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Country of Origin: Italy 2003problems of adolescence – their first Sex Files I & II 14x90’, Scandal 7x90’, Based on a true story, a moving tale of sexual contacts with girls. On their way The Emmanuelle TV Series 7x90’, A hope of a man whose disability has not to discover the world of pleasures they Emmanuelle 5, 6 & 7 3x90’, Seducing ADRIANA CHIESA prevented him from living a fulfilling meet many beautiful women ready to Fina 90’ and Wages of Lust 90’ life. Features an exceptional performance give them precious lessons. ENTERPRISES by Giancarlo Giannini. EGOISTS ALLIANCE Drama, 103 min. Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Via Barnaba Language: English ATLANTIS Oriani 24/A - 00197 Rome, Italy. Tel: Director: Mariusz Trelinski 39.0680.86052. Fax: 39.0680.86052. ADYTON Alliance Atlantis, Toronto: 121 Bloor Cast: Rafal Mohr, Magdalena Cielecka At Cannes: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma Street East, Suite #1500, Toronto, INTERNATIONAL Delivery Status: Ready to Delivery (President), Rossella Gori (Sales Ontario, M4W 3M5, Canada. Tel: Adyton International, European office: Year of Production: 2001 manager), Céline Dalix (Assistant) 416.967.1174. Fax: 416.960.0971. ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warszawa, A story about young elites of a big city, Office: Hotel Carlton / Salon du Bridge Montreal: 5, Place Ville Marie, Suite Poland. Tel: 0048.22.844.22.96. Fax: alcohol, drugs, trans music and easy sex. 1st floor, Tel: 0493064100 #1435, Montreal, Quebec, H3B 2G2, THE LEGEND OF AL, JOHN AND 0048.22.844.22.96. [email protected], On their run from one bar to another, Canada. Tel: 514.878.2282. Fax: JACK (LA LEGGENDA DI AL JOHN www.adyton.pl from one lover to another they lose the 514.878.2419. London: 184 - 192 & JACK) Company Type: Producer, distributor most important things in their lives. Drummond St., 2nd floor, London NW1 Comedy At Cannes: Kamil Wilczyn´ski - Sales Young people live on the edge – on the 3HP England. Tel: 44.207.391.6900. Directed by: Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo Coordinator edge of their physical and psychical Fax: 44.207.383.0404. Australia: 401 and Massimo Venier Office: possibilities. Darling Street, Suite 2, Balmain, Sydney Production Company: Paolo Guerra for A VERY CHRISTMAS STORY BIG, BIGGER & BIGGEST NSW, 2041 Australia. Tel: Family comedy (83 min) Adventure A.Gi.Di. and Medusa Film 612.9810.8922. Fax: 612.9810.8966. Language: English Language: English Cast: Aldo Baglio-Giovanni Storti- Shannon: Block 1, Unit C, Shannon Director: Dariusz Zawislak Delivery Status: In Development Giacomo Poretti Business Park, Shannon, Co. Clare, BETWEEN LAND AND SKY (NE’ Producer: Dariusz Zawislak Year of Production: 2003 Country of Ireland. Tel: 353.61.472.329. Fax: TERRA NE’ CIELO) Cast: Jan Englert, Pawel Burczyk, Origin: USA Drama 353.61.472.228. Los Angeles: 808 Bartosz Opania, Kasia Olasz Budget: $ 20,000,000 Language: Italian with English Subtitles Wilshire Blvd., 3rd Floor, Santa Monica, Delivery Status: Completed Kate and Peter save the world against the Directed By: Giuseppe Ferlito CA 90401 USA. Tel: 310.899.8000. Fax: Year of Production: 2001 Country of aliens’ attack . 310.899.8100, Edmonton: 3720-76 Production Company: Immagina Origin: USA/Poland Avenue Edmonton, Alberta, T6B 2N9 Cinematografica Productions - Arbash Budget: $ 1,500,000 ALAIN SIRITZKY Canada. Tel: 780.440.2022. Fax: Film Crazy adventures of an accountant with a 780.440.3400. Dublin: 40 Westland Row, Cast: Antonnella D’arcangelo - Davide briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl PRODUCTIONS Dublin 2, Ireland, Tel: 353.1.449.8400. Gemmani desperately looking for money for her Alain Siritzky Productions, 23, Rue Fax: 353.1.449.8470. Halifax: 1668 Country of origin: Italy orphanage and an Angel of Death, who Raynouard, 75016 Paris, France. Tel: Barrington, Suite 500, Halifax, Nova Status: market screening doesn’t know anything about money and A betrayed husband threatens to plunge 33.1.42.24.50.50. Fax: 33.1.42 24 66 42. Scotia, B3J 2G3, Canada. Tel: doesn’t need to. [email protected]. to his death and becomes a mistaken hero MAGIC STONE 902.420.1577. Fax: 902.425.8260. trapped in a grotesque web of power and Comedy www.ClickStudiosHollywood.com. At Cannes: Charlotte Mickie (Managing interest. Language: English www.nakedshoppingnetwork.com Director, International Motion Picture BLACK ANGEL (SENSO ‘45) Director: Jowita Gondek Company Type: Producer, distributor Sales, Entertainment Group), Irene Read Erotic Drama (108 min) Producer: Dariusz Zawislak At Cannes: Alain Siritzky, George Pilzer, (Managing Director, International Language: Italian with English Subtitles Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Olivier Shiflish Robby Amar Distribution, Asia & Australasia, Directed By: Tinto Brass Delivery Status: Post Production Office: Entertainment Group), Ariel Veneziano EMMANUELLE: LUST IN SPACE Cast: Anna Galiena - Gabriel Garko Year of Production: 2002 Country of (Director, International Motion Picture Production Company: CINE 2000 (WORKING TITLE) Origin: USA/Poland Erotic/Sci Fi Sales, Entertainment Group), Ted Riley Country of Origin: Italy Budget: $ 20,000,000 Emmanuelle is back and this time she is (President, Distribution, Entertainment In a languid Venice the devastating Appealing as HARRY POTTER, going to show us what happens behind Group), Victor Loewy (CEO, Motion passion between a sensuous woman and CASPER or JUMANJI story of a little her very own closed doors. Picture Distribution Group), Patrice a young and handsome officer. girl who finds a magic blue bead which JACQUELINE HYDE GINGER AND CINNAMON (DILLO Erotic Horror CON PAROLE MIE) can fulfill all her whishes and a witch Comedy who follows her trying to steal the bead It’s a terrifying and extremely sexy Language: Italian with English Subtitles and use it to make evil. modern re-telling of the classic tale of Directed By: Daniele Luchetti MR VIRGIN “The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Comedy, 90 min. Cast: Stefania Montorsi, Giampaolo Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Language: English RING OF DESIRE Morelli, Martina Merlino, Alberto Cucca Director: Przemek Angerman Erotic Production Company: Conchita Airoldi Cast: Radoslaw Kaim, Krzysztof Pralat It looks like an ordinary ring but it can for Studiocanal Urania Delivery Status: Ready to Delivery yield complete control over others while Delivery Status: First Market Screening Year of Production: 2002 corrupting the soul of the wearer. It’s an Country of Origin: Italy Comedy of ErROrS. Two boys face the erotic variation of “Lord Of The Rings” A comedy-of-errors filled with small where lust is eternal! talk, sun, sea and music, broken diets, IMAGES OF FEAR antihistamines, camping stoves, tents, Horror sleeping bags and nervous girls. The Business Of Film When Steven Thomas buys a used video EUGENIO I LOVE YOU (TI VOGLIO camera at a garage sale and takes it home BENE EUGENIO) Location for the to his wife and teen-age daughter, he Genuine Touching Story (95 min) 23RD year quickly discovers he has just let evil into Language: Italian with English Subtitles his life. Directed By: Francisco J. Fernandez ALSO OUR CATALOGUE: Cast: Giancarlo Giannini - Jacques Perrin The Carlton Hotel Emmanuelle 2000 7x90’, Emmanuelle, - Giuliana De Sio Room 149 The New Adventures 7x90’, Justine HOW MY MOTHER GAV E BIRTH TO ME Production Company: Arcipelago 7x90’, The Click 7x90’, Butterscotch DURING MENOPAUSE Cinematografica 7x90’, Passion & Romance 7x90’, The ALLIANCE ATLANTIS The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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Theroux (President, Motion Picture Status: Completed ring she thought was worthless is AMERICA VIDEO Distribution Group) Origin: Canada actually a rare Louis XV diamond valued Office: 23, Rue Macé, 4th Floor, Cannes, A portrait of love and loss, hope and at $10 million! FILMS S A Tel: 33.(0)4.93.43.85.10. Fax: heartbreak, FLOWER & GARNET is PUPS America Video Films S A, Virrey Loreto 33.(0)4.93.38.87.78 also a love poem forged between a sister Action Drama (95 min) *Premiered on 2426, Capital Federal, 1426, Rep. THE STATION AGENT and brother, both of whom are on the HBO* Drama Argentina. Tel: 54.11.4787.9098 / 9101 verge of life crisis. Director: Ash Producer: Daniel Berger Director: Tom McCarthy Fax: 5411.4787.9094. ALL THE REAL GIRLS Starring: Burt Reynolds, Mischa Barton Producers: Mary Jane Skalski, Robert [email protected] Drama (“Sixth Sense”, “Notting Hill”), Cameron May, Kathryn Tucker At Cannes: Enrique Maya (President), Director: David Gordon Green Von Hoy Cast: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Beba Maya (Public Relations), Freddie Producers: Jean Doumanian, Lisa Muskat Year of Production: 1999 Bobby Cannavale Hancock (Senior V.P. Acquisitions), Cast: Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Chronicles the story of a rebellious Status: Completed Nicholas Bingham (Adviser) Patricia Clarkson “latch-key” teenager who finds his Office: Carlton suite 225, Tel: Origin: US Status: Completed A mismatched threesome forge an mother’s gun. 334.9306.4225. Fax: 334.9306.4226 Origin: USA WEDDING NIGHT unlikely bond, which ultimately reveals Eschewing love story clichés, ALL THE Comedy (92 min) that even isolation is better shared. REAL GIRLS is a contemporary portrait ALPHA FILM GROUP, Language: French w/English subtitles COMMENT MA MERE ACCOUCHA Director: Emile Caudreault DE MOI DURANT SA MÉNOPAUSE of honesty and expectations in writer- (HOW MY MOTHER GAVE BIRTH director David Gordon Green’s follow up INC Producer: Denise Robert Daniel Louis TO ME DURING MENOPAUSE) film to his award winning debut, George Alpha Film Group, Inc, 216 South Main Principal Cast: Francois Morency , Drama Washington. Street Alpharetta, Georgia 30004 USA. Genevieve Brouillette Director: Sébastien Rose Tel: 770.740.1962. Fax: 770.740.1046. Delivery Status: Completed Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal [email protected], Country of origin: Canada Cast: Micheline Lanctôt, Paul Ahmarani ALLIED www.alphafilmgroup.com Florence and Nicolas are not as afraid of Status: Completed Company Type: Distributor marriage as they are of uniting their own Origin: Canada ENTERTAINMENT At Cannes: Ray Guthrie (CEO), Ace families into one big family! At thirty, Jean Charles still lives DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC GROUP, INC. Cruz (Director) on...er...rather intimate terms with his Drama (90 min) Acquisition Executive: Susan Harris mother and his sister, but his new Allied Entertainment Group, Inc., 8899 Language: English Beverly Blvd, Suite 911, West Hollywood, Office: Tel: 770.560.2277 Director: Donna Deitch girlfriend should change all that. Or FATE maybe not. CA 90048 USA. Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax: Psychological Thriller Producer: Dustin Hoffman Mimi Rogers Principal Cast: Kirsten Dunst , Brittany SERAPHIN: HEART OF STONE 310.271.0706 Language: English Drama Murphy At Cannes: James R. Moder (Chairman), Director: Ace Cruz Director: Charles Binamé Delivery Status: Completed Janet Y. Liu (VP Sales Consultant, Asia) Producer: Ace Cruz Producers: Lorraine Richard Country of origin USA Office: J7 / K8 (Riviera), Tel.: 310-271- Cast: Lee Majors, Philip Michael Exec Producers: Vivianne Morin, Louis A young woman is magically transported 0703, Fax: 310-271-0706, Thomas, Michael Pare Laverdière, Guy Gagnon, Patrick Roy into a WWII Nazi death camp. [email protected] Delivery Status: post production Cast: Pierre Lebeau, Karine Vanasse, Roy LAS VEGAS WARRIOR THE AGENCY Dupuis Action (97 min Year of Production: 2002, Country of Thriller (90 min) Status: Completed Director/Producer: Nastasha Baron Origin: United States Language: English Origin: Canada Starring: Laurie Hanley, Suk Woo Nam Budget: $2.5 million Director: Mikael Salomon In a noble effort to save her father from Year of Production: 2002 Detective Cody Martin (Michael Pare) Producer: Wolfgang Petersen ruin, a beautiful young woman marries a When a martial arts fighter gets killed and Detective Ciprian Raines (Philip Principal Cast: Will Patton Gil Bellows despicable miser despite her continuing, during a bare fisted kick-boxing fight, an Michael Thomas) hunt a killer (Lee Gloria Reuben clandestine love for another man. investigative journalist (Laurie Hanley) Majors) who is using his victims as Delivery Status: Completed FLOWER & GARNET decides to pursue this story. characters in a demented story. Country of origin USA Drama THROTTLE Whether preventing terrorist attacks, Director: Keith Behrman Action Thriller (92 min) nuclear threats or biological warfare, the Producers: Trish Dolman Director: Atul Sharma, Producer: Atul AMAZING MOVIES agents of the CIA put their lives in peril Exec. Producers: Alexandra Raffé, Sharma & Cheryl Bedford Amazing Movies, 7471 Melrose Avenue, at every moment. Margueritte Pigott, Bryan Gliserman, Starring: Liam Watson, Jody Booth Suite 7, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. FIDEL Trish Dolman, Dean English, Jessica Year of Production: 2002 Tel: 323.852.1396. Fax: 323.658.7265. Action (200 min) Language: English Fraser Jon, a career criminal, gets out of prison [email protected], Director: David Attwood Cast: Callum Keith Rennie, Jane determined to live it up in Baja with www.amazingpix.com Producer: David V. Picker McGregor, Colin Roberts, Dov millions that he and his only friend, Company Type: Sales Agent Principal Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal , Tiefenbach, Kristin Thomson George, stole from a Drug Cartel. At Cannes: Acquisition Executive Victor Hugo Martin HORRORVISION Douglas Witkins (President), Koing Horror (85 min) Delivery Status: Completed Kuoch (Vice-President) Director: Danny Draven, Producer: J.R. THE LONG RIDE HOME Country of origin USA Bookwalter and Scott Phillips Action Adventure (86 minutes) The explosive untold true story of Fidel Starring: Jake Leonard, James Black as Language: English Castro and Che Guevara´s rise to power. “Bradbury” (“The Return”, “Out of Director: Robert Macarelli VARIAN«S WAR Drama (90 min) Sight”), and Special Appearance by Producer: Paul Tinder Language: English Scream Queen Brinke Stevens Cast: Eric Roberts, Randy Travis, Ernest Director: Lionel Chetwynd (“Sideshow”, “Victoria’s Shadow”) Borgnine Producer: Barbra Streisand Cis Corman Year of Production: 2001 Delivery Status Complete and Edward Wessex Dez, a web master, mistakenly logs onto Year of Production: 2002, Country of Principal Cast: William Hurt , Julia “horrorvision.com” - a website that kills Origin: USA Ormond all who come across it. Budget: 3.5 Million Delivery Status: Completed HOME SWEET HOBOKEN Passion, revenge and murder mark this Country of origin USA Comedy (92 min) action adventure set in the 1860’s Old Director: Yoshifumi Hosoya, Producers: The untold true story of World War II West. Jack Fowler must fight the law and and an ordinary man who saved those Yuko Yoshikawa & Daisuke Sekiguchi the lawless to clear his name and reunite Starring: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, without hope from a fate no one could Richard Kind (“Spin City”), Aida with his wife and son. imagine. Turturro (“The Sopranos”) Year of Production: 2000 Email your press releases only during Cannes to: When an appraiser offers Beth cash for LOVE’S BROTHER [email protected] ARCLIGHT FILMS some old jewelry, she discovers that a The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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AMERICAN CINEMA AMERICAN WORLD hustler and idealist, gets by as best he LEECHES can by selling dope and running petty Horror GROUP, INC PICTURES scams. Director: David DeCoteau Cast: Matthew Twining, Josh Henderson, American Cinema Group, Inc, 2550 N. American World Pictures, 6355 Topanga WHITE RUSH Action / Thriller Stacey Nelson, Tony Carroccio, Charity Hollywood Way, #204, Burbank , CA Canyon Blvd. # 428, Woodland Hills, CA Language: English Rahmer, Mike Cole, Maya Parish, 91505-1055 USA. 91367 USA. Tel. 818.715.1480. Fax. Director: Mark L. Lester Stephen Sowan Michael Lutz, Greg At Cannes: Eric Karson (VP of 818.715.1081. Production Company: American World Lyczkowski, Mark I. Miller, Trevor marketing) www.americanworldpictures.com Pictures Harris, Alexandra Westmore, Julie Office: c/o Chris Davis International, At Cannes: Mark L. Lester (President), Producers: Dana Dubovsky; Mark L. Briggs, Tyler Sedustine Riviera Office # G13, Tel: Gregory L. Stuart (Executive Vice Lester Status: Ready for Delivery 33.04.92.99.88.41. Mobile: President, Acquisitions & Worldwide Cast: Louis Mandylor (MY BIG FAT The swim team for a prestigious college 33.06.08.52.79.40 Distribution) GREEK WEDDING); Judd Nelson swim in a lake containing LEECHES, LIBRARY Office: Riviera F6, Hotel Fax: Radisson A library of feature films all of which Status: Completed, Screening in Cannes which become infused with steroids and Montfleury c/o Mark Lester have been released Theatrically and now Year Produced: 2003, Production transmogrify into giant leaches which 33.(0)4.93.68.87.87, Gregory Stuart’s available for the ancillary rights Country: USA attack members of the swim team in a cel: 33.(0)6.2429.9417 exploitation. KNIGHT CLUB Another chapter in traffic. A group of bloody and brutal manner. Action young tourist couples come across a drug SPEED DEMON Horror Thriller (90 min) Language: English deal gone bad while on vacation. One of Director: David DeCoteau AMERICAN CINEMA Director: Russel Gannon them is a cop. Cast: Collin Stark, Mark Ian Miller, Production Company: Global Pictures INTERNATIONAL Candace Moon, Trevor Harris, Amber Producer(s): Jim Lotfi; Rob Nittolo & Loy, M. T. Church, Mike, Nick Doss, American Cinema International, 4640 Tony Rosamillia AMSELL Greg Carney, Robert Donavan, Jared Lankershim Blvd Suite 500 N. Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Lochlyn Edwards Hollywood, CA 91602. Tel: Munro, Glenn Plummer ENTERTAINMENT Status: Ready for Delivery 818.985.8500. Fax: 818.985.4848. Status: Completed, screening at Cannes INC A young man returns from college to his At Cannes: George Shamieh (CEO), Year Produced: 2003, Production AMSell Entertainment Inc, 12001 hometown to attend his father’s funeral. Chevonne O’Shaughnessy (President) Country: USA Ventura Place, Suite #404, Studio City, The town is overrun by a gang of his old Office: Riviera E-5., Tel: A young man succumbs to the power of CA 91602, USA. 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Lawrence When you become the “Target”, in a Producers: Anne Sundberg and Hilary At Cannes: Gary Hamilton (Managing Cast: Mac 10, Joe Torry Army Sniper’s game. Birmingham Director), Nicolas Chartier (Vice HATCHETMAN Producer: Giancarlo Gamboa (93 minutes) Cast: Anson Mount; Julianne Nicholson President of World Wide Sales), Ian Status: Completed, screening at Cannes Status: Post-production Gibbins (General Manager), John Kim Cast: Cheryle Burns, Nina Tapanin, Chris Derek and Shown are hired to tear down Moir, and Jon Briddell Year Produced: 2003, Production (Development Manager) Country: USA a dilapidated old house. Shown, a typical Office: Riviera L7-L9, Tel: Director: Robert Tiffe slacker, convinces Derek to throw a party Producer: George Shamieh Explores a legacy of love between a 33.(0)4.92.99.33.15. Fax: family of men, and the events of one over a party over Halloween weekend. 33.(0)4.92.99.33.16 As she and her friends try to stay alive, BLOOD GNOME summer that change their world forever. A DIFFERENT LOYALTY Claudia and her detective boyfriend, Horror Thriller Sonny, try to figure out who the murderer ISLAND OF THE MAPMAKER’S WIFE Director: John Lechago Language: English is. Drama Cast: Vincent Bilancio, Melisa Pursley, Director: Marek Kanievska WILDFIRE Ri Walton, Laurie Jameson, Charles Family/Disaster (93 minutes) Language: English Producer: Michael Cowan/Jason Piette Monsby Director: Henri Charr Director: Michie Gleason Principal Cast: Sharon Stone, Rupert Status: Ready for Delivery Producer: Jess Mancilla Production Company: Labouchere Everett Strange little creatures are behind a Cast: Michael Preston, Jordan Seider, Holland Films CV in association with Production Status: In Production series of bloody killings but are invisible Claire Smithies, Bob Lauder and Jr. Brad Virginia Films & Sigma Pictures Country of origin: UK to everyone except a crime scene Sergi Producers: Matthijs Van Jeijningen; photographer. An out of control “WildFire” becomes Charles Melniker & Michie Gleason Cast: Liam Cunningham; Natasha Little WIND AND CLOUD: A MARTIAL the biggest fire of the season threatening ARTS SAGA thousands of acres of land. Status: Completed, screening at Cannes Martial Arts / Fantasy / Sci-fi FX / 3D LOCO LOVE Year Produced: 2003, Production Animation TV Series (45 x 50 min) Romantic Comedy (93 minutes) Country: USA Part One: episodes 1-24, Part Two: Director: Bryan Lewis Finley Descotes finds that desire, episodes 24-45 Producer: Bryan Lewis obsession and political intrigue will Director: Chin-Liang Hsu (“The Sword Cast: Laura Elena Harring Roy Werner catapult her into a world she didn’t Of Great Silence” - Venice Film Festival Gerardo Mejia Margaret Scarborough, expect. Nomination) Frank Gallegos MENACE Stunt Director: YC MA (Jet Li’s “The Love moved in... and so did the rest of Action Scripture with No Words” and “Big the family Director: John Marino Production Company: Banned in Bullet”, “Jackie Chan’s First Strike” & America Films, a California Corp. “The East Is Red” London Head Office Phone Producers: Spencer Thornton; Johhny Cast: Sonny Chiba (Immortal Combat”, Ciarcia; S. 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A spirited woman’s loyalty is put to the ARMADA PICTURES Producer: Chris Sievernich, David Delivery Status: completed test when she discovers the man she Hoberman, Ashok Amritraj Country of Origin: Japan loves is a Russian spy. INTERNATIONAL Director: Harold Becker Set in the 1930’s during the opium wars BOLLYWOOD QUEEN Cast: T.B.A. between China and Japan, an idealistic Comedy Armada Pictures International, 9720 Status: Development Japanese soldier is forced to question Language: English Wilshire Boulevard, 5th Floor, Beverly A well-known pop psychiatrist suddenly alliances when he meets and falls in love Director: Jeremy Wooding Hills, CA 90212 USA. Tel. 310.205.9600. finds herself locked in a deadly struggle with the leader (Diane Lane) of the rebel Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette Fax 310.205.9610. of wills when her family, career, and life movement in Manchuria. Principal Cast: Preeya Kalidas, Ian At Cannes: Chris Sievernich (CEO), Yarek Danielak (VP, International are torn apart by a former patient. ARTEDIS LIBRARY McShane A collection of over 80 European Classic Distribution), Matt Milich-(VP, Production Status: Completed Films including works by such Directors Production) Country of origin: UK as Claude Chabrol, Andre Techine, Office: Carlton Intercontinental - Suite ARRI MEDIA West Side Story goes east in this Claude Sautet, Michel Deville, Just 233, Tel. 33.4.93.06.42.33. Fax. heartwarming homage to Bollywood WORLDSALES Jaeckin, and Henry Verneuil among musicals about two star-crossed lovers 33.4.93.06.69.33 FAMILY OF THE YEAR Arri Media Worldsales, Türkenstr. 89, others, offers a diverse selection of crossing cultures, families and the law. Comedy 80799 Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Tel: adventure, comedy, drama, and eroticism. HEAD IN THE CLOUDS Drama Producer: Chris Sievernich, Matt Milich 49.89.3809.1288. Fax: 49.89.3809.1619. Director: Joel Zwick (My Big Fat Geek Language: English www.arri-mediaworldsales.de ARTIST VIEW Director: John Duigan Wedding) Company Type: Worldsales Company Producer: Michael Cowan/Jason Piette Cast: T.B.A. At Cannes: Antonio Exacoustos (Head of ENTERTAINMENT Status: Pre-production Worldsales/Producer) and Julia Palau Artist View Entertainment, 12500 A hilarious comedy, Family of the Year Office: c/o Export Union of German Principal Cast: Charlize Theron, Riverside Drive, Ste #201, N. Hollywood, follows the Miller family, who, after Cinema, German Pavilion, Festival de Penelope Cruz Stuart Townsend CA 91607 USA. Tel: 818.752.2480. Fax: moving to a new town, have more trouble Cannes/Village International, Esplanade Production Status: In Production 818.752.9339. [email protected], getting along with each other than their Georges Pompidou, Tel: Country of origin: UK www.artistviewent.com new neighbors. 0033.4.93.99.05.24. Fax: An idealistic student and a hedonistic At Cannes: Scott J. 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Acquisition executives: Pierre-Richard Status: Production Two prison inmates must push aside their Production Status: Postproduction Muller (Director), Chantal Lam A young programmer becomes a guinea indifferences towards each other if they Country of origin: Australia (President) pig in a major corporate advertising are to survive the cruel and dangerous In despair of ever finding love, an ugly Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, Bldg. prison world. duckling uses a photo of his handsome experiment DRUM Le Cormoran II, 45 La Croisette, 06400 13TH CHILD: LEGEND OF THE brother to convince a beautiful girl across Thriller CANNES. Tel/Fax: 04.93.99.56.67 JERSEY DEVIL the sea to marry him. Exec. Producers:Matt Milich, Andreas TRIGGERED (LES PERCUTES) Thriller (95 Minutes) MOONLIGHT Thriller Cast: Cliff Robertson, Lesley Anne Romance/thriller Schmid, Andreas Grosch Producer: Chris Sievernich, Rudolf Director: Gerard Cuq Down, Christopher Atkins, and Robert Language: English Producer: Denis Karvil Guillaume Director: Paula van der Oest 2003 Wichmann Director: Zola Maseko Cast: Christophe Laubion, Bernard Farcy Year of Production: 2002 Academy award nominee Zus and Zo Delivery Status: completed For the first time, a 200 year-old legend Producer: JEmjay Rechsteiner, Jason Cast: T.B.A. Status: Casting Country of Origin: France known as the “Jersey Devil” is brought to Piette, Michael Cowan, Jimmy de After celebrating a colleague’s birthday, a life on the big screen. As Investigators Brabant, Michael Knobloch Set against the backdrop of exhilarating 1950’s Sofiatown in South Africa, slightly drunk police detective goes into follow up on a series of intense, unusual Principal Cast: Laurien van den Broek, his bank to ask for his credit card that murders, they are pointed to the infamous Hunter Bussemaker, Andrew Howard DRUM magazine gives birth to a popular movement against apartheid. was just swallowed by the ATM machine. legend. Production Status: Completed THE TARGET TO KILL(LA CIBLE) THE UNLIVING Brutal, tender and redemptive, a DISTURBED (A.K.A. IDENTITY) Comedy/thriller Horror / Thriller (90 Minutes) controversial award winning coming of Thriller Director: Pierre Courege Cast: Paul Naschy, Jay Richardson, age about losing innocence and love. Exec. Producer: Matt Milich Cast: Daniel Russo, Hippolyte Girardot, Michelle Bauer Anemone Year of Production: 2003 Delivery Status: completed A rabid werewolf preys on visitors Country of Origin: France searching a countryside estate for a Chris, a young navy serviceman legendary buried treasure while he awaits desperate to find a lost love, tries to enlist the day when the silver sword will be the help of a TV show star to help him removed from his heart. find his girlfriend. UNSPEAKABLE THE POACHER(LA BRACONNE) Action Thriller (90 Minutes) Comedy Cast: Dennis Hopper, Dina Meyer, Lance Director: Serge Penard Henrikson, Jeff Fahey, Pavan Grover Cast: Francis Perrin, Henri Guybet Year of Production: 2002 Delivery Status: completed Set in one of the toughest prisons in the Country of Origin: France world, this chilling story tells of one For young Jean, life in Normandy after woman’s battle with terror and the World War II takes on a new beginning unspeakable evil that lurks within a when he start living with his relatives. bizarre, unexplainable inmate. THE SETTING SUN BLACK CADILLAC Drama Action Thriller (90 Minutes) Director: Tomono Ro Cast: Randy Quaid, Josh Hammond, Soundtrack by Maurice Jarre with songs Jason Dohring, Kiersten Warren from Ella Fitzgerald Year of Production: 2002 Cast: Kato Masaya, Diane Lane, Donald Through the darkness of a cold winter GOOD-BYE,LENIN - BAVARIA FILM INTERNATIONAL Sutherland night, three young men face danger. head The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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THE ASYLUM ATLAS PICTURES offered the position of executioner at the After defeating RAMAKOR, asteroid local prison where his own brother is SONDAK’s tyrant, who had been using a The Asylum, 6671 Sunset Blvd., Bldg. Atlas Pictures, 919 N Alfred St. Suite slated to die. spherical artifact called NEURONIA to 1593, Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Tel: 101, Los Angeles CA 90069 USA. Tel: AURUM hold his people under his mental control, 323.463.6575. Fax: 323.463.6299. 