Eric Hendershot, Steele TO BECOME A BEAR) Delivery Status: Completed Hendershot FILM Animation Set in the 1930’s during the opium wars Director: Eric Hendershot Language: Danish between China and , an idealistic Delivery Status: Completed Director: Jannik Hastrup Japanese soldier is forced to question Cast: Scott Subiono, Dallin Christensen, Producers: Marie Bro Ð Dansk Tegnefilm alliances when he meets and falls in love Marvin Paine Produktion with the leader (Lane) of the rebel In a suspense filled adventure three young Los Angeles Office Didier Brunner Ð Les Armateurs movement in Manchuria fighting against kids with high hopes of capturing their Delivery Status : In Production Japanese control o fthe opium trade. own wild mustang outsmart a ruthless ring In a den in the fells a polar bear gives birth ARTEDIS LIBRARY of horse thieves and return a prize stallion 5150 Wilshire Blvd. to a cub Ð but the cub is stillborn. In a A collection of over 80 European Classic to its owner. cabin some way off a woman bears a Films including works by such directors as strong, healthy boy. The polar bear is so Claude Chabrol, Andre Techine, Claude Los Angeles grief-stricken at the loss of her cub that she Sautet, , Just Jaeckin, and lies down on the ice to die, so her mate Henry Verneuil among others, offers a L.A. Office Phone California 90036 steals the woman’s baby and takes him out diverse selection of adventure, comedy, onto the ice. drama, and eroticism. (323) 935-8228 LA BANDE DU DRUGSTORE

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NIGHT ORCHID A.S.R. Psychological Thriller ENTERTAINMENT Director: Mark Atkins A.S.R. Entertainment, 4428 Juneau St., Cast: Dale Paris MIDEM • MIPTV • CANNES • MIPCOM Burnaby, B.C., V5C 4C8, Canada. Tel: Delivery Status: Completed 604.298.1976. Fax: 604.298.3664. E- Clay, a brooding young drifter, finds OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND Mail: [email protected]. Website: himself in a small Southern town, full of www.avriostoneridge.com secrets. However, what the townspeople (Tented & Heated) Company Type: Producer/Sales Agent don’t know is that the dead tell tales…to At Cannes: Michael Derbas, Richard Clay. Pepin, David Shoshan, Tony Lort CLOSE UP Office: Riviera F6 Thriller Lunch on the beach Tel: 33.(0)4.92.99.88.95 A man is accused of nine murders he does MINDSTORM not remember committing. However, once Action/Adventure (97 min) the cops, the media, and the public have Whatever the weather Language: English decided that he’s guilty, he has nowhere Director: Richard Pepin ele to turn. Producer: Michael Derbas & Richard SHE LIVES BY NIGHT Pepin Horror Cast: Antonio Sabato Jr., Eric Roberts, Director: Brett Hull Michael Ironside, Clarence Williams III, Cast: Lilliana Cabal, John Woodhouse Delivery Status: completed Ed O’Ross, William B. Davis, Michael A man rescues a beautiful, mysterious Moriarty, Emmanuelle Vaugier woman, suffering from amnesia. Soon, Delivery Status: Completed however, her dark secret is revealed…as Budget: $5 mill his friends begin to die, victims of the sexy A beautiful psychic’s search for a vampire. senator’s missing daughter leads to a SWEET THING mysterious and dangerous cult. Thriller ANTIBODY Cast: Jeremy Fox Action/Adventure (97 min) A troubled young artist begins a meteoric Language: English rise to fame with his disturbing paintings. Director: Richard Pepin Producer: Michael Derbas & Richard Pepin ATMOSPHERE Delivery Status: Pre-Production ENTERTAINMENT Budget: $5 mill Atmosphere Entertainment, 1828 A quest for a lost tribe in the depths of the Broadway, Santa Monica, CA USA Amazon jungle forces a soldier of fortune 90404 USA. Tel: 310.449.9220. Fax: to confront the sins of his past. 310.449.9240. E-Mail [email protected] THE ASYLUM Website: www.atmosphereEnt.com The Asylum, 6671 Sunset Blvd., Bldg. Company Type: Sales Agent 1593, Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Tel: At Cannes: Christopher J. Fries 323.463.6575. Fax: 323.463.6299. E- (President/CEO), Barbara Mannion mail: [email protected]. (Worldwide Sales & Acquisitions), L. Jones (Director Int’l Sales/Acquisitions), At Cannes: Sherri Strain (International Omar Kaczmarczyk (Int’l Sales Sales), David Rimawi (International Consultant)Office: Carlton Inter- Sales), Karl T. Hirsh (VP, Acquisitions) Continental Hotel Ð Office #239 Office: Tel: 334.93.06.40.06 THE SOURCE SILVER MAN Teen Supernatural Thriller Action/Drama (96:11 min) Director: S. Lee Taylor Language: ENGLISH Cast: Mathew Scollon, Melissa Renee Director(s): Peter Foldy Martin Producer(s): John Gillespie Delivery Status: Post-production Principal Cast: Paul Popowich, Derek Four teenagers develop paranormal Hamilton, Joe Pantoliano, Daniel powers after channeling a mystical stone Baldwin found deep in the woods. They go from Delivery Status: Completed - Product outcasts to gods on campus, but soon learn Reel/Trailer at Cannes that absolute power corrupts when one of In the turbulnt world of violence and them loses control…with deadly deception love and salvation is found in a consequences. most unexpected form. PEP SQUAD JIMMY ZIP (NEW TO AFM 2001) Horror/Comedy Action-Adventure (96) Cherry wants to be prom queen. The only Language: ENGLISH problem is, she wasn’t nominated. Director(s): ROBERT McGINLEY KILLERS 2 Producer(s): ROBERT McGINLEY Action Thriller Principle Cast: (The Director: David Michael Latt Five Senses, West of Sarajevo, Air Bud), Cast: Kim Little Adrienne Frantz (Speedway Junky, Tv’s Delivery Status: Production Bold and the Beautiful), James Russo Trapped in a maximum security insane (The Ninth Gate, Donnie Brasco) asylum, a girl must escape not only the Delivery Status: Completed Completed - psychological demons which inhabit her Product Reel/Trailer at Cannes own mind, but a band of killers immy Zip (Brendan Fletcher “West of determined to silence her forever. Sarajevo” & Showtime Feature FASHIONABLY LA “Summer’s End”) is a pyromaniac Comedy runaway who escapes the clutches of a A mockumentary about the ladder to crime boss (Chris Mulkey “TV’s Requiem The Restaurant superstardom in the modeling industry Ð for Murder aks Classy Kill, Sugar Town) from those on the bottom rung. to become the apprentice of a wildly 1999 brilliant metal sculptor (Robert Gossett, on the beach Comedy “Arrlington Road,” “The Net”). In Jimmy’s rite of passage, art and (Between Miramar & Martinez) Director: Nick Davis camaraderie become a matter of life and Cast: Dan Futterman, Amanda Peet, death. Steven Wright, Buck Henry, Timothy Contact Olivier Olyphant It is the eve of the new millennium. Rufus L.A. Office FAX Tel. (33) 4 93 94 20 68 Fax. (33) 4 93 43 60 91 wants to end things with his girlfriend in order to consummate his lust for his sexy site address: http://www.rado-plage.fr coworker. (323) 935-8229 notre e-mail: [email protected]

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THE 12 GREATEST ROUNDS OF PARTITION BOXING: THE UNTOLD STORIES PERIOD LOVE STORY ATLAS AIR FILM + & S FILMS (New to AFM 2001) Language: ENGLISH MEDIA SERVICE CREATION Documentary (Showtime Presentation- Director(s): VIC SARIN Premier) (97) Producer(s): CHRIS ZIMMER & STEVE GMBH WORKS HOUSE Atlas Air Film + Media Service GmbH, B & S Films Creation Works House, 7/F., Language: English CLARK-HALL Director(s): Gregg Foster Executive Producer: CHRISTOPHER J. Schifferstr. 20-22, 47059 Duisburg. Tel: Cheong Tai Industrial Building, 16 Tai Producer(s): Jim Moskovitz & Gregg FRIES 0049.203.9326241. Fax: Yau Street, Sanpokong, Kowloon, Hong Foster Principal Cast: TBA 0049.203.313139. Kong. Tel: 852.2320.2099. Fax: Principal Cast: Judge Mills Lane, Angelo Delivery Status: In Development - Pre-sale At Cannes: Dorothee Becker 852.2321.8005. E-mail: bsc@bs- Dundee, Emanuel Steward, Teddy Atlas, WWII, India and Pakistan are partitioned in (Programming), Birgit Viehrig films.com.hk Lou Duva, Roger Kahn, Tom Hauser a futile attempt to stop the ethnic killings. (Programming) At Cannes: Mr. Takkie Yeung (Chief Delivery Status: Completed - Product Fleeing from the killing fields, a young Office: Cannes-Residence, 14, Avenue de Producer) Reel/Trailer at Mifed Muslim girl, Naseem Khan, accidentally Madrid, F-06400 Cannes. Tel: The 12 Greatest Rounds of Boxing: The stumbles into a small Sikh village in 0033.04.93432834, Fax: BAVARIA FILM Untold Stories” is a sweeping, fast-paced Northern India. When the local Shik 0033.04.92188266 and high-energy look at boxing’s greatest opulation demands the death of the Muslim INTERNATIONAL moments and controversies. Starring girl, Gian Singh, a respected war hero, buys Bavaria Film International, Dept. of boxing’s most luminous lights, this her life with his Army pension and moves Bavaria Media GmbH, Bavariafilmplatz program is hosted by “The Fight Doctor,” her into his home. Behind closed doors a AURUM 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig, Germany. Tel: Ferdie Pacheco, and features appearances miracle is about to take place. PRODUCCIONES 49.89.6499.2686. Fax: 49.89.6499.3720. by Judge Mills Lane, legendary trainers PERSEVERANCE Aurum Producciones, Avda. de Burgos E-mail: bavaria.international@bavaria- Emanuel Steward, Angelo Dundee, Lou Family Adventure 12, Floor 10, 28036 Madrid, Spain. Tel: film.de. Website: www.bavaria-film- Duva and Teddy Atals along with Best- Language: ENGLISH 34 91 768 48 07, Fax: 34 91 768 48 33 international.de At Cannes: Michael Weber (Managing selling authors Roger Kahn and Tom Producer(s): CLAUDIO CASTRAVELLI Company Type: Production Company & Hauser. Executive Producer: CHRISTOPHER J. Director (+49 172 8512109 Sun Riviera), BLOOD TYPE FRIES, BEN DOSSETT Sales Company Thorsten Schaumann (Head of Sales (+49 Comedy-Drama Principal Cast: TBA At Cannes: Javier Gracia Alvarez 172 8552403) Sun Riviera), Brigitte Language: English Delivery Status: In Development - Pre-sale (Ossorio (Deputing managing director, Suárez (Sales Manager Open Golfe), Director (s): Kevin Williams The personal journey of a New administration and Finance), Mocha Stefanie Zeitler (Sales Assistant (49 172 Producer (s): Kevin Williams lobster fisherman who, despite having only Aguilar (Director of International Sales), 8587043) Hotel de Paris), Giuseppe Principle Cast: Jim Hanks, Wolfgang a dilapidated old boat and constant bad Gerardo Silva (Sales manager), Alberto Proietti (Agent Italy (39.33.58003417) Bodison, Nicolas Coster, Deborah luck, finds a handful of magic seaweed that Cañizares (Director of operations), Open Golfe), Stefan Schmitz (Agent Shelton heals anything but death. Federico Parrilla (Director of video and Spain (34.607.710499). During a police car chase, a fleeing theif NO WHERE MAN promotion) Office: Hall: Riviera Niveau: 0 Stand: lands several people in an emergency Action /Adventure Office: Spanish Pavilion A1/C2, Tel: 334 N9, Tel::33.4..92.99.32.10. Fax: room where they join emotional forces Language: ENGLISH 92 99 32 15 33.4.92.99.32.11 against their unknown assailant, unaware Director(s): YAKOV BENTSVI EL CIELO ABIERTO (TEN DAYS Hotel Sun Riviera, 138, rue d’ Antibes, F that his identity and motives will forever Producer: JACOV BRESLER & YAKOV WITHOUT LOVE) Ð 06400 Cannes. Tel:: 33.4.93.06.77.77. change their perception of life. BENTSVI Romantic Comedy (107 min) Fax: 33.4.93.38.31.10. Cannes Hotel de THE SMOKERS Executive Producer(s): CHRISTOPHER Language: Spanish Paris: 34, Boulevard d’ Alsace, F Ð 06400 Generation ‘XYZ’ (96 min) J. FRIES & OMAR KACZMARCZYK Director: Miguel Albadalejo Cannes, TelL 33.4.93.38.30.89. Language: ENGLISH Principal Cast: JEFF FAHEY , OLIVIER Cast: Sergi López, Mariola Fuentes Fax:33.4.93.39.04.61. Open Golfe Juan: Director(s): Christina Peters GRUNNER, FRANK ZAGARINO Av. Georges Pompidou Exp/Prod: Francisco Ramos F Ð 06220 Golfe Juan. Tel: Producer(s): Quincy Jones and Nicholas Delivery Status: Pre-sale WITH TEASER Delivery Status: ready for delivery. Loeb In the tradition of the Seven Samurai and 33.4.93.63.33.00. Fax: 33.4.93.63.44.84 Principal Cast: Dominique Swain The Magnificent 7, rag-tag street fighters Completed EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES (Lolita), Busy Phillips (Freaks & Geeks) are recruited to save enslaved immigrants A lot of things can happen when you leave (EMIL UND DIE DETEKTIVE) Delivery Status: Completed - Product from the clutches of their oppressors. your loving husband for his father, but Comedy Reel/Trailer at Cannes PETALS ON THE WIND don’t expect to be back! Language: German, Subtitled in: English As they encounter the emotional confusion Drama MENOS ES MÁS (LESS IS MORE) Director: Franziska Buch of the teenage libido, three rebellious teen- Language: ENGLISH Teen Romantic Comedy (92 Min) Production Company: Lunaris Film age girls decide to even the score in the Director(s): DOUG JACKSON Language: Spanish Producer: Peter Zenk, Uschi Reich battle of the sexes, in the MTV-style flick. Producer: CHRISTOPHER J. FRIES Director: Pascal Jongen Cast: Tobias Retzlaff, Anja Sommavilla, PERFECT FIT (NEW TO AFM 2001) Executive Producer(s): CHARLES W. Producer: Francisco Ramos Jürgen Vogel, , Kai Thriller(103) FRIES & ANTHONY I. GINNANE Cast: Sergio Peris- Mencheta, Elsa Pataki, Wiesinger Language: English Principal Cast: TBA Vanesa Saiz Production Status: Completed Director(s): Donald Borchers Delivery Status: In Development - Pre-sale Delivery Status: Completed - Ready For When 11-year-old Emil travels to , Producer(s): Bob Yari The sequel to the VC Andres’ bestseller Delivery his money is stolen by the crook Max Principal Cast: Alexander N. Polinsky, and feature film FLOWERS IN THE Don’t tell the guy you’re falling for, how Grundeis. Luckily, Emil runs into Pony, Maria Ford ATTIC. Three abused children run away to get the other girl. You’ll regret it if he the female leader of a gang of children, Delivery Status: Completed - Product from home to find happiness with a succeeds! who offers their help. Reel/Trailer at Cannes country doctor and ultimately get revenge EL ARTE DE MORIR (THE ART OF GIRLS ON TOP She’s a hip insider, He’s an outsider. And on he evil mother and grandmother who (MÄDCHEN MÄDCHEN)! DYING) Comedy he’ll do anything she wants in order to fit imprisoned them for three years in an attic. Teen Psycologic Thriller (102 Min) in” This edgy, contemporary thriller ROSE BLOOD Production Status: completed examines the mating rituals of alienated HORROR/THRILLER Language: Spanish Language: German, Subtitled in: urban lovers that sometimes can be fun Language: ENGLISH Director: Alvaro Fernández Armero English but turn deadly. Director(s): RAFAL ZIELINSKI Producer: Francisco Ramos Production Company: Olga Film CROSSBOW Producer: CHRISTOPHER J. FRIES Cast: Fele Martínez, María Esteve, Producer: Molly von Fürstenberg, Harald Principal Cast: TBA Executive Producer(s): ALICE ANNE Gustavo Salmerón, Sergio Peris - Kügler, Viola Jäger, Tina Fauvet, Period Adventure FRIES & CHARLES W. FRIES Mencheta, Adria Collado, Lucía Jimenez, Matthias Emcke, Thomas Augsberger Language: English Principal Cast: TBA Elsa Pataki, Director: Dennis Gansel Director(s): JEAN-MARC PICHE Delivery Status: In Development - Pre- Delivery Status: Completed - Ready For Cast: Diana Amft, Felicitas Woll, Producer(s): CLAUDIO CASTRAVELLI sale Delivery Karoline Herfurth Executive Producer: CHRISTOPHER J. Arthur Wilbury is plagued by a centuries Six Young Friends Wantonly Murder A On her 18th birthday, Inken and her FRIES, ALLAN KASSIRER, JON old family which leads him on a Seventh Who Returns, Four Years Later, friends Victoria and Lena watch a 70’s TURTLE, gothic and erotic journey ending in the To Exact A Terrible Revenge. video about women that talk about their Delivery Status: In Development - Pre- horrific sacrifices that he must make to LA MUJER MÁS FEA DEL MUNDO liberation and their enormous sexual sale keep the family alive...alive for eternity. (THE UGLIEST WOMAN IN THE satisfaction. From here on, the three girls In the tradition of Zorro and Robin Hood, THE CHICKEN & THE WORLD) are on a mission. this heroic tale based on the life of William CHEERLEADER Fantastic Thriller (108 Min) Tell combines all the elements of a classic Teen Romantic Comedy Language: Spanish, Running Time: adventure story complete with colorful Language: ENGLISH Cast: Elia Galera, Roberto Albarez, and compelling characters, loads of nail- Director(s): PETER SVATEK biting action, surprising twists and turns, Producer: CHRISTOPHER J. FRIES Hector Alterio, Javivi Send Your and a joyous love story, all of which Executive Producer(s): CHARLES W. Director: Miguel Bardem culminates in the happiest of endings. FRIES & DAVID GOLDSMITH Exp/Prod: Francisco Ramos Principal Cast: TBA Delivery Status: Completed - Ready For Press Releases to: Delivery Status: In Development - Pre- Delivery A hideous woman, under the influence of a Product Listings — sale A nerd wins the affections of the head drug that temporarily makes her beautiful, [email protected] [email protected] cheerleader by becoming the football takes revenge on the world by killing teams crazy chicken mascot. pageant queens.

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GRIPSHOLM ANNA WUNDER CRAZY TAKING SIDES Drama (102 min) Drama (90 min) Language: German Drama Language: German, Subtitled in: Director: Ulla Wagner Director: Hans-Christian Schmid Language: English English Language: German, Subtitled in: English Producers: Claussen and Wöbke Director: Istvan Szabo Director: Xavier Koller Production Company: Pandora Film Cast: Robert Stadlober; Tom Schilling; Producer: Yves Pasquier Production Company: Thomas Wilkening Produktion Dagmar Manzel Delivery status: Post production Film Producer: Karl Baumgartner, Christoph Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgard, Producer: Thomas Wilkening Friedel SUN ALLEY Moritz Bleibtreu Cast: , Heike Makatsch, Cast: Alice Deekeling, Renée Soutendijk, Language: German Delivery Status: Post Production Jasmin Tabatabai Stephan Dellgrün Director: Leander Haussmann An American officer is sent to U.S Production Status: Completed Production Status: Completed Producer: Boje Buck Production occupied Berlin at the end of WW2 to Gripsholm sets out in the pleasure-craving, In an early 60s small town in Germany, Cast: Alexander Scheer; Alexander investigate the involvment of a leading decadent world of Berlin cabaret in the little Anna has to take care of her whining Beyer; Katharina Thalbach symphony conductor with the nazi party. early 30s. With the brownshirts looming brother and her alcohol troubled mother Ð Delivery Status: Completed BOSWELL FOR THE DEFENCE on the horizon, the pugnacious publisher and manages without a complaint. It is Drama and author Kurt Tucholsky decides to only when her mother dies that she sets out Language: English leave the country for what turns out to be a for an initiating journey in search of her BEYOND FILMS Director: Bruce Beresford last summer of love. father. Beyond Films, 53-55 Brisbane St, Surry Producer: Nik Powell and Mark Penell IN JULY (IM JULI) A GODDAMN JOB (EIN Hills, NSW Australia 2010. Tel: Cast: , Samantha Morton, Comedy GÖTTLICHER JOB) 612.9281.1266. Fax: 612.9281.9220. Director: Fatih Akin Comedy (83 min) Email: [email protected]. Website: Delivery Status: Pre-production Language: German, Subtitled in: English, Language: German, Subtitled in: English www.beyond.com.au 1792…James Boswell, a once-legendary French Director: Thorsten Wettcke Company Type: Distributor lawyer, now has a reputation and stature Production Company: Wüste Production Company: Wüste At Cannes: Mikael Borglund(MD and ruined by women and drink. In defending Filmproduktion Filmproduktion CEO), Gary Hamilton (General Manager- a seemingly unwinnable case he regains Producer: Ralph Schwingel, Stefan Producer: Ralph Schwingel, Stefan Films), Ian Gibbins (Business Manager- the respect thought lost forever. Schubert Schubert, Eberhard Scharfenberg Films), John Thornhill (Marketing ROGUE Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, , Cast: Oliver Korittke, Tamara Simunovic, Manager-Films), Richard Guardian (VP Horror/Thriller Idil Uener Thierry van Werveke, Anna Loos, Oscar International Sales-Films), Stephen Language: English Production Status: Completed Ortega Sánchez, Martin Semmelrogge, Kelliher (Sales and Marketing Executive) Director: Kimble Rendell His pupils play him up, he can’t get served Detlef Bothe, Heike Makatsch Acquisition Executive: Gary Hamilton Producer and Distributor in any of the hip bars, and even his spaced Production Status: completed LANTANA Room 2015-16, Asia out neighbor has a better social life: how God trips around in threadbare jogging Dramatic Thriller (120 mins) roducer: Martin Fabinyi and Tony square can you get? pants, a guardian angel with blazing blue Language: English Cavanaugh NO MORE SCHOOL hair is charged with keeping “true love” Director: Ray Lawrence Cast: TBA Comedy (99 min) true, and a clueless comic artist named Producer: Jan Chapman Delivery Status: Pre-production Director: Marco Petry Niklas finds out that there’s more than one Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia, A river forgotten in time. A primordial Language: German, Subtitled in: English way to get to heaven when he is chosen to tropical rainforest. Six people trapped on Production Company: Bavaria fill the vacancy of spaced-out demi-god Delivery Status: Post Production an island. The water is rising. Rogue. It’s Filmverleih und Produktions GmbH Jonathan for another 1000 years. A woman’s body is found in a tangle of feeding time. Producer: Uschi Reich Lantana forest and the love affairs of THE VECTOR FILE Cast: Daniel Brühl, Jasmin Schwiers, homicide detective, Leon’s friends, Thriller Niels Bruno Schmidt BERLIN- threaten to explode his own sex, lies and Language: English Production Status: Completed BRANDENBURG darkest secrets. Director: Chris Graves This Story is concerned with loss of PUCKOON Producer: Richard Stewart and Grant youthful light-heartedness, with fears for FILM COMMISSION Comedy (89 mins) Bradley the future, but also about setting forth into Berlin-Brandenburg Film Commission, Language: English Cast: TBA a new life and happiness of young love. August-Bebel-Strasse 26-53, 14482 Director: Terence Ryan Delivery Status: Pre-production MORTAL TRANSFER (MORTEL Potsdam-Babelsberg. Tel: Producer: Ken Tuohy and Terence Ryan In a satellite ground station laboratory on a TRANSFERT) 0049.331.743.87.30. Fax: 0049. Cast: Sean Hughes, Richard tropical mountain peak, scientist Gerry Thriller (122 min) 331.743.87.99. E-mail: Attenborough, Elliot Gould, John Lynch Anderson works back late. He has no idea Language: French, Subtitled in: English [email protected] Delivery Status: Post Production that his world is about to be overturned. Director: Jean-Jaques Beineix At Cannes: Christiane Raab (Film In 1924 Ireland is being divided. Unfortunately, FUEL Production Company: Cargo Films Commissioner) in their haste, they cut the village of Puckoon in Drama Producer: Jean-Jaques Beineix, Reinhard Office: Hotel Abrial, Tel: 0493.38.78.82 two. Our hero realises that his beloved Language: English Klooss Puckoon won’t be the same again. Director: Johnny Kevorkian Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglades, Hélène de CUBBYHOUSE Producer: Johnny Kevorkian and Jason BETA CINEMA Demonic Thriller (89 mins) Fougerolles, Miki Manojlovic Beta Cinema, Robert-Bürkle-Str. 2, 85737 Piette Production Status: Completed Language: English Cast: TBA Ismaning, Germany. Tel: Director: Murray Fahey A wicked comedy, full of surreal touches, 49.89.9956.2719. Fax: 49.89.9956.2703. Delivery Status: Pre-production decidedly black and blue in tone, Producer: Chris Brown and David Hannay When you play god, who will be your Website: www.betafilm.com Cast: Joshua Leonard, Belinda McClory, charming offbeat, delicious sexy and Company Type: International Sales saviour? If you play with Fuel expect to be weirdly romantic, written and directed by Lauren Hewett burnt. Agency Delivery Status: Post Production award-winning director Jean-Jacques At Cannes: Dirk Schuerhoff (Hd. Beta VISITORS Beineix, creator The Graham family relocates from Los Adventure Drama Cinema) Tel: 49.89.9956.2345, Cell: Angeles to Australia’s Gold Coast. They of DIVA and BETTY BLUE 49.(0)170.6384.806; Andreas Rothbauer Language: English FEMALE2 SEEKS HAPPYEND find a demonic presence that resides in the Director: Richard Franklin (Sales Executive) Tel: 49.89.9956.2719. derelict children’s cubbyhouse. (FRAU2 SUCHT HAPPYEND) Cell: 49.(0)179.1071873; Isabelle Producer: Richard Franklin Comedy (100 min) AMAZONS AND GLADIATORS Cast: Rahda Mitchell Palluaud (Festival / Market Coordinator) Epic Action Language: German, Subtitled in: English Tel: 49.89.9956.2707 Delivery Status: Pre-production Production Company: box! Film- und Language: English Georgia Perry is set to depart on a journey Office: Director: Zachary Weintraub Fernsehproduktions GmbH THE TUNNEL to join the fraternity of mariners who have Producer: Andreas Eichler, Philipp Producer: Tom Kuhn, Fred Weintraub and sailed around the world unassisted, single- Language: German Maxwell Meltzer Homberg Director: Roland Suso Richter handedly steering her 30ft yacht, the Ball Director: Edeard Berger Cast: Patrick Bergin, Richard Norton, & Chain Production Company: teamWorx Jennifer Rubin, Nichole M.Hiltz Cast: Ben Becker, Isabella Parkinson Producer: Nico Hoffmann / Ariane ANAZAPTA Production Status: Completed Delivery Status: Post Production Supernatural/Mystery Krampe 12 year-old Serena and her sister are taken The young director Edward Berger has Cast: Heino Ferch; Sebastian Koch; Language: English shot a love story full of yearning. as slaves by Julius Caeser’s troops after Director: Alberto Sciamma Nicole Krebitz their parents are brutally murdered. She FEMALE2 SEEKS HAPPYEND will pull Delivery Status: Completed / Screening Producer: David Ball; Jason Piette; at your heartstrings and make you sob, cry, later sets off to avenge their murder Michael Cowan The true story of four men who risked their against the evil General. and get happy. In short: a movie to fall in lives digging a tunnel from West Berlin Cast: Lena Headey, David La Haye, Jason love with. VENUS AND MARS Flemyng into the communist East to save those they Romance (90 mins) loved. Delivery Status: Production Language: English A murdered baby resurrected as the spirit THE SASS BROTHERS Director: Harry Mastrogeorge, Language: German of pestilence, wreaks revenge on the Producer: Nelson Woss village that wronged him. Elspeth mobile Director: Carlo Rola Cast: Ryan Hurst, Daniela Lunkewitz, Delivery Status: In Post-Production Lynn Redgrave, Julia Sawalha, Production Company: movie - the art of Delivery Status: Post Production Europe: entertainment A woman returns to the town of her youth. Send press releases to Producer: Oliver Berben She reunites with her high school friends Cast: Ben Becker; Jürgen Vogel; Otto to discover that like her, they have given [email protected] 336 11 45 23 95 Sander up on love.

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HIMBOS THE BLUM GROUP CANONE INVERSO MAKING LOVE SLOGANS Comedy The Blum Group, 494 Tuallitan Road, Los Drama (90 Min) Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Angeles, CA 90049 USA. Tel: Language: English Version Comedy, Satire (90 min) Director: Charlie Call Director: Ricky Tognazzi 310.476.2229. Fax: 310.471.8659. E- Language: Albanian Producer: Mark Pennell and Juan Carlos Producer: Director: Gjergj Xhuvani Zapata mail: [email protected]. Website: Cast: Haans Matheson, Melanie Thierry, www.theblumgroup.net Production Companies: Les Films des Cast: Jamie Kennedy, Lochlyn Monro, Gabriel Byrne Tournelles, Paris / Albanian General Denise Richards, Amanda Lewis, Robert At Cannes: Harry Blum Delivery Status: Completed Office: Vision, Tirana Wagner, Patrick Muldoon Music by oscar winner , Producers: Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Delivery Status: Pre-production Obsession This is a captivating story about love and Director: Brian de Palma Pascal Judelewicz Julian and Suede are young, handsome and friendship set in the thirties and forties Cast: Artur Gorishti, Luiza Xhuvani, hip. Running on a combined brainpower Cast: Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, accompanied by the beautiful music of a Agim Qirjaqi equal to their shoe size, they live for the violin through the decades. Heartwarming story of a village school world of fashion modeling. Obsessed by the image of his dead wife, a New Orleans businessman falls in love caught up in infiltration by an absurd with an artist half his age, whom he meets CELLULOID DREAMS propaganda-driven dictatorship. A young BLACKWATCH in a Florentine cathedral. A fatal obsession Celluloid Dreams, 24 rue Lamartine, teacher’s enthusiasm quickly fades when ensues. 75009 Paris, France. Tel: he, his lovely co-worker and their grade INTERNATIONAL 33.1.4970.0370. Fax: 33.1.4970.0371. E- school students are forced to comply to the Blackwatch International, Main Office: OUT OF THE BLUE 93 min mail: [email protected] comic posting of political slogans by rock 180 Bloor St. W, Suite 1102, Toronto Ont. Company Type: International Sales formations on picturesque mountainsides. M5S 2V6 Canada. Tel: 416.934.9419. Cast: Dennis Hopper, Linda Manz, Raymond Burr. Plus documentary At Cannes: Ms. Hengameh PANAHI MADE IN THE USA Fax: 416.934.9420 . (President), Mr. Pierre MENAHEM Documentary (105 min) E-mail:[email protected] interview for DVD. (International Sales Executive), Ms. Tanja At Cannes: Yves Dion (President Dennis Hopper’s classic vision of the Language: English MEISSNER (International Sales Director: Solveig Anspach (ñHaut les Blackwatch Releasing), Andy Myers (GM punked out 80’s. Her dad’s in prison, her Executive), Ms. Virginie DEVESA (TV Blackwatch Releasing), Lina Marrone mom’s on drugs, bad behavior is its own cÏurs! - Chin up!Ó) Sales Executive) Production Company: Point du Jour, Paris (VP International) reward. Official selection Cannes Film Acquisition Executive: Ms. Hengameh Office: Noga Hilton Room 307 Festival. Producer: Luc Martin-Gousset and PANAHI (President) Emmanuelle Fage MY GENERATION FAIRY TALE FILMS Office: Residences du Grand Hotel, Le Feature length music documentary Quality collection of imaginative live- Cast: (Doc) Dauphin, Apartment 7D, 45, la Croisette Delivery Status: completed Director: action feature-length cinematic fairy tales. 06400 Cannes, Tel: 04.93.39.50.20, Fax: Cast: featuring performers from all 3 DIAMONDS A perceptive documentary on capital 04.93.99.80.17 punishment in the USA Ð Centering on Woodstock music events Cast: Robert Shaw, Barbara Hershey, VA SAVOIR Delivery Status: completed and screening Richard Roundtree efforts to stop last year’s Texas execution Drama (150 min) of convicted murderer Odell Barnes, Jr. LAST WEDDING SECRETS Language: French Comedy/drama Cast: Jacqueline Bisset Director: Instead of trying to weigh the innocence or Director: Bruce Sweeney Two couples in clandestine affairs. Production Companies: Pierre Grise guilt of Barnes, the film strives to show Cast: , Benjamin Ratner, H.O.T.S. Production, Paris / Kinowelt, Munich / how every piece of evidence - no matter Frida Betrani, Vincent Gale Cast Danny Bonaduce Mikado, Rome how scientific - is subject to interpretation. Delivery Status: completed and screening Predecessor “sorority” comedy to Producers: Maurice Tinchant and Martine BEACH CAFE (LE CAFE DE LA THE TRUTH ABOUT TULLY Revenge of the Nerds. Marignac PLAGE) Drama Cast: , , Drama (85 min) Director: Hilary Helene de Fougerolles, Marianne Language: French Cast: Anson Mount, Julienne Nicholson Basler, Jacques Bonnaffe, Bruno Director: Benoit Graffin Delivery Status: completed and screening ECCHI GORI Todeschini Production Companies: Les Films du 3A&3C GROUP Delivery Status: completed Requin/Elia Films, Paris Digital feature series After finding love and success in Italy, a Producers: Cyriac Auriol and Pauline Director: various TBD young French theater actress must now Duhault Cast:TBD CCecchi Gori Group, Via Valadier 42 return to Paris, the city she suddenly and Cast: Jacques Nolot, Ouassini Embarek, Delivery Status: pre-production 00193 Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.32472244. mysteriously fled several years ago Leila Belarbi, Dalia Amrani Fax: 39.06.32472300 TAURUS Delivery Status: Completed BLUEVISION MEDIA, E-mail: [email protected] Drama (90 min) Intriguing character study of the Company Type: producer, distributor Language: Russian relationship between charismatic young INC. At Cannes: Gianni Nunnari (President Director: Alexander Sokurov man Driss and Fouad, the owner of a run- BlueVision Media, Inc., 3015 Main Street, Cecchi Gori Pictures), Leandro Pasci Production Company: Lenfilm, St. down beach cafe. Driss, loved and Suite 390, Santa Monica, CA 90405 USA. (Head of Distribution), Roberta Randi Petersburg admired by many, falls mysteriously into a Tel: 310.396.1919. Fax: 310.396.2991. (Acquisitions and Sales Exec.) Producer: Victor Sergeyev one-sided friendship with the bitter Fouad Website: www.bluevisionmedia.com Office: Relais de la Reine, 42 La Cast: Leonid Mozgovoi, Maria I LOVE BEIJING E-mail: [email protected] Croisette, Tel: 0493.066004. Fax: Kuznetsova Drama (80 min) At Cannes: Lucas E. Devenn (CEO & 0493.066024 Delivery Status: completed Language: Chinese President), Markus Baettig (CFO), ALMOST BLUE The once-powerful Lenin now lies dying Jeanette Gardzelewski (Creative Director) Director: Ning Ying Thriller (85 MIN) in a countryside estate under the prying Production company: Eurasia Office: RIVIERA booth # C1 eyes of state guards; the sound of his THE RUSSIAN GIRL Language: Italian With English S/T Communications, Beijing Director: successor’s footsteps not . Producers: Han Sanping, Wang Zhonglei, Drama Highlighted with biting irony and the Language: English Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori Ning Ying Cast: Lorenza Indovina,Claudio landmark lush photography of Alexander Production Status: Pre-production Sokurov. Cast: Yu Lei, Zuo Baitao, Tao Hong, Gai Director: Xavier Koller (Journey of Hope Santamaria,Andrea Di Stefano Yi, Liu Miao Delivery Status: Completed LATE MARRIAGE (HATOUNA - 1990 Academy Award Winner Ð Best MEHUHERET) Delivery Status: completed Foreign Language Film) A serial killer lurks in the streets of Following Dezi, a young philandering Bologna killing young students of which Comedy-Drama (100 min) Principal Cast: TBD Language: Georgian and Hebrew driver, we are taken on a voyage across World-renowned psychiatrist CARL he takes on the identity like a sort of Director: Dover Kosashvili contemporary Beijing allowing the film to GUSTAV JUNG becomes involved with chameleon becoming unrecognizeable. Production Companies: Transfax Film capture the multiple realities in post-Mao’s his teenage female patient, SABINA DENTI Production, Tel Aviv / Morgane China. SPIELREIN. This passionate love affair Drama (92 Min) Production, Paris PLATFORM (ZHAN TAI) may very well heal her mental anguish, yet Language :Italian With English S/T Producers: Marek Rozenbaum and Drama (155 min) threatens to destroy both of their families Director: Edgard Tenembaum Language: Chinese and careers. Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori Cast: Lior LOUIE ASHKENAZI, Ronit Director: Jia Zhang-ke STEALING BUDDHA Cast: , ELKABETZ, Moni MOSHONOV Production Companies: Hu Tong Thriller Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Communications, Hong Kong / T-Mark Language: English Antonio is an ordinary middle-aged man. Hilarious and sexy comedy-drama about Inc., Production Status: Pre-production A normal life apart from his enormous love versus tradition in a contemporary / Artcam, Paris Director: TBD teeth. They have tormented his existence, Jewish family. According to his parents, Producers: Li Kit-ming, Shozo Ichiyama, Principal Cast: TBD ruined those rare good occasions he’s had good-looking bachelor Zaza is long , Joel Farges, Elise STEALING BUDDHA is an action- in his life. but just when his life seems overdue for marriage. Little do they know, Jalladeau oriented love story about an American completely destroyed, a new life and new he’s already in love with a divorced single Cast: Wang Hong-wei, , Liang woman’s mysterious three day affair with teeth unexpectedly grow, bringing fresh mother. Jing-dong, Yang Tian-yi an intriguing man in Hong Kong. hope for the future. Delivery Status: completed An 1980’s chronicle on modern China This Product Guide will be available L.A. Office Phone folding through the saga of a music and on-line at www.thebusinessoffilm.com © dance troupe that goes from Maoist T HE B USINESS OF F ILM’ S (323) 935-8228 Propaganda Performances to hilarious home on the internet. Breakdancing.

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MAN OF THE CROWDS (L’HOMME CEO FILMS/AUGUST DES FOULES) Drama (90 min) ENTERTAINMENT THETHE Language: French CEO Films/August Entertainment, Director: John Lvoff International Sales Agent/ Financing / Production Companies: Pierre Grise Production, 838 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los FREIGHT Production, Paris/Mutante Filmes, Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel: FREIGHT Lisbon/MS Films, 323.658.8888 / Fax: 323.658.7654. E- Producers: Martine Marignac, Maurice mail: ERLINK Tinchant, Grazyna Kozlowska, Maciej “mailto:[email protected][email protected] FORWARDERSFORWARDERS Skalski, Jacques Bidou At Cannes: Gregory Cascante (President Cast: , Jerzy & CEO), Colleen McNichols (Vice Radziwilowicz, Danuta Stenka, Zbigniew President of Acquisition & Production), Zapasiewicz Griselda Pantoja (Executive Assistant) YOUYOU CANCAN BANKBANK ON.ON. Delivery Status: completed Acquisition Executive: Colleen Lisbon. A man collapses while visiting a McNichols (Vice President of Acquisition church with his wife. A young psychiatrist & Production) (Maria de Medeiros) will help him recover Office: DDA Business Centre from a previous psychological trauma. But The Majestic Hotel, Tel: can one be a victim after having been a 33.4.97.06.85.50. Fax: 33.4.97.06.85.51 torturer in the former Eastern Bloc? TURTLE HERO MARLENE DIETRICH, HER OWN Animated Feature Ð Approximately 90 SONG minutes Documentary (90 min) Language: English Language: English Director: Duck-Ho Kim Director: J. David Riva Producer: Peter Choi Production Company: Gemini, / Cast: Animated Characters APG, USA / MGM / Turner Classics Delivery Status: Completed Producers: Gerhard Schmidt, Hans Budget: $2.5 million Wolfgang Pausch, J. David Riva, Karin Magical, mystical adventure of a young Kearns turtle named hero volunteers to leave his Delivery Status: in Post-Production beloved sea kingdom and venture onto Contact A documentary exploration of the land in order to save his king. BEASTMASTER Norman Bank controversy of a woman’s personal Fantasy Ð 1hr 55minutes mission. A roller-coaster-ride of political Language: English intrigue, artistic achievement and Director: Don Coscarelli uncompromising emotions. Includes Producer: Paul Pepperman and Sylvio newly-found footage and the extended Tabet never-before-seen version of Marlene’s Cast: Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, and ALL NATIONS private Home movies. Rip Torn TIME OUT (L’EMPLOI DU TEMPS) Delivery Status: Completed Drama Before history began there was a time of Production countries: France dark magic and high honour; of awesome Language: French power and terrifying evil. The fate of kings FORWARDING Director: Laurent Cantet and kingdoms, love, life and death all Screenplay: Laurent Cantet and Robin hung in precarious balance. It was a time Campillo in need of a hero Ð one mighty enough to Production Company: Haut et Court, do battle with the forces of darkness and CO. INC., Paris / Arte France Cinema survive. Producers: Carole Scotta and Caroline SOUTH OF HEAVEN WES OF HELL Benjo Thought-provoking existential Western Ð Cast: Karin Viard, Aurelien Recoing, 122:19 FREIGHT FORWARDERS Serge Livrozet Language: English Delivery Status: in Post-Production Director: Dwight Yoakam Producer: Gray Frederickson New film from the acclaimed director of Cast: Vince Vaughn, Dwight Yoakam, and “HUMAN RESOURCES.” Bright Fonda & CUSTOMS BROKERS 8 FEMMES Delivery Status: Completed A Bitchy Whodunit Budget: $6 million Language: French A desolate town’s marshal, tormented by Director: Francois Ozon puzzling conditions that surround his FOR Production Company: Fidelite, Paris physical existence, finds himself haunted Producers: Marc Missonnier and Olivier by, and forced to confront, the burdens of Delbosc guilt from his past brought on by an Cast: , Isabelle unforeseen Christmas Eve reunion with Huppert, , Virginie members of his outlaw former foster AFM•CANNES•MIFED Ledoyen, family. Emmanuelle Beart, , Firmine Richard, Vahina Giocante Delivery Status: in Pre-Production NEW YORK (shooting April 2001) This Product Guide MIAMI A bitchy whodunit from the acclaimed One Cross Island Plaza director of Under The Sand and Water will be available 8438 N. W. 66th Street Drops On Burning Rocks. Jamaica•New York 11422 Miami•FL 33166 WAITING FOR HAPPINESS on-line at Drama Tel: (718) 525-5800 Tel: (305) 591-9899 Language: French www Director: Abderrhamane Sissako Fax: (718) 712-3939 Fax: (305) 592-5064 Production Company: Duo Films, Paris .thebusinessoffilm. Producers: Guillaume De Seille Delivery Status: in Pre-Production com From the director of “LIFE ON EARTH.” LOS ANGELES LONDON NOVO THE BUSINESS OF Drama 5261 West Imperial Hwy Aerodrome Way•Cranford Lane Language: French FILM’S Director: Jean Pierre Limosin` Los Angeles•CA 90045 Hounslow•Middx TW5 9QB•UK Production Company: Lumen Films, Paris home on Producers: Hengameh Panahi Tel: (310) 645-9700 Tel: 011-44 181-897-7973 Cast: Eduardo Noriega and Anna the internet. Mouglalis Fax: (310) 645-0810 Fax: 011-44 181-759-6722 Delivery Status: in Pre-Production

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BORN WILD DIE BAD THE ANARCHISTS CHINA STAR Action Action/ Adventure (95min) Action/ Adventure (100 min) ENTERTAINMENT Language: Original, Subtitles: English Language: Korean (English Subtitled) Language: Korean (English subtitled) Director: Leung Pak Kin Director: Ryoo Seung-wan Director: Yu Young-sik GROUP Producer: Amy Chin Sin Wai Producer: Kim Sung-jae Producer: Lee Chang-joon, Zhong Zheng, China Star Entertainment Group, Unit Cast: Louis Koo, Patrick Tam, Daniel Ng Cast: Park Sung-bin, Ryoo Seung-wan, Fu Wenxia 503C,Miramar Tower,132 Nathan Road, Ryoo Seung-bum Cast: Jang Dong-gun, Jung Jun-ho, Kim Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel: Delivery Status: Post Production Years of separation couldn’t untie the bond Delivery Status: completed Sang-jung 852.2313.1888. Fax: 852.2191.9900. E- Budget: 0.8milloin Delivery Status: completed mail :[email protected]. between twin brothers Lok and Joe: Their explosive fighting power. When Lok dies Consisted of 4 episodes with criss- Budget: 2.4million Website:http://www.chinastar.com crossing characters, the film shows a fairly Set in 1920’s Shanghai, the Anarchists Company Type: Sales & Distribution mysteriously in an underground prizefight, Joe’s investigation of the truth gradually comprehensive account of causes and focuses on the drama of five Korean At Cannes: Charles Heung (Chairman), effects of male aggression, both tribal and territories who collaborate on a mission Tiffany Chen (Vice Chairman), Ann Hung absorbs him into a world of deception and death. individual. against Japanese imperalism. (General Manager - Distribution), Ada ARES THE CUT RUNS DEEP Lam (Manager Ð Distribution), Charlie FROM THE QUEEN TO THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE Animation (75min) Action/ Adventure (110 min) Wong (Executive - Distribution) Language: Korean (English subtitled) Language: English Office: Drama (106.2mins) Language: Original, Subtitles: English Director: Yoon Il-hoon Director: John H. Lee BLACK MASK II Producer: Yoon Il-hoon Action Director: Herman Yau Producer: Ha Kwang-hwi Cast: n/a Cast: Alex Manning, David McInnis Language: Original Subtitles:English Producer: Nam Yin Delivery Status: completed Director: Tsui Hark Cast: David Lee, Stephen Tang, Ai Jing Delivery Status: completed Budget: 0.7million Budget: 2million Producer: Tsui Hark Delivery Status: Completed 3D animation about a combat crew of the Cast: Andy On, Scott Edward Adkins, Form The Queen To The Chief Executive” A coming-of-age drama set in the urban federal earth fighting against the ghettos of . The story Tobin Bell is a true story that accused the inhumane destructive forces from comet Ares. Delivery Status: Post Production and inappropriate treatment among revolves around Ben, a 16-year-old of LA BELLE mixed ethnicity, and his indoctrination and This time Black Mask is in a fight to win seventeen HMPs who are the leftover Romantic Drama (96 min) back his humanity. subsequent destruction in the world of cases under the colonial ruling. Language: Korean (English subtitled) Korean gangs. MASTER Q 2001 Director: Yeo Gyun-dong Animation(102.88min) CINECLICK ASIA Producer: Lee Soo-nam Language: Original, Subtitles: English Cast: Lee Ji-hyun, Oh Ji-ho CINEMA ARTS Director: Herman Yau (INTERCLICK CO., Delivery Status: completed Producer: Tsui Hark ENTERTAINMENT Budget: 1million Cinema Arts Entertainment, 9350 Cast: , Cecelia Cheung LTD.) A film with a unique perspective of love. Delivery Status: Completed Cineclick Asia (Interclick Co., Ltd.) Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 203, Beverly Hills, Ca The body language seen through the 90212 USA. Tel: 310.550.1085. Fax: By combining the 3D animation and live Incline Bldg. 3F, 891-37 Daechi-dong, unrepressed desire is beautiful by itself. action characters, “Master Q 2001” is full Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea. Tel: 310.550.1182. E-mail: Cinema PEPPERMINT CANDY [email protected] of entertaining elements that are suitable 822.538.0240 (ext. 211-214). Fax: Drama (129 min) for both parents and children to enjoy. 822.538.0479. E-mail: PERLINK At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller Language: Korean (English subtitled) (Chairman), Chantal Lam (Executive THE LEGEND OF ZU “mailto:[email protected]” Director: Lee Chang-dong Action [email protected]! Vice President), Pierre-Richard Muller Producer: Myung Kaynam, Makoto Ueda (Chairman), Elphin Delphe (Executive of Language: Original, Subtitles: English Bookmark not defined. / Website: Error! Cast: Sol Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Kim Director: Tsui Hark Hyperlink reference not Yeo-jin Sales), Chantal Lam (Vice President) Producer: Tsui Hark valid..cineclickasia.com” Delivery Status: completed Office: Les Residence Du Grand Hotel, Cast: Ekin Cheng, Louis Koo, Cecilia www.cineclickasia.com Budget: 2.5million Apartment 7B Bengali, 45, La Croisette, Cheung, Zhang Ji Yi Company Type: Sales agent A moving drama that takes you on a time 06400 Cannes, Tel/Fax: 04.93.39.97.54 Delivery Status: Post Production At Cannes: SUH Young-Joo (Managing travel to the past in search of one man’s GABRIELA ZU is an ancient mythic province where Director), Cassie Yoo (Int’l Business lost innocence. USA; drama/love story the underworld, the martial world and the Manager), BAE Jahee, ROH Jae- PLUM BLOSSOM Director/writer: Vincent Jay Miller enlightened world intersect. “The Legend Hark(Assistant Manager) Romantic Drama (113 min) Cast; Jaime P. Gomez(Clear and Present of ZU” presents these imaginative worlds Acquisition: SUH Young-Joo Language: Korean (English subtitled) Danger, Nash Bridges), Seidy Lopez(Mi where the forces of good and evil collide Office: Director: Kwak Ji-kyun Vida Loca, The Elian Gonzales Story). in the ultimate battle. FRIEND-THOSE WERE THE DAYS Producer: Oh Eun-sil Delivery Status: Completed BLUE BLOOD Drama (117 min) Cast: Kim Reh-won, Bae Doo-na, Jin Mike(Jaime Gomez) is a handsome mental Sci-Fi Language: Korean Hee-kyung health worker who dreams of finding his Language: Original, Subtitles: English Director: Kwak Kyung-taek Delivery Status: completed soul-mate. Director: Lau Wai Keung Producer: Hyun Gyung-nim One boy falls headlong in love with his STORYOFO Producer: Wong Jing teacher, the other is seduced into his first USA;erotic/drama Cast: , Rosamund Kwan, Shu Cast: Yoo Oh-sung, Jang Dong-gun Delivery Status: completed sexual experience. Director: Philip Leirness Qi SEGIMAL Producer: Pierre-Richard Muller Delivery Status: Post Production Budget: 3 million Four friends…each of their lives takes Drama (103 min) Cast: Danielle Ciardi, Neil Dickson, Max A story about a member of the extra- Language: Korean (English subtitled) Parrish, Michelle Ruben. terrestrial organism bureau who tires to different turns as they grow up and their paths cross in conflict with each other’s. Director: Song Neung-han Delivery Status: completed protect a blue blood alien from being the Based on the international huge success SORUM Producer: Lee Tae-won target for research and fight against all odd novel by Pauline Reage, a 2000 new Horror Cast: Kim Kab-su, Lee Jeh-un, Cha along the deadly chase. Seung-won adaptation set in the USA. A FIGHTER’S BLUES Language: Korean DREAMERS Director: Yoon Jong-chan Delivery Status: completed Action (105mins) Budget: 1.3million USA; drama Language: Original, Subtitles: English Producer: Phil Hwang Director/writer: Ann Lu Cast: Kim Myung-min, Jang Jin-young An intricately put together story that Director: Daniel Lee brings to the screen Korean’s most Cast: Jeremy Jordon(Never Been Kissed), Cast: Andy Lau, Takako Tokiwa, Sine Delivery Status: in production Mark Ballou(In and Out), Courtney Budget: TBA sensitive issues by presenting them into Charoenpura four chapters-Moratorium, Amorality, Gains, Portia Dawson, Paul Bartel. Delivery Status: Completed With all people living together under one Moral Hazard, and Y2K. Delivery Status: completed A boxing ring is not only a place to fight roof as if they’re all victims of the terror GHOST TAXI Two childhood friends growing up in for honor, but also for dignity. lurking within Migum Apartments, Yong- Comedy (90 min) small-town America dream about escaping WU YEN hyun moves into room 504 after a writer Language: Korean (English subtitled) to Los Angeles to pursue their fame and Comedy (120mins) named Kwang-tae died in a fire in that Director: Hur Seung-joon fortune. Language: Original, Subtitles: English very room. As Yong-hyun settles into his Producer: Lee Jun-ik CACOPHONY Director: Johnnie To & Wai Ka Fai new home, he finds himself involved in a Cast: Lee Seo-jin, Lim Ho, Choi Yu-jung USA; horror Producer: Johnnie To & Wai Ka Fai series of strange occurrences that unlocks Delivery Status: completed Director/writer: Allan Piper Cast: , Cecilia Cheung, the terrifying secrets lurking in his new Budget: 1.2million Producers: Phil Leirness, Robert Ballo home.... Ghost Taxi wanders night street of Seoul Delivery Status: pre-production Delivery Status: Completed BUNGEE JUMPING OF THEIR driving you into horror, comedy, and speed When a rock band experiments with a A magic spell turns the beautiful Wu Yen OWN of the story messed with blood. forbidden, four hundred year old musical into an ugly looking face right before she Romantic Drama (100min) manuscript, their music wakes the dead. marries the emperor of the country. When Language: Korea (English subtitled) NEA Wu Yen discovers the fairy who does this to Director: Kim Dae-seung Now Online: USA; erotic her has become the emperor’s new mistress, Producer: Choi Nak-kwon what will she do to win back her lover? Director/writer: Marc Cushman. Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Lee Eun-ju www Delivery Status: pre-production Delivery Status: completed Based on the novel by Emmanuelle Arsan. L.A. Office FAX Budget: 2.1million .thebusinessoffilm. Nea comes of age, competing with her A story of a man whose lover, died 17 famed novelist father and exploring her years ago, comes back to meet him again com curiosities while writing her own book of (323) 935-8229 with a most unlikely appearance. erotic fiction.