323.572.1590. Fax: 323.572.1594. KIRIK flees the planet carrying [email protected] [email protected] PRODUCCIONES S.A. NEURONIA with him and seeks refuge Company Type: Sales At Cannes: Aziz Alaoui (President/CEO), in our planet. agent/producer/distributor David Hoffman (VP of Development), Aurum Producciones S.A., Avda. de Burgos, #12, Floor 10 / 28036 Madrid, PEOR IMPOSIBLE (IT COULD At Cannes: Sherri Strain (International Sandra Galvagny (VP of Intl NEVER GET WORSE) Spain. Tel: 34.91.768.48.07. Fax: Sales), David Rimawi (Domestic Sales, distribution), Wafae Alaoui director Teen Comedy (100 min) 34.91.768.48.33, Acquisitions) marketing Language: Spanish [email protected], www.aurum.es Office: Le Riviera E11/F12, Tel: Office: Noga Hilton, Tel: Directors: José Semprún and David Company Type: Sales agent, Producer, 04.92.99.32.05 33.06.21.20.90.21. Fax: 323.572.1594 Blanco KING OF THE ANTS SPENCER STONE Distributor Producer: Morena Films Thriller Action At Cannes: Ms. Mocha Aguilar (Dir. Cast: Victor Clavijo, Guillermo Toledo, Directed by Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, Language: English International Sales), Mr. Alberto Elsa Pataki Fortress, Dagon) Producer: Atlas Pictures Cañizares (Acquisitions Responsible), Prod. Status: completed. Starring: Daniel Baldwin (John Production Status: Pre-production Mr. Javier Gracia (Managing Director), Year of Production: 2002 Country of Carpenter’s Vampires), George Wendt Country of Origin/co-production: Ms. Teresa Moneo (Managing Director) Production: Spain (Cheers), Kari Wuhrer (Eight Legged (UK/Germany/French) Office: A1/C2-C1 (Pavillion “Cinema Miguel is looking forward to a Freaks). A renegade CIA agent sets out to avenge From Spain”) passionate, intimate birthday with his Delivery Status: Completed the murder of his wife by teaming up Tel: 33.(0)4.92.99.88.27. Fax: visiting girlfriend Fátima. When dubious When Sean Crawley is hired to stalk a with a French secret agent to thwart the 33.(0)4.92.99.88.28, Cell brother Alex bursts into the house government official, little does he realize plans of a power-hungry mad scientist. 34.625.15.95.05 carrying a dead body, though, things get it will lead to murder, torture and a wild THE LISTINING GAME SLAM (SLAM) out of control. love affair with his victim’s widow. Thriller A Teen Comedy (96 min) CROAK Language: English Language: Spanish Creature horror Producer: Atlas Pictures Director: Miguel Martí AV RELEASING Delivery Status: Pre-production Production Status: Pre-production Producer: Pedro Uriol When a deep space comet slams into a Country of Origin/co-production: Cast: Iván Hermes, Tomás Fonzi, Andreu CORPORATION tanker truck with a radio-active load, a (Canada/Germany/UK) Castro AV Releasing Corporation, 10551 W. bucolic American town falls victim to a A homicide detective tracks a serial killer Prod: post production Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064, USA. plague of mutant frogs who infect the and realizes it is someone from the past. Year of Production: 2003, Country of Tel: 310.470.9295. Fax: 310.470.3785. townspeople, turning them into killer Production: Spain [email protected], amphibians. They scheme, deceive, use espionage, CHAOS AURA www.vreleasing.com Action greed, just about any lactive in hopes of Company Type: Distributor Starring Jason Barry (Titanic, Beyond ENTERTAINMENT getting an interview with the legendary At Cannes: Andrew Van Slee (President), Re-Animator), Phelim Drew (Angela’s Aura Entertainment, LLC. 9350 Wilshire rock-n- roller SLAM John McHugh (Head of Distribution) and NUDOS (LIFE TIDES) Ashes, My Left Foot) Blvd., Ste. 400, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 A Romantic Story (107 min) Elke Kummerow (VP of Business Delivery Status: Completed USA. Tel 310.278.9991. Fax: Language: Spanish Affairs). Acquisitions Executive: John In a post-apocalyptic future, sports 310.278.9992. [email protected] Director: Lluis Maria Güell McHugh consist of gladiator battles with fire, www.auraent.com Producer: Ovideo Office at Cannes: Private Residence motorcycles and chainsaws. NET GAMES At Cannes: Steve Bickel Cast: Charo López, Goya Toledo, Carlos Thriller (100 min) DEMON SLAYER (President/Partner), Jeffrey Kramer Horror Álvarez-Novoa Language: English (Partner), Brian Stearns (Creative Starring David Carradine (Quentin Prod: completed Director/Producer: Andrew Van Slee Affairs) Tarantino’s Kill Bill), Michael Bowen Year of Production: 2002 Country of Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Marina Sirtis & Office: The Majestic Hotel, Suite (Magnolia, Jackie Brown), Darren Production: Spain Ed Begley Jr. 759/760, Tel: 33.4.97.06.84.86. Fax: Burrows (Northern Exposure), Bob A Barcelonan fishermen’s simple world, Delivery Status: Completed and ready for 33.4.97.06.84.87 and unscrupulous big town lawyers delivery Balaban (Gosford Park) THE BIG EMPTY Delivery Status: Completed Dark Comedy insurance company, collide in the story Year of Production: 2002, Country of When two serial killers begin their reign Directed by: Steve Anderson of seaman’s mysterious death. Origin: USA of terror in the same small town, the FBI Produced by: Steve Kaplan , Gregg Sophisticated lawyer Silvia probes into Lust, Mayhem, blackmail & murder sends out their secret weapon against evil Daniel, Doug Mankoff, Andrew his world while changing her outlook on follow when Adam Vance(C. Thomas - an agent who can see into the soul to Spaulding life. Howell) decides to enter the world of WHO IS WATCHING (MIL cyberchat. the demon beneath. Executive Producers: Steve Bickel, CÁMARAS) KILLERS 2 Jeffrey Kramer, Keith Resnick and Jon Teen Thriller (104 min) Thriller Favreau Language: Spanish Delivery Status: Completed Production Company: Aura Director: David Alonso The lone survivor of a gangland Entertainment, Echo Lake Productions, massacre is trapped in an insane asylum, Producer: Lotus Films Rainstorm Entertainment convinced that killers are out to silence Cast: Antonio Hortelano, Eva Marciel, Starring: Jon Favreau, Rachael Leigh her forever. Fernando Andina Cook, Sean Bean, Adam Beach, Daryl Prod. Status: completed Hannah, Kelsey Grammer and Joey Year of Production: 2002 Country of Lauren Adams Production: Spain The Business Of Film Tells the story of John Person, a budding A series of apparently ordinary events actor who is faced with a stalled career involve a group of university students in Location for the as well as a mountain of debt. a disturbing story of suspense. RD LOVE COMES TO THE EL REY DE LA GRANJA (THE 23 year EXECUTIONER KING OF THE FARM) Dark Comedy Children Comedy (95 min) The Carlton Hotel Directed by: Kyle Bergersen Language: Spanish Room 149 Produced by: Doug Draizin, Steve Bickel Directors: Gregorio Muro, Carlos Zabala and Jeffrey Kramer Producer: Bainet Zinema Tel: 04 93 06 41 49 Production Company: Aura Cast: Karlos Arguiñano, Javi Martín, Mar Entertainment Saura Tel: 04 93 06 47 20 Status: Casting Prod. Status: completed. 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TOTALLY BLONDE Status: Completed Production Company: Lucky Ukfs BAVARIA FILM Comedy (98 min) Four girls return to their abandoned high Cast: Jean Claude Van Damme Language: English school to film a documentary about the Status: Pre-production / SPP: July 2003 INTERNATIONAL Director/Producer: Andrew Van Slee tragic events that happened during their Budget: $20million Bavaria Film International, Cast: Krista Allen, Michael Buble and senior year. After his wife is brutally murdered, an Bavariafilmplatz 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig, Maeve Quinlan MOURNING GLORY ex-cop wages war against the Chinese Germany. Tel: 49.89.6499.3274. Fax: Delivery Status: Completed/ Still Drama triad, and becomes the protector of a very 49.89.6499.3720. http://www.bavaria- available for some territories Director: Barrett Esposito special little girl: the adopted daughter of film-international.de Year of Production: 2001, Country of Producer: Barrett Esposito and Amy the triad kingpin. At Cannes: Michael Weber (Managing Origin: USA Gossels COVER PLAY Director), Thorsten Schaumann (Head of A sexy brunette dyes her hair to answer Cast: Bill Sage and John Abrahams Action Sales), Stefanie Zeitler, Brigitte Suárez the age old question...Do blondes really Status: Completed Producer: Philippe Martinez, Alan (Sales Manager), Thorsten Ritter (Head have more fun? An eventful night forever changes the Latham of Marketing), Giuseppe Proietti (Agent TRANCERS 6 faith and lives of a man and the younger Executive Producer: Anthony Blakey, Sci-Fi (79 mins, 57 seconds) Italy) brother he is raising. Juan Montilla Eslava Language: English Office: Stand N9, Tel: MIRROR MIRROR 4: Production Company: Lucky UKFS Director: Jay Woelfel REFLECTIONS 33.(0)4.92.99.33.37. Fax: Cast: Jean Claude Van Damme Producers: Maurice Smith and Charles Horror 33.(0)4.92.99.33.39. E-Mail: Status: Development / SPP: December Band Director: Paulette Victor-Lifton [email protected] 2003 Cast: Zette Sullivan, Jennifer Capo & Producer: Jimmy Lifton THEY«VE GOT KNUT (SIE HABEN Budget: $20 million Robert Donavan Cast: Alice Amter and Grady Beard KNUT) When the Seven Wonders casino-hotel is Drama (107 min) Delivery Status: Complete and Ready to Status: Completed taken over by Russian terrorists, the Language: German, Subtitled in: English deliver A costume party turns into a night of Director: Stefan Krohmer Year of Production: 2002, Country of terror as a creature of the night stalks the hostages’ only hope rests with a reformed Producer: Peter Rommel Origin: USA partygoers. thief accidentally trapped inside. HOBBS END CITIZEN VERDICT Production Company: Home Run In a return of the ground breaking Thriller Political Thriller Pictures, Allmedia original film’s premise, Jack Deth is back Director: Phillip David Segal Director: Philippe Martinez Cast: Valerie Koch , Hans-Jochen again to save the world from the most Producer: Chris Dobbs Producer: Philippe Martinez, Helmut Wagner, Ingo Haeb, Alexandra Neldel lethal Trancers yet. Cast: Catarina Conti and Brennan Elliott Breuer ADAM & EVIL Production Status: Completed Horror Status: Completed Co-Producer: Alan Latham, Stephanie Production Year: 2002, Country of Language: English A grieving widow leading a reclusive Martinez, Luc Campeau. Origin: Germany Director/Producer: Andrew Van Slee lifestyle is confronted with a serial killer Executive Producer: Karinne Martinez, Love and politics were inseparable in the Delivery Status: In Production who as escaped from a maximum- Juan Montilla Eslava, Karen A. 80s, especially in West Germany, where Year of Production: 2003, Country of security prison. Hamilton, Terrence S. Potter, Kim friends, lovers and families would chant Origin: USA Leggat, Douglas Miller, Ian Burlingham anti-Imperialist slogans in endless protest After luring her classmates to a secluded Production Company: Aquarius Film marches. house, an evil & possessed Eve exacts B Company LLP in co-production with THE CHILD I NEVER WAS (EIN her revenge for their childhood pranks. BAUER MARTINEZ Lucky 7 Productions/Exactlord LEBEN LANG KURZE HOSEN Productions, Lucky Select in association TRAGEN) Drama (107 min) STUDIOS with Curzon Motion Pictures Language: German, Subtitled in: English Cast: Armand Assante, Jerry Springer, AVRIO FILMWORKS Bauer Martinez Studios, 801 West Bay Director: Kai S. Pieck Drive, Suite 607, Largo, FL 33770-USA. Roy Scheider Producer: Bettina Scheuren RELEASING INC. Tel: 727.582.9939. Fax: 727.582.9709. Status: In Post-Production/ Delivery July Production Company: MTM West Avrio Filmworks Releasing Inc., 1726 [email protected] 2003. Cast: Tobias Schenke, Sebastian Tatlow Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7P At Cannes: Philippe Martinez Budget: $10million Urzendowsky, Ulrike Bliefert, Walter 2Z9 Canada. Tel: 604.924.1976. Fax: (Chairman/Chief Executive Officer), Escalating crime has led the Governor of Gontermann 604.924.1986. [email protected] Karinne Martinez (Chief Operating Florida to allow a live trial & punishment Production Status: Completed At Cannes: Alan Solomon (President), Officer), Shirley Bester (International television show: “Citizen Verdict”. But Production Year: 2002, Country of Joseph Beral (Director of International Distribution), Karen A. Hamilton will justice be served, or are ratings the Origin: Germany Sales and Marketing) (International Distribution) ultimate prize? Between 1962 and 1966, four schoolboys Office: c/o AMSell Entertainment Inc., Office: Noga Hilton, office number 306, DIGITAL JESUS were abused, tortured and killed in Riviera, booth Tel (914), Tel: Tel: 33.4.92.99.70.00. Room 306 Suspense 06.07.25.83.31 AFTER DEATH Director: Howard Grenhalgh Germany’s Ruhr District. Their FALLEN ANGELS Action Producer: Philippe Martinez, Alan tormentor, Jürgen Bartsch, was 15 at the Thriller Director: Ringo Lam Latham time of his first crime; 19 when he was Director: Ian David Diaz Producer: Philippe Martinez, Alan Executive Producer: Anthony Blakey caught. THE FLYING CLASSROOM (DAS Producer: Michael Derbas Latham Production Company: Lucky UKFS Cast: Michael Ironside, Jeff Fahey and FLIEGENDE KLASSENZIMMER) Executive Producer: Anthony Blakey, Cast: Armand Assante Drama (114 min) Kai Wiesinger Juan Montilla Eslava Status: Pre-Production Language: German, Subtitled in: English Budget: $6million Director: Tomy Wigand A demented serial killer hijacks the Production Company: Bavaria internet to display his sick ‘campaign’. Filmverleih und Produktions GmbH, Facing a death sentence of his own, an Lunaris GmbH & Co KG embittered cop races to stop him before it Producer: Uschi Reich, Peter Zank is too late. Cast: Ulrich Noethen, Sebastian Koch, MODIGLIANI Piet Klocke, Anja Kling Drama Production Status: Completed Director: Mick Davis Production Year: 2002, Country of Producer: Philippe Martinez, André Origin: Germany Djaoui, Alan Latham Jonathan is only twelve, but he’s already Executive Producer: Anthony Blakey gone through six boarding schools. His Production Company: Lucky UKFS last chance is Leipzig’s St. Thomas Cast: Andy Garcia School, home of the world-famous boys’ Status: Pre-Production choir. Budget: $12million SOLINO A passionate account of the last days of Drama (120 min) the great artist - and the untold story of Language: German, Subtitled in: English GOLDEN SWALLOW - CELESTIAL PICTURES his bitter rivalry with Picasso. Director: Fatih Akin The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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Producer: Ralph Schwingel, Stefan Cast: Thomas D, Leander Haussmann, BEYOND FILMS BUSKIN FILM Schubert, Hejo Emons Sandy Moelling, Christian Naethe, Production Company: WÜSTE Matthias Schweighoefer, Nora Tschirner, Beyond Films, 53-55 Brisbane St., Surry Buskin Film, Via P.L. Cattolica 3, 00195 Filmproduktion und Wüste Film Oliver Wnuk Hills, NS 2010 Australia. Tel: Italy. Tel: 39.06.39030435. Fax: Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Barnaby Delivery Status: Completed - First 61.2.8217.2000. Fax: 61.2.8217.2035. 39.06.39038231. [email protected]. Metschurat, Gigi Savoia, Antonella Attili, Market Screening Of Completed Film www.beyond.com.au, www.buskinfilm.com Hermann Lause, Lucas Gregorowicz, Year of Production: 2003, Country of [email protected] Company Type: Sales agent, producer, Bastian Trost origin: Germany At Cannes: Hilary Davis (Head of Sales buyer Production Status: Completed Ben leads the kind of life that others can and Acquisitions), Stephen Kelliher At Cannes: Roberto Bessi (President), Production Year: 2002, Country of only dream of. (Sales Executive), Isabel Rosenthal Antonio Guadalupi (CEO), Vanessa Origin: Germany DEVOT (Acquisitions and Development Capurso (International Sales), Italy in the 1960s. One day Romano and www.devot-film.de Manager) Acquisition Executive: Vito Matassino Rosa, the parents of Gigi and Giancarlo, Psycho Thriller (92 min) Office: G5, Riviera, Tel: 33.4.9299.3227 (President - Quality Film Distribuzione), HORSEPLAY two young brothers, decide to leave their Language: German, subtitled in English Adriano Levantesi (Ceo - Quality Film Director: Igor Zaritzky Black Comedy (92 min) Distribuzione) sun-drenched home in Apulia and move Language: English to Germany. Producer: Patrick Knippel, Steffen Office: “Focus Italy” booth - Espace Reuter, Igor Zaritzky Director: Stavros Kazantzidis Riviera C5-D4 D1-E8, Tel: NOWHERE IN AFRICA Producer: Allanah Zitserman (NIRGENDWO IN AFRIKA) Produced by: Reflex Film 33.4.92993312. Fax: 33.4.92993313; Drama (141 min) Co-production partner: Filmkollektiv Key Cast: Marcus Graham, Bill Hunter, Hotel: Cannes residence Language: German, Subtitled in: English Film & Medien Jason Donovan FIGLI - HIJOS Director: Caroline Link Cast: Annett Renneberg, Simon Boeer Delivery Status: Completed Drama (95 min) Producer: Peter Herrmann Delivery Status: completed Year of Production: 2002, Country of Language: italian with english subtitles Production Company: MTM Medien & Year of Production: 2003, Country of Origin: Australia Director: Marco Bechis Television origin: Germany An unsuccessful small time horse trainer Producers: Amedeo Pagani and Vittorio Cast: Merab Ninidze, Juliane Köhler, Lea One rainy night, Harry takes home a concocts a plan to rig the largest horse Cecchi Gori Kurka, Sidede Onyulo young woman named Anja, who claims Race in Australia. Production company (companies): Storie CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE Production Status: Completed to be a prostitute. and Cecchi Gori Group Drama (87 min) Cast: Carlos Echevarria, Julia Sarano, Production Year: 2001, Country of HERR LEHMANN (BERLIN BLUES) Language: Englishh Origin: Germany www.herr-lehmann.de Stefania Sandrelli, Enrique Piñeyro, Comedy (90 min) Director : John Deery Evita Ciri, The Jewish family Redlich emigrates to Producer: Davina Stanley Kenya in 1938, where Walter Redlich Language: German Delivery Status: completed Director: Leander Haussmann Key Cast: Jonathan Forbes, Brenda Year of Production: 2001, Country of (MERAB NINIDZE), a lawyer, works on Fricker, Hugh Bonneville a farm as a caretaker. Producer: Claus Boje Origin: Italy Produced by: Boje Buck Delivery Status: Completed The story of Javier and Rosa, children of Co-production partner: Pandora Film Year of Production: 2002, Country of desaparecidos, who think they are BETA CINEMA Cast: Christian Ulmen, Katja Danowski, Origin: Ireland “brother & sister” . Detlev Buck, Tim Fischer, Uwe-Dag Set in Ireland, this controversial film, IT’S NOT ME (NON SONO IO) Beta Cinema, Dept. of Beta Film GmbH, Berlin challenges celibacy and it’s implications Thriller - psychological drama (92 min) Robert-Bürkle-Str. 3, 85737 Delivery Status: fine cut for the Catholic Church in the 21st Language: Italian, Subtitles: english Ismaning/Munich, Germany. Tel: Year of Production: 2003, Country of century. Director: Gabriele Iacovone 49.89.9956.2719. Fax: 49.89.9956.2703. TAKE AWAY origin: Germany Production company: Carisma [email protected]. Comedy (86 MIN) If you thought that time passes, meet Cinematografica www.betacinema.com Director: English Frank Lehmann and you’ll realize that it Producer: Carlo Broglio and Raimondo Company Type: World Sales Agent Language: Marc Gracie Crociani doesn´t! Producer: David Redman, Marc Gracie At Cannes: Andreas Rothbauer COLDWATER Key cast Antonio Berardinelli, Andrea (Theatrical Sales/Acquisitions), Robert Romantic drama (90 min) Key Cast: Vince Colosimo, Stephen Cambi,Agnieszka Duleba-Kasza Czajkowski (Co-Prod./Acquisitions), Language: English Curry, Rose Delivery Status: completed/screening Isabelle Palluaud (Festival Coordinator) Director: Ruba Nadda Byrne Country of origin: Italy Office: The Riviera, Booth Nr. F 14 Director of Photography: Derek Rogers Delivery Status: Completed Trying to escape his shady past in Sicily, (Aisle F, booth 14), Andreas Rothbauer Executive Producers: Atom Egoyan, Year of Production: 2002, Country of Matteo goes to Poland, but he finds out Cell: 49.160.90664357. Robert Simone Urdl Origin: Australia that it’s not the Promised Land. Czajkowski Cell: 49.170.6384689 Producer: Tracey Boulton The story of Tony and Trev, two rival SCHERBENTANZ (SHATTERED Produced by: Coldwater Productions, T.L small businessmen who are forced to GLASS) Boulton Productions Ltd. unite to battle a huge multinational. Drama (95 min) VISITORS Language: German, subtitled in English Cast: Arsinée Khanjian, Michael Riley, Thriller (96 min) Director: Chris Kraus Simon Abkarian Language: English Producer: Norbert W. Daldrop, Joseph Delivery Status: pre-production Director: Richard Franklin Rau Year of Production: 2003, Country of Producer: Jennifer Hadden, Richard Produced by: avcommunication AG origin: Canada Franklin Co-production partner: SWR, arte, BR Coldwater is the story of a forty-year old Key Cast: Radha Mitchell, Susannah Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Andrea Sawatzki, Arab woman who, for the first time, York, Dominic Purcell Nadja Uhl, Margit Carstensen, Peter learns to live her life on her own terms. Delivery Status: Completed Davor Year of Production: 2002, Country of Delivery Status: completed Origin: Australia Year of Production: 2002, Country of During Cannes Only One woman’s extraordinary adventure to origin: Germany the edge of the world and the brink of After many years of voluntary separation her mind. from his family, Jesko, the family’s Tel: 04 93 06 41 49 CRACKERJACK Comedy (92 min) “black sheep”, is lured back to the family Language: English Director: Paul villa for a celebration. or SOLO ALBUM MoloneyProducer: Stephen Luby, Mick Molloy Key Cast: Mick Molloy, Bill www.soloalbum-derfilm.de Tel: 04 93 06 47 20 Romantic Comedy (87 min) Hunter, Samuel Johnson Language: German, subtitled in English Delivery Status: Completed Director: Gregor Schnitzler & Year of Production: 2002, Country of Producer: Christoph Mueller Origin: Australia Produced by: Goldkind Film Fax 04 93 06 68 49 Dwindling membership and increasing overheads make a local lawn bowls club Co-production partner: Clasart Film, MISTER PERFECT TV60Film a prime candidate for takeover. 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THE COUNCIL OF EGYPT (IL (PROVISIONAL TITLE) CALLAS FOREVER THE ASSASSIN CONSIGLIO D’EGITTO) Language: English Drama (111 min) Martial Arts (90 min) Historical drama (132 min) Director: Christine Jeffs Language: English Language: Mandarin Language: Italian, Subtitles: english Producer: Alison Owen Director: Franco Zeffirelli Director: Chang Cheh Director: Emidio Greco Status: Post Production (Screening Leading Cast: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Producer: Run-run Shaw Production company (companies): Promo Reel) Irons, Joan Plowright Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao Factory, Rai Cinema (Italy) S D P Films Production Country: UK Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed (France) Focus Film Production and Leading Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Year Produced: 2002, Production Year of Production: 1967, Country of Distribution (Hungary) - supported by Craig, Michael Gambon, Blythe Danner, Country: Italy/UK Origin: Hong Kong Eurimages - Council of Europe Jared Harris Set in 1970’s Paris, this is an emotional Budget: $ Producer: Mariella Li Sacchi and A passionate love story between two and inspirational fictional account of a Set in the Six Kingdoms era in Chinese Amedeo Letizia brilliant minds, the American poet Sylvia rock promoter who convinces the opera history, the hero is betrayed by a jealous Key cast: Silvio Orlando, Tommaso Plath and Ted Hughes, Britain’s Poet diva Maria Callas to revive her career rival. Only an accidental meeting with Ragno, Marine Delterme, Laureate. through the aid of modern technology. another master material artist sets the Country of origin: Italy THE COMPANY CELESTIAL hero back on the road to vengeance. Delivery Status: completed Drama THE CHINESE BOXER Sicily 1872. An intense history of Language: English PICTURES LTD Martial Arts (94 min) Language: Mandarin conspiracy interweaved by a monk to Director: Robert Altman Celestial Pictures Ltd, Shaw Director: Jimmy Wang Yu damage aristocracy privileges, thanks to Leading Cast: Neve Campbell, James Administration Building, Lot 220, Clear Producer: Runme Shaw the falsification of an Arab Codexes, Franco, Malcolm McDowell Water Bay Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Lo Lieh, Wang “The Council of Egypt”. Status: Post Production (Promo Reel Tel: 852.2927.1111. Fax: 852.2243.0008. DAYS (GIORNI) Ping Screening) [email protected]. Drama (80 min) Delivery Status: Completed Production Country: USA www.celestialpictures.com Language: Italian, Subtitles: english Year of Production: 1970, Country of Robert Altman follows up the success of Company Type: Producer, distributor Director: Laura Muscardin Origin: Hong Kong the Academy Award winning GOSFORD At Cannes: William Pfeiffer (CEO ), Production company (companies): Movie The Golden Age of kung-fu film’s first PARK with THE COMPANY, a look Gordon Cheung (Executive Vice Factory with the participation of Telepiù superstar (Jimmy Wang Yu) wrote, behind the scenes at the world of a ballet President – Distribution) Producer: Francesco Paolo Montini directed and starred in this classic company as only Altman could envision Office: Carlton Inter-Continental Hotel - Key cast: Thomas Trabacchi, Riccardo favorite. it. Room 118, 58, La Croisetle BP 155. Tel: Salerno, Davide Bechini I’M NOT SCARED (IO NON HO Delivery Status: completed PAURA) 33.0.4.9306.6818, Fax: 33.0.4.9306.4118 Thriller THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN Country of origin: Italy Martial Arts ( 117 min) CELLULOID Language: Italian Days is a love story between two men; Language: Mandarin Running Time: 108 mins one of them is Hiv positive. One day he Director: Chang Cheh DREAMS Director: Gabriele Salvatores meets a past love and his equilibrium Producer: Runme Shaw Celluloid Dreams, 2 Rue Turgot, 75009 Leading Cast: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, collapses. Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Pan Yin-tzu, Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.4970.8320. Fax: Diego Abatantuono LIBRARY Chiao Chiao 33.1.4970.0371. Mob: 331.675.259.791. Various titles from new Italian auteurs Status: Screening Delivery Status: Completed [email protected], and old masters. Production Country: Italy Year of Production: 1967, Country of www.celluloid-dreams.com During the hottest summer of the century, Origin: Hong Kong Company Type: Sales agent, producer, a nine year-old boy discovers a terrible A mysterious swordsman whose one arm distributor C secret: his village’s “grown-ups” have is more powerful than his two-armed At Cannes: Hengameh Panahi (Director), kidnapped a child and are keeping him in CAPITOL FILMS rivals, Wang and Chang Cheh Pierre Menahem (International Sales), a hole beneath an abandoned house. Natalie Dana (International Sales), Capitol Films, 23 Queensdale Place, ANYTHING ELSE revolutionized the Hong Kong kung-fu London W11 4SQ UK. Tel: Comedy genre and broke box office records across Acquisition Executive: Hengameh Panahi 44.20.7471.6000. Fax: 44.20.7471.6012. Language: English Asia in this 1967 all time martial arts (Director) [email protected]. Director: Woody Allen masterpiece. Office: Résidence du Grand Hotel, www.capitolfilms.com Producer: Letty Aronson RETURN OF THE ONE-ARMED Appartement 7D Dauphin, 45, boulevard SWORDSMAN de La Croisette - 06400 Cannes, Tel: At Cannes: Sharon Harel (Managing Leading Cast: Jason Biggs, Christina Martial Arts ( 108 min) 334.9399.8470. Fax: 334.9399.8471 Director), Nicole Mackey (Head of Ricci, Danny Devito, Stockard Channing, Language: Mandarin International Sales), Eve Schoukroun ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES Woody Allen Director: Chang Cheh Drama (90 min) (International Sales), Hannah Leader Status: Post Production Producer: Runme Shaw Language: Mandarin (Legal & Business Affairs) Year Produced: 2003, Production Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao Director: Yu Lik Wai Office: 2nd Floor, 4 La Croisette, Tel: Country: USA Delivery Status: Completed Production Companies: Hu Tong 00.33.(0).4.93.99.81.69. Fax: A serious comedy that takes place in Year of Production: 1968, Country of Communication, Lumen Films 00.33.(0).4.93.99.81.70SYLVIA New York City. Origin: Hong Kong Producers: Li Kitming, Hengameh Budget: $ Panahi This fight-filled action packed sequel is Cast: Cho Yong Won (Xuelan) Diao even more accomplished and exciting Yinan (XiaoZhuai) Zhao Wei, Wei than the original. Fang Kang (starring (Xiaomian) , Na Ren (Lanlan) Jimmy Wang Yu), who just wants to lead Delivery Status: Completed a quiet life, was challenged by the Eight Year of Production: 2002, Production Demon Swordsmen. Countries: China, Korea, France GOLDEN SWALLOW Sometime in the mid-21st Century, the Martial Arts (108 min) ruling sect-like power comes crashing Language: Mandarin down. Before a similar regime takes Director: Chang Cheh control, two fun-loving brothers decide to Producer: Runme Shaw take advantage of this chaotic gap in Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Cheng Pei-pei, Lo history. Lieh BELLEVILLE RENDEZ-VOUS (LES Delivery Status: Completed TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE) Year of Production: 1968, Country of Animation (75 minutes) Origin: Hong Kong Language: French Budget: $ Director: Sylvain Chomet A swordplay epic of heartbreaking Production Companies: Les Armateurs, romance, intrigue and stunning action Production Champion, Vivi Films, RGP produced by the indomitable marital arts France, France 3 INSIDE - CINEMAVAULT RELEASING INC team of director Chang Cheh Producer: Didier Brunner The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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Delivery Status: Completed Production Countries: Germany, France, Year of Production: 2002, Production Netherlands Searching for a rare book Countries: France, Canada, Belgium A Father and his Son have lived together When Madame Souza gave a racing bike for years in an old apartment in the as a unique gift to her orphaned nephew, little did she center of Saint Petersburg in spartial know that it would one day lead to the fashion. for a business colleague adventure of a lifetime. Laughter and CHINA STAR tears abound in this burlesque thriller animation film. ENTERTAINMENT or a friend? BRIGHT FUTURE Drama GROUP Language: Japanese China Star Entertainment Group, Unit Director: Kurosawa Kiyoshi 503C, Miramar Tower, 132 Nathan Road, Producer: Asai Takashi TST, Kowloon, HK. Tel: 852.2313.1873. Production company: Uplink Fax: 852.2191.9900. Co-producers OSHITA Harumi, IWASE [email protected] Sadayuki At Cannes: Charles Heung (Chairman), Cast :ASANO Tadanobu, Odagiri Joe, Tiffany Chen (Vice Chairman), Ann FUJI Tatsuya, SASANO Takashi, Hung (General Manager), Ada Lam SHIRAISHI Marumi (Manager), Mell Ngai (Distribution Delivery Status: Completed Executive) Year of Production: 2003, Production Office: Riviera E6-01 country: Japan WHY ME, SWEETIE?! Enigmatic Mamoru lives alone with his Romantic Comedy poisonous but hauntingly luminous Director: Jingle Ma jellyfish. These attractive loners sting Producer: Cheung Chi Kwong • SPECIALIZED ESOTERIC FIELDS whoever gets too close. Cast: Louis Koo, Cherry Yin ¥ FINE ART BEFORE THE 19TH CENTURY FACING WINDOW (LA FINESTRA Production status: Post - production ¥ EGYPTOLOGY • ARCHEOLOGY ¥ SCIENCE DI FRONTE) It is tormenting to any couple when both Drama (106 min) • PHILOSOPHY • OCCULT ¥ ANCIENT RELIGION Language: Italian of you are passionately in love, your lover suddenly treats you like a total • FRENCH LITERATURE ¥ ALL SUBJECT MATTER CAN BE Director: Ferzan Ozpetek FOUND IN ENGLISH OR FRENCH Producers: Tilde Corsi, Gianni Romoli stranger at the pinnacle of the Production company: R&C Produzioni relationship. LOOKING FOR MISTER PERFECT Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Romantic Comedy Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro, Serra Director: Ringo Lam Are you a collector seeking a Yilmaz Producer: Johnnie To special edition? Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Shu Qi, Andy On Production countries: Italy, U.K, Turkey, Production status: Post - production Portugal Sometimes longed love relationship does Are you building a collection Giovanna has been married to her lazy not make a perfect ending... husband for 9 years. The only escape THE MUSCLE MAN of your favorite author or seems to be blossoming romantic interest Action Comedy subject matter? with her neighbor, in the opposite Director: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai apartment. Producer: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai FATHER AND SON Cast: Andy Lau, Cecilia Cheung Are you seeking a rare book Drama (83 min) Production status: In-production Language: Russian How does a monk exert the advantage of as a special gift for a business Director: Alexander Sokurov haleness? By joining the police force? colleague or a loved one? Production Companies: Zero Films, Or...by joining the haleness Lumen Films, Isabella Films tournament??? Producers: Thomas Kufus, Hengameh Paris-based antiquarian book dealer Olivier Krasker-Rosen Panahi will search & find rare books for you at a fair market price. Delivery Status: Completed CHRIS DAVIS INTERNATIONAL Chris Davis International, 4612 Cartwright Ave., Toluca Lake, CA 91602 USA. Tel: 818.753.8950. Fax: 818.753.8960. [email protected] THE BUSINESS At Cannes: Chris Davis, Eris Karson OF FILM Office: Riviera Office # G13, Tel: 33.04.92.99.88.41, Mobile: 33.06.08.52.79.40. LA: mobile: London Head Office 323.899.5465 MULE 41-42 Berners St. Thriller London WIT 3NB Director: Geoffrey Wright Producer: Tone Ludwig & Alan Riche Cast: Stephen Dorf, Sean Astin, Noah “A library of beautifully-bound, antique books Los Angeles Office Taylor in leather, is a discreet mark of culture. 5150 Wilshire Blvd. Delivery Status: Principal photography Los Angeles commences June 2003 The gift of a rare book to a friend or BLACK SKY California 90036 Thriller business colleague is a gift that Director and cast will be announced at signifies a cultural statement. Cannes Delivery Status: Principal photography A good library is a portrait of our lives.” commences Summer 2003 - Olivier Krasker-Rosen 06 07 11 79 71 Available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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CINE EXCEL POWER ELITE Director: Peterjürgen Heppa Director: Jong-hyuk LEE Action/adventure (94 minutes) Producer: CLIP, Munich, Germany Co-Production Partners: ENTERTAINMENT Language: English Delivery status: complete Producer: Jung-wan OHh Cine Excel Entertainment, 1102 N. Director: Carribou Seto Year of production: 1997, Country of Key Cast : Jin-hee JI, Jung-ah YEOM, Screenland Dr., Burbank, CA 91505 Production Company: Cine Excel Origin: Germany Seung-woo CHO USA. Tel: 818.848.4478. Fax: Entertainment and Screenland Partners Documentary with scientific and Delivery Status: Completed 818.848.1590. [email protected], XII journalistic explanations of Budget: US$3 million www.cineexcel.com Producer: David Huey & Milan electromagnetic, radioactive, Year of Production: 2002, Country of At Cannes: David Huey (President and Mrdjenovich morphogenetic resonance and Origin: Korea Key Cast: Olivier Gruner, Rebecca CEO), Carribou Seto (V.P. of polyembryotical aspects of the One year after a genius killer was put Ferratti, Mel Novak Production), Ed Tillman (V.P. of phenomenon of CROP CIRCLES as well into a jail, the same patterned murders Delivery Status: Completed Marketing), Gennady Bochkovsky (V.P. as the genetic changes of the plants start again. International Servicing) Country of origin: USA concerned. OGU : A HILARIOUS MOURNING Office: Riviera J-7 and K-8 Mercenaries kidnap the President of the LES ENFANTS DE L’AMOUR Drama (96 min) MAGMA: EARTH’S MOLTEN United States days before an Family Drama (87 min) Director: Korean Language: French with English subtitles CORE International Peace Treaty. Language: Yoon-taek LEE Action Adventure (90 minutes) Director: Geoffrey Enthoven S.W.A.T. WARHEAD ONE Producer: Du-young CHOI Language: English Action/adventure (90 minutes) Producer: Fobic Films, Gent, Belgium Key Cast: Jae-Eun LEE, Bu-Ja Kang, Director: Carribou Seto Language: English Cast: Fauve De Loof, Michael Philpott, Kyoung-ik KIM Production Company: Cine Excel Director: Carribou Seto Winnifred Vigilante Delivery Status: Completed Entertainment and Screenland Partners Production Company: Cine Excel Delivery Status: complete Budget: US$ 1.7 million XIX Entertainment and Screenland Partners Year of production: 2001, Country of Producer: David Huey XIV origin: Belgium Year of Production: 2003, Country of Key Cast: J. Scott Johnson, Tina-Desiree Producer: David Huey A family drama featuring a “patchwork Origin: Korea Berg and Mel Novak Key Cast: Olivier Gruner, Rebecca family”, i.e. a husband and wife who Angels of the death get a mission : escort Delivery Status: In Production Ferratti, Gerald Okamura both used to have other partners in life an old lady to her final resting place. A TALE OF TWO SISTERS Country of origin: USA Status: Completed and their kids’ worries and problems. Horror VIVA AFRICA (A FOUNTAIN FOR Nuclear weapons are used to seal the Country of origin: USA Language: Korean deadliest volcano. Los Angles’ elite police team must stop SUSAN) Comedy (105 min) Director: Jee-woon KIM VAMPIRE ASSASSIN terrorists that have a nuclear warhead. Horror, Action (90 minutes) Language: English, German Producer: Kimin OH, Jung-wan OH Language: English Director: Dusan Rapos Key Cast: Jeong-ah YEOM, Soo-jung Director: Ron Hall CINE- Producer: Jiri Fojtik A.S.K. LIM, Geun-young MOON Production Company: Cine Excel Cast: Eva Vejmelkova, Alessandro Coari, Delivery Status: Post Production Entertainment and Screenland Partners INTERNATIONAL Ibrahim Maiga Budget: US$ 3.7 million XVII Cine-International, Leopoldstr. 18, D- Delivery status: complete Year of Production: 2003, Country of Producer: David Huey 80802 Munich, Germany. Tel: Year of production:1999, Countries of Origin: Korea Origin: Slovak Republic, Czech Key Cast: Ron Hall and Mel Novak 49.89.391025. Fax: 49.89.331089. Two sisters’ hatred against their Republic, Zimbabwe Delivery Status: Post Production [email protected], www.cine- stepmother gets deadly when one of them A family film and a romantic musical Country of origin: USA international.de gets missing. comedy set against the background of the In the tradition of Blade, to kill an army Company type: Distributor SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER African wilderness and the beauty of AND SPRING of vampires, a man must become one. At Cannes: Lilli Tyc-Holm (President), GI-ANTS Victoria Falls. Drama (101 min) Sci-Fi (90 minutes) Susanne Groh (Head of Sales & Language: Korean Language: English Acquisitions) Director: Ki-duk KIM Director: Carribou Seto Office: L 11 Riviera, Tel: CINECLICK ASIA Producer: Seung-jae LEE, Karl Production Company: Cine Excel 33.4.92.99.32.06 Cineclick Asia (Interclick co., ltd.), BAUMGARTNER Entertainment and Screenland Partners RED AND BLUE Drama (113 min) Incline Bldg. 3F, 891-37 Daechi-dong, Key Cast: Young-ho OH, Jae-kyoung XV Language: German, English subtitles Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-280 Korea. Tel: SEO, Jong-ho KIM Producer: David Huey & Milan Director: Rudolf Thome 822 538 0211. Fax: 822.538 0479,9299 Delivery Status: Completed Mrdjenovich Producer: Rudolf Thome, Moana-Film 3245. http://www.cineclickasia.com, Budget: US$ 2 million Key Cast: Mel Novak GmbH, Berlin [email protected] Year of Production: 2003, Country of Status: Post Production Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Serpil Turhan, At Cannes: Youngjoo SUH (Managing Origin: Korea, Germany Country of origin: USA Hanns Zischler Director), Sang-eun CHI (Manager), In a Utopian afloat hermitage, human life Giant killer ants invade earth. Delivery status: complete Yunjeong KIM (Assistant Manager), is portrayed to a monk’s life, from his Year of production: 2002, Country of Rachel Y. KIM childhood to death, in accordance with origin: Germany Office: Riviera K 11 the change of four seasons. Although she really wanted to become a STEAL IT IF YOU CAN CINÉGROUPE racecar driver, Barbara is now an http://www.cineclickasia.com/movie/steal architect. The stability of her designs itifyoucan/index.asp CinéGroupe, 1010, Ste-Catherine Est, 6è, Comedy (96 min) reflect the stability in her life, or so it Montréal, QC H2L 2G3 Canada. Tel: Language: Korean seems. 514.849.5008. (3240). Fax: BOOMERANG Director: Kyung-su LIM 514.849.5001. Dark Comedy (88 min.) Producer: Jong-su CHOI At Cannes: Jacques Pettigrew (President Language: Yugoslavian, English subtitles Key Cast: Sang-myun PARK, Ji-sub and C.E.O. CinéGroupe), Isabelle Marin Director: Dragan Marinkovic SOH, Sun-mi SONG (VP Distribution CinéGroupe) Producers: Film Link, Vans, Zillion Delivery Status: Completed Office: Horizon Québec/SODEC Cast: Lazar Ristovski, Paulina Manov, Budget: US$ 3 Million (Québec umbrella stand), Hotel: Splendid Nebojsa Glogovac Year of Production: 2002, Country of (T) Delivery status: complete Origin: Korea P3K; PINOCCHIO 3000 Year of production: 2001, Country of An elite computer programmer who 3D animated feature film origin: Yugoslavia - Canada coproduction steals things for a hobby and a cowardly Cast: voices of Malcolm MacDowell, A high-speed dark comedy and a slice of father who desperately tries to protect his Howie Mandel and Whoopi Goldberg. life served with plenty of laughs and a family from the thief. In an ingenious twist on one of the dash of bite. H world’s favorite stories, P3K Pinocchio: http://www.cineclickasia.com/movie/h/in CROP CIRCLES - THE COSMIC 3000 portrays the adventures of a little dex.html CONNECTION robot whose greatest wish is to become a Documentary (85 min.) Thriller (107 min) NEVER DIE ALONE CONTENT INTERNATIONAL Language: German, English Language: Korean real boy. The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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CINEMA ARTS CINEMAVAULT DANGEROUS PEOPLE Year of Production: 2001, Country of Comedy (107 min) Origin: Israel ENTERTAINMENT RELEASING INC. Director: Louis Saia An impossible love story between two Cinema Arts Entertainment, 9350 Cinemavault Releasing Inc., 434 Queen Producer: Richard Goudreau outsiders in the Israeli society: Huda an Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 203, Beverly Hills, Street East, Toronto, ON, Canada M5A Production Company: Melleny Arab young woman and Alex, a new Ca 90212 USA. Tel: 310.550.1085. Fax: 1T5. Tel: 416.363.6060. Fax: Production immigrant from Russia. 310.550.1182. Cinema [email protected] 416.363.2305. [email protected]. Cast: Stephane Rousseau, Veronique MIKE BRANT-L’AISSE MOIS T’AIMER At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller http://www.cinemavault.com Cloutier, Marc Messier Delivery Status: Completed Documentary/Culture/Music (100 min) (Director), Chantal Lam (President); Company Type: Sales Agent Language: Hebrew, French Acquisition executives: Pierre-Richard At Cannes: Nick Stiliadis (hief Executive Year of Production: 2003, Country of Origin: Canada Director: Erez Laufer Muller (Director), Chantal Lam Officer), Amy Beecroft (V.P. Co-Production Partners: Erez Laufer A kidnapping and ransom plot out of (President) International Sales) market cellphone Films, Cineteve, INA Entreprise Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, Bldg. 33.(0)6.0725.8357, Lars Bjork (L.A. control. LOST THINGS Producer: Erez Laufer, Fabienne Servan Le Cormoran II, 45 La Croisette, 06400 Sales Executive), market cellphone Thriller (83 min) Schreiber CANNES. Tel/Fax: 04.93.99.56.67 33.(0)6.0725.8379, Steve Arroyave (V.P. Director: Martin Murphy Delivery Status: Completed LOOKING THROUGH LILLIAN Production) market cellphone Drama Producer: Ian Iveson Year of Production: 2002, Country of 33.(0)6.0725.8362, Irene Loewy (Senior Production Company: ISM Films Pty Origin: Israel, France Director: Jake Torem V.P. Acquisitions and Marketing), Paco Cast: Jade Henham, Sam Bottoms, Ltd. The rise and fall of the Israeli pop star Alvarez (Production Executive) market Cast: Leon Ford, Lenka Kripac, Steve Le who shook the skies of France in the Robert Glen Keith cellphone 33.(0)6.0725.8463, Stephen Delivery Status: completed Marquand 1970s. Maynard (Director Acquisitions and Delivery Status: Completed THE DARIEN DILEMMA Country of Origin: USA Documentary/History (58 min) Development) market cellphone Year of Production: 2003, Country of An alluring but mixed-up L.A. girl flip- Director: Erez Laufer 33.(0)6.0725.8380, Icrus Murphy Origin: Australia flops between facing life’s uncertainty Co-Production Partners: (Production Coordinator) market A group of teens are terrorized during under her own direction or “the good Producer: Erez Laufer cellphone 33.(0)6.0725.8395 spring break. life” provided by a wealthy, disturbing Office: Riviera M7/N8, Tel: Delivery Status: Pre-Production middle-aged benefactor. 33.(0)4.92.99.33.29 CINEPHIL Budget: 182555 HERA PURPLE (DEVIL GODDESS) THE LIMIT Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street, Tel Aviv, Year of Production: 2003-4, Country of Erotic drama Thriller (92 minutes) Director/writer: Chung Gil-Chae 65112 Israel. Tel: 972.3.5664129. Fax: Origin: Israel Director: Lewin Webb 972.3.5601436. www.cinephil.co.il, At the beginning of World War II, a 1000 Cast: Kim Chung, Lee Se-Chang, Lee Producer: Gary Howsam, Jamie Brown Ho-Sung [email protected] refugee pioneers, intend to reach Israel Production Company: GFT At Cannes: Philippa Kowarsky on the Darien, a boat owned by the Delivery Status: completed Entertainment (Managing Director) Mossad. Country of Origin: Korea Cast: Lauren Bacall, Claire Forlani, It is a race against time as a group of Office: The Israeli Film Promotion Fund Henry Czerny, Pete Postlethwaite Stand: Riviera, Stand F21, Tel: detectives must unlock the secret behind Delivery Status: Completed 04.92.99.33.32, Philippa Kowarsky Cell: CINETEL FILMS, a series of bizarre murders being Year of Production: 2003, Country of 972.54.96.11.14 committed by a beautiful woman who is Origin: Canada / UK CAFE TALES INC. possessed by the spirit of the mythical Drama/Black Comedy (90 min) PARIS CineTel Films, Inc., 8255 Sunset Blvd., goddess, Hera. Thriller (97 min) Language: Hebrew Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel: LULU Director: Ramin Niami Director: Amit Leor 323.654.4000. Fax: 323.650.6400. Drama Production Company: Sideshow Digital Co-Production Partners: JCS At Cannes: Paul Hertzberg (President), Director: Jean Henri Roger Producer: Ramin Niami, Karen Robson Productions, ICP Marcy Rubin (Sr. Vice President, Cast: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Elli Medeiros, Cast: Chad Allen, Bai Ling, James Russo Producer: Mosh Danon International Distribution), Mary Judy Gerard Meylan, Bruno Putzulu Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Moshe Ivgi, Elisheva (VP Distribution Services), Jason L. Delivery Status: completed Year of Production: 2002, Country of Michaeli, Arye Moskuna Tolbert (Director of Acquisitions) Country of Origin: France Origin: United States Delivery Status: Completed Office: Riviera E2 Proprietress of “Chez Lulu”, the most A rookie detective embarks on a Year of Production: 2003, Country of popular bar in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, LOST TREASURE disturbing journey through the shadowy Origin: Israel Directed by: Jay Andrews Lulu is radiant. But at the age of underworld of Los Angeles and Las Café Tales unfolds a day in the life of Starring: Stephen Baldwin, Nicolette seventeen, when her name was still Vegas. Yutz, a frustrated poet in his fifties, and Sheridan “Lucien”, she ran away to live out her INSIDE his aging bohemian friends, who have Status: Completed difference elsewhere. Thriller (112 min) made the rickety `Café Braun` their After finding an ancient treasure map, an STORY OF O Director: Michael Jette home, and its elderly proprietor, Leah International arms dealer kidnaps a Erotic/drama Production Company: Christal Films Braun their `mother`. police detective, and sets out to Central Director: Philip Leirness Producer: Michael Jette MATCHING HEART America in search of gold. Producer: Pierre-Richard Muller Cast: Emmanuel Auge, Dominic Drama (85 min) Cast: Danielle Ciardi, Neil Dickson, Max Darceuil, David Boutin Language: Hebrew Parrish, Michelle Ruben Delivery Status: Completed Director: Eyal Shiray Delivery Status: completed Year of Production: 2002, Country of Co-Production Partners: h Cinema Post Country of Origin: USA Origin: Canada Production, ICP Based on the international huge success Sentenced to ten years in prison, Claude Producer: David Mandil novel by Pauline Reage, a 2003 new realizes that inside only the strong Key Cast: Tinkerbell, Yoram Hatav, Orna adaptation set in the USA. survive. Porat Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2003, Country of Origin: Israel At CANNES A story of a religious girl, running away towards her destiny... TRUMPET IN THE WADI Elspeth Tavares can be reached Drama (97 min) @ The Carlton Hotel Language: Hebrew, Arabic, Russian Director: Lina & Slava Chaplin Office 149 Co-Production Partners: Ricki Shelach Productions Ltd., ICP Tel: 04 93 06 41 49 or Tel: 04 93 06 47 20 Producer: Ricki Shelach Key Cast: Alexander Senderovich, Fax: 04 93 06 68 49 Khawlah Hag-Debsy, Raeda Adon MASKED & ANONYMOUS Delivery Status: Completed HANNIBAL PICTURES The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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MOMENTUM Cast: Song Kang-Ho (Sympathy for Mr. is reincarnated as ‘The Crow’, an CONTROLLED Starring: Louis Gossett Jr., Teri Hatcher, Vengeance), Kim Sang-Kyung (Turning immortal vigilante who must quickly Michael Massee Gate) learn of his powers and seek revenge. CHAOS MOVIE Status: Completed Status: Completed RICK Controlled Chaos Movie, 10620 A man with telekinetic abilities has lived Budget: $3.5m Suspense - Black comedy Eastborne Ave. #201, Los Angeles, CA in torment, afraid of exposing his Spanning six years, 10 young women are Language: English 90024, USA. Tel: 310.475.3773. Fax: “secret” powers, until he meets with a found brutally raped and murdered in a Director: Curtiss Clayton 310.475.4043. controlledchaosmovie.com group of people with like powers, on the 2km radius. In a country that has never Producer: Ruth Charny, Jim Czarnecki At Cannes: Azita Zendel (President) run from an FBI agent who is trying to known such crimes, the dark whispers Key Cast: “Bill Pullman”, “Aaron Office: Personal Residence, Tel: destroy them. about a serial killer grow louder. Stanford”, “Agnes Bruckner” 33.07.7367.7823 SHOCK WAVE SAVE THE GREEN PLANET Action/Disaster Delivery Status: Post Production CONTROLLED CHAOS Dark Comedy Drama (93 min) Status: Pre-Production Year of Production: 2003, Country of Director: JANG Jun-hwan Language: English A ground-splitting earthquake crumbles a Origin: US Cast: Shin Ha-kyun (Sympathy for Mr. Director: Azita Zendel (Oliver Stone’s dam the size of the Hoover sending Cursed by a humiliated interviewee, a Vengeance) former assistant) millions of gallons of water barreling bitter corporate vice-chairman bizarrely Status: Completed Producer: Azita Zendel Co-production into a major US city and residents accepts an offer to have his obnoxious Budget: $3.5m partners: N/A scrambling for their lives. young boss murdered and finds himself Byung-Gu believes that all of the earth’s Cast: Don Hughes, Amy Blomquist, LEGEND OF THE PIT FIGHTER unable to stop the contract when he Starring: Jamie Pressly, Casper Van Dien, social ills are the evil doings of aliens. Charley King Unless he can meet the prince from develops a conscience… Dominique Vandenberg, Fernando THE UNDERTOW Delivery Status: Completed Carrillo Andromeda before the total lunar eclipse, Dramatic Thriller Year of Production: 2002, Country of Status: Production Planet Earth will be in grave danger. Director: English Origin: USA MY TUTOR FRIEND Budget: $1 million “Memento” meets “Bloodsport” when Comedy Language: David Gordon Green Inspired by Azita Zendel’s four years as the past of an amnesiac living as a Director: KIM Kyung-hyung Producer: Lisa Muskat, Edward R. Oliver Stone’s assistant, this fictional humble pit fighter comes back to haunt Cast: KWON Sang-woo (Volcano High), Pressman, Terrence Malick dramedy’s about the Assistant to a him, reminding him that some things are KIM Ha-neul (Ditto) Key Cast: “Josh Lucas”, “Jamie Bell”, famous Film Director that hides her boss’ best left forgotten. Status: Completed “Dermot Mulroney” SUB-ZERO Delivery Status: In Production scandalous lifestyle from a Reporter. Action/Disaster Budget: $1.7m Year of Production: 2003, Country of Status: Pre-Production Soo-wan (Kim Ha-neul) and Ji-hoon Origin: US After a satellite containing classified (KWON Sang-woo) are both 21 years CREATIVE LIGHT information crashes into a mountain old. Two young brothers witness the murder peak, a team of experienced climbers and UNBORN BUT FORGOTTEN of their father from the hands of their evil WORLDWIDE Horror uncle, who then chases them trying to military personnel must race to retrieve Creative Light Worldwide, 8383 Wilshire Director: IM Chang-jae steal their inheritance and prevent them the sensitive data despite the risk of an Cast: LEE Eun-ju (Bungee Jumping of Blvd. Suite #212, Beverly Hills CA 90211 avalanche and impending blizzard. from telling the truth. their own), JEONG Joon-ho (Marrying NEVER DIE ALONE USA.Tel: 323.658.9166. Fax: the Mafia) Action Thriller 323.866.3417. [email protected]. Status: Completed Language: English www.creativelightworldwide.com CJ ENTERTAINMENT Budget: $3m Director: Ernest Dickerson At Cannes: Ted Chalmers (Head of CJ Entertainment, 11th Fl, CJ Bldg, 500, Between a lie that can be seen and the Producer : DMX, Alessandro Camon Worldwide Distribution), Ray Haboush 5 Ga, Namdaemoon-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul, truth that is invisible, there is a small Key Cast: “DMX”, “David Arquette”, (Head of International Sales) 100-802, South Korea. Tel: gap. This is the “White Room” where “Michael Ealy” Office: Riviera L3/M4, Tel: 82.2.726.8564. Fax: 82.2.726.8291. death gestates. Delivery Status: Post Production 33.6.793.66449 [email protected], www.cjent.co.kr THE ROMANTIC PRESIDENT AERO-TROOPERS Year of Production: 2003, Country of Animation At Cannes: Mark Soh (CFO/CSO), Comedy Origin: US Language: English Edison Jeon (Senior VP of Int’l Sales and Director: JEON Man-bae A young reporter witnesses the murder of Cast: Mark Hamill (voice); Billy West Acquisitions), June Lee (Director of Int’l Cast: AHN Sung-ki (Nowhere To Hide), a drug lord and is left with the victim’s (voice); Jess Harnell (voice); Sales and Acquisitions), Jun Kim CHOI Ji-woo (Nowhere To Hide) car and diary. As he pieces together the Delivery Status: Completed (Assistant Manager of Int’l Sales and Status: Completed man’s life and the events leading to the Year of Production: 2003, Country of Acquisitions) Budget: $2m murder, he finds himself drawn into an Origin: USA Office: Riviera E21/F22, Tel: The youngest and the most talented ongoing cycle of violence. In a distant world, a dark force attacks a 33.(0)4.92.99.88.21 president in the history of Korea, Min- BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY MEMORIES OF MURDER wook lives and breathes with the people Epic Drama floating society and only the Areo Crime Drama by going undercover to see how they Language: English Troopers cans save them. Director: Bong Joon-Ho EARWIGS really live. Director: Hans Petter Moland Science Fiction Producer: Tomas Backstrom, Petter J Language: English CONTENT Borgli, Terrence Malick Cast: BRUCE CAMPBELL (Evil Dead) Key Cast: “Nick Nolte”, “Tim Roth”, Delivery Status: Pre-Sales INTERNATIONAL “Bai Ling” Year of Production: 2003, Country of Content International, 14/15 D’Arblay Delivery Status: Post Production Origin: USA Street - W1F 8DZ London, UK. Tel: Year of Production: 2003, Country of Produced in association with Sci Fi 44.20.7851.9170. Fax: 44.20.7851.9171. Origin: US Pictures a group of environmentalists At Cannes: Judith Baugin (Marketing Binh, a young Vietnamese man makes an must fight off an invading hive of ancient Manager) extraordinary six-month journey from his insects who serve as protectors of the Office: 3rd floor, No 2 La Croisette, Tel: village south of Saigon to Texas in search Rain Forest. 33.4.93.38.58.88. Fax: 33.4.93.99.46.55 of his long last GI father. AVATAR WICKED PRAYER Science-Fiction Action Horror Language: English Language: English E-mail MIPCOM Cast: Joan Chen (Last Emperor), David Director: Lance Mungia Warner (Planet of The Apes); Producer: Jeff Most - Edward R. 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MADE UP WATER’S EDGE SCARY MOVIE 3 African film of all time. The king of the Romantic Comedy Thriller Comedy/Horror Parody Kavuki tribe is ageing and does not have Language: English Director: Harvey Kahn Language: English a male heir. Cast: Tony Shalhoub (Galaxy Quest), Producer: Harvey Kahn, Carole Curb Director: David Zucker VOLCANO HIGH Gary Sinise (Forest Gump), Brooke Nemoy, Mike Curb Producer: Robert K. Weiss Director: Kim Tae-Gyun Adams (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) Cast: Nathan Fillion, Daniel Baldwin, Cast: Anna Faris, Camryn Manheim, Producers: Seoung-Jae Cha, Woo-Suk Delivery Status: Completed Chandra West, Emmanuelle Vaugier Anthony Anderson, special appearance Kang Year of Production: 2002, Country of Country of Origin: Canada by Eddie Griffin, with Denise Richards, Principal Cast: Hyuk Jang, Min-A Shin, Su-Ro Kim, Sang-Woo Kwon Origin: USA In this tense and riveting tale, a novelist with Regina Hall and Charlie Sheen. Status: Complete An older woman undergoes an elaborate and his wife uncover a vast web of sex, Status: In Production Volcano High tells the story of a young makeover fooling her boyfriend into murder, and lies in their quiet hometown. County of Origin: USA thinking she is two different COASTLINES David Zucker helms the 3rd installment man with incredible fighting powers that women!TEQUILA EXPRESS Thriller of the blockbuster parody franchise that he is forbidden to use. Action Thriller Writer/Director: Victor Nunez has grossed over $400 million. Language: English Producers: Victor Nunez and Sam Gowan DISTANT HORIZON Cast: Christopher Atkins (Blue Lagoon) Cast: Josh Brolin, Timothy Olyphant, Distant Horizon, 8282 Sunset Boulevard, DREAM Delivery Status: Completed Sarah Wynter and William Forsythe Suite A, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Year of Production: 2003, Country of Country of Origin: USA ENTERTAINMENT Tel: 323.848.4140. Fax: 323.848.4144. Origin: USA Sonny Mann (Timothy Olyphant), an ex- Dream Entertainment, 8489 W. Third A deep cover DEA agent must rescue the [email protected]. London:61 con returning home from prison, creates Villiers Avenue, Surbiton, Surrey KT5 Street, Suite 1038, Los Angeles, CA daughter of the California Governor from a new dynamic for both friends and 90048 USA. Tel: 323.655.5501. Fax: drug terrorists. 