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CINEMA SERVICE ADAY INNOCENCE ELLE ET LUI AU 14EME ETAGE Cinema Service, 5th Fl. Heung-Kuk Bldg. Drama 94 minutes 85 minutes Language: Korean; Subtitles: English Director: Paul Cox Language: French version with English 43-1 Joo-Ja Dong, Joong-Gu, Seoul 100- Directed by HAN Ji-seung 240, Korea. Tel: 82.2.2264.4667. Fax: Producer: Paul Cox, Mark Patterson subtitles Produced by Koo & Film Cast: Julia Blake, Charles Tingwell, Directed by SOPHIE BLONDY 82.2.2264.2180. Website: Cast: LEE Sung-jae (Attack the Gas www.cinemaservice.com Terry Norris Cast: SOPHIE BLONDY * PAUL TANG Station!, Art Museum by the Zoo), KO Production Status: Complete * GUILLAUME DEPARDIEU * BASS At Cannes: KANG Woo-suk (President), So-young - Budget: US $ 2.2M Jennifer MUHN (Director/International Young love is re-ignited after 50 years DHEM * Sad yet beautiful story of a young couple apart. Winner of over 23 international In Amiens, enlightened by Christmas Business), Josh LEE (Manager/Sales), who finally have a baby, whose life lasts Jenny CHUNG (Asst. awards garlands : Babeth. She is still in love with only for a day. PSYCHO BEACH PARTY Rémi. Manager/Marketing & TV Sales) A MASTERPIECE IN MY LIFE Office : L10 at Riviera, Hotel at Cannes 90 minutes MAUVAIS GARCON (BAD BOY) Drama Director: Robert Lee King Directed by JACQUES BRAL 2001 : Cannes Residence, Tel: Language: Korean; Subtitles: English 33.04.93.43.28.34. Fax: Producer: Virginia Biddle, Jon Gerrans, Cast: BRUNO WOLKOWITCH Directed by SHIM Kwang-jin DELPHINE FOREST LUDMILA 33.04.92.18.82.66 Produced by Cinema Service Marcus Hu, Victor Syrmis ASAKO IN RUBY SHOES Cast: PARK Jung-hoon (Nowhere to Cast: Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, MIKAEL Drama Hide), SONG Yoon-ah Nicholas Brendon Language: French, German Language: Korean and Japanese; Budget: US $ 2M Production Status: Complete Thomas hasn’t forgotten Carole. Carole, Subtitles: English Erotic video director, In-gi dreams of Sun, surf and one psycho babe! however, has forgotten him in another man Directed by E J-yong(An Affair) making a ‘masterpiece.’ When he meets a 2 BY 4 ‘s arms. Produced by Koo & Film(Tell Me beautiful script writer, he believes his 94 minutes Director: Jimmy Smallhorne STREET OF NO RETURN (SANS Something) & Co., Ltd. dream may come true. Producer: John Hall, Virginia Biddle ESPOIR DE RETOUR) 1989 Cast: LEE Jung-jae(Il Mare, Interview), CLUB BUTTERFLY Cast: Jimmy Smallhorne, Chris O’Neil, Directed by SAMUEL FULLER TACHIBANA Misato Country of Origin/co-production: Korea Bradley Fitts Cast: KEITH CARRADINE, Budget: US $ 2M Genre: Drama- Production Status: Complete VALENTINA VARGAS, BILL DUKE, Two people from close yet different cities, Language: Korean “Trainspotting” imported to the Bronx ANDREA FERREOL Seoul & Tokyo. Mere chances lead them Subtitles: English Language: original English version, into fate. Directed by KIM Jae-su CINEXPORT original French version BICHUNMOO Produced by Cinerock Pictures Seven years ago, Rossignol’s name was Cast: Anita, YOON Dong-hwan Cinexport, 78 avenue des Champs- Michael. At that time, he was a widely Martial Arts Elysées, 75008 Paris / France. Tel: Language: Korean Subtitles: English Budget: US $ 1.5 M acclaimed singer whose warm voice Erotic drama about a married couple who 33.1.45.62.49.45. Fax: 33.1.45.63.85.26. melted women’s hearts. He went from one Directed by KIM Young-jun gets into and indulge in swapping. E-mail: [email protected] Produced by Taewon Entertainment success to another until the evening the BLOODY BEACH E-mail in cannes : met Célia. His life was overturned when (Nowhere to Hide) Horror [email protected] Cast: SHIN Hyun-june, KIM Hee-sun At Cannes: Anne-Marie ROMBOURG- he fell madly in love with her.... Language: Korean; Subtitles: English POLAR Budget: US $ 4M Directed by KIM In-soo CARACO (general manager) Blockbuster action & romance genre film Address in Cannes: 11 avenue Paul Language: French, English and German Produced by Koo & Film (Tell Me (Spanish version in Spain) Italian (in which beat “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Something) Guigou, CANNES Dragon” in Korea, and the No.1 opening Tel/Fax Cannes: 04.93.99.78.15 Italy) Cast: KIM Hyun-jung, LEE Hyun-kyoon Directed by JACQUES BRAL box office in China Budget: US $ 1.8M Mobile phone: 06.07.54.33.33 I WISH I HAD A WIFE, TOO CIRCUS BAOBAB Cast: JEAN FRANCOIS BALMER Story of serial murder among internet club SANDRA MONTAIGU PIERRE Romantic Comedy members on vacation at the beach. Fiction 100 Minutes Language: Korean; Subtitles: English Directed by Laurent Chevallier SANTINI Directed by PARK Heung-sik Cast: LA TROUPE NATIONALE D ART Just when Eugène Tarpon a moneyless, Produced by Sidus ACROBATIQUE DE GUINEE client-less private eye, decides to give it all Cast: SEOL, Kyung-gu, JUN, Do-yeon CINEMAVAULT On March 1, 2000, after two years of up and retire to the country, adventure Budget: US $ 2.2 M RELEASING INC. training and rehearsal, the first acrobatic takes him by surprise in the person of a Romantic drama about love between two air circus of Africa, CIRCUS BAOBAB, pretty girl. How does an inveterate idealist Cinemavault Releasing Inc. 434 Queen thirty street boys and girls, gifted dancers resist the charm of an extremely ordinary people, a bank clerk and a Street East, Toronto Ontario, M5A 1T5, Mathematics teacher at a private institute and percussion players , leaves on the fascinating girl? Canada. Tel: 416.363.6060. 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2,000 YEARS OF CHRISTIANITY CROCODILE DUNDEE IN L.A. CINE- Documentary (13 x 50 min) Comedy, tbc THE INTERNATIONAL Language: German, English dubbed Language: English COPRODUCTION Director: Werner Herzog, Günther Klein, Director: FILMVERTRIEB Georg Graffe and others Producer: Lance Hool, Paul Hogan OFFICE Cast: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Paul The Coproduction Office, Mommsenstr. GMBH & CO.KG Producer: ARD/it-media/Tellux-Film, 27, 10629 Berlin, Germany. Tel: Cine-International Filmvertrieb Gmbh & Munich Rodriguez Delivery Status: completed 49.30.32.77.78.79. Fax: 49.30.32.32.091. Co.Kg, Leopoldstr. 18, D-80802 Munich, Cast: E-mail: info@the copro.de Germany. Tel: 49.89.39.10.25. 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Norton & Howard Gibbins Cast: LOUSIE LOMBARD; BILLY Thriller, tbc Cast: Stella Feehily, Aenne Barr, Leonard ZANE Language: English Hayden Delivery Status: post Director: Dick Maas CONCORDE-NEW Delivery Status: completed Ellen Brachman, claim assessor with Producer: Laurens Geels, Dick Maas European Hayward, investigates the claim Cast: James Marshall, Naomi Watts, Eric HORIZONS A mystic, spine-chilling thriller full of Concorde-New Horizons, Subsidiary of suspense set in Ireland against the of 58 million Dollars after the ship “ALL Thal VIRTUE” sinks off the Argentine coast. Delivery Status: post New Concorde Corp., 11600 San Vicente background of Celtic mythology and Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA. Tel: mysterious rituals. KEVIN OF THE NORTH When a New York elevator seems to take Comedy, tbc on a horrific life of its own, Mark, an 310.820.6733. Fax: 310.207.6816. 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HAROLD ROBBIN’S BODY PARTS HIGHWAY 395 (2000) USA Thriller Action / Crime (105 min) Director: Craig Corman Language: English Cast: Richard Grieco Director: Fred Dryer Delivery Status: completed Producer: Victor Schiro Double-crossed by his best friend, Cast: Fred Dryer (“Hunter”), Geoffrey betrayed by his wife. Shot and left for Lewis (“Way of the Gun”) dead. After languishing for 10 years in a Delivery Status: Competed prison for a murder that they committed, Budget: $2 Million ex-naval officer Ty Kinnick is ready for A tough, local Sheriff battles drug dealers payback. and serial killers on a Death Valley BATTLE QUEEN 2020 highway. ELVIS IS ALIVE! (2000) USA Cast: Julie Strain, Jeff Wincott Comedy (90 min) Delivery Status: completed Language: English In the frozen enternal winter of the post- Director: Robert Diaz LeRoy asteriod impact world, mankind’s last Producer: Amy Freeman remnants cling to a fragile existence. 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PLAY FOR ME (2000) USA MEXICO CITY Romance, 84 Minutes CRYSTAL SKY CURB USA-Thriller Language: English WORLDWIDE SALES, ENTERTAINMENT Director: Richard Shepard Director: David Kantar Producer: Carole Curb Nemoy, Mike Producer: David Kantar LLC INTERNATIONAL Curb, Jonathan Stern Cast: MOIRA KELLY (“THE WEST Crystal Sky Worldwide Sales, LLC, 1901 CORP. Cast: Stacy Edwards, Johnny Zander, WING”); JAMIE HARROLD (“ERIN Avenue of the Stars, Suite 605, Los Robert Patrick Angeles, CA 90067 USA. Tel: Curb Entertainment International Corp., BROCKOVICH”). 3907 West Alameda Ave., Burbank, CA From the director of Oxygen. US Delivery Status: Completed, 310.834.0223. Fax: 310.553.9895 91505 USA. Tel: 818.843.8580. Fax: Distribution by Miramax. 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Fax: 212.941.3836 SUCKERS Ð (2000) USA BABY GENIUS 2 Cast: Najwa Nimri, Tom McCarthy, At Cannes: Rick Sands (Chairman, Thriller, 90 Minutes Family Action Adventure Andrea di Stefano, Caroleen Feeney, Worldwide Distribution, Miramax Films), Language: English Director: Bob Clark Angel David Stephen Klain (Executive Vice President, Director: Roger Nygard Producer: Steven Paul A reporter searching for the truth is caught International Marketing, Miramax Intl.), Producer: Michael Leahy Status: Pre-Production between two countries, two women, and a Julie Roach (Vice President, Business and Cast: Daniel Benzali (TV’s “Murder The babies are back! The adventure conspiracy that could destroy them all. One”); Lori Loughlin (TV’s “Full House”). 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Prods.: Jon Voight, Steven Paul; Stephi Lineburg, Victoria Davis Language: English Producers: David Saunders, Andrea Stone Three runaway girls hijack the car of a lost Office: Majestic Hotel, Salle Royan, 14, Director: Dale Resteghini Cast: Julia Ormond and Jon Voight Englishwoman and begin the adventure of La Croisette, Cannes, France. Tel: Producer: Dale Resteghini Status: Pre-Sales a lifetime. Featured Selection at the 2001 04.97.06.85.00. Fax: 04.97.06.85.04 Cast: : REDMAN (“HOW HIGH”); A daring young female diamond thief uses Santa Barbara and the Palm Springs film BELOW (AKA PROTEUS) Delivery Status: Completed, disguises to carry out heists as she plots for festivals. USA-Action/SciFi Videocassette many years to gain access to a mob boss THE BIG DAY Language: English Budget: $ 1 million and avenge the death of her parents. 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HALLOWEEN PROJECT LONG RUN POINT DOOM MONSTERMAN (TENTATIVE TITLE) Director: Jean Stewart (Cracker, Butterfly Action-adventure (100 minutes) Horror Horror/Thriller Collectors) Language: English Producers: Yitzhak Ginsberg, Ehud Language: English Producer: Anant Singh Director: Art Camacho Bleiberg Director: Rick Rosenthal Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl (Oscar Producer: David DeFalco Status: In Pre-Production Exec. Producers: Moustapha Akkad, Paul Nominee - Shine, Jakob The Liar), Nthati Cast: Richard Grieco, Ice T, , An ancient sin causes a threat to a modern Freeman Moshesh (Kini And Adams), Paterson Andrew Dice Clay, Jennifer O’Dell city, jeopardizing its inhabitants. Cast: TBA Joseph (The Beach) Delivery Status: Completed CAPITAL KIDS Status: In Development Status: Completed Budget: $3 million Family Comedy Following the death of original Long Run traces the life of a failed track A Hollywood talent agent falls into a love Director: Michael Addis “Halloween” heroine Laurie Strode, a coach, Berthold Bohmer (Armin Mueller triangle with a beautiful woman who Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Yitzhak small-time Internet entrepreneur is Stahl), who had aspirations of winning the thrusts him into the world of strip clubs, Ginsberg, Terence Michael, Richard promoting a Halloween night webcast to gruelling Comrades Marathon but was drugs and deadly motorcycle gangs. Finney try and capitalize on the place where it all never successful. THE BACKLOT MURDERS Current Cast Offer: Darrell Hammond began. HAPPY NOW Horror (90 minutes) (“”) THE ACCIDENTAL SPY Director: Phillippa Cousins Language: English Status: In Pre-Production Comedy/Action Adventure Producer: Anant Singh Director: David DeFalco A comedy of errors about four kids who Language: Chinese/English Cast: Ioan Gruffudd (Titanic, 102 Producer: Steven Jay Bernheim manage to turn the White House and the Director: Teddy Chen Dalmations), (City Of Joy, Cast: , Jaime Anstead country upside. Ghost And The Darkness), Jonathan Rhys Delivery Status: Postproduction 100 GIRLS Producers: Meyers (Michael Collins), Richard Coyle A killer stalks a Hollywood studio back lot Sexy Teen Comedy Cast: Jackie Chan, , Vivian (Topsy Turvy), Susan Lynch (Beautiful during the making of a rock video. Director: Michael Davis Hsu, Kim Min Jeong, Wu Hsing Kuo Creatures) WHATEVER IT TAKES Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Terence Status: Completed Status: Post-Production Action-Adventure (98 minutes) Michael, Yitzhak Ginsberg, Richard The biggest budget ever made In the remote Welsh village of Pen-Y-Wig, Language: English Finney in Hong Kong. International superstar teenagers Joe and Glen watch tramp, Tin Director: Brady Makenzie Cast: Jonathan Tucker (“The Virgin Jackie Chan stars as a down-on-his-luck Man, take the blame after they accidently Producer: David DeFalco Suicides,” “Sleepers”), Larisa Oleynik salesman who is led into believing that he kill Joe’s girlfriend, Jenny. Fourteen years Cast: Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Andrew (“Ten Things I Hate About You”), Jaime is the long lost son of a wealthy later, as Tin Man is released from prison, “Dice” Clay, Fred “The Hammer” Pressly (TV’s “Jack and Jill”), Katherine businessman. Jenny’s friend Tina returns from abroad Williamson Heigl (TV’s “Roswell,” “My Father The SCARY MOVIE 2 with her daughter Nicky, a dead ringer for Delivery Status: Completed Hero”), Emmanuelle Chriqui (“Snow USA-Comedy/Horror Parody Jenny. Budget: $2 million Day,” “AI”), Marissa Ribisi (“True Language: English MR BONES A cop battles his own demons as he and his Crime,” “Dazed and Confused”) Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans Director: Gray Hofmeyr (Jock Of The partner go undercover to expose the illegal Status: Completed Producers: Lisa Blum, Eric L. Gold Bishveld) traffic of steroid use in the uncompromising Website: www.100girls.net Cast: Anna Faris Producer: Anant Singh, Helena Spring world of . A college freshman meets his dream girl Status: In Production Cast: Faizon Love (The Parent Hood), GANGLAND II: THE ORIGIN during a blackout and must find his The sequel to the worldwide mega-hit David Ramsay (Pay It Forward, Three To Action-Adventure mystery girl amongst 100 young female which has scared-up $275 Million to Tango), Leon Schuster (Yankee Zulu, Language: English suspects. date. Panic Mechanic) Director: TBD TITLE: MORE DOGS THAN BONES Status: Post-Production Producer: David DeFalco Dark Comedy Set against the backdrop of the Sun City Cast: TBD Director: Michael Browning DISTANT HORIZON Million Dollar Golf Challenge, Mr. Bones Delivery Status: In Development Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Yitzhak Distant Horizon, 8282 Sunset Boulevard, is classic slapstick comedy that follows the Events leading up to the apocalypse of 2005 Ginsberg, Brittany Taylor, Miriam Leffert Suite A, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel: adventures and misadventures of golf and the rise of cities controlled by an evil gang. Cast: John Mantegna (“The Rat Pack,” 323.848.4140. Fax: 323.848.4144. 38 - sensation Vince Lee (David Ramsay) and SUPER MAX “Celebrity”), Peter Coyote (“Bitter 42 Whitfield Street, London WIR 5RF his hapless manager Pudbetter (Faizon Drama Moon”), Mercedes Ruehl (“The Fisher . Tel: 44.020.7813.3133 Love) as they are unavoidably drawn into Language: English King”), Whoopi Goldberg (“Ghost”), /4. Fax: 44.020.7813.3135 a web of utter chaos spun by Mr. Bones Director: TBD Debi Mazar (“Goodfellas,” “She’s So At Cannes: Anant Singh (Producer), (Leon Schuster). Producer: David DeFalco Lovely”), Paul Hipp (“Midnight In The Brian Cox (Producer), Sanjeev Singh Cast: TBD Garden Of Good And Evil”) (Acquisitions Executive), Paul Janssen Delivery Status: In Development Status: Completed (Sales Executive) DOMINION A former Mafia hit-man is recruited by the A series of mishaps and misfortunes over a Office: Imperatrice, 3RD Floor, 44 La ENTERTAINMENT FBI to take down the head of the mob. bag of a million dollars cash leads to Croisette, Cannes Dominion Entertainment, Universal murder, mayhem and greed upon greed. Tel: 04.92.98.68.76 Pictures, 100 Universal City Plaza, DREAM VALERIE FLAKE THE DISH Building 9128/Suite 1386, Universal Drama Director: Rob Sitch (The Castle) City/CA/91608/USA. Tel: 818.733.0624. ENTERTAINMENT Director: John Putch Executive Producer: Michael Hirsh Fax: 818.733.0759 Dream Entertainment, 8489 W. 3rd Street, Producer: Julie Philips Producers & Writers: Santo Cilauro, Tom Website: PERLINK Suite 1038, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Writer: Robert Tilem Gleisner, Jane Kennedy & Rob Sitch mailto:[email protected] Tel: 323.655.5501. Fax: 323.655.5603 Cast: Susan Traylor (“Bastard Out Of Cast: Sam Neill (The Horse Whisperer, www.dominion-ent.com At Cannes: Ehud Bleiberg (CEO & Carolina,” “A River Runs Through It”), The Piano), Kevin Harrington (Sea Company Type: Producer, Distributor Chairman), Yitzhak Ginsberg (President), Jay Underwood (“Afterglow,” Change), Tom Lang (Two Hands, Strange At Cannes: David DeFalco (President Dave Schulz (Director of Operations), “Possums”) Planet), Patrick Warburton ( 3, and CEO,) Kelly Hirano (Executive Sales Nadine De Barros (Director of Sales) Status: Completed ) Agent) Office: Carlton, Room 143 A powerful portrait of a contemporary Status: Completed Office: Carlton International Hotel, Room 100 WOMEN (PREMIERE) young, American woman coping with the It’s July 1969 and Neil Armstrong is # 244 Sexy Teen Comedy death of her husband. about to take that first step on the GANGLAND Director: Michael Davis 30, STILL SINGLE moon. But there’s been a little Action-Adventure (96 minutes) Producer: Ehud Bleiberg, Terence Sexy Comedy technical difficulty. And now, the only Language: English Michael, Yitzhak Ginsberg, Richard Director: Greg Lanesey satellite dish in the world capable of Director: Art Camacho Finney Producers: Matt Radecki, Greg Lanesey receiving the soon-to-be legendary live Producer: David DeFalco Cast: Chad Donella, Jennifer Morrison, Cast: Christopher May, Terry Gatens, Jill television image is in the middle of a Cast: Costas Mandylor, Kathleen Erinn Bartlett, Steve Monroe, Clint Howard Zimmerman field of sheep in the Australian Kinmont, Sasha Mitchell, Ice-T, Coolio, Status: Complete Status: Completed outback. Tim Thomerson Website: www.100women.net Website: www.30stillsingle.com A hilarious tale about a modern man THE LEGEND OF ZU Delivery Status: Completed. The follow-up to the hit “100 Girls.” Art student Sam can make 99 of the girls in the searching for his dream woman in Los Director: Tsui Hark Budget: $4 million Angeles. Producer: Tsui Hark In 2005, three heroes battle to free a women’s residence laugh, but he can’t Cast: Zhang Zi Yi (Crouching Tiger, scientist in a plague-ridden, post- make the girl he loves smile. Hidden Dragon), Ekin Cheng (In The apocalyptic city controlled by an evil gang SPENCER Name Of Heroes), Sammo Hung (Legend and ruled by the malevolent Lucifer. Comedy Of Tekken, Martial Law) REDEMPTION Director: Shane Edelman Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Terence L.A. Office Phone Status: In Production Drama (100 minutes) Language: English Michael, Yitzhak Ginsberg, Richard Zu is the legendary province of ancient Finney (323) 935-8228 Chinese mythology where the underworld, Director: Art Camacho Producer: David DeFalco Cast: Jesse Bradford, Mia Kirshner, the material world and the enlightened Adam Goldberg, Marissa Ribisi, David world intersect. It is here that a fierce and Cast: Don “The Dragon” Wilson, , Cynthia Rothrock, Carrie Stevens Krumholtz, Giovanni Ribisi beautiful warrior princess Ying and her Status: In Post-Production fellow soldiers are called upon by Grand Delivery Status: Post production L.A. Office FAX Budget: $3 million Website: www.spencerthemovie.com Master Longevity to fight in the war A young man, reunited with his childhood (323) 935-8229 against the evil lord, Insomnia and his A bank robbery forces an ex-cop to choose crush, is determined to make her fall in army of darkness. a path of greed and evil or…redemption! love with him.

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SSE&BI LITTLE CAROLINE ONCE UPON A TIME IN SICILY FILMENGINE Children Action-Adventure (TRA DUE MONDI) FilmEngine, 6735 Yucca St., Hollywood, CINEMATO- Director: Jane Gondek Drama CA 90028 USA. Tel: 323.960.1480. Fax: Cast: Veronica Marsal, Mayka Jezowska Language: Italian / English 323.856.5502 GRAFICA Producer: Kevin Bernhardt, Darius Cast: Stephan Freiss - Lorenzo Crespi - Eesse&bi cinematografica, At Cannes: AJ Dix, Anthony Rhulen, Zawislak Bianca Guaccero - Michele Placido circonvallazione Clodia, 19 / 00191 Chris Davis Delivery Status: Post-production Directed By: Fabio Conversi Office: 24 La Croisette, 5th Floor, Tel: ROMA / Italy. Tel 39.06.39746773 When little Caroline finds a magic stone, Produced By: Morgan Film 39.06.39889113, Fax: 39.06.39735270. 04.92.98.95.09 all of her fantasies come true in the land of Foreign Sales: Filmexport Group Srl THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT E-mail: [email protected]. In the Sicily of the end of 1800 takes place Website: essebicinema.com dreams. ONE NIGHT EYES BEYOND SEEING the revenge of Captain Loyola on the Company Type: producer bandit Grifone: he kidnapped Loyola’’ At Cannes: Veronica Salvi (Producer) Psychological Thriller Director: Daniel Cohn wife on the day of their wedding. Now, FILMFOUR TERRITORI D’OMBRA (“DANCING after few years, the Captain must escort WITH WITCHES”) Producer: Daniel Cohn INTERNATIONAL Cast: Keith Hamilton Cobb, Harry Grifone, now prisoner, from Palermo to Drama, 93 min Messina. This trip will change their lives. FilmFour International, 76-78 Charlotte Language: Italian Hibbits Street, London W1P 1LX, Tel: Ls completed UNDER THE SKIN (LA DONNA DEL Director: Paolo Modugno: DELITTO) 44.20.7868.7700. Fax: 44.20.7868.7766. Producer: Veronica Salvi A psychiatrist becomes obsessed with a E-mail: [email protected] patient claiming to be Christ. Erotic-Thriller Cast: Pino Quartullo, Rosa Ferraiolo, Language: Italian / English At Cannes: Sue Bruce-Smith (Director of Toni Bertorelli, Ludovica Modugno, Gigi DALMATIAN’S POINT OF VIEW Directed By: Corrado Colombo Worldwide Sales and Marketing), Janine Angelillo, Maria Paiato, featuring Leo Children Action-Adventure Produced By: Gold Film - Edizioni Star Gold (Head of International Film Sales), Gullotta and Laurent Terzieff. Director: Jane Gondek Comics Amanda Street (Film Sales Executive), Delivery Status: completed Producer: Kevin Bernhardt, Darius Cast: Vincenzo Peluso - Giuliana Gemma Libby Hughes (Film Sales Assistant), Budget: 1.450.000 $ Zawislak - Lorenzo Flaherty - Cinzia Monreale - Mike Runagall (Assistant to Janine Gold), The story revolves around Luca, Delivery Status: In production Marianna Palmieri - Rossana Gavinel - Nada Cairjanic (TV Sales Manager) Margherita and Franz, three people who A life of a family in the eyes of a little Francesca Conti - Susana Bequer - Office: N7, Riviera have a common destiny and a violent past. Dalmatian. Saturnino Garcia - Martine Brochard CRUSH (PREVIOUSLY TITLED SAD L’APE OPERAIA E LA BIANCA A murder never solved of a woman in a little FUCKERS CLUB) SIGNORA (“THE WORKING BEE FILMEXPORT GROUP beach excites the curiosity of Francesca, the Comedy Drama (115 mins) AND THE WHITE LADY”) new tenant of the victim’s house near the Language: English Cartoon, 85 min SRL. lake. A story that seems to repeat itself with Writer/Director: John McKay Language: Italian Filmexport Group SRL, Via Polonia, 9 - the suspicion of an ambiguous lover and an Producer: Lee Thomas Director: Paolo Modugno 00198 Rome \ Italy- Tel: 39.06.8554266 Ð inspector too much involved in that old case.. Cast: Andie MacDowell, Anna Producer: Veronica Salvi 39.06.8414724. Fax: 39 06.8550248. E- OUTSIDER Chancellor, , Bill Delivery Status: pre-production mail: [email protected] Web site: (UN GIUDICE DI RISPETTO) Paterson, Kenny Doughty Budget: 4.200.000 $ www.filmexport.com Action (98 min) Status: Screening A Queen Bee, managerial and immortal, At Cannes: Roberto Di Girolamo Language: Italian / English An irreverent comedy about three female gives birth to a little Worker Bee. Destined (President & CEO), LAURA Directed By: Valter Toschi friends behaving very badly. to a life of repetitive and stressful manual MAURANO (Sales Manager), ANDREA Produced By: La Perla Nera THE WARRIOR labor, he is certain to die far too soon. DI GIROLAMO (Sales Assistant), Cast: - Philippe Le Roy - Drama ANTONIO PACILLO (Assistant) Orso Maria Guerrini - Marina Suma - Language: English EUROPEAN FILM Office:Hotel Carlton Office NÁ 133, Tel: Tiberio Murgia Director: Asif Kapadia 33.04.93.064.133, Mobile: 39 335 7025 Story of a honest magistrate in a small town Producer: Bertrand Faivre PROMOTION (EFP) 654 in the south of Italy, where justice works slow Status: Post-production (showreel European Film Promotion (EFP), @DANGEROUS SEX DATE or does not work at all. Risking his own life, available) Company Type: promotion association for Erotic / Thriller he will stay there to fight against the mob. A timeless story of a warrior’s epic European cinema Directed By: Maria Martinelli THE SWEET NOISE OF LIFE (IL journey of self-discovery and redemption, Friedensallee 14 - 16, Hamburg, 22765, Produced By: Digital Film DOLCE RUMORE DELLA VITA) from the deserts of Rajasthan to the snow- Germany. Tel: 49.40.3906252. Cast: Rocco Siffredi, Stefania Bonafede, Drama (104 min) capped peaks of the Himalayas. Fax: 49.40.3806249. Pietro Bontempi, Loretta Rossi Language: Italian / English INVINCIBLE E-mail: [email protected] WHAT GIRLS NEVER SAY Directed By: Giuseppe Bertolucci Drama At Cannes: Renate Rose (Managing QUELLO CHE LE RAGAZZE NON Produced By: Letizia Cinematografica Language: English Director), Jo Muhlbeger (Project DICONO Cast: , Rade Serbedzija, Writer/Director: Werner Herzog Manager) Comedy Rosalinda Celentano, , Gea Producers: Werner Herzog, Christine Directed By: Carlo Vanzina Lionello, Niccolo’ Senni Ruppert, Gary Bart AHRENHEIT Produced By: Dean Film - Planet Pictures Foreign Sales: Filmexport Group Srl Cast: Tim Roth, Jouko Ahola, Anna - Int’l Dean Film A young actress, Sophia. The moments of Gourari, Jacob Wein FILMS Cast: Martina Colombari - Irene Ferri - her life between her 20 and 35 years. Time Status: Post-production (showreel Carlotta Miti - . . . Sabrina Paravicini - as unit of measure for feelings and weather that is a characteristic of each moment: the available) FFahrenheit Films, 418 Pier Ave., Suite Vincenzo Peluso Set in the 1930s, Invincible is based on the Stories and loves of four girls, closed rain, the fog, the wind; the theme of 107, Santa Monica, CA 90405 USA. Tel: motherhood, lies but above all of fate true story of a blond Jewish strongman 310.450.1603. Fax: 310.450.1803. E- friends of each other, in their modern lives which is the author of our destiny. who performed in Berlin as the Aryan hero mail: [email protected] of the year 2000. BODY AND SOUL 2 (LA CARNE E Siegfried. At Cannes: Yarek Danielak (President) MARRIAGES L’ANIMA) LARGE Office: Noga Hilton #303, Tel: (Matrimoni) Erotic Comedy 334.92.99.70.00. Fax: 334.92.99.70.11 Comedy Language: Italian / English Language: English IN THE DESERT AND THE JUNGLE Available Version: Italian Directed By: Bruno Mattei Director: Justin Edgar Action-Adventure Directed By: Cristina Comencini Produced By: La Perla Nera Producer: Alex Usborne Director: Gavin Hood Cast: , Francesca Neri, Cast: Christine Dowell - Antonio Zequila Cast: Luke de Woolfson, Lee Oakes, Cast: Adam Fidusiewicz, Caroline Sawka , Claude Brasseur, - Francesco Valenti - Valter Travor - Edith Melanie Gutteridge, Emma Catherwood Producer: Wlodzimierz Otulak Cecilia Dazzi, Paolo Sassanelli, Lunetta Rozsnyai Status: Post-production (showreel Delivery Status: completed Savino. Love and erotic story between a beautiful available) When sixteen year old stas and seven year Produced By: Filmauro Srl, Cattleya Ljuba and a cynical and scrupless The son of a ‘70s rock star has to meet old Nell are kidnapped for ransom by Production, Carrere Television man Boris, in the torbid world of illegal stringent conditions to inherit the family rebels they are faced with an escape and a A sentimental comedy and a ballad on traffic and erotic games.... fortune. Unfortunately his mates and dangerous journey through the heart of marriage, where relationships suddenly ITALIAN GIGOLO’ greedy step mum have other ideas. Africa before coming home. crack, get shaken up and turned upside Sexy - Thriller LUCKY BREAK A VERY CHRISTMAS STORY down in a frenetic waltz of discovery, lies Language: Italian / English Comedy Children Action-Adventure and new loves. Directed By: Anthony Gray Language: English Director: Darius Zawislak PASSIONATE WOMEN Produced By: Produzioni Associate Director: Peter Cattaneo Producer: Kevin Bernhardt (APPASSIONATE) “Cinema E Televisione” Producers: Barnaby Thompson/Peter Cast: Paul Burczyk, John Englert, Barry Musical/Love Story Cast: Roberto Farnesi - Eleonora Vallone Cattaneo Opania Directed By: Tonino De Bernardi - Pascal Persiano - Patrizia Prelle - Cast: , Olivia Williams, Delivery Status: Completed Produced By: A.S.P. (Italy) Donatella Parpagiola Christopher Plummer, , Bill A ten-year-old girl against all odds saves Cast: , Ines De Medeiros, Alessio is a thirty-year-old man who exploits Nighy an orphanage from foreclosure with help Iaia , Galatea Ranzi, Carlo Cecchi, his own body and loving capacity offering Status: Post-production of an angel and Santa Claus. Roberto De Francesco. sympathy to the middle class women. His From the director of The Full Monty, a Naples, today. The passionate stories of “advertising promoter” is Gino, a man who prison comedy with a musical twist. When Product Listings — five women intertwine and their daily life “organizes” what he has to do. An emerging a group of prison inmates co-operate with is highlighted by classic Neapolitan songs, fashion designer, Roberta emmer, gives him the Governor in his ambitions to stage a [email protected] used as a catalyst for their tormented a big chance and purposes him to go to musical, little does he realise this is Act 1 feelings. Rome and work for her...... of their escape plan.

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MY NAPOLEON (PREVIOUSLY TITLED THE EMPEROR’S NEW FINDEISEN PROJECT CLOTHES) MANAGEMENT Genre: Drama Findeisen Project Management, Language: English Furenstrasse 6, CH-8707 Uetikon am Director: See, Switzerland. Tel: 41.1.790.2288. Producer: Uberto Pasolini Fax: 41.1. 790.2289. E-mail: Cast: , Iben Hjejle, Tim [email protected] McInnerny At Cannes: Rudiger F. Findeisen Status: Post-production (President & CEO) The hitherto untold, funny and romantic Office: Palais de la plage, Tel: tale of Napoleon’s secret return to France 41.79.423.0075 from exile, in disguise, to reclaim his THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE imperial glory. WORLD PROJECT CHARLOTTE GRAY Documentary (50 min) (resp. 7 x 50 min) Drama Language: English Language: English Producer: Bernard Weber, Rudiger F. Director: Gillian Armstrong Findeisen Producers: Sarah Curtis, Douglas Rae Wide-screen documentary and TV mini- Cast: , Billy Crudup series abou the NEW 7 WONDERS OF Status: Production THE WORLD Ð Tour and the first Adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ best- worldwide democratic vote via Internet selling novel about a British female (www.new7wonders.com) resistance fighter in Nazi-occupied France. MIRANDA Romantic Thriller FIREWORKS Language: English PICTURES Named LA’s Best Jazz Club Director: Marc Munden Fireworks Pictures (Formerly Seven Arts Producer: Laurence Bowen International), 415 South Beverly Drive Cast: Christina Ricci, John Simm, Kyle Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA. Tel: - New Times LA Maclachlan, 310.789.4700. Fax: 310.789.4747. E- Status: Production mail: [email protected] She’s sexy, she’s smart, and she’s [email protected] Vibraphonist Terry Gibbs observed, dangerous to know - she’ll become any Company Type: Distributor man’s fantasy to get what she wants. But is At Cannes: Daniel Diamond “It’s like a little Carnegie Hall. it money or love that she’s after? (President),Bob Aaronson (VP of IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE Acquisitions & Co-Productions), Maura But this is so intimate. Drama Hoy (Director of International Director: Thomas Vinterberg Sales),Pamela Delaney (Director of Legal You play a slow song, Producer: Birgitte Hald Affairs),Sandra Staggs (Director of Cast: Claire Danes, Marketing & Publicity) and you can hear Status: Pre-production Acquisition Executive: Bob Aaronson Two lovers attempt to save their Office: every note because floundering relationship in a near-future RAT RACE everyone is listening.” world on the brink of spiritual collapse. Comedy THIS FILTHY EARTH Language: English Drama Director: Jerry Zucker Writer/Director: Andrew Kotting Producer: Jerry Zucker, Janet Zucker, Added the great George Shearing, Producer: Ben Woolford Sean Daniel, Jim Jack Cast: Ina Clough, Rebecca R Palmer, Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, John Cleese, “Of the many places I have played Demeiza Randall, Etta Kotting Rowan Atkinson, Kathy Bates, Cuba Status: Post-production Gooding Jr., Seth Green, Jon Lovitz, in recent years, I have not encountered A raw, passionate and very personal Amy Smart, Breckin Meyer, Paul interpretation of the Zola classic The Earth Rodriguez many audiences who know how to listen like by award-winning director Andrew Delivery Status: Post Production (Promo Kotting. The story of love and escape Reel) The Jazz Bakery patrons. when a stranger disturbs the continuity in A band of hapless misfits competes with an isolated rural community. each other in a hilarious scramble to be the It is a haven, and we are very belssed to have LATE NIGHT SHOPPING first to recover $2 million from a Silver such a place to go.” Comedy (88 mins) City train station locker. Language: English HARDBALL Director: Saul Metzstein Comedy Producer: Angus Lamont Language: English Help to assure the future of the Jazz Bakery. Cast: Luke De Woolfson, James Lance, Kate Director: Brian Robbins Ashfield, Enzo Cilenti, Heike Makatsch Producer: Michael Tollin, Herbert W. Make a donation today or book the Jazz Status: Screening Gains An upbeat, oddball comedy about the ups Cast: , Diane Lane and downs of sex and shelf-stacking in the Delivery Status: Post production (Promo Bakery for a private performance 21st century. Reel) JUMP TOMORROW A down-and out gambler and ticket Romantic Comedy (97 mins) scalper gets a chance to redeem himself Language: English when he coaches a rag-tag team Contact: Ruth Price - President & Artistic Director Director/Writer: Joel Hopkins from the projects. Producer: Nicola Usborne CLETIS TOUT Cast: Tunde Adebimpe, Natalia Verbeke, Romantic Comedy (98 minutes) Hippolyte Girardot, Language: English Status: Screening Director: Chris Ver Wiel An enchanting road movie which relates a Producer: Dan Grodnik, Matt Grimaldi, THE JAZZ BAKERY a non-profit organization humorous tale of passion, romance and Robert Snukal friendship. Cast: Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfus, Office: 1836 Benedict Canyon, MY BROTHER TOM Portia de Rossi, RuPaul, Billy Connolly Drama (110 mins) and Tim Allen Beverly Hills CA 90210 Language: English Delivery Status: Complete (Screening Director: Dom Rotheroe AFM) Tel: 310.275.8961 • Fax: 310.275.9931 Producers: Carl Schoenfeld Two thieves set out to recover diamonds Cast: Ben Whishaw, Jenna Harrison from an old heist but go on the run when The Jazz Bakery Performance Space located Status: Screening one is mistaken for a murdered journalist. When Tom comes crashing into Jessica’s life in the historic Helms Bakery Complex from the boughs of a burning tree, she is both alarmed and intrigued by his dark 3233 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles Ca 90034 • nature. The woods are Tom’s sanctuary from Send press releases to his distressing home life and they become Information telephone: 310.274.9039 the world where he and Jessica form a bond [email protected] which is powerful and uncompromising.

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INTERSTATE 60 DRIVEN CAVEMAN’S VALENTINE Comedy/Fantasy/Adventure FOUNTAINHEAD Director: Director: Kasi Lemmons Language: English FIILMWORKS Producers: Elie Samaha, Sylvester Producers: Danny Devito, Michael Director: Bob Gale Fountainhead Fiilmworks, 1930 Village Stallone, Renny Harlin Shamberg, Stacy Sher, Scott Frank, Elie Producer: Neil Canton Center Cr. #3, Suite 448, Las Vegas, NV Executive Producers: Andrew Stevens, Samaha, Andrew Stevens Cast: James Marsden, , 89134 USA. Te;” 702.804.9410. Fax: Don Carmody, Kevin King Executive Producers: Samuel L. Jackson, Harvey Keitel, Kurt Russell, Michael J. 702.804.9417. Website: Cast: , Burt Reynolds, Julie Yorn, Eli Selden, Nicolas Clermont Fox, Amy Smart, , fountainheadfilmworks.com Kip Pardue, Stacy Edwards, Til Cast: Samuel L. Jackson Amy Jo Johnson At Canens: Lorenzo Doumani (President Schweiger, Gina Gershon, , A mysterious homeless man living in Delivery Status: Complete (Screening -International Sales), Chad Christensen Christian De La Fuente central park, who was himself once a AFM) (Sales Agent)Office: Carlton After a tragic racing accident, a member of the elite, aids New York police When a young man takes a mysterious Intercontinental, Office No. 146 disenchanted race car driver is lured back in apprehending the “society” murderer of journey down a highway that doesn’t exist, Tel: 33.(0).4.93.06.41.46. Fax: to the tracks to help a younger racer a young boy. his life is changed forever. 33.(0).4.93.06.68.46 become world champion. GREEN DRAGON AMERICAN RHAPSODY VEGAS: C.O.D. HEIST Directors: Tim Bui Drama (103 Minutes) Thriller Director / Writer: David Mamet Producers: Elie Samaha, Andrew Stevens, Language: English/Hungarian Language: English Producers: Art Linson, Elie Samaha, Tony Bui, Tajamika Paxton Director: Eva Gardos Director: Lorenzo Doumani Andrew Stevens Executive Producer: Forest Whitaker, Producer: Collen Camp, Bonnie Producer: Lorenzo Doumani Executive Producer: Don Carmody, Alison Semenza Timmerman Production Status: Completed (93 Tracee Stanley, James Holt Cast: Forest Whitaker, Patrick Swayze Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Scarlett minutes) Cast: Gene Hackman, Danny Devito, Set in California in 1975, two young Johansson, Tony Goldwyn Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell vietnamese children are sent to live in the Delivery Status: Complete Cast: John Taylor, Erika Eleniak, Brenda Three expert jewel thieves pull off a grand orientation camp at the Camp Pendleton Based on a true story, this moving and epic Epperson heist. After they repeatedly double-cross marine base. drama unfolds against a backdrop of Three sisters are forced to solve what they each other only one will finally survive to RENNIE’S LANDING political turmoil and personal rebellion as believe to be their younger sister’s murder keep the entire take. Director: Marc Fusco a family searches for its identity. when she fails to show for a Las Vegas PLAN B Producers: Michel Shane, Michael A SHOT AT GLORY (AKA “THE Christmas family reunion. Director: Greg Yaitanes Garrity, Mike Gabrawy And Tony CUP”) KNOCKOUT Producers: Matt Salinger, Steven Romano Drama (114 Minutes) Action Adventure Hoffman Cast: Peter Facinelli, Charlotte Ayanna, Language: English Language: English Executive Producers: Elie Samaha, , Scott Foley Director: Michael Corrente Producer/Director: Lorenzo Doumani Andrew Stevens To recapture the idealistic spirit from their Producer: , Rob Carliner, Cast: Eduardo Yanez, Tony Plana, Maria Cast: Diane Keaton, Paul Sorvino college days, four friends reunite and defy Michael Corrente Conchita Alonso Status: Completed “the system” by planning a bank robbery Cast: Robert Duvall, Ally McCoist, Cole Production Status: Completed (100 A female bookkeeper who works for a and becoming modern day “robin hoods.” Hauser, Brian Cox, Kirsty Mitchell, minutes) small-time gangster thinks she killed three Morag Hood A female Latina boxer fulfills her father’s mobsters and is subsequently promoted by Delivery Status: Complete dream of becoming a boxing champion. her boss to be a “hitman.” FUSION A soccer team from a small fishing village MORE MERCY INTERNATIONAL must win the Scottish Cup against all odds FREE SPIRITS FILM Director: Jay Andrews Fusion International Sales Corp., 1551 or be sold to Ireland. Producers: Don Key, Alison Semenza Ocean Avenue, #260, Santa Monica, CA THE BELIEVER PRODUCTIONS. Cast: Tba 90401 USA. Tel: 310.260.6153. Fax: Drama Free Spirits Film Productions. 130 Status: Pre-Production 310.260.6154. E-mail: [email protected] Language: English Muswell Hill Road, London N10 3JD UK. Homicide detective sandra marshall gets Company Type: Sales Agent, Distributor Director: Email: [email protected] lured into the dark underwold of the At Cannes: John Fremes (President) Producer: Henry Bean, Christopher Company Type: Production Company. ponrnographic while Office: Riviera K5/L6 Roberts At Cannes: Stuart Alson, International investigating a series of ritualistic murders. RPM Cast: Ryan Gossling, Summer Phoenix, Talent Network, New York, USA, 212 FINAL EXAMINATION Action] Billy Zane, 777 7100. Director: Ed Raymond Director: Ian Sharp Delivery Status: Post Production (Promo OFF THE BEATEN TRACK Producers: Clave Testicopolous, Alison Producer: Thomas Hedman Reel) Documentary, 65.” Semenza Cast: David Arquette, Famke Janssen, Based on a true story, this is the tale of a Language: English. Cast: TBA Emanuelle Seigner fervent religious student who becomes an Director: Jaap Mees Status: Pre-Production Delivery Status: Completed anti-Semitic neo-nazi, until the Producer: Jaap Mees/ Co-producer Billy After a malicious sorority prank claims the A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a contradictions of his life destroy him. Barton. life of a young college freshman, a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar. Delivery Status: completed. mysterious woman arrives on campus to TELL ME NO LIES seek vengeance on the perpetrators. Thriller FIRST HAND FILMS Budget: Low budget CITY BY THE SEA First Hand Films, Zurich Office: Off The Beaten Track is an Independent Director: Emmanuel Itier Director: Michael Caton-Jones Producer: Scarlett Petty John] Bahnhofstr. 21, CH-8180 Buelach, documentary on acclaimed Dublin banjo Producers: Brad Grey, Elie Samaha, Switzerland. Berlin Office: Friedrichstr, player Tommy Barton, aka The Gentleman Cast: Michael Caton-Jones, Matt Baer Delivery Status: Completed 123, D Ð 10117 Berlin, Germany. Tel: Busker. His three sons, all musicians, Executive Producers: Andrew Stevens, 41.1.862.21.06 / 49.30.285.290.88. Fax: travel back to Dublin to trace their father’s A sexy coed must go undercover to find Dan Klores, Robert Paradiso, Don her sister’s killer. 41.1.862.21.46 / 49.30.285.290.99. E- footsteps. Carmody mail: [email protected] SERIAL KILLERS: THE REAL LIFE Cast: Robert De Niro; Frances HANNIBAL LECTERS At Cannes: Esther Van Messel (CEO) Mcdormand; Eliza Dushku Office: Media, Tel: 41.79.335.15.72 FRANCHISE Docu-drama Status: Post - Production Director: Sean Buckley THE STATE I AM IN PICTURES The son of a convicted killer, now a Drama (104 min) Delivery Status: Completed Franchise Pictures, 8228 Sunset Blvd., respected detective, must bring in his own These real life Hannibal Lecters take you Language: German Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel: 323- son on suspicion of murder. Director: Christian Petzold on a journey to the grotesque and macabre 848-3444. Fax: 323-822-2165 ANGEL EYES world that these monsters lived in. Producer: Schramm Film Berlin At Cannes: Elie Samaha (Chairman), Director: Luis Mandoki Cast: Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer, Richy INTERSTATE 84 Andrew Stevens (President, C.O.O.), Lisa Producers: Elie Samaha, Mark Canton Mystery Muller Executive Producers: Andrew Stevens, Delivery Status: Completed Wilson (President, International Director: Ross Patridge Distribution), Nolan Pielak (International Neil Canton, Don Carmody Producer: Tonia Lynn Budget: $3 million USD Cast: , Jim Caviezel A girl who has never swapped clothes with Distribution) Cast: Kevin Dillon, John Littlefield, Office: Carlton Hotel Ð 137/138/139 Jennifer lopez plays a daring Megan Dodds friends, never skipped classes in school, policewoman in this romantic thriller set camped out at lakes, got drunk and broke THE PLEDGE Delivery Status: Completed Director: against the backdrop of chicago’s high A life is lost, a body found and nothing off with her boyfriend in an ice-cream crime district. parlor. Producers: Michael Fitzgerald, Sean will be more shocking than the truth. Penn, Elie Samaha 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND MINOTAUR Executive Producer: Andrew Stevens Director: Demian Lichtenstein Thriller Cast: Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright Producers: Elie Samaha, Demian Director: Jonathan English Lichtenstein, Richard Spero, Eric Manes, Penn, , Aaron Eckhart, Producer: Claude Leger, Michael Cowan, E-mail elspeth or Andrew Stevens Jason Piette Costas Mandylor, Mirren, Michael Executive Producers: Don Carmody, O’keefe, , Mickey Cast: TBD Tracee Stanley Delivery Status: pre-production Rourke, Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Cast: Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Stanton SANDMOTHER betsy@ Courteney Cox, Christian Slater, Kevin Thriller A retiring police chief of a small mid- Pollak, David Arquette, Jon Lovitz, Director: Jason Wulfsohn western town becomes obsessed with the Howie Long Producer: David Pupkewitz, Malcolm thebusinessoffilm.com recent murder of a little girl and makes a A gritty heist tale centering on a gang of Kohll solemn oath to her mother that he will ex-cons who rob a Las Vegas casino Cast: TBD catch the killer. during Elvis convention week. 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MARRIED UNMARRIED J’AI FAIM (I’M HUNGRY) DEAD MAN’S RUN MURDER.COM Sexual Thriller Comedy Suspense Thriller (95min) Action Adventure Director: Noli Director: Florence Quentin Cast: John Savage Delivery Status: In development Producer: Jonathan English, Kim Barnes, Cast: Catherine Jacob, Michele Laroque, On their way home from a weekend in Las Two cops unveil a twisted web of intrigue Michael Cowan, Jason Piette Alessandra Martines, Yvan Le Bolloc’h Vegas, two couples are kidnapped by a surrounding the kidnapping of a Delivery Status: Post-production Delivery Status: Post-Production psychotic killer. Carrying a duffel bag billionaire’s daughter. REDEMPTION ROAD A little overweight, not enough love! Right filled with five million dollars and a shot- NOCTURNE Comedy after receiving an unexpected inheritance gun, the killer holds the couples hostage in Horror Director: Lloyd Stanton and celebrating with her boyfriend a secluded mountain cabin. Delivery Status: In development Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, Barnabe, Lily gets dumped. STRIKE ZONE A group of musicians decide to Mark Andrews LE RAID (THE RACE) Action Adventure (97min) incorporate Renaissance music into their Delivery Status: Post-production Action Comedy Director/Writer: Chris Ingvordsen and Rock and Roll, but come to find that they *69 Director: Djamel Bensalah Matthew Howe have awakened Carlo Gesualdo: a Thriller Cast: Gerard Jugnot, , Producer: Chris Ingvordsen and Matthew Renaissance Composer Vampire. Director: Paul Hills Helene de Fougerolles, Roschdy Zem Howe FREEDOM BOAT Producer: Richard Godreau and Marie- Delivery Status: Shooting starting April Cast: Frank Zagarino, Billy Drago, Joe Drama Claude Poulin 2001 Lara Delivery Status: In development Cast: TBD I’M WITH LUCY An elite team of US Navy SEALS fights Set in post-war Vietnam, Freedom Boat is Delivery Status: pre-production Romantic Comedy off a band of terrorists from obtaining a the story of a little girl who escapes her Language: Original English version new deadly missile system. DEAD IN THE WATER Director: Jonathan Sherman SAVAGE SEASON war-torn country by raft only to be Thriller Delivery Status: Shooting starting in Action Adventure (95min) abducted by Pirates and held captive on an Director: Merlin Ward Spring 2001 Shot entirely in Digital Video and directed island. After a harrowing escape, the little Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, by world-renowned special effects and girl is rescued by an American vet who Merlin Ward weapons expert, Mike Tristano, Savage vows revenge on the island. Cast: Michael Elphick, Sophie Ward, GIANTS Season is a heist film like no other. When MOTORCITY Sophia Miles, Celia Imrie ENTERTAINMENT, an emerald heist goes wrong, a group of Action Adventure Delivery Status: Post Production thieves find themselves on a mysterious Delivery Status: In development A student is drawn into an affair with her INC island filled with deception and sexual Only one man stands in the way of a professor at an all girls’ school, then he Giants Entertainment, Inc, 5300 Melrose freedom. Japanese crime organization and their plot disappears. Ave. # B202, Los Angeles, CA 90038 ONE DAY AND A PC to take over downtown Los Angeles. REPLI-KATE USA. Tel: 323.960.4050. Fax: Comedy (95min) Luciano And Dewey (Story Of Lucky Teen Comedy 323.960.4051. E-mail: A man is convinced that his midlife crisis Luciano) Director: Frank Longo [email protected]. would be remedied by a multi million- Thriller Producers: Warren Zide and Craig Perry Website: dollar invention that is inside the hard Delivery Status: In development Cast: Ali Landry, James Roday, Eugene www.reelplay.com/giantsentertainment drive of his computer. Chronicles the events surrounding the life Levy, Desmond Askew At Cannes: David Dadon (Chairman), (THE MURDER IN) CHINA BASIN of Lucky Luciano and his battles with Delivery Status: Post-Production Lydia Dadon (Exec.Producer), Udo N. Neo-Noir (90 min) New York District Attorney Thomas E. A young lab assistant accidentally clones a von Tyrol, Tristram Buckly, Soheila The erotic and lyrical mystery begins at the Dewey. drop-dead gorgeous woman, and then Janoubi end, with George Guest, an aging eccentric, molds her to become every man’s dream Office: Carlton Hotel (check) is found murdered in China Basin. girl. VERY MEAN MEN SNAKE SKIN JACKET GLOBAL CINEMA MEGALODON Black Comedy, (97min) Film Noir (92 min) GROUP Thriller Director: Tony Vitale Cast: Matthew A mild-mannered banker lives a reclusive Global Cinema Group, 1007 Broxton Director: Gary J. Tunnicliffe Modine, Academy Award-winner Martin existence while embezzling from his Avenue, Suite 214 Los Angeles CA 90024 Producers: Stanley Isaacs and Pat Corbitt Landau and Ben Gazzara employer to pay for his father’s medical USA. Tel: 310.443.7788. Fax: Cast: Robin Sachs, Al Sapienza, Mark To frighten a tip out of a cheap customer needs Ð which could be good. 310.443.7739. E-mail: Sheppard (Landau), a clever bartender (Modine) Don Juan [email protected] Delivery Status: Post Production spins a zany and terrifying tale of two Adventure, Romance Comedy Company Type: Sales Agent Scientists aboard an arctic oil exploration notorious crime-families who go to war Cast: Billy Zane At Cannes: Peter Elson (President), Linda over a waitress stiffed out of a tip. submersible encounter the direct ancestor Delivery Status: Pre-production Schortz (Executive Assistant) FACE TO FACE SPAIN- Don Juan- Based on the Spanish of the great white shark, supposedly Comedy Drama (95min) Office: Carlton Hotel, Office 263, Tel: extinct for fifty million years. play about the greatest lover of all time, 334.9306.4263, Fax: 334.9306.4025 Cast: Scott Baio, Carlo Imperato, Thomas Don Juan, who, after five years of Calabro THE UNSAID romancing women, returns to his home to Thriller AUMONT Three Italian-American cousins, vow to settle a score with his archenemy - proving close the emotional gap between Language: English he has seduced more women than his rival. Director: Tom McLoughlin themselves and their fathers. BURNING KINGDOM BAD GUYS Producers: Tom Berry, Alex Campbell Horror (co-producer) GGaumont, International Sales, 30 avenue Action Adventure (95min) Cast: Costas Mandylor, Louis Mandylor Cast: Michael Madsen, Bryan Genesse Cast: Andy Garcia, Teri Polo, Vincent Charles de Gaulle, 92200 Neuilly, and Kartheiser France. Tel: 331.4643.2000. Fax: A D.E.A. agent is on assignment in a small Delivery Status: Pre-production town to deal with a small drug problem. Delivery Status: Post-Production 331.4643.2033. In a man’s search for immortality he A seemingly untroubled adolescent carries At Cannes: Franck Chorot (President, When the small problem unravels into a accidentally unleashes an uncontrollable large situation nothing is as it seems and disturbing secrets which compel a Worldwide Marketing & Distribution), demon from another dimension that can psychiatrist to his patient’s no one can be trusted. only be stopped by an ancient form of Philippe Rostain (President, International NEVER LOOK BACK gruesome past. Sales), Philippe de Chaisemartin (Senior witchcraft. Action Adventure (95min) PATHOLOGICAL YOU STUPID MAN Vice-President, International Sales Cast: Frank Zagarino, Charles Durning, Romantic Comedy Feature Films), Loic Trocme (Director, Suspense Thriller Burt Young Delivery Status: In development Language: English International Sales Feature Films), Ariane Imprisoned for seven years following an Director: Brian Burns Toscan du Plantier (Vice President A father and son dead. A group of life long accidental death in , innocent friends under suspicion. A detective who Producers: Tom Berry, Alex Campbell, International Marketing) pugilist Donovan Wallace cuts a deal for must expose a fanatical killer who has been George Gatins, Cathy Schulman, Rick Office: 55, La Croisette, 06400 Cannes. early parole in order to visit his dying plotting since childhood. A taut whodunit, Yorn Tel: 04.93.68.90.20. Fax: 04.93.68.70.88 mother. Unbeknownst to Donovan Pathological unravels as a web of Cast: Milla Jovovich, Denise Richards, Le Placard (The Closet) however, he is not being set free but rather, deception much in the vein of a Hitchcock David Krumholtz Comedy set up. in order to see his mother one last classic. Delivery Status: In Production Director: time. PHOENIX After being dumped by his newly famous Cast: Gerard Depardieu, , OUTLAW Action Adventure girlfriend, Owen reluctantly agrees to go Thierry Lhermitte, Michele Laroque Action Adventure (93min) Delivery Status: In development on a blind date with the Maid-of-Honor in Francois Pignon is an accountant in a big Cast: Michael Madsen, William Forsythe, A New York detective discovers a web of his best friend’s wedding. company. He’s about to be fired, when a Jeff Fahey, Cindy Ambuehl political intrigue and a woman that can THE FOURTH ANGEL rumor starts to go around that he’s gay. He A modern-day gunslinger is hired by a ruin his career while investigating a Thriller (95 minutes) is not, but the rumor triumphs. boyhood friend to find his father’s killer. A murder. Language: English JUST VISITING (LES VISITEURS classic tale of murder, deceit and passion. SONNY BOY Director: John Irvin EN AMERIQUE) IDES OF MARCH Drama Producers: Allan Scott, Peter Simpson Comedy Action Adventure (95min) Delivery Status: In development Cast: Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Language: Original English Version Cast: Gary Daniels, Michael Madsen Carlo Lucchetti, a respected Mafioso, is a Jason Preistley Director: Jean-Marie Gaubert International martial-arts expert stars with survivor of the great Mafia wars of the Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Michael Madsen in this tense thriller. Ex- early 30’s. After rising to power through The Fourth Angel tells the story of Jack , Tara Reid S.A.S Agent, Thomas Kane (Daniels), respect rather than fear, he had hoped that Elgin, a thoughtful and civilized man, who Just Visiting is a comedy about a heroic lives a life considered the American his only son would one day take over the is driven to extremes he never imagined knight from the Middle Ages, Thibault, dream, all the while employed by a killer- empire he built. But Sonny Boy had after seeing his family gunned down in an and his bumbling servant, Andre. for-hire company called The Organization. different plans. apparent terrorist attack.

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THE MYSTIC MASSEUR KRAITONG IN THE BEDROOM Comedy Action-Adventure (92 min) GOOD MACHINE Drama Language: English Director: Suthat Intaranupakorn INTERNATIONAL Director: Todd Field Director: Producer: Rawat Lertliangchai Good Machine International, 417 Canal Producers: Graham Leder, Ross Katz, Producer: Richard Hawley, Nayeem Hafizka Cast: Vinai Kraiboot, Champagne X, Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013 Todd Field Cast: Om Puri, Sakina Jaffrey, Aasif Madvi Wannasa Thongwiset USA. Tel: 212.343.9230. Fax: Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Delivery Status: Post-production Delivery Status: Production 212.343.7412. Marisa Tomei A high comedy with enearing characters The legend of a hero in Thailand that was At Cannes: David Linde ( President), Status: Post-Production which will touch your heart. famous for his brave act in killing the Glen Basner (Senior Vice President of An introspective drama, Todd Field’s “In monster crocodile. Sales), Amy Kaufman (Senior Vice the Bedroom” is a finely observed portrait FIST OF BLACK MASK President of Acquisitions and Co- of an upper-middle-class New England GMG Action-adventure (92 min) Productions), Noreen Ward (Senior family faced with sudden tragedy. In its PRODUCTIONS&DIST Language: Chinese Vice President of Operations), Beth delicate exploration of family dynamics Director: Jimmy Ko Binnard (Vice President of Publicity), and social mores, the film follows the RIBUTIONS Producer: Jimmy Ko Heta Paarte (Vice President of family as it gradually succumbs to its grief, GMG Productions & Distributions, Via Cast: Fan Siu Wong, Cheng Pei Pei, Tam Marketing) revealing its emotional core layer by layer, Ripa di Porta Ticinese, 33 - 20143 - Kwun Yee Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, with subtlety and restraint. Milano ÐItaly. Tel & Fax: 39 02 Delivery Status: Post Production Cormoran II, 7th Floor, 45 Boulevard de Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN 89403721 E-mail: [email protected]. An ordinary man with an ongoing steady la Croisette Drama Web: www.giannamariagarbelli.com lifestyle will sometimes disguise himself THEY Director: Alfonso Cuarón Company Type : Producer and as martial cop in bringing stability to the Director: Robert Harmon Producers: Jorge Vergara, Alfonso Cuarón Distributor public community. Producers: Tom Engelman / Radar Cast: Maribel Verdú, Gaël García Bernal, At Cannes: Gianna Maria Garbelli TREASURE HUNTER Pictures Diego Luna Producer & filmmaker &actress Action-Adventure (90 min) Status: Pre-Production Status: Post-Production Office: The Marketplace - Media Language: Chinese When an ex-boyfriend mysteriously kills An irreverent and sexually charged drama Programme Director: John Cheung himself, a young student decides there that explores relationships, friendships, Tel a Cannes mobile: 39.339.1897834 Producer: Tse Yuen may be more to certain childhood fears and the value of life in the face of death. TENTAZIONI METROPOLITANE Cast: David Leung, Chin Kar Lok, Benny than meets the eye. (JAILBIRDS) Lai ASH WEDNESDAY Drama 111 min Delivery Status: Complete Drama GREENLIGHT Language: Italian with English subtitles The heroic sea dragons contend with evil Director: Edward Burns INTERNATIONAL Director: Gianna Maria Garbelli terrorists for a cache of lethal computer Producer: Edward Burns, Margot Bridger Greenlight International, Lorentzweg 46 Producer: Gianna Maria Garbelli crystals. Cast: Edward Burns, , B, 1221 EH Hilversum, Netherlands. Tel: Cast: Gianna Maria Garbelli - , ANGEL COP “FINAL CRISIS” Rosario Dawson, Oliver Platt 31.(0)35.642.0677. Fax: Stephane Ferrara, Maurizio Donadoni Action-Adventure Status: In Production 31.(0)35.642.0668. E-mail: Delivery status: completed Language: Chinese Set in 1983 New York, ASH [email protected] Budget 1.000.000USD Director: Lam Pak Han WEDNESDAY is a thrilling drama about At Cannes: Rick van den Heuvel “Garbelli turns in a remarkable Producer: Ma Yuk Sing two brothers trying to escape their past. (President & CEO), Sebastian Jaegers performance in her debut film as Cast: Elaine Ng, Wong Pui Har, Ng Ngai ADAPTATION (Sales Executive) director/star - an urban fairytale with more Cheung Comedy Hotel: Sofitel Ð 04 92 99 73 00 Ð Rick than a hint of Pretty Woman as she strives Delivery Status: Complete Director: Holiday Inn Ð 04 93 69 11 69 - Sebastian to re-build her life. Others project in pre: A fatal adventure between the angel cop Producer: Vincent Landay, Jonathan SIMSALAGRIMM THE MOVIE “The Unexpected Journey” -Adventure and the terrorists in hunting the missing Demme, Ed Saxon Animation (80 minutes) “An Italian Fighter” -Sport & Passion missiles. Cast: Nicholas Cage, , Chris Director: Gerd Hahn “ Mother Nature” -Thriller A TASTE OF KILLING A ROMANCE Cooper Producer: Stefan Beiten, André Sikojev, “A Temple For God” - Musical Action-Adventure (90 min) Status: In Production Nikolaus Weil Language: Chinese ADAPTATION is the story of Charlie Status: In production GOLDEN NETWORK Director: Chan Ching Yee Kaufman (Nicolas Cage), a confused Budget: $30 Million Producer: 100 Century Film L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by When an 11-year old bookworm named ASIA LIMITED Entertainment Ltd feelings of inadequacy, sexual Niklas creeps through a window of a Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit Cast: Andy Lau Tak Wah, Anita Yuen, frustration, self-loathing and by the haunted house, he is captured into the 1803A, Nanyang Plaza, 57 Hung To Christine Ng ambitions of his center of a fierce battle between the people Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Delivery Status: Complete freeloading twin brother Donald (also of the fairy-tale land Simsala, where Tel: 852.2751.1886. Fax: 852.2750.4862 A love story of the top assassin in a crime Nicolas Cage). wishes still come true and a ruthless secret E-mail: [email protected] syndicate. BUFFALO SOLDIERS government agency known as AIM Ð the Hotel: 5-B.3, Relais de la Reine, 42/43 La DRUNKEN MASTER III Drama / Dark Comedy Agency for the Investigation of Magic. Croisette Action-Adventure (92 min) Director: Gregor Jordan Tel.: 33.04.93382596 / 33.06.18831356 Language: Chinese Producer: Rainer Grupe, Ariane Moody Fax: 33.04.93382596 Director: Lau Kar Leung Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Ed LAW OFFICES OF At Cannes: Mr. Clarence TANG (Head of Producer: Chan Ping Ping Harris, Scott Glenn GREG S. BERNSTEIN Sales & Acquisitions) Cast: Andy Lau Tak Wah, Lee Kar Yam, Status: Post-Production Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, Simon Yam Tak Wah Based on the critically acclaimed novel, Company Type: Entertainment and GOLDEN SUN FILM Delivery Status: Complete “Buffalo Soldiers” is a haunting look at the Finance Law, Producer Representative The legend on heroism and patriotism in military at the end of the Cold War. 9601 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300A, Beverly CO., LTD. serving their loyalty to setting up a new THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE Hills, California, USA. Tel: Golden Sun Film Co., Ltd., 4 Floor, 7B government towards the downfall of the Drama, Film-Noir 310.247.2790. Fax: 310.247.2798. Dragon House, 7-7B Cameron Road, Ching Dynasty. Director: Joel Coen E-mail: [email protected]. Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel: Producer: Ethan Coen Website: www.thefilmlaw.com 852.2385.5939.2367.7073. Fax: Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances At Cannes: Greg S. Bernstein 852.2368.3873. E-mail: McDormand, James Gandolfini (Entertainment Attorney, Producer [email protected] Status: Post-Production Representative) At Cannes: Pam Yam A suspenseful film-noir melodrama from Office: Radisson Montfleury Cannes Office: THE BUSINESS OF the creators of “Fargo” and “Raising Tel: 011.33.4.93.68.86.86 FLYING DRAGON LEAPING TIGER Arizona,” “The Barber Movie” tells the Fax: 011.33.4.93.68.87.87 Martial Art Swords story of Ed Crane, a barber living in a Director: Allan Lan Hoi Han FILM small northern-Californian town in Producer: Lan Tien Hong 1949, who is utterly dissatisfied with his Cast: Sammo Hung, Jay Leung Jing, Fan life. Siu Wong, Cheng Pei Pei STORYTELLING Delivery Status: Complete Director: Todd Solondz A horse thief, also a very skillful martial Producers: Ted Hope, Christine Vachon L.A. Office Phone artist whose loyalty was torn between his Los Angeles Office Cast: Mark Webber, Selma Blair, Paul bloody brother and his beloved wife. Giamatti, John Goodman JADE SEAL & GOLDEN PIN Status: Post Production (323) 935-8228 Martial Art Swords 5150 Wilshire Blvd. The new film from Todd Solondz, the Language: Chinese writer/director of “Happiness” and Director: Chiang Kwok Kuen “ to the Dollhouse.” Producer: Lan Tien Hong Los Angeles “Storytelling” is, in form, a triptych: two L.A. Office FAX Cast: Chiu Man Chak, Chang Zhen, Fan stories and an epilogue set against the Siu Wong, Jay Leung, Cheng Pei Pei sadly comical terrain of high school and Delivery Status: Development California 90036 college, past and present. Following the (323) 935-8229 Heroism, Patriotism normally emphasizes in paths of its young hopeful/despairing martial world will also make true friends characters, it explores issues of sex, race, betray each other because of love and hatred. celebrity, and atrocity.

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GRUPO NOVO DE I GIORNI DELL’AMORE E TEARS FROM HEAVEN SHOT IN THE HEART DELL’ODIO (CEFALONIA) Action Drama (running time tbd) CINEMA E TV LTDA Drama (100 min) Language: English Language: English Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV Ltda, Rua Regia: Claver Salizzato Producer: Marco Polo Production Director: Marechal Niemeyer 24, 22251-060 Rio de Cast: Daniele Liotti, Liberto Rabal, Cast: Dida Diafat Producer: Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Janeiro Ð RJ, Brazil . Tel: 5521.539.1538, Mandala Tayde, Ricky Tognazzi, Ugo Delivery Status: In Development John Finnerty Fax: 5521.266.3637 Pagliai, Sarah Miles A young gang member travels to Thailand Cast: Giovanni Ribisi, Elias Koteas, At Cannes: Tarcisio Teixeira Vidigal Produzione: Metropolis Film srl to learn Thai boxing and becomes a world Campbell Scott, Eric Bogosian with Amy (Director), Lucia Fares (Production), The plot takes place in the island of champion. Madigan and Sam Shepard Antonio Urano (International Director ), Cefalonia during Nazifascim. Two young Delivery Status: In production Daniela Ribeiro (Sales Agent), Alessandra brothers, Wolfgand and Helberg, are During the week before Gary Gilmore’s Durso (Sales Agent), Jo‹o Vargas Penna separated by the war, which drives them to Action execution, his estranged brother tries to (Sales Agent) fight one against the other. Language: English persuade Gary to fight his death sentence, Hotel: Appia Hotel , Tel: 04.14.44.40.18 QUANDO UNA DONNA NON DORME Producer: Lucky 7 & Marco Polo only to find himself confronting the E-mail: [email protected] Drama (109 min) Production memories of his troubled family history. CHRONICALLY UNFEASIBLE Regia: Nino Bizzarri Director: Chris Nahon by Sergio Bianchi Cast: Francesca Schiavo, Vincenzo Peluso Delivery Status: Preproduction RETURN Produzione: Metropolis Film srl An ex policeman is hired as a special agent by Flavio Frederico Bruno is a brilliant university researcher to infiltrate the Mafia and stop their HIGHLAND CREST POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS while in his private life is a gigolo. ambitious plan of joining forces with all PICTURES by AndréKlotzel other Syndicates to control the world. He Highland Crest Pictures, 7471 Melrose LATITUDE ZERO meets and falls in love not knowing that Ave. Suite 7, Los Angeles, CA 90046 by Toni Venturi ANNIBAL she is the best hitman for the Japanese USA. Tel: 323.852.9848. Fax: TOO MUCH BRAZIL PICTURES Mafia. 323.658.7265. E-mail: by Vicente Amorim and David Franéa [email protected]. Website: Mendes www.HighlandCrestPix.com HHannibal Pictures, 1361 N. Laurel HBO ENTERPRISES VILLA LOBOS, A LIFE OF PASSION Company Type: Sales Agent/Producer THE CALL OF GOD Avenue #10, West Hollywood, CA 90046 HBO Enterprises, 1100 Avenue of the At Cannes: Douglas Witkins (President), by José Joffily USA. Tel: 323.848.2945. Fax: 323- Americas, New York, NY 10036 USA. Tel: Milda Witkins ALMOST NOTHING 848.2946. E-mail address: 212.512.1000. Fax: 212.512.5698 Office: Riviera Ð J4 by Sergio Rezende [email protected] Company Type: distributor THE ASSASSINATION AMÉLIA Company Type: Sales Agent, Distributor, At Cannes: Charles Schreger (President), Action Thriller (120 min) by Ana Carolina Producer Suzanne Barron (Director, International Language: English TONIC DOMINANTE At Cannes: Richard Rionda Del Castro (CEO), Sales), Heather McVicar (Director, Director: George A. Romero by Lina Chamie Patricia Rionda Del Castro (Vice President) Marketing) Producers: Michael Carrazza, T.J. THE DOG’S WILL Office: Noga Hilton, Suite 308, Tel: Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite #134 Castranovo, Sandy Martin by Guel Arraes 068.770.9467 Tel: 33.4.97.06.85.34 Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Ed Harris, James ABSOLON Fax: 33.4.97.06.85.36 Coburn, Anthony Quinn, Luis Guzman, Action Seymour Cassell, Elizabeth Pena GRUPPO MINERVA Language: English Dinner With Friends Drama (92 min) Delivery Status: pre-production INTERNATIONAL Director: Russell Mulcahy Budget: $25 million Producer: Lucky 7 - Marco Polo Language: English Gruppo Minerva International, Indirizzo Director: The epic, true story of the CIA’s bungled in Italia: Via Domenico Cimarosa, 18 Production involvement in the assassination of Cast: Christopher Lambert Producer: Laura Ziskin, Norman Jewison, CAP e città: 00198, Roma. Tel: Margo Lion and Daryl Roth ruthless Dominican Republic dictator 39.06.84242430 / 85358648 / 8543841 Delivery Status: Preproduction Rafael Trujillo. Fax: 39.06.8558105. The world 10 years in the future is gripped Cast: Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell, BROKEN VESSELS E-mail: [email protected] by the worst virus ever in man kinds Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette Thriller (90 min.) Web: www.minervapictures.com. history. Everyone is forced to take a drug Delivery Status: complete Language: English At Cannes: Gianluca Curti (Managing in order to live. A detective unknowingly A couple is forced to examine their Director: Scott Ziehl Director & CEO), Cristina Cassano carries the antidote in his blood and has seemingly happy marriage when their Producers: Scott Ziehl, Roxana Zal (International Sales Executive), Francesca three days to help develop a cure and save best friends marriage disintegrates. Cast: Todd Field, Jason London, Roxana Mariani (Sales Assistant) the entire population. STRANGER INSIDE Zal Office: Cannes Riviera booth n. K3 DAYS OF RAGE Drama (92 min) Delivery Status: completed DIAPASON DOGME # 11 Action, Family, Thriller Language: English Budget: $2.5 million Metropolitan thriller (90 min) Language: English Director: Cheryl Dunye A rookie paramedic follows his veteran Regia: Antonio Domenici Producer: Millbrook Production & Marco Producer: Jim McKay, and partner into a deadly free-fall from which Cast: David D’Ingeo, Alex Van Damme, Polo Production Effie Brown there is no escape. “Best Picture,” Los Michele Leroi Director: Sydney Furie Cast: Yolonda Ross, Davenia McFadden, Angeles Festival. Produzione: Gruppo Minerva International Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Maria Bravo Rain Phoenix IT’S ALL GOOD Anno di produzione: 2000 Delivery Status: Preproduction Delivery Status: complete Documentary/Reality Two stories take place and twist together one DEAD END A young girl who has been in and out of Language: English Thriller (92 min) night in Rome. An elderly producer trying to the juvenile detention system is transferred Director: David Hoffman convince a beautiful actress playing a role in Language: English Producer: Andrea Elliot, Jeanne Hoffman Producer: Bill Lewski to the State Facility for Women where her his film; and a group of social outcasts in goal is to fulfill her dream of meeting her Cast: Arlo Eisenberg, Ryan Jacklone their desperate attempts to survive . Director: Iren Koster Delivery Status: completed LA BANDA (THE SQUAD) Cast: William Snow, Victoria Hill mother, a seasoned convict serving a life Budget: $1 million Action Drama Pulp (117 min) Delivery Status: Completed sentence in the same prison. Two rival skating teams prepare and Regia: Claudio Fragasso (the director of When ex-detective turned Best Selling CONSPIRACY: THE MEETING AT compete in a worldwide skating ‘Milano-Palermo solo andata,’ True Crime author Todd Russell is WANNSEE competition. the Italian box-office hit of the year confronted by a copycat serial killing he Drama (96 min) SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY 1998) investigated as a copy 10 years ago, he Language: English Action/Adventure (90 min.) Cast: Edoardo Leo, Ivan Lucarelli, becomes the prime suspect. Director: Frank Pierson Language: English Giampiero Lisarelli, Claudio Vanni THE FLYING DUTCHMAN Producer: Frank Pierson, Peter Zinner, Director: Adam Bernstein Produzione: Gruppo Minerva Thriller (90 min) Frank Doelger and David M. Thompson Producers: David Collins, Michael International Language: English Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, Naughton, Adam Bernstein Anno di produzione: 2001 Producer: Richard Rionda Del Cast: Norman Reedus, Adrien Brody, A guy joins a gang of young yobs living in Castro/Chris Arnold Delivery Status: complete Deborah Harry the suburbs of Rome. Director: Robin P. Murray A chilling drama about the true-life Delivery Status: completed GABRIELE (GABRIEL) Cast: Eric Roberts, , meeting among high-ranking Nazi officers Budget: $2.5 million Drama (95 min) Catherine Oxenberg at the start of WWII to determine the Final An eighteen-year-old ‘mama’s boy’ joins Regia: Maurizio Angeloni Delivery Status: Completed Solution. the mob with unexpected results. Cast: Mario Scaccia, Demetra Hampton, Thriller set in an old town in middle 61* Loredana Cannata, Laura Lattuada America weaves a story of sexuality and Drama (128 min) serial murder. Produzione: Gruppo Minerva Language: English International REQUIEM The Business Anno di produzione: 2001 Thriller-Action Director: Billy Crystal ‘Gabriel’ tells the story of Francesco Language: English Producer: Billy Crystal, Ross Greenburg Of Film Possenti, a bourgeois from a wealthy Producer: Marco Polo Production Cast: Thomas Jane, Berry Pepper, family, who gets irresistibly drawn by faith Director: Robin P. Murray at Cannes and, still very young, becomes a priest Cast: Michael Keaton, Jane March Delivery Status: complete with the name of Gabriele. He was Delivery Status: Preproduction The true story of the pursuit of Babe Direct Editorial Line beatified at the end of the 19th century, An art dealer travels to a small town where she Ruth’s home run record by New York after a difficult and troubled process pled is unknowingly being pursued by a satanic cult Yankees stars Roger Maris and Mickey 04.93.06.41.49 by his spiritual father ‘Norberto.’ who want to use her in the master plan. Mantle

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HORIZON THE TRANCE IFDC, INC. Thriller (95 min) Thriller IFDC, Inc. (International Film ENTERTAINMENT Language: Japanese Director: Joe Ahearne Distribution Consultants), 1888 Century LTD. Director: Producers: Bill Shapter Park East, Suite 1900, Los Angeles, CA Producer: Taka Ichise Cast: , Susannah Harker and 90067 USA. Tel: 310.284.6858. Fax: Horizon Entertainment Ltd., Suite 205 -- Cast: , , 1040 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, B.C. Christopher Cazenove 310.552.1814. Hitomo Sato Delivery Status: In Production At Cannes: Jerome Bliah (President) Canada, V6B 2R9. Tel. 604.632.1707. Delivery Status: Completed Fax. 604.632.1607. E-mail. A daring art theft goes wrong when one of Office: Private Residence, Tel: Budget: $6 million the thieves loses his memory; hypnosis is 06.11.52.49.72 (Jerome Bliah’s mobile) [email protected] A reporter tracks victims of a video that At Cannes. Robert Straight (President), the only way to get it back. Fax: 04.93.99.45.34. kills within one week of seeing it unless it FOYLE’S WAR Michele Taverna (Director of Sales), is shown to someone else. ONE MAN’S WAR Beverley Straight (Director of THE RING 0 Director: Jeremy Silbertson Drama (91 min) Development) Thriller (98 min) Producer: Jill Green Director: Sergio Toledo Office: Riviera G9/G11 (Internet Language: Japanese Cast: Michael Kitchen Producer: Graham Benson, Colin Studios/Onlinfilmssales), Tel: Director: Norito Tsurata Delivery Status: Pre-Production Callender 323.816.7745 (cel) Producer: Shinji Ogawa England, 1941. When the wife of a Sussex Cast: Anthony Hopkins, , INUGAMI Cast: Yukie Nakama, Seicht Tanabe, magistrate is found decapitated in the Drama (105 min) Kumiko Aso woods, a swastika painted on a nearby Delivery Status: Completed Language: Japanese Delivery Status: completed tree, Detective Inspector Christopher Based on a shocking true story, a South Director: Budget: $6 million Foyle is called in to investigate. American family resists a brutal Producer: Masato Hara A reporter investigating her finace’s death WHAT WOMEN WANT dictatorship and fights for what they Cast: Yuki Amami, Atsuro Watabe, discovers a mysterious young woman Romantic Comedy believe in. Kazuhiro Yamaji whose thoughts are lethal. Director: Nancy Meyers VOYAGE Delivery Status: completed KILLER BUD Producers: Bruce Davey, Matt Williams, Action/Adventure (90 Minutes) A single woman’s hidden past collides Comedy (94 min) Susan Cartsonis, Nancy Meyers, Gina Director: John MacKenzie with her lover’s unknown identity with Language: English Producer: John Davis, Tarak Ben Ammar, results that nearly destroy an isolated Matthews Peby Guisez, Merril Karpf Director: Karl T. Hirsch Cast: Mel Gibson, , Marisa Japanese community that is under the veil Producer: Richard Mann Cast: Rutger Hauer, Eric Roberts, Karen of a curse. Tomei Allen, Cast: David Faustino, Caroline Keenan, Delivery Status: Completed THE RING Robert Stack Delivery Status: Completed Thriller (95 min) After a bizarre bathroom accident, A couple embarks on a high seas Delivery Status: completed professional chauvinist Nick Marshall Language: Japanese Budget: $3,000,000 adventure across the Mediterranean to Director: Hideo Nakata suddenly finds himself able to hear save their troubled marriage. Two tenage boys face hilarious women’s thoughts. Realising that he could Producer: Shinya Kawai consequences when they attempt to seduce YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA Cast: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani two girls on a double date. use this power to oust his new female boss, CLAUS Delivery Status: completed WICKED he gets himself into even deeper trouble Family Drama (90 Minutes) Budget: $6 million Thriller (96 min) when he falls madly in love with her. Director: Charles Jarrot An estranged couple reunite to save Language: English THE MARTINS (AKA TOSSPOT) Producer: Duke Fenady themselves and their son by uncovering Director: Michael Steinberg Comedy/Drama Cast: Charles Bronson the curse locked in a video that kills Producer: Frank Bedoor Director/Writer: Tony Grounds Delivery Status: Completed viewers in one week. Cast: Julia Stiles, Patrick Muldoon Producers: Greg Brenman, Dixie Linder, Virginia is a little girl who lives in New MANAGUA Delivery Status: Completed Bruce Davey York City at the turn of the century, whose Action/Thriller (108 min) Budget: $4 million Cast: Lee Evans, , Linda faith in Christmas rekindles the faith and Language: English A killer is loose inside the tranquil gated Bassett hope of those around her. Director: Michele Taverna community where 15-year-old Ellie is Delivery Status:: Completed Producer: Robert Straight growing up fast as she takes the place of When Robert Martin fails to win another IFM FILM Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., John Savage her murdered mom. competition, he decides to steal a dream Delivery Status: completed Budget: $4 million holiday instead, dragging his wife, his kids ASSOCIATES INC and the mother-in-law along for the ride. IFM Film Associates Inc, 1328 East A lost friend. A lost war. A mission of CON Palmer Avenue, Glendale, CA 91205, madness and mercy. He was forced to USA. Tel: 818.243.4976. Fax: choose between his country and his friend. ENTERTAINMENT IFD FILMS AND ARTS RUPERT’S LAND 818.550.9728. E-mail: [email protected] INTERNATIONAL At Cannes: Antony I. Ginnane Comedy (93 min) IIcon Entertainment International, The LIMITED (President), Ann (Executive Vice Language: English Quadrangle, 180 Wardour Street, London IFD Films and Arts Limited, Flat 4, 3rd Director: Jonathan Tammuz Floor, Block B, Vigor Industrial Building, President), Anthony J. Lyons (Vice W1V 3AA. Tel: 44.(0)20.7494.8100. Fax: President International), David Makhlout Producer: Ian Tracey 44.(0)20.7494.8101 14-20 Cheung Tat Road, Tsing Yi, New Cast: George Wendt, Ian Tracey Territories, Hong Kong. Tel: (Sales Executive) At Cannes: Bruce Davey (Chairman), Office: L7 (Riviera Village), Tel: Delivery Status: completed Jamie Carmichael (Director of 852.2730.0048. Fax: 852.2730.8756. E- Budget: $4 million mail: [email protected]. Website: 334.92.99.32.07, Fax: 334.93.38.08.39 International Distribution), Simon Crowe THE HIT Half brothers travel to their father’s (Head of TV Sales), James Norrie (Sales http://www.ifd.com.hk Thriller (90 minutes) funeral on what becomes a very strange Manager), Isabelle Lherondel (Marketing Company Type: Producer and Distributor trip. Manager), Caroline Johnson (Head of At Cannes: Joseph Lai (CEO) Delivery Status: Pre- Production THE LAST STOP International Marketing) Office: HK Pavilion in Riviera Ð HK08 Director: TBA Thriller (93 min) Office: WONDERS & WONDERS EPISODE Producer: David Doerksen, Leanne Arnott Language: English WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE AND 1-13 A husband organizes a murder contract on his ex-wife through an intermediary, but Director: Mark Malone YOUNG (13 x 30 min) Producer: Colleen Nystedt Action when he has a change of heart, he is unable Language: Mandarin, Cantonese & to halt the process and has to stop the Cast: Adam Beach, Jurgen Prochnow, Director/Writer: Randall Wallace, from English Rose McGowan unknown killer himself. the book by Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and Joe Director: Ng Kim Hung Delivery Status: completed Galloway TORRENT Budget: $3,500,000 Producer: Rigo Jesu & Stephen Ching Thriller (90 minutes) Producers: Bruce Davey, Stephen Cast: Jin MingDe, Shi ZhaoJie & Fang A cop investigating a bank robbery visists McEveety, Randall Wallace Director: Hugo Steiglitz a snowed in motel where guests begin YuanQing Producer: Peter Hamilton Cast: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Delivery Status: Completed turning up dead. Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliot, Chris Klein, Delivery Status: In Production MR. RICE’S SECRET Educational and Entertaining. Inspired by Four women, friends from college meet Barry Pepper, Don Duong the world’s greatest inventions like Drama (94 min) Delivery Status: Starts Principal up 10 years later on a rafting compass, printing, the kids roma about the Language: English Photography 5th March 2001 adventure. The trip becomes a Director: Nick Kendall This gigantic action film is based on the universe and the natural world, unbounded nightmare. Producer: Colleen Nystedt true story of Colonel Hal Moore’s by the time and space and experience RAVEN’S RIDGE Cast: David Bowie, Bell Switzer, Teryl extraordinary military service in the first endless Wonders & Wonders. Thriller (89 min) Rothery days of the Vietnam War and his dynamic DRAGON THE MASTER Language: English Delivery Status: Completed leadership of the 7th Air Cavalry. 90 min Director: Mike Upton Budget: $3,500,000 THE MAN WHO SUED GOD Language: Mandarin Producer: Mike Upton A man befriends a ten-year-old boy and Romantic Comedy Director: Stephen Ma Cast: William Kendall, Dawn Howard, leaves him messages of hope that send the Director: Mark Joffe Producer: Joseph Lai and Betty Chan Philip Connery boy on an excursion of self-discovery. Producer: Ben Gannon Cast: Dragon Shek Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Billy Connolly, Judy Davis Delivery Status: Filming Six friends rob an armored car and bury Delivery Status: In production Budget: US $2 million the money from the heist. When they come Now Online: A boisterous romantic comedy about a About the struggle of two young martial to dig it back up a few weeks later the man who decides to sue God for damages artists, an excellent combination of the money is missing and a mysterious www.thebusinessoffilm.com after his fishing boat is destroyed by a bolt power of and as playful & stranger is systematically stalking and of lightening. funny as Jacky Chan. killing them one by one.