8BE London, UK. Tel: 020.8399.5126. enemies with his arrival. Fax: 020.8390.5341. london@distant- 323.655.5603. [email protected] horizon.com Company Type: Producer, Sales Agent CURB At Cannes: Anant Singh (Producer), At Cannes: Ehud Bleiberg (Chairman & D Brian Cox (Producer), Sanjeev Singh CEO), Yitzhak Ginsberg (President), ENTERTAINMENT (Acquisitions Director), Paul Janssen Nadine de Barros (Vice President, Sales DIMENSION FILMS & Acquisitions), Shannon Wilson Dimension Films, 99 Hudson Street, 5th (Sales Executive) INTERNATIONAL Office: Hotel Savoy, Tel: 04.92.99.72.00 (Coordinator) Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM Office: Riviera: J1/K2, Tel: 04.9299.3335 CORP. 212.219.4100. Fax: 212.941.3836. Director: Shekhar Kapur (Four Feathers, DISASTER! Claymation /Action/Comedy Curb Entertainment International Corp., At Cannes: Rick Sands (COO, Miramax Elizabeth, Bandit Queen) Language: English 3907 West Alameda Ave., Burbank, CA Films), Edward Noeltner (Senior Vice Producer: Anant Singh Director: Roy Wood 91505 USA. Tel: 818.843.8580. Fax: President, Distribution and Sales, Principal Cast: Morgan Freeman Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Yitzhak 818.566.1719. Miramax International), Marc Bunag Status: In Development Ginsberg, John Glenn, Travis Wright, www.curbentertainment.com (Vice President, Creative Marketing, Long Walk To Freedom is the Evan Astrowsky At Cannes: Carole Curb Nemoy Miramax International), Mark Lindsay autobiography of Nelson Mandela, South Delivery Status: In Pre-Production (President), Wendy Reeds (Executive (Vice President, International Africa’s first democratically elected Country of Origin: USA Director, Head of Sales) Distribution, Miramax International), Jill president. A hilarious spoof of big-budget action Office: Riviera N2, Tel: 33.4.92.99.32.29. Silfen (Vice President, Business and I CAPTURE THE CASTLE Director: Tim Flywell (Madame Bovary, films, “Disaster!” is the ultimate disaster Fax: 33.4.92.99.32.33 Legal Affairs, Miramax International), TOUGH LUCK The Woman In White) movie. Thriller Lisa Lazure (Director, International Producers: Anant Singh, David M. MONSTER MEN Horror/Thriller Director: Richard Shepard (Oxygen) Publicity, Miramax International) Thompson, David Parfitt (Shakespeare In Language: English Producer: Brian Etting, Josh Etting, Ram Office: Majestic Hotel, Salle Royan, 14, Love) Director: Michael Davis Bergman, Carole Curb Nemoy, Mike La Croisette, Cannes, France. Tel: Principal Cast: Romola Garai, Rose Producers: Yitzhak Ginsberg, Ehud Curb 4.97.06.85.00. Fax: 04.97.06.85.04 Byrne (Star Wars: Episode II), Henry Bleiberg, Larry Rattner Cast: Armand Assante, Norman Reedus, CURSED Thomas (Gangs Of New York), Marc Thriller Cast: Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich, Aimee Dagmara Dominczyk Blucas (Sunshine State, View From The Language: English Brooks Country of Origin: USA Top, We Were Soldiers), Bill Nighy Director: Wes Craven Delivery Status: In Post-Production An intricate net of deceit and betrayal (Lucky Break), Tara Fitzgerald (Brassed Producers: Wes Craven, Marianne Country of Origin: USA entangles a wandering grifter (Norman Off) Maddelena A monster man driving a monster truck Reedus) who is hired by a traveling Status: Complete terrorize a couple of college kids carnival owner (Armand Assante) to Cast: Christina Ricci, Skeet Ulrich, Jesse I CAPTURE THE CASTLE is a traveling cross-country. murder his beautiful wife (Dagmara Eisenberg, John McGinley, Scott Baio, classically romantic tale of a young girl’s Robert Forster, and Omar Epps HER MAJESTY Dominczyk). Premiere! emotional journey into adulthood, as she Family/Adventure 100 MILE RULE Status: In Production discovers the secrets of her own feelings Thriller Language: English County of Origin: USA and sexuality. Director: Brent Huff Director: Mark J. Gordon Horror master Wes Craven and writer MR BONES Producers: Walter Coblenz Producer: Eric Gustavson, John Nelson Director: Gray Hofmeyr Kevin Williamson polish up their silver Cast: Sally Andrews, Vicky Haughton, Cast: Jake Weber, Maria Bello, David Producers: Anant Singh, Helena Spring bullets for this frightening new take on a Liddy Holloway, Mark Clare Thornton, Michael McKean Principal Cast: Leon Schuster (Panic classic horror legend Delivery Status: Completed Country of Origin: USA Mechanic, Yankee Zulu), David Ramsey SPY KIDS 3D: GAME OVER Year of Production: 2003, Country of After his one-night affair is caught on Action Adventure (Pay It Forward, Three To Tango), Faizon Origin: USA tape, a married salesman (Jake Weber) Language: English Love (The Parenthood, Blue Crush) Set in 1953, Her Majesty is a widely must outwit a beautifully dangerous Director: Robert Rodriguez Status: Complete appealing coming of age story about a woman (Maria Bello). Producers: Elizabeth Avellan, Robert Mr Bones is the highest grossing South MAN’S BEST FRIEND Romantic Comedy Rodriguez Director: Rob Lundsgaard Cast: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Producers: Scott J. Sloan & Rob Daryl Sabara, Alexa Vega, Ricardo Lundsgaard Montalban, Holland Taylor, Danny Trejo, Cast: Alexander Chaplin, Lindsay and Sylvester Stallone Sloane, Richard Kind Status: In Production Country of Origin: USA County of Origin: USA Steven’s (Alexander Chaplin) new This time the Cortez family must come romantic relationship with Rebecca together to defeat their arch-nemesis The (Lindsay Sloane) is going great: they Toymaker (Stallone), when young both like dogs, good books, and Carmen becomes trapped inside a virtual shopping. reality video game. CONFIDENCE - LIONSGATE FILMS INTERNATIONAL The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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young girl who realizes her life-long SHOW ME YOUR POTATOES Michael A. Wong EJS INTERNATIONAL dream when Queen Elizabeth comes to Comedy (90 min) Cast: Johnny Kwon, Victoria Linchon, visit her small hometown. Language: English Jackson Ning EJS International, 8130 Chase Avenue, GACY Director: Jeremiah Bosgang Year of Production: 2002 Country of Los Angeles, CA 90045 USA. Tel: Thriller/Horror Producer: Wendy Perelman and Jeremiah Origin: USA 323.641.6705. Fax: 323.641.6705. Language: English Bosgangh Jack can’t help but to be drawn to his At Cannes: Ed Shields (Vice President, Director: Clive Saunders Key Cast : Jerry Seinfeld, Jason lively, but ill-reputed, roommate, Lana International Sales), Christopher Shaw Producers: Larry Rattner, Tim Swain Alexander, Conan O’brien, Dick Cavett, Lin. After passing judgment on Lana’s (Director International Sales) Cast: Mark Holton, Charlie Weber Michael Richards loose lifestyle, Jack finds himself Office: Carlton Hotel Rm # 245, Tel: Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: In Development desiring her. 33.(0).493.06.40.06, Ext 245. Fax: Year of Production: 2003, Country of Country of Origin: US DARK TOMORROW 33.(0).493.06.40.25 Origin: USA A struggling writer’s evolution from a Thriller SPECK Suspense/Horror From the same team that brought you custodian to a studio executive, based on Language: English Language: English “Dahmer”, a shocking story about the a true story Director: JOHN GOINS infamous American serial killer - John BIKINI MANSION (LUCKY ANGEL) Producer: JOHN GOINS Director: Keith Walley Wayne Gacy. Comedy (90 min) Cast: Chris Moller, Jen Lester, Alex Safi Producer: Keith Walley, Tammi Sutton WHITE GOLD Director: English Delivery Status: completed Cast: Doug Cole, Beverly Ann Sotelo, Action Language: Peter R. J. Deyell Year of Production: 2002 Country of Stacy Cunningham Language: English Producer: Armen Balian Origin: USA Production Status: Completed Director: Victor Ivanov Key Cast: Robert Abrams, Ted Kurtz, John celebrates going to college Budget: Under: $1 million Producers: Victor Ivanov, Feyodor Popov Betsy Monroe basketball’s Final Four, but the next Country of Origin: USA Cast: Josh Holland, Alexander Delivery Status: Completed morning, hears on TV that he stabbed his Based on the true story of serial killer Dyachenko, Yevgeniy Sidikhin Country of Origin: US fiancé a year ago. What happened in that Richard Speck; in July of 1966 Speck Delivery Status: Completed A real estate agent inherits a mansion year? walked into a boarding house of eight Year of Production: 2003, Country of that serves as an underground brothel DETENTION nurses in a Chicago suburb and Origin: USA GAME OF SURVIVAL Thriller systematically terrorized and killed all A rebellious California kid becomes heir Sci-fi/action (90 min) Language: English but one...... to a map believed to lead to gold stolen Language: English Director: Andy Anderson BLOODLETTING in 1919 Russia and must fight the KGB, Director: Armand Gazarian Producer: Robert J. Castaldo and Horror FBI, and Russian mafia for the treasure. Producer: Lindsay Norgard Kirksten C. Irick Language: English Key Cast: Nikki Hill, Cindy Coatman Cast: John S. Davies, Marsha Dietlein, Director: Matthew Jason Walsh Delivery Status: Completed and Gail Cronauer Producer: JR Bookwalter, Matthew Jason DYNAMIC FILMS Country of Origin: US Delivery Status: completed Walsh Seven Prisoners from around the galaxy Cast: Ariauna Albright, James L. Dynamic Films, 10612 McVine Ave., Year of Production: 1999 Country of compete in a brutal game for a chance Edwards, Theresa Constantine Sunland, CA 91040 USA. Tel: Origin: USA for freedom. Production Status: Completed 818.352.7347. Fax: 818.352.7347. In this “Breakfast Club” meets TIMELESS LOVE (ORIUNDI) Budget: Under $1 million. Dynamicfilms.us. “Hellraiser,” the frazzled high school Drama (120 min) Country of Origin: USA [email protected] teacher comes up with a truly unique Language: Italian Serena Stalin wanted to learn from the At Cannes: Armand Gazarian (CEO), plan to bring his wayward students into Director: Ricardo Bravo best. So she tracked down Butch Harlow, Lindsay Norgard (VP Sales), Armine line. Producer: Elaine Ferreira, Telmo Maia one of the world’s most notorious serial Weiss (Business Affairs) DONALD AND DOT CLOCK Key Cast: Anthony Quinn, Leticia FOUND DEAD IN THEIR HOME killers, and blackmailed him into THE OSIRUS PROJECT (HIDDEN Spiller, Paulo Betti, Paulo Autran Quirky Romantic Comedy (82 minutes) AGENDA) teaching her the fine art of murder. Action (90 min) Delivery Status: Completed Language: English GHOUL SCHOOL Language: English Country of Origin: Brazil Director: Michael Kowalski Horror Director: Scott McAboy A man tormented by lost love gets a Producer: J. Edmund Parcher Country of Origin: USA Producer: Amy Sydorick and Scott second chance when he believes his Cast: John E. Parcher, Eugenie Language: English Hohnbaum beloved wife is reincarnated. Bondurant, Joe Ochman Director: Timothy O’rawe Key Cast: Brixton Karnes, Rebekah Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Timothy O’rawe Carlton, Rick Cramer, William Zabka Year of Production: 2001, Country of Cast: William Friedman, Scott Gordon, Delivery Status: Completed E Origin: USA Paul Venier, Nancy Sirianni Year of Production: 2001, Country of ECHELON In this match made for the Afterlife, he’s Production Status: Completed Origin: USA a dancer who can’t keep a job while she’s Budget: Under $1 million. Elite American and British agents team ENTERTAINMENT a psychic hot-line counselor obsessed What started out as an innocent lab up to hunt down an international terrorist Echelon Entertainment, 8831 Sunset with the “Rodent Harmonic Balance.” experiment by a few students has turned Boulevard, Suite 300, West Hollywood, ECHO OF BLUE into the biggest case of mass slaughter in control of a nuclear satellite Thriller California, USA 90069. Tel: ever! Language: English 310.652.2893. Fax: 310.652.6237. Director: Zach Sternheimer [email protected], Producer: Katy Wallin & Zach www.echelonent.com ENTERTAINMENT 7 Sternheimer Company Type: Sales Agent Entertainment 7, 15030 Ventura Blvd, Cast: Lisa Lamendola, Kevin West, Art At Cannes: Eric Louzil (President & Co- Suite # 762, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Lafleur CEO), Billy Blake (Co-CEO), Geoff USA. Tel: 818.709.9595. Fax: Delivery Status: (pre, post, in production Jarvis (VP Of International Sales), Stacey 818.709.9597. [email protected] or completed) Parks (VP Of International Sales), Ellen Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer, Year of Production: 2002 Country of Roongcharoen (Sales Assistant), John Distributor Origin: USA Howard (VP Of Press At Cannes: Emilio Ferrari (Consultant), The Fillet Man slices up his prey and Relations/Marketing), Acquisition Kelsie Black (Director of Intl. Sales), Bill leads the corrupt city on a harrowing, Executive: Gloria Morrison (President Of Wilder (Sales/Acquisitions) wild goose chase led by a young lady Acquisitions/Development) Office: Carlton Hotel 133 Office: E11/F12; Hotel “La Madrilene”, WEST THE BUSINESS OF Drama 15, Bd Alexandre III, 06400 Cannes, Tel: Language: English 33.0.4.97.06.37.37. Fax: FILM 33.0.4.93.94.38.78, Director: Rick Pagano BLUE FIRE Producers: A. Kitman Ho, Mark Sexual Angst Drama London Head Office McGarry, Emilio Ferrari Language: English 41-42 Berners St. Delivery Status: Pre-Production Director: Chia Hui Gao Country of Origin: USA London WIT 3NB 11:14 - MDP WORLDWIDE Producer: Chia Hui Gao, Olivier Janin, From the Producer of “Ali” and in the The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

84 The Business of Film CANNES MAY 2003 CANNES PRODUCT GUIDE tradition of “American Beauty”, comes Focas; Gigi Angelillo and also featuring EUROCINE EUROPEAN FILM an intriguing story of a family that takes Ben Gazzara to the road and discovers the mixed Delivery Status: completed Eurocine, 33, Av. Des Champs Elysees, PROMOTION (EFP) blessing of traveling across America. Year of Production: 2002, Country of 75008 Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.42.25.64.92. Fax: 33.1.42.25.73.38. European Film Promotion (EFP), HOUSE OF HORROR Origin: Italy Friedensallee 14 - 16, 22765 Hamburg, Horror Budget: 2.844.213,02 [email protected] Language: English At Cannes: Daniel LESOEUR Germany. Tel: 49.40.3906252. Fax: A multiethnic group of musicians gives a 49.40.3906249. [email protected], Director: Emilio Ferrari concert in a refuge camp. (Chairman), Ilona KUNESOVA (Head of Producer: Emilio Ferrari acquisition/development), Eric SERRA www.efp-online.com LITTLE BEE JULIE AND LADY Company Type: European association of Delivery Status: Pre-production LIFE (Consultant), Michelle MAGNAN Country of Origin: USA 3D animation feature movie (75 min.) (Sales) national marketing and promotion Fictitious modern day story based on the Language: Italian Office: Booth n° F3 at the RIVIERA, At Cannes: Renate Rose (Managing famous Tales of Terror by Edgar Alan Director: Paolo Modugno Tel: 33 (O) 4 92 99 88 18 Director), Jo Muehlberger (Project Poe. The young Poe is drawn into a Producer: Veronica Salvi Co-production EL REY, THE MAN WHO Manager) psycho realm of a delusional nurse. partners: Italian Ministry for Cultural CHANGED THE FATE OF A CITY Office: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST Assets and Artistic Heritage. Drama WINTER Cast: whit the voice of: Irene Grandi, Language: Spanish Thriller (90 minutes ) Ludovica Modugno, Raf, Michele Director: Antonio Dorado F Language: English Mirabella and special featuring Nino Producer: Daniel Lesoeur FIJI AUDIO VISUAL Director/Producer: Emilio Ferrari Manfredi. Starring: Fernand Solorzano, Vanessa Cast: York Shackleton, Debbie Enton, Delivery Status: post production Simon, Olivier Pagès, Cristina Umana COMMISSION Jennie Chester Year of Production: 2002, Country of Status: Delivery Status: In production, Fiji Audio Visual Commission, Ground Country of Origin: USA Origin: Italy shooting in Colombia Floor, Civic House, New Town Hall In the tradition of “Scream,” five teenage Budget: 4.445.144,43 The life of Pedro Rey, the first narco Road, GPO Box 18080, Suva, Fiji. Tel: friends enter the world’s biggest Little Bee is Mama Bee’s rebel daughter. dealer who learned to kiss and kill in the 679.330.6662. 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American who worked in the Peace www.fijiaudiovisual.com INSIDE TAKE Corps, introduced the traffic of cocaine Drama (300x 30 min) RATS’S PARADISE Company Type: Film Commission - Drama to Colombia in the 60’ Government Statutory Organisation Language: English WILD BEES (DIVOKE VCELY) Language: Italian At Cannes: Taniela Bolea (Chief Producer: Darla Artura Director: Paolo Modugno Black comedy Delivery Status: Completed Director: Bohdan Slama Executive Officer), Wayne Covell (Legal Producer: Veronica Salvi & Marketing Country of Origin: USA Cast: not definite/indefinite Producer: Viktor Schwarcz Entertaining and exciting coverage of Starring: Zdenek Rauser, Tatiana Manager), Acquisition Executive: Rogers Delivery Status: pre production & Cowan Hollywood’s biggest movies including Year of Production: 2003, Country of Vilhelmova, Marek Daniel “Tears in the Sun, Anger Management, Status: Completed - screening in booth Office: Savoy Hotel, Salon B, 5 rue Origin: Italy Francois Einesy, Cannes 06400. Tel: Basic, Catch Me If You Can, Daredevil, Budget: 2.617.949,73 In a long forgotten village, somewhere in XXX, Die Another Day, Emperor’s Club, Northern Moravia, detached from the rest 33.04.93.68.25.59 or 33.06.67.09.34.98 Bucarest. Ceausescu’s regime collapsed (Mobile), Fax: 33.04.93.68.25.59 Shanghai Knights, Sweet Home but it left behind itself an army of of the world and its revolutionary Alabama, The Hour. children. They are nobody’s sons, they changes, the web of relationships, hidden MADE IN L.A. loves and hidden aversions uncover a Action Adventure have no past and no future, they live in FILM BRIDGE the drains, they are called “rats” and they picture. Language: English NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT Director/Producer: Emilio Ferrari are treated accordingly. Horror (90’) INTERNATIONAL RESPECT FOR INNOCENCE Film Bridge International, 1316 Third Country of Origin: USA Comedy Director: Jess Franco Delivery Status: Pre-production Starring: Soledad Miranda, Diana Lorrys, Street Promenade, Suite 105, Santa Language: Italian Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel: An action adventure about the greed and Director: Paolo Modugno Paul Muller deception that runs deep in the Co-producers: Prodif - Eurocine 310.656.8680, Fax: 310.656.8683. Producer: Veronica Salvi filmbridgeinternational.com underworld in the City of Angels. A fine Cast: Jean Rochefort, Greta Scacchi, Music: Bruno Nicolaï line that separates the good guys from Status: completed - screening in booth At Cannes: Ellen Wander, Incoronata Toni Servillo, Leo Gullotta, Selvaggia “Inc” Pagliuca, Lori Mathison the bad guys becomes increasingly Quattrini, Ludovica Modugno, Jenny Obsessed with bloody nightly visions, obscured. Anne lives in anguish of schizophrenia. Office: Alexander. DOLAN’S CADILLAC Delivery Status: pre production Is Anne gradually becoming mad, or is Director: Stacy Title (“Last Supper”) Year of Production: 2003, Country of she really the author of these murders ? Producer: Jonathan Sanger (“Vanilla ESSE&BI DE SADE’S DUET (SADE’S Origin: Italy EUGENIA) Sky,” “Mission Impossible 2”) and CINEMATOGRAFICA Budget: 3.182.881,95 Horror / Erotic (90 min) Trevor Macy (“Auto Focus”) esse&bi cinematografica, Largo della Because of a snow storm seven Director: Jess Franco Gancia, 5, 00195 Rome, Italy. Tel: characters, typical of the contemporary Producers: EUROCINE / JK FILMS 39.06.37511274, 39.06.37358533. Fax: society, are obliged to spend the night in Principal Cast: Soledad Miranda, Paul 39.06.37511278. a remote motel. Their paths have crossed Muller, André Montcall [email protected], in the past. Country of Origin: France LEO’S STORY Language: English French Italian www.essebicinema.com 3D animation feature movie (75 min.) Production Status: Completed Company Type: producer, distributor and Language: Italian Videocassette world sales Director: Mario Cambi From the novel ‘Eugénie de Franval’ At Cannes: Veronica Salvi (President), Producer: Veronica Salvi Co-production Eugenia and her father plan to commit Paolo Modugno (chair man), Renato partners: Dujass film, Italian Ministry for Musillo (world sales), Acquisition together a perfect crime. Cultural Assets and Artistic Heritage. JUSTINE DE SADE Executive: Francesca Avalle, Renato Delivery Status: pre production Erotic (90 min) Musillo Year of Production: 2003, Country of Language: English, German Office: Origin: Italy Director: Claude Pierson THE SECRET GUEST Drama (82 min.) It is the delicate story of Leo Sinking- Producer: PIERSON Language: Italian his-fangs, a lonely lion, that happens to Productions/ICAR/CITEL Director: Paolo Modugno help Mona Elisa, a widow female Principal Cast: Alice Arno, Yves Arcanel, Producer: Veronica Salvi Co-production elephant, to give birth to two different Georges Beauvillier partners: IPE, Italian Ministry for baby elephants. Production Status: Completed Cultural Assets and Artistic Heritage. From the novel ‘Les Infortunes de la Cast: Corso Salani; Romina Mondello; www.thebusinessoffilm.com vertu’. A young orphan, Justine, is maltreated. Ludgero Fortes Dos Santos; Spiros SPRING SUBWAY - MEDIA ASIA GROUP The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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Delivery Status: Production: July 2003 OBLIVION Cast: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Cinématographie A story by Stephen King, about a young Supernatural Thriller Adam Hann-Byrd, Kevin Isola, Eli Cast: Roschdy ZEM, Ivry GITLIS, man who seeks revenge on the mobster Language: English Wallach Emma SUAREZ, Rita DURAO who killed his wife after she accidentally Director: Nacho Cerdá Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: completed witnesses a murder. Producer: Julio Fernández Prod. Year: 1999, Country Of Origin: Year of Production: 2003, Country of THE FOUR SAINTS Production Status: Pre-production USA - Italy Origin: France Written and directed by Jean-Pierre In an isolated town, a doctor, John, All four members of a wealthy family are Sansa’s incredible adventures through the Isbouts (Disney feature, “Walt: The Man happily lives with his wife and child until found dead in their home and a young world. Behind the Myth”) one day, a strange woman infiltrates their boy is accused of the murder.... LES PLUMES DANS LA TETE Production: September 2003 family fortress, claiming that everything VENETIAN CAPRICE (CAPRICCIO Drama (100 min) Based on the true story of four heroic John believes to be real is a fabricated VENEZIANO) Language: French nurses who set up a medical post near the lie. Erotic Director: Thomas de THIER front line during WWI; encountering ROMASANTA Language: Italian / English Producer: Jacques BIDOU, Marianne many great dangers and finding romance. Horror Directed By: Vincent Dawn DUMOULIN, Nicolas MEYER JBA VANISHING ACTS Language: English Produced By: La Perla Nera Production, Magellan Production Director: Will Frears Director: Paco Plaza Cast: E. Crawford, G. Parmeggiani, J. Co-production partners: Arte France Producer: Trevor Macy (“Auto Focus”) Producer: Julio Fernández & Brian Yuzna Jerrugan Cinéma, R.T.B.F (Télévision belge), Delivery Status: Production, October Production Status: Pre-Production. Delivery Status: completed FMB 2 Films, 47ème parallèle 2003 1850, North of Spain. The woods are Prod. Year: 2002, Country Of Origin: Cast: Sophie MUSEUR, Francis A sexy and deadly femme fatale seduces infested with wolves. Nobody dares go Italy RENAUD, Ulysse de SWAEF, Alexis a young doctor into a two million dollar through them. The people of the villages The perverse and transgressing amourous Den DONCKER insurance scam that could cost them both are terrified. encounters between a man and a woman, Delivery Status: completed their lives. EL CID, THE LEGEND both having the same wish: to carry their Year of Production: 2003, Country of Animated Feature Film (80’) relationship beyond the bonds of Origin: France, Belgium Language: English / Spanish FILMAX convention. WHERE IS MADAME CATHERINE Director: Josep Pozo THE LAND OF DEATH (LA TERRA ? INTERNATIONAL Producer: Julio Fernández DELLA MORTE) Drama Status: In production Horror Language: French Filmax International, Miguel Hernández A time of war, a time of love, a time Language: Italian / English Director: MARC RECHA 81-87, Districte Economic de when honour,...was life... Directed By: Martin Miller Producer: Jacques BIDOU, Luis L’Hospitalet, 08908 L’Hospitalet de NOCTURNA Produced By: Gianni Paolucci And MINARRO, Marianne DUMOULIN(JBA Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. Tel: Animated Feature Film Robert Parnwell Production, Eddie Saeta) 34.93.336.85.55. Fax: 34.93.263.08.24. Language: English Cast: Ydalia Suarez Alfaro, Claudio Co-production partners: Arte France [email protected]. Director: Adrian Garcia , Enrique Morales, Silvio Jimenez Hernandez, Cinéma, FMB 2 Films www.filmaxinternational.com Fernandez y Victor Maldonado Cindy J. Matic Cast: Dominique Marcas, Jérémie At Cannes: Julio Fernández (Chairman), Producer: Julio Fernandez Delivery Status: Post-Production Lippmann, Olivier Gourmet, Eduardo Carlos Fernández (CEO), Antonia Nava Status: In Development Country Of Origin: Italy Noriega (Sr VP of Sales & Co-productions), What is it that turns the night into night, Story of a group of researchers Delivery Status: completed Vicente Canales (Sales Manager), Jorge and fills it with such unexplainable describing the horror life of cannibal Year of Production: 2003, Country of Tuca (Head of Acquisitions), Carlos mystery? tribes in New Zealand. Origin: France Rojano (Sr VP of Marketing) SNUFF TRAP ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS Office: Hotel Carlton, 7th Floor, Tel: Erotic Thriller Language: Flemish 33.(0).493.99.80.42. Fax: FILMEXPORT Language: Italian / English Director: Tom Barman 33.(0).493.99.80.43 GROUP Directed By: Pierre Le Blanc Producer: Kaat Camerlynck & Alex THE MACHINIST Production: La Perla Nera Stockman, Christian Pierre Suspense Thriller FilmExport Group, Via Polonia, 9 - Cast: Carla Dujany, Carlo Mucari, Cast: Natali Broods, Jonas Boel, Diane Language: English 00198 Rome, Italy. Tel: Gabriele Gori, Federica Garuti De Belder, Titus De Voogdt, Eric Kloeck Director: Brad Anderson 39.06.8554266/85354321. Fax: Delivery Status: completed Producer: Julio Fernández Delivery Status: completed 39.06.8550248. www.filmexport.com, Year of Production: 2003, Country of Cast: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jasón Country Of Origin: Italy [email protected] Origin: Netherlands Leigh The dramatic story of a girl involved in At Cannes: Roberto Di Girolamo Antwerp 2004. On a sweltering Friday Production Status: In-Production. the terrible world of the “snuff movies”. (President & CEO), Laura Maurano afternoon, 8 characters dream of a The story of TREVOR REZNIK, a lathe- (Sales Manager), Andrea Di Girolamo different life. operator who is dying of insomnia. (Marketing and Publicity) Office: Stand Riviera C5/D4 - D1/E8, FILMS Tel: 0033.04.92993346, Mobile: DISTRIBUTION FOCUS FEATURES 39.335.7025.654. Films Distribution, 6 rue de l’Ecole de WITCHERY DEAL (PACTO DE Focus Features, 417 Canal Street, 7th BRUJAS) Médecine 75006 Paris, France. Tel: Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel: Thriller-Horror 33.153.103.398. Fax: 33.153.103.399. 212.343.9230. Fax: 212.343.7412. Language: Italian / Spanish / English [email protected]. At Cannes: David Linde (Co-President ), Directed By: Javier Elorrieta www.filmsfilmsdistribution.com Amy Kaufman (Executive Vice Produced By: Origen S.L. - Anem Films Company Type: sales agent on the President, Acquisitions & Co- S.A. international market place as well as Productions), Glen Basner (Executive Cast: Ramon Langa - Carlos Sobera - domestically for both library pictures and Vice President, International Sales & Barbara Elorrieta new feature films Distribution), Heta Paarte (Vice Delivery Status: completed At Cannes: Nicolas BRIGAUD-ROBERT President, International Marketing and Prod. Year: 2002, Country Of Origin: (Head of Sales), François YON (Head of Publicity), Tim Spencer (Vice President Spain - Italy Sales), Didar DOMEHRI (International International Sales), Jason Resnick (Vice Doctor Degras is a skeptic psychiatrist Sales) President, Acquisitions), Lee Magiday who works for the police; one night he Office: Riviera K5/L8, Tel: (Vice President, Acquisitions) finds himself involved in the world of 33.492.998.836. Fax: 33.492.998.839 Office: Palais d’Orsay, Penthouse, 62 witchcraft, tarot and messages from the SANSA Boulevard de la Croisette, Tel: Adventures (115 min) dead, revealing complex intrigues. 04.93.43.86.18. Fax: 04.93.43.84.79 DARK OBSESSION (UNINVITED) Language: French BAD EDUCATION Thriller Director: Siegfried Director: Pedro Almodóvar Language: Italian / English Producer: Vagabondages, Arte France, Producers: Agustín Almodóvar (El Deseo Directed By: Carlo Gabriel Nero Mate Production D.A., S.L.U.) 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VANITY FAIR 16 YEARS OF ALCOHOL is a fate throws countless obstacles in the Julien is a butterfly collector. He sets off Director: Mira Nair meditation on a man’s search for the path of their happiness. in search of Isabelle, a butterfly as Producer: Janette Day, Donna Gigliotti, meaning of hope. The story follows beautiful as rare. Lydia Pilcher Frankie Mac through three periods in his THE BOY WHO WANTED TO BE A Cast: Reese Witherspoon life as he looks for love, finds it and then FRANCE BEAR (L’ENFANT QUI VOULAIT ÊTRE UN OURS) Status: In Pre-Production destroys it. Animation (78 min) Year of Prod: 2003 PARTY MONSTER TELEVISIONS Drama (97 min) Language: Danish-French Born into the lower class, Becky Sharp Language: English DISTRIBUTION Director: Jannik Hastrup (Reese Witherspoon), one of literature’s Director: Randy Barbato & Fenton France Televisions Distribution, Producer: Dansk Tegnefilm Produktion greatest female characters, can rely on Bailey Immeuble “Le Barjac” - 1 Bd Victor (Denmark) – Les Armateurs (France) her wit, guile, and sexuality as she makes Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Chloe Sevigny, Hugo, 75015 Paris, France. Tél: Delivery Status: completed/screening her way up through London society circa Seth Green 33.1.44.25.01.01. Fax: 33.1.44.25.01.95 Country of Origin: France 1820. Status: Completed/Screening At Cannes: Michel Liberman (CEO), A polar bear gives birth to a stillborn THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR cub. In a cabin, a woman bears a strong Director: Tod Williams Country of Origin: USA Jean-Paul Commin (Deputy CEO), healthy boy. The polar bear is so grief- Producers: Ted Hope, Anne Carey, The real life story of Michel Alig, leader Emmanuel Itier (US Acquisitions), stricken at the loss of her cub that her Michael Corrente of the New York underground club kids Claudia Rae-Colombani (VP mate steals the woman’s baby. Exec Producers: Roger Marino, Amy J. scene of the early 1990’s, who rose all International Sales), Sébastien Chesneau (International Sales Manager), Joëlle FRENCH MEN (LE C*UR DES Kaufman the way to the top only to see it crumble HOMMES) Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon before his eyes. Prigent (Marketing & Festivals Manager) Romantic Comedy (100 min) Foster YOSSI & JAGGER Office: Stand Riviera N 1, Tel: Language: French Drama (65 min) Status: In Production 33.