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SOLITUDE THE DANGEROUS LIVES OF FOGBOUND THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE Drama (89 minutes) ALTAR BOYS Drama (92 minutes) Thriller Director: Robin Schlaht Drama Language: English Language: English Producer: Robin Schlaht, David Director: Peter Care Director: Ate de Jong Director: Alan Parker Christensen Producers: Jodie Foster, Meg LeFauve, Producer: Angela Roessel Producer: Nicolas Cage Cast: , Vanessa Martinez, Jay Shapiro Cast: Orla Brady, Ben Daniels, Jeroen Cast: Cate Blanchett, Nicolas Cage, Wendy Anderson Executive Producers: John Watson, Guy Krabbé, Luke Perry Delivery Status: Completed McElwaine, Pen Densham, Graham King Delivery Status: Post-production Delivery Status: pre-production They came from the city in search of a Cast: Jena Malone, Jodie Foster, Kieran A married couple and their best friend are A reporter investigates the impending simpler life. It was harder to find than they Culkin, Emile Hirsh trapped by fog on a dangerous mountain road. execution of an ex-anti-death penalty expected. Status: Completed The tension between them rises to the boiling activist accused of rape and murder. SWEET REVENGE The dramatic tale of a group of Catholic point. The next morning, when the fog finally Thriller (92 minutes) school friends who are caught drawing an lifts, one of the three best friends is dead. Erotic Thriller Director: Gordon McLennan obscene comic book and plan a heist that K-PAX Language: English Producer: David Doerksen, Leanne Arnott will not only outdo all their previous Drama Director: John McTiernan Cast: Richard Greico, Brigitte Bako, Greg stunts, but will make them local legends. Language: English Producers: Mario Kassar, Andy Vajna Evigan Director: Iain Softley Cast: Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin Delivery Status: pre-production An unusual and subversive twist on the INTERMEDIA Cast: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Alfre Sharon Stone returns in the long-awaited average thriller in which a woman Intermedia, 9-13 Grosvenor Street, Woodard, Mary McCormack sequel to the box office blockbuster Basic searches for the man who betrayed her. London W1K 4QA UK. Tel: Delivery Status: Post-production Instinct. Bisexual crime novelist and DEAD EVIDENCE 44.20.7495.3322. Fax: 44.20.7495.3993. K-PAX tells the story of Prot (Kevin murder suspect Catherine Tramell this Thriller (94 minutes) E-mail: [email protected]. Spacey), a mysterious patient at a mental time exercises her considerable charms on Director: Charlie Haskell Intermedia in Los Angeles, 8490 Sunset hospital who claims to be from a distant an over-ambitious male psychiatrist, who Producer: Tim Sanders Boulevard, Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA planet K-PAX. falls under her hormone-churning spell Cast: Kevin Smith, Angela Dotchin, C. 90069 USA. Tel: 310.777.0007. Fax: SLAP HER SHE’S FRENCH while he struggles to establish the truth Thomas Howell 310.777.0008. E-mail: Teen Comedy about her seemingly wicked ways. Delivery Status: Post Production [email protected] Language: English IRIS A hard nosed ex cop and a pretty young Office: Salon Sirocco, Carlton Inter- Director: Melanie Mayron Drama Private I. hunt down a serial killer. Continental, 58, La Croisette - B.P. 155 - Producers: Beau Flynn, Jonathan King, Language: English BEYOND JUSTICE 06414 Matthias Emcke Director: Richard Eyre Thriller (94 minutes) Cannes Cedex, France. Hotel Tel: Cast: Trent Ford, Jane McGregor, Producers: Anthony Minghella, Sydney Director: Geoffrey Cawthorne 33.(0)4.93.06.40.06 Michael McKean, Piper Perabo Pollack, Scott Rudin, Robert Fox Producer: Tim Sanders At Cannes: Moritz Bormann (Co- Delivery Status: Post-production Cast: , , Kate Cast: Jenifer Rubin, Dean O’Gorman Chairman), Guy East (Co-Chairman), Popular, successful and selfish high- Winslet Delivery Status: Post Production Nigel Sinclair (Co-Chairman), Jere school student Starla realizes the error of Delivery Status: pre-production Two private investigators discover the Hausfater (President, Motion Picture her ways when her position is gradually John Bayley, adoring husband to the truth behind a gangland drug deal gone Group, Worldwide Distribution and usurped by French exchange student famous novelist Dame , holds wrong Acquisition), Michael Dragotto Genevieve, who is not what she seems. on to what little he can as the witty, BLIND HEAT (Executive Vice President, Motion Picture ADAPTATION brilliant Iris slips into the devastation of Thriller (97 minutes) Group, Worldwide Distribution), Basil Comedy Alzheimer’s. A poignant, poetic evocation Delivery Status: Completed Iwanyk (President of Production) Language: English of a modern literary legend confronted Director: Adolfo Martinez Solares AFTER IMAGE Director: Spike Jonze with true love. Producer: Harry John Trube, Adolfo Psychological Thriller (92 minutes) Producer: Edward Saxon, Jonathan PLAGUE SEASON Martinez Solares Language: English Demme, Vincent Landay Crime Drama Cast: Maria Conchita Alonso, Jeff Fahey, Director: Robert Manganelli Cast: Nicolas Cage, Chris Cooper, Meryl Language: English J. Eddie Peck Producers: Christopher Nakis, John Streep Director: Ron Shelton An industrialist’s wife is kidnapped and Cocca Delivery Status: in production Producers: Caldecott Chubb, David held for ransom. Cast: Louise Fletcher, Robert Forster, A self-loathing screenwriter tries to Blocker, Sean Daniels, Jim Jacks John Mellencamp unravel the mystery behind a renegade Cast: Michael Michelle, Ving Rhames, A haunting psychological thriller environmentalist who steals orchids. Kurt Russell, Scott Speedman INITIAL energized by the passion between a crime K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER Delivery Status: pre-production ENTERTAINMENT scene photographer and a beautiful woman Action/Drama LA is in turmoil. Law and order threaten to who possesses psychic powers. Language: English break down and the LAPD have a top- GROUP Market Screening: None Director: Kathryn Bigelow secret mercenary division operating a Initial Entertainment Group, 3000 W. ENIGMA Producers: Sigurjón Sighvatsson, Chris shoot-to-kill policy. A young homicide Olympic Blvd., Ste 1550, Santa Monica, World War II Thriller (119 minutes) Whitaker, Kathryn Bigelow and Ed Feldman detective finds himself face to face with CA 90404 USA. Tel: 310.315.1722. Fax: Language: English Cast: Harrison Ford, , Peter his conscience and his partner when he 310.315.1723 Director: Sarsgaard discovers that the corruption goes right to At Cannes: Graham King (President), Producers: Lorne Michaels, Mick Jagger Delivery Status: in production the top. Schuyler Ha (Vice President Marketing), Cast: Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam, This is the true story of K-19, a Market Screening: None Andrea Tagliareni (Director of Dougray Scott, contaminated Soviet nuclear submarine UNTITLED WALTER SALLES Operations) When a young man invents the first searching for rescue in the middle of the PROJECT Office: Carlton Hotel, Suites 237, 238 computer that deciphers secret German U- North Atlantic. Driven by a ruthless but Period Drama/Love Story (TBC) boat codes during World War II, he falls in heroic captain, the crew races against time Language: English ALI love with the girl who tries to give his to repair a deadly radiation leak and Director: Walter Salles Bio-Drama secret to the enemy. prevent a nuclear explosion that threatens Producer: Carolyn Choa, David Lascelles, Director: Michael Mann SCRATCH to trigger World War III. Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack Producers: Jon Peters, James Lassiter, Documentary (90 minutes) THE QUIET AMERICAN Cast: , Benicio del Toro, Paul Ardaji, Michael Mann, A. Kitman Language: English Dramatic Thriller Geoffrey Rush Ho Director: Doug Pray Language: English A beautiful and devoted nun becomes the Executive Producers: Howard Bingham, Producers: Brad Blondheim, Ernest Meza Director: Phillip Noyce unwilling model for the brilliant Graham King Cast: DJ’s: Afrika Bambaataa, Jazzy Jay, Producers: Sydney Pollack, Staffan Florentine painter Fra Filippo Lippi. Cast: , Jamie Foxx, Mario Van MixMaster Mike, Q-bert, Ahrenberg, William Horberg CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL Peebles, Mykelti Williamson, Ron Silver, A feature-length that Cast: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do JonVoight explores the world of the hip-hop DJ from Thi Hai Yen Status: In Production the birth of hip-hop. Delivery Status: in production An epic story following the famed boxer THE DISCOVERY OF HEAVEN Saigon, 1952, a beautiful, exotic and THE BUSINESS OF Muhammed Ali’s early days and his rise in Drama mysterious city caught in the grip of the sports and politics. Language: English Vietnamese war of liberation from the FILM GANGS OF NEW YORK Director: Jeroen Krabbé French colonial powers. Drama Producer: Ate de Jong RESIDENT EVIL Director: Cast: , Jeroen Krabbé, Diana Action/Horror The ‘Independent’ choice Producer: Quick, Greg Wise Language: English Executive Producer: Harvey Delivery Status: Post-production Director: Paul Anderson Published Daily during the Weinstein, Michael Hausman, Two friends are drawn together by their Producers: Bernd Eichinger, Samuel Maurizio Grimaldi quest for knowledge, yet pulled apart by Hadida, Jeremy Bolt, Paul Anderson Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day- their desire for the same woman. Their Cast: Martin Crewes, Milla Jovovich, Cannes International Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson rivalry culminates in a thrilling climax of Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, Michelle Status: Post Production mystery, murder and deceit, unaware that Rodriguez, Colin Salmon Film Festival New York’s original gangsters in the 19th they are being manipulated by angels and Delivery Status: in production Century, who initiated the organized street the supernatural. A team of highly trained military soldiers gangs, fight for control of the city’s square off against the undead after a secret May 9th - 20th 2001 streets. government experiment goes wrong.

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INTERNATIONAL THE HUNDRED STEPS (I CENTO I DON’T KNOW TURUTU’ (EU NAO K-STAR PASSI) CONHECIA TURURU’) K-Star, 62-64, boulevard Pereire, Paris, FILM LIMITED Drama (114 min) Comedy (97 min) France, 75017. Tel: 331.43.18.17.20. International Film Limited, Room 2015- Language: Italian version with English Language: Brazilian with English Fax: 331.47.54.93.30. Email: k- 16, Asia Trade Centre, 79 Lei Muk Road, subtitles subtitles [email protected] Kwai Chung, N. T. Hong Kong. Tel: Director: Director: At Cannes: Dominique Janne (Producer), 852.2402.8612. Fax: 852.2601.2719 Producer: Fabrizio Mosca (Titti Film) Producer: Jandaria Producoes Artisticas Marie-Astrid Lamboray (Producer) E-mail: [email protected] Cast: , Luigi Maria Cast: Florinda Bolkan, Ingra Liberato Office: 11, avenue des Hespérides, Company Type: Producer and Distributor Burruano, Lucia Sardo Delivery Status: First market screening Cannes, 06400, Tel: 06.09.02.41.37 At Cannes: Tony Chung (Director), Delivery Status: World premiere at the Four sisters get together at their (Dominique Janne), 06.10.78.57.96 2000 mother’s house when one of them is Raymond Chung (Manager) (Marie-Astrid Lamobray), Fax: MILLENIUM DRAGON A search for a better world can take all you about the get married. They’ve all got a Action (90min) have even your life. The true story of secret. But the one with the biggest 01.47.54.93.30 Language: Cantonese with English and Peppino Impastato. secret of all is in fact the mother LE MAITRE DE MUSIQUE Chinese Subtitle THE PELLET (EL BOLA) herself. Movie (110 min) Director: Philip Ko Drama (88 min)Language: Spanish I LOVE ANDREA (IO AMO Delivery Status: Completed Producer: International Film Limited version with English subtitles ANDREA) By Gerard Corbiau Cast: Yuen Bill, Lily Chung, Li Ngai Chi Director: Achero Manas Comedy (106 min) FARINELLI: IL CASTRATO Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Tesela Producciones Language: Italian with English subtitles Movie (110 min) Tsoi Da Fu is a famous and powerful Cast: Juan Jose Ballesta, Pablo Galan, Director: Francesco Nuti Delivery Status: Completed ancient artifacts Merchandize in Russia, Alberto Jimenez Producer: Francescandrea Produzioni By Gerard Corbiau who also like to possess Chinese ancient Delivery Status: First market screening at Cast: Francesca Neri, Francesco Nuti, LE SIGNALEUR artifacts Chinese anti-smuggling Police, Mifed Agathe de la Fontaine Delivery Status: Completed then has been assigned to investigate the Pellet is a 12 year old boy raised in a Delivery Status: First market screening at By Benoit Mariage source of artifacts of Tsoi, and gather violent and sordid environment. Mifed LA CARTE POSTALE evidence of his crime. THE PILGRIM FACTOR The story of a man swept away by Delivery Status: completed Comedy (84 min) intruge, passion and one woman after By Vivian Goffette Language: English version another, which reveals the real danger LES CONVOYEURS ATTENDENT INTRAMOVIES Director: Santi Amodeo & Alberto that awaits us in the Third Millennium: Movie (110 min) Intramovies, Head Office (for sales): Via Rodriguez sexual chaos! Delivery Status: Completed E. Manfredi 15 - 00197 Rome, Italy .Tel: Producer: Tesla Producciones NADA MAS (NOTHING MORE) By Benoit Mariage 39.06.807.72.52. / 39.06.807.64.28. Fax: Cast: Alex O’Dougherty, Enrico Vecchi, Comedy (90 min) LE ROI DANSE 39.06.807.61.56. E-mail Jons Pappila Director: Juan Carlos Cremata Movie (110 min) mail@intramovies .com. Website: Delivery Status: First Market screening at Cast: Thais Valdes, Roberticco Gonzales Delivery Status: completed www.intramovies.com Mifed Delivery Status: Post-production By Gerard Corbiau At Cannes: Paola Corvino (President), Once upon a time, in London, there were A post office is a crossroads of contained PAULINE & PAULETTE Micaela Fusco (Vice President), Jef Nuyts four young men of different nationalities: emotions. Written emotions that are rarely Movie (110 min) (Director of International Sales), Paola Spanish, Italian, Swedish and British. spoken. Carla starts giving these emotions Delivery Status: Post-production Eugeni (Sales Manager), Andreina Their one-pound business deal that ends words, sound and meaning. By Lieven Debrauwer Mazzotto (Business Affairs) up becoming a one hundred thousand- TRANSFIXIONS Office: J1 Riviera, Tel: 334.92.99.33.03, pound business deal…and a legend. Movie (110 min) Villa Royale, Rue Commandant IRIS 2 Delivery Status: In production Andre/corner Croisette Family (75 min) By Francis Girod DOMANI (TOMORROW) Language: Italian with English subtitles LA PETITE ABSENTE Drama Director: Aurelio Grimaldi TV Fiction (90 min) Language: Italian, English Subtitles KK2, 13-15 rue du Mail Ð 1050 , Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Arancia Cinema Director: Cast: Arancia Cecilia Grimaldi, Salvatore . Tel: 32.2.641.16.16. Fax: By José Pinheiro Producer: Guido De Laurentiis Lazzaro, Guja Jelo 32.2.641.16.00. E-mail: [email protected]. LA PROIE ET L’OMBRE Cast: , Valerio Mastrandrea Delivery Status: First Market Screening At Cannes: Dominique Janne (Producer), TV Fiction (90 min) Delivery Status: Int. premiere & first A little girl’s quest to raise the money to Marie-Astrid Lamboray (Producer) Delivery Status: Completed market screening buy a bunch of irises for her mother’s Office: 11.16 Ð 13.15 By Olivier Chavarot An earthquake is soul shattering. Houses birthday, makes her wander all over the LE MAITRE DE MUSIQUE JUSTE UNE QUESTION D’AMOUR crumble. The rich and the poor, forced to island of Ustica a whole day long. Movie (110 min) TV Fiction (90 min) share an unwanted intimacy, sometimes HOW TO MAKE A MARTINI Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed lose, sometimes find new or long forgotten (COME SI FA UN MARTINI) By Gerard Corbiau By Christian Faure values. Comedy (98 min) FARINELLI: IL CASTRATO AN IMPOSSIBLE CRIME (UN Language: Italian with English subtitles Movie (110 min) DELITTO IMPOSSIBILE) Director: Kiko Stella KAOS FILMS Delivery Status: Completed KAOS Films, 66, rue du Nord, B-1000 Thriller (100 min) Producer: Minnie Ferrara & Associati By Gerard Corbiau Language: Italian, English Subtitles Cast:, Flabio Bucci, Elena Bruxelles, Belgium. Tel: 32.2.223.36.01. LE SIGNALEUR Fax: 32.2.223.36.02. E-mail: Director: Antonello Grimaldi Sofia Ricci Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Gianfranco Piccioli Delivery Status: First market screening [email protected] By Benoit Mariage At Cannes: Patrick Lauber Cast: Carlo Cecchi, Angela Molina, Bruno and Francesca are a couple on the LA CARTE POSTALE Rinaaldo Rocco brink whose relationship could be Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: Int’l premiere & first summarized as “neither with you nor By Vivian Goffette KATHY MORGAN market screening without you.” LES CONVOYEURS ATTENDENT A judge, a sudden death…by poison. INTERNATIONAL JOHNNY THE PARTISAN Movie (110 min) Who’s the culprit? (PARTIGIANO JOHNNY) Kathy Morgan International, 12424 HE DIED WITH A FELAFEL IN HIS Delivery Status: Completed Wilshire Blvd. Suite 740, Los Angeles CA Drama (138 min) By Benoit Mariage HAND Language: Italian with English subtitles 90025 USA. Tel: 310. 979.9100. Fax: Comedy (104 min) LE ROI DANSE 310. 979.9200. E-mail: PERLINK Director: Guido Chiesa Movie (110 min) Language: English version Producer: Domenico Procacci (Fandango) “mailto:[email protected]” Director: Richard Lowenstein Cast: Stefano Dionisi, , Delivery Status: completed [email protected] Producer: Notorious Films Pty. Ltd Fabrizio Gifuni By Gerard Corbiau At Cannes: Kathy Morgan (President), (Australia, Fandango (Italy) Delivery Status: World premiere at the PAULINE & PAULETTE Kimberly Fox (Director of Sales and Cast: Noah Taylor, Emily Hamilton Venice Film Festival Movie (110 min) Acquisitions), Carrie Kommers (Director Delivery Status: First market screening at 8th September 1943. Italy on its knees, Delivery Status: Post-production of Marketing) AFM succumbs to an armistice. The Army By Lieven Debrauwer Office: Relais de la Reine, 42-43 La Danny is on a search for love, fulfillment disbands. Johnny, a graduate in English TRANSFIXIONS Crosiette, Apartment C-62, Tel: and the meaning of existence. literature (hence the nickname he’s known Movie (110 min) 334.93.06.60.12, Fax: 334.93.06.60.32 SKIES, SATELLITES (NEBO by) goes back to Alba, his home town, but Delivery Status: In production CHINA STRIKE FORCE SATELLITI) as a deserter, he’s obliged to go into hiding. By Francis Girod Martial Arts Action (Apx. 85 minutes) Drama (85 min) AT FULL GALLOP (A GALOPE LA PETITE ABSENTE Language: English Language: Croatian version with English TENDIDO) TV Fiction (90 min) Director: Stanley Tong subtitles Comedy (87 min) Delivery Status: Completed Producers: Andre Morgan, Stanley Tong Director: Lukas Nola Language: Spanish with English subtitles By José Pinheiro Cast: Aaron Kwok, Norika Fujiwara, Producer: Ivan Malocal for Inter Film Director: Julio Suarez Vega LA PROIE ET L’OMBRE Mark Dacascos, Coolio Cast: Filip Nola, Filip Sovagovic Producer: Tesela Producciones TV Fiction (90 min) Production Status: Screening at Cannes Delivery Status: In’t premiere and first Cast: Aitor Merino, Ana Alvarez Delivery Status: Completed Budget: $13.5 Million market screening Delivery Status: First market screeing By Olivier Chavarot When a stunning female Japanese Interpol An angel-like figure walks through the Growing up with the spaghetti westerns, JUSTE UNE QUESTION D’AMOUR agent teams with a young Chinese security mine fields of the wartorn Yugoslavia and one day his dream of becoming a cowboy TV Fiction (90 min) officer to stop drug smuggling and becomes of powerless testimony of the hero comes through when the girl he Delivery Status: Completed government corruption on the mainland, absurdness of the war. secretly loves gets kidnapped for real. By Christian Faure nobody gets out clean.

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AIR BUD: WORLD PUP THE GIFT KEVIN WILLIAMS KEYSTONE Family / Comedy Thriller ASSOCIATES ENTERTAINMENT Director: Bill Bannerman Director: Sam Raimi Kevin Williams Associates, Estrecho De Cast: , Caitlin Wachs, Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Jim Jacks, Mesina 12, 2_ (E-28043) Madrid Ð Spain. INC Martin Ferrero Rob Tapert Tel: 34.91.388.5355. Fax: Keystone Entertainment Inc., 23410 Civic Move over Maridona because there’s a Cast: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, 34.91.300.2202. E-mail: Center Way, Suite E-9, Malibu, CA new soccer star, Buddy! Keanu Reeves, , Greg [email protected] 90265 USA. Tel: 310.317.4883. Fax: MVP: MOST VALUABLE PRIMATE Kinnear, Hilary Swank Company Type: Sales agent 310.317.4903. Email: Family / Comedy Delivery Status: Completed At Cannes: Kevin Williams (President) [email protected] Director: Robert Vince A small own is turned upside down when Acquisition Executive: Kevin Williams At Cannes: Monique R. White (Vice Cast: Kevin Zegers, Jamie Renee Smith, a young widow with psychic abilities is Office: AFMA Stand 01.02. President International Sales), Mike Bernie the Chimp brought in to help solve a murder. Tel: 33.04.9299.8207, 33.04.9299.8641, Strange (President), Mark Borde (Co- “Jack” the chimp is turning the world of DELIVERING MILO Fax: 33.04.9299.8642 President, Keystone Releasing) Ice Hockey on its head and he’s not Comedy ALGUNAS CHICAS DOBLAN LAS Office: Riviera Ð L5 / M6, Tel: monkeying around! Director: Nick Castle PIERNAS CUANDO HABLAN 334.92.99.85.50, Fax: 334.92.99.85.51 THE DUKE Producers: Heriberto Schoeffer, Heidi (“GIRLS BEND THEIR KNEES”) PILLOW FIGHT Family / Comedy Levitt Drama Gen-X Comedy Director: Philip Spink Cast: Bridget Fonda, , Language: Spanish Director: Robert Vince Cast: John Neville, Oliver Muirhead, Lesley Ann Warren, Campbell Scott, Director: Ana D’ez Cast: D.J. Qualls, Will Estes, Melissa Sophie Heyman Alison Lohman Producer: Igeldo Komunikazioa George, Amy Adams “Royalty Goes to the Dogs,” declares the Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Fernando Ramallo, Paz G—mez, Delivery Status: In development Ð British papers when a dying duke leaves A comedy about Milo, a soul who is next Aitor Merino production Summer 2001 his estate, family jewels and title to his in line to be born, but refuses to leave Delivery Status: Completed Girl’s night in…a night of pj’s, pillow faithful hound, Hubert, and a servant girl. Heaven. A reluctant guardian angel Stark but meaningful drama of man in the fights and skinny dipping…every teenage AIR BUD 2: GOLDEN RECEIVER assigned to Milo has only 24 hours to throes of three different relationships with guy’s dream. Family / Comedy convince him that life on Earth is worth women! One “stable” - the other a one DETONATOR Director: Richard Martin the effort. night stand and another on and off! Action Cast: Kevin Zegers, Gregory Harrison, STEAL THIS MOVIE! ANITA NO PERD EL TREN (“ANITA Director: Robert Vince Cynthia Stevenson, Nora Dunn Biopic TAKES A CHANCE”) Cast: TBD Buddy tires his talents out on the football Director: Robert Greenwald Comedy (90 min) Delivery Status: In Development Ð field and achieves great success in this Producers: Jacobus Rose, Liz Lang Language: Catalan or Spanish production Spring 2001 phenomenal sequel to “Air Bud.” Cast: Vincent D’Onofrio, Janeane Director: Ventura Pons Slade, an ex-navy Seal who specialises in HOODS Garofalo, Kevin Pollak, Jeanne Producer: Els Films de la Rambla explosives, is pulled back into active duty Drama / Comedy Tripplehorn, Kevin Corrigan Cast: Rosa M» Sard‡, Jos_ Coronado, for the Secret Service. Someone has Director: Mark Malone Delivery Status: Completed Mar’a Barranco targeted the President for annihilation. Cast: Joe Mantegna, Jennifer Tilly, Joe The film charts the rise and fall of Abbie Delivery Status: Completed MALICIOUS INTENT Pantoliano, Kevin Pollak Hoffman-activist, radical, fugitive, lover- Woman loses her job at the local cinema Suspense / Thriller A hood with a conscience cannot bring and leads us through the maze of music, box office. But she returns daily A young woman falls in love with her Mr. himself to kill an innocent child so he hires politics and personal struggle of the late obsessively to the site where now a Right Ð the Captain of the Water Polo an unstable lunatic to do the hit. A Sixties and Seventies in America. multiplex is going up. She finds salvation Team. But her happiness turns to drama/comedy with intelligent dialogue and in a relationship with one of the workers at obsession when she suspects him of plot twists set in modern day . the site. cheating on her with another woman . . . LEADING LION LA PLAYA DE LOS GALGOS this is one lady you don’t want to ignore! ENTERTAINMENT (“BEACH OF DOGS”) THE STRANGER AKESHORE Drama Leading Lion Entertainment, 8831 Sunset Drama ( min) INTERNATIONAL Blvd., Suite 300, West Hollywood, CA Language: Spanish Director: Joe Morton Cast: Ben Affleck, Olympia Dukakis, 90069 USA. Tel: 310.652.2893. Fax: Director: Mario Camus 310.652.6237. Charles Dutton, Eartha Kitt, Joe Morton, LLakeshore International, 5555 Melrose Producer: Urbana Films John Sayles, , Sinbad, Company Type: Production Company Cast: Miguel çngel Sol‡, Claudia Koll, Avenue, Gloria Swanson Bldg. 4th Floor, At Cannes: Eric Louzil (President of Carmelo G—mez, Ingrid Rubio. Vanessa Williams, Alfre Woodard Hollywood, CA 90038, USA. Tel: Producer: co-production with Andora Distribution), Anthony Esposito Delivery Status: In production 323.956.4222. Fax: 323.862.1456. (President of Production), William Blake A man searches for his brother -now a Pictures and Mandalay Sports & Urban At Cannes: Tom Rosenberg (CEO & Co- Entertainment (President of Development), “Anthony” dangerous terrorist-but is both aided and Chairman), Stephanie Denton (President), MyungHoon Hong (Executive VP of distracted by a mysterious and beautiful Delivery Status: In development Ð Spring Eric Reid (Chief Operating Officer), 2001 International Sales), John Howard (Press woman. Robert Burke (Vice President, Worldwide Relations) VIVA ZAPATO! A coming of age drama centered around a Marketing), Julie McLaughlin (Vice young boy whose father, a US Army Office: Riviera, Booth: Ella/F12a, Tel: Drama ( min) President, Worldwide Television Sales), 33.04.93.06.77.77. Fax: Language: Spanish Captain, is killed as a result of his attempts Virginia Longmuir (Vice President, to help integrate the United States Army. 33.04.93.38.31.10 Director: Luis Carlos Lacerda International Business & Legal Affairs) WISEGIRLS Producer: Total Films MVP II: JACK’S BACK Office: Noga Hilton, Suite 302, Tel: Family Action/Thriller Cast: Jorge Perugorr’a 334.92.99.69.70, Fax: 334.92.99.69.71 Language: English Delivery Status: Pre-production Director: Robert Vince THE HUNTED Cast: Bernie (The Chimp!) Director: David Anspaugh A pair of dance shoes with a hidden Action/Thriller Producers: Anthony Esposito, William treasure that go missing from the Jack’s back! This time he takes on the Director: William Friedkin world of professional hockey and still Blake Tropicana Club in Cuba. The result is a Producers: Ricardo Mestres, Tom Executive Producer: Richard Donner kaleidoscopic trip through the magic finds time for a bit of fancy skateboarding Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi with his pals! Cast: Mira Sorvino, Mariah Carey, island. Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Connie Nielsen Famke Janssen LA SEGUNDA NOCHE (“THE AIR BUD: SEVENTH INNING FETCH Delivery Status: Pre-Production Family Delivery Status: Pre-Production SECOND NIGHT”) A female FBI agent and a legendary Three waitresses in an Italian restaurant Drama ( min) Director: TBD wilderness tracker team up to catch a killer Cast: TBD become involved in a cocaine distribution Language: Spanish in the mountains of Washington State. The ring. They make money until one of them Director: Alejandro Gamboa Delivery Status: In Development Ð killer escapes custody and takes his deadly production Fall 2001 is exposed. Producer: Videocine cat-and-mouse game onto the streets of MINT Delivery Status: Completed The incredible Air Bud is back and this downtown Seattle. time he’s trying his paws at baseball!! Action/Thriller One night, four girls, with boys, with men, THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES Language: English with their parents - growing up - the pains, AIR BUD: THE SERIES! Paranormal Thriller TV series Ð Family Director: Paul Tarantino living life, loving and learning. Director: Mark Pellington Producer: Anthony Esposito AMOR O MUERTE Keystone “lets the dogs out” with the new Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary The Air Bud TV Series. This weekly Cast: (“CARACAS LOVE OR DEATH”) Lucchesi, Gary Goldstein Delivery Status: In Development Thriller ( min) adventure is based on the sports playing Cast: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will wonder dog Buddy. A bank teller’s plan to rob her own bank Language: Spanish Paton, Debra Messing goes awry when she discovers that everyone Director: Gustavo Balza 2GETHER Delivery Status: Production Gen-X Comedy else might have their own plan for the loot. Delivery Status: Completed After the death of his wife, journalist John THE BEASTERY Taught but acerbic debut crisscrossing the Director: Nigel Dick Klein ‘s life takes an unexpected turn as he Cast: Alan Blumenfeld, Kevin Farley, Fantasy paths of two youths trapped between local begins to investigate paranormal events in Language: English gangs and the mafia.- and their women Evan Farmer the simple town of Point Bob Buss, a down-on-his-luck music Director: Bob Keen struggling to get by surrounded by so Producer: Frank Graves, Exec. Producer: much violence. promoter has a last shot at fame Ð put together a hot new boy-band centering Eric Louzil around singing sensation Jerry King, L.A. Office Phone Cast: Ringo Starr, , Robert L.A. Office FAX season them on a quick road trip and get Englund them to Orlando, Florida for a show taking (323) 935-8228 Delivery Status: Pre-Production (323) 935-8229 place in six days. Good faces evil in the greatest of all known multi-verse conflicts.

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RUINED THE CAT’S MEOW MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING LOLAFILMS S.A. Thriller Dramatic Thriller Comedy Lolafilms S.A., C/Velazquez,12 7th floor - Language: English Language: English Language: English 28001 Madrid, Spain. Tel: Director: Uwe Boll Director: Peter Bogdanovich Director: Joel Zwick 34.91.436.74.00. Fax: 34.91.435.59.94. Cast: Casper Van Dien, Michael Pare Executive Producers: Wieland Schulz- Producers: , Gary Goetzman, E-mail: [email protected] Delivery Status: In Development Keil, Michael Paseornek Rita Wilson Company Type: Producer When a bag of old coins is discovered at a Producers: Kim Bieber, Carol Lewis, Cast: , John Corbett, Louis At Cannes: Mr. Andres Vicente Gomez construction site, an ancient curse Dieter Meyer, Julie Baines Mandylor, Joey Fatone, Gia Carides, (CEO), Mrs. Marina Fuentes (Vice Cast: , Cary Elwes, Edward unleashes the power of a witch coven. Ian Gomez president of International Sales (Spanish FIRST SNOW Herrmann, Eddie Izzard, Joanna Lumley, Status: Post Production films), Ms.Miriam Lopez (International Thriller Jennifer Tilly Business Affairs) Language: English Status: Screening Cultures collide as a young woman wreaks chaos in her traditional Greek family by Office: 8th floor, Residence du Grand Director: Mark Fergus Set in Hollywood’s Golden Era, this hotel, Dolphin Entrance, 47 La Producer: dramatic thriller recounts the scandal- proposing to marry “the whitest man on ridden events surrounding the celebrity the planet.” Croisette, stand number to be advised. Cast: Christian Slater TORRENTE II: MISSION IN Delivery Status: In Development party aboard media baron William RACE TO SPACE Randolph Hearst’s yacht. Family Adventure (98 minutes) MARBELLA (TORRENTE II: After a fortune teller makes a frightening MISION MARBELLA) prediction, Jimmy Munson tries I FOUGHT THE LAW Language: English Thriller Comedy- 97 minutes desperately to change the present in order Director: Sean McNamara Language: Spanish to alter the future. Language: English Executive Producers: Peter Lambert, Al Director: Mark Malone Director: Santiago Segura Lapin, Jr., Neil White Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez and Executive Producers:Charles Martin Producers: David Brookwell, Glen LIONS GATE FILMS Smith, Jim Jusko, Mario Ohoven Juan Dakas Lions Gate Films, Head Office: 4553 Greene Cast: Santiago Segura, Tony Leblanc, Producers: William Vince, Michael Cast: James Woods, Alex Linz, Annabeth Glencoe Ave, Suite 200, Marina Del Rey, Ohoven Ines Sastre. CA 90292 USA. Tel: 310.314.2000. Fax: Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Anthony Gish, William Atherton, Delivery Status: completed 310.399.1570. Web: LaPaglia, Radha Mitchell Status: Screening Budget: $ 3 million. www.lionsgatefilms.com Status: Post Production Based on a true story, the son of a NASA Jose Luis Torrente, former detective, is At Cannes: Jon Feltheimer (Chief A tough Boston cop is unwillingly scientist develops a touching relationship back with a vengeance. This time his Executive Officer), Nick Meyer (VP transformed into a criminal by his brother, with Mac, the first chimpanzee in space, misdeeds take him to Marbella, on Spain’s International Sales and Distribution), a small time crook with connections to the and must decide whether to save his friend “Costa del Crime” on a new adventure to Sergei Yershov (Executive Vice President, mob. or encourage him to fulfill his destiny. fight corruption in the name of justice International), Andrew Reimer (Senior GET WELL SOON ROUTE 666 SOUND OF THE SEA (SON DE MAR) Vice President, Worldwide Television), Twisted Romantic Comedy Action-Horror Romantic drama- 99 minutes Peter Block President, Home Video, Language: English Language: Spanish Language: English Director: Bigas Luna Acquisitions and New Media), Tom Directed by: Justin McCarthy Director: William Wesley Ortenberg (President, Lions Gate Film Executive Producers: Jeff Sackman, Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez Executive Producer: Cami Winikoff Cast: Jordi Molla, Leonor Waitling and Releasing) Michael Paseornek Producers: Terence M. O’Keefe, Maricel Office: Riviera Booth #M1 Producers: Galt Niederhoffer, Daniela Eduard Fernandez MONSTERS BALL Pagulayan, Romy Ricart Delivery Status: completed Soto-Taplin, Randy Simon, Joanna Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Lori Petty, Drama Vicente Budget: $ 4 million Language: English Cast: Courteney Cox Arquette, Vincent Steven Williams, LQ Jones Martina’s husband, Ulysses, comes back 6 Director: Marc Forster Gallo, Jeffrey Tambor Status: Post Production years after his death to reclaim his wife Executive Producer: Mark Urman, Status: Post Production Two special agents are in hot pursuit of a LUNA’S GAME (EL JUEGO DE Michael Paseornek Bobby Bishop is lovesick and is willing to renegade mob witness, with the local LUNA) Producers: Lee Daniels give up his TV show and lifestyle authorities and the mafia on their trail. Drama- 96 minutes Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, , to get back the woman he loves. The only When the chase leads them through an Language: Spanish Wes Bentley thing standing in his way is her colorful abandoned stretch of deserted highway Director: Monica Laguna Status: In Production family and their circle of social misfits. known as Route 666, they find the desolate Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez An embittered prison guard who works on PERFUME strip echoes a haunting legacy. Cast: Ana Torrent, Ernesto Alterio. Death Row, begins an unlikely but Drama (106 minutes) ATTRACTION Delivery Status: completed emotionally charged affair with the wife of Language: English Drama Budget: $ 2 million Luna, a 30 year-old professional card a man he has just executed. Directed by: Michael Rymer Language: English LIBERTY STANDS STILL Executive Producers: Jeff Goldblum, player, is obsessed by her father’s death Director: Russell DeGrazier some twenty years earlier. Her only goal in Thriller Michael Paseornek, Damita Nikapota, Cast: Gretchen Mol, Tom Everett Scott, Language: English life is to take revenge on the man Johnny Planco , Matthew Settle Director: Kari Skogland Co-Exec Producer: Joanne Baron responsible; the man who took everything Executive Producers:Mario Ohoven, Producers: Nadia Leonelli, Fredrik Executive Producers: Mark Amin, Robin from him at the poker table ... including Michael Ohoven, William Vince, Peter A. Sundwall, L.M. Kit Carson, Cynthia Schorr his life. Marshall Hargrave Producer: Mike Elliott, Jonathan Krauss, BLACK SERENADE (TUNO Producers: Gary Pearl Co-Producer: Loretta Crawford Russell DeGrazier NEGRO) Cast: , Linda Fiorentino, Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Rita Wilson, Paul Co-Producers: Ilona Margolis, Steven Running Time: Horror- 103 minutes Oliver Platt Sorvino, Omar Epps, Peter Gallagher, Pearl Language: Spanish Status: Post Production Sonia Braga Mariel Hemingway, Harry Status: Completed Director: Pedro Barbero and Vicente A beautiful gun-manufacturing heiress Hamlin, Estella Warren, Joanne Baron Even though their love affair has ended, Martin (Fiorentino) becomes embroiled in a Status: Screening Matthew is obsessed with Liz who has Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez vengeful sniper’s plan that makes her The film focuses on the lives of five become accustomed to being the object of Cast: Silke, Fele Martinez, Jorge Sanz question everything she believes in. people trapped in the machinery of the cut- his desire. When Matthew forms a and Maribel Verdu. FRAILTY throat fashion industry where ultimately, relationship with Liz’s friend Corey, a Delivery Status: completed Psychological Thriller all that really matters are appearances and complex web of jealously and Budget: $ 3 million Alex is an art history student who arrives Language: English labels. manipulation is laid bare. Director: Bill Paxton RARE BIRDS in Salamanca shortly after the TUNO Executive Producers: Karen Loop, Tom Comedy NEGRO killings. When the murderer Huckabee, Michael Paseornek, Tom Language: English LOCATION AUSTRIA contacts her and starts killing all her Ortenberg Director: Sturla Gunnarsson Location Austria, Film Commission of friends, she has to track him down using Producers: David Kirschner, David Executive Producers:Jeff Sackman, Sam Austria, Opernring 3/2, 1010 , her knowledge of art history to decipher Blocker, Corey Sienega Feldman Austria. Tel: 43.1.588.580. Fax: the clues. CoProducers: Mario Ohoven, Michael Producers: Paul Pope, Janet York 43.1.586.8659. E-mail: office@location- Ohoven Cast: , Andy Jones, Molly austria.at. Website: www.location- Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Parker austria.at THE BUSINESS OF Paxton, Powers Boothe, Matthew Status: Post Production At Cannes: Arie Bohrer (Project O’Leary, This heartfelt comedy tells the story of a Manager), Elisabeth Unterberger FILM Status: PROMO REEL Screening man ready to call it quits on his failing (Marketing A chilling study in psychological terror restaurant until his neighbor proposes a Manager), Tel: (Mobile phone) Arie centering on the FBI’s search for a serial mad, yet ingenious scheme to save him Bohrer: 43.664.101.7300, Elisabeth from ruin. Unterberger 43.664.130.5856 killer who calls himself “God’s Hands.” Los Angeles Office ANNOUNCING 5150 Wilshire Blvd. This is your final opportunity to view the unabridged version of: The Business Of Film Product Guide. 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LOLAFILMS UK 6 Ð DROITS MARRY ME MARIBEL FROM “LAGER” TO “LAGER” Lolafilms UK, 19 Garrick Street, London, Romantic Comedy- 100’ docu, historical (43 min single) WC2E 9AX UK. Tel: 44.20.7845.7900. AUDIOVISUELS Ð Language: Spanish (English subtitles) Language: English, Hebrew, French, Fax: 44.20.7845.7909 Production Company: Filmayer German International Director: Felix Hurlin Company Type: Production & Sales MM6 Ð Droits Audiovisuels, 89 avenue Director: Angel Blasco Producer: mdc int. GmbH Company Charles de Gaulle, 92 575 Neuilly sur At Cannes: Nicole Mackey (President, Producer: Angel Blasco Cast: Docu, eyewitnesses Seine Cedex, France. Tel : Cast: Natalia Dicenta, Carlos Hipolito, Delivery Status: completed International Sales), Will Machin (Vice- 33.1.41.92.68.66. Fax: 33.1.41.92.68.69 President, International Sales), Ludwig Natalie Seseña Budget: 0,3 $ Company Type: Distributor Delivery status: Completed After the end of WW II many Jewish Wagner (Director of Marketing), Nadine At Cannes: Bernard Majani (Director), Luque (Director of Creative Affairs), Budget: US $ 2 M survivors of the Holocaust looked out for a Laurence Marty (Sales Executive), A simple country man falls in love with a new place to live in Palestine, which was David Terrien (Head of Development) Isabelle Drouart (Sales Executive) Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, city hooker without realizing who she is. under British mandate at that time. Jewish Office: Riviera, Office K8 At least this is what she thinks. To her Organizations started chartering ships for Entrance Dauphine, 8th Floor, LES JOLIES CHOSES 47 La Croisette, Cannes. Tel: Nicole amazement, he insists in making her the an illegal immigration. So were the people Drama (103’) woman of his dreams. on the ship “Exodus.” Mackey cell phone: 44.7775.568.202. Language: French Will Machin cell phone: 44.7899.796.263 WILLIAM TELL CHRISTMAS HUDDLE Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner Animation-Adventures- 90’ Feature for children RAIN Producer: Hugo Films Thriller Language: English Language: Latvian Cast: , Stomy Bugsy, Production Company: Magic Films S.L Director: Boris Vasla Delivery Status: In Post-Production Patrick Bruel, Titoff, Ophélie Winter Director: Katherine Lindberg Director: Angel Blasco Producer: AlKO Budget: USD 3 million Producer: Angel Blasco Delivery Status: completed) Producer: Jordi Ros & Martin Scorsese Lucie and Marie are twin sisters. The one Cast: Melora Walters (MAGNOLIA, Cast: Animation Budget: 1,4 Mio $ loves anything flashy or fake. The other is Delivery status: Pre-Production Romantic Christmas Story // The Cirulitis BOOGIE NIGHTS), Kris Park a model of integrity. One day, Marie with (BAMBOOZLED, DRIVE ME CRAZY), Budget: US $ 27 M Family is always short of money, and the complicity of Lucie’s friend, Nicolas, Set in 1307, Switzerland. It tells the story Christmas Eve is just to come. Jamey Sheridan (CRADLE WILL ROCK, replaces her sister as a singer at a concert. THE ICE STORM), Diane Ladd (28 of two young friends teenagers, against the THE LIBERATION OF THE BODY CHANGE-MOI MA VIE background of William Tell’s story. The Single docu (arts & Theatre) DAYS, PRIMARY COLORS) Drama (100’) Delivery Status: In post-production two friends fight each other as they view Language: English, French, German Language: French the austrians occupation in different ways. Director: Norbert G_ller Budget: $5 million Director: Liria Bégéja Set in contemporary America’s Heartland, When the swiss people is at stake, both Producer: Ralf Kukula for Balance Film Producer: Pan Européenne join forces to fight for swiss freedom. Cast: Karen Greenhead , a.o. Rain tells a story of murder, sex and Cast: Fanny Ardant, Roschdy Zem, Fanny redemption set against the backdrop of a TIME GATE Delivery Status: (pre, post, in production Cottençon, Sami Bouajila Animation- Adventures- 80’ or completed) dead-end town suffering through a severe Budget: USD 2,5 million drought. Language: English Budget: 250.000 US Nina, an actress, collapses unconscious on Production company: Magic Films S.L Jacques - Emile Dalcroze was one of the OFF KEY a sidewalk. She is saved by a man, Sami, a Comedy Director: Pedro Delgado famous teacher of modern dance and long-distance runner. The future of these Producer: Angel Blasco Eurythmics, whose approach is recognized Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira persons is very dark. Nina falls in love Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez Cast: Animation as a highly effective training for dancers, with him even if he is reduced to male Delivery status: In Production musicians and . Cast: Jo Mantegna, Danny Aiello, George prostitution to survive. Hamilton Budget: US $ 3 M PANAMERICANA GAMER Two young brothers, Alvaro and Paloma, Language: Spanish Delivery Status: Completed - screening Action/Comedy (105’) Delivery Status: Completed Ð Screening are accidentally thrown back in time on a Director: Miguel Barreda Language: French powerfull time-machine that their uncle Producer: Casablanca Film, Peru , Budget: $9.5 million Director: Zak Fishman Ten years after their acrimonious split, the has built. While they are locked in the past, K_nguruh Film Berlin Producer: Playtime travelling from one historical period to Cast: Miguel IZA, Marisol PALACIOS; world-famous three tenors are reunited for Cast: Saïd Taghmaouï, Camille de Pazzi, what promises to be the messiest wedding other, their uncle makes it impossible to Matthias DITMER Bruno Salomone, Arielle Dombasle get them back. Delivery Status: completed of the year. As old hatreds surface, the Budget: USD 5 million world press gathers to witness the chaos. Budget: 1,6 Mio $ Tony, a street kid, often involved in load tricks, Carlos, A Peruvian, who comes to Peru THE DANCER UPSTAIRS has created a great concept: the video game of Delivery Status: Completed Ð Screening MDC INT. GMBH after years, Eva Maria, a young woman on the century! But too naive he signs his entire mdc int. GmbH, Schillerstra¤e 7a, Berlin, her way to Argentina, and Jo, a German Director: concept over to the famous Gameplay 10625, Germany. Tel: 4930.264.979.00. Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez novelist are smashed into a troubled, Company. Will he have enough time and talent Fax: 4930.264.979.10. E-mail : involuntary trip to go by car on this Cast: (Nominated - Best to take revenge on these sharks. [email protected] Actor Academy Award 2001), Laura famous intercontinental road to take care YOU SHOULDN’T WORRY Company Type: World Sales Company for a very old Inka Mumie. Morrante (LA VERITE SI JE MENS 2) At Cannes: Wigbert MOSCHALL (Gen Delivery Status: Completed Ð Screening THE FUR STORY Comedy (104’) Man), Wolfgang KLOSE (Head of Acq.); Docu, 55 min col. Delivery Status: Completed - screening Language: French Antonia GANZ (Head of Sales) Budget: $5.5 million Language: Swedish Director: Thomas Gilou Acquisition Executive: Wolfgang Klose, Director: Runar Enberg, Klas Fransberg Peru Ð 1980s: As daily bombings strike at Producer: Vertigo Productions the government’s foundations, a surreal Wigbert Moschall Producer: Naud Production Cast: , José Garcia, Office: Palais H4.35, Tel: 92.99.85.96. Cast: Docu cocktail of martial law, savage violence Bruno Solo, Gilbert Melki , Gad Elmaleh and end-of-the-world gaiety grips the Fax: 92.99.85.97 Delivery Status: completed Budget: USD 12 million THE LITTLE KING Budget: 2500.000 US$ nation. Eddie, Dov, Yvan, Patrick and Serge are GAUDI AFTERNOON Animation for small children, 52 episodes In the whole of Europe, the resistance friends for life and partners in business. But 4:30 min each towards furfarming is intense and many Dramatic Comedy in the garment industry, the boom has gone Director: Susan Seidelman Language: english (german) people are discussing, whether it is a moral bust and now the time has come to seek out Director: Andreas Munk adjust to breath foxes and minks in cages. Cast: Judy Davis, Marcia Gay Harden new partners…. (Best Supporting Actress, Academy Producer: ORB Television This docu reports the arguments from the Award winner 2001), Lili Taylor, Juliette Delivery Status: completed two angels : the fur farmers and the Lewis MAGIC FILMS S.L Budget: 1,8 Mio $ activists against the farming. Delivery Status: Completed - screening Magic Films S.L, Ed. Bronce, Avda. de Our hero is a cheerful child, impudent and Budget: $6 million Burgos 8-A, 10¼. 28036 Madrid. Tel: full of life. He always wants to be in the In this comedic mystery set against the 34.91.383.01.44. Fax: 34.91.383.08.45. centre. With a sense of good humour and background of Gaudi’s Barcelona, E-mail: [email protected] naive craftiness he always succeeds as a Cassandra, an ex-pat American translator, Company type: Producer- Sales Agent troubleshooter. The Business is too broke to refuse a glamorous At Cannes: Angel Blasco (General TAXI - UN ENCUENTRO stranger’s cry for help. Manager) Drama Argentina 2001, feature GIRL FROM RIO THE JOURNEY OF ARIAN Language: Spanish Of Film Comedy Drama- 100’ Director: Gabriela DAVID Cast: , Vanessa Nunez, Language: Spanish (English subtitles) Producer: LaVentura Film Santiago Segura Director: Eduard Bosch Cast: Diego PERETTI, Miguel Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez, Muir Production Company: Montjuïc GUERBEROF, Josefina VITON Sutherland Entertainment Delivery Status: completed Director: Christopher Monger Producer: Angel Blasco Budget: 1,3 M io $ at Cannes Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Ingrid Rubio, Abel Folk, Silvia Munt It is night in Buenos Aires. Our hero, a Budget: $6 million Delivery status: Completed demimonde gunman, robs a taxi on the Discovering your wife is sleeping with Budget: US $ 2 M street, and unfortunately he offers this taxi Direct Fax Line your boss can make a man do strange An idealistic young girl, Arian, joins basque to a three brothers gangster group. So, things! For a Samba-obsessed London terrorist organization to fight for the people say, thatÇs an excellent start to clerk named Raymond, robbing a bank and independence of her country. Her first mission, make a good fortune. And then he picks up 04.93.06.47.20 boarding the first flight to Rio are just the the kidnapping of a girl, comes to a very wrong a young girl, which seems to be very beginning…….. end. When she wants to pull out, it’s too late. confused.