(0).4.92.99.32.07. Fax: Director: Marc Esposito Language: Hebrew Year of Prod: 2003 33.(0).4.92.99.32.12 Producer: Pierre Javaux, Pierre Javaux Director: Eytan Fox THE RED KNIGHT (RENCONTRE Alternately tragic and comic, Door in the Productions Cast: Ohad Knoler, Yehuda Levi AV EC LE DRAGON) Floor explores the complexities of love Cast: Gérard Darmon, Jean-Pierre Status: Completed/screening Adventure (112 min) in both its brightest and darkest corners. Language: French Daroussin, Bernard Campan, Marc Country of Origin: Israel LOST IN TRANSLATION Director: Hélène Angel Lavoine Director: Sofia Coppola Based on a true story, “Yossi & Jagger” Producer: Michel Saint-Jean / Diaphana Delivery Status: Completed/screening Producers: Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola portrays the love affair of two Israeli Productions Country of Origin: France Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Gilbert Melki, Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, officers in a remote army base on the Four modern guys, both stable and Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris Israeli-Lebanese border. Sergi Lopez, Emmanuelle Devos Delivery Status: Post-production immature, at a turning point in their adult Status: In Post-Production YES NURSE! NO NURSE! (JA ZUSTER! NEE ZUSTER!) Country of Origin: France lives. Year of Prod: 2002 Comedy (104 min) The 11th Century …Felix is fifteen and A Valentine to the city of Tokyo and the Language: Dutch still a child, not fully a man yet. We find him drowsing under a tree, fighting to Americans who visit it. Director: Pieter Kramer FRANCHISE 21 GRAMS stay awake. If he falls asleep, the cold Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Cast: Loes Luca, Paul R. Kooij, Paul de will kill him. PICTURES Producer: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Leeuw THE MISSING HALF (L’AUTRE ) Language: French Franchise Pictures, 8228 Sunset Blvd. Ted Hope Status: Completed/screening Director: Benoit Mariage L.A., CA 90046 USA. Tel: 323.848.3444. Cast: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Country of Origin: Netherlands Producer: Dominique Janne/K. Star Fax: 323.822.2165 Naomi Watts When the wacky residents of Nurse Cast: Laurent Khunen, Philipe At Cannes: Elie Samaha (Chairman, Status: In Production Klivia’s Guesthouse foil attempts by their nasty neighbour to have them evicted, all Grand’Henri, Dominique Baeyens, Jan C.E.O.), Mimi Steinbauer (President, Year of Prod: 2002 - 2003 Decleir International Distribution), Nolan Pielak Life has a way of coming up with kinds of fun and craziness ensue. An amazing, music and color-filled retro Delivery Status: Post-production (Director, International Distribution), resonant metaphors, incredible ironies, Country of Origin: France Karyn Isaacs (Vice President, and surprising coincidences. homage to the innocent days of the 1960’s Human beings have a flaw, a missing International Administration) A CHINESE ODYSSEY (TIANXIA part, that they can happen to find Office: Carlton - Suite 223, Tel: FORTISSIMO FILM WUSHUANG) unexpectedly within someone else. 33.4.9306.4223 Drama (105 min) THE BUTTERFLY (LE PAPILLON) MONKEYFACE SALES Language: Mandarin Dramatic Comedy Director: Stephen Frears Director: Jeff Lau Director: Philippe Muyl Starring: Michael Douglas, Catherine Fortissimo Film Sales, Veemarkt 77 Ð 79, Cast: Tony Leung, Chang Chen, Faye Producer: Patrick Zeta-Jones Amsterdam 1019 DA, The Netherlands. Wong Godeau/A.L.I.C.E.L.E.O Status: Pre-Production Tel: 31.20.627.3215. 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THE WENDELL BAKER STORY OFF THE BEATEN TRACK HUNT FOR THE DEVIL The hot young members of the “Murder Director: Luke Wilson Documentary (42” and 50”) Thriller Club” are being killed off one by one. Starring: Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson Language: English Language: English Who can be trusted? Can the killer be Status: Pre-Production Director: Jaap Mees Director: Allan Goldstein stopped? Or will they all bleed? An ex-con with a heart of gold is Producer: Jaap Mees Co-producer: Billy Principle Cast: Michael Madsen JIGSAW Horror paroled. Once gainfully employed at a Barton (Off The Beaten Track) Production Status: Pre-Production Language: English retirement home, he unveils an illicit Cast: The Dubliners, Finbar Furey Country of Origin/CO-Production: elderly sweatshop amidst opening his UK/Canada Director: Harry James Picardi, Don (pipes) (Beaten Track) eyes to the finer, more meaningful things A New York City detective tracks Adams Delivery Status: completed. in life along the way... Europe’s bloodiest serial killer after his Producer: Charles band, Don Adams Year of Production: Rainbow Days (‘ 98) LOVERBOY fiancé becomes the latest victim. Cast: Mark Vollmers, Brinke Stevens Director: Kevin Bacon Off The Beaten Track(2000), Country of Production Status: Completed Starring: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick origin: UK Budget: Under $1 million. Status: Pre-Production Budget: low-budget FULL MOON / Country of Origin: USA Going against the advice of those around Three brothers, all traditional musicians, A College art class tackles a bizarre her, an over-protective single mother trace the footsteps of their father, Tommy SHADOW project - the end result is an exquisite keeps her six-year-old son out of school Barton, a Dublin virtuoso banjo - player. corpse they call Jigsaw. Their darkest in an effort to ‘save’ him from ordinary ENTERTAINMENT Featuring The Dubliners and Uilleann secrets come to haunt them when Jigsaw life. INC. comes to life targeting each of the BEGINNING OF WISDOM piper Finbar Furey (Gangs of New York). Director: William Dear Full Moon / Shadow Entertainment Inc., creators for a brutal death. 1626 N. Wilcox Ave, Suite 474, Starring: Matthew Perry, John Bennett FRIES FILM GROUP, Perry Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Tel: G Status: Pre-Production INC. 323.822.2100. Fax: 323.822.1950. A funny, fish out of water romance At Cannes: Ed Shields (Vice President, GAUMONT Fries Film Group, Inc., 22817 Ventura International Sales), Christopher Shaw between a die-hard hippie and a very old- Gaumont, 30, avenue Charles de Gaulle, Blvd. #909, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 (Director International Sales) fashioned Montana rancher. 92 200 Neuilly Sur Seine, France. Tel: USA. Tel: 818.888.3052. Fax: Office: Carlton Hotel Rm # 245, Tel: VOID MOON 33.1.46.43.21.80. Fax: 33.1.46.43.20.33. Based On A Novel By: Michael Connelly 33.(0).493.06.40.06, Ext 245, Fax: 818.888.3042. [email protected] www.gaumont.com Director: TBA 33.(0).493.06.40.25 Company Type: Distributor At Cannes: Franck CHOROT (President, Starring: TBA At Cannes: Charles M. Fries (President), VAMPIRE RESURRECTION Status: Pre-Production Horror Worldwide Marketing and Distribution), Jon Fries (VP Sales) A female cat burglar intercepts $2 Language: English Philippe ROSTAIN (President Office: Riviera - Booth F-5 Million in mob money and must use it as Director: Denice Duff International Sales), Philippe de MIDNIGHT BOOGIE CHAISEMARTIN (Senior Vice-President a means to save her child from a corrupt Action Thriller Producer: Carol and Cliff Wenger Cast: Denice Duff, James Horan, Jillian International Sales Feature Films), Loïc detective. Language: English CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL McWhirter, Juliie Michaels TROCMÉ (Director International Sales Production Status: Pre-Production Country of Origin: USA Feature Films), Anne BERNSTEIN Country of Origin/Co-Production: USA Production Status: Completed (French TV Sales), Virginie ROYER FREE SPIRITS FILM Five young parachutists go on a Budget: Under $1 million (Teledis, Sales Executive), Ariane PRODUCTIONS competition jump over the Ivory Coast. Buried deep beneath the earth, Jonathan TOSCAN DU PLANTIER (Junior Vice- Their dare devil escapade lands them in has waited for 100 years to unite with his President, International Marketing) Free Spirits Film Productions, 130 the middle of a bloody African civil war. true love; Victoria. Jonathan sacrificed Office: 55 La Croisette, Tel: Muswell Hill Road, London, UK. Tel: ROAD his soul and became a Vampire- will 33.4.93.68.90.20. Fax: 33.4.93.68.79.49 0208.444.2668. www.free-spirits- Thriller FUREUR (AKA RAGE) Victoria do the same for him? Drama film.co.uk Language: English DELTA DELTA DIE Company Type: production company. Production Status: Pre-Production Horror Director: Karim Dridi At Cannes: Jaap Mees Country of Origin/CO-Production: USA Language: English Production: GAUMONT / ADR Casting: Samuel Le Bihan - Yu Nan Office: While driving cross-country a young Director: Devin Hamilton RAINBOW DAYS Producer: Keith Walley Status: Completed (25” and 42 “ version) professional woman accidentally runs Cast: Julie Strain, Brinke Stevens, Joe Set in the Paris chinatown. Can love On a multi-cultural festival for children over and kills an innocent girl. Dain, Tiffany Shepis overcome rage? in Thamesmead (SE-London), set up Unfortunately for the young woman, the Production Status: Completed MAIS QUI A TUE PAMELA ROSE? after the tragic racial killings of black girl is related to a psychopathic killer (AKA BULLIT & RIPPER) Country of Origin: USA teenagers, Rolan Adams & Stephen who vows revenge. Spoof Comedy Budget: Under $1 million Lawrence. ALIEN AGENT Director: Eric Lartigau Sci-Fi Mother Fitch and her Delta Delta Pi Production: GAUMONT / KL Language: English sorority college girls have an insatiable Casting: Kad, Olivier, Jean-Paul Rouve, Director: Sidney Furie taste for men; their flesh that is. Gerard Darmon, Benedicte Loyen BIRTHRITE Production Status: Pre-Production Horror Status: French Release June 04th 2003 Country of Origin/CO-Production: Language: English Who killed Pamela Rose? Bullit and UK/Canada Director: Devin Hamilton Riper, two clumsy FBI agents, A lawman from another Galaxy must Producer: Keith Walley investigate... ZAZ and the Farelly Cast: Zette Sullivan, Jennifer Capo, Brothers french-style. stop an invading force from building a PERE ET FILS (AKA FATHER AND gateway between the two worlds. Robert Donavan SONS) RAY BRADBURY’S FROST & FIRE Production Status: Completed Comedy Sci-Fi Action/Adventure Budget: Under $1 million. Director: Michel Boujenah Language: English Country of Origin: USA Production: GAUMONT / AJOZ / Director: Buz Alexander A young girl discovers her true parents LITTLE BEAR: MAX FILMS Principle Cast: Brad Renfro were witches, and so is she. Casting: Philippe Noiret, Charles Production Status: Pre-Production BLEED Berling, Bruno Putzulu, Pascal Elbé Horror Country of Origin/CO-Production: Status: French Release August 20th 2003 Language: English UK/Canada Leo fakes illness and organizes one “ last Director: Devin Hamilton “ trip to Canada to recapture his three Space travelers crash land on a distant Producer: Keith Walley planet where days are consumed in a adult sons before he “dies”. Cast: Debbie Rochon, Danny Wolske, LOVELY-RITA.COM curtain of flame and the nights a frozen Allen Nabors, Laura Nativo Dark Comedy / Thriller wasteland. Compounding their misery, Production Status: Completed Edgar wanted to see sexy Rita, met on radiation has compressed the human life Budget: Under $1 million. the web, but the night of delights will JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 - MYRIAD PICTURES span to only seven days. Country of Origin: USA turn into a nightmare... 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Director: Stephane Clavier Country of origin: France Origin: USA temptations. Production: GAUMONT / OUILLE A seductive impresario hires Rose for his For cousins Rich , Al and Philly, seeing PRODUCTIONS show, destined to be a hit...very far from their fathers cry is a long shot. A funeral Casting: Christian Clavier, Julie Gayet, Broadway. changes everything, and the cousins GOLDCREST FILMS Eddy Mitchell, Arielle Dombasle COME AND GO make it their mission to reconnect with Status: French Release September 2003 Comedy (179 min) their dads. INTERNATIONAL LES RIPOUX 3 (AKA PART-TIME Language: Portuguese BAD GUYS Goldcrest Films International, 65-66 COPS) Director: João César MONTEIRO Action (95 min) Dean Street, London W1D 4PL, United Detective Comedy Cast: João César MONTEIRO - Rita Language: English Kingdom. Tel: 44.(0).20.7437.8696. Fax: Director: Claude Zidi PEREIRA MARQUES - Joaquina Director: Bryan Genesse 44.(0).20.7437.4448 Production: CPZ/GAUMONT/PLAZZA CHICHAU Producer: David Dadon At Cannes: John Quested (Chairman, PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL Status Completed, Premiere screening Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Bryan N.Y. Office), Stephen Johnston Casting: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Country of origin: Portugal Genesse, James Russo, Claudia (President L.A. Office), Peter McRae Lhermitte, Lorant Deutsch The philosophico-erotic adventures of Christian, Damon Whitaker, Marty Kove, (SVP of Co-Productions), Abigail Walsh Status: French Release December 2003 João Vuvu. Sasha Barrese and John Phillip Law (Sales Executive) Ten years after, our two scam artists from Delivery Status: Completed Office: 1st floor, 57 LA CROISETTE, the crooked days as cops, meet again... Year of Production: 2001, Country of Centre Croisette, le Rose-Marie, Tel: but pitted against each other! GIANTS Origin: USA 04.93.99.80.79. Fax: 04.93.99.80.76 DEA agents join a small town sheriff in GOLDCREST FILMS ENTERTAINMENT the fight of their lives to remove a major INTERNATIONAL’S LIBRARY GEMINI FILMS drug dealer from the area. An all out war Over 80 titles available to license DISTRIBUTION INC. worldwide for Television and DVD Gemini Films, 34 boulevard Sebastopol, erupts and no one is safe. Giants Entertainment Distribution Inc., rights, including many award winning 75004 Ð Paris, France. IDES OF MARCH 10600 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 501, Los Action (95 min) features: [email protected]. www.gemini- Angeles, CA 90024 USA. Tel: Language: English THE KILLING FIELDS films.com John Malkovich, Sam Waterston, Haing 310.652.5400. Fax: 310.659.4000. Director: Darren Doane At Cannes: Paulo BRANCO (Producer), Hgor, Julian Sands www.giantsfilms.com Producer: David Dadon Laurent BAUDENS (Acquisitions & THE MISSION At Cannes: David Dadon (Chairman), Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Gary Sales Manager – 33.(0)6.70.79.05.17), Robert DeNiro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Zee Batal (Executive Producer) Jacob Daniels, George Cheung Audrey HABER (Acquisitions & Sales – Neeson Dadon (Executive Producer), Coleen Delivery Status: Completed THE NAME OF THE ROSE 33.(0)6.30.60.19.02), Maria Gabriela Smith (Producer) Year of Production: 2001, Country of (TV rights only) PEREZ (Festival Coordinator – Office: Hotel Carlton, Suite 119, Tel: Origin: USA Sean Connery, Christian Slater 33.(0)6.76.70.65.00) A ROOM WITH A VIEW 33.4.93.06.40.06, Fax: 33.4.93.06.40.25 Thomas Cane is an Ex-S.A.S. Agent. His Office: Riviera J3/ K4, Tel: Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day family is unaware that he is now a JUNGLE JUICE Lewis, Judi Dench 04.92.99.33.21, Fax: 04.92.99.33.22 Comedy (97 min) professional killer who collects from THAT DAY ( CE JOUR LA) Dramatic Comedy (105 min) Language: English both sides, putting everyone in danger. Language: French Director: Tony Vitale GOLDEN NETWORK Director: Raoul RUIZ Producer: David Dadon, Anthony J. Status Completed, Premiere screening Cataldo, Richard Abramson GMG ASIA LIMITED Country of origin: France Key Cast: Christopher Walken, Morgan PRODUCTIONS&DIS Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit Cast: Bernard GIRAUDEAU-Elsa Fairchild, Rutger Hauer, Robert Wagner, 1803A, Nanyang Plaza, 57 Hung To ZYLBERSTEIN -Michel PICCOLI David Deblinger, Darren Geare, R.J. TRIBUTIONS SRL Road Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Livia is the sole inheritor of the immense Knoll GMG Productions&Distributions SRL, Tel: 852.2751.1886. Fax: 852.2750.4862. family fortune. But her father desperately Delivery Status: Post Production Via Ripa di Porta Ticinese, 33 - 20143 Cell: 33.(0).6.17.61.30.44. needs money... Year of Production: 2002, Country of Milano, Italy. Tel and Fax: [email protected] A TALKING FILM Origin: USA 39.02.89403721. Mobile: 39.348 Company Type: Sales Agent / Producer/ Drama (95 min) Darren is about to be married but his 8819843. [email protected]. Distributor Language: French, Italian, Greek, bride leaves him at the alter. Darren and giannamariagarbelli.com At Cannes: Carrie WONG (Managing Portuguese, English his buddy RJ go on the honeymoon At Cannes: GIanna Maria Garbelli Director), Clarence TANG (Head of Director: Manoel de OLIVEIRA together instead. Craziness ensues! Office: I.C.E./ANICA, Tel: (mobile) Sales and Acquisitions), Joanne CHAN Cast: Catherine DENEUVE - John VERY MEAN MEN 39.348.8819843 Action/Comedy (92 min) (Sales and Distribution Executive), MALKOVICH - Leonor SILVEIRA TENTAZIONI METROPOLITANE Lammy LI (Marketing Assistant); Language: English Drama (111 min) Status Completed, Premiere screening Acquisition Executive: Clarence TANG Director: Tony Vitaleh Language: Italian English subtitles Country of origin: Portugal - France (Head of Sales & Acquisitions) Producer: David Dadon, Steven Baio, Director: Gianna Maria Garbelli A cruise from Lisbon via Bombay, Office: Rivera H3, Tel: Neil P. White Producer: Gianna Maria Garbelli Pompeii.... leads to a reflection on the 33.(0).4.92.99.33.36. Fax: Key Cast: Matthew Modine, Ben Cast: Gianna Maria Garbelli, Annie western civilization. 33.(0).4.92.99.33.36 IT’S EASIER FOR A CAMEL...(IL Gazzara, Charles Durning, Burt Young, Girardot, Maurizio Donadoni. ONG BAK EST PLUS FACILE POUR UN Scott Baio, Louise Fletcher and Martin Delivery Status: completed Action (107 min) CHAMEAU...) Landau Year of Production: 1997, Country of Dramatic comedy (105 min) Language: Thai Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Italy Language: French, Italian Director: Prachya Pinkaew Year of Production: 2002, Country of Budget: $ 1.000.000 Director: Valéria BRUNI TEDESCHI Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert Origin: USA A girl’s struggle for freedom is hindered Cast: Valéria BRUNI TEDESCHI - Production Partners: Sahamongkol Film A bartender tries to frighten a tip out of a by fears, betrayals, mistrust and Chiara MASTROIANNI - Jean Hugues International Co., Ltd / Baa-Ram-Ewe cheap drunk by spinning a tale about two ANGLADE notorious crime bosses who go to war Status Completed, Premiere screening. over a waitress being stiffed. Country of origin: France FACE TO FACE Federica is rich, too rich. 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Production Year of Production: 2003, Country of Delivery Status: completed THE MAN OF THE YEAR (O Cast: Tony Jaa, Mun Jokmok, Pumwaree Origin: Thailand Year of Production: 1996, Country of HOMEM DO ANO) Yodkamol Angulimala is a cruel mass murderer in Origin: Hong Kong (China) by José Henrique Fonseca Delivery Status: Completed the time of Buddha. His mission is to The story is set in the period during the Thriller (115 minutes) New Year of Production: 2003, Country of destroy a thousand human lives. Japanese in invasion of China in the Year of Production: 2003 Origin: Thailand However, he casts aside his sword, after 1930’s. A Chinese traitor Tung’s wife is An innocent bet among buddies turns The first ever Thai film showing real he realized the Buddha’s words of saved by Iron Sister, a member of Michael, a common guy, into a murderer Muay Thai martial arts! An action wisdom... guerrillas. and the hero of a whole town. MANGO YELLOW (AMARELO comedy starring Tony Jaa, the new action NOTHING TO LOSE HERO AMONG HEROES Action / Drama (93 min) Martial Arts MANGA) star from Asia. by Cláudio Assis Language: Thai Language: Chinese CHEERLEADER QUEENS Drama (100 minutes) New Comedy (120 min) Director: Danny PANG “Bangkok: Director: Yuen Woo Ping, Chan Chin Year of Production: 2002 Language: Thai Dangerous”, “The Eye” Chung The feature debut of the multi-awarded Director: Poj Arnon Producer: Somsak Producer: Chan Chin Chung Co- short film director Claudio Assis. Based Producer: Chareon Iamphungporn SONGTHAMMAKUL, Daniel YUN production partners: on his previous short “Texas Hotel”, the Production Partners: Five Star Production Production Partners: Pang Brothers Cast: Donnie Yen, Yuen Kit Ying film is a story of love encounters and Cast: Montonn Pariwat, Wongteap Production Delivery Status: Completed mismatchings, held in a 24-hour gap. Kunarattanawat, Sumet Saelee Cast: Pierre PNG “Chicken Rice War” Year of Production: 1994, Country of THE STORYTELLERS Delivery Status: Completed “Forever Fever”, Fresh, Yvonne LIM Origin: Hong Kong (China) (NARRADORES DE JAVÉ) Year of Production: 2003, Country of Delivery Status: Completed During the reign of Emperor Tao Kwang, by Eliane Caffé Origin: Thailand Year of Production: 2003, Country of Ching Dynasty, opium does harm to our Comedy (100 minutes) New A hilarious romp about a group of so- Origin: Thailand folk. Tao Kwang appoints Lin Shih Tsui Year of Production: 2003 called Thai ladyboys who try their best to A game plan with death. to get rid of opium in South China... Javé’s daily monotomy would never be accepted through their love of TWO SHAOLIN KIDS IN HONG change except for the fact of its imminent cheerleading. KONG extinction. A huge power plant project THE UNBORN Action/Adventure (92 min) GOLDEN SUN FILM Language: Chinese might take the small village under water. Horror (108 min) BREAKING UP (SEPARAÇÕES) Language: Thai CO., LTD. Director: Stephan Yip by Domingos de Oliveira Producer: Stephan Yip Director: Bhandit Thongdee Golden Sun Film Co., Ltd., 4 Floor, 7B Comedy (116 minutes) New Cast: Lau Kar Fai, Anita Lee, BoBo Ho Producer: Prachya Pinkeaw Dragon House, 7-7B Cameron Road, Year of Production: 2002 Delivery Status: completed Production Partners: Sahamongkol Film Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. After his 97 domestic hit “Amores”, de Year of Production: 1994, Country of International Co., Ltd / Baa-Ram-Ewe Tel.:852.2385.5939. Fax: 852.2368.3873. Oliveira films another romantic comedy, Origin: Hong Kong (China) Production [email protected] now dealing with what he calls the four Two Shaolin Kids ran away from their Cast: Inthira (Sine) Jareonpura, Prangng Company Type: Sales agent, producer, stages of a separation: DENIAL, master HUNG CHEE and came to Hong Chandtham, Aranya Namwong distributor NEGOTIATION, REVOLT and Kong. They met MONEY, a young Delivery Status: Completed, Screening At Cannes: Lan Tien Hong (President), ACCEPTANCE. woman who was a pickpocket... Year of Production: 2003, Country of Ketsarinh Lan (Kathy Lan) (Vice Origin: Thailand president), Labourel Phouang Phet (Sales Based on a story that became the talk of GRUPO PI Executive), Catherine Lin (Sales LAW OFFICES OF the town in Thailand in the year 2000. Assistant), Acquisition Executive: James Grupo Pi, C/ Lanzarote, 2 Ð San The story begins when Por wakes up in Chung (Acquisition Manager), Agus GREG S. BERNSTEIN Sebastián De Los Reyes, Madrid 28700, hospital, after being brutally beaten by a Wasita (Acquisition Manager) Spain. Tel: 34.91.6592032. Fax: drug dealer named Odd, about to give Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, 9601 Office: Riviera F4, Tel: Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300A, Beverly Hills, 34.91.6592865. [email protected]. birth. www.grupopi.tv ANGULIMALA 33.(0)4.92.99.88.20 California, USA. Tel: 310.247.2790. Fax: Action (93 min) PRA-A-PAIMANEE Company Type: Distributor Drama/Fantasy (92 min) 310.247.2791. [email protected], Language: Thai At Cannes: Geraldine Gonard (Sales Language: Thai www.thefilmlaw.com Director: Suthep Tannitratana (Script Director), Álvaro Escribano (Sales Director: Chalart Sriwanna Company Type: Entertainment and Advisor of “Bangkok: Dangerous”, Finance Law, Producer Representative Manager), Isabel Moya (Sales Assistant) Producer: Jirun Rattanaviriyachai “Bang Rajan”) At Cannes: Greg S. Bernstein Office: Stand number A1/C2-C1, Tel: Cast: Julaluck Kittiyarat, Surachi Producer: Adirek Uncle Watleela (Entertainment Attorney, Producer 00.34.686.95.95.21 Sankarkat, Psassakorn Psamornbut ARO TOLBUKHIN IN THE MIND Production Partners: Film Bangkok Representative) Delivery Status: completed OF A KILLER (ARO TOLBUKHIN Cast: Stella Malucchi “Tears of the Black Office: Radisson Montfleury Cannes, Year of Production: 2002, Country of EN LA MENTE DEL ASESINO) Tiger”, Noppachai Chaiyanam, John Local Tel: 011.33.4.93.68.86.86. Local Drama (94’) Origin: Thailand Rattanaveroj Language: Spanish – English Subtitled A king sent his two sons to two different GRUPO NOVO DE Delivery Status: Completed, Screening Director: Agustí De Villaronga, Lydia cities where they were kidnapped and Zimmermann, Isaac P. Racine fight for their survial... CINEMA E TV HIGH VOLTAGE Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV, Rua Producer: Oberón Cinematográfica Action/Adventure (92 Min) Capitão Salomão, 42, Humaitá - Rio de Co-Production Partners: Altavista Films Language: Chinese Janeiro, Cep:22271-040, Brasil. Tel: Cast: Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Carmen Director: Kam Yeung Wah 5521.2539.1538. Fax: 5521.2266.3637 Beato, Zóltán Józan Producer: Movie Master International At Cannes: Alfredo Calvino, Alessandra Delivery Status: Completed Film Co-production partners: Durso, Daniela Ribeiro Year Of Production: 2002, Country Of Cast: Donnie Yen, Roy Cheung Office: B3C6 - Riviera Orig: Spain - Mexico Delivery Status: Completed A LOVE MOVIE (FILME DE AMOR) A false documentary about a true killer. Year of Production: 1994, Country of by Julio Bressane YOU«LL BE BACK (VOLVERÁS) Origin: Hong Kong (China), Philippine Romance (90 min) New Drama (106’) Since Chiang’s wife was murdered by a Year of Production: 2003 Language: Spanish – English Subtitled drug dealing maniac name Meed, Chiang Three friends, Hilda, Matilda and Gaspar, Director: Antonio Chavarrías has become the most lethal weapon of ordinary folk from the suburbs, meet up Producer: Oberón Cinematográfica the Hong Kong Police force. on a weekend in a tiny, not exactly chic, Co-Production Partners: Altavista Films IRON SISTER apartment downtown to gossip, drink and Cast: Unax Ugalde, Tristán Ulloa, Joana Drama (92 Min) have a general good time. 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MY MOTHER LIKES WOMEN (A Country of Origin: Canada/U.K. THE TOUCH MI MADRE LE GUSTAN LAS Hacking in is easy. Getting away with it Action Adventure (104 mins) MUJERES) H can be murder. Director: Peter PAU Comedy (96’) Producers: Michelle YEOH, Thomas Language: Spanish – English Subtitled H3O FILMED CHUNG Director: Inés París, Daniela Fejerman ENTERTAINMENT HAN Cast: Michelle YEOH, Ben CHAPLIN, Producer: Fernando Colomo P.C. Richard ROXBURGH H O Filmed Entertainment, 1415 West Cast: Leonor Watling, Rosa María Sardá, 3 ENTERTAINMENT Status: Completed María Pujalte, Silvia Abascal, Álex Georgia Street, Suite 1804, Vancouver LTD. Budget: USD 20million Angulo V6G-3C8, Canada. Tel: 604.662.3345. Han Entertainment Ltd., 29/F, 148 Country of origin: Hong Kong Delivery Status: Completed Fax: 604.662.7720. Electric Road, North Point, Hong Kong. An action adventure of the greatest Year of Production: 2001, Country of [email protected]. Tel 852.2284.0600. 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Fax: Producer: Cartel Producciones 04.93.99.80.01. Fax: 04.93.39.01.71 Thriller/Horror 323.848.2946. Co-Production Partners: Altube Filmeak, Director: Jonas Quastel SILVER HAWK Action [email protected]. Cuervo Films, Conexión Sur Producer: John Curtis, Evan Tylor Director: Jingle MA www.hannibalpictures.com Cast: Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Pepón Delivery Status: Screening trailer/ Post- Producers: Michelle YEOH, Thomas Company Type: Sales, Distribution Nieto, Ditrán Biba, Roger Pera, Anita Production CHUNG At Cannes: Richard Rionda Del Castro Sinkovic Country of Origin: Canada / UK / Czech Cast: Michelle YEOH, Richie JEN, Luke (Chairman of the Board & CEO), Delivery Status: Completed Recreating the fear... GOSS, BOA, Michael Jai WHITE Patricia Rionda Del Castro (President) Year of Production: 2003, Country of THE BARBER Status: In production Office: Noga Hilton, Tel: 04.92.99.70.00. Origin: Spain Thriller (94:00) Budget: USD15 million Fax: 04.92.99.70.11. Cell: 06.87.70.94.67 Daniel, madly in love with a Bulgarian Director: Michael Bafaro Country of origin: Hong Kong MASKED AND ANONYMOUS immigrant, will risk his dignity and Producer: Evan Tylor Drama A ruthless villain is on the brink of social position to make his lover happy. Cast: Malcolm McDowell Language: English subverting the world - and only one Delivery Status: Completed Director: Larry Charles Year of Production: 2001, Country of woman stands in his way. JIANG SHI Producer: Nigel Sinclair and Larry Origin: Canada/UK Horror Charles As seen through the eyes of a killer. Director: LAW Chi Leung Cast: Bob Dylan, Penelope Cruz, Jeff RIPPER: LETTER FROM HELL Thriller / Horror (113:53) Producers: Michelle YEOH, Thomas Bridges, Jessica Lange, John Goodman, THE BUSINESS Director: John Eyres CHUNG Jeff Bridges, Mickey Rourke, Giovanni Cast: Anthony WONG, Brandon Ribisi, Cheech Marin, Luke Wilson, Ed OF ILM Producer: John Curtis, Evan Tylor F Delivery Status: Completed CHANG Harris, Bruce Dern, Val Kilmer, Chris Year of Production: 2001, Country of Status: Pre-production Penn, Christian Slater, Richard Sarafian London Head Office Origin: Canada/UK Budget: USD 5 million Delivery Status: Completed Repeat the history. Country of origin: Hong Kong Year of Production: 2002, Country of 41-42 Berners St. GRENDEL An Asian horror comes alive to terrorize Origin: USA London WIT 3NB Action/Adventure the modern world. Budget: $10 million USD Director: TBA HUA MULAN In a city wracked by severe civil unrest, Producer: Evan Tylor, John Curtis Drama Jack Fate (Dylan), is forced to make a Los Angeles Office Delivery Status: Pre-production Director: Peter PAU comeback to the performance stage as he Country of Origin: Canada/U.K. Producers: Michelle YEOH, Thomas wrestles with his personal demons on the 5150 Wilshire Blvd. CHUNG Los Angeles The horrific result of genetic engineering eve of a benefit concert. gone wrong terrorizes small-town Cast: Michelle YEOH OLD SOLDIERS California 90036 America. Status: Pre-production Action TRIGGER JUNKIE Budget: USD35 million Language: English Thriller Country of origin: Hong Kong Director: Andrzej Sekula Director: TBA A sweeping tale of a woman warrior with Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, Producer: Evan Tylor, John Curtis her courage to fight for love, family and Gary Howsam Delivery Status: Development country. Cast: TBA

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Robinson Romantic drama (1 x 93 min) Origin: Mexico-Spain-UK Producer: Dany Wolf [email protected], Language: English www.highlandcrestpix.com Budget: $20million USD Cast: Alex Frost, John Robinson, Elias Director: John Strickland Company Type: Sales Agent The corruption, scandal, millions, and McConnell political involvement surrounding the life Producers: Malcolm Craddock & Robert At Cannes: Acquisition Executive Delivery Status: Completed (screening) of infamous drug lord, Pablo Escobar. Cooper Douglas Witkins (President), Koing Year of Production: 2003, Country of YAKUZA Production companies: Picture Palace, Kuoch (Vice-President) Action Origin: USA October Productions & BBC SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY Language: English One beautiful fall day at an American Starring: James D’Arcy, Paloma Baeza, Action (97 minutes) Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro high school, filled with football, gossip, Vincent Regan, Bill Paterson Language: English Delivery Status: Pre-Production schoolwork: an ordinary day until it is Delivery Status: Complete Director: Adam Bernstein Year Of Production: 2003, Country Of unexpectedly shattered... A film by Gus Country of Origin: UK Producer: Adam Bernstein Origin: Canada-UK-China Van Sant. A powerful and moving tale of love and Cast: Adrien Brody, Norman Reedus, Budget: $20 million USD AMERICAN SPLENDOR passion set against the sweeping Isaac Hayes, Deborah Harry Two powerful defenders of opposing Drama (100 minutes) backdrop of the Irish Rebellion. Delivery Status Complete crime families hopelessly fall in love as Language: English THE DEBT Country of Origin: USA they fight against each other in a Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Thriller (1 x 100’ approx) Language: English Budget: 3.5 Million malicious mafia war. Pulcini An eighteen year-old mama’s boy joins BALLAD TO THE END OF THE Producer: Ted Hope Director: Jon Jones Producer: Pier Wilkie the mob with unexpected results. WORLD Cast: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, James Action-Adventure Production Companies: Strand Urbaniak Language: English Productions & BBC Delivery Status: Completed (screening) Director: Tba Starring: Warren Clarke, Hugo Speer, HOLLAND FILM Year of Production: 2003, Country of Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro Lee Williams Holland Film, Jan Luykenstraat 2, 1071 Delivery Status: Pre-Production Origin: USA Delivery Status: Complete CM Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 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Office: Holland Film Stand , La Riviera Executive Producer: Frank Doelger Director: Ian Gilmour A3, Tel: 33.(0)4.92.99.32.48 Producer: Ann Wingate, Co-Producer- Producers: Diana Kyle & Ewan Burnett MOONLIGHT Marco Valerio Pugini Production Companies: Strand Drama (90 minutes) Cast: Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Productions & BBC Language: English Chris Cooper, Benno Fürµmann, Starring: Martin Jarvis, Steven Geller, Director: Paula van der Oest Giancarlo Giannini, Timothy Spall and Anthony Hammer. Producer: Emjay Rechsteiner-Staccato Emmy Clarke Delivery Status: Completed Films Co-production partners: Spice Delivery Status: Completed (screening) Country of Origin: UK Factory, Delux Studios, Peppermint Year of Production: 2003, Country of It’s the near future, and chocolate is Cast: Laurien van den Broeck, Hunter Origin: USA illegal! Can Smudger and Huntley stand Bussemaker, Andrew Howard A poignant look at an unlikely group of up to the system? 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Klivia’s Rest Home as they combat the Origin: UK/Germany/Austria Horror Budget: $US 4 million efforts of their nasty landlord and Bio-pic of Alma Schindler who married Language: English (USA) A psychologist treating a patient who neighbour to have them evicted. Gustav Mahler and had affairs with Directed by Jon Keeyes claims to see dead people begins acting ADRENALINE Oskar Kokoshka and Walter Gropius Produced by Brandon Baker, Richard T. in strange ways himself. Drama (97 minutes) amongst others. Carey, Jon Keeyes, and Faras Rabadi Language: English STEALING TIME Executive Producers Robert Straight and Director: Roel Reiné Black comedy (98 mins) Michael Taverna I Producer: Roel Reiné Co-production English language Starring Stephen Cloud, Brandy Little, ICON partners: Director: Marc Fusco Amy Morris, Amy Jo Hearron, Matt Cast: Georgina Verbaan, Jason Fijal Producer: Michael Garrity, Mike M Moore ENTERTAINMENT Delivery Status: completed Gabrawy Delivery Status: Post-production / Year of Production: 2002/2003, Country Cast: Peter Facinelli, Scott Foley, Ethan Premiere INTERNATIONAL of Origin: The Netherlands Embry Budget: $US 1.2 million Icon Entertainment International, The When Jason’s girlfriend disappears, he Delivery Status: Completed Trapped inside the haunted house, Quadrangle, 180 Wardour Street, London learns things are not always what they Year of Production: 2002, Country of students are murdered one by one, only W1F 8FX UK. Tel: 44.(0)20.7494.8100. seem. 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Fax: Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Max Delivery Status: Completed Starring Okina Magumi, Misaki Ito, Beesley, Johnny de Mol Year of Production: 2001, Country of 33.(0).4.92.18.88.99 Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa PAPARAZZI Delivery Status: completed Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed 2002 Thriller Year of Production: 2002/2003, Country A colourful dysfunctional family gathers Budget: $US 3.5 million Director: Paul Abascal of Origin: The Netherlands to pay its last respects. A series of people die from a violent Producers: Bruce Davey, Stephen THE AMATI GIRLS After six happy years of marriage, the curse that is re-born every time someone McEveety beloved Empress hasn’t given birth to an Romantic comedy (91 mins) English language is killed. Cast: Cole Hauser, Dennis Farina, Robin heir. In a secret wing of the Imperial JULY RHAPSODY Tunney Palace, an innocent virgin is being Director: Anne De Salvo Drama (103 minutes) Producer: James Alex Status: In Production prepared to replace her. Language: Chinese (Hong Kong) Delivery: Spring 2004 GODFORSAKEN Cast: Cloris Leachman, Mercedes Ruehl, Directed by Ann Hui Drama (87 min) Sean Young PAPARAZZI is a fast paced revenge Produced by Derek Yee, Ann Hui thriller. When action movie star Bo Language: Dutch Delivery Status: Completed Starring Jacky Cheung, Anita Mui, Laramie and his family fall prey to the Director: Pieter Kuijpers Year of Production: 2001, Country of Karena Lam, Shaun Tam PAPARAZZI, his instinct is to fight Producer: IdtV Film BV Co-production Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed partners: back... How far would you go? Four sisters who disagree about 2002/Screening THE SINGING DETECTIVE Cast: Egbert Jan Weeber, Tygo Gernandt, everything except what matters most. A high school teacher finds himself in an Musical Drama Angela Schijf Family. emotional tailspin when the return of his Director: Keith Gordon Delivery Status: completed A MIDSUMMER NIGHTMARE Producers: Mel Gibson, Steven Haft, Sci-fi horror (99 mins) wife’s ex-lover coincides with a student Year of Production: 2002, Country of Bruce Davey English language falling in love with him. Origin: The Netherlands INNER SENSES Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright Director: Charles Wallace Stan’s life changes when he meets up Thriller (96 minutes) Penn, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes, Delivery Status: In development with a young criminal Maikel and his Language: Chinese (Hong Kong) Adrien Brody and Mel Gibson You’ll never let your imagination run girlfriend Anna and takes up the path of Directed by Lo Chi Leung Status: Completed, screening in Cannes away with you again. crime with him. Produced by Derek Yee Delivery: Immediate Starring Leslie Cheung, Karena Lam, Based on the award winning television HORIZON Maggie Poon, Lee Chi Hung series, Robert Downey Jr. stars as Dan HOLLYWOOD Delivery Status: Completed 2002 Dark, a writer of pulp detective novels. CLASSICS ENTERTAINMENT Hollywood Classics, 8 Cleveland Horizon Entertainment, Suite 205, 1040 Gardens, London W2 6HA UK. Tel: Hamilton Street, Vancouver BC Canada 44.20.7262.4646. Fax: 44.20.7262.3242. V6B 2R9. Tel: 604 632 1707 Fax: 604 [email protected]. 632 1607. www.filmhorizon.com www.hollywoodclassics.com At Cannes: Rob Straight (President – Company Type: Sales agent Cell: 336.74.154.619), Michael Taverna At Cannes: Joe Dreier (Director), (Sales and Acquisitions Executive / Head Melanie Tebb (Sales), John Flynn of Production – Cell 39.349.444.5160), (Director) Caroline Stern (Distribution Manager – th Cell 336.74.154.618) Office: 63 la Croisette, Le Lerina, 4 Office: Booth G4 floor, Tel: 04.93.94.00.09 JU-ON: THE GRUDGE 2 BRIDE OF THE WIND Horror (92 min) Historial bio-pic (99 mins) Language: Japanese English language Directed by Takashi Shimzu Director: Bruce Beresford Produced by Taka Ichise Producer: Lawrence Levy, Evzen Kolar Delivery Status: Completed 2003 / Cast: Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce, Premiere, Screening Vincent Perez Budget: $US 3.5 million Delivery Status: Completed The second theatrical sequel in a series Year of Production: 2002, Country of of four horrors about a lethal and contagious curse originating from a www.thebusinessoffilm.com wrongful death. 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BLACKBALL Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Norma invaded her mind. THE TURNER Cast: James Russo, Theresa Russell, Comedy Aleandro, And Fernanda Torres AFFAIR Brad Dourif, Steve Railsback, Jon Polito, Director: Mel Smith Status: Completed Mystery Thriller (89 minutes) Michael Rooker Producers: James Gay-Rees Country Origin: USA Language: English Delivery Status: Complete Cast: Paul Kaye, James Cromwell, Based on a shocking true story, a South Director: Geoff Cox Year Of Production: 2002, Country Of Johnny Vegas, Alice Evans, Bernard American family resists a brutal Producer: Pascale Cox, Geoff Cox Origin: USA Cribbins, Imelda Staunton, James Fleet dictatorship and fights for what they Cast Rachel Blakely, David Paterson, A reformed prisoner falls in love with a and Vince Vaughan believe in. David Orth, Peter Kent woman upon his release; together they Status: Completed, Screening TBA VOYAGE Delivery Status: Completed find THE BOX which leads to a web of A classic tale of triumph over adversity Thriller (90 Minutes) Country of Origin: Australia suspense and terror that takes them on a that will quite literally bowl you over - Language: English Deceit and seduction turn to murder dangerous journey. BLACKBALL!! Director: John Mackenzie when a scheming couple commits one KISS THE BRIDE GLADIATRESS Producer: John Davis, Tarak Ben Ammar, Drama (90 minutes) Comedy scam too many. Peby Guisez, Merril Karpf HUNTING HUMANS Language: English Director: Brian Grant Cast: Rutger Hauer, Eric Roberts, And Thriller (90 minutes) Director: Vanessa Parise Producers: Damian Jones, Graham Karen Allen Director: Kevin Kangas Producer: David Shoshan, Richard Pepin Broadbent, Bruce Davey Status: Completed Producers: Rick Ganz, Kevin Kangas Co-Production Partners: Jordan Gertner Cast: Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan, Country Origin: USA Cast: Rick Ganz, Bubby Lewis, Lisa Cast: Amanda Detmer, Sean Patrick Sally Phillips (“Smack The Pony”) A couple embarks on a high seas Michele Trent Flanery, Alyssa Milano, Brooke Langton, Status: Post Production adventure across the Mediterranean to Delivery Status: Completed Monet Mazur, Johnathon Schaech, Delivery: Summer 2003 save their troubled marriage. Country of Origin: USA Vanessa Parise, Talia Shire, Burt Young, In this hilarious new British comedy the YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A A serial killer stalks his victims, deciding Johnny Whitworth. Romans are beating a bloody swathe SANTA CLAUS the best way to kill them by studying Delivery Status: Completed across the European Continent. Three Family (90 Minutes) their patterns. Year Of Production: 2002, Country Of sisters - Smirgut, Dwyfach and Language: English IN THE RED Origin: USA Worthaboutapig are all that stands Director: Charles Jarrot Action (87 minutes) Three radically different sisters return between Britain and the mighty Roman Producer: Duke Fenady Director: Glenn Ruehland home for the wedding of their traditional Empire. Cast: Charles Bronson Producers: Glenn Ruehland, Rina Reiss sister, to find themselves in constant AMERICAN COUSINS Status: Completed Cast: Steve Bisley, Damien Bradford, struggle for love and validation. Director: Donald Coutts Country Origin: USA Terry Serrio, Allison Cratchley MINDSTORM Producer: Margaret Matheson Virginia is a little girl who lives in New Delivery Status: Completed Action/Sci-Fi (90 minutes) Cast: Danny Nucci, Shirley Henderson, York City at the turn of the century, Country of Origin: Australia Language: English Gerald Lepkowski with Vincent Pastore whose faith in Christmas rekindles the It’s a turbo charged action drama about a Director: Richard Pepin and Dan Hedaya faith and hope of those around her. modern day gang with a passion for fast Producer: Richard Pepin, Michael Derbas Status: Completed, Screening in Cannes women and even faster cars. Their high- Cast: Eric Roberts, Antonio Sabato, Jr., A feel good comedy about life, love, fish octane passion is supported through Michael Ironside, Michael Moriarty, and chips, guns and gangsters. The Cosa IFM WORLD wheeling and dealing in a big city’s Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ed O’Ross, Nostra have just moved to Scotland! brutal, opportunist underworld. William B. Davis, Clarence Williams III RELEASING, INC. Delivery Status: Completed IFM World Releasing, Inc., 1328 East Year Of Production: 2001, Country Of IFDC, INC. Palmer Avenue, Glendale, California IMAGEWORKS Origin: USA IFDC, Inc. (International Film 91205,USA. Tel: 818.243.4976. Fax: ENTERTAINMENT A psychic’s investigation into the Distribution Consultants), The Water 818.550.9728. [email protected]. In disappearance of a Senator’s daughter Garden, 1601 Cloverfield Blvd., Suite Australia: IFM World Releasing Inc. INTERNATIONAL, leads her to a dangerous cult and the 200, South Tower, Santa Monica, CA 2/25 Second Street, Clayton, Victoria truth about her mysterious past. 3169, Australia. Tel: 61.3.9515.9249. INC. WARRIOR 90404 USA. Tel:310.460.3537. Fax: Action-Adventure (90 minutes) Fax: 61.3.9515.9248. Imageworks Entertainment International, 310.460.3445 Language: English [email protected]. Inc., Warner Center, 6140 Variel Avenue, At Cannes: Jerome Bliah (President), Director: William Harper www.ifmfilm.com Woodland Hills, CA 91367 USA. Tel: Thorsten Schumacher (Acquisitions) Producer: David Shoshan, Bruce At Cannes: Antony I. Ginnane 818.716.1670. Fax: 818.716.8004. Office: Private Residence, Tel: Singman (President), Anthony J. Lyons (VP [email protected]. 06.13.80.78.90 (Jerome Bliah’s mobile), Cast: Vincent Klyn, Yukmouth Of The International), David Makhlout (Director www.ImageworksEntertainment.com Fax: 04.93.99.45.34 Luniz, Ron Joseph ONE MAN’S WAR International Sales) Company Type: International Delivery Status: Completed Drama (91 Minutes) Office: Palais des Festivals, Stand F. 19, Distribution, International Production Year Of Production: 2002, Country Of Language: English Tel: 33.04.92.99.32.04. Fax: At Cannes: David Shoshan (President, Origin: USA Director: Sergio Toledo 818.550.9728 Sales), Richard Pepin (President, A part man, part deity must use his Producer: Graham Benson, Colin GRIM WEEKEND - MARKET Production); Acquisition Executive: supernatural powers to battle evil and Callender PREMIERE David Shoshan Thriller (90 minutes) save his adopted homeland. Office: Riviera L10, Tel: Language: English 33.(0)4.92.99.33.14. Fax: 818.716.8004 Cast: Ken Hebert, Amanda Watson THE 4TH TENOR Delivery Status: Completed Comedy (90 minutes) INDIGO Country of Origin: USA Language: English Indigo, 116 Great Portland Street, 5 people. 1 weekend. 12 miles from Director: Harry Basil London W1W 6PJ UK. Tel: nowhere. The killing has begun. Producer: Joseph Merhi 44.207.612.1700. Fax: 44.207.612.1705. THE RISEN Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Davi, [email protected]. Psychological Thriller (94 minutes ) Charles Fleischer www.indigofilm.com Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Company Type: distributor Director: Jeff Beesley Year Of Production: 2002, Country Of At Cannes: David Lawley (Managing Producer: Gail Tilson Origin: USA Director) Cast: Alberta Watson, Eugene Lipinski, A restaurant owner(Dangerfield) falls in Office: Tel: 44.20.7612.1700 Daniel Maslany, Peter Outerbridge, love with an opera singer and, desperate FLYFISHING Helen Shaver to impress her, travels to Italy to learn Romantic comedy (82 minutes) Delivery Status: Completed how to sing. 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Francesco Di Leva Fax: 33.04.93.06.40.55 Cannes: 06.88.83.13.35) BASIC Country of Origin: Berlin, Year of THE ROSE AND THE SNAKE Office: Cannes 2003 - Carlton Hotel, Drama Production: 2003 Drama Suite # 163 - Tel: 04.93.06.40.06 - Fax: Director: John McTiernan After ten years in prison, MATTEO, has Director: Rebecca Miller 04.93.06.40.29 Producers: Mike Medavoy, Arnie Messer, a day of leave to return to his home Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine HOUSE OF THE DEAD James Vanderbilt, Michael Tadross town. In 24 hours he has to settle an Keener Horror (2003) Cast: John Travolta, Connie Nielsen and account with his past and with himself. Status: Pre-production Directed by Uwe Boll Samuel L. Jackson EL ALAMEIN War / adventure (99 min) When her father’s new love and her two Produced by Uwe Boll and Shawn Delivery Status: Completed Language: italian with english subtitles teenage boys come to live with them, Williamson When a military training exercise goes Director Enzo Monteleone Rose undergoes a sexual awakening with Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Jonathan Cherry, severely awry, a maverick DEA agent Producer: Cattleya both liberating and devastating Tyron Leitso, Will Sanderson and a tough female JAG officer must Cast: Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco consequences. Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery - investigate the disappearance of a highly AV I ATOR Screening in Cannes Favino, Silvio Orlando Bio-pic decorated drill instructor and several of Budget: $12 Million. At El Alamein the Italo-German army is Director: Martin Scorsese his cadets. Based on Sega’s Best Selling video IF ONLY blocked and forced to retreat. Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio Romance FAST SOULS (ANIME VELOCI) game. A band of college students go to a Drama (90 min) Status: Pre-production Director: Gil Junger rave on a mysterious island and get more Language: italian with english subtitles Buoyed by vision, driven by imagination, Producers: Bobby Newmyer, Jeffrey than they bargained for. Director Pasquale Marrazzo one man became an icon of the 20th THE HEART OF AMERICA Silver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jill Gilbert Producer: Maurizio Tini century: Howard Hughes. Visionary. Drama (2002) Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Paul Nicholls Cast: Giovanni Brignola, Tatjana Blacher Daredevil. Mogul. Madman. Directed by Uwe Boll Delivery Status: Post-production Produced by Uwe Boll and Shawn Francesco, a young man from Naples , After he fights with his girlfriend and she who prefers to be called Francesca, Williamson dies in an accident, a man gets a second IN-MOTION Cast: Maria Conchita Alonso, Jürgen shares with the italian girl Giada an chance to make her last day her best, not apartment in Berlin. Together they dive Prochnow, Michael Paré, Patrick realizing he cheated fate and it’s now PICTURES Muldoon into the world of prostitution. IN-motion Pictures, London Office returned for him. I AM EMMA (EMMA SONO IO) Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery - FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA address: 5 Percy Street, London, W1T Comedy (90 min) Screening in Cannes PRESENTS: THE LEGEND OF Language: italian with english subtitles 1DG UK. Tel: 44.(0)20.7467.6880. Fax: Budget: $2.5 Million. SURIYOTHAI 44.(0)20.7467.6890. info@in- Action-Adventure Director Francesco Falaschi In this increasingly violent culture, THE Producer Bernadette Carranza, Paola motionpictures.com. www.in- HEART OF AMERICA takes a hard look Language: Thai motionpictures.com at the issues and pressures faced by Director: Chatrichalerm Yukol At Cannes: Hilmar Siebert (Chairman), teenagers in suburban high schools Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Kim Nigel Bremner (Managing Director), everywhere, by following them through Aubry, Kamla Yukol Alex Walton (VP International Sales), their last day of school. Cast: M.L. Piyapas Bhirombhakdi, Sandra Keser (Head of Acquisitions), ALONE IN THE DARK Sarunyoo Wongkrchang Marcus Tustin (Snr VP, Business Action/Thriller (2004) Delivery Status: Completed Affairs), Hannah Rothman (Marketing Produced and directed by Uwe Boll A story of intrigue, romance and war Manager ) Cast: TBA. based on actual events in 16th century Delivery Status: In development Siam, this Cecil B. DeMille sized epic is Budget: $35 Million. the most expensive and highest grossing THE BUSINESS Based on Infogrames best selling video Thai production in history. game property. Something is waiting in ME AGAIN OF FILM the dark...It’s angry...It’s hungry...It’s Thriller coming. 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Lucisano Budget: 1.8million THE VALLEY TRAIN Cast Cecilia Dazzi, Pier Francesco Year of Production: 2001, Country of Drama- youth sex (90 min) Favino, Elda Avignini Origin: USA J Language: Hebrew (Subtitles in English). Due to a chance mistake, Emma is forced A suitcase filled with marijuana travels JAFFA Director: Jonathan Paz. to interrupts treatment for her mood the streets of Manhattan and passes Starring: Neta Moran, Ami Ushpitz, Dan instability. through the hands of musicians, mobsters PRODUCTIONS LTD Tourgeman. Status: Completed. LOVE, LIES, KIDS...& DOGS & drag queens, as it is sold, stolen, re- Jaffaproductions Ltd, 9 Israeli`s St.,Tel- (UOMINI, DONNE, BAMBINI Country of origin: Israel sold and re-stolen over and over again. Aviv 64382 Israel. Tel: E..CANI) DROP DEAD ROSES The legendary `VALLEY TRAIN` from Comedy (93 min) 972.(0)3.527.11.59. Fax: Dark Comedy (93 mins) Haifa to Damascus was abruptly halted Language: italian with english subtitles 972.(0)3.522.74.24. [email protected] Language: English during the war of independence in 1948. Director Eleonora Giorgi At Cannes: Riviera Hall, No. E-15 / F- Director: Jessica Hudsonh But the vivid memory of that train Producer Massimo Ciavarro for Dharma 16. Tel: 33(0).4.92.99.32.26 CoProductionPartners : Danforth remains. Cast Ornella Muti, Paolo Giommarelli, Studios Menahem Golan (Chairman) Shasa Vitale THE RETURN FROM INDIA Producer: Daniel D’or, G. Philip Jackson Drama-Love Story (98 min) At 20 they marry for love and with a Key Cast: Brian C. O’Halloran, Barbi Language: English. K child in the way. Castelvi, Diana Devlin, Chris Director: Menahem Golan. KANGJEGYU FILMS Diamantopoulos, Eddie McGee Starring: Aki Avni, Riki Gal, Assi Dayan KangJeGyu Films, 2F Olympia Center Delivery Status: Completed Status: Completed ITALIA CINEMA 828-10 Yoksamdong Kangnamgu Seoul Budget: 1million Country of origin: Israel Italia Cinema, Via Aureliana, 63 - 00187 135-100 Korea. Tel: 82.2.2193.2001. Year of Production: 2002, Country of A strange and maybe impossible love Roma, Italy. Tel: 3906.42012539. Fax: Fax: 82.2.2193.2199. Origin: USA story between a young man (26) and an 42003530. [email protected]. A romantically perverse story of two [email protected]. www.kjgfilm.com www.tamtamcinema.com older woman (50). regular guys who run an irregular FINAL COMBAT Company Type: Production/ Distribution At Cannes: Marina Cicogna (President), business and find themselves caught in a Family-Action-adventure (90 min) Company Giorgio Gosetti (Director), Carla Cattani twisted love story. Language: English At Cannes: Bill Hwang (Manager, (Project Manager), Andrea Paris (Project BIG APPLE Director: Menahem Golan Overseas Marketing and Distribution), Manager), Giovanni Marco Piemontese Romantic Comedy (82 min) Starring: Tonny White, Sonia Couling, Cody Kim (Assistant Manager, Overseas (Communication Manager) Director: English Richard Lynch Marketing and Distribution) Office: Village Intìl, Italian Pavilion, Tel: Language: Danny Lerner Status: Completed Office: Stand D5, Tel: 33(0)4.92590200. Fax: 92590199. Co-Production Partners: Chantal Ughi Country of origin: U.S.A. 33.(0)4.92.99.88.29 Producer: Danny Lerner, Mario Chioldi The story of the journey of a father and OVER THE RAINBOW Romantic Comedy (109 min) Key Cast: Danny Lerner, Chantal Ughi, son, Tonni and Ben, to find meaning in Language: Korean (English Subtititles) ITN DISTRIBUTION Jaid Barrymore, Carlos Leon their lives. ITN Distribution, 163 Third Ave., Suite Delivery Status: Completed SUPER NINJA Director: AHN JinWoo 231, New York, NY 10003 USA. Tel: Budget: 1million Action, Martial Arts (90 min) Producer: Kim KyungKyu 212.777.7100 x 15. Fax: 212.387.0873. Year of Production: 2002, Country of Language: English Cast: LEE JungJae, JANG JinYoung http://www.itndistribution.com Origin: USA Director: Menahem Golan Delivery Status: Completed At Cannes: Stuart Alson (President), Angel McGee knows everything about Starring: Kely McClung, Gregory Year of Production: 2002, Country of Anoo Cottoor (Vice President), Jack women...Max Rosenberg has never had a Levayov, Richard Lynch Origin: Korea Campbell (Director of Sales & woman...and Jackie is still looking for Status: Pre-production Budget: US$3.5 Million Acquisitions), Renata Lorenc (Director of the man of her dreams. A bizarre murder Country of origin: U.S.A. JinSoo tries to retrace the fragments of Marketing) mystery unfolds. Tells the story of the going on behind the his memories that he lost during a car Office: Riviera F-11, Tel: JACK’S OR BETTER scenes of the electronic industry. accident about his lover with a help of Dark Comedy (82 min) Z A Y A his old college friend YeonHee. 33.(0).6.0852.7459 Language: English Adventure- Love Story (100 min) HIGH TIMES’ POTLUCK WET DREAMS http://www.potluckmovie.com Director: Robert Sydney Mellette Language: English. Comedy (94 min) Comedy/Action (93 min) Co-Production Partners: Ken Meyer Director: Jonathan Paz. Language: Korean (English Subtititles) Language: English Producer: Hilton H. Smith Starring: Maayan Keret, Sami Hori, Dan Director: Chosin Zeong Director: Alison Thompson Key Cast: Jack Wallace, Nathan Tourgeman. Producer: Rommie B. Meng Co-Production Partners: Bernard/Scura Anderson, Matt Landers, Mesach Taylor Status: Completed. Cast: LEE BumSoo, KIM SunAh Productions Delivery Status: Completed Country of origin: Israel Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Jeri Carroll Budget: $1million Based on a true story that happened in Year of Production: 2002, Country of Key Cast: Jason Mewes, Jason Isaacs, Year of Production: 2001, Country of Morocco at the end of the 30`s. Zaya is a Origin: Korea Jackie “the jokeman” Martling, Sylvia Origin: USA young beautiful Jewish girl living in the Budget: US$3 Million Miles, Victor Colicchio, Frank Adonis A man kills his wife in the kitchen so Atlas Mountains who is drawn to a 4 adolescent high school boys fall in love Delivery Status: Completed that he can play poker in the living room. freedom that it not available in the with a beautiful new teacher and begins primitive Berber village. to take her as an object of desire.