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MDP WORLDWIDE FIRESPILL MEDIA FILM JUST THE BEGINNING MDP Worldwide (formerly Behaviour Action disaster Romantic Comedy (95 min) Worldwide), 1875 Century Park East, Director: TBA INTERNATIONAL Director: Pierre Franckh Suite 2000, Los Angeles CA 90067 USA. Producer: Peer Oppenheimer and Tom Media Film International, 3345 Wilshire Producer: Christoph Meyer-Wiel & Tel: 310.226.8300. Fax: 310.226.8350 Sarnoff Blvd. Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90010 Michaela Merten Company Type: MDP Worldwide is a Exec. Producer: Mark Damon USA. Tel: 213.736.6060. Fax: Cast: Julia Richter, René Hofschneider, leading full-service independent film Cast: TBA 213.736.6066. E-mail: Dieter Landuris, Clelia Sarto, Martin company engaged in producing, which Budget: $70 million [email protected], Armknecht financinges feature films and licensing Status: In Development [email protected] Anna, attractive and possessing a zest for Two super tankers, a Russian and an Company Type: Worldwide Distributor / life, has had enough of Thorsten, her filmes rights worldwide in all media. selfish and career-obsessed boyfriend. At Cannes: Mark Damon (Chairman and American, collide in the Pacific Ocean off Production and Co-Productions CEO), Reiko Bradley (Exec. Vice of the coast of Washington State. The At Cannes: Yong Ho Lee (President), P.J. President Worldwide Distribution), David resulting oil spill causes a firestorm of Leone (International Vice President), MIRACLE Gaynes (Sr. Vice President Marketing cataclysmic proportions endangering the Marty Poole (Director of International entire Western coastline of the US and &and Publicity), Tatyana Joffe (Director, Sales), Matthew Perniciaro (Acquisitions ENTERTAINMENT Canada. International Operations) and Co-Productions) Miracle Entertainment, 8730 Sunset RED LIPS, WHITE LIES Acquisitions: Yong Ho Lee, Matthew Blvd., Penthouse East, Los Angeles, CA Office: The Riviera, Office E-4 Romantic Comedy D’ARTAGNAN Perniciaro 90069 USA. Tel: 310.360.7490. Fax: Director: Peter Segal THE BOSS 310.360.7499. Romantic Action adventure Producer: Faye Schwab, Chase Mishkin Director: Peter Hyams Drama/Action At Cannes: M. Jason Zelin (President & Exec. Producer: Mark Damon, John Language: Korean (Subtitled in English) COO) Producer: Moshe Diamant Morrissey Exec. Producer: Rudy Cohen, Mark Delivery Status: Completed Office: 5 Croisette, 5th Floor, 06400 Cast: TBA Cast: Cho Yang Eun Damon, Frank Hubner, Stephen Paul, Cannes. Tel: 04.93.99.58.32 Budget: $40 million The true story of the consolidation of Romain Schroeder, Datty Ruth SHINOBI Status: In development organized crime in Korea and the brutal Action-Adventure Cast: Tim Roth, Mena Suvari, Catherine Arthur, a serious but un-commercial ascension to power of it’s Gun Dal leader, Deneuve, Stephen Rea, Justin Chambers Producer: Janet Yang, David Smith 7 American author, is distraught over his ex- Cho Yang Eun. Politically banned from Mata Yamamoto and Nick Moran wife’s success writing popular novels. He theatres after becoming one Korea’s most Budget: $40 million Delivery Status: In Development writes a sexy, bestseller entitled “Red successful films ever. A powerful story of a young Englishman Status: Currently shootingPost Lips, White Lies” under a pseudonym , but ICEMAN FIREMAN who secretly trains to become a Ninja Production Donna, a vivacious young con-woman An Animated Adventure Warrior in 17th Century Japan in order to A mysterious warrior named D’Artagnan steals his fictional identity and becomes a Language: English avenge the murder of his family by a arrives in Paris to join the Musketeers in national celebrity. Producer: G:Company Japanese warlord. an effort to save a country on the verge of THE BODY Delivery Status: Pre-Production war. In an epic time when danger lurked Political Thriller A coming of age adventure in which Solo around every corner, D’Artagnan must Director: Jonas McCord Ice, a young Iceman who has super MIRAMAX defeat the evil Cardinal Richelieu and his Producer: Rudy Cohen powers, realizes he is the one who can INTERNATIONAL shadow army of deadly mercenaries. Exec. Producer: Diane Sillan Isaacs, restore peace to a world of conflict, where THE EXTREMISTS Miramax International, 99 Hudson Street, Werner Koenig, Mark Damon, Moshe Ice and Fire are in a constant battle. 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel: Extreme Sports Action Diamant THE CURSE Director: Christian Duguay 212.219.4100. Fax: 212.941.3836 Cast: Antonio Banderas, Olivia Williams Action/Adventure At Cannes: Rick Sands (Chairman, Producer: Moshe Diamant and Derek Jacobi Language: English Exec. Producer: Mark Damon, Frank Worldwide Distribution, Miramax Films), Budget: $3028 million Producers: Yong Ho Lee, David A. Stephen Klain (Executive Vice President, Hubner, Rudy Cohen and Romain Status: Completed. Smitas, P.J. Leone Schroeder International Marketing, Miramax Intl.), Set against the turbulent physical, political Delivery Status: Pre-Production Julie Roach (Vice President, Business and Co-Producer: Jan Fantl and spiritual backdrops of the Middle East The Curse is unleashed upon the world Cast: Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson- Legal Affairs, Miramax International), and Rome at the dawn of the new when an army of Ancient Chinese Mark Lindsay (Vice President, Sampras, Rufus Sewell, Rupert Graves, Millennium, “The Body” tells the story of Terracota Soldiers are reanimated to life in International Distribution, Miramax Klaus Maria Brandauer, Heino Ferch, Israeli archaeologist Sharon Golban the present day, ready for battle. International), Marc Bunag (Creative Thomas Kretschmann (Williams), who makes a find that may Director, Miramax International), Budget: $33 million threatens the foundations of western Danielle Frank (Director, International Status: In Production civilization. MEI AH FILM Publicity, Miramax International) An extreme sports film crew is THE BLACK DAHLIA PRODUCTION CO., Office: Salle Royan, 14, La Croisette, inadvertently drawn into the adventure of Noir Crime Thriller Cannes, France. Tel: 04.97.06.85.00. Fax: a lifetime when they accidentally discover Director: David Fincher LTD. 04.97.06.85.04 the whereabouts of a war criminal high in Producers: Rudy Cohen, Moshe Diamant Mei Ah Film Production Co., Ltd., Units KATE AND LEOPOLD the Austrian Alps. and David Fincher 15-28, 17/F, Metro Centre, Phase 1, No. Fantasy/Romance FEAR.COM Exec. Producer: Mark Damon 32, Lam Hing Street, Kowloon Bay, Language: English Cyber thriller Cast: TBD Kowloon, H.K. Tel: 852.2754.2855. Fax: Director: Director: William Malone Budget: $70 - $80 million 852.2799.3643. E-mail: Producer: Cathy Konrad Producer: Moshe Diamant Status: In Development [email protected] Screenplay by: Steven Rogers and James Exec. Producer: David Saunders, Mark When the torture-ravaged body of a Company Type: Film Producer, Mangold Damon, Frank Hubner, Rudy Cohen, beautiful young starlet is discovered, it Distributor, Buyer Cast: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Romain Schroeder launches the biggest man-hunt in LA At Cannes: Mr. Kenny CHAU (Director), Schrieber, Breckin Meyer, Natasha Co-Producer: Jan Fantl history. She becomes known as “the Black Ms. Charlene LAI (Distribution Manager, Lyonne, Bradley Whitfield, Philip Bosco Cast: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone Dahlia” and for the two detectives ), Ms. Sara LAW (Marketing Officer) and Charlotte Ayanna. and Stephen Rea assigned to her case, she becomes their Hotel: Club Maintenon Hotel Status: In Production Budget: $25 million dark obsession. Based on the best selling Tel: 33.4.92.99.36.00 Carried through time to modern-day Status: In Production novel by James Ellroy. Fax: 33.4.92.99.36.15 Manhattan, 18th Century English A young medical student unearths clues FOUR DOGS PLAYING POKER aristocrat and inventor Leopold falls for linking the mysterious and violent deaths Psychological thriller MEDIA LUNA ENTERTAINMENT independent and career-minded Kate of various men to a voluptuous cyber Director: Paul Rachman GMBH & CO. KG (Ryan). Initially skeptical of his royal woman playing a deadly game on her Producers: Steven Hoffman and Matt Media Luna Entertainment GmbH & Co. charm, Kate soon discovers that the website. Salinger KG, Hochstadenstrasse 1-3, D-50674 Duke’s power over her own heart is almost THE I INSIDE Exec. Producers: William Sherak, Jason Cologne, Germany. Tel: 49.221.139.2222. as strong as his influence over Time itself. Thriller Shuman Fax: 49.221.139.2224. ON THE LINE Director: Michael Cooney Cast: Olivia Williams, Balthazar Getty, At Cannes: Mrs. Ida Martins (CEO), Ms. Romantic Comedy Producer: Vicki Slotnick, Jeremy Paige Stacy Edwards, Monere Renoir Simpkins (Sales Manager) Language: English Exec. Producer: Mark Damon Budget: $6 5 million Office: No. J6 at the Riviera Director: Eric Boss Cast: Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Love Status: Completed. BERLIN BABYLON Producers: Tapestry Films, Joe Anderson, Hewitt and Christian Slater With the help of their mentor Felix, a Documentary (88 & 58) Johnny Wright Budget: $10 million group of best friends and first-time thieves Director: Hubertus Siegert Cast: Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, Al Green Status: Pre-production steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless Producer: Hubertus Siegert Status: In Production When Simon awakens in the hospital with black market art dealer. After the amateurs Berlin after the fall of thwe Wall. Members of the multi-platinum amnesia, after a near death experience, he botch the delivery of the objet d’art, the art Observations on radical reconstruction of international pop sensation N-SYNC star discovers that he can travel back in time to dealer kills Felix and forces the remaining a city core. Images of the conflict between in this music-filled urban adventure about change his future and solve the mystery of four to ‘find’ $1 million within a week’s the thirst for demolition and the hunger for a young man in search of a beautiful his brother’s murder. time or face certain death. completion. woman he meets by chance on a train. This Product Guide will be available on-line at www.thebusinessoffilm.com T HE B USINESS OF F ILM’ S home on the internet.

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VIEW FROM THE TOP MOONSTONE MK2 S.A THE CLAY BIRD Comedy MK2 S.A, 55, rue Traversière, Paris, L’OISEAU DE TERRE Language: English ENTERTAINMENT 75012, France. Tel: 33.1.44.67.30.55. Director : Tareque Masud Producer : Catherine Masud Director: Bruno Barreto Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box 7400, Fax: 33.1.43.41.32.30. E-mail: Producers: Brad Grey, Matthew Baer Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel: Production companies : Audiovision & [email protected]. Web site: www.mk2- MK2 S.A Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina 818.985.3003. Fax: 818.985.3009. catalogue.com Applegate, Mark Ruffalo, Candice At Cannes: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh Production status : in production At Cannes: Florence STERN (Head of In a trouble political background in Bergen with Kelly Preston, Rob Lowe (CEO), Mrs. Yael Stroh (President), Mr. Int’l Sales), Frédéric CORVEZ (Head of and . Dana Williams (V.P. Business Bangladesh, a young boy is shared TV Sales), Yann MARCHET (Festivals & between a koranic school, where he has Status: In Production Administration), Mr. Michael Kasher Marketing Co-ordinator) Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow (Director), Michael Grant (Manager been sent, and his family ruled by a father, Office: Residence Du Gray D’Albion, c/o an orthodox muslim. stars as a small-town girl who ascends to Production & Marketing) MK2 S.A, 28bis, rue des Serbes, Entrée 1 Office: The Carlton Intercontinental, ABC AFRICA the high-flying lifestyle of an international Ð Appt 6C2 – 6ème étage, 06 400 Cannes Documentary (85 min) flight attendant. Her bumpy ride is Suite 120/121, Tel: 04.93.06.41.21. or WEISER Director : Abbas Kiarostami populated with envious colleagues, rude 04.93.06.68.21 (94 mn) Production status : completed passengers and turbulent relationships. THE HOTEL Language : Polish FRIDA Dark Comedy Director : Wojciech Marczewski Drama / Biopic Director: Mike Figgis Cast : Marek Kondrat, Krystyna Janda, MORGAN CREEK Language: English Producer: Mike Figgis, Annie Stewart, Juliane Köhler INTERNATIONAL Director: Julie Taymor Etchie Stroh Production companies : “Tor” Film Morgan Creek International, 4000 Producers: Nancy Hardin, Jay Polstein, Cast: Selma Hayek, David Schwimmer, Production, Vega Film AG & Provobis Warner Boulevard, Building 76, Burbank, Lizz Speed Julien Sands, Danny Huston, Valeria Film CA 91522 USA. Tel: 818.954.4800. Fax: Cast: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Golino Production status : completed 818.954.4990. Website: Antonio Banderas, , Geoffrey Delivery Status: In Production “Weiser” is a film about mystery, www.morgancreek.com Rush, Roger Rees, and Mia Maestro Four frames of simultaneous action give a obsession and memory. Did the At Cannes: James G. Robinson Status: In Pre-Production peek into every nook and cranny of a obsessively recurring image of a dramatic (Chairman/CEO), Howard Kaplan (CFO), A sexy all-star casts heads-up this richly Venetial hotel as they follow interwoven event which took place 30 years ago and Brian Robinson (Head of Worldwide textured film based on the life of Mexican stories of political intrigue, assassination, cannot be erased from a man’s memory, Marketing), Jonathan Deckter (VP artist Frida Kahlo and her stormy prostitution, a film production, and the really happen or is it only part of its International), Greg Mielcarz (Head of relationship with mentor and lover, the maid service. imagination ? Worldwide Publicity) painter Diego Rivera. DANCING AT THE BLUE IGUANA THE RAIN CHILDREN Office: Martinez Hotel Ð Suite 620, Tel: THE HOURS Director: Michael Radford LES ENFANTS DE LA PLUIE 334.92.98.73.00, Fax: 334.93.39.67.82 Drama Producers: Etchie Stroh, Ram Bergman, AMERICAN OUTLAWS Animation (80 min) Action Language: English Dana Lustig, Michael Radford, Damian Director : Philippe LECLERC Director: Stephen Daldry Jones, Graham Broadbent, Sheila Kelly Language: English Production company (companies) : Director: Les Mayfield Producers: Scott Rudin, Robert Fox Cast: Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilly, BELOKAN PRODUCTIONS / MK2 Cast: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and , Elias Koteas, Vladimir Cast: Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali PRODUCTIONS Larter, Timothy Dalton, Kathy Bates Mashkov, Sheila Kelly, Charlotte Ayanna, Production status : In production (in Robert Wisdom Delivery Status: Post-production Status: In Production 2001) When the US railroad starts forcing This insightful ensemble drama bridges Status: Screening It’s a world in which two peoples are farmers from their homes, a group of three different eras to reveal the surprising A non-glamorous portrayal of the lives of hereditaries ennemies : the Pyross, who young ranchers band together to take back connections between the complicated lives a number of characters who make their worship the sun, and the Hydross, people what is theirs. As their fame grows, so will of three deeply different characters. From living at a strip club in contemporary Los of the Rain… Until the day Skän, a young the legend of their leader, an outlaw by the the Oscar-nominated director of the Angeles. Pyross warrior goes on a crusade in order name of Jesse James. international hit “Billy Elliot.” PANDAEMONIUM to understand why his parents has JUWANNA MANN THE SHIPPING NEWS Director: Julien Temple mysteriously disappeared. Comedy Romantic/Drama Producers: Nick O’Hagen and Michael LE SOUFFLE Language: Enlgish Language: English Kustow Language : French Director: Jesse Vaughan Director: Lasse Hallström Cast: John Hannah, Linus Roach, Director : Damien Odoul Cast: Miguel A. Nuñez, Jr., Vivica A. Producers: Irwin Winkler, Rob Cowen, Samantha Morton, Emily Woof Producer : Gérard Lacroix Fox, Tommy Davidson, Linda Goldstein Status: Screening Production company : Morgane Delivery Status: Post-production Cast: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi A story of the friendship and betrayal of Production Juwanna know a secret? What do you get Dench, Rhys Ifans and Cate Blanchett two poets, Sam Coleridge and William Production status : in post-production when you cross a suspended basketball Status: In Production Wordsworth who through the haze of One hot summer afternoon, David, a 15- superstar with a pair of high heels? Liberated from his tempestuous wife, a opium and in the heat of the passions of year-old boy, gets drunk for the first time Juwanna Mann Ð the best-kept secret to hit down-and-out writer (Spacey) travels the French Revolution explore the edges and comes face to face with death. The the women’s basketball league. FLYING TIGERS North with his young daughter and settles of both. crazy things people do under the influence into a quaint new home filled with a cast of HIDDEN AGENDA Action-Adventure of alcohol and to rebel against society lead Language: English eccentric characters, extraordinary tales Thriller this troubled teenager to do something Director: Marc S. Grenier Director: Les Mayfield and second chances. extreme... Cast: TBD THE FOUR FEATHERS Producer: Shimon Dotan, Marc S. THE PIANO TEACHER Delivery Status: Pre-production Action Adventure Grenier, Joanne Forgues LA PIANISTE Based on the flying heroics of a group of Language: English Delivery Status: Post Production Director : Michael Haneke American volunteers, covertly sponsored Director: When the FBI can’t protect a witness, it’s Production companies : Wega Film by the US government, who are called Producers: Stanley Jaffe and Bob Jaffe, up to ex-Agent price and his own private (Austria) & MK2 Productions (France) upon by China to help fight the invading Marty Katz witness protection program to take them Co-production : Les Films Alain Sarde, Japanese two years before Pearl Harbor Cast: , Wes Bentley, Kate under. Arte France Cinéma was attacked. Hudson, , Kris Marshall, HOLLYWOOD PALMS Cast : , Annie Girardot & THE PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST , Alex Jennings and Rupert Comedy Benoît Magimel Thriller Penry-Jones Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff Production status : in post-production Director: TBD Status: Post-Production Producer: Paul Canterna, William A woman in her mid-thirties fails in her Cast: TBD This epic tale is set at the end of the 19th Blaylock, Yoram Barzilai career as a virtuoso pianist in which she’s Delivery Status: Pre-production Century, as the British Empire fought Cast: Judge Reinhold, Elizabeth Mitchell, tutored by her tyrannic mother as well as a Traces the story of Father Merrin back to savagely to retain its control of the Sudan. Dean Cameron woman denying her own sexuality. his first encounter with the Devil during SERENDIPITY Delivery Status: In Post-Production I AM JOSH POLONSKI’S BROTHER his missionary work in Africa. Romantic Comedy A turbulent evening of romance, mayhem Language : English (85 min) Language: English and outright confusion displayed by the Director : Raphael Nadjari Director: Peter Chelsom tenants of a beaten down Hollywood Producer : Geoffroy Grison, Caroline The Business Producers: Peter Abrams, Robert Levy apartment complex comes to a rousing Bonmarchand, Francesca Feder and Simon Fields conclusion. Cast : Richard Edson, Jeff Ware, Meg Cast: , Kate Beckinsale, DORIAN Hartig Of Film Molly Shannon, , Bridget Thriller Production companies : Framed / Moynahan and Eugene Levy Director: Allan Goldstein Filmaker at Cannes Status: Post-Production Producers: Allan Goldstein, Luciano Lisi, Production status : Completed A chance encounter leads to one magical Charmaine Carvalho, Christine Cavana, Three brothers (Abe, Ben and Josh) work night in New York City for two young Harry Alan Towers together in a Lower East Side fabric shop. Direct Advertising Line strangers. Ten years later Ð and only weeks Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Ethan Ericson On a Saturday afternoon, just after a joyful from marrying other people Ð Jonathan Delivery Status: Screening and family lunch at their Jewish mother’s, 04.93.06.68.49 and Sarah’s memories of that fateful night A modern day update of the Josh gets brutally shot in the street in front resurface. novel, “The Portrait of .” of his brothers.

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MYRIAD PICTURES GOOD ADVICE MANGAMMA NEW CITY Myriad Pictures Head Office: 421 S. Comedy 102 Min./35MM/Col/Malayalam Beverly Drive, 5th Floor, Beverly Hills, Director: Steve Rash Director : T.V. Chandran DISTRIBUTION CA 90212 USA. Tel: 310.789.4500. Fax: Producer: Randall Emmett, George Furla, Producer : N.F.D.C. Ltd., India Arthur Chang, Mark Burg Cast : Revathy, , Vijaya CORPORATION 310.789.4545. New City Distribution Corporation, 380 Office: The Carlton Hotel, Imperial Cast: Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards, Raghavan, Rosanna Arquette, Angie Harmon, Jon Delivery Status : Completed Burrard Street, 3rd Floor, Vancouver, BC, Suite, 58 La Croisette, BP 155, 06414 Tel: 604.642.5400. Fax: 604.642.5440. E- Cannes Cedex, France. Tel: 33 4 93 06 40 06 Lovitz Mangamma is a migrant from another Status: Screening place, but finds a small job in a tea shop. mail: [email protected] At Cannes: Kirk D’Amico (Co-President), Company Type: Producer, Distributor Philip von Alvensleben (Co-President), A womanizing investment banker who has Ultimately she marries the owner of the lost everything takes over his ex- shop and her life blossoms. Finally she has At Cannes: Colleen Nystedt (President) Eric Christenson (Executive Vice SKINNING THE CAT President, Sales & Distribution), Gary girlfriend’s job as an advice columnist and to struggle through her life against all becomes the toast of New York. odds. Drama, Feature Film Length Phillips (Sr. Vice President, International Language: English Distribution), Nicolas Chartier (Vice TANGLED (A/K/A CONSPIRACY) TRAIN TO PAKISTAN Thriller Director : Pamela Rooks Director: John Glen President, Sales and Acquisitions ), Alex Director: Jay Lowi Producer : N.F.D.C Ltd., India Producer: Colleen Nystedt Walton(Sales Executive) Executive Producers: Kirk D’Amico, Cast : Nirmal Pandey, Cast: TBD PEOPLE I KNOW Philip von Alvensleben , Divya Dutta Delivery Status: Packaging Suspense Producers: Robert Levy, Peter Abrams, Delivery Status : Completed Budget: $7 m Director: Dan Algrant Jennifer Gibgot, Jonathan Komack- Martin The partition of the sub-continent and A teenage boy discovers the identity of an Executive Producer: Robert Redford, Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook, Shawn cross migration between India and aging cat burglar, and convinces him to Kirk D’Amico, Philip von Alvensleben Hatosy, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Lorraine Pakistan continues affecting the life of teach him everything he knows. Producers: Michael Nozik, Leslie Bracco, Estella Warren both Hindus and Muslims. It also effects SOMETHING HUMAN Urdang, Karen Tenkhoff Status: Screening relations between men whose lives are Comedy, Feature Film Length Cast: , Kim Basinger, Tea The competition between two college regulated by the trains, which rattle across Language: English Leoni, Ryan O’Neal, Richard Schiff students over a girl escalates to a violent nearby river bridgeá Director: TBD Status: Post-Production confrontation, as one will seemingly go to BAS YAARI RAKHO Producer: Colleen Nystedt While trying to recapture his past glory, a any lengths to win her affection. Director : Gopi Desai Cast: TBD legendary NY publicist is drawn into a Producer : NFDC & Productions La Fete Delivery Status: Packaging devious world of politics and celebrity [Canada] Budget: $4 m when his famous actor-client becomes ATIONAL FILM Cast : Om Puri, Pooja Batra A New York business man stumbles on the involved in a scandal that could jeopardize DEVELOPMENT Delivery Status : Completed wrong place to commit suicide, when the his ambitions of becoming a US Senator. Young Joseph joins a boarding school run eccentric inhabitants of a roadside tourist THE GOOD GIRL CORPORATION by Christian Missionaries. He finds it trap show him that sometimes living is the Dark Comedy N best cure for dying. difficult to settle down. Slowly he is Director: Miguel Arteta LIMITED feeling good and has friends. He meets a GUY IN THE SKY Executive Producers: Kirk D’Amico, National Film Development Corporation Black Comedy, Feature Film Length Limited, Nehru Centre, 6th Floor, Dr. poor boy Santo belonging to a local tribe Philip von Alvensleben and makes friends with him. He gets into Language: English Producers: Matthew Greenfield, Shelley A.B. Road, Worli, 400 018, Director: TBD India. Tel : 00.91.22.4973364/ 4951413. problems because he helps Santoá. Glasser HARI-BHARI Producer: Colleen Nystedt Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Fax: 00.91.22. 4973364 Cast: Eddie Izzard Company Type: Producer/Distributor 140 Min./35mm/Dolby Digital, C. Reilly, Zooey Deschanel, Director : Delivery Status: Packaging Status: In-Production At Cannes: D. Mukhopadhyay (Managing Budget: $10 m Director), P. Parameswaran (General Producer : N.F.D.C. Ltd., Inia A young married woman’s mundane life Cast : , Rajit Kapur He was the man of a thousand voices. Did takes a turn for the worse when she strikes Manager) one of them kill his wife? True story of a Office: stall No. to be given by Ms. Delivery Status : Completed up a passionate, adulterous affair with an The film deals with female health disc jockey accused of poisoning his wife. odd-ball discount store stock-boy, who Mariam Arab. problems and the need to empower women BLOODSUCKING FIENDS: A LOVE thinks he is Holden Caulfield. KALI SALWAR through a fictional saga of the family. It is STORY KILLING ME SOFTLY 112 min./35mm/colour/Mono/Hindi based on actual case studies in the region Romantic Comedy, Feature Film Length Thriller Director: Fareeda were its is locatedá. Language: English Director: Chen Kaige Producer: NFDC & Andaaz Co- DAMAN Director: TBD Executive Producers: Tom Pollock, Ivan Production Director : Producer: Colleen Nystedt Reitman Cast : Sadiya Siddiqui, Irfan Khan, Jeetu Producer : N.F.D.C. Ltd., India Cast: TBD Producer: Joe Medjuck, Lynda Myles, Shastri, Cast : Durga Saikia, Sanjay Saikia Delivery Status: Packaging Michael Chinich, Dan Goldberg Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status : Completed Budget: $16 m Cast: Heather Graham, , Sultana, a small town prostitute and her In a patriarchal society like India Women A wildly original story of romance, lust, Natascha McElhone, companion migrate to the metropolis is not only socialized into being silent bloodlust and bloodloss. Status: Post-production bringing with them their dreams and about their experience but traditional A beautiful American ex-patriot in London meager belongings. Initially she is norms teach them to tolerate, accept and leaves her comfortable but ordinary bewildered by the life in the city. even rationalize domestic violenceá relationship with her fiancee to pursue a SHANTHAM [CALMNESS] KUCHH DIL NE KAHA [CALL OF ANNOUNCING dangerously obsessive affair with a handsome 95 MIN./35MM/Mono THE HEART] mountaineer with a mysterious past. Optical/Malayalam Director : Dr. Purnima Prabhu VAN WILDER Director : Jayaraj Producer : N.F.D.C Ltd., India Comedy Producer : Grihalakshmi Films Cast : Sonal Sachdeva, Himanshu Amit This is your final opportunity Director: Walt Becker Cast : , K.P.A.C. Lalitha, Behl, Anang Desai Executive Producers: Kirk D’Amico, I.M. Vijayan Delivery Status : Completed to view the unabridged Philip von Alvensleben Delivery Status : Completed A sixteen year old charming girl SHALU Producers: Robert L. Levy, Peter Abrams Two young men who grow up together are captures the attention of all males around version of: Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid drawn into rival political movements that her. Finally, when she dies, it is passed off Status: In-Production demands their total royalty. One day one of as a suicide. The film is a tale of romance The Business Of Film With a talent for throwing legendary them has commanded to kill the other in the and suspenseá parties, Van Wilder is the most popular name of his political cause. The gruesome Product Guide. man on campus who has made it his killing leads to so many incidents. business not to graduate. But when his THODU [COMPANION] First established by The father stops his cash flow and a beautiful Director : Akkineni Kutumba Rao reporter makes him the subject of a student Producer : N.F.D.C. & Doordarshan THE BUSINESS OF Business Of Film in newspaper expose, Van Wilder is forced to Delivery Status : Completed consider life after college. A middle-aged man loses his wife and his FILM 1983, the unabridged DOUBLE WHAMMY life is shattered. A woman, who has grown Dark Comedy up and married sons, loses her husband, The ‘Independent’ choice version tracks all available Director: Tom DiCillo but she is able to cope-up with life all Producers: David Kronemyer and Marcus alone. These two are neighbours and product from the top sales Viscidi interact with each other. Published Daily during the Cast: Denis Leary, Elizabeth Hurley, JANMADINAM [THE DAY OF companies worldwide, with Steve Buscemi BIRTH] Cannes International Status: Screening 110 Mins./35MM/Col/Malayalam information on Genre, When police detective Ray Pluto’s back Director : Suma Josson goes out in the middle of a major hold-up, Producer : N.F.D.C. Ltd., India Film Festival Language, Director, he becomes the laughing stock of the Delivery Status : Completed community until he meets a sexy Sarasu, the daughter, comes to the hospital May 9th - 20th 2001 Producer, Cast, Delivery chiropractor who puts him on track to deliver her baby. The Mother is with her towards fixing his back and restoring his and in the night their separate lives are Status & Budget. reputation. remembered.

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NEW LINE CINEMA I AM SAM (WORKING TITLE) A HUNDRED MILES TO HEAVEN YOU ALONE CAN’T SEE New Line Cinema, Los Angeles Office: Drama Drama (101min.) Drama (105min.) 116 N. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA Director: Jessie Nelson Language: Japanese Language: Japanese 90048 Tel: 310.854.5811. Fax: Producers: Bedford Falls, Cary Woods Director: Yoshiaki HAYAKAWA Director: Tomoyuki AKAISHI 310.659.4712. New York Office: 888 7th Cast: Sean Penn, , Producer: Akiko SASAKI Producer: Tadahisa SAKAMOTO Avenue, 20th Floor, New York NY 10106. Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Laura Cast: Saburo TOKITO, Kaoru Cast: Tetta SUGIMOTO, Satomi Tel: 212.649.4900. Fax 212.659.4966. Dern, Doug Hutchison YACHIGUSA, KOBAYASHI London Office: 25-28 Old Burlington St., Status: In Production Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: completed London W1X 1LB England. Tel: An emotionally handicapped man fights A guy lost his job and family. His last hope A guy imprisoned for commiting a fraud, 44.207.440.1040. Fax: 44.207.439.6118 against all odds to retain custody of his is to take by himself his mother in serious upon his release, try to reform himself, At Cannes: Rolf Mittweg (President - adoring, non-handicapped daughter. sick to a has god hands living save people with his strange power and at New Line International, Co-Chairman AUSTIN POWERS 3 a hundred miles away. last find his ex-wife. Comedy HARMFUL INSECT (TENTATIVE) TO LOVE Worldwide Theatrical Marketing), Camela Director: Drama Drama (114min.) Galano (Executive Vice President, Producers: Mike Myers, John Lyons Language: Japanese Language: Japanese European Supervisor - New Line Cast: Mike Myers Director: Director: International; Executive Vice President, Status: In Development Producer: Hiroyuki NEGISHI Producer: Tomozo YAMAGUCHI Fine Line International), Nestor Nieves The next installment… Cast: , , Ryo Cast: Miki SAKAI, Atsuro WATABE (Senior Vice President, Sales -New Line Delivery Status: in production Delivery Status: completed International), Elena Cahalan (Vice Sachiko, 12 years old was dating with his A love story of a girl who lives in love President, International Contracts), Teri NEW ZEALAND FILM teacher who already left school. Her even after she is wrongly diagnosed Grochowski (Vice President, International COMMISSION mother attempted suicide. She stops going leprosy. Marketing), Tracy Lorie (Vice President, to school and is surrounded by people D.A.N.G.A.N RUNNER International Publicity) New Zealand Film Commission, Level 2, The Film Centre, 119 Jervois Quay, dropped out the society. Action (82min.) Office: Residence Croisette Miramar DORA-HEITA Language: Japanese Phone tbd, 67 rue la Croisette, 9th Floor Wellington, New Zealand. Tel: 64.4.382.7680. Fax: 64.4.384.9719. E- Samurai Drama (111min.) Director: SABU Fax tbd Language: Japanese Producer: Tomoyuki AKAISHI LIFE AS A HOUSE mail: [email protected] Company Type: Sales Agent Director: Cast: Tomorowo TAGUCHI, Drama Producer: Yoshinobu NISHIOKA Diamond_Yukai, Director: Irwin Winkler At Cannes: Ruth Harley(Chief Executive), Kathleen Drumm (Sales and Cast: Koji YAKUSHO, Yuko ASANO Delivery Status: completed Producers: Irwin Winkler, Rob Cowan Delivery Status: completed Three miserable loser are on the fun. Cast: , , Marketing), Michael Wrenn (Creative and Marketing), Richard Fletcher (Business A Samurai Dora-Heita gets rid of the They had no life, no fun, no respect Hayden Christensen, Jena Malone, Mary secret liaison between senior statesmen before. For no reason with no fear. Steenburgen Affairs), Alan Sorrell (Chairman) Office: 1st Floor, Gray d’Albion and Yakuza bosses. Nothing will stop them any more. Status: In Post-Production ONE STEP ON A MINE, IT’S ALL When he learns that he has only four Building, 17 la Croisette/4 rue des Serbes Tel: TBA OVER Mysterious Horror (87min.) months left to live, a terminally ill man Drama (111min.) Language: Japanese forces his estranged teenage boy to help Fax: TBA RAIN Language: Japanese Director: Takahisa ZEZE him construct his dream house Ð a project Drama (92 Minutes) Director: Sho IGARASHI Producer: Kazuyuki KOBAYASHI, that he hopes will allow him to forge ties Language: English Producer: Kazuyoshi OKUYAMA Minoru YOKOTE, Shigehiro ARAKE that he’s abandoned over the years. Director: Christine Jeffs Cast: Cast: Ayumi YAMATSU, Hiroko BLADE 2 Producer: Philippa Campbell Delivery Status: completed SHIMADA, Moe ISHIKAWA Action Cast: Alicia Wa, Boy, Sarah Peirse, A young combat photographer Delivery Status: completed Director: Marton Csokas ICHINOSE, ends his short but shinning Occult fortune-telling game Kokkuri stirs Producers: Amen Ra Films, Peter Delivery Status: Complete life in Cambodia. the lives of three unstable high school , Marvel A 13-year-old girl decides to grow up too FREEZE ME girls. They are drawn to death… Cast: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, quickly, without realising the Psycho-thriller (101min.) WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU Norman Reedus, Leonor Varela, Danny consequences. Language: Japanese Drama (113min.) John Jules, Luke Goss Director: Takashi ISHII Language: Japanese Status: In Production Producer: Nobuaki NAGAE, Taketo Director: Tetsuo SHINOHARA Blade: half vampire, half human, is forced NIKKATSU NIITSU, Takashi ISHII Producer: Toshiki KUDO, to team up with the very vampires whom Cast: Harum INOUE, Cast: Takashi KASHIWABARA, Ikuko he hates Ð in order to overcome a new type CORPORATION NaotoTAKENAKA, KAWAI of monster which threatens to eradicate Nikkatsu Corporation, 3-28-12, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan. Tel: Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: completed both races. Chihiro was raped by three guys five years A young sound engineer finds a real love Origin: USA 81.3.5689.1026. Fax: 81.3.5689.1043. E- mail: [email protected] (International ago. When she is about to start new life with his girlfriend while he is away from New This Market: Yes with her finance, they again show up and her for shooting a documentary program. US Release Date: 2002 Sales). Website : www.nikkatsu.com Company Type : producer, distributor try to destroy her happiness. She then DIABLO decided to react. She will soon has three Action At Cannes: Yasue Nobusawa / Manager NONSTOP SALES Acquisition Executive : Kiyohiko Shoji / dead bodies in her freezers. Director: F. Gary Gray SLEEPING BRIDE NonStop Sales, Döbelnsgatan 24, SE-113 Producers: Tucker Tooley, Vincent General Manager, Kiyoe Takagi / Chief 52 Stockholm, . Tel. 46.8.673 Staff Fantastic Love Story (100min.) Newman, Joseph Nittolo Language: Japanese 9980. Fax. 46.8.673 9988. Office: [email protected]. Cast: Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate, Timothy DARKNESS IN THE LIGHT Director: Hideo NAKATA Olyphant, Gino Silva, Jacqueline Obradors Producer: Hironao RYOKI, Shigeki www.nonstopsales.net Drama (119min.) At Cannes: Michael Werner (Sales Status: In Post-Production Language: Japanese OSAWA After a major player from the Baja Cartel Cast: Yuki KOHARA, Risa GOTO Director, cellph. +46.70.733 2855), Judith Director: Kei KUMAI Toth (Sales Executive, cell.ph. is imprisoned, a new, mysterious figure Producer: Toyoharu FUKUDA, Taketo Delivery Status: completed know as “Diablo” attempts to take his A girl is asleep since her birth. A boy loves +46.70.416 9983), Marie Holhammar NIITSU (Press & PR, cell.ph. +46.708.345200), place Ð when his wife is murdered in a Cast: , , her and tries to wake her up by his kisses. botched hit, a U.S. Customs agent Though she finally does, it seems that she CG Anderson (CEO, cellph. +46.708.130200) collaborates with the jailed Cartel boss in Delivery Status: completed is not allowed to wake up forever. an attempt to identify and punish “Diablo,” CHARISMA Office: Scandinavian Film office, 55, La An innocent citizen falsely accused on Croisette, Tel. 46.70.733 2855. Fax. the man responsible for the crime. suspicion of murder in the case of lethal Drama (103min.) RUN, RONNIE RON! Language: Japanese 46.70.711 6855 gas poisoning happened in Japan. Who DREAM Comedy and how made it happen? Director: Director: Troy Miller Producer: Satoshi Jinno, Atsuyuki Shimoda Romantic Drama-Comedy, 95 minutes SADISTIC AND MASOCHISTIC Language: English Producers: Basic Entertainment, T. Documentary (91min.) Cast: Koji Yakusho, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi Sarkes, HBO Delivery Status: completed Director: Mikael Hylin Language: Japanese Producer: Per Erik Lindberg & Maria Cast: David Cross, Director: Hideo NAKATA There is a peculiar tree called Status: In Post-Production CHARISMA in the deep forest. Should it Norman Producer: Tomoyuki AKAISHI Cast: Sinead Cusack, A biting look at fame in America based on Cast: Masaru KONUMA, Hideo be destroyed or protected? People sand “Mr. Show.” divided over this one tree. Brown, Joe Absolom & introducing Kelly NAKATA, Naomi TANI Harrison ABOUT SCHMIDT Delivery Status: completed MINAZUKI Dramedy Drama (114min.) Delivery status: Completed, first Documentary of a film Director: Masaru screening in Cannes, 2001. Director: Alexander Payne KONUMA who has been working in Language: Japanese Producers: Harry Gittes, Michael Besman Director: Rokuro MOCHIZUKI Budget: USD 3,7 million “Roman Porno,” a quite unique genre DREAM is a romantic dramedy about Cast: Jack Nicholson movies in the world and regarded one of Producer: Yutaka KAKUTA, Hiroshi HANZAWA sixteen-year-old Emma who has a dream, Status: In Production the best directors. while her boyfriend has another. A retired insurance man has his Cast: , Kazuki KITAMURA institutions stripped away Ð marriage, Delivery Status: completed career, his daughter Ð he then struggles to L.A. Office Phone A wife has disappeared under very L.A. Office FAX put the remaining pieces of his life (323) 935-8228 mysterious circumstances. Her husband together before he self-destructs. goes on a trip to find her. (323) 935-8229

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CLASSIC CRACKERJACK 3 IN GOD WE TRUST Black Comedy, 90 minutes NORTH AMERICAN Action/Adventure (95 min.) Action Language: Finnish with English subtitles RELEASING INC. Language: English Ð no subtitles Directed by Peter Antonijevic Director: Kari Väänänen North American Releasing Inc., 808 Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Cast: Christian Slater, , Daryl Producer: Ilkka Mertsola Nelson, Suite 2105, Vancouver, BC V6Z Producer: Lloyd A. Simandl Hannah, Verne Troyer Cast: Marti Suosalo, Janne Hyytiänen, 2H2 Canada. Tel: 604.681.2165. Fax: Cast: Olivier Gruner, Bo Svenson, & Leo Rossi Status: Production Matti Onnisma 604.681.5538. E-mail: [email protected] Delivery Status: complete Infamous crack thief Taylor is out of jail Delivery status: Finnish release February Company Type: Distributor A group of retired spies are forced to work and back in the game. He orchestrates a 2001 At Cannes: Lloyd A. Simandl (Chairman in a blundering attempt to recapture a brilliant scheme to rob an Off-Track Budget: USD 1 million and Chief Executive Officer) & Suzanne neutron bomb stolen by the new wave of betting parlor with his new crew, and later Desperate to find inspiration, a writer Daley (VP Worldwide Sales) high-tech young operatives who have taken discovers the loot was marked. buys a fast car & throws himself into for Office: Suite at the Noga Hilton: 350, over the post-cold war intelligence game. EDGES OF THE LORD him very different lifestyle! Tel: 334.92.99.70.00. Fax: FATAL CONFLICT Drama BAD LUCK LOVE 334.92.99.70.11 Sci-Fi (95 min) Directed by Yurek Bogayevicz Action-Drama, 90 minutes OMEGA FORCE Language: English Ð no subtitles Cast: H Produced by Zev Braun, Philip Language: Finnish with English subtitles Action/Adventure (95 min, approx.) Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Krupp, , Director: Olli Saarela Language: English Ð no subtitles Producer: Lloyd A. Simandl Status: Post-production Producer: Anna Heiskanen Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Cast: Kari Wuhrer, Jennifer Rubin, & Leo Rossi A young Jewish boy lives with a peasant Cast: Jorma Tommila, Maria Producer: Lloyd A. Simandl Delivery Status: complete family and pretends to be Catholic during Järvenhelmi, Tommi Eronen Cast: Olivier Gruner Ex star freighter pilot, Sasha Burns, must the German occupation of Poland. Delivery status: Finnish release Delivery Status: Pre-Production stop a mad criminal and his gang from BEHIND THE SUN September 2001 Paul Gerard, a Belgian NATO weapons destroying what`s left of civilization by Thriller Budget: USD 1,3 million expert, is being blackmailed into to ramming an enormous ship into Los Directed by Robby Henson This is the love story of Ali & Inka. After helping Boris Vukov, an infamous Balkan Angeles. Produced by Propaganda Films 5 years in jail for murder, Ali wants a new warlord, activate a Russian nuclear bomb. LETHAL TARGET Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Patricia beginning, however not easy when ARIANA’S QUEST Sci-Fi (95 min.) Arquette, Sela Ward surrounded by criminals! Fantasy/Adventure (95 minutes, approx.) Language: English Ð no subtitles Status: Production COOL & CRAZY Language: English Ð no subtitles Delivery Status: complete A small town sheriff stirs up trouble for Docu-feature, 105 minutes Director: Lloyd A. Simandl & Danny Director: Lloyd A. Simandl himself when he investigates the murder Language: Norwegian with English Virtue Producer: Lloyd A. Simandl of a transsexual. subtitles Producer: Lloyd A. Simandl Cast: CC Costigan, Kim Dawson, & Josh DEATH TRAIN Director: Knut Erik Jensen Cast: Rena Mero Baker Action Producer: Tom Remlov Delivery Status: Post-Production Delivery Status: complete Directed by Bob Misiorowski Cast: The 30 members of the Berlevåg Set in the Dark Ages, a princess, robbed Sent aboard a deathtrap starship, a young Status: Pre-Production male choir as themselves of her kingdom and taken prisoner, learns woman Marshal must go undercover to An elite bodyguard / courier tries to figure Delivery status: Norwegian theatrical a secret that has kept her kingdom safe prevent a terrifying alien invasion though out what is in the mysterious briefcase he’s release January 2001 for centuries, but she must bend time a beach in the very fabric of the universe. been hired to carry while engaging in a cat Budget: USD 0,5 million itself to regain her kingdom and the LAST STAND and mouse chase on a train speeding freedom of her people. Sci-Fi (95 min.) across Europe. An unusual feelgood documusical Language: English Ð no subtitles RATS feature, set in the northernmost of Europe KILLER LOVE Thriller (95 minutes, approx.) Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Creature Horror about ordinary lives with dignity under Producer: Lloyd A. Simandl Directed by James Raffels extreme circumstances! Language: English Ð no subtitles Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Cast: Kate Rodger, Josh Barker, & Produced by Boaz Davidson FLICKERING LIGHTS Orestes Matacena Cast: Ron Perlman Action-Comedy Producer: Lloyd A. Simandl Cast: Kari Wuhrer Delivery Status: complete Status: Production Language: Danish with English subtitles In a nightmare Washington of the future, a Jennifer is admitted to a psychiatric Director: Anders Thomas Jensen Delivery Status: Complete While researching countess Elizabeth small band of desperate freedom fighters hospital after she attempts suicide. But (Academy Awarded for Best Short Film must topple a vicious dictator before it is when strange noises plague her during the 1999) Bathory, a 15th Century serial killer, a young woman must use her historical to late and he destroys the last hope for night, and patience begins to disappear, Producer: Kim Magnusson & Tivi mankind. Jennifer discovers the horror buried Magnusson expertise to outwit a modern-day monster that is driven by the same desire for LIBRARY underneath the hospital: Frighteningly Cast: Iben Hjejle (High Fidelity), Sören Over 30 feature films, Sci-Fi, intelligent RATS have infested the area, Pilmark (The Kingdom), Ulrich blood. DAKOTA BOUND Action/Adventure, Drama, and they’ve developed a taste for humans! Thomsen (Zookeeper) Horror/Thriller & Erotic U.S. SEALS 3 Delivery status: Danish release Action/Adventure (95 minutes, approx.) Language: English Ð no subtitles Action/Adventure. Action November 2000 Directed by Franklin Vallette Budget: USD 2 million Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Produced by Danny Lerner Four criminal friends are on the run for a Producer: Lloyd A. Simandl NU IMAGE, INC. / Delivery Status: Pre-Production new life. They bring some USD 500.000 Cast: Fawnia Mondey & Esther Hanuka MILLENNIUM FILMS, The Target: The world’s most feared that belongs to the “Eskimo,” and he Delivery Status: Post-production terrorist. The Bait: A nuclear weapon so wants them! In a not so distant future, a massive INC. powerful it doesn’t officially exist. The NAKED AGAIN plague has killed almost everyone on the Nu Image, Inc. / Millennium Films, Inc., New Recruit: America’s deadliest enemy. Comedy planet and 20 young women must venture 9145 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA SHARK ATTACK 3 Language: Swedish with English off into the unknown and make their way 90069 USA. Tel: 310.246.0240. Fax: Action subtitles to Cheyenne Mountain, in the hopes of 310.246.1655. E-mail: [email protected] Directed by David Worth Director: Torkel Knutsson & Mårten finding peace. At Cannes: Danny Dimbort (Co- Status: Pre-Production Knutsson RAGE OF THE INNOCENTS Chairman & CEO), Avi Lerner (Co- A marine biologist battles against a pair of Producer: Håkan Bjerking Action/Adventure (95 minutes, approx.) Chairman & CEO), Carole DeLosSantos megalodons, prehistoric sharks capable of Cast: Henrik Norberg, Lisa Kock, Language: English Ð no subtitles (Vice President International), Rachel reaching sixty feet in length, who are (Playmate of the year Delivery Status: Complete Adler (International Sales) wreaking havoc off the coast of South 1999) Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Office: Noga Hilton, Suite #301, Tel: Africa. Delivery status: Swedish release Producer: Lloyd A. Simandl (0)4.92.99.69.36, Fax: (0)4.92.99.69.37 December 2000 Cast: Priestley, Todd Farr, & Kira THE MONK Budget: USD 0,2 million Reed Action After a rough bachelor party, Anders Delivery Status: Post production Directed by Ringo Lam wakes up in an elevator with only 3 hours In a distant future, a young warrior must Produced by Danny Lerner THE BUSINESS OF to his own wedding! band together with a small group of Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme rebels and wage a guerilla war in order to Status: Pre-Production rescue his true love and save his people A white Shaolin Monk returns to America FILM NORDISK FILM from certain death. in search of his roots. He finds himself STARFIRE MUTINY caught between two gangs at war and must INTERNATIONAL Sci-Fi (95 minutes, approx.) battle an evil boss to bring about peace. SALES Language: English Ð no subtitles UNDISPUTED Nordisk Film International Sales, Delivery Status: Complete Action Los Angeles Office Halmtorvet 29, 1700 Copenhagen, Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Directed by (“48 Hours”) Denmark. Tel. 45.3326.6880. Fax Producer: Lloyd A. Simandl Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, Peter 45.3326.6889. E-mail: Cast: Joe Lara, Maureen La Vette, & Falk and Michael Rooker 5150 Wilshire Blvd. [email protected] Elise Muller Status: Post-Production At Cannes: Sanne Arloe (Sales Delivery Status: In post-production A riveting and suspenseful action/boxing Los Angeles Executive), Susan Wendt (Sales Millions of colonists in suspended story about the world heavyweight Executive), Klaus Rasmussen (Sales animation within a gigantic starship will champion who is incarcerated in a Executive), Casper Hald (Sales Manager) be killed by a band of vicious escaped maximum-security prison and who goes California 90036 Office in Cannes: The Scandinavian convicts unless Shayana Black can save head to head with the other inmates and Office, 55 La Croisette them. the prison’s own undefeated champion.