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BLUE THE RUM DIARY He was the Most Valuable Primate on the ICE RAIN Action/ Drama (106 min) Thriller / Drama ice in MVP1. He brought skateboarding Adventure, Drama Language: Korean (English Subtititles) Language: English to new heights as the Most Vertical Language: Korean/Japanese Director: LEE JungGook Status: Pre-Production Primate in MVP2 and now Jack’s off to Director: Eun-sook KIM Producer: CHOI HyunMook Production Country: USA the slopes in Utah for his most eXtreme Producer: Bon-han KOO, Kui-duk CHOI Cast: SHIN HyunJoon, SHIN EunKyung, Producers: Robert S. Kravis, Anthony adventure yet! Cast: Sung-jae LEE, Seung-hun SONG, KIM YoungHo Rhulen, Greg Shapiro ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR Ha-neul KIM Delivery Status: Completed Executive Producers: Hunter S. Comedy/Drama (90 minutes) Delivery Status: November 2003 Year of Production: 2003, Country of Thompson, Nick Nolte, Johnny Depp, Language: English Year of Production: 2003, Country of Origin: Korea William Shively Director: Don Scardino Origin: Korea Budget: US$5 Million Cast: Johnny Depp, Nick Nolte, Josh Producers: Jana Edelbaum, Edgar Budget: U$ 5.5M Jun and TaeHyun, the two best SSU Hartnett, Benicio Del Toro Lansbury Joong-hyun, a man who hoards the pains officers, have to dive 185m underwater in Based on Hunter S. Thompson’s best Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Andy Dick, Jon of a broken heart, his new love Kyung- order to save a sunken submarine and selling first novel, “The Rum Diary” is a Tenney, Timothy Olyphant min, and Woo-sung, who likes Kyung- other officers trapped in it. tangled story of love, jealousy, treachery, Delivery Status: Available for Delivery min in vain, are driven by the fate of and lust set in the 1950’s boomtown of Country of Origin: USA love, and go on a journey to reach the top San Juan, Puerto Rico. Can a Soho video artist find happiness of the Alps. KATHY MORGAN with a bisexual Harley riding actor from OH! BROTHERS New Jersey? Only in New York! Comedy, Drama INTERNATIONAL KEYSTONE Language: Korean Kathy Morgan International, 12250 Sky Director: Yong-hwa KIM Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA. Tel: ENTERTAINMENT KM CULTURE CO., Producer: Choo-seung BANG, Young- 310.472.6300. Fax: 310.472.6304. INC. woon KIM Company Type: Sales Agent LTD. Cast: Jung-jae LEE, Bum-soo LEE Keystone Entertainment Inc., 23410 At Cannes: Kathy Morgan (President), KM Culture Co., Ltd., 3rd Floor, Bojun Delivery Status: September 2003 Civic Center Way, Suite E-9, Malibu, CA Kimberly Fox (Director of International Bldg., 70-13 Nonhyun-dong, Kangnam- Year of Production: 2003, Country of 90265 USA. Tel: 310.317.4883. Fax: Sales), Carrie Kommers (Director of ku, Seoul 135-010 Korea. Tel: Origin: Korea 310.317.4903. [email protected]. Marketing and Acquisitions) 82.2.3438.3842. Fax: 82.2.3438.3848. Budget: U$ 3M www.keypics.com Office: Le Grand Hotel, 45 La Croisette, www.kmculture.com One day, Sang-woo receives unexpected At Cannes: Romana Danicova (VP Cormoran II, Tel: 04.92.59.00.50. Fax: Company Type: Producer news that his father has passed away and Worldwide Distribution), Michael 04.92.59.00.14 At Cannes: Moo-seung PARK that he inherited all of his father’s debt. THE INCREDIBLE MRS. RITCHIE Strange (President) (President), David B. LEE (VP), Judy Family, Drama Office: Riviera Stand L5-M6, Tel: AHN (Head of Int’l Business), Sonya Language: English Romana Danicova Cell: 310.980.2027, KIM (Int’l Business); Acquisition KEVIN WILLIAMS & Directed by: Paul Johansson Michael Strange Cell: 310.980.2019 Executive: Moo-seung PARK Producers: Chad Oakes, Mike Frislev AIR BUD 6 ASSOCIATES, S.A. Family Office: Riviera Stand H6, Tel: Executive Producers: Nick Cassavetes, Kevin Williams & Associates, S.A., c) Language: English 33.4.9299.3342 (office), 6.7580.1607 Walter Josten, Jim Reeve, Steve Robbins, Galeón 32, Bajo A, 28042 Ð Madrid, Producers: Robert Vince & Anna (mobile) Phil Alberstat, Jana Edelbaum Spain. Tel: 34.91.747.31.00. Fax: McRoberts ADDICTED Cast: Gena Rowlands, Kevin Zegers, Drama (114 min) 34.91.747.70.00. [email protected], Delivery Status: Development Leslie Hope, David Schofield and James Language: Korean www.kevinwa.com Country of Origin: Canada Caan Director: Young-hoon PARK Company Type: Sales agent Buddy’s eager to try his paw at Rugby! At Cannes: Kevin Williams (President), Status: Completed BMXP Producer: Choon-yeon LEE Year Produced: 2003, Production Family Cast: Byung-hun LEE, Mi-yeon LEE Fátima Urosa (Administrator) Countries: UK / Canada Language: English Delivery Status: Immediate Office: KWA stand Riviera F1, Tel: A troubled teen trying to break free from Producers: Robert Vince & Anna Year of Production: 2002, Country of 33.06.82.72.91.37 a school gang is given the chance to Origin: Korea CIUDADES OSCURAS (DARK McRoberts CITIES) redeem his criminal debt by working in Delivery Status: Development Budget: U$ 3.3M Drama (113 min) the garden of an eccentric woman. Country of Origin: Canada Two brothers, Ho-jin and Dae-jin, get Language: Spanish VA LENTIN Jack’s back on two wheels - as a BMX caught in a sudden accident and both of Family Comedy Director: Fernando Sariñara racer! them falls into a coma at the same time. Producer: Fernando Sariñara Language: Spanish CONDUCT ZERO AIR BUD: SPIKES BACK Co-production partners: IMCINE, Producer: Laurens Geels Family (90 minutes) Comedy (98 min) FOPROCINE, Veneno producciones and Executive Producer: Eddy de Kroes Language: English Language: Korean Altavista films. Directed by: Alejandro Agresti Director: Robert Vince Director: Keun-sik CHO Cast: Jesús Ochoa, Bruno Bichir, Alonso Cast: Carmen Maura, Rodrigo Noya, Producers: Robert Vince & Anna Producer: Choo-seong BANG, Young- Julieta Cardinali, Jean Pierre Noher McRoberts hoon PARK Status: Completed Cast: Katija Pevec, Jake Smith, Tyler Cast: Seung-bum RYU, Eun-kyung IM Year Produced: 2002 Boissonnault, Cynthia Stevenson, Edie Delivery Status: Immediate The world is not always what it seems McClurg Year of Production: 2002, Country of when viewed through the eyes of an 8- Delivery Status: International Release Origin: Korea year-old boy- especially when those eyes Date - July 2003 Budget: U$ 3.6M are crossed. Year of Production: 2002, Country of A gangly high school student whose THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT Origin: Canada easygoing life becomes complex when he Thriller The fifth in this highly successful falls in love and a new boy in town Language: English franchise! Buddy and Andrea hit the challenges his fighting skills. Directed by: Eric Bress and J. Mackye beach for some volleyball! DOUBLE AGENT Gruber MXP: MOST EXTREME PRIMATE Intelligence Drama (120 min) Producers: Chris Bender, AJ Dix, Family (90 minutes) Language: Korean/English/Russian Anthony Rhulen and JC Spink Language: English Director: Hyun-jung KIM Executive Producers: David Krintzman Director: Robert Vince Producer: Bon-han KOO, Min-hee PARK and William Shively Producers: Robert Vince & Anna Cast: Suk-kyu HAN, So-young KOH Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart McRoberts Delivery Status: Immediate Status: Post-Production Cast: Devin Drewitz, Gwynth Walsh, Year of Production: 2002, Country of Year Produced: 2003, Production Rob Tinkler, Ian Bagg Origin: Korea Country: US Delivery Status: International Release Budget: U$ 5.5M A gripping, supernatural thriller that taps Date - July 2003 The solemn cold war times of 1980. 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Echanove. Year of Production: 2002, Country of Drama Mercedes Sampietro, Arturo Puig Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Brazil /Spain Director: Robert Benton Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2002, Country of Budget: $ 2 m. Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Year of Production: 2002, Country of Origin: Mexico A pair of dance shoes go missing from Lucchesi, Scott Steindorff Origin: Spain Budget: $ 2 m. the Tropicana club with $5000 hidden in Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, When Fernando is unexpectedly forced Carousel of cavorting low-lives from best the heels, setting off a chain of events. Ed Harris, Gary Sinise. into early retirement, this life changing coppers to prostitutes, wife beaters to the NO DEBES ESTAR AQUÍ (DON’T Status: Post Production event shakes his calm and thoughtful drug addict father who kills his own child GO THERE AKA KEEP CLEAR) world. Thriller Country of Origin: U.S.A. in a fit of pique while baby sitting. A thought provoking drama about a ASHES & SAND Language: Spanish Drama (108 mins) CARLOS CONTRA EL MUNDO disgraced classics professor whose Director: Jacobo Rispa Language: English (CARLOS AGAINST THE WORLD) defiant attitudes and affair with a Drama (90 min) Producer: Francisco Ramos Director: Bob Blagden younger woman ultimately result in his Language: Spanish Co-production partners: Alquimia Producer: Andrew Holmes, Peter Watson- Director: Chiqui Carabante Cinema, S.A. sudden death. BULLETPROOF MONK Wood, Liam Badger, Nigel Thomas Producer: Antonio Lobo Cast: Tristán Ulloa, Pablo Echarri Action Cast: Nick Moran, Lara Belmont, Co-production partners: Jaleo Films, Delivery Status: Completed Director: Paul Hunter Victoria Scarborough Letra M Year of Production: 2002, Country of Producers: Charles Roven and Terence Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Julián Villagrán, Victoria Mora, Origin: Spain Chang & John Woo Year of Production: 2003, Country of Juanma Lara. Budget: $ 1,5 m. Executives Producers: Douglas Segal, Origin: UK Delivery Status: Completed A gang of web surfing kids are looking Kelley Smith-Wait, Michael Yanover, An ambitious and handsome detective Year of Production: 2002, Country of for extreme kicks some of which are Gotham Chopra, Caroline Macaulay sergeant (Nick Moran) takes on the tough Origin: Spain suicidal. It turns out they have been Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William contemporary world of teenage girl Budget: $ 1,5 m. victims of an evil manipulator. Scott, Jaime King, Karel Roden, Victoria gangs in Brighton. Picaresque lowlife dramatic comedy on Smurfit AMANDLA!: A REVOLUTION IN self-deception and how living in a FOUR-PART HARMONY Status: Completed www.amandla.com fantasy worlf affects others. L Country of Origin: U.S.A. EL ALQUIMISTA IMPACIENTE Documentary (108 mins Language: (THE IMPATIENT ALCHEMIST) LAKESHORE For 60 years a mysterious monk with no English) Drama (110 min) INTERNATIONAL name has zigzagged the globe to protect Director: Lee Hirsch Language: Spanish an ancient scroll - a scroll that holds the Producer: Sherry Simpson, Desireé Director: Patricia Ferreira Lakeshore International, 5555 Melrose key to unlimited power. Markgraaff, Lee Hirsch Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Eduardo Avenue, Gloria Swanson Bldg. 4th Floor, JUST A KISS Romantic Comedy Cast: Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Campoy Hollywood, CA 90038, USA. Tel: Director: Fisher Stevens Abdullah Ibrahim Co-production partners: Tornasol, 323.956.4222. Fax: 323.862.1456. Producers: Matthew Roland Delivery Status: Completed Continental producciones, Cartel, [email protected]. Cast: Marisa Tomei, Kyra Sedgewick, Year of Production: 2002, Country of Televisión de Galicia, S.A. www.lakeshoreentertainment.com Ron Eldard, Marley Shelton, Taye Diggs Origin: US Cast: Ingrid rubio, Roberto Enríquez, At Cannes: Peter Rogers (President), Status: Completed A soul stirring documentary that uses Chete Lera Virginia Longmuir (Senior Vice Country of Origin: USA exclusive interviews and rare, never- Delivery Status: Completed President, International Business & Legal An innocent kiss is more than best before-seen footage to document the vital Year of Production: 2002, Country of Affairs and Operations), Robert Burke friends can handle when infidelity role that music played in the nearly half- Origin: Spain (Vice President Worldwide Marketing), becomes a comic adventure into the dark century struggle against apartheid in Budget: $ 1,5 m. Julie McLaughlin (Vice President side of modern relationships. South Africa. Guy and girl detective team investigate Worldwide Television), Elisabeth Costa LAST PARTY 2000 the murder of a nuclear powerplant de Beauregard (Director, International Documentary (85 mins) worker and a prostitute. Sales), Bonnie X. Brocatto (Coordinator, Language: English VIVA SAPATO! (SEX CHANGES International Sales) LIGHTNING Director: Rebecca Chaiklin, Donovan EVERYTHING!) Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, Leitch Comedy - (90 min) ENTERTAINMENT Cormoran II, 7th Floor, 45 Bvd de la Producer: Rebecca Chaiklin, Stanley Language: Spanish Lightning Entertainment, 1801 Avenue of Croisette, 06400 Cannes. Tel: Buchthal, Henri M. Kessler Director: Luis Carlos Lacerda the Stars, Suite 1035, Los Angeles, CA 04.93.99.85.04. Fax: 04.93.99.85.03 Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Susan Producer: Iafa Britz, Walkiria Barbosa 90067, USA Tel: 310.201.0980. Fax: WICKER PARK Sarandon, Robert Downey Jr. Co-production partners: Total Films 310.201.0852. Psychological Drama Delivery Status: Completed (Brazil) and Euroficción (Spain) Company Type: Sales Agent Director: Paul McGuigan Year of Production: 2002, Country of Cast: Jorge Sanz, Laura Ramos, María At Cannes: Richard S. Guardian Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Origin: US Galiana (President), Rich Goldberg (Co- Lucchesi With a fresh irreverent style, Last Party Delivery Status: Completed President) Cast: Josh Hartnett, Matthew Lillard, 2000 explores the state of democracy in Office: E4, Riviera T: +33 (0)4 92 99 32 Rose Byrne, Diane Kruger America, while chronicling the 2000 US 15 Presidential Election. Status: Post Production THE EVENT Country of Origin: U.S.A. Drama (112 mins) A psychological drama about a young Language: English advertising executive (Hartnett) and his Director: Thom Fitzgerald THE BUSINESS obsessive search for a lost love. Producer: Thom Fitzgerald, Bryan OF FILM’S UNDERWORLD Hofbauer Action / Horror Cast: Parker Posey, Olympia Dukakis, home on Director: Len Wiseman Sarah Polley, Don McKellar, Jane Leeves Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary and Brent Carver the internet. Lucchesi, Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Year of Production: 2003, Country of Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly Origin: Canada / US www.thebusinessoffilm.com Status: Post Production THE EVENT is a bittersweet drama of Country of Origin: U.S.A. love, loss, and the amazing capacity we Romeo and Juliet if the Capulets were have to prevail in the face of tragedy. 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LIONS GATE FILMS Producers: Marc Butan, Michael Paseornek & Michael Ohoven INTERNATIONAL Cast: Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman, Lions Gate Films International, Head Andy Garcia, Rachel Weisz, Donal MIDEM • MIPTV • CANNES • MIPCOM Office: 4553 Glencoe Ave., Suite 200, Logue, Luis Guzman, Paul Giamatt & OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND Brian Van Holt Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA. Tel: (Tented & Heated) 310.314.2000. Fax: 310.452.2670. Status: Screening www.lionsgatefilms.com. Country of Origin: US At Cannes: Nicolas Meyer (Co-President, Grifter Jake Vig and his team attempt the Lions Gate International), Sergei Yershov con of a lifetime against a raging and Lunch on the beach (Co-President, Lions Gate International), ruthless crime boss known as “The Peter Block President (Home King”. CABIN FEVER Entertainment, Acquisitions and New Horror (94 minutes) Whatever the weather Media), Tom Ortenberg (President, Language: English Releasing), Ron Schwartz (Executive Director: Eli Roth Vice President, Home Video), Adam Executive Producers: Susan Jackson & Bialow (Vice President, International David Lynch Business and Legal Affairs) Producers: Evan Atrowsky, Sam Froelich, Office: Riviera Booth # M1, Tel: Lauren Moews & Eli Roth 33.(0)4.92.99.32.18. Fax: Cast: Jordan Ladd, Cerina Vincent, Rider 33.(0)4.92.99.32.25 Strong & James DeBello GODSEND Thriller Status: Screening Language: English Country of Origin: US Director: Nick Hamm A group of people are trapped in the Executive Producers: Todd Wagner, Mark woods and methodically killed off by a Canton, Mark Cuban & Eric Kopeloff horrifying flesh eating disease. Producers: Sean O’Keefe, Michael Paseornek, Cathy Schulman & Marc Butan LOLAFILMS Cast: Robert DeNiro, Rebecca Romijn- Lolafilms, Velazquez 12, 7pl., 28001 Stamos & Greg Kinnear Madrid, Spain. Tel: 34.91.436.7400. Fax: Status: Production 34.91. 435.5994. UK: 15 Tilton Street, Country of Origin: US London, SW6 7LP. Tel: 44.20.7381.0665. A taut and gripping thriller about devoted Fax: 44.20.7681.1204. parents who turn to human cloning to www.lolafilms.com resurrect their murdered son. A doctor on Company Type: Production & Sales the forefront of genetic research leads the Company couple into in the dangerous and deadly At Cannes: Marina Fuentes, Will Machin experiment. Office: 54 La Croisette, 2nd Floor, Tel: WONDERLAND 33.(0).4.93.39.40.69. Marina Fuentes Drama Cell: 34.630.011.329. Will Machin Cell: Language: English 44.7899.796.263 Director: James Cox SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY Executive Producers: Michael Paseornek, Drama (93 minutes) Marc Butan, Tom Ortenberg & Peter Language: English Block Director: Aisling Walsh Producer: Holly Wiersma Producer: Subotica Entertainment Cast: Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Lisa Cast: Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, Marc Kudrow, Josh Lucas & Carrie Fisher Warren Status: Production Deliver Status: Completed - screening Country of Origin: US Year of Production: 2002, Country of The story of the drug related, 1981 origin: Ireland Wonderland Avenue murders and the Franklin (Aidan Quinn) returns to Ireland primary suspect, porn king John Holmes. after seeing his lover and best friend SHATTERED GLASS murdered in the Spanish Civil war Drama against the fascist forces of General Language: English Franco. Written and Directed by: Billy Ray SALAMINA SOLDIERS (LOS Executive Producers: Tom Cruise, Paula SOLDADOS DE SALAMINA) Wagner & Michael Paseornek Drama (120 minutes) Producers: Craig Baumgarten, Adam Language: Spanish Merims, Gaye Hirsch & Tove Director: David Trueba Christensen Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez, Cast: Hayden Christensen, Rosario Cristina Huete Dawson, Steve Zahn, Peter Sarsgaard, Cast: Ariadna Gil, Diego Luna, María Hank Azaria & Chloe Sevigny Botto Status: Post-Production Delivery Status: Completed - Screening Country of Origin: US Year of Production: 2002, Country of The Restaurant Based on an article in Vanity Fair, origin: Spain Shattered Glass is the story of the rise An unmotivated young writer finds her on the beach and fall of controversial political inspiration whilst investigating the story journalist Steven Glass. of an uncommon war hero. With the help (Between Miramar & Martinez) CONFIDENCE of an eccentric girlfriend, her voyage of Crime Thriller (98 minutes) discovery uncovers forgotten memories Contact Olivier Language: English and unlocks her lost passion. Director: James Foley Tel. (33) 4 93 94 20 68 Fax. (33) 4 93 43 60 91 Executive Producers: Eberhard Kayser, www.thebusinessoffilm.com site address: http://www.rado-plage.fr Eric Kopeloff & Mario Ohoven notre e-mail: [email protected] Available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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STORMY WHEATHER (TIEMPO Director: Guillaume Canet JACK THE DOG DE TORMENTA) Producer: Alain Attal Comedy/Drama (90 mins) Drama (87 minutes) M Cast: Guillaume Canet, François Director: Bobby Roth Language: Spanish Berléand, Diane Kruger, Jean Rochefort Producer: Bobby Roth, Jeff White Director: Pedro Olea M6 - DROITS Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Nestor Carbonell, Barbara Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez AUDIOVISUELS Year of Production: 2002, Country of Williams, Andrew F. Ferchland, Peter Cast: Maribel Verdu, Jorge Sanz, Dario Coyote, Anthony Paglia, Jurgen M6 - Droits Audiovisuels, 89 avenue Origin: France Grandinetti, Maria Barranco Prochnow Charles-de-Gaulle, 92575 Neuilly-sur- A TV show entitled “It is tissue time” Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: New & Completed Seine Cedex, France. Tel: has a big success. Jean-Louis Broustal is Year of Production: 2002, Country of Year of Production: 2002 33.1.41.92.68.66. Fax: 33.1.41.92.68.69. the idol of Bastien, 28. origin: Spain A love story about a womanizer who www.m6da.com IRENE Two couples with one destiny. Misplaced Comedy (98’) discovers true love. Unfortunately, that Company Type: Distributor hope leads to passion and betrayal in this Language: French often ends in pain, but the child of that At Cannes: Laetitia de la Gravière story of self-destruction. Their search for Director: Ivan Calbérac union can sometimes be the most perfect (Directrice Adjointe), Isabelle Drouart resolution brings both hope and sadness Producer: Thierry de Navacelle love of all. with stormy weather on the horizon. (Directrice des ventes cinema) Cast: Cécile de France, Bruno Putzulu, CHOOSING MATTHIAS OFF KEY (DIRECTOR«S CUT) Office: Riviera, Office K6 Olivier Sitruk, Patrick Chesnais Family/Drama (90 mins) Comedy (100 minutes) ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS Delivery Status: Completed Director: Caia Coley Language: English BASED ON THE WORK OF RENÉ Year of Production: 2002, Country of Producer: Michael Feifer, Tamara Director: Manuel Gomez Pereira GOSCINNY AND ALBERT UDERZO Origin: France Seymour Producer: Andrés Vicente Gomez Cast: Jeff Fahey, Caia Coley, Dylan Animated feature film adaptated from Rather pretty, Irene has everything to be Cast: Joe Mantegna, Danny Aiello, Kasch, Bo Hopkins “Asterix and the Normans” (about 75’) happy. But every time she meets George Hamilton Delivery Status: New & Completed Language: French and English someone, it’s a real disaster... Which Deliver Status: Completed - cassettes Year of Production: 2002 Director: Stefan Fjeldmark means that aged thirty, Irene is still available A young couple struggle to keep their Producer: M6 Studio unmarried...It’s time things changed! Year of Production: 2001, Country of Delivery Status: In development lives intact after tragically losing their origin: Spain Asterix and Obelix’s mission is to free MAGIC MEDIA INC. son. They find the sorrow impossible Ten years after their acrimonious split, Goudurix before it is too late. Magic Media Inc., Róna u. 174. until they meet a young boy, Matthias, the world-famous three tenors are NOT FOR OR AGAINST QUITE Budapest, H-1145, Hungary. Tel: who has also tragically lost his family. reunited for what promises to be the THE CONTRARY / NI POUR NI 36.1.422.3150. Fax: 36.1.252.8942. DESCENDANT Thriller (90 mins) messiest wedding of the year. As old CONTRE BIEN AU CONTRAIRE [email protected] Thriller (112’) Director: Kermit Christman; Del Tenney hatreds surface, the world press gathers At Cannes: Peter Barbalics (CEO - Language: French Producer: Del Tenney, Kermit Christman, to witness the chaos. Producer), Csaba Tör? (Executive Director: Cédric Klapisch Joyce North THE GREATEST ROBBERY EVER Producer), Erika Tarr (Line Producer), (EL ROBO MÁS GRANDE JAMÁS Producer: Aïssa Djabri, Farid Lahouassa, Cast: Katherine Heigl (Valentine, Krisztina Holló (Associate Producer) CONTADO) Manuel Munz Roswell), Jeremy London (Gods And Comedy (113 minutes) Office: H4 Riviera Cast: Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz Generals, Party Of Five) Language: Spanish FATELESS Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2002 Director: Daniel Monzón www.fateless.com Year of Production: 2002 Country of The curse of Edgar Allen Poe is haunting Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez Drama (120 min) Origin: France and deadly as his young descendant, Cast: Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi, Language: Hungarian A gang of young hoodlums have an easy Ethan Poe, tries to survive his nightmares Manuel Manquiña, Javier Aller, Jaime Director: Lajos Koltai life pulling small time armed robberies. and live a modern, normal life as a best- Barnatán Co-Production Partners: Kasander Film One day, for the needs of a customer, selling novelist. Delivery Status: Completed - cassettes Producer: Peter Barbalics they enlist the services of a camera ISLAND PREY available Delivery Status: Pre-Production Romantic Thriller (90 mins) operator, Caty, to film their Year of Production: 2002, Country of Budget: 10 million Euro Director: William Riead achievements. But does the gang really origin: Spain Year of Production: 2003-2004, Country Producer: Lorey Barton, Lisa Riead, Jack trust her? Five of the world´s “finest” criminal of Origin: Hungary Green, William Riead ANYTHING YOU SAY / MON The path of a child’s soul, which minds team up to plan the greatest, most IDOLE Cast: Olivia Hussey (Saving Grace, daring and most ridiculous robbery of all Thriller (112’) inescapably leads through the holocaust Tortilla Heaven), Don Murray (Mr. time. 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Brandon CHANG brand-new “Yugo-American” Director), Sara Law (Assistant STORMY WEATHER Status: In development supermarket in some unnamed Serbian Distribution Manager), Celia Wong Drama (90 min) Country of origin: Hong Kong town. (Assistant Programme Manager), Language: English Set in the near future, Michelle Yeoh THREE AND A HALF Acquisition Executive: Kenny Chau Director: Solveig ANSPACH (The Touch) is a philanthropist fighting (87’) (Executive Director), Celia Wong Producer: Patrick SOBELMAN (Ex for justice with a Zorro alter ego. by Boris Mojsovski (Assistant Programme Manager) Nihilo) NO LONELY ANGELS Original Language: English Office: Co-production partners: Jean-Pierre et Drama (92 min) Cast: Kim Huffman, Don Allison, PTU Luc DARDENNE (Films du fleuve), Director: ZHANG Fanfan Barbara Gordon, Walter Alza, Santino Character Drama (90 min) Baltasar KORMAKUR (Blue Eyes) Producer: YU Jiaen Buda Language: Cantonese Cast: Elodie BOUCHEZ, Sigurlaug Main cast: XIE Xiaodong, TAO Hong, Country of Origin: Canada, Year of Director: Johnnie To JONSDOTTIR, Christophe SERMET GUO Tao, LI Xiaoran Production: 2002 Producer: Johnnie To Co-production Delivery Status: completed Status: Completed Three artists, a writer, a director, and a partners: Year of Production: 2003, Country of Country of origin: China painter, imagine three separate stories of Cast: Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Ruby Origin: Iceland, France The stories of a business man, his yearning and loneliness that feature a Wong, Maggie Shiu girlfriend, a college student, and a group of subway passengers with Delivery Status: completed policeman entangle in the most different roles in each artist’s saga. Year of Production: 2003, Country of MEXICAN FILM unexpected ways in modern Beijing. THREE DAYS OF RAIN Origin: HK INSTITUTE (98’) The elite PTU ( Police Tactical Unit) Mexican Film Institute, Insurgentes Sur by Michael Meredith patrols a derelict harbor area, as 674 Del Valle, Mexico City, 03100, MEDIA LUNA Original Language: English gangsters and punks roam the night. Mexico. Tel: 5255. 54.48.53.39 Media Luna Entertainment GmbH & Co. Cast: Don Meredith, Michael Santoro, Fax: 5255. 54.48.53.80. KG, Hochstadenstrasse 1-3, 50674 Joey Bilow, Peter Falk, Merle Kennedy, [email protected], Cologne, Germany. info@medialuna- Erick Avari, Lile Lovett MERCURE www.imcine.gob.mx entertainment.de. Tel: 49.221.139.22.22. Country of Origin: USA, Year of Company Type: Government Institute Fax: 49.221.139.22.24 Production: 2002 INTERNATIONAL At Cannes: Mr. Alfredo Joskowicz. At Cannes: Ida Martins (CEO), Andrea Three wet days in Cleveland, Ohio. Mercure International, 6 rue de l’Ecole (General Director IMCINE), Mrs. Susana Breitkreuz (Sales Manager), Andrew Michael Meredith’s debut as a director is de Médecine 75006 Paris, France. Tel: López Aranda (Managing Director Chang (Sales Manager), Heike Krieg a film inspired by six short stories by 33.153.103.398. Fax: 33.153.103.399. International Promotion & Sales) (Sales & Marketing Manager) Anton Chekov, portraying everyday [email protected] Office: STAND MECLA C-4, Tel : Office: J 10, Tel: 33.4.92.99.82.02. Cell: conflicts in the lives of ordinary people. Company Type: sales company 04.92993341 49.172.261.74.61 THE TENTH SUMMER specialized in European author movies. Family Feature Film (90 min) LA PASIÓN DE MARÍA ELENA KILL ME TENDER At Cannes: Nicolas BRIGAUD-ROBERT (THE PASSION OF MARêA ELENA) (89’) by Jörg Grünler (Head of Sales), François YON (Head of Documentary (76 min) by Ramón de España Starring Martin Stührk, Michelle Barthel, Sales), Didar DOMEHRI (International Language: Spanish Original Language: Spanish Kai Wiesinger, Katharina Böhm Sales) Director: Mercedes Moncada Cast: Ingrid Rubio, Alberto San Juan, Country of Origin: Germany, Year of Office: Riviera K5/L8, Tel: Producer: Mercedes Moncada, Javier Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Manuel Production: 2003 33.492.998.836. Fax: 33.492.998.839 Moron Manquiña An entertaining family film about love, VIRGIN OF LUST Co-production partners: Chango films, Country of Origin: Spain, Year of moral and friendship seen trough the Drama (140 min) CONACULTA, IMCINE, U de G Production: 2003 eyes of the 9-years-old boy Kalli. Language: Spanish Delivery Status: (completed) Recently widowed, Nestor has become Director: Arturo RIPSTEIN Year of Production: 2003, Country of infatuated with Maribel, his cleaning Producer: Alvaro Garnica, Mate Cantero, Origin: Mexico lady’s daughter and wants to legalize MEI AH FILM Mate Production, Tusitala, Iberautor, About a Raramuri woman from Mexico’s their relationship at the earliest PRODUCTION CO., Producciones Amaranta, Fado Films Tarahumara mountain and her struggle opportunity. Cast: Felipe TOVAR, Ariadna GIL, Juan for justice when her son is killed when JAGODA IN THE SUPERMARKET DIEGO (82’) LTD. he is run over by a white woman. Delivery Status: completed MIL NUBES DE PAZ CERCAN EL by Dusan Milic Mei Ah Film Production Co., Ltd., Mei Year of Production: 2002, Country of CIELO (A THOUSAND CLOUDS OF Cast: Branka Katic, Srdjan Todorovic, Ah Centre, 28, Chun Choi Street, Tseung Origin: Spain PEACE FENCE THE SKY) Dubravka Mijatovic, Danilo Lazovic, Kwan O Industrial Estate, Kowloon, Drama (80 min) The 40’s, Mexico. Ignacio Jurado, “ El Goran Radakovic, Mirjana Karanovic Hong Kong. Tel: 852.2751.3388. Fax: Language: Spanish Mikado” is a waiter, rather reserved and Country of Origin: Serbia-Germany-Italy, 852.2623.9880. www.meiah.com Director: Julián Hernández lonely. Nevertheless, everything changes Year of Production: 2003 Company Type: Sales agent, producer, Producer: Roberto Fiesco when Lola (Ariadna Gil), a Spanish Branka Katic plays Jagoda distributor Co-production partners: Mil nubes-Ciney prostitute of a certain self-destructive and (“Strawberry”) a checkout girl at the At Cannes: Kenny Chau (Executive Cooperativa Cinematográfica Morelos; unpredictable tenderness bursts in his with the support of CONACULTA, life. IMCINE, FONCA, Dirección General de A NATION WITHOUT WOMEN Drama (94 min) Actividades Cinematográficas de la Language: Indian UNAM, Fundaciones MacArthur Director: Manish Jhâ Rockefeller, Technikos Post, Titán Producer: Ex Nihilo / SMG Production, Producciones. Patrick SOBELMAN (Ex Nihilo), Cast: Juan Carlos Ortuño, Juan Carlos Nicolas BLANC (Ex Nihilo), Punkej Torres, Perla de la Rosa KHARABANDA (SMG Production) Delivery Status: (completed) Co-production partners: Gimages Films / Year of production: 2003, Country of Diaphana Films Origin: Mexico Cast: Tulip Joshi, Sudhir Pandey, Piyush For seven days, Gerardo, a teenage Mishra homosexual roams the streets of Mexico Delivery Status: completed City in search of someone able to reveal Year of Production: 2003, Country of the secret hidden between the lines of a Origin: India goodbye letter. LA CANCIÓN DEL PULQUE In the land where women are worshipped (PULQUE SONG) as goddesses, thousands of cases of Documentary (60 min) female infanticide go unreported every Language: Spanish year. A practise which has led to an Director: Everardo González alarming fall in the ratio of men to Producer: Ángeles Castro, Hugo BLIND HORIZON - NUIMAGE women. 