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MONSOON WEDDING LAWLESS HEART A QUESTION OF FAITH ENTERTAINMENT Drama (119 min) Drama (90 min) Drama (91 min) Language: Hindi Director: Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter Director: Tim Disney O Director: Mira NAIR Producer: Martin Pope Producer: William Hancy O Entertainment, 31878 Camino Capistrano, Suite 101, San Juan Producer/Co: Jonathan Sehring, Caroline Cast: Tom Hollander, Bill Nighy, Ellie Cast: Martha Hackett, Bernard Hill, Paul Capistrano, CA 92675, USA. Tel: Baron Haddington, Sukie Smith Guilfoyle, Daniel Von Bargen, Naveen 949.661.5495. Fax: 949.661.5995. Production/Co: Independent Film Delivery Status: Completed Andrews, Joe Spano Company Type: Producer/Distributor Channel, Mirabai Films A mutual friend’s funeral is the catalyst for Delivery Status: completed At Cannes: Bonnie Foley (Vice President) Cast: , Shefali Shetty, three stories of the heart: one that betrays, A member of the priesthood experiences a Office: N/A, Tel: 949.289.5493 Vasundhara Das on ethat derails, and one that finally miraculous encounter with implications THE BARNYARD An arranged marriage is the occasion for a breaks. that are both stunning and uplifting. As the Animation gathering of a huge extended family, and GYPSY WOMAN community struggles with the Language: English the cause of roller-coaster emotions for all Comedy (90 min) ramifications, long buried conflicts begin Director: Steve Oedekerk concerned. Director: Sheree Folkson to surface. Producer: Steve Oedkerk SAMSARA Producer: Paul Raphael and Justin SKINS Cast: Still Casting Drama (138 min) Ackerman Drama Delivery Status: pre-production Language: Ladakhi (subtitles:) Cast: Jack Davenport and Neve McIntosh Director: Chris Eyre Budget: 30 million Director: PAN Nalin Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Jon Kilik This animated film presents a hilarious Producer/Co: Karl Baumgartner, They live in different worlds. He’s a real Cast: Graham Greene, Adam Beach, Eric glimpse into the hidden world of what Christoph Friedel estate developer. She’s a gypsy attempting Schweig animals do when humans aren’t looking. Production/Co: PANDORA to reconcile her heritage with the Delivery Status: Production BILLY THE DESTROYER Filmproduktion (Germany)/ VEGA Film impending modern world. Rudy, a tribal cop, struggles to protect his Comedy (Switzerland), PARADIS Film (France) QUICKSAND people from themselves, including his Language: English Cast: Shawn Ku, Christy Chung, Action/Thriller older brother, Mogie, who had been his Director: Steve Oedekerk Neelesha BaVora Director: John Mackenzie idol since childhood. Producer: Steve Oedekerk A young monk leaves the shelter of his Cast: Michael Caine, Michael Keaton, WISHMASTER 4 Cast: Still Casting monastery to test his faith in the face of the Judith Godreche, Rade Serbedzija Horror Delivery Status: Pre-production challenges that life beyond the walls has to Delivery Status: Post-production Director: Chris Angel Budget: 25 million throw at him. When massive sums of money are being Producer: Gary Howsam, Gilles Paquin He’s big, he’s bad, he’s nine. SUPER 8 STORIES BY EMIR mysteriously deposited in an offshore Cast: Tara Spencer-Naim, Michael TED HUR KUSTURICA bank, Inspector Martin Raikes is Trucco, Jason Thompson, John Novak Comedy Docu (90 min) summoned to Monaco. What appears to be Delivery Status: Post-Production Language: English Language: Serbian a routine investigation turns into a When a motocycle accident leaves Sam Director: Steve Oedekerk Director: Emir KUSTURICA consuming web of survival. paralyzed from the waist down, he uses his Producer: Steve Oedekerk Producer/Co: Carlo Cresto-Dina, BARK bitterness to shut out the woman he loves, Cast: Currently casting Raimond Goebel Comedy Lisa. When his lawyer friend, Steven, Delivery Status: pre-production Production/Co: PANDORA Director: Kasia Adamik represnts his lawsuit Ð having always Budget: 25 million Filmproduktion (Germany)/ FANDANGO Producer: Alicia Allain, Tom Reed carried a torch for Lisa Ð Steven tries to A similar journey as Ben Hur without the srl (Italy) Cast: Lisa Kudrow, Hank Azaria, Vincent take advantage of the rift growing between length. Status: Market screening D’Onofrio, Lee Tergesen, Heather them. A documentary which speaks about music. Morgan DIGGITY Music which speaks about a world. The Delivery Status: Post-production Familly/Drama ONLINEFILMANDTV wild, mad, creative, dramatic world of the Peter and Lucy are happily married, until Director: Tom Reeve Balkans as seen by Emir Kusturica and the Lucy starts behaving like a dog and ceases Producer: Tom Reeve SALES band ‘No Smoking.’ human behavior entirely. Peter enlists the Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Louise OnlineFilmandTVSales, 1400 North LA CIÉNAGA (THE SWAMP) help of Darla, an eccentric veterinarian Lombard, Bill Treacher Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028 Drama (102 min) who quickly becomes the object of Peter’s Delivery Status: Post-production USA. Tel: 323.468.6900. Language: Spanish (subtitles:) affections. Raymond is having a bad day. But things Fax: 323.468.6906. E-mail: Director: Lucrecia MARTEL HERMIT OF AMSTERDAM begin to look up when he inherits a [email protected] Producer/Co: Lita Stantic (WORKING TITLE) property in England. Company Type: Sales Agent Production/Co: Lita Stantic and Cuatro Dramedy Office: G9/G11 Cabezas Films Director: Rudolf van den Berg Status: Market screening Producer: Pierre Spengler ACIFICA ORFEO FILMS Mecha has a husband who dyes his hair, Cast: Burt Reynolds, , INTERNATIONAL four teenage-kids and the tedious problem Carmen Chaplin INTERNATIONAL of sullen servants - nothing that a few Delivery Status: Post-production FILM & TV CORP. ORFEO Films International, Riehler PPacifica International Film & TV Corp., drinks can’t cure. A beautiful young woman wary of the Strasse 1, D-50668 Köln, Tel: ways of men and an aging American hippy V P.O. Box 6265, Woodland Hills, CA 49.221.130.56.60, Fax: 49.221.130.56.61. baffled by the ways of women meet in 91365 USA. Tel: 818.222.7377. Fax: E-mail: [email protected] OVERSEAS Amsterdam. Together, they conspire to 818.222.8842. E-mail: [email protected] AYURVEDA - ART OF BEING FILMGROUP / FIRST find love in totally unexpected and very Company Type : Distributor - Japan, all Docu 102 min funny ways. rights Language: Hindi LOOK PICTURES YOUNG BLADES At Cannes: Acquisition: Christine Iso Director: PAN Nalin Overseas Filmgroup / First Look Drama (93 min) Acquisition Assistant: Sandrine Lugassy Producer/Co: Karl Baumgartner, Pictures, 8800 Sunset Blvd., Suite 302, Delivery Status: completed/screening Hotel: Hotel America, 13 Rue St. Christoph Friedel / Reinhard Brundig, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA. Tel: Director: Mario Andreacchio Honore, Cannes, France Christa Saredi 310.855.1199, Fax: 310.855.0719. Rome Producer: Georges Campana, Gwen Field 06400; Tel: 04.93.06.75.75 Production/Co: PANDORA Office: Via E. Jenner, 45 00151 Rome, Cast: Hugh Dancy, Sarah-Jane Potts, Ben Acquisition of Titles: Filmproduktion (Germany)/ SUNRISE Italy. Tel/Fax: 3906.5327.5511. E-mail: Cross CHOCOLAT Film (Switzerland) [email protected]. Website: Delivery Status: completed/screening BEING JOHN MALKOVICH Status: Market screening www.firstlookmedia.com In 1615 France, young D’Artagnan BEFORE NIGHT Follows various Indian practitioners of the At Cannes: Chris Cooney (Co-Chairman, embarks on a journey where his skill with FALLS world’s oldest continually practised First Look Media), Robert Little (Co- a sword serves him far too early in life. SPY KIDS holistic healthcare system now revitalised Chairman, First Look Media), William REVELATION Seeking genre : Drama, thriller, suspense, as they apply the ancient doctrines in this Lischak (COO, CFO, First Look Media), Thriller youth-oriented features, action, love/ modern age. MJ Peckos (President, First Look Director: Stuart Urban romance, children. FIREFLY DREAMS ORIG. TITL: Pictures), Liz Mackiewicz (Senior VP, Producer: Jonathan Woolf HIDAMARI International Sales, Overseas Filmgroup), Cast: Terence Stamp, Udo Kier, James Coming of Age (119 min) Brian O’Shea (Senior VP, International D’Arcy, Natasha Wightman, Liam THE BUSINESS OF Language: Japanese Sales, Overseas Filmgroup) Cunningham Director: John WILLIAMS Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 753, Tel: Delivery Status: Post-production FILM Producer/Co: Martin Rycroft 334.97.06.84.83/84, Fax: 334.97.06.84.86 A cryptographer and a student of alchemy Production/Co: 100 Meter Films MY KINGDOM find themselves on a perilous mission to The ‘Independent’ choice Status: Market screening Drama (109 min) locate an ancient relic known as the One defining summer in the life of teenage Director: Don Boyd Loculus. rebel Naomi. Sent away from the city Producer: Neal Weisman and Gabriela Published Daily during the when her parents split, she meets an old Bacher lady with a surprising secret in her past Cast: , Lynn Redgrave, The Business Of Film that brings them close together. Aidan Gillen, Louis Lombard Cannes International Delivery Status: Completed/Screening at Cannes When a tragic event causes the patriarch of Film Festival Send press releases to a crime family to relinquish control over Direct Fax Line his kingdom, a lethal power struggle is [email protected] unleashed between his beautiful daughters. 04.93.06.47.20 May 9th - 20th 2001

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PANDORA CINEMA DONNIE DARKO CRUST ACCESS DENIED (P/K/A “51/2 Pandora Cinema, 4000 Warner Fantasy Comedy (95 minutes) HOURS TO DAWN”) Boulevard, Building 148, Unit 200/206, Language: English Language: English Action Drama Burbank, CA 91522 USA. Tel: Director: Richard Kelly Director: Mark Locke Director: Brent Loefke 818.954.5549. Fax: 818.954.7713. E- Producer: Adam Fields Producers: Nick O’Hagan, Henry Van Producers: Pentafour Films mail: [email protected] Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Moyland Cast: To Be Announced Company Type: Co-financing/licensing Noah Wyle Cast: Kevin McNally, Perry Fitzpatrick, Delivery Status: Pre-Production At Cannes: Hunt Lowry (President), Delivery Status: Screening Louise Mardenborough The newly installed computerized Shebnem Askin (Sr. Vice President, A bright sixteen year old boy, after Status: Post-production defense system aboard Air Force One Worldwide Sales), Ernst Goldschmidt miraculously escaping death in a freak Two guys and a girl try to make their malfunctions, forcing the Pentagon to (Consultant), Paul Federbush (VP accident, is granted twenty eight more fortune with a giant boxing shrimp! enlist the aid of a maverick technology Acquisitions), Catherine Touati days of life before he must relive the PHOENIX BLUE guru in a series of drastic rescue (Marketing Coordinator - Europe), same accident. Romantic Thriller (90 minutes) attempts. Bernadette Massoni (Sales Coordinator) Language: English PARTNERS IN CRIME Office: Majestic Suite 137/138, Tel: Director: Tony Maylam Crime Thriller PALM PICTURES Language: English 04.97.06.85.37, Fax: 04.97.06.85.40 Palm Pictures, 4 Columbus Circle Ð 5th Producers: Simon Hardy WELCOME TO COLLINWOOD Cast: James Murray, Emily Hamilton, Director: Jennifer Warren Floor, New York, NY 10019 USA. Tel: Producers: J. Todd Harris, Ram Bergman, Action Comedy 212.506.5800. Fax: 212.506.5809. 8409 Amanda Donohoe Language: English Status: Post-production Dana Lustig Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA Cast: Rutger Hauer, Director: The Russo Brothers 90069. Tel: 323.802.0112. Fax: A journalist’s search for a reclusive Producer: , George musician leads her to the Caribbean and Delivery Status: Completed 323.802.0123 FBI involvement in the investigation of an Clooney At Cannes: David Koh (Head of the world of ‘freediving.’ Cast: William H. Lacy, , HOT GOLD apparent kidnapping in a tranquil suburban Acquisitions/Co-productions), Marvin community leads to resentment among the George Clooney Gleicher (Head of Distribution), Bonnie Language: English Delivery Status: In Production Comedy (90 minutes) local authorities and suspicion of their lead Voland (Head of Publicity) detective. THE OLD MAN WHO READ LOVE Office: Hotel Majestic, Suite 751, Tel: Director: Andrew Gillman STORIES 334.97.06.84.76, Fax: 334.97.06.84.77 Cast: Owen Teale, Daniela Nardini, John Drama Standing, Honor Blackman Language: English THE LAST MINUTE PHAEDRA Directed by Stephen Norrington Status: Post -production Director: A comedy spoof set around the theft of INTERNATIONAL Producer: Michelle De Broca Cast: Max Beesley (ALL THAT GLITTERS, TOM JONES) and Jason ’s crown from the British Phaedra International, 3440 Wilshire Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Timothy Spall, Museum. Blvd., Suite 603, Los Angeles, CA 90010 Hugo Weaving Isaacs (THE PATRIOT). Delivery Status: Screening in Cannes. SILENT CRY USA. Tel: 213.380.9323. Fax: Delivery Status: Screening Thriller (95 minutes) 213.380.9334. E-mail: A man is forced to return to the jungle to Set in London, a dangerous landscape of murderers, thieves, and talent agents, THE Language: English [email protected]. Website: confront a dangerous female jaguar and Director: Julian Richards www.phaedracinema.com his own past through the sacrifice killing LAST MINUTE is a black comic tale of fame, delusion, mediocrity, and the high Producers: Peter La Terriere, Tim Company Type: Sales Agent/Distributor of the berast he has grown to love. Dennison At Cannes: Gregory Hatanaka WHITE OLEANDER price of failure. SCRATCH Cast: Emily Woof, Douglas Henshall, (President), Christa Hamilton (Manager, Drama Clive Russell, Kevin Whateley International Sales) Language: English Directed by Doug Pray Delivery Status: Screening in Cannes. Status: Post-production Acquisitions: Christa Hamilton Director: Peter Kosminsky A tense thriller about a single mother’s Office: C 3 Producer: John Wells This energetic and insightful film, which was a big hit at the Sundance Festival search for her stolen new-born child. DAVID LYNCH PRESENTS BHOPAL Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Renee Zellweger, EXPRESS Robin Wright Penn 2001, traces the birth of turntablism. LOCKDOWN Drama 100 minutes (INDIA) Delivery Status: In Production PFG Director: Mahesh Mathai A WALK TO REMEMBER Directed by John Luessenhop Cast: Richard T. Jones (THE WOOD, ENTERTAINMENT Cast: Kay Kay, Nethra Raghuraman, Drama Naseeruddin Shah Language: English EVENT HORIZON, CBS TV’s PFG Entertainment, Inc., 429 Santa Director: Adam Shankman JUDGING AMY), Bill Nunn (HE GOT Monica Boulevard, Suite 600, Santa From producer Deepak Nayer (Buena Producer: Denise Di Novi, Hunt Lowry GAME, THE LAST SEDUCTION, MAD Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel: Vista Social Club, Million Dollar Hotel, Cast: Mandy Moore, Shane West CITY), De’Aundre Bonds (THE WOOD, 310.393.5788. Fax: 310.393.0882. E- Lost Highway) comes this powerful drama Delivery Status: In Production ), Clifton Powell mail: [email protected]. about a newlywed couple whose lives are COMPANY MAN (RUSH HOUR, DEAD PRESIDENTS), Website: www.pfgentertainment.com. changed during the lethal gas tragedy in Thriller Gabriel Casseus (HARLEM ARIA, At Cannes: Ted Rosenblatt, Daniel Gerst, Bhopal, India in 1984. Language: English LONE STAR), Melissa De Sousa (BEST and Tamar Chafets. Official selection: Berlin Film Festival Director: (“Cube”) MAN, RIDE), Joe Torry (SPRUNG, Office: Carlton Inter.Continental, Office CONVERSATION WITH AN ALIEN Producer: Hunt Lowry, Casey La Scala FLED), and Anna Horsford (FRIDAY, 201, Tel: 334.93.06.42.01 Science Fiction/Thriller (90 minutes) Cast: Jeremy Northam SET IT OFF) SEVEN GIRLFRIENDS (USA) Delivery Status: In Production Delivery Status: Screening in Cannes. Romantic Comedy Director: Geoffrey Hartig LOVE, PROZAK & OTHER Recording artist/filmmaker/basketball Director: Paul Lazarus Cast: John Michael Lee, Earl Bates III, CURIOSITIES player/rap music industry magnate Master Producers: Paul Lazarus, J. Todd Harris, Stacie Lamb Comedy P co-stars in and executive produced Barry Opper Chaos ensues when an alien spaceship and Language: Spanish LOCKDOWN, his third feature film, Cast: Tim Daly (TV’s The Fugitive), its traveler are discovered by a group of Director: Miguel Santesmases which had its world premiere at the Mimi Rogers, Olivia D’Abo, Jami Gertz, greedy Earthlings. Producer: Mate Production & Vertigo Toronto International Film Festival 2000. Elizabeth Pena ABCD: THE NEW GENERATION Productions Delivery Status: Screening In London Drama (105 minutes) (USA) Cast: Pilar Punzano Guillaume Depardieu And At MIFED Director: Krutin Patel Rosa Mariscal PARK It’s hard to be “Mr. Right”; just ask his Cast: (Cotton Mary, Delivery Status: screening ENTERTAINMENT girlfriends! Vanya on 42nd Street), Faran Tahir This is the story of 3 sisters. Each of them Park Entertainment, Head Office: WOOLY BOYS (Jungle Book), Sheetal Sheth, Aasif thinks her life is the best one, but now it is Mortlake Court, 28 Sheen Lane, London Adventure Comedy Mandvi time for th 3 of them to decide their lives SW14 8LW UK. Tel: 44.20.8876.0207. Director: Leszek Burzynski The lives and loves of Indian immigrants must change and they need each other Fax: 44.20.8876.4686. E-mail: Producers: Robert Schwartz trying to blend into modern American more than they never liked to admit. [email protected] Cast: Peter Fonda (Ulee’s Gold) , Kris society. CROOKED EARTH At Cannes: Jim Howell (Chief Kristofferson (Blade), Keith Carradine HOT WAX ZOMBIES ON WHEELS Drama Executive), Simon Barnes (Head of (Wild Bill), Joseph Mazzello (Jurassic Erotic Comedy (85 minutes) (USA) Language: English Production and Creative Affairs), Bruce Park I & II) Director: Mike J. Roush Director: Sam Pillsbury Moccia (Consultant), Patricia Kershaw Delivery Status: In Production Cast: Jill Miller, Gwen Somers, Tre Producer: Robin Scholes (Sales Director) Delivery Status: An old-fashioned sheep Lovell Cast: Temuera Morrison, Jamie Passier Office: Carlton Hotel, Suite 118 rancher’s visit to the big city triggers a A sexy seductress takes over a small Armstrong, Lawrence Makaore TABLOID mischievous adventure with his teenage fishing village and turns its inhabitants Status: screening Satirical Thriller (100 min) computer-whiz grandson. into sex-insatiable zombies. The forces of tradition, government Language: English HUNTERS SEDUCING MAARYA authority and tribal pride all collide in an Director: David Blair Action Suspense Drama (07 minutes) (Canada/India) action-packed New Zealand Maori saga of Producers: Mark Shorrock Director: Joe Forte Director: Hunt Hoe loyalty, betrayal, love and honor. Cast: Matthew Rhys, Mary Elizabeth Producers: Harvey Kahn, Jonas Goodman Cast: Mohan Agashe (Mississippi Mastranonio, John Hurt, David Soul, Cast: To Be Announced Masala, Ghandi), Nandana Sen, Cas The Business Of Film Danny Dyer, Charlie Creed-Miles, Delivery Status: Pre-Production Anvar (Afterglow) at Cannes Five New York stockbrokers go on a In the tradition of the Wedding Banquet, a Status: Post-production weekend hunting trip and get into a humorous and dramatic story of a Direct Email: The cult of celebrity exposed in a savage “Deliverance”-like deadly confrontation restaurant owner who falls for his son’s [email protected] satirical thriller. with a group of white supremacists. wife. U.S. Theatrical release

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WENT TO CONEY ISLAND INFERNO Drama (94 minutes) (U.S.A.) PHANTA VISION PICTURE THIS! Action/Adventure (90 mins) Director: Richard Schenkman FILM ENTERTAINMENT Language: English. Cast: Jon Cryer (Pretty in , Holy Picture This! Entertainment, 7471 Cast: Janet Gunn, Jeff Fahey and Dean Man), Rafael Baez (Shanghai INTERNATIONAL Melrose Ave. #7, Los Angeles, CA 90046 Stockwell. Noon), Ione Skye (Say Anything), Frank Phanta Vision Film International, USA. Tel: 323.852.1398. Fax: Director: Dusty Nelson Whaley (Doors, Pulp Fiction)A funny and Prinsengracht 611, Amsterdam, 1016 HT, 323.658.7265. E-mail: Producer: Kenneth Burke poignant tale of two buddies who search The Netherlands. Tel: 0031.20.6260255. [email protected]. Website: Darcy Hamilton, a smoke jumper and for their missing childhood friend. Fax: 0031.20.6387756. E-mail: www.PictureThisEnt.com newly appointed Head Ranger at Loch THIS SPACE BETWEEN US [email protected]. Website: Company Type: Distributor/Sales Agent Lomond Forest, must fight to gain control Comedy (100 minutes) (U.S.A.) www.phantavision.com At Cannes: Douglas Witkins (President), over her rebellious daughter, Kylie, two Director: Matthew Leutwyler Company Type: Producer Milda Witkins suspicious forest fires, and the haunting Cast: Jeremy Sisto (Clueless, Suicide At Cannes: Petra Goedings (President), Office: Riviera Ð J4 memory of the man she lost to a deadly Kings), Poppy Montgomery (The Maaike Benschop (Head of development) Eban & Charley firestorm so many years ago. Other Sister), Taylor Negron (Loser, The Office: Tel (Petra Goedings) Drama (89 min) JOHN JOHN IN THE SKY In Crowd), Alex Kingston (Croupier, 0031.6.53287325; Maaike Benschop Language: English Family Drama (90 mins) “ER”), Garry Marshall (Never Been 0031.6.18090694) Director: James Bolton Language: English. Kissed, A League of Their Own) MORLANG Producer: Chris Moniux Cast: Country music star Randy Travis, A refreshing drama about one man’s life Psychological drama, 93 min Cast: Giovani Andrade, Brent Fellows, Rusty Schwimmer (The Perfect Storm) and loves in San Francisco and Los Language: English Nolan V. Chard, Deanna Alexich and Angeles. Director: Tjebbo Penning Delivery Status: Completed Christian Craft (My Dog Skip). Producer: Petra Goedings When a fifteen year old boy’s friendship Director: Jefferson Davis BLADE WARRIOR Cast: Paul Freeman, Diana Kent, Susan with a young school teacher begins to Martial Arts (93 minutes) (U.S.A.) Producer: Wakako Miyakuni Lynch deepen, controversy erupts. Status: Completed Director: Jino Kang Delivery status: completed (Sales: Trust EDGE OF SEVENTEEN Cast: Jino Kang, Kirk Fong, George The story of a man, John Claiborne (Matt Film) Coming-of-Age/Romantic Comedy (103 Letcher), incapable of loving, who takes a Niemi, Renee Lynette Budget: 3,5 M$ min.) A martial arts expert in San Francisco is journey to rediscover love, friendship and An artist at the peak of his career must Language: English himself, a boy who dreamed of flying. hunted by the escaped mob leader he put protect a deadly secret from his past. Director: David Moreton be hind bars. THE OPPONENT Artistic rivalry, a fatal affair, the perfect Producers: David Moreton, Todd Drama (90 min) FIGHTING CHANCE crime… Based on a chilling and true story. Stephens Action (90 minutes) (USA) Language: English LETTER TO AMERICA Cast: Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Director: Eugene Jarecki Director: Donald Farmer Drama, 89 min Anderson Gabrych, Lea Delaria Cast: Andre Buckner, Tony Luke, Producer: Eugene Jarecki Language: Bulgarian Delivery Status: completed Status: Completed Stephanie Sinclair Director: Iglikka Triffonova Budget: $1.5 million Two brothers must take on the One woman’s story of self-discovery in Producer: Petra Goedings, Rossitsa A teenage boy becomes enmeshed in a the unlikely world of boxing. After years mob in order to rescue a kidnapped Valkanova, Laszlo Kantor multi-sexual love triangle between his best girlfriend. of abuse, Patty (Erika Eleniak, Under Cast: Philip Avramov, Peter Antonov, Ana friend and his girlfriend. Siege, Baywatch) finds an outlet for her THE ENFORCERS Papadopulu NO ORDINARY LOVE anger in the ring at a community boxing Action (85 minutes) (USA) Delivery status: completed (Sales: Comedic Thriller (104 min) club. Director: Alex Bandy Celluloid Dreams) Language: English & Spanish LIGHTNING: FIRE FROM THE SKY Cast: Alejandro Bandy, Jose Orsorio, Budget: 0,6M$ Director: Doug Witkins Action/Adventure (90 min) Denise Carrasco, Judd Eutice Moving first film about a young man_s Producer: Eli Kabillo Language: English. Two brothers want to leave their life of inspirational search for a forgotten folk Cast: Smith Forte, Ericka Klein, Koing Kuoch Cast: Stacy Keach and Michele Greene. crime but must take on one final job. song once believed capable of resurrecting Director: David Giancola WICKED GAME Delivery Status: Completed the dead. Unable to obtain a visa to visit Budget: $1 million Producer: Peter Beckwith Action (87 minutes) (U.S.A.) his dying friend in a US hospital, Ivan Status: Completed Director: Koichi Sakamoto & Makoto Sexually ambivalent housemates uncover rediscovers nearly-lost traditions as he murder and infidelity in the Hollywood When Eric Dobbs (Jessie Eisenburg) Yokoyama treks across his country for someone who warns that a disastrous lightning storm Cast: (Power Hills. remembers the words to the song. OUT OF SEASON will bring death and destruction in the next Rangers), Jason Narvy (), FORGIVE ME 24 hours, no one takes him seriously, George Kee Cheung (Austin Powers: The Lesbian Love Story (98 min.) Drama, 83 min Language: English especially his father, Sheriff Tom Dobbs Spy Who Shagged Me, Rush Hour, Language: Dutch (John Scheinder). Lethal Weapon 4), Motoko Nagino Director: Jeanette Buck Director: Cyrus Frisch Producer: Jeanette Buck A group of extreme sports robbers take on Producer: Petra Goedings their biggest heist. Cast: Carol Monda, Joy Kelley, Dennis PRAVDA PICTURES Cast: a.o. Ellen ten Damme, Sylvia Fecteau, Nancy Daly. 1000 MILES FROM NOWHERE Kristel Pravda Pictures, 100 East Cedar Ave, Drama (75 minutes) (USA) Delivery Status: completed Building 16, 1st Floor, Burbank, CA Delivery status: completed A dramatic story about two women who Director: Igor Kovacevich Budget: 0,3M$ 91502 USA. Tel: 818.846.0465. Fax: unexpectedly fall in love off-season at a 818.846.0256. E-mail: Cast: Hans Frank and Michelle Murrey ‘Forgive me’ explores the thin line summer resort. In the tradition of David Lynch, two lovers between reality and fiction, and leaves the [email protected] meet an assortment of strange characters At Cannes: Jeffery Beach (President), unsuspecting viewer in doubt. Is the Phillip Roth (C.E.O), TJ Sakasegawa in the foothills of the Appalachian viewer an innocent voyeur or a passive PORCHLIGHT mountains. (V.P. International Distribution) accomplice… Office: Carlton-Intercontinental R2PC: ROAD TO PARK CITY MODERN ENTERTAINMENT Comedy (82 minutes) (U.S.A.) PorchLight Entertainment, 11777 Cannes, Office No.243, Tel: Comedy, 90 min Mississippi Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90025 33.4.9306.4006. Fax: 33.4.9306.4025 Director: Bret Stern Language: English Cast: John Viener, Paige Turco (Teenage USA. Tel: 310.477.8400. Fax SMASH AND GRAB Director: Brendan Young 310.477.5555. Website: Action Mutant Ninja Turtles), John Producer: Petra Goedings, Frank Döhman Mese, Syd Field, Christopher Lawford www.porchlight.com Delivery Status: in production (Colonia Media), Sarah Radclyffe (Sarah At Cannes: Bruce D. Johnson (President A professional thief decides to risk all in (Thirteen Days, The 6th Day). Radclyffe Productions) & CEO), William T. Baumann (Executive one last attempt at fortune and glory. With A naive, first time filmmaker tries to Delivery status: in development (Sales: VP, COO & CFO), Michael Jacobs (SR the help of his new gang all goes awry pursue his dream of winning at the Bavaria Film International) VP Worldwide Sales), Stephanie Slack when they realize they have walked right Sundance Film Festival. U.S. Theatrical Budget: 5 M$ (VP Worldwide Sales), Adam Wright (VP into the middle of a double cross and Release “+++Sam. Flight from Kabul arrives 4 Worldwide Sales), Zac Reeder (Head of ripped off the wrong people...the Mob. NOBODY p.m. Ovulating. Get ready! Lizzie.+++” Acquisitions) FIVE CARD STUD Action (99 minutes) (Japan) In the anything-goes climate of modern Office: C5 Action Director: Toshimichi Ohkawa relationships, who writes the rules? CONTAGION Delivery Status: in production Cast: Masaya Kato (), Jinpachi JETLAG Action/Adventure (90 mins.) Elvis is a detective whose time has passed. Nezu (Ran) and Riki Takeuchi Drama, 100 min Language: English. However, he feels that if he can nab an A gangster action film set in the dangerous Language: English Cast: Bruce Boxleitner, Megan Gallagher infamous crime boss, he can pull his life underworld of Tokyo. Director: Sytske Kok and in Shaye. back together. 1ST TESTAMENT: CIA Producer: Petra Goedings Director: John Murlowski TUPAC VS VENGEANCE Delivery status: in development Producer: Kenneth Burke Drama Action (90 minutes) (U.S.A.) Budget: 3 M$ Status: Completed Delivery Status: in production Director: Young Man Kang Jetlag, based on a true story about the When the President of the United States is This is the story of a living contradiction, Cast: Ron Becks (Shark Paradise, Say A craziness of modern life; a young airline shot by a sniper with a deadly, fast-acting of the life and times of Tupac Amoru Little Prayer), Soo J. Kim stewardess caught between time zones, a virus, Top epidemiologist Diane Landis Shakur: an image at war with its architect, A CIA detective falls in love with a demanding job and her new lover, starts to fights to find a cure and contain the spread. and the architect who waged a war with his beautiful North Korean spy loose control… She has less than 36 hours to do it. words. This Product Guide will be available on-line at www.thebusinessoffilm.com T HE B USINESS OF F ILM’ S home on the internet.

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LONE HERO (AKA THE GUNMAN) HIGH ADVENTURE: 2001 A TWIST OF FAITH: 1999 PROMARK Action/Thriller (95 minutes) Action-adventure Suspense thriller ENTERTAINMENT Director: Ken Sanzel Language: English Language: English language Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips Director: Mark Roper Director: Chris Angel (“Fear II: GROUP Status: In Production Producer: Harry Alan Towers, Gary Halloween Night” and “Mr. October,” Promark Entertainment Group, A Das Budget: $5.5 million Howsam & Evgeny Michailev Academy Award¨ winning short film). Werk AG Company, The Promark Center, A mild mannered actor who plays a Cast: Thomas Ian Griffith, Harry Producers: Evan Tylor (“Stag”), John 3599 Cahuenga Blvd. West, 3rd Floor, gunman in a local theatre show turns into a Peacock, Anja Kling, Barry Flatman, Curtis (“Laserhawk”) Los Angeles, California 90068 USA. Tel: real action hero when he must defend his Gotz Otto & Kendra Torgan. Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Michael 323.878.0404. Fax: 323.878.0486. town against a bloodthirsty band of outlaw From the Black Sea coast to the mountains Ironside, Matthew Laurance, Jayne E-mail: [email protected] bikers. As a furious shoot out takes over of Turkestan, three young adventurers will Heitmeyer At Cannes: Mr. Conny Lernhag (Chief the whole town, the actor is able to outwit face all perils in their quest to uncover the Admittedly a “devout atheist,” Operating Officer), Mr. Jonathan Kramer the bikers and cast himself as the “Lone lost treasure of Alexander the Great. DETECTIVE HENRY SMITH (Andrew (President), Ms. Annouchka Lesoeur Hero.” SHE: 2000 McCarthy) is forced to reconsider his own (Director, International Sales), Mr. Eric FEDERAL PROTECTION (AKA GO Action-adventure “dis-belief” system to pursue a religiously- Bernstein (Director International Sales TO THE DEAD) Language: English inclined serial killer (Michael Ironside). and Operations) Action/Thriller (95 minutes) Director: Timothy Bond LASERHAWK: 1998 Office: Riviera Booth N1 Director: TBD Producer: Harry Alan Towers, Gary Sci-fi/action THE SHIPMENT Cast: Armand Assante Howsam & Evgeny Michailev Language: English Action Status: Starts Principal Photography May Cast: Ophelie Winter, Ian Duncan, Director: Jean Pellerin Director: Alex Wright 15, 2001 Edward Harwick & David Ross Producers: John Curtis, Pieter Cast: , Elizabeth Budget: $6 million A young man’s search for an ancient Lost Kroonenburg Berkley, Nick Turturro, Paul Rodriguez, When Frank Centrello, wouldn’t give up City, ruled by a strange queen whose Cast: Jason James Richter, , Joe Cortese and Robert Loggia his chop shop business to a Chicago beauty has mysteriously been preserved Melissa Galianos, Gordon Currie. Status: Screening mobster, he was shot at and left for dead. for over 2000 years. Based on the classic ZACH (Jason James Richter) and CARA Budget: $5.5 million But Frank lived to become “Howard novel by Rider Haggard. (Melissa Galianos), eccentric high- school Three New York gangsters attempting to Akers” under the Federal Protection DEATH, DECEIT AND DESTINY students obsessed with UFOs, smuggle bootleg Viagra inside cattle find Program. However, his second chance on ABOARD THE ORIENT EXPRESS commandeer the spaceship Laserhawk and themselves in a mess when the cows life is soon jeopardized. Action fly into the skies for earth-saving aerial accidentally end up in a small Texas town. Language: English duels against a carnivorous super-species, LAST RUN Cast: Richard Grieco, Romina Mondello the “ARACTOIDS.” Action PROPHECY and . BARBECUE…A LOVE STORY: 1998 Director: Anthony Hickox ENTERTAINMENT Actors, models, moguls and magnates are the Dark comedy Cast: Armand Assante, Jurgen Prochnow, invited guests for what has been publicized as Language: English Ornella Muti, Aleksandra Vujcic INC. the greatest New Year’s Eve charity train ride Director: Stacy Kirk Status: Screening Prophecy Entertainment Inc, 225 West of all time. Unfortunately, the passengers Producers: Bob Millar, Mar Andersons Budget: $6.5 million 8th Avenue - 4th Floor, Vancouver, British soon discover that the sponsor is none other Cast: Peter Flemming, Suzy Joachim, A former Cold War spy recruits some of his Columbia. Canada, V5Y 1N3. Tel: than international terrorist Osama Bin Laden, Babz Chula ex-colleagues to help him smuggle a 604.681.8567. Fax: 604.602.8752. Web: and the aid organization benefiting from this Our leading man, LUCKY STRICHE Russian spymaster to the West, with hopes www.prophecy-entertainment.com scheme is his death fund. (Peter Flemming), is an unlucky man of getting to the KGB’s former ace assassin At Cannes: Melanie Kilgour (President of QUEEN’S MESSENGER: 2000 whose insatiable desire for slow-cooked responsible for the death of a friend. Marketing & Distribution), Petros Action meat and sweet women are not suited to THE STICK UP Tsaparas (President & CEO), Evan Tylor Director: Mark Roper him; they both always lead to heartburn. Action/Suspense (President of Production), Trevor Producers: Harry Alan Towers, Gary SEA WOLF: : 2000 Director: Rowdy Herrington Lesmeister (Creative Affairs), Paul Howsam, Gary Daniels Suspense thriller Cast: James Spader, Leslie Stefanson, Sullivan (President of 4WallFilms) Cast: Gary Daniels, John Standing, Teresa Language: English David Keith Office: 6 la Croisette, 7th Floor Sherrer and Christoph Waltz. Director: Mark Roper Status: Post-Production Tel: 04.93.38.46.35 By order of Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Producers: Harry Alan Towers & Gary Budget: $7 million QUEEN’S MESSENGER 2: 2001 CAPTAIN STRONG (Gary Daniels) is Howsam In a quiet rural town up in the Sierras, a Action, Canadian/UK co-production given a dangerous assignment to deliver a Cast: Thomas Ian Griffith bank has just been robbed of a half million Language: English. delicate communication to the British Delivery Status: In Post production dollars. It seems clear to the authorities Director: Darrell Roodt Ambassador in Kazakhstan. A dashing adventurer and exotic that John Parker, a L.A. police detective, Producers: Harry Alan Towers, Gary “THE OPERATIVE” (A.K.A.” THE Colombian beauty team up to retrieve a has pulled off the heist. Howsam & David Goldstein COMPANY MAN”): 2000 long-lost treasure. ONE WAY OUT Cast: Gary Daniels, John Standing, Eva Action THE BARBER: 2001 Action Habermann & Francoise Yip. Language: English Suspense-Thriller Director: Allan Goldstein Once again, the Queen’s Messenger, Director: Robert Lee (“The Silencer,” Language: English Cast: James Belushi, Angela Featherstone CAPTAIN STRONG (Gary Daniels) has “Act of War,” “Hostage Train”) Director: Micheal Bafaro Status: Post - Production been called in by Her Majesty’s Secret Producers: John Curtis, Evan Tylor Producer: Evan Tylor Budget: $6 million Service. Cast: Brian Bosworth, Teryl Rothery, Cast: Malcolm McDowell A veteran homicide police officer that has THE HAVEN: 2000 John Tench Delivery Status: In Production developed a lifestyle far beyond his means Drama An ex-CIA agent is blackmailed into Twenty-four hour darkness descends upon masterminds the murder of a gorgeous and Language: English performing a bank heist in order to rescue the small town of North Pole, Alaska and wealthy socialite. The cop finds himself in Director: Andrew Bowen his former lover who was abducted 10 local barber Dexter Miles knows all too a bind when his protege, assigned to the Producers: Andrew Bowen, Jordan years earlier by the KGB. well the signs of an approaching winter case, gets closer to solving the murder, Liebert, Peter N. Bowen HIGH EXPLOSIVE: 1999 and an impending doom. leaving him only one way out. Cast: Melissa Crider, Michael Cade, Action GREENMAIL Andrew Bowen, John McLoughlin and Language: English Action/Thriller Timothy Bottoms. Director: Timothy Bond (“The Shadow Director: Jonathan Heap A chronicle of the poignant and tragic Men,” “Running Wild,” “Animorphs”) Cast: , Tom Skerritt, events that changed the lives of four best Producers: Gary Howsam, Harry Alan Kelly Rowan friends during the summer after their Towers, Michael Games THE BUSINESS Status: Post- Production graduation from college. Cast: Patrick Bergin, Daniel Petronijevic, Budget: $5.5 million RIPPER: LETTER FROM HELL: 2001 Desiree Nosbusch, Nina Muschallik A U.S. federal agent seeks the assistance of a Suspense thriller Retired US Army captain, JACK OF FILM radical environmental activist when the most Language: English RANDALL (Patrick Bergin), is applying prominent citizens of Seattle are methodically Director: John Eyres his expertise in Angola for P.A.L.M. -- blown up one by one. The two are led on a cat Producers: Evan Tylor and John Curtis People Against Land Mines -- the late and mouse chase by the bomber who always Cast: A.J. Cook (“The Virgin Suicides”), Princess Diana’s campaign to rid the seems to be one step ahead of the game. Ryan Northcott ( “Mystery, Alaska”), country of the deadly, hidden explosives. BLACK POINT Derek Hamilton (“Disturbing Behavior”), THE SILENCER: 1999 Action/Thriller (95 minutes) Jurgen Prochnow (“Das Boot”) and Bruce Espionage drama Los Angeles Office Director: David Mackay Payne (“Highlander: Endgame,” Language: English Cast: David Caruso, Susan Haskell, “Dungeons and Dragons”). Director: Robert Lee (“Hostage Train,” Thomas Ian Griffith It has been over a century since the killing “Dead Fire,” “Act of War”) 5150 Wilshire Blvd. Status: In Production rampage of Jack the Ripper. This semester, Producers: John Curtis, Evan Tylor Budget: $6 million a young psychology student and her Cast: , Brennan Elliott A reclusive ex-Navy officer befriends a friends will soon discover that this is a (“G-Savior”) woman and tries to save her from an abusive history they don’t want to repeat. QUINN SIMMONS (Dudikoff), a steely- Los Angeles relationship with her gangster lover. What cold assassin, is given the assignment of he does not know is that the woman has schooling a new protégé, JASON BLACK stolen five million dollars from her lover, L.A. Office FAX (Elliott), an undercover FBI agent with the California 90036 killed his brother and is willing to frame her task of revealing the secret Division 5 rescuers to get away with the money. (323) 935-8229 organization.

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IL CIELO CADE ( THE SKY IS A WOMAN’S A HELLUVA THING IT HAD TO BE YOU AI TRADE FALLING) Comedy, 90 Minutes Romantic Comedy, 90 Minutes Drama (102 mins) Language: English Language: English Director; Andrea and Antonio Frazzi, Director: Karen Leigh Hopkins Director: Steven Feder Producer: Parus Film, Viva Producers: Paul Colichman and Mark R. Producers: Neil Kaplan, Steven Feder RRai Trade, Via Novaro 18, 00195 Rome, Cinematografica, Rai , Istitute Luce Harris Cast: Natasha Henstridge, Michael Italy. Tel: 39.06.374.981. Fax: 39.06.370. Cast: Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbè, Cast: Angus Macfadyen, Penelope Ann Vartan, Michael Rispoli, Olivia D’Abo 1343. E-mail: [email protected], Website: Veronica Niccolai, Lara Campoli, Paul Miller, Ann-Margret, Kathryn Harrold, Paul Delivery Status: Completed www.raitrade.it Brooke Dooley, Mary Kay Place, Nicole Neith In this charming romantic comedy, two Office: Carlton Hotel, Suite 141 Delivery Status: ready, screening Delivery Status: Completed strangers meet in New York to plan their At Cannes: Roberto di Russo (President ), Based on a true story at the end of the II Upon the death of his estranged mother, own respective weddings. As the story Sesto Cifola (Sales Director), WORLD WAR . where the Einstein the ultimate womanizer returns home and unfolds, they fall in love and realize that Giulia Filippelli (International Sales family are happily living in the elegant gets the shock of his life, realizing that he they were meant for each other. Executive) countryside of Tuscany , even though the had more in common with her than he ever THE BROTHERHOOD LE PAROLE DI MIO PADRE German army is nearby. In the end the imagined. Horror, 90 Minutes Drama idyllic rhythm of country life and I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA Language: English Director: /Subject Francesca Comencini childhood friendships and games cannot CLAUS Director: David Decoteau Producer; Rai Cinema, Bianca Film, survive the senseless cruelty of war . Comedy, 93 Minutes Producer: David Decoteau Mikado, Les Films D’Ici with the HONOLULU BABY Language: English Cast: Nathan Watkins, Josh Hammond, collaboration of Telepiù ( an Italian- Comedy (91 min) Director: John Shepphird Bradley Stryker, Elizabeth Bruderman French coproduction) Director: Producers: Paul Colichman, Mark R. A prestigious college fraternity charms a Cast: Fabrizio Rongione, Chiara Producer. CIDIF Harris, Stephen P. Jarchow handsome freshman into pledging their Mastroianni, Claudia Coli, Viola Cast: Nichetti, Maria de Medeiros, Jean Cast: Connie Sellecca, Corbin Bernsen, enigmatic group. The young jock Graziosi, Carlo Cecchi, Mimmo Rochefort, Paulina Galvez Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse discovers their secret and risks losing Calopresti Delivery Status: ready , screening Delivery Status: Completed more than his innocence in this erotic Delivery Status: completed, screening Engineer Colombo, is not the most When an eight-year old boy catches Santa chiller. Based on Italo Svevo’s famous novel “ successful man in his office, but when he (who’s really his disguised dad) kissing his RATED X The conscience of Zeno,” the protagonist is about to get fired and is having marital mom, the kid thinks his parents are Drama, 97 Minutes is tormented by his father’s death and problems, his world gets turned upside breaking-up and pulls every prank in the Language: English unable to make any decisions about his down when he gets sent abroad. book to keep Santa away from his house. Director: life. He has a chance to change things DOMENICA GEN-Y COPS Producers: Dick Berg and Allan Marcil when he is introduced to the daughters of Social drama (95 mins) Action, 95 minutes Cast: Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, a successful businessman. Director: Wilma Labate, Language: English Rafer Weigel A’ LA REVOLUTION SUR LA 2C Producer. Sidecar Films &TV, Rai Director: Benny Chan Delivery Status: Completed Road movie/ social comedy Cinema Producers: Thomas Chung, Willie Chan Based on the true story of the Mitchell Director: Maurizio Sciarra Cast : Claudio Amendola, Cast: , Stephen Fung, Edison brothers, this feature examines the dreams Producer: Sintra, Panter, Rai Cinema Sciorra, Domenica Giuliano, Rosalinda Chen, Sam Lee, Maggie Q and obsessions of the porn industry’s and Tele + Celentano, Valerio Binasco, Delivery Status: In Post-production leading pioneers, which culminates in a Cast: Adriano Giannini, Gwenaelle Delivery Status: ready , screening A rocket-fueled drama about an American tragic confrontation. Simon, Andoni Gracia, Francisco Rabal, A touching story between a world-weary weapons company that has devised a lethal POSSESSED Georges Moustaki, Oscar Ladoire, policeman and a young orphan girl who attack robot to replace human soldiers on Thriller, 90 Minutes Antonio Manzini, Alessio Caruso learn to trust each other as he tries to the battlefield and save millions of lives. Language: English Delivery Status: post-production, promo- convince her to identify a body in the city THE BROTHERHOOD II: YOUNG Director: Steven E. de Souza reel available of Naples. WARLOCKS Exec. Producer: Barbara Title An ‘on the road’ movie, with the music of Horror, 90 Minutes Delivery Status: Completed the 70’s where three young people set out Language: English Cast: Timothy Dalton, Henry Czerny, on a journey from France , through Spain REGENT Director: Dave Decoteau Jonathan Malen, Piper Laurie, and Portugal to join the revolution of ENTERTAINMENT Producer: Dave Decoteau Christopher Plummer 1974. Their joy of living matches their Regent Entertainment, 1401 Ocean Delivery Status: Completed Based on a 1949 Catholic-sanctioned search for freedom , democracy and the Avenue, Suite 300, Santa Monica, Cast: Forrest Cochran, Sean Faris, exorcism, a collision of good and evil occurs truth about themselves. California 90401 USA. Tel: Jennifer Capo, Julie Briggs, Noah Frank when a mentally unstable priest agrees to RESURREZIONE - THE 310.260.3333. Fax: 310.260.3343. Web: A sinister warlock seduces three teenage save the life and soul of a possessed child. RESURRECTION www.regententertainment.com outcasts by promising them popularity and HARLAN COUNTY WAR Historical Drama Company Type: Producer, distributor & admiration. A lone hero must fight the Drama, 100 Minutes Director: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani sales agent desires of evil to save his friends’ tortured Language: English Producer. Filmtre, Rai , Pampa At Cannes: Mark R. Harris (Partner, souls. Director: Tony Bill Productions/ France 2, Bavaria Film (An Regent Entertainment), Paul Colichman SORDID LIVES Producers: Mimi Rogers, Chris Ciaffa, Italian -German-French coproduction) (Partner, Regent Entertainment), Stephen Comedy, 111 minutes Robert W. Cort, and David Madden Based on book by Lev Tolstoj P. Jarchow (Partner, Regent Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Stefania Rocca, Timothy Peach, Entertainment), Gene George (President, Director: Del Shores Cast: (Emmy-nominated), Maria Baumer, Cecile Bois, Eva Regent International), Charles Speed Producers: Victoria Alonso, Max Civon, Stellan Skarsgard, Ted Levine, Christian, Sonia Gessner, Giulio Scarpati (Vice President of Business Affairs, Sharyn Lane, J. Todd Harris Wayne Robson Delivery Status: Post-production, promo- Regent Entertainment), Jeff Schenck Cast: Olivia Newton-John, Beau Bridges, Based on a real Kentucky coal miners’ reel available (Vice President of Development and Delta Burke, Bonnie Bedelia strike, a determined miner’s wife One of the greatest literary love stories Production, Regent Entertainment) Delivery Status: Completed mobilizes a picket line and affects a ever written, a Russian prince tries to Office: Le Relaise de la Reine - Apt. C- An outrageous comedic twist on a story of bittersweet victory for the workers at the save a young girl who he had abandoned 51, 42-43 S.A. La Croisette, BP 294 unconditional love, acceptance and Brookside Mining Company. when she gets sentenced to forced labour Cannes cedex France 06408, Tel: ‘coming out’ in a Texas family, as they all LOOKING FOR AN ECHO in Siberia. 33(4).9306.6010. Fax: 33(4).9306.6030 converge for the matriarch’s funeral. Drama, 95 Minutes AMARSI PUñ DARSI A GOOD NIGHT TO DIE DEEP FREEZE Language: English LIFE - LOVE LIES Suspense, (TBD minutes) Action-Adventure, 93 Minutes Director: Martin Davidson Comedy (91 min) Language: English Language: English Producers: Steve Tisch, Paul Kurta and Director: Alberto Taraglio Director: Craig Singer Director: John Buechler Martin Davidson Producer. (Sidecar & TV , Rai Cinema) Producers: Paul Colichman, Mark R. Producers: Jim Rosenthal Cast: Armand Assante, Diane Venora, Cast: , Claudio Santamaria Harris, and Chris Williams Cast: Gotz Otto, Alexandra Kamp, Karen Edoardo Ballerini, Joe Grifasi, Delivery Status: ready, screening Cast: Michael Rapaport, Gary Stretch, Nieci, Allen Lee Haff, David Millbern Tom Mason, Anthony John Denison Davide and Giulia face each other in a Deborah Harry, James Russo, Frank Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed court room for divorce proceedings , Whaley, Robin Givens, Seymour Cassel, Set in the Arctic, an expedition team In this East Coast buddy film, an “oldies their confrontation leads to a surprise Ralph Macchio, Ally Sheedy, Lainie unearths a disaster of global proportions do wop” group reminisces about the good ending; Kazan when they discover a deadly creature that old days and a potential come-back, as the NELLA TERRA DI NESSUNO, ( NO Delivery Status: Post Production threatens the lives of the team and the leader finds true friendship and love. MAN’S LAND) A fast paced tale about two hit men friends world. KIN Drama who are trying to change lives or die JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH: THE Action Adventure, 90 Minutes Director: Gianfranco Giagni trying. CHIPPENDALES’ STORY Language: English Producer. Cavier Produzioni , Andrea de Drama, 93 Minutes Director: Elaine Proctor Liberato, Antonio Fusco Language: English Producers: Margaret Matheson Cast: Ben Gazzara, , Carlo Director: Dave Payne Delivery Status: Completed Alighiero, Massimo Bellinzoni, Product Listings — Producers: Sam Irvin Cast: Miranda Otto, , Gianfelice Imparato. Cast: Jonathan Aube, Shelley Malil, Paul Chris Chameleon Delivery Status: ready , screening Clark, J.P. Pitoc A stunningly visual tale of passion and A lawyer is sent to meet a prisoner whom Delivery Status: Completed betrayal set in Africa, where elephants are he once defended to get a key to a safe [email protected] A film noir look inside the famed 80’s club being slaughtered by poachers, a brother deposit box which could solve the and how it all ended with lust, greed and and sister confront hard truths about love mystery behind the death of a policeman. murder. and their convictions.

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RENAISSANCE FILMS RGH/LIONS SHARE NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN JIGSAW Renaissance Films, 34-35 Berwick Street, Action (90 minutes) Action / Adventure / Thriller, 90 London, W1F 8RP, UK. Tel: PICTURES Language: English minutes 44.20.7287.5190. Fax: 44.20.7478.5100. RGH/Lions Share Pictures, 8831 Sunset Director: Derek Partridge Language: English E-mail: [email protected]. Blvd., Suite 300, West Hollywood, CA Producer: Executive Producers: Director: Paul Shoebridge Website: www.renaissance-films.com 90069 USA. Tel: 310.652.2893. Christopher and Derek Partridge; Co- Producer: E. Thomas Canton / William Company Type: Film Sales and Fax: 310.652.6237. E-mail: Prod.-Eli Mizrachi Corno / Dean Perlmutter / Paul Production [email protected] Cast: Christopher Coburn, Reiko Shoebridge At Cannes: Angus Finney (Joint Website: www.lionssharepictures.com Alylesworth and Cast: William Corno / Erica Ehm, Managing Director), Stephen Evans (Joint Company Type: Sales Agent Delivery Status: Completed Edgar George, Marcus Hondro Managing Director), Michaela Piper At Cannes: Eric Louzil (Co-CEO), Billy A young entrepreneur lets a best friend Delivery Status: Completed (Marketing & Publicity Manager), Blake (Co-CEO), “Anthony” talk him into a miracle cure mail-order Julius Rimero, a has-been boxer, doesn’t Georgina Jackson (Marketing & Publicity MyungHoon Hong (Executive VP of business that turns out to be a front for the know what he’s getting into when his ex- Assistant), Sarah Sulick (Acquisitions International Sales), John Howard (Press mob. lover entices him into a drug deal. Executive) Relations), John Cooper (Development), REDBOY 13 ELVIS TOOK A BULLET Office: Villa Antoine, 3 rue Jean Baptiste Travis King (Sales Associate) Kid’s Adventure, 87 minutes Drama, 90 min. Dumas, Cannes. Tel: 04.93.68.92.67 or Office: Riviera, Booth: Ella/F12a, Tel: Language: English Language: English 04.93.68.84.23 33.04.93.06.77.77. Fax: Director: Marcus Van Bavel Director: Jerry Eeten SACRIFICE 33.04.93.38.31.10 Producer: Executive Producers: Drew Producer: John Chi, Sam Lunay, Jason Medieval Thriller CATALINA TRUST Dennett and Louis Saldana Kahn, and Jerry Eeten Language: English Drama (105 minutes) Produced by Marcus Van Bavel and Cast: Gregg Binkley (Dr. Jeff Wilkes), Director: Language: English David Boone Jerry Eeten (Aaron Presley), Rebecca Producer: Dorothy Berwin Director: Will Conroy Cast: Robert Logan (“The Wilderness McFarland (Polly), Mike Wood Cast: Gleen Close, Producer: Todd Hagopian, David Family,” “77 Sunset Strip,” “Daniel (Woodman), Scott Trost (Detective Delivery Status: Post Production Kohner-Zuckerman Boone), Devon Roy-Brown, Charlie Marlowe) An exciting taale of murder and Cast: John Shea (“Stealing Home” with Schmidt Delivery Status: Completed redemption, a renegade priest sets a course Jody Foster, Lex Luthor in “Lois p; Delivery Status: Completed This quirky drama is about a that will expose a serial killer, leading to Clark”), Jay Harrin Sean Rains, a 13-year-old boy who goes to disenchanted young doctor and B-Movie an electrifying climax. LOVE 101 school, comes home, does his homework fan who moves in with an Elvis fanatic THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS Drama/romance, 90 minutes and then saves the world from evil. who blackmails him into stealing drugs. Drama Language: English SAVAGE LAGOON HOPE, GLOVES, AND Language: English Director: Adrian Fulle Romantic Drama, 90 minutes REDEMPTION Director: Rose Troche Producer: David Miller Language: English Documentary, 90 minutes Producer: Dorothy Berwin, Christine Cast: Jeff Anderson, Michael Muhney Director: Marieanna Dvorak Language: English Vachon SOUTHERN MAN Producer: Executive Producer: Herb Director: Jules & Gedeon Naudet Cast: Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Mystery/ drama, 90 minutes Linsey, Associate Producer: Vera Producer: Jules & Gedeon Naudet Timothy Olyphant Language: English Kopecka Cast: Narrator, James Hanlon, Delivery Status: Post-production Director: Rick Rosenberg Cast: Jackie Freid, Paul Hawkins, and interviews with: sports journalists Bill Gallo and Bill Farrel and boxing Budget: $7 million Producer: Rick Rosenberg, Richard T. Gary Michaels In this witty American suburban drama we Cor nfield champions Michael Benett and Gerry Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Cooney For the past thirty years, Mickey, uncover the lives of four neighbouring Ilona, a struggling Czech ballerina, longs families. In the Deep South, folks look at things one an ex-gang leader, and Negra, the first way: with their eyes closed. Questions of for her homeland. She leaves the states in American woman to become a boxing DISCO PIGS search of her ancestors’ fabled castle. Romantic Drama (95 min, approx.) parental influence, sexual abuse and coach, have dedicated their lives to homophobia come to light. POCO LOCO saving the troubled youth of Spanish Language: English Drama, 90 minutes Director: Kirsten Sheridan ALL MY LOVED ONES Harlem. Drama and biography/portrait, 92 minutes Language: English FLOATING Producer: Ed Guiney Director: Deborah Koons Cast: Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy Language: Czech with English subtitles Drama, 90 minutes Director: Matej Minac Producer: Deborah Koons and Ellen Language: English Status: completed Osborne Budget: $3.7 million LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH Director: William Roth Romantic Drama, 90 minutes Cast: Susan Brecht, Sandra Chapin, Producer: Mary Feuer / Anaye Milligan A twisted rites of passage that is funny, Meeka Schmalle, George Castillo sexual and violent. Language: English Cast: Norman Reedus, Chad Lowe, Director: Robbie Moffat Delivery Status: Completed Will Lyman, Sybil Temchen, Jonathan THE LUZHIN DEFENCE A contemporary Midsummer Night’s Romantic Drama (120 min) Producer: Mai Quint A PIECE OF EDEN Dream in which a widower and her Delivery Status: Completed Language: English daughter live happily alone until a healer Director: Marleen Gorris Comedy/Drama, 106 minutes One particular summer, the once-still Language: English with magic potions, mysteriously appears waters of the lake suddenly ran turbulent Producers: Caroline Wood & Stephen on the property. Evans, Louis Becker & Philipe Guez Director: John Hancock with our youth’s underlying angst, Producer: John Hancoc EXILE IN BUYUKADA bravado, jealousy, and resolution. Cast: John Turturro, Documentary, 72 minutes Status: Completed THE ASYLUM THE HARVESTERS Psychological Thriller, 99 minutes Language: English Thriller/Mystery/Drama Budget: $9 million Director: Turan Yavuz An eccentric chess grandmaster battles his Language: English Language: English Director: John Stewart Producer: Ayda Yavuz Director: Tom Moore demons to woo a vivacious aristocrat in a Cast: Narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, sumptuous, sensual and profoundly Producer: Carol Lemon Producer: Will Hart RAZOR SHARPE Victor Sergachev as Leon Trotsky, Isik Cast: Robert Lee, Dianne Luby, moving adaptation of Nabokov’s novel. Yenersu as Natalia HUMAN TRAFFIC Action (90 minutes) Richard Gross, Reuben Grundy, and Language: English Delivery Status: Completed introducing Krystle Amber as ãDanielle Drama (95 min) A documentary of Joseph Stalin-rival Language: English Director: Troy N. Ashford Carverä Producer: Lenny Daniels and Troy N. Leon Trotsky’s exiled years in Istanbul Delivery Status: Completed Director: Justin Kerrigan narrated by Vanessa Redgrave. bsp; Producers: Allan Niblo & Emer McCourt Ashford (exec. prod.) A chilling look at the terrifying world of Cast: John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington, Cast: Tim Murray, Bache Holland, Frank GANGSTRESSES black-market human organs. Shaun Parkes Cullen, Kevin Kilgore, Drew Woods, Documentary, 90 minutes TO KILL A LAWYER Status: Completed Bonnie Gillespie and introducing Martial Language: English Drama, 90 minutes Budget: $3 million Arts Sensat ion Troy Nikolo Ashfor Director: Harry Davis Language: English Five friends spend one lost weekend in a THE AUTEUR THEORY Producer: Cornelius Pitts and Percy Director: Gino Cabanas heady mix of music, love and club culture. Comedy (77 minutes, 40 seconds) Davis Producer: Megan Blake, Kim Swartz, Language: English Cast: Champagne, Mama Mayhem, Gino Cabanas Director: Evan Oppenheimer Mary J. Blige Cast: Steve Stavrakis, Gino Cabanas, Producer: Holly Sorenson and Evan Delivery Status: Completed Sophia Milos, Pete DeLeo, Lorne Oppenheimer; Assoc. Prod.-Martin Life on the streets as seen through the eyes Hughes, Laura Stavrakis Schepelern of urban women. Delivery Status: Completed At CANNES Cast: Alan Cox, Natasha Lyonne, NINTH STREET DEATH MASK Angeline Ball Drama, 95 minutes Horror, 90 minutes Elspeth can be Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Language: English At a relentlessly self-important student Director: Timothy Rebaman / Kevin Director: Steve Latshaw film festival, the directors of the (mostly Willmott Producer: Dorothy Collier Best and reached @ terrible) short film. Producer: Rich Cowen Janeen Best Cast: Isaac Hayes, Martin Sheen, Queen Cast: James Best, Linnea Quigley The Carlton Hotel Bey, Don Washington Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Tormented by his past, Wilbur Johnson L.A. Office Phone Ninth Street, with its notorious stretch of spends his days among the innocent at Office 149 black-owned jazz clubs, bars, and the carnival, dreaming of the night when (323) 935-8228 businesses, was known as The Harlem of they shall all be guilty, and vengeance Kansas. will be his.

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THE INITIATE BRATTY BABIES Psychological Thriller ROAD MOVIES Comedy (90 min) SENATOR Language: English FILMPRODUKTION Language: English INTERNATIONAL Director: Chad Etchison Road Movies Filmproduktion, Director: Harvey Frost Senator International, Head Office: 8666 Producer: Mary Etchison, Chad Clausewitzstr. 4 Berlin 10629 Germany. Producer: Shawn Williamson Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA Etchison, Jim Hunter Tel: 49.30.88048610. Fax: Cast: Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna, Frances 90211 USA. Tel: 310.360.1441. Fax: Cast: Mack Murrah, Shannon Young, 49.30.88048611. Bay 310.360.1447 Chad Etchison, Mary Etchison, Andrew Company Type: Producer Delivery Status: completed At Cannes: Hanno Huth (CEO Senator Hamrick, Steve Coulter At Cannes: Ulrich Felsberg (CEO), Ute Bumbling crooks are outsmarted by a Entertainment AG), Joe Drake (President Delivery Status: Completed Schneider (Head of Development) comical pair of talking toddlers. Senator International), Carsten Lorenz Jack’s best friend Harlan has been killed in (President Senator Entertainment USA), an accident. Upon viewing Harlan’s body ROAD SALES Norbert Maass (Marketing and he discovers two mysterious tattoos that SCENERIES Distribution Senator Entertainment AG), reveal Harlan’s involvement in a secret MEDIADISTRIBUTION Roman Paul (Head of International occult society. INTERNATIONAL Road Sales Mediadistribution, Acquisitions Senator Entertainment AG), TOKYO BLUES Clausewitzstr. 4 Berlin 10629 Germany. Sceneries International, 1660 Ocean ve. Documentary, 90 minutes Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel: Christopher Borgmann (Vice President of Tel: 49.30.88048610. Fax: Legal & Business Affairs Senator Language: English 49.30.88048611 310.652.9900. Fax: 310.652.9901. E- Director: Craig McTurk mail: [email protected] Entertainment AG) Company Type: Distributor/ Sales Agent Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 143, Tel: Producer: Craig McTurk At Cannes: Denise Booth (Sales At Cannes: Philippe Lenglet (Sceneries Cast: Yosuke Yamashita, Terumasa Hino, Manager) International), Philippe Diaz (Sceneries 33.4.97.06.86.00 or 01 Toots Thielemans, T.S. Monk, Paul Entertainment), Gilbert Hus (Pictor Fax: 33.4.97.06.86.03 Jackson, Taro, Narrated by Chuck Niles Media), Robert Jordan (Sceneries 24 HOURS Delivery Status: Completed ABAN International), Austin J. Saito (Sceneries Thriller A one-hour documentary about the history Asia (Tokyo), Michelle Prunier Language: English and popularity of jazz and blues music in INTERNATIONAL (Sceneries Europe Ð Paris) Director: Luis Mandoki Japan, now the world’s leading jazz Office: Rado Plage (opposite the Miramar Producers: Luis Mandoki, Mimi Polk- market. SSaban International, 10960 Wilshire Hotel), La Croisette Gitlin Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA. Tel: CHE Executive Producers: Mark Canton, Neil 310.235.5100. Fax: 310.235.5102. Live Action Canton, Hanno Huth, Glen Ballard, Rick RKO PICTURES Company Type: DIstributor Delivery Status: Cannes 2002 RKO Pictures, 1875 Century Park East, Hess At Cannes: Stan Golden (President, Saban A sweeping biography of the great Cuban Co-Producers: Carsten Lorenz, Nathan Suite 2140, Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA. International), Lance Robbins (President, Tel: 310.277.0707. Fax. 310.226.2490. revolutionary Che Guevara, whose Kahane Motion Pictures & Television, Fox Family courageous example continues to inspire Cast: , , Website: www.rko.com & ), Tomas Arteaga Company Type: Producer/distributor millions. Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend (Vice President, Sales, German Speaking A CHAIN OF VOICES Status: Production At Cannes: Ted Hartley (Chairman and Territories), Kim Evans (Director, CEO), Dina Merrill Hartley (Vice- Director: Chris Menges A physician and his wife take matters into European Markets Management), An epic love story set in the world of their own hands when their daughter is Chairman), June Shelley (Head of Sales Jacqueline Tordjman (General Manager, & Marketing slavery. abducted by a group of professional Saban International Entertainment) VANILLA GORILLA Office: Residence Les Arcades, 32 rue Acquisition Executive: Lance Robbins kidnappers. Commandant Andre, 5th floor, 06400 Family Adventure (President, Motion Pictures & Television, Producer: Irvin Kershner Cannes Fox Family & Saban Entertainment) Tel. 04.93.39.37.57 Cast: Nikki Webster SHOCHIKU CO., LTD. Office: Carlton Hotel, Room #220, Tel: Budget: $12 million Shochiku Co., Ltd., Company Type: Sales, RITUAL 334.93.06.4006, Fax: 334.93.06.4025 Thriller (98minutes) When an albino gorilla inspires a kid by acquisition, producer, distributor AU PAIR: THE FAIRY TALE teaching her sign language, an incredible 4-1-1 Tukiji, Togeki Blg. 12th floor, Language: English CONTINUES Director: Avi Nesher journey begins. Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8422 JAPAN. Tel: Family Adventure (90 min) THE ROYAL WAY 81.3.5550.1623 . Fax: 81.3.5550.1654. E- Producer: Ted Hartley Language: English Cast: Jennifer Gray, Craig Sheffer, Tim Director: mail: [email protected] Director: Mark Griffiths Cast: Kiefer Sutherland and Richard At Cannes: Jay Sakomoto(COO), Takeo Curry Producer: Mike Elliott Delivery Status: Completed Harris Hisamatsu (Director of Sales), Masaki Cast: Gregory Harrison, Heidi Lenhart, The eagerly anticipated epic adventure set Koga (Head, International Business Inspired by director Jacques Tourneur’s June Lockhart 1943 classic I WALKED WITH A in the Indochinese revolutionary struggles Division) Delivery Status: completed of the 1920s byt ehd irector of Runaway ZOMBIE, this new offering explores the The perfect storybook romance goes awry Acquisition: Shinobu Suzuki (Manager), mystical and sensual, yet oftentimes Train. Meri Koyama(Assistant Manager), Ichiro when greedy heirs ;lot to foil a corporate INNOCENTS terrifying world of Voodoo. merger by sabotaging the happy couple. Takase(Representative of Shochiku Films THE VELVET TOUCH TIL DAD DO US PART Sexy Trhiller of America) Thriller Comedy (90 min) Director: Gregory Marquette Sales: Akira Ikeshima(Director of Director: Rayond DeFelitta Language: English Cast: Connie Nielsen, Jean-Hugues Shochiku Rome Office), Kiwamu Producers: Ted Hartley, Anne Harrison Director: Randall Miller Anglade, Anne Archer, Mia Kirshner Sato(Assistant Manager), Satoko Cast: Terance Stamp, Gretchen Moll, Producer: Shawn Williamson A pair of beautiful, mysterious sisters lure Ishida(Assistant Manager) others tba Cast: , Markie Post, a European musician into a harrowing Office: Albatros 1C, Residence Grand dspre-production Emily Holmes, Jeffrey Jones, Adam journey across America. Hotel In this provocative mystery thriller, a Harrington THE NEW WORLD ORDER: Tel: 04.93.68.59.80 world-renowned stage star murders a Delivery Status: Completed SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA PISTOL OPERA ruthless producer and must give the An ideal husband and father discover that Documentary Drama(116 min) performance of her life to evade suspicion. when two people are in love, everything Exposes the scandal behind the hunger Language: Japanese MILK & MONEY can still go wrong. crisis in Sierra Leone. Romantic Comedy (90 minutes) Director: THREE DAYS WINDHORSE Producer: Satoru Ogura / Ikki Katashima Director: Michael Bergmann Fantasy/Drama (90 min) The urgent story of a Tibetan pop singer Producer: Ted Hartley Cast: Makiko Esumi / Sayoko Yamguchi / Language: English who faces a crisis when her cousin, a Cast: Calista Flockhart, Peter Boyle, Director: Michael Switzer Buddhist nun, is tortured for her beliefs. Margaret Colin, ELFQUEST Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Randy Sutter Budget: $1,500,000 Dina Merrill, , Olympic Cast: Kristen Davis, Tim Meadows, Reed Animation Dukakis. Director: Patrick Claeys Killers fight each other to become the Diamond No.1 Assassin.”Stray Cat”(No.3) cannot dsCompleted Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: AFM 20The tale of A young man quits medical school and Cutter, leader of a band of wolf-riding escape the conspiracy. With colors and When a young and free-spiritied wife light director Seijun Suzuki comes back attempts to find his future and love until meets an untimely death, a heavenly angel elves. some cows get in the way. gives her regretful husband the chance to DASH with style. relive the couple’s last three days. Delivery Status: Mifed 2002 FACE SIMIAN LINE A jazzy tribute to the film noir detective Drama(123 min) Fantasy/comedy (90 min) genre of the 1940s proposed by Language: Japanese The Business Language: English Storyboard and Pictor Media. Director: Director: Linda Yellen TEDDY’S COMING OUT Producer: Yukiko Shiii Of Film Producer: Linda Yellen, Robert Renfield Delivery Status: Mifed 2003 Cast: Naomi Fujiyama / Etsushi Cast: Harry Connick, Jr., Cindy A sweet, proviocative ode to difference. Toyokawa / Koichi Sato Crawford, Tyne Daly, William Hurt : WINDS OF LOVE Delivery Status: Completed at Cannes Delivery Status: Completed Director: Tetsuo Imazawa Budget: $1,000,000 An eccentric plam reader predicts that one Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery Innocent girl turned convict changes her Direct Editorial Line of the couples attending an intimate dinner The Japanese Box Office Hit directed by face and her way of living to get away. party will end their relationship before the Tetsuo Imazawa after the Greek myth: a Through the struggle for the search of 04.93.06.41.49 year is over, sparking confusion and doubt breathtaking, beautifully animated freedom through various encounters with amongst the guests. adventure the whole family can enjoy. the opposite sex, she finds her true self.

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RENDAN-QUARTET FOR TWO TAILSPIN DUMPED Drama(104 min) SHOOTING GALLERY Creature Feature Romantic Comedy Language: Japanese ENTERTAINMENT Delivery Status: In Production Director: Oliver Robins Director: Shooting Gallery Entertainment, 10877 Starring big ugly Scorpions. Genetically Producer: Jeremy Rubin and Oliver Producer: Hideshi Miyajima / Toshiaki Wilshire Blvd. Ste. 1800, Los Angeles, mutated scorpions break from the cargo Robins Harada CA 90024 USA. Tel: 310.443.1926, Fax: hold and terrorize the passengers of an ill- Cast: Dana Barron, Seth Peterson Cast: Naoto Takenaka / Yuki Amami 310.443.1976. E-mail: fated airline. Laura embarks on a mission to snare her Delivery Status: Completed shootinggallery.com A CRACK IN THE FLOOR long-time boyfriend Will into marriage Budget: $1,000,000 At Cannes: Larry Meistrich Horror Thriller with the help of a well-known dating Poignant comedy about parents growing (CEO/Shooting Gallery Entertainment), Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery manual. apart and children growing up. The Steve Bickel (President/Intl.), Eammon Cast: Mario Lopez, Bo Hopkins, Tracy ALTERED SPECIES troubled family finds a way to carry on Bowles (President of Distribution ), Holly Scoggins, Justine Priestly, Gary Busey. Sci-Fi when mom and daughter perform a Sorensen (Executive Vice President A weekend camping trip turns fatal when The chilling tale of what happesn when Brahms piano duet. Production), Brian Stearns a group of teenagers take shelter in a science takes a wrong turn. In a high-tech THE HAPPY FAMILY PLAN (Director/Marketing Intl.), Ryan Werner cabin that is occupied by a tormented pharmaceutical lab, scientists are on the Drama (104 min) (Director of Distribution and recluse. verge of creating a cure for one of the deadliest disases on earth. Language: Japanese Acquisitions), Robert Kravis (Vice THE KING’S GUARD Director: Tsutomu Abe President of Development) Delivery Status: pre-production Action Adventure Delivery Status: Ready CLAUDINE’S RETURN Producer: Hiroshi Fukasawa / Tomohiko Office: for Delivery Saito JULIE JOHNSON Romance Cast: Ron Perlman, Eric Roberts, Lesley- Director: Antonio Tibaldi Cast: / Eriko Watanabe USA Drama (99 minutes) Anne Down, Khrysten Haje. Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Amedeo Ursini and Patricia Language: English A swashbuckling adventure about a Budget: $2,000,000 Foulkrod Director: Bob Gosse Princess who escapes a burning palace A father who loses his job tries his best for Producers: Larry Meistrich, Ray Angelic Cast: Christina Applegate, Stefano the homework and during the procedure he with a daring muskateer and is hunted Dionisi Cast: Courtney Love and Lili Taylor down by bandits. regains his bond with his family, which Delivery Status: Completed A poignant love story about faith and had all but vanished. A spirited story of self-discovery about a THE VISIT destiny unfolds when a rebellious young ANOTHER HEAVEN blue-collar housewife, who through her Drama woman afraid of love meets a young Horror(131 min) secret passion for physics, life and love Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery Italian drifter who falls in love with her. Language: Japanese unravels many of the missing pieces Directed by Jordan Walker Pearlman, KISSED BY AN ANGEL Director: George Iida within her life. Cast: Hill Harper, Obba Babatunde, Billy Romance Producer: Shinya Kawai SUN RECORDS Dee Williams, Phylicia Rashad, Rae Director: Gregory C. Haynes Cast: Yosuke Eguchi / Miwako Icikawa / USA Documentary Dawn Chong. Producer: Greggory B. Peck and Kathryn Language: English A heart-wrenching drama about a prison Arnold Delivery Status: Completed Director: Bruce Sinofsky inmate’s reevaluation of his life, and the Cast: Adam Trese, Radha Mitchell, Mia Budget: $3,000,000 Producers: Larry Meistrich, Brandon hope and the sadness as he tries to Kirschner Two detectives try to find solve the Rosser, Phil Carson, Verna Harrah, Susan reconnect with his family. An idealistic romantic man who has lost mystery of “something” that has possessed Ruskin US Theatrical release April 2001 all hope after being deserted at the altar. In the human brain to cause serial killings. Cast: Performers include Paul McCartney, BEEPER his quest to find Miss Right, he involves himself in an emotionally charged triangle FIFTEEN Bob Dylan, Matchbox 20, among many Action Thriller Drama (120 min) A doctor’s son is kidnapped and his beeper with an eccentric free spirited woman and others a down to earth girl. Language: Japanese Delivery Status: Production is the only form of contact with the Director: kidnapper. When his beeper is stolen, he THE TOMORROW MAN Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Bruce Sci-Fi Thriller Producer: Shigehiro Nakagawa Sinofsky blends extraordinary archival must team up with a drug dealer to save his Cast: Yuta Kanai / Rei Asami / Tetsuro son’s life. Director: Doug Campbell footage as well as unprecedented Producer: Vanessa Finan and Michael Tanba recording sessions to illustrate the impact Delivery Status: Completed Wehling of the legendary Sun Records on Rock and Cast: Corbin Bernsen, Beth Kennedy, Budget: $2,000,000 Roll past, present and future. SHOWCASE This coming of age drama shows a 15 ENTERTAINMENT Morgan Rusler, Adam Sutton, Elizabeth years old hitchhiking from the city to an Sandifer Showcase Entertainment, Inc. Warner A dedicated father and husband finds far away island. Through the adventure he SHORELINE Center, 21800 Oxnard Street, Suite 150, learns what school has never taught him. himself in a deadly chase that catapults ENTERTAINMENT, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, USA. Tel: him into the future. UNTITLED TAKASHI MIIKE 818.715.7005. Fax: 818.715.7009. PROJECT THE GENTLEMAN BANDIT INC Website: Action Thriller Comedy Shoreline Entertainment, Inc., 1875 http://www.showcaseentertainment.com Century Park East, Suite 600, Los Director: Jordan Allan Language: Japanese AT Cannes: David Jackson (President), Producer: Charlie Mattera and Jordan Director: Takashi Miike Angeles, CA 90067 USA. Tel: 310 551 Shauna Shapiro Jackson (Executive Vice 2060 Fax: 310 201 0729 Website: Allan Producer: Tetsuo Sasho / Koji Yoshida President), Renae Black (Vice President, Cast: Charlie Mattera, Ed Lauter, Ryan Cast: / Matsuzaka / www.shorelineentertainment.com E-mail: U.S. Sales & Int’l. Distribution). [email protected] O’Neal, Peter Green Shinji Takeda Office: #241 A young ex-convict, when unable to get Delivery Status: Preproduction At Cannes: Vicky Pike (Co-Principal), DEEP TERROR legitimate work, gets involved with an Budget: $1,500,000 Morris Ruskin (Co-Principal), Shelly Horror/Creature older gentleman played by Ryan O’Neal A family is troubled by their opened hotel Gant: (VP Distribution Services) Director: David & Scott Hillesbrand who teaches him a refined form of bank and their strange guests who keep dying. Office: Carlton, Office #132. Tel: 93 06 Producer: David & Scott Hillesbrand robbery. 45 74. Cell: 44.7776196612. And, it is Takashi Miike’s musical. Miles below the earth’s surface in a THREE’S A CROWD ELYSIAN FIELDS A STORE NAMED THE END OF recently discovered cave system, a new Romantic Comedy THE WORLD Drama reality-based television series is being Director: Adam Vetri Drama Directed by George Hickenlooper. Producer: Michael Reichman, Glen Language: Japanese Cast: Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Julianna filmed. When an enormous earthquake traps the contestants in the caves they are Trotiner and Adam Vetri Director: Kiseki Hamada Margulies, James Coburn, Anjelica Cast: Adam Vetri, Chelsea Lagos, Monica Producer: Renji Tazawa Huston, Olivia Williams. forced to fight for their lives against a ferocious subterranean creature. Trombetta Cast: Mariko Takahashi / Hidetoshi Delivery Status: In Post Production Proves that love can be complicated but Nishizawa A struggling writer ignores his principles VEGAS: CITY OF DREAMS Action Thriller well worth the wait Ð especially when you Delivery Status: In Productio and accepts work as a gigolo for the combine a man, his best friend and the Budget: $300,000 beautiful young wife of a world famous Director: Lorenzo Doumani Producer: Lorenzo Doumani woman who comes between them. “In the story named ‘The end of the world author. EASTSIDE ‘I fell in love with a 17 year old girl.’ ’ BROAD DAYLIGHT Cast: Erica Eleniak, Brenda Epperson- Doumanis, Monica Schnarre, Daniel Director: Lorena David Director’s debut with outstanding Action Thriller Producer: H. K. Chopra cinematography by a notable cameraman. Directed by Christopher Duddy. Benzali, John Taylor Set against the glitter and glamour of Las Cast: Mario Lopez, Mark Espinoza, Cast: Matt Leblanc Efrain Figueroa Delivery Status: In Production Vegas, three beautiful sisters gear into action when they are forced to solve a An inspirational story of one young man’s A brilliant bank heist is set to go but a team personal transformation from criminal to The Business of wily investigators are determined to murder. local hero. catch the villains. Pulling of the largest THE CODE CONSPIRACY heist in broad daylight won’t be easy. Action Thriller Of Film DARK ASYLUM Director: Hank Whetstone Scary Thriller Producer: Hank Whetstone The Business Of Film at Cannes Cast: Judd Nelson, Paulina Porizkova, Cast: Jin Fitzpatrick, Maria Concita Jurgen Prochnow, Larry Drake. Alonso, Lou Rawls at Cannes Direct Advertising Line Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery Follows software billionaire John Davis in Direct Email: A psychopath terrorizes a female his race to develop a revolutionary 04.93.06.68.49 psychologist when she is trapped in an technology that the government will stop [email protected] insane asylum. HBO World Premiere at nothing to destroy.

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TURN OF FAITH BESOS PARA TODOS (KISSES FOR SPLENDID MEDIEN MOOSE ON THE LOOSE Directed by Charles Jarrott EVERYONE) Splendid Medien, Alsdorfer Strasse 3, D- Family Entertainment Produced by Raymond Mancini 2000 Ð Comedy (99 min) 50933 Cologne, Germany. Tel: Director: Shawn Alex Thompson Cast: Tony Sirico (“Goodfellas,” Language: Spanish, Subtitles: English 011.49.221.95.42.32.32. Fax: Producer: Andy Emilio “Godfather II”), the award winning Director: Jaime Chávarri 011.49.221.95.42.32.8 Exec. PRODUCER: H. Michael Heuser Charles Durning (“Oh Brother Where Art Producer: Gustavo Ferrada At Cannes: Andreas R. Klein (General Cast: Moose (The real-life celebrity dog Thou,” “Dick Tracy,” “Shelter”), world Production Company: Sogecine Manager), Albert E. Klein (President), Dr. that plays “Eddie” on NBC TV’s smash famous boxing champion Ray “Boom Cast: Emma Suarez, Eloy Azorín, Klaus Holtmann, Maren Schultz hit “Frasier”). “My Dog Skip.” Additional Boom” Mancini (“Body and Soul”), Roberto Hoyas, Pilar López de Ayala (Assistant to General Manager) cast to be announced Costas Mandylor (“The Pledge,” “The Status: Completed / Market Screenings Status: In production. Doors,” “Shelter”) and (“Ferris Three students are sent to Cádiz by their Moose, the real-life celebrity dog who Bueller‚s Day Off”). families, in 1965, in a last attempt to have STORM plays “Eddie” in NBC TV’s smash hit An explosive action thriller unfolds as a them graduate and live up to expectations. show “Frasier,” now stars in his own cop, a priest and a wise guy, who have been The arrival on the scene of a troupe of ENTERTAINMENT Storm Entertainment, 225 Santa Monica major motion picture in which he tackles a friends all of their lives, are confronted with dancers sends their plans haywire: the true to life character; playing a TV a union boss who is set out to destroy them. guys flunk their course and the girls lose Blvd., Suite 601, Santa Monica, CA. 90401 USA. Tel: 310.656.2500. Fax: celebrity dog who gets a dose of life on the THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS their jobs. But together they learn to other side of the tracks when he’s involved Directed by John Putch decide their own future. 310.656.2510. E-mail: [email protected] in saving a poor young boy’s promising Produced by Alex Hyde-White MÁS PENA QUE GLORIA (GLORY future as well as the boy’s doomed pet Cast: Frank Whaley (“Swimming With DAYS - WORKING TITLE) Company Type: Independent film finance, production and international dog. Sharks,” “Joe The King,” “Pulp Fiction”), 2001 Ð Drama (90 minutes) THE UNSCARRED Annabeth Gish (star of TV, -Files” ˆ Language: Spanish, Subtitles: English distribution company At Cannes: Jaime E. Jiménez (Vice Thriller taking the place of Gillian Anderson, Director: Víctor García León DIRECTOR: Buddy Giovinazzo “Mystic Pizza”), Amy Jo Johnson (TV’s Production Company: Olmo Films President, Worldwide Marketing) Office: Producers: Karen Arikian, Christopher “Felicity,” “The Power Rangers”), Adam Producer: Ana Huete Petzel Baldwin (“The Patriot,” “My Cast: Biel Durán, Barbara Lennie, TRIGGERMEN Action Thriller Exec. PRODUCER: Wolfram Tichy Bodyguard,” “Full Metal Jacket”), Patrick Enrique San Francisco, María Galiana Cast: James Russo, Ornella Muti, Heino Van Horn (“Swingers”) and Jean Status: Completed / Market Screenings Director: John Bradshaw Stapleton (TV’s “All In The Family”). ‘Glory Days’ is the story of David, an Producers: Mark Thomas, Deborah Kiss, Ferch, Steven Waddington An ad executive, in pursuit of happiness, adolescent from a French movie who is Kim Hogan Status: Completed. Screening in Cannes learns that sometimes your true love ends trapped in an Italian one. Exec. Producers: John Gillespie, H. TBA. up being your first love. FUGITIVAS (FUGITIVES) Michael Heuser Four Stanford University exchange 2000 Ð Road movie (98 minutes) Cast: To be announced students meet up in Berlin twenty years Language: Spanish, Subtitles: English Status: In Production. after their graduation, what seems to be a SOCIÉTÉ RADIO- Director: Miguel Hermoso When two small time cons are mistaken for light-hearted reunion, turns out to be a Production Company: Maestranza Films a pair of ruthless hitmen, they swindle the portrait of time’s frightening ability to CANADA mold those least wanted character traits Société Radio-Canada, Suite 1115, 1400 Producer: Antonio P. Perez crime boss who hired them out of a pile of Cast: , Beatriz Coronel, Juan cash. rooted in our youth. East, René-Lévesque Blvd., Montréal, PREACHER H2L 2M2, Canada. Tel: Diego, María Galiana LONGSHOT 514.597.4799. Fax: 514.597.4793 Status: Completed / Market Screenings Romantic Comedy Action At Cannes: Suzanne Laverdiere Tony (25), young and tough, finds herself Director: Lionel C. Martin Director: Rachel Talalay (Director.Independent Production, alone on the road with Laura (7), having Producers: Louis J. Pearlman, Tony Producer: Tom Astor, Rupert Harvey Acquisitions and Feature Films), Patricia been dumped by her boyfriend who has DeCamillis, Lionel C. Martin Exec. PRODUCERS: Kevin Smith, H. Leclerc (Chief of Acquisitions) run off with the ill-gotten gains of a Cast: Tony DeCamillis, Joey Sculthorpe, Michael Heuser, Scott Mosier Hotel: Sofitel robbery in Madrid. In hot and angry Hunter Tylo, Danielle Fishel, Zachery Ty Cast: To be announced pursuit are their cheated companions in Bryan, Ellen Albertini Dow, Jessica Status: In Pre-production crime: MAXI and MOCO - both as mad as Wesson, Antonio Sabato, Jr., Paul When a rupture in Heaven unleashes the SOGEPAQ, S.A. hell - and the POLICE. Sorvino. full power of God on a hapless Sogepaq, S.A., Head Office: C/ Gran Vía, LOCURA DE AMOR (MAD LOVE) CAMEO APPEARANCES BY: Britney congregation, a small town minister with a 32 Ð 1st floor. 28013 Madrid. Spain. Tel: 2001 Ð Period Drama Spears, all individual members of *N troubled past and an epic destiny finds 3491.524.72.20. Fax: 3491.521.08.75. Language: Spanish, Subtitles: English SYNC, O-Town, LFO, Take 5, Innocense, himself facing Demons, Angels, rednecks At Cannes: Fernando Bovaira (General Director: Vicente Aranda and many more. and the Saint of Killers himself. Good is Manager - Sogecine), Margaret Nicoll Production Company: Enrique Cerezo Status: Completed. Screening in going to triumph over evil…just as soon as (General Manager- Sogepaq), María P.C. / Pedro Costa P.C. Cannes TBA it learns to fight dirtier. Angulo (Head of Acquisitions- Sogepaq), Producer: Enrique Cerezo And you thought it would be a THE CRIMINAL Eva Diederix (Head of International Sales Cast: Pilar López de Ayala, Daniele LONGSHOT to see all of your favourite Action Thriller Ð Sogepaq), Donald Ranvaud Liotti,Eloy Azorín recording stars in one movie…well think Director: Julian Simpson (International Sales Consultant - Status: Post-production again! LONGSHOT is a contemporary Producers: Chris Johnson, David Sogepaq), Eduardo Chapero (Production Juana de Castilla«s consuming capacity for romantic comedy supported by cameos Chapman, Mark Aarons Coordinator Ð Sogecine) love ranks amongst the most heart from today’s biggest music stars. Exec. PRODUCERS: H. Michael Heuser, Office: Stand M3/N4 Ð Riviera wrenching “amour fou” tales of all time. WEBSITE: www.longshotthemovie.com Daniel Genetti, Suzette Newman EL ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO (THE STRANDED Cast: Steven Mackintosh, Natasha Little, DEVIL’S BACKBONE) FAST SOFA 2001 Ð Science Fiction Action Eddie Izzard, Bernard Hill, , 2001 Ð Thriller (106 minutes) Language: English Holly Aird Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Director: Salome Breziner Director: Luna Producers: Steven J. Wolfe, Christopher Status: Completed. Screening cassettes Director: Guillermo del Toro Production Company: Guerrila Films / available. Producer: Pedro Almodóvar Figg Niggeman Indie Films Exec. PRODUCER: H. Michael Heuser The Criminal is the story of J, an Production Company: El Deseo / Tequila Gang Producer: José Niggeman unemployed musician in London who Status: Completed Ð Promo reel available Cast: Jennifer Tilly , Jake Busey, Eric Cast: Vicent Gallo, Maria de Medeiros, Roberts, Natasha Lyonne, Crispin Clover, becomes the prime suspect in a murder Cast: Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Joaquim de Almeida, María Lidón case. Racing against the clock to clear his Federico Luppi, Irene Visedo Adam Goldberg, Bijou Phillips Status: Post-production Status: Completed. Screening in Cannes name, J. absorbs the violence of several Spain is being torn apart by the Civil War. The first manned mission to Mars crash- Abandoned in a grim and isolated TBA: attempts in his life until he is forced to lands onto the craggy surface of the planet. Based on the best selling fiction novel retaliate, becoming an ordinary man thrust orphanage, newcomer Carlos, 12, faces The astronauts face a life and death hostility and violence from his fellow published in over 30 countries. Rick, our into the intimidating world of law dilemma: three must die so the other two enforcement agencies and the media. inmates Ð led by tormented Jaime Ð and can survive. relentless urban cowboy hero, takes his the brutal handyman, Jacinto. hedonistic lifestyle on the road after his PRESENTS PLENILUNIO (PLENILUNE) apartment is looted. JOHNNY HIT AND RUN PAULINE 2000 Ð Drama (112 minutes) LOVE THE HARD WAY Drama Language: Spanish, Subtitles: English THE BUSINESS OF Thriller Director: Fay Efrosini Lellios Director: Imanol Uribe Director: Peter Sehr Producer: Kevin Segalla Production Company: Sogecine FILM Exec. PRODUCER: Wolfram Tichy Exec. PRODUCERS: Emma Thompson, Producer: Andrés Santana Co-PRODUCERS: Peter Sehr, Jason H. Michael Heuser Cast: Adriana Ozores, Miguel Ángel Kliot, Joana Vicente Cast: Phyllida Law, Miranda Solá, Juan Diego Botto, Fernando Fernán Cast: Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Richardson, Joanna Going, Lauren Bacall Gómez, María Galiana Los Angeles Office Jon Seda, Pam Grier, Status: In Pre-production Status: Completed / Market Screenings August Diehl Young and beautiful Pauline meets the A small, cold and rainy provincial town. The 5150 Wilshire Blvd. Status: In Post-production. Promo handsome and suave Johnny at the beach; body of a little girl is discovered in the middle available. her life is changed- Mansions, Grand of the woods. She has been brutally murdered Los Angeles The story of a petty thief who meets an Hotels and…Abuse. With her own inner in a night bathed by a full moon. Obsessed by innocent young woman and brings her into strength and the love of her son Max, the horror of this crime, the police inspector California 90036 his world of crime while she teaches him Pauline fights back and together, she and in charge of the investigation scours the town the lessons of enjoying life and being Max leave Johnny and start their lives aiming to nail the steely gaze of a murderer. loved. anew.

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Storm Entertainment will also be HAPPY NOW? HAWKEYE ORDER OVER JUSTICE-BAJO licensing the following titles during Director: Philippa Cousins Action (90 min) BANDERA Cannes 2001: Producer: Neris Thomas, Alison Owen Language: English Drama (106 min) (Argentina) BEING CONSIDERED Cast: Om Puri, Ioan Gruffyd, Jonathan Director: Leo Fong Director: Juan Jose Jusid HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC. Rhys Myers Producer: Sunny Lim, Leo Fong Producer: Prisma Film, Surf Film DIE WHOLESALE Delivery Status: Post production Cast: George Chung, Chuck Jefferies Cast: Miguel Angel Sola, Federico Luppi, CHILD 2 MAN A homeless man accused of killing a young Delivery Status: Completed Daniele Liotti, Omero Antonutti LOVELIFE girl 14 years previous returns to a small Budget: $1 million Delivery Status: completed SUBTERFUGE town where the new police sergeant must Meet Detective ‘Hawkeye’ Hawkomoto , A story about soldiers in Patagonia. A deal with his possible wrong conviction an unorthodox cop who delivers his own story of rage and pain. A true story. An old and the deadly actions of the true killers. brand of justice on the bad people of Las story? Not so old! SUMMIT THE LEGEND OF ZU Vegas MOEBIUS ENTERTAINMENT Director: Tsui Hark FOR A BOWL OF RICE Art Movie (88 min) Summit Entertainment, 1630 Stewart Producer: Tsui Hark Documentary (13 X 25 min) Language: Spanish Street, Suite 120, Santa Monica, CA Cast: Zhang Zi Yi, Ekin Cheng, Cecilia Language: English Director: Gustavo Mosquera 90404 USA. Tel: 310.309.8400. Fax: Cheung, Sammo Hung Director: Hans Treffers Producer: Universidad De Cine Delivery Status: Post production Producer: Sunny Lim, Hans Treffers (Argentina) 310.828.4132. In the mythical land of Zu, the underworld, Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Guillelmo Angelettai, Roberto At Cannes: Patrick Wachsberger the martial world and the enlightened A documentary about the different and Carnaghi, Jorge Petraglia (President and CEO), Bob Hayward world intersect and the forces of good and unique ways the local people in Malaysia Delivery Status: completed (COO), David Garrett (Executive Vice evil collide in the ultimate battle. make a living. A topographer is investigating a strange President), Samantha Horley (VP of NOVOCAINE problem, the disappearance of a subway Sales), Christina Petropoulos (Vice Dark comedy train. President of Marketing and Publicity), Director: David Atkins SURF FILM Sandy Hendersen (Sales Associate) Producer: Paul Mones and Daniel Surf Film, Via Padre Giovanni Antonio Office: 42 La Croisette, “Relais de la Rosenberg Filippini, 130, 00144 Rome, Italy. Tel: SURRENDER Rine,” 8th Floor, 06400 Cannes, Tel: Cast: Steve Martin, Helena Bohnam 3906.52.62.101. Fax: 3906.52.93.816. E- CINEMA 334.93.99.80.89. Fax: 334.93.99.80.18 Carter, Laura Dern mail: [email protected] At Cannes: Mr. Massimo Vigliar Surrender Cinema, 1645 N. Vine Street WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR (NEW) Delivery Status: Post-production 8th Floor, Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Director: Tamra Davis When a beautiful girl walks into her (President), Mrs. Stefania Carnevale Tel: 323.468.0599. Fax: Producer: Ann Carli Dentist’s office, Dr. Frank Sangster’s (Foreign Sales Manager), Mrs. Elena 323.468.0598. E-mail: Cast: Britney Spears, Taryn Manning, predictable and dull life becomes a tangled Francot (Italian Sales Manager) [email protected] Zoe Zaldana, Anson Mount, Kim web of lust, entrapment and murder in this Office: Centre la Croisett Ð 54, La At Cannes: Ed Shields (Vice President, Cattrall, Dan Aykroyd rattling and pacey dark comedy. Croisette 3rd Floor International Sales), Christopher Shaw Delivery Status: Post Production RED DRAGON Tel: 334.93.38.35.19 (Director International Services) A model high school student and two Director: Wong Ching NOWHERE Office: Carlton Hotel Office # 245 former best-friends embark upon a Producer: Li Lian Ji & Fei Hisiang Chuan Adventure Tel: 04.93.06.42.45 and 04.93.06.69.45. cross-country road trip to complete in a Cast: Jet Li Language: Spanish PLATINUM BLONDE: THE EROTIC musical contest in Los Angeles. Delivery Status: Completed Director: Lúis Sepúlveda ANGEL INSOMNIA (NEW) When his wife and entire village ar Producer: Surf Film (Italy), Patagonik Adult Erotic (90 Min) Director: emassacred by an evil overlord, the Film Group (Argentina), Castelao Cast: Holly Sampson, Shauna O’Brien, Producer: , Andrew Warrior Kwum sets out on a mission of Productions S.A. (Spain) Susan Hale Kosove, Ed McDonnell, Paul Witt vengeance with the only other survivor of Cast: Harvey Keitel, Angela Molina, Delivery Status: Completed. Ready for Exec. Producers: George Clooney, the massacre, his infant son. Jorge Perugorria, Luigi Burruano delivery Steven Soderbergh STARK RAVING MAD Delivery Status: In production Budget: under $500,000 Cast: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Directors: Drew Daywalt, David The secret serves of a 1980s Latin Angela, the blonde angel of eroticism, Swank Schneider American dictatorship round up a group of uses her incredible body and love spells Delivery Status: Production Producers: John Baldecchi, Lawrence opponents. The prisoners are taken to an with four unlikely couples, turning them Two big city detectives are sent to small Bender old abandoned railway station in the into lovers who find the peak of erotic town Alaska to solve a murder mystery Cast: Seann William Scott, China Chow, desert, called “Nowhere.” fantasy in each other’s arms. only to have “the land of the midnight Timm Sharp BIBO FOREVER (BIBO PER FEMALIEN III “RETURN TO THE sun” wreak havoc on their investigation. Delivery Status: Production SEMPRE) FUTURE THE AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE A team of young thieves attempt to break Comedy (95 min) (Italy) Adult Erotic. (90 Min) Director: Charles Shyer into a bank while holding an all night rave Director: Enrico Coletti Cast: Dru Berrymore, Amber Newman, dance party in the building next door to Producer: Surf Production S.r.l., T. Time Tina Tyler, Joel Lawrence, Jerry Banks Producer: Broderick Johnson and serve as their cover. Andrew Kosove S.r.l. Delivery Status: Completed. Ready for Cast: Hilary Swank, Adrien Brody, Cast: Teo Teocoli, Anna Galiena, Marco delivery Simon Baker, Christopher Walken, SUNNY FILM USA Della Noce, Giogio Gobbi Budget: under $500,000 Joely Richardson, Jonathan Pryce Sunny Film USA, 17 Jalan Mewah 2/2A, Delivery Status: completed The sexy Aliens from the planet Altaria Delivery Status: Post-production Taman Subang Mewah, 47500 Subang The story of the restless and amusing return to Earth in 2099, becoming the Based on real events, a beautiful French Jaya, Malaysia. Tel: 603.80231481. Fax: search for his identity of a man, who after worlds’ new sex experts, out to spread the aristocrat and her secret love hatch a 603.80231480. E-mail: a chance encounter with a homeless man, good word that there’s nothing wrong with passion. dangerous plan to restore here lost [email protected]. Website: starts questioning his own certainties. www.sunnyfilm.com A NIGHT WITH SABRINA LOVE NOANGELS.COM fortune which involves Marie- Adult Erotic (90 minutes) Antoinette herself, and ultimately Company Type: Cinema and Video Art movie (99 min) (Argentina) Distributor, Producer Director: Alejandro Agresti Cast: Nicole Matiano, Zoe Paul, Laurel hastens The French Revolution. Dunne THE DISH At Cannes: Sunny Lim (President and Producer: Patagonick Film Group CEO), Gerald Lim (VP, Acquisitions and (Argentina), Surf Film, P.H.F. Film Delivery Status: Completed. Ready for Director: Rob Sitch Delivery. Producer: Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, distribution) (Spain) Office: Cannes Beach Residence Cast: , Tomas Fonzi, Budget: under $500,000 Jane Kennedy, Rob Sitch, Michael Smart contemporary look at the creation of Hirsh BLOOD STREET , Julietta Cardinali Action (90min) Delivery Status: completed the first erotic website conceived and Cast: Sam Neill, Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, designed by five beautiful, sexy and Jane Kennedy, Rob Sitch Language: English A young and bored seventeen year old boy Director: Leo Fong from a very small village in Argentina, intelligent women. Delivery Status: completed EXOTIC TIME MACHINE II Based on a true story which follows the Producer: Sunny Lim wins a night of love with the porno star Cast: Leo Fong, Stack Pierce Sabrina. “FORBIDDEN ENCOUNTERS” emotions, drama and laughter behind the Adult Erotic (90 minutes) four-day Apollo XI mission in July Delivery Status: Completed THE PROTAGONISTS Budget: $1 million Cast: Gabriella Hall, Holly Samuels, 1969, and the extraordinary role Art Movie/Drama (90 min) (Italy) A private investigator fights corruption Director: Luca Guadagnino Jared Carey, Jason Schnuit Australia played in the worldwide and drug dealers in the city of San Delivery Status: Completed. Ready for broadcasting of Man’s first walk on the Producer: Surf Film in collaboration with delivery. Francisco. Medusa moon. THE DADAH CONNECTION Budget: under $500,000 FEMME FATALE Cast: , Andrew Tiernan, As Chuck and Melissa plant special Action(90min) Michelle Hunziker, Fabrizia Sacchi Director: Brian De Palma Language: English beacons along the time continuum, they Producer: Tarak Ben Ammar Delivery Status: Post meet and have amorous relations with Director: Toby Russell production/completed Cast: Antonio Banderas Producer: Sunny Lim legendary people including Leonardo Delivery Status: Pre-production One night in January 1994 two students DeVinci, King Arthur, Merlin the Cast: Steve Tartalia, Jacintha Lee, Alex decided to commit the perfect crime. An action-packed thriller where a Lowe Magician and Mona Lisa. beautiful, double-crossing, female criminal Delivery Status: Completed assumes the identity of another woman, Budget: $1 million L.A. Office Phone L.A. 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FLESH TV QUANTUM PROJECT TACTICAL ASSAULT HOUSE ON TERROR TRACT Adult Erotic Special Effects Thriller (32 min) Suspense Directors: Clint Hutchison and Lance Cast: TBD Language: English Language: English Dreesen Delivery Status: Pre-production Director: Eugenio Zanetti Director: Mark Griffiths Producers: Lance Dreesen and Greg Budget: under $500,000 Producer: Barnet Bain Cast: Rutger Hauer, Robert Patrick Daniel Two horny aliens take control of Earth’s Cast: Stephen Dorff, John Cleese and Fay BACKSTAB Cast: John Ritter, Bryan Cranston, David TV airwaves and share their favorite Masterson Thriller Deluise pastime with the rest of the world: naked Budget: $3 million Language: English A hunt for the perfect house becomes a humans romping everywhere. Delivery Status: Available for screening Director: Jim Kaufman nightmare for a newlywed couple. LOLITA 3000 on videocassette Cast: James Brolin, Meg Foster Adult Erotic Quantum Project is the story of a physicist THE BLACKOUT Cast: TBD whose exploration of the quantum Suspense TRANS-PACIFIC Delivery Status: Pre-production universe leads him on a collision course Language: English MEDIA Budget: under $500,000 with life, destiny and true love. Director: On a future world everything is controlled MPCA-HBO PRIEMIRE (FOUR Cast: Dennis Hopper, , CONSULTANTS by The Firm. Lolita, a beguiling PICTURE PACKAGE) Matthew Modine enchantress broadcasts erotic tales on 1. PAVEMENT HOWLING III GROUP Horror Trans-Pacific Media Consultants Group, pirate airwaves, stimulating and titillating Suspense Thriller 8491 Sunset Blvd., #800, Los Angeles, CA the audiences’ senses. 2. BORDERLINE Language: English Director: Philippe Mora 90069 USA. Tel: 323.654.4933. Fax: SENSUOUS SPIRITS Suspense Thriller 323.654.4921. E-mail: Adult Erotic 3. HALF PAST DEAD Cast: Barry Otto, Imogen Annesley HOWLING IV: THE FREAKS [email protected] Cast: TBD Action Thriller At Cannes: Michael Werner (President), Delivery Status: Pre-production 4. FOURTH TITLE TO BE Horror Language: English Laurie Woodrow (Senior Vice President), Budget: under $500,000 CONFIRMED Dan Griffiths (Director, Acquisitions) After 100 years as sleeping ghosts, Alice Director: TBA Director: Hope Perello Cast: Brendan Huges, Carol Lynley Office: 3 Rue Henri Ruhl - 3rd Floor & Thomas awaken to seduce a young Producer: Brad Krevoy Tel: 33.04.936.85235 work crew as they rebuild an old manor Cast: TBA HIDDEN AGENDA house, and partake in some “spiritual” and Delivery Status: Pre-selling in Cannes Ð Action amorous adventures. no promo Language: English TRUST FILM SALES MPCA is producing a package of four (4) Director: Trust Film Sales, Avedore Tvaervej 10, HBO Primiere films, which will be from Cast: 2650 Hvidovre, Denmark. Tel. 45 3686 HEOREMA the commercial, suspense thriller or action 8788. Fax. 45 3677 4448. E-mail: FILMS thriller genres. Cast and directors to be TOMORROW FILMS [email protected]. Website: www.trust- approved by HBO. Tomorrow Films, 9250 Wilshire Blvd., film.dk Ste. 400, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA. Company Type: Sales Agent TTheorema Films, 52 Van Hallstraat, NL- Tel: 310.385.7900. Fax: 310.385.7990. At Cannes: Annakarin Strom (Sales 1051 HH Amsterdam, The Netherlands. TELEFILMS S.A. Director), Tine Klint (Sales Co- Telefilms S.A., Av. del Libertador 1068 At Cannes: Yoram Pelman (President), Tel: 31.20.688.1843. Fax: Jean Oh (Director of Sales) ordinator), Rikke Ennis (Sales 31.20.686.3574. E-mail: p.11 (C1112ABN) Buenos Aires, Executive), Morten Fisker (manager of Argentina. Tel: 5411.5032.6000. Fax: Office: Noga Hilton #405/406, Tel: [email protected]. Website: 04.92.99.69.47. Fax: 04.92.99.70.11 legal and business www.theoremafilms.nl 5411.5032.6099. E- THE THIRD WHEEL affairs) and Lizzy Bellaiche (Festival At Cannes: Frank Bak (CEO) mail:[email protected] Director: Jordan Brady Consultant). Office: ACE Stand F21-G2, Riviera During Cannes: Verónica D. Gussoni Producers: Chris Moore, Stavros Merjos, Office: Scandinavian Office (La Croisette 55) Building, Tel: 334.92.99.88.77 or BITTER MOON Adam Rosenfelt, Chad Snopek Tel. 45.2222.8060 334.93.99.87.50, Fax: 334.93.99.87.51, Romantic Suspense Cast: Luke Wilson, Denise Richards, Ben MORLANG Mobile: 31.6.53.200.435 Language: English Affleck Thriller/ 90 min. I LOVE YOU TOO Director: Roman Polansky Status: Completed Language: English Dramatic lovestory (97 min) Cast: Peter Coyote, , Kristin A romantic comedy about a man’s perfectly Director: Tjebbo Penning Language: Dutch (English subtitled) Scott Thomas planned date that goes perfectly awry when Producer: Petra Goedings Director: Ruud van Hemert STREAMERS he hits a homeless man with his car. Cast: Paul Freeman, Diana Kent, Susan Producer: Frank Bak, Rene Huybrechtse Suspense TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US Lynch, Marcel Faber. Cast: Antonie Kamerling, Angela Schijf, Language: English Director: Michael Petroni Status: Completed/ screening in Cannes Beau van Erven Dorens Director: Robert Altman Producers: David Redman, Nigel Odell, 2001 Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Matthew Modine, Thomas Augsberger, Matthaias Emcke TRULY HUMAN ANGUS Budget: $4,000,000 Cast: Guy Pearce, Drama/Comedy This is a story, told in flashbacks, of a Romantic Status: Completed Language: English Language: Danish virtuous young law student whose eyes are A romantic fantasy in which a mysterious Director: Ake Sandgren opened to real life when he is seduced by Director: Patrick Johnson woman helps a man come to terms with Cast: George C. Scott, Kathy Bates, Producer: Ib Tardini a ravishingly beautiful girl. the accidental loss of his childhood love. Cast: Nikolaj lie Kaas, Peter Mygind, Carlie Talbert DOUBLE BANG THE PASSION OF DARKLY NOON Susan A. Olsen. Director: Status: Completet/ Screening Cannes 2K MEDIA Suspense Producers: Yoram Pelman, Roee Sharon 2K Media, 1401 Ocean Avenue, Suite Language: English 2001. Cast: William Baldwin, Jon Seda, ROCK 305, Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel: Director: Philip Ridley Elizabeth Mitchell, Adam Baldwin 310.395.8993. Fax: 310.395.8253. E- Cast: Loren Dean, Brendan Fraser, Kathy Road Movie/ 100 min. Status: Completed Language: English mail: [email protected] Harper An honest cope reluctantly enters the At Cannes: Peter Kaufmann (Chairman), MIDNIGHT MAN Director: Tomas Gislason world of corruption and murder when his Producer: Peter Beck Patrick Martin (CEO), Sigrid Ann Action partner is killed by a small time mobster. Davison (Consultant), Brad Krevoy Language: English Cast: , Gareth Williams, FOCUS Ulrich Thomsen. (Producer, 2K Media/Chairman, Motion Director: John Weinder Director: Neal Slavin Picture Corporation of America) Cast: Lorenzo Lamas Status: completed/ screening in Cannes Producers: Neal Slavin, Michael 2001 Office: Majestic Hotel, Room 130, Tel: THE QUEST Bloomberg, Thomas Adelman, Kip 04.97.06.85.33, Fax: 04.97.06.85.89 Action/Suspense Konwiser HOME SOUR HOME THE WHOLE SHEBANG Language: English Cast: William H. Macy, Laura Dern, Drama Romantic Comedy (93 min) Director: Jean Claude Van Dame David Paymer Language: Swedish Language: English Cast: Jean Claude Van Dame, Roger A man and his wife are mistakenly Director: Dan Ying Director: George Zaloom Moore identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Producer: Peter Postne Producer: David Kirkpartrick, Paul E. MARTIAL LAW III (MISSION OF Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Kristina Harvey JUSTICE) of religious and racial persecution, they Tornqvist, Alexandre Rapaport. Cast: Stanley Tucci, Bridget Fonda, Action/ Martial arts are forced to realize the pain and torture Status: Completet / screening in Cannes Giancarlo Giannini Language: English caused by the racist behavior that they 2001. Delivery Status: Available for screening Director: Steve Barnett were once able to turn a blind eye to. LOSING TOUCH on videocassette. Cast: Tony Burton, Brigitte Nielsen (ORIGINAL) GONE IN 60 SECONDS Drama Budget: $17,000,000 SHOOTFIGHTER 2 Director: H. B. Halicki Language: Danish A simple Italian man comes to America to Action Producer: H. B. Halicki Director: Ole Christian Madsen work in his family’s fireworks’ factory and Language: English Cast: are the stars. Producer: Bo Erhard and Morten falls in love with a beautiful widow and Director: Paul Ziller The Assignment: to steal 48 muscle and Kaufmann develops a special bond with her son. SHOOTFIGHTER 3: FIGHT TO THE exotic cars. The Challenge: avoid getting Cast: Stine Stengade, Lars Mikkelsen DEATH caught. 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INVESTIGATING SEX LA CONFUSION DES GENRES BU Erotic comedy (107 min) Dramatic comedy (90 min) UNIFIED FILM PRODUCTIONS Language: English Language: French ORGANIZATION Director: Alan Rudolph Director: Ilan Duran Cohen Unified Film Organization, 100 E. Cedar Cast: Neve Campbell, Nick Nolte, Cast: Pascal Greggory, Nathalie Richard, Avenue, Building 16, Burbank, CA 91502 UUBU Productions, P.O. Box 40 19 65, D- Dermot Mulroney, Til Schweiger, Julie Julie Gayet, Vincent Martinez, Alain USA. Tel: 818.846.0465. Fax: 80719 Munich. Germany. Tel: Delpy, . Bashung. 818.846.0256. 49.8171.721.26. Fax: 49.8171.721.26. Budget: $9 million Budget: $3 million At Cannes: Jeffery Beach (President), At Cannes: Mr. Jean Uliczay (President), New England, 1929. A professor looks for 2000 French Césars Awards - Phil Roth (C.E.O), TJ Sakasegawa (V.P. Mr. Nikolaus von Halem (Manager), Mrs. the answers at the heart of sex. He doesn’t Nominations for Best Actor and Best International Distribution) Alice Straka (Manager), Mr. Karl Cik expect love to come looking for him. A Newcoming Actor Office: Carlton-Intercontinental Cannes, (Manager) brilliant game, an erotic dance, a love Synopsis A man’s tortuous lifestyle goes Office No.243,Tel: 33.4.9306.4006. Fax: Acquisition Executive: Jean Uliczay story. to show that there is no single formula for 33.4.9306.4025 Office: Media Umbrella KARMEN GEO the alchemy of love. Until love itself HEAVY WEATHER COMEDY FOR SEVEN…AND A Drama becomes elusive. Action Adventure/Disaster DOG Language: French LES FANTªMES DE LOUBA Delivery Status: in production Comedy (90 min) Director: Joseph Gaye Ramaka Drama (107 min) Scientists try to stop a massive, Language: English Cast: Djeynaba Diop, Magaye Niang. Language: French catastrophic “superstorm” from Director: Marius Mattei Budget: $3 million Director: Martine Dugowson destroying the entire United States Producer: Telecinclanda, UBU The tragic destiny of an exceptional Cast: Elsa Zylberstein, Camille Japy, eastern coastline. Productions woman. A sensual, passionate African Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Vahina Giocante. THE DARK WARRIOR Cast: Timothy Dalton, Ornella Muti, opera. Budget: $3 million Action Adventure Alberto Tomba, Michelle Huntziker MERCREDI, FOLLE JOURNEE ! The troubled life of an orphaned girl who Delivery Status: in production Status: pre-production (DAY OFF) battles fear and memory in her desperate A hi-tech research vessel discovers what Budget: $3 million Drama (127 min) search for the normalcy of love. they believe to be the lost city of Atlantis. Love, troubles and jealousies at the Cotes Language: French MARIE-LINE During their underwater excavation, they d’Azur. Director: Pascal Thomas Social drama (100 min) stumble upon an ancient sarcophagus SKINHEAD CONNECTION Cast: Vincent Lindon, Alessandra Language: French buried deep within a massive stone tomb. Thriller (90 min) Martines, Isabelle Carr_, Catherine Frot, 747 GENRE Language: English Christian Morin. Director: Mehdi Charef Cast: Muriel Robin, Fejria Deliba, Action Adventure Director: Jean Uliczay Budget: $5 million Delivery Status: in production Producer: UBU Productions Wednesday is a very special day for Val_rie Stroh. Budget: $3 million A 747 filled with explosives is headed for Delivery Status: Pre-production French kids, a day off school. Martin and downtown New York. Fully automated, Budget: $2 million his daughter Victoria, who hardly see each Festivals & Awards 2000 French C_sars Awards - Nomination for Best Actress Flight 3303 looks and sounds like your The power of the skinheads and neo-Nazis other, are spending this Wednesday average airliner except it’s being flown by in eastern Germany. together. By the end of it, they will have Synopsis A brave working mother’s struggle to overcome a life of misery and a computer. THE DINO ISLAND learned the most important thing of all: FIRE RANGERS Children/Teen (90 min) how to love one another. A charming slice- toil. A poignant social drama. Action Adventure Language: English/French of-life comedy about modern families in a Delivery Status: in production provincial town. VIDOCQ (WORKING TITLE) Director: J. Kail The Fire Rangers are an elite fire-fighting Producer: UBU Productions LES PORTES DE LA GLOIRE Thriller / Mystery Comedy (89 min) Language: French force gathered from around the country to Delivery Status: Pre-production stop a runaway blaze. State-of-the-art Budget: $2 million Language: French Director: Pitof Director: Christian Merret-Palmair Cast: Guillaume Canet, G_rard trucks, planes and helicopters will be used Adventures of a group of children on the along with an experimental, oxygen- island of the dinos. Cast: Beno”t Poelvoorde, Michel Depardieu, Ines Sastre, Andr_ Duchaussoy, Etienne Chicot, Yvon Back, Dussollier. depleting “fire bomb.” Julien Boisselier. Delivery Status: Post-production - UGC Budget: $4,5 million Promoreel available (tbc) INE The hilarious and tragic tribulations of five Budget: $25 million INTERNATIONAL 1830. As Paris trembles on the brink of INTERNATION UGC International, 2, rue des Quatre- door-to-door salesmen trying to make it Fils 75003 Paris Ð France. Tel: big. revolution, a terrifying mystery lurks in AL PICTURES 33.1.40.29.89.00. Fax: 33.1.40.29.89.10 TERMINUS DES ANGES its darkest shadows. Only one man can VVine International Pictures, VIP House, Drama (120 min) solve it. And he’s already dead. Vidocq is Greenacres, New Road Hill, Downe, At Cannes: Patrick BINET (Chairman Language: French and CEO), Louisa DENT (Consultant - a breathlessly-paced, devastatingly Orpington, Kent, BR6 7JA, U.K. .Tel: Director: André Téchiné stylish gothic thriller. 44.1689.854123. Fax: 44.1689.850990. Scope Films), Olivier ALBOU (Sales Cast: Stéphane Rideau, Lubna Azabal, Executive) Bertrand CHALON (Sales ABSOLUMENT FABULEUX E-mail: [email protected]. Website: Ga’l Morel. Comedy www.vine-international.co.uk Assistant), Chloé CREMONT (Technical Budget: $4 million Manager), Henri ERNST (Marketing Language: French Company Type: Sales Agent Tangier. Serge, Said, Sarah. Three stories, Director: Gabriel Aghion At Cannes: Marie Vine (CEO), Barry Manager) three lives, three days... Office: 4, La Croisette - 06400 Cannes, Cast: Josiane Balasko, , Gill (Managing Director), Sarah LA TOUR MONTPARNASSE Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz, Chantal Just in front of Le Palais des Festivals!, INFERNALE (DON’T DIE TOO Goodwin (Sales & Marketing Tel: 334.93.99.81.63, Fax: Goya. Executive), Brian Shingles (Technical HARD) Delivery Status: Post-production 334.93.99.81.62 Comedy (90 min) Manager) AMÉLIE FROM MONTMARTRE Budget: $11 million Office: 5th Floor, 6 La Croisette (above Director: Charles Nemes The outrageous antics of Eddie and Patsy, (LE FABULEUX DESTIN D’AMÉLIE Cast: Eric Judor, Ramzy Debia, Marina Shop), Tel/Fax: 334.93.39.86.81 POULAIN) two perpetually stoned and drunk forty- SUPERSTITION Foos. year old overgrown teenagers, with a Romantic comedy Budget: $10 million Thriller (90 Minutes) Language: French penchant for trouble and fashion shows. Director: Kenneth Hope Language: French A madcap comedy, straight up with a Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Eric and Ramzy, the French Laurel & Producers: Bob Hubar & Denis Wigman Cast: , , twist. Cast: Mark Strong; Sienna Guillory; Hardy of modern times, are the heroes of a SEMANA SANTA Rufus, Serge Merlin, Isabelle Nanty, burlesque, unbridled comedy filmed Dominique Pinon, Jamel Debbouze, Thriller Production Status: Completed against the background of Paris’ Tour Language: English Yolande Moreau. Montparnasse. When a baby is killed in a mysterious Budget: $11 million Director: Pepe Danquart house fire, the child’s young English HIJACK STORIES Cast: Mira Sorvino, , Amélie, an innocent and naive girl in Dramatic comedy (94 min) nanny is arrested and accused of murder, Paris, with her own sense of justice, F_odor Atkine, Alida Valli. the Italian press is convinced she is a Director: Oliver Schmitz Delivery Status: Post-production decides to help those around her and along Cast: Tony Kgoroge, Rapulana Seiphemo, witch, and in the Italian courts, you are the way discovers love. A romantic Moshidi Motshegwa. Budget: $7 million guilty until proven innocent. comedy with a difference... Budget: $3 million American female police detective is sent CAMERA OBSCURA BARNIE ET SES PETITES Language: English to Seville, Spain and becomes embroiled Thriller CONTRARIÉTÉS To get a part in an action film, a young in a double murder case against the Director: Hamlet Sarkissian Comedy (85 min) actor must get inside the world of crime. A backdrop of the city’s Holy Week Producer: Tassos Kazinos Language: French fast-paced struggle between fiction and celebrations. Cast: Ariadna Gil & Adam Trese Director: Bruno Chiche reality. THE ESCAPIST PRODUCTION Production Status: Completed - 90 Cast: , Nathalie Baye, Action / Thriller minutes Marie Gillain, Hugo Speer. Language: English Set in contemporary Los Angeles, Jimmy Budget: $8 million Director: Gillies Mackinnon is a crime scene photographer with the Barnie has a wife in France, a mistress and Product Listings — Cast: Jonny Lee Miller, Gary Lewis, LAPD. Unable to comprehend and accept a lover in London. It is complicated but Jodhy May. the dark and cruel reality of the crime manageable, until the two illegitimate [email protected] Budget: $8 million scenes, and haunted by the images of the lovers decide to pay a visit to Barnie and A man gets himself put into prison to victims he witnesses, Jimmy confronts his wife, pretending to be a regular exact revenge on the killer of his wife. his fears by setting his own boundaries on couple... An intense, highly charged thriller. reality and illusion.

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ARTHUR’S DKYE A LOVE DIVIDED RESTRICTED (AKA “THE LAST ORDERS Drama (90 minutes) Romance (100 minutes) WISHER”) Drama Director: Gerry Poulson Cast: Liam Cunningham, Orla Brady, Teen Thriller Language: English Producers: Steve Sheen & Ron Bareham Tony Doyle Director: Gavin Wilding Director: Fred Schepisi Cast: Pauline Quirke; Robert Daws; A passionate love story set against the Producer: TBA Producer: Elisabeth Robinson and Fred Brian Conley backdrop of religious bigotry in 1950’s Cast: TBA Schepisi Production Status: Completed Ireland. Delivery Status: Pre-Production Cast: Michael Caine, , Set on the beautiful mountainous An award winning film by Parallel, BBC Mary and her teenage friends see the hot David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins, Helen locations of Wales, three friends re-unite and RTE. new movie, “THE WISHER,” only to find Mirren and Ray Winstone after twenty years to relive their teenage THE SILENT FORCE out that it is much more than just a movie. Delivery Status: Post Production adventures on Offa’s Dyke. Action (90 minutes) DETOUR TO AUSTIN Budget: $12 million WHERE ESKIMOS LIVE Cast: Loren Avedon (King of the Action /Adventure When Jack (Michael Caine) dies, he Drama Kickboxers), George Cheung (Lethal Director: TBA leaves a strange last order for his mates. Director: Tomasz Wiszniewski Weapon 4), Cast: TBA On their road trip to fulfil it, they scatter Producers: Paula Paizes, Chris Burdza, Roger Yuan (Shanghai Noon) Delivery Status: Pre-Production his ashes and raise a final glass to the Hagen Alexander Mueller A drug enforcement agency, the Silent The story of 3 down and out friends who power of friendship. Cast: Bob Hoskins & Sergiusz Zymelka Force, trained as ultimate fighting discover that they have a $50 Million CHRISTMAS CAROL Ð THE MOVIE Production Status: Postproduction machines must stop a powerful Asian winning lottery ticket, but they only have Animation Moving adventure drama about an crime ring at any cost. 18 hours to travel 500 miles to cash it in. Language: English Director: Jimmy Murakami unlikely friendship between ‘Sharkey,’ a INTERVIEW WITH A SERIAL With no money, no car and a world of ruthless man involved in black market trouble on their heels, the adventure Producer: Iain Harvey KILLER Voices by: Kate Winslet, Simon Callow, adoption, who travels under the guise of a Thriller (90 minutes) begins! UNICEF official, and a ten year old CHRISTINA’S HOUSE Michael Gambon and Nicolas Cage Directed By Chris Jones Delivery Status: In Production orphan, ‘Vlado’ in war-torn Bosnia. Cast: Peter Firth (Pearl Harbor, Mighty Teen Thriller (92 minutes) PLOTS WITH A VIEW Director: Gavin Wilding Budget: $ 12 million Joe Young), and Harriet Robinson A ghost story with heart, Christmas Carol Comedy A serial killer wants a crime novelist with (“Convergence”) Director: Nick Hurran Cast: Brendan Fehr (WB’s hit series Ð The Movie is a powerful, animated re- her own dark secret to write his telling of one of Dickens’ most enduring Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette biography. “Roswell,” “Final Destination,” Cast: Christopher Walken, Brenda “Disturbing Behavior” and the upcoming classics. TROUBLE ON THE CORNER SOUL ASSASSIN Blethyn Thriller (95 minutes) Sony/Screen Gems’ “Forsaken”), Brad Production Status: Pre-production Rowe (“NBC’s “The ‘70s,” “Billy’s Action Thriller Cast: Tony Goldwyn (Ghost), Debi Language: English Romantic comedy about two competing Mazar (Goodfellas), Edie Falco Hollywood Screen Kiss” and the funeral parlours set in a small English upcoming “Nailed” with Harvey Keitel), Director: Larry Malkin (Sopranos) Producer: San Fu Maltha town. In a city tenement building, a John Savage (FOX’s hit Series, James THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASE Cameron’s “Dark Angel,” “Summer of Cast: Skeet Ulrich, Kristy Swanson and psychologist confuses his patient’s bizarre Derek de Lint TRILOGY problems with his own. Sam,” Message in a Bottle,” “The Thin Drama Red Line”). Delivery Status: Post Production Budget: $8 million Director: Peter Greenaway Delivery Status: Completed (Select An American securities expert for a Producers: Kees Kasander VISTA STREET Territories Available) multinational financial company discovers Cast: , Isabella Rosellini, David In a seemingly quiet small town, a young that everything in his life has been part of Thewlis, ENTERTAINMENT girl is being stalked in her own home. Vista Street Entertainment, 1270 20th a master plan to turn him into a cold Production Status: Pre-Production CONVERGENCE blooded assassin The episodic adventures of the writer, Street, Suite 202, Santa Monica, CA Psychosexual Thriller (94 minutes) 90404 USA. Tel: 310.453.1013 Fax: JANE DOE film-maker and professional prisoner, Director: Gavin Wilding Psychological Thriller Tulse Luper, are told in three feature 310.453.2724. E-mail: Cast: Christopher Lloyd (“Man on the [email protected] Language: English films, a TV series, CD-ROMs and on the Moon” with Jim Carrey, “My Favorite Director: Kevin Elders World Wide Web. At Cannes: Jerry Feifer (Presidednt), Martian,” “Back to the Future Trilogy”) Gina Hardy (VP of Acquisitions), Angel Producer: Joel Silver KNIFE EDGE and Adrian Paul (“Highlander the Series” Cast: Gina Gershon and Rob Lowe Thriller Nunnelly (Dir. Of Admin.) and Miramax/Dimension’s Delivery Status: Pre Production Director: TBC Hotel: Cannes Beach Residence, Tel: “Highlander:Endgame” with Christopher Budget: $8 million Producers: Fiona Combe, Hilary Fagg 33.04.92.19.30.00, Fax: Lambert). A high octane action thriller about a Cast: Anne Heche (Not Contractual) 33.04.92.19.30.09 Delivery Status: Complete (Select woman who is framed for murder. Production Status: Pre Production Territories Available) Finding herself a pawn on a political A man embarks on a plan to drive his wife HITE A reporter goes undercover to expose the chessboard, she must battle to uncover the insane, and gain control of her family mystery behind a string of supernatural truth that will save her life. millions. ROCK murders. ANOTHER LIFE FILM True life drama VISION FILMS W WINCHESTER FILMS Language: English Vision Films, 4626 Lemona Avenue, INTERNATIONAL Winchester Films, 19 Heddon Street, Director: Philip Goodhew Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel: White Rock Film International, 2412 London, England, WIB 4BG. Tel: Producer: Angela Hart 818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715. E- Columbia Street Ð 2nd Floor, Vancouver, 44.0.20.7851.6500. Fax 44.0. 20 7851 Cast: Natasha Little, Nick Moran, Ioan mail: [email protected] BC Canada V5Y 3E6. Tel: 6505. E-mail: [email protected] Gruffudd, Rachel Stirling and Tom At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing 604.684.8687. Fax: 604.684.8689. E- Company Type: Sales agent/UK Wilkinson Director ), Michelle Siazon (VP of Sales mail: [email protected], distributor Delivery Status: Completed and Servicing) Website: www.whiterockfilm.com At Cannes: Gary Smith (Chief Budget: $5 million SMOKIN’ STOGIES At Cannes: Alfie Placktis (Managing Executive), Hadeel Reda (President of Another Life is a true story. Set in Action Adventure Director), Gavin Wilding Edwardian London, it is the colourful and Winchester Films), Billy Hurman (Snr moving account of Edith Thompson, a Cast:: Tony Sirico (The Sopranos), Frank Office: Noga Hilton Suite # C304, Tel: Vice-President of Sales and Marketing), Vincent (Goodfellas), Joe Marino (Price woman wrongly accuse of the murder of 604.724.1934 Andrew Brown (Vice-President of Sales her husband, a case which became a of Greed) SUDDENLY NAKED and Marketing), Lucy Fleet (Publicity The Mob, the FBI, and a group of drug ‘cause celebre’ of its time. 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Limited Office: Presidential Suite, Noga Hilton THE EFFECTS OF MAGIC Director: Declan Lowney Producer: Gavin Wilding – “Christina’s Hotel, 50 Blvd de la Croisette, Producer: Robert Cooper and Laurie Borg Family House,” “Convergence,” and “Stag” 06414 Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Amanda Cast:: Robert Carradine (Revenge of the Cast: Wendy Crewson (“The 6th Day” HEARTBREAKERS Donohue and James Nesbitt Nerds), Melinda Dillion (Prince of Tides), with Arnold Schwarzenegger, “What Romantic Comedy (120mins) Delivery Status: Completed Jacobo Morales (Bananas), David Lies Beneath” with Michelle Pfeiffer Language: English Budget: $5 million Carradine (Kung Fu), and the voice of and “Air Force One” with Harrison Director: David Mirkin The night before his divorce, sleazy, Kathy Bates (Misery) Producer: John Davis and Irving Ong alcoholic celebrity chef Harry McKee An old magician’s box, a broken heart, and Ford), and Peter Coyote (“Erin Brockovich” with Julia Roberts, “Patch Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love receives a bump on his head and a talking rabbit, help a father and son Hewitt, Ray Liotta and Gene Hackman completely loses his memory. When he reunite. Adams” with Robin Williams and Steven Spielberg’s “E.T. Ð The Extra- Delivery Status: Complete leaves the hospital, Harry is forced to face GOODBYE CASANOVA Budget: $53 million the truth about the man he has become and Romantic Comedy Terrestrial” Delivery Status: Completed A mother and daughter con artist team realises that, unlike most of us, he has the Cast:: Paul Ganus, Giancarlo Scandiuzzi work together to swindle rich men. chance to begin again. 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PROS & CONS WORLDWIDE TV Movie/Comedy ENTERTAINMENT Language: English Worldwide Entertainment, 280 So. Director: Boris Damast Beverly Drive, Suite 208, Beverly Hills, Producer: Paula Mazur and Robert Ca., 90212 USA. Tel: 310.205.9324. Mickelson NNOUNCING Fax: 310.205.9325. E-mail: Cast: Larry Miller, Tommy Davidson, A [email protected] Delroy Lindo, David Rasch, Christine Company Type: Distributor Ebersole, Darren McGavin and Julie At Cannes: Barbara Mudge (President), Warner Richard DeLong (Acquisitions), Michele Delivery Status: Complete Pettit (Sales Consultant), Natasha When an honest but bumbling accountant Shurdom (Sales Assistant) is framed for embezzling $20 million from Office: Majestic Rooms 110/111, Tel: his employer, the judge makes an example 334.97.06.85.58, Fax: 334.97.06.85.89 of him by sending him to the toughest This is your final DINNER RUSH prison in the state. Drama/Comedy Language: English Director: Bob Giraldi PR COMPANIES AT Producer: Lou DiGiaimo and Patti CANNES 2001: Greaney opportunity to view the Cast: Danny Aiello, Eduardo Ballerini, Vivian Wu, Mike McGlone, Kirk DENMEAD Acevedo, John Corbett MARKETING Delivery Status: Complete Denmead Marketing, 1616 Vista Del Mar The exciting downtown scene of New Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Tel: unabridged version of: York City’s TriBeCa finds Louis, the aging 323.462.8444. Fax: 323.462.8448. UK owner of a neighborhood bistro dealing Office: 11 Russell Gardens Mews, with its transition to a trend-setting London, W14 8EU UK. Tel: establishment; his turbulent son the head 44.(0).20.7371.2040. Fax: chef; its patrons; and 2 local hoods eager 44.(0).20.7371.2028 The Business Of Film to become partners. At Cannes: Nikki Parker (President), THE SINISTER SAGA OF THE Maxine Leonard (Sr. Vice President), MAKING OF THE STUNT MAN Caroline Stott (Managing Director), Documentary Melissa Abraham (Account Manager), Language: English Emma McCorkell (Account Executive), Director: Richard Rush Chantal Webster, Sophia Nicolau Product Guide. Producer: Richard Rush Office: 42 La Croisette S.A., 3rd Floor, Cast: Richard Rush, Peter O’Toole, Steve 06408 Cannes cedex, France Railsback and Barbara Hershey as Denmead Marketing, which was set up themselves by Parker in 1991, is one of the leading Delivery Status: Complette / Screening international marketing and publicity First established by The Famed director Richard Rush guides us consultancies servicing the entertainment through the turbulent making of his classic industry, with offices in Los Angeles and 1980 award winner feature THE STUNT London. MAN. THE STUNT MAN Action FALCO INK Business Of Film in Language: English Falco Ink, 6 Brewer Street, London, W1R Director: Richard Rush 3FP, UK. Tel: 0207.287.3575. Fax: Producer: Melvin Simon, Richard Rush, 0207.439.6600. E-mail: Paul Lewis [email protected]. 850 Seventh Cast: Peter O’Toole, Steve Railsback, Avenue, Suite 1005, NY 10019. Tel: Barbara Hershey and Alex Rocco 212.445.7100. Fax: 212.445.0623 1983, the unabridged Delivery Status: Complete / Rerelease Company Type: Publicity A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just At Cannes: Jeff Hill (Partner), Gary Hill when they need a new stunt man, takes the (Partner), Chris Paton (Partner), Shannon job as a way to hide out, and falls for the Treusch (Partner), Jane Gibbs (Publicist), leading lady. Carole Slone (Publicist) version tracks all available SPACE CRASH Office: 3rd Floor, Les Arcades, 32 Rue Action/Disaster Commandant Andre Language: English Tel: 04.93.99.81.52 Director: Bob Hurrie Fax: 04.93.38.75.12 Cast: TBA Delivery Status: Pre-sales product from the top sales An underground militant group infiltrates THE LIGHTHOUSE Russian space command and redirects COMPANY MIR 2 to crash land on Los Angeles. The Lighthouse Company ROAD TO REDEMPTION Head Office: PO Box 8036, Universal TV Movie/Comedy City, CA 91618 USA. Tel: 818.509.3422. companies worldwide, with Language: English Fax: 818.954.0227. E-mail Director: Bob Vernon [email protected] Producer: World Wide Pictures At Cannes: Nichola Ellis (President) Cast: Jay Underwood, Julie Condra, Leo Office: Residence Henri IV, 74 La Rossi, Pat Hingle, Wes Studi Croisette, Cannes information on Genre, Delivery Status: Complete - Screening CLIENTS: Sullivan Entertainment An estranged grandfather reunites with his granddaughter for a road trip to Redemption, Montana. THE BUSINESS OF PIGEONHOLED Screening TBA FILM Language, Director, Drama/Comedy Language: English Director: Michael Swanhaus The ‘Independent’ choice Producer: Tripp and Michael Swanhaus, Bill McCutcheon Published Daily during the Cast: Justin Pierce, Jon Abrahams, Chris Producer, Cast, Delivery Noth, Allison Follard and Rosanna Arquette Cannes International Delivery Status: Complete For the children of the rich, survival is just Film Festival as difficult as for everyone else but in their Status & Budget. own trouble-filled minds finding a reason to live can be the hardest struggle of all. May 9th - 20th 2001

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DELUXE LONDON At Cannes: Krzysztof Dumienski, Witold Dabrowski At Cannes: David Dowler (Sales Director), Terry Lansbury A-FILM DISTRIBUTION BV (Presidents), Monika Zarebska (Head of Foreign Affairs (Sales Manager Ð Theatrical), Ian Robinson (Sales At Cannes: San Fu Maltha (Chairman), Pim Hermeling (cell: 48.502.134.945), Hanna Glowacka - Head of Manager) (Chairman/managing Director), Marieke Pohlman Theatrical Department (cell: 48.502.255.502) Hotel: Hostellerie Du Golf (Marketing Manager), Annick Smit (Publicity), Jeroen de Hotel: private Tel: 04.93.49.11.66 Wilde (Publicity) Fax: 04.92.97.04.01 Hotel: Le vendome BJORCK FILM CORP. At Cannes: Penny Karlin (President), Kelly Green (VP DEXIA BANQUE AGORA FILMS SARL Acquisitions), Lennart Bjorck (Consultant) At Cannes: Jose Michel Buhler (Director), Laurent Dutoit Hotel: Grand Hotel, Tel: 04.93.381545, Fax: 04.93.689745 INTERNATIONALE ˆ (Programmation, Promotion) Hotel: Hotel Amiraut, Tel: 0041.79.431.66.48 LUXEMBOURG At Cannes: Mrs Gillian Duffield and Mlle Edwige Rolin. BRAINSTORM MEDIA HoteL: Tel GD 00.44.7990.542559. Tel ER At Cannes: Trisha Robinson (Executive Vice President) 00.44.7990.907622 AIPI LTD. Hotel: Hotel Cezanne (40 Boulevard d'Alsace) At Cannes: Ivan Petrov (President; Miroslava), Ahchieva Tel: 334.93.38.50.70, Fax: 334.92.99.20.99 (Assistant) Hotel e-mail: [email protected] Hotel: private DOUBLE TREE ENTERTAINMENT BUENA VISTA HOME At Cannes: peter j. 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Hotel: Sofitel Mediterranee, 2 Blvd. Jean Hibert (Acquisitions), George Lykiardopoulos (Productions), Hotel: private Elias Fragoulis (Acquisitions) ITALIA CINEMA S.R.L. Hotel: private At Cannes: Luciana Castellina (President), Giorgio Gosetti NEWVISION FILM (Director ), Andrea Paris (Project Manager), Griselda DISTRIBUTORS PROSIEBENSAT.1 MEDIA AG Guerrasio (Project Cordinator), Raffaella Paladino (Public At Cannes: Frank Cox (Managing Director), George At Cannes: Angeli Agethen (Acquisitions) Tel. Relations and Events) Papadopoulos (Manager of Finance & Acquisitions) 0175/1815235, Hanns Otto Horst (Acquisitions), Tel. Hotel: Atlantis, Tel: 33.4.93.39.18.72, Fax: 33.4.93.68.37.65 Hotel: Carlton Intercontinental, Tel: 33.4.93.06.45.67, Fax: 0175/1815264 33.4.93.06.46.00 Hotel: Savoy ITALIAN INTERNATIONAL NOAH COMMUNICATION PROSIEBEN TELEVISION FILM SRL At Cannes: Chilik Michaeli (General Manager ), Sharon At Cannes: Anne Genenger (Editor of Movie Dep.) 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At Cannes: Anont Asvanund (Managing Director, ), Anne Pujol (Sales Manager) At Cannes: Constantino Frade (Director of International Gumpon Rattanajangwang (/Marketing), Pornthip Hotel: Grand Hotel, 45 La Croisette, BP 263, 06401 Acquisitions.) Losoponkul (Marketing) Cannes Hotel: private Hotel: Croisette Maubourg Tel: 33.4.93.94.90.00, Fax: 33.4.93.43.89.01 SAMSA FILM L.D. FILMS LTDA. At Cannes: Jani THILTGES (Producer), Claude At Cannes: Omar Lara (General Manager) WARINGO (Producer), Christian KMIOTEK (Legal & Hotel: private OCEAN SHORES LICENSING Finance) LIMITED Hotel: stay in a private villa, Villa Casageno, Avenue At Cannes: Mr. Jackson Hung (Chairman), Mr. Franky Wester Weymiss, 8, F-06150 Cannes. Tel: Jani THILTGES LARS BJORCK FILMS Hung (Marketing Manager), Ms. Galise Tai (Marketing At Cannes: Lars Bjorck 00.352.091.15.22.38, Claude WARINGO 00.352. 091. 15. Executive) Hotel: Palais des Iles, 68 La Croisette, Apt. 72, Cannes. 53.63, Christian KMIOTEK: 00.352. 091. 16. 77. 81 Hotel: private residence in Cannes Tel: 334.93.94.31.34 SENATOR FILM OSNAT BUKOFTZER At Cannes: Hanno Huth (CEO), Benjamin Herrmann (Co- LEDAFILMS At Cannes: Osnat Bukoftzer At Cannes: David Leda (Acquisitions Manager) managing director of Production + Distribution), Bernd Hotel: Hotel Ligure Hotel: private Tietze (Co-managing director of Distribution), Roman Tel: 972.54.51.50.75 Paul (Head of International Acquisitions), Milada Fax: 04.93.39.19.48 Rybarova (International Acquisitions), Gerhard Meixner LES FILMS DE L'ELYSEE (Producer), Christopher Borgmann (Vicepresident Legal & At Cannes: Eric Brawerman and Bernard Brawerman Business Affairs) Hotel : Hotel Royal Casino, Tel: 04.92.97.70.00, Fax: OZEN FILM FILMCILIK T.A.S At Cannes: Mehmet Erg_n Soyarslan (CEO ), Nad_re Hotel: MS CAMARA - C 04.93.49.51.50 Rezzan Soyarslan (International Relations Manager), Den_z Soyarslan (Assistant to buyer - Mr. Soyarslan ) Hotel: Tel: Mobile of Mr. Soyarslan: 0532.256.42.90 SHAPIRA FILMS LTD. M6-METROPOLE At Cannes: David Shapira (President), Dahlia Shapira TELEVISION (Managing Director) At Cannes: Nathalie Drouaire (Head Of Acquisitions), PARIS FILMES LTDA. Hotel: Noga Hilton Cannes Baudouin de Vaubicourt (Artistic Director - Acquisitions At Cannes: Sandi Cintra Foz Adamiu (CEO), Sandra Tel: 33.4.92997000 Department), Sullian Wiener (Acquisitions Administrator), Cintra Foz Fax: 33.4.92997011 Lionel Uzan (In Charge Of Pre-Acquisitions), Emmanuel Hotel: Eckert (Artistic Coordinator - Acquisitions Department) Hotel: private

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