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Co-production partners: CCC, IMCINE, with Kathleen Quinlan and William Producer: Phil Avalon Origin: USA FONCA, PADID Sadler Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Simone Kessell, Budget: $500,000 Cast: Delivery Status: (completed) Status: In Production Jeremy Sims, Jarrod Dean A triangle of friendship, love and Year of Production: 2003, Country of County of Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed deception tangles the lives of an auto Origin: Mexico The second Project Greenlight winner Year of Production: 2003, Country of mechanic and the two women in his life. A portrait of daily life in La Pirata, a from producers Matt Damon and Ben Origin: Australia pulque bar. A Portrait of its parishioners. Affleck. In many ways, Kelly Ernswiler Budget: $3 million A tribute to pulque, to the people who is your average shy 18 year old looking A young man attempting to become a MOONSTONE drink pulque, to ranchero music and the to fit in and meet girls. professional surfer faces drug-smugglers barrio. JERSEY GIRL and his own fears. ENTERTAINMENT RECUERDOS (REMEMBRANCE) Comedy/Drama FEAR OF SPEED Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box Documentary (86 min) Language: English Thriller (96 minutes) 7400, Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel: Language: Spanish Director: Kevin Smith Language: English 818.985.3003. Fax: 818.985.3009. Director: Marcela Arteaga Producer: Scott Mosier Director: Jeff Centauri At Cannes: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh Producer: Ángeles Castro, Hugo Cast: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Liv Producer: Jeff Centauri (CEO) Mrs. Yael Stroh (President) Rodríguez, Gustavo Montiel Tyler, George Carlin, and Jason Biggs, Cast: Dale Rutter, Ada Mae Johnson, Office: The Carlton Intercontinental, Co-production partners: CONACULTA, introducing Raquel Castro. Alex Torre Suite 120/121, Tel: 04.93.06.41.21 or IMCINE, CCC, ECHASA Status: In Post-Production Delivery Status: Completed 04.93.06.68.21. Delivery Status: (completed) Country of Origin: USA Year of Production: 2002, Country of THE PROMISE Year of Production: 2003, Country of Oscar winner Ben Affleck and Jennifer Origin: USA Director: Chen Kaige Origin: Mexico Lopez star in this new romantic comedy Budget: $750,000 Producers: Chen Hong, Chen Kaige, Han A documentary story of people whose from writer/director Kevin Smith about a Fast Cars, Furious Fights, Explosive San Ping, Etchie Stroh lives are linked by ruptures such as the smooth-talking public relations executive Action and Hot Girls! Status: Start Principal Photography Fall Spanish Civil War, the Second World who meets his match in an intelligent RAQUEL BITTON SINGS EDITH 2003 War; people who have traveled around and sexy young woman. PIAF, HER STORY...HER SONGS Cntry of Origin: China Documentary (97 minutes) the world in search of a place they can ELLA ENCHANTED What is Destiny? Is it war, love or a Language: English/French belong. Fantasy dream? A General, a Princess and a slave Language: English Director: George Elder entangled in a story about War, Love, and Director: Tommy O’Haver Producer: George Elder Dream. MIFF-FILM Producer: Jane Startz Cast: Raquel Bitton TOGETHER Exec. Producer: Su Armstrong Delivery Status: Completed Drama FESTIVAL Cast: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Year of Production: 2002, Country of Director: Chen Kaige Elwes, Vivica A. Fox, Joanna Lumley, Origin: USA/France Producers: Ton Gang, Chen Hong INTERNAZIONALE with Minnie Driver and Eric Idle Budget: $1 million Cntry of Origin: China DI MILANO Status: In Post-Production A tribute to Edith Piaf through the Principal Cast: Tang Yun, Liu Peiqi, power, passion & awe-inspiring voice of Chen Hong, Wang Zhiwen, Chen Kaige, MIFF-Film Festival Internazionale Di Country of Origin: USA Raquel Bitton. Cheng Qian, Zhang Qing, Kim Hairi, Liu Milano, V.le Famagosta, 19, 20142 Ð In this thoroughly modern fairytale, a young and beautiful girl finds herself the THE PACT Bing Milano, Italy. Tel: 39.02.8918.1179 / Thriller (100 minutes) victim of an evil spell where she must Status: Completed 02.5740.3738. Fax: 39.02.8912.5683. Language: English obey every command of those around Thirteen-year-old Xiaochun goes with his USA: 2014 N Sycamore Avenue, 2nd flr Director: Strath Hamilton father to Beijing to study the violin. Hollywood, CA 90068-3736. Tel: her. THE GREAT RAID Producer: Phil Avalon There he meets Lili his first love, first 323.512.4450. Fax. 323.512.4484. Action Adventure/War Drama Cast: Robert Mammone, Sigrid source of heartbreak and first true friend. www.miffmilanofestival.com Language: English Thornton, Peter O’Brien IN THE COMPANY OF HEROES Company Type: Film Festival Director: John Dahl Delivery Status: Completed Action At Cannes: Andrea Galante (Director) Producers: Marty Katz, Lawrence Bender Year of Production: 2002, Country of Director: Allan A. Goldstein Office: Tel: 39.335.442.332 / Cast: Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Origin: Australia Producers: Allan A. Goldstein, Etchie 310.266.4252 Connie Nielsen, and Joseph Fiennes Budget: $3 million Stroh, Martin Myers, Luciano Lisi Status: In Post-Production Fifteen years ago they made a Principal Cast: N/A Country of Origin: USA promise...that now may kill them all. Cntry of Origin: Canada/UK MIRAMAX From acclaimed director John Dahl (The CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES Status: pre-production, shooting summer Drama (88 minutes) INTERNATIONAL Last Seduction and Rounders) comes this 2003 in Hong Kong Language: English A double agent walks a tightrope Miramax International, 99 Hudson true story of a determined nurse, the man Director: Eric Byler between villain and hero, set against Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013 who loved her, and the war that kept Producer: Eric Byler intrigue and espionage in Hong Kong USA. Tel: 212.219.4100. Fax: them apart. Cast: Michael Idemoto, Jacqueline Kim, and the jungles of South East Asia. 212.941.3836. Eugenia Yuan THE TOOLBOX MURDERS At Cannes: Rick Sands (COO, Miramax Delivery Status: Completed Thriller Films), Edward Noeltner (Senior Vice MODERN Year of Production: 2002, Country of Director: Tobe Hooper President, Distribution and Sales, ENTERTAINMENT Producers: Tony DiDio Miramax International), Marc Bunag Modern Entertainment, 16255 Ventura (Vice President, Creative Marketing, Blvd., Suite 1100, Encino, California Miramax International), Mark Lindsay 91436, USA. Tel: 818.386.0444. Fax: (Vice President, International 818.728.8294. Distribution, Miramax International), Jill Company Type: Distributor Silfen (Vice President, Business and At Cannes: Michael Weiser (President & Legal Affairs, Miramax International), CEO), Ken DuBow (Sr. VP, Worldwide Lisa Lazure (Director, International Sales), Allyson Hall (VP, International Publicity, Miramax International) Sales), Leah Marks (Director, Office: Majestic Hotel, Salle Royan, 14, International Sales), Andy Schreiber La Croisette, Cannes, France. Tel: (Consultant); Acquisition Executive: Ken 04.97.06.85.00. 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Status: In Production BLAST David Wicht Documentary (82 mins) Cntry of Origin: U.S. Action Delivery Status: Production Language: English Evil lurks inside the Lusman Building: a Language: English Country: USA Director: John Dower ruthless madman who uses drills, saws Director: Anthony Hickox Budget: US$4,000,000 Producer: John Battsek and claw hammers to murder his victims. Producer: Brad Krevoy, David Lancaster, Dracula returns in the year 3000 to Cast: Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, EXTREME CLOSE UP Klaus Rettig, Gerhard Schmidt. terrorize the crew of an intergalactic Jarvis Cocker, Damon Albarn Thriller Cast: Eddie Griffin, Beckin Meyer, spaceship in this new twist on the classic Delivery Status: completed Director: Sean S. Cunningham Vinnie Jones, Vivica A. Fox, Soup, horror legend. Year of Production: 2002, Country of Producers: Geoff Garrett, Sean S. Shaggy BOAT TRIP Origin: UK Cunningham Delivery Status: Post-production Comedy (95 min.) A life-affirming celebration of the Principal Cast: Sarah Chalke, C. Thomas Year of Production: 2003, Country of Language: English Britpop scene. Howell, Jay Michael Ferguson Origin: USA Director/ Writer: Mort Nathan BLIND FLIGHT Status: completed Budget: US$20,000,000 Producer: Brad Krevoy, Gerhard Drama Cntry of Origin: U.S.A. A terrorist posing as environmentalist Schmidt, Frank Huebner, Sabine Mueller Language: English A reality TV show gets a boost in ratings hijacks an oilrig off the coast of Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Horatio Sanz, Director: John Furse when a mysterious “accident” claims one California with the intent of detonating Vivica A. Fox, Roselyn Sanchez. Producer: Sally Hibbin of the cast. As one member after another an electromagnetic bomb over the US. Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Ian Hart, Linus Roache is murdered, the show takes reality to an BOOKIES Country: USA Delivery Status: post-production Dramatic Thriller (92 min.) EXTREME. Budget: US$25,000,000 Year of Production: 2003, Country of Language: English Hilarious comedy about two guys who Origin: UK Director: Mark Illsley find fun, romance and adventure on a From darkness to light. From despair to MORGAN CREEK Producer: Alan Greenstone, Sabine Mediterranean vacation boat cruise. hope. From solitude to the greatest INTERNATIONAL Mueller, Paul Greenstone, Gerhard friendship of their lives. An epic true Schmidt, Andrea Kreuzhage, Brad story. Morgan Creek International, 4000 Krevoy. MOVIEHOUSE Warner Boulevard, Building 76, Burbank, Cast: Nick Stahl, Rachel Leigh Cook, CA 91522 USA. Tel: 818.954.4800. Fax: Lukas Haas, Johnny Galecki ENTERTAINMENT MOVIEVENTURES 818.954.4990. www.Morgancreek.com Delivery Status: Completed Moviehouse Entertainment, 9 Grafton At Cannes: James G. Robinson Year of Production: 2002, Country: USA Mews, London, W1T 5HZ, UK. Tel: LTD. (Chairman/CEO), Howard Kaplan Budget: US$15,000,000 44.20.7380.3999. Fax: 44.20.7380.3998. MovieVentures Ltd., Hill House, 1 Little (CFO), Jonathan Deckter (VP A dramatic thriller about friendship and [email protected]. New Street, London, EC4A 3TR, UK. Tel: International) loyalty set against the backdrop of two of www.moviehouseent.com 44.207.493.7920. Fax: 44.207.493.8088. Office: Martinez Hotel - Suite 620, Tel: the most lucrative illegal activities around Company Type: Sales Agent [email protected] 33.4.92.98.73.00. Tel: 33.4.93.39.67.82. the world- sports gambling on college At Cannes: Gary Phillips (Managing Company Type: Distributor campuses and student run booking Director), Mark Vennis (Managing At Cannes: Martin Katz, Karen Cuccaro, making operations. Director), Claire Battersby (Director of Andrew Luff; Acquisition Executive: MOTION PICTURE BARELY LEGAL Marketing & Publicity); Acquisition Martin Katz Comedy (93 min.) CORPORATION OF Executive: Mark Vennis Office: Riviera K-1, Tel: 04.92.99.88.42 Language: English Office: 55 la Croisette, 4th Floor, Tel: ANIMAL FARM AMERICA Director: David Mickey Evans 04.93.43.80.65 Animation (74 min) Producer: Brad Krevoy, Klaus Rettig, AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A Language: English Motion Picture Corporation of America, David Kirkpatrick. SERIAL KILLER Directors: John Halas and Joy Batchelor 1401 Ocean Avenue Suite # 301 Santa Cast: Erik Von Detten, Tom Arnold, Amy Documentary (89 mins) Producers: John Halas and Joy Batchelor Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel: Smart, Horacio Sanz, Sarah Jane Potts. Language: English for De Rochemont Films 310.319.9500. Fax: 310-319-9501. Delivery Status: Completed Director: Nick Broomfield & Joan Delivery Status: Completed [email protected]. www.mpcafilm.com Country: USA Churchill Year of Production: 1954 (classic, fully Company Type: Producer, Distributor Budget: 15,000,000 Producer: Jo Human restored) At Cannes: Brad Krevoy(Chairman & A raucous teen comedy about a group of Cast: Aileen Wuornos Country of Origin: UK CEO), Sigrid Ann Davison (President of teen-agers who cook up a misguided Delivery Status: completed Captures the spirit of Orwell’s timeless International – mobile: 06.22.67.17.08), scheme to meet girls and make money- Year of Production: 2003, Country of political allegory in classic animation; Victoria Nevinny (Sr. VP Marketing – produce an adult film. Origin: UK fully restored in superb colour and detail mobile: 06.22.67.17.12), Francisco DRACULA 3000 Claimed to be the first female serial from its original negative. 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Origin: Australia WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD For anyone who ever felt different... your Drama hero has arrived. Language: English FEAR X Drama (91 mins) Producer: Martin J. Katz Language: English Delivery Status: In Development Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Country of Origin: US, Canada, UK Producer: Henrik Danstrup Based on the actual events of the Cast: John Turturro, James Remar, devastating and deadly sinking of the Deborah Kara Unger Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew in a Delivery Status: completed brutal storm on Lake Superior. Year of Production: 2002, Country of Origin: Denmark/UK L.A. Office Phone Murder. Obsession. Search. Truth. (323) 935-8228 LIFE TIDES - AURUM LIVE FOREVER The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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ROCK N’ ROLL SUSHI MULTIMEDIA Director: Istvan Szabo AAMAAR BHUVAN (THIS, MY Music Producers: Robert Lantos LAND) Language: English, Japanese CORPORATION Cast: Annette Bening Drama (105 mins) Producer: MovieVentures Status: Pre-production Director: Mrinal Sen Delivery Status: In Development INTERNATIONAL, A celebrated actress embarks on a secret Producer: P.D. Gupta; Country of Origin: UK, Japan INC and passionate affair with her son’s best Cast: Nandita Das, Koushik Sen. Rockumentary on the merging of Delivery Status: Completed Multimedia Corporation International, friend, until she realizes he has an Japanese and American cultures from ulterior motive. Country of Origin: India Inc, (Production Office): 19360 Rinaldi Human compassion helps two people WWII to the present. EULOGY St. #342, Porter Ranch, CA 91326 USA. Comedy sort out life. Tel: 818.368.0817. Fax: 818.368.1817. Director: Michael Clancy ARIMPARA (WART) [email protected]. Executive Producers: Lucas Foster, Rory Drama MR INTERNATIONAL mcmultimedia.de Rosegarten, Shelly Glasser, Jonas Director: Murali Nair FILM SALES At Cannes: Karin Thome (President), McCord, Kendall Morgan, Bo Hyde Producers: National Film Development Joseph G. Geissler (Director), Ricardo Producers: Steven Haft, Kirk D’Amico, Corp. and Murali Nair MR International Film Sales, 1 Westland Gaona (Vice President Acquistions) Richard Lewis Cast: Nedumudi Venu, M.R. Gopakumar. Square, Pearse Street, Dublin 2. Ireland. Office: Tel: 0049.171.273.9070 Cast: Hank Azaria, Jesse Bradford, Delivery Status: In production Tel: 353.1.8814010. Fax: 353.1.8814011. JAGUAR Zooey Deschanel, Famke Janssen, Kelly Country of Origin: India [email protected] Producer : Karin Thome, MMC Preston, Ray Romano, Debra Winger A rich Orthodox man has a black mole Company Type: Sales agent, Producer Inc.,USA, Joseph Geissler MCM, Status: Post-production under his lip that alienates him from his At Cannes: Michael Ryan(Managing Germany A young girl finds herself amidst a surroundings. Director), Gareth Jones (Sales A beautiful treasure hunter and a drug DATTAK (THE ADOPTED) comical frenzy when three generations of Consultant), Mary Clare Curran (Sales lord fight for their lives when they Drama (120 mins) a dysfunctional family reunite for her Executive), Emma Scott (Producer), encounter the mystical Jaguar people Director: Gul Bahar Singh deep inside the heart of the Amazon. grandfather’s funeral. Producer: National Film Development Patrick O’Neill (Sales Assistant) KINSEY Office: 23 Criossette/23 rue Macet, Top TWIN SOUL Corp. 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Executive Producers: Dirk-Jan Bijker, Directors: Nachiket and Jayoo in communing with their departed. TACOS AL CARBON Tonneke Bijker, David J. Bijker, Esli Producer: Karin Thome, MMC Inc., Patwardhan Unexpectedly our heroes make contact Bijker, David Arquette, Tim Blake Producer: NFDC, Government of India, with a dead gangster and reluctantly USA, Joseph Geissler, MCM Germany Nelson, Geert Heetebrij, Helmut An unexpected romance between a Government of Maharashtra become his earthly accomplices. Schleppi Cast: Shabana Azmi, Sadashiv TIMBUKTU Senate candidate and a Mexican Cast: David Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Road Movie Amrapurkar bullfighter. Emily Mortimer Language: English Delivery Status: In production Status: Completed Director: Alan Gilsenan Country of Origin: India When their doting mother passes away, Producer: John McDonnell, Martin MYRIAD PICTURES An 18th-century woman wants to commit two small-town American vegetable Mahon, Emma Scott Myriad Pictures, 405 S. 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By accident, Country: Finland, Year: 2002 Chaykin (Nero Wolfe) and Ada Turturro they steal the wrong painting – INTERNATIONAL A road movie about two young men who (The Sopranos) Denmark’s only original Rembrandt travel through Finland to try to realize Oasis International, 6 Pardee Ave, Suite Delivery Status: Completed masterpiece worth millions. their dreams before dying, “One-Way 103, Toronto, Canada. M6K 3H5. Tel: Based on “That Summer in Paris” this EVIL (ONDSKAN) 416.588.6821. Fax: 416.588.7276. Ticket to Mombasa” is a low-key, mostly Drama exciting new mini-series explores the [email protected]. captivating drama. Language: Swedish early career of Ernest Hemingway from THE GOLDFISH MEMORY www.oasisinternational.com Director: Mikael Håfström his first job as a writer in the backwater Romantic Comedy (85 min) Company Type: International and Producer: Hans Lönnerheden & Ingemar of Toronto to his now famous life in Language: English Domestic Distribution Company Leijonborg Paris in the early 30s. Director: Liz Gill At Cannes: Peter Emerson (President), Key Cast: Andreas Wilson, Linda HAVE MERCY Producer: Breda Walsh Valerie Cabrera (Executive VP), Steve Feature Drama (90 min) Zilliacus, Henrik Lundström, Marie Prod. Comp: Goldfish Film Murphy (VP, Sales), Prentiss Holman Language: English Richardson, Johan Rabeus, Kjell Cast: Sean Campion, Flora Montgomery, (Sales Executive) Producer: Have Mercy Pictues Bergqvist, Gustaf Skarsgard, Magnus Stuart Graham, Jean Butler, Keith Office: Cast: Alisa Wiegers (The Chippendalles McErlean, Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Justine Roosman, Ulf Friberg LONG LIFE, HAPPINESS AND Murder) Clark Johnson (Love Come Mitchell, Aisling O’Neill, Peter Gaynor, Delivery Status: Completed PROSPERITY Down) and Jacki Burroughs (Willard) Drama (90 min) Demian McAdam and Lisa Hearns Year of Production: 2002, Country of Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Status: Completed/screening Origin: Sweden Have Mercy is the story of one woman’s Producer: Shaftesbury Films Country: Ireland, Year: 2002 16-year-old Erik lives a life with journey out of madness and into Starring: SANDRA OH (ARLI$$, Goldfish Memory is a light-hearted look violence and evil both at home and at craziness and a group of women who Judging Amy, Bliss, Princess Diaries), at the dangers and delights of dating in school. 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INERTIA BOMBO SPORTS Origin: UK Key Cast: Masahiro Hisano, Yukika Feature (90 min) Documentary features The world’s biggest musical tells the Sakuratani Language: English Language: English classic and highly emotive story of the Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Indian Snack Box Delivery Status: 5 completed, 1 in love triangle between a beautiful young A coming-of-age story about a boy in Cast: Jonas Chernick (“The Eleventh production. opera singer, her childhood sweetheart sixth grader who falls in love with a girl Hour”, The Pentagon Papers) and Sarah Year of Production: Country of Origin: and a tormented, disfigured musical in junior high school, who is “too old” Constable (The many Trials of Jane Doe. USA genius. for him. Delivery Status: Completed Six gripping behind-the-scenes OPEN SESAME CO., The lives of four characters are documentaries take a uniquely human sidetracked by desire deception and look at the top teams and athletes in the LTD. 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Fax: Delivery Status: completed Producer: Hiroko Matsuda 39.06.5327.5511. 44.(0).207.016.9134. sales@odyssey- Year of Production: 2002, Country of Key Cast: Ryo Kase, Akemi Kobayashi [email protected]. entertainment.co.uk Origin: UK Delivery Status: Post Production www.firstlookmedia.com Company Type: Sales Agent, Finance A pulsating action thriller that takes us Year of Production: 2003, Country of At Cannes: Chris Cooney (CEO, Co- At Cannes: Ralph Kamp (Chairman and into a world of violence, betrayal, Origin: Japan Chairman, First Look Media), Robbie CEO), Louise Goodsill (President and kidnap, blackmail and surprisingly...love. A heart-wrenching drama of a young Little (President, Co-Chairman, First COO), Amanda Evans (Vice President A television film premiere for the ITV man and his family who gets over the Look Media), William Lischak (COO, Worldwide TV Sales), Matthew Hampton Network in the UK. tragic death of his little sister. CFO, First Look Media), MJ Peckos (Vice President Marketing), Rachel DEATHWATCH HOTEL HIBISCUS (President, First Look Pictures), Liz Woodeson (Vice President Legal & Horror (92 minutes) Drama (92 minutes) Mackiewicz (Sr. VP, Worldwide Sales & Business Affairs), Pascal Degove (Sales Language: English Year of Production: 2002, Country of Distrib, Overseas Filmgroup), Brian Executive); Acquisition Executive: Sarah Director: Michael J Bassett Origin: Japan Oshea (Sr. VP, Worldwide Sales & Arnott (Vice President Acquisitions) Producer: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor, Language: Japanese w/English subtitles Distrib, Overseas Filmgroup), Gina Office: Vieux Port - Bay View Motor Frank Hubner Co-production partners: Director: Yuji Nakae Nahum (VP, International Sales (Rome), Yacht, Tel: 33.(0)4.92.98.71.72, Fax: Cast: Jamie Bell, Hugo Speer, Andy Producer: Hotel Hibiscus Parth ners Overseas Filmgroup), Steven Demille 33.(0)4.92.98.71.72 Serkis Key Cast: Honami Kurashita, Kimiko Yo (Sr. VP, marketing, First Look Home VEGGIETALES Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Entertainment), Jd Beaufils (Director, Kids Animation (22 x 30 minutes. 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Year of Production: 2002, Country of Stehr, Alexander Thies Origin: Japan Principal Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Alfred Language: Japanese w/English subtitles Molina, Clair Cox, Sir Peter Ustinov, Director: Shin Togashi Bruno Ganz Producer: GOMEN Film Partners Delivery Status: Screening, INVITE ONLY L.A. Office Phone Overcoming his own inner demons, (323) 935-8228 Martin Luther, a German monk, THE VIRGIN OF LIVERPOOL - SENATOR INNTERNATIONAL challenges the political and religious The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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INTERNATIONAL Comedy Delivery Status: Screening www.parkentertainment.com Pathe International, 10, rue Lincoln, Language: french In the belly of Bangkok’s underworld, Company Type: Sales agent/distributor 75008 Paris, France. Tel: Director: Diane KURYS four strangers lives are about to At Cannes: Jim Howell (CEO), Simon 331.40.76.94.38. Fax: 331.40.76.91.23. Producer: Alain TERZIAN Co- change...forever. Barnes (Head Of Film Sales), Linda [email protected]. production partners: LETHAL DOSE (LD50) Vezzoli (Marketing and Sales Executive) www.patheinternational.fr Cast: Sophie MARCEAU, Vincent Psychological Horror PEREZ, Charles BERLING Director: Simon de Selva Office: Room 143 Carlton Company Type: Sales agent Intercontinental, 58 La Croisette, Tel: At Cannes: Olivier GRANIER (CEO) Delivery Status: post production Producer: Alistair Maclean-Clark, Basil Year of Production: 2003, Country of Stephens 33.(0).4.93.06.41.43. Fax: Pascal DIOT (Director of sales) Christine 33.(0).4.93.06.40.25 (Room 143) HAYET (Director of sales); Acquisition Origin: France Principal Cast: Katharine Towne, Marie-Dominique and Bertrand form a Melanie Brown, Tom Hardy THE GREAT GOOSE CAPER Executive: Olivier GRANIER (CEO) Family Comedy (85 minutes) close-knit couple, but only on the Delivery Status: Screening Office: 331.40.76.94.38, Tel: Language: English surface. A group of young activists get more than 334.92.99.33.03, Fax: 334.92.99.33.06 Director: Nicholas Kendall LE BISON they bargained for when they break into Producer: Wendy Hill-Tout, Alex Brown Comedy (96 min) an animal research lab, only to find that Cast: Chevy Chase, Joan Plowright, Language: french PATHÉ they have become the subjects of a grisly James Purefoy, Kari Matchett, Max Director: Isabelle NANTY experiment. INTERNATIONAL-UK Morrow Producer: Claude BERRI Co-production Delivery Status: post production partners: Pathé International-UK, London office: P Year of Production: 2003, Country of Cast: Isabelle NANTY, Edouard BAER, Kent House, Market Place, London W1W Origin: Canada/UK Pierre François MARTIN LAVAL 8AR UK. Tel: 44.207.462.4427. Fax: PARAGON FILM Budget: $6.5 million Delivery Status: completed 44.20.7436.7891. e: GROUP A talking Goose brings the sparkle back Year of Production: 2003, Country of [email protected]. Web: to a little boy’s life but it’s a race against Origin: France http://www.pathe.co.uk/ Paragon Film Group, 209 East Alameda time to save the bird from the Christmas LA BEUZE At Cannes: Alison Thompson (ead of (95 min) Avenue, Burbank, CA 91502 USA. Tel: cooking pot. Sales), Moyra Lock (Marketing 818.845.7148. THE PURIFIERS Language: french Manager), Stephen Murphy (Business www.paragonfilmgroup.com, Martial Arts Director: Francois DESAGNAT & Affairs Manager), Mike Runagall [email protected] Language: English Thomas SORRIAUX (International Sales Co-ordinator) At Cannes: Scott Bedno (Vice President, Director: Richard Jobson Producer: Abel NAHMIAS Office: c/o The Riviera, Stand N7, Tel: Sales & Acquisitions), Matthew Producer: Richard Jobson, Chris Atkins Cast: Michael YOUN, Vincent 33(0).4.92.99.33.03. Fax: McCombs (President) Cast: Kevin McKidd, Troy Titus-Adams DESAGNAT 33(0).4.92.99.33.06 Office: Riviera C9, Fax: 818.566.6639 Delivery Status: in production Delivery Status: (completed) BODYSONG Feature Documentary (83 minutes) HELLBORN Country of Origin: UK Year of Production: 2003, Country of Horror (90 min) Language: English Budget: $1.8 million Origin: France Language: English Director: Simon Pummell A modern day gang movie set against a Alphonse Brown, illegitimate son of Director: Philip Jones Producer: Janine Marmot (I Could Read martial arts backdrop in a Britain of the James Brown, has been friends with Producer: Philip Jones, Matthew the Sky, Institute Benjamenta) near future. Scotch since childhood. They live in Le McCombs ALIEN SOUP Havre, making a living from seedy scams Production Company: Hot Property Key Cast: Bruce Payne, Tiny Lister Jr., Family Comedy and deals until the day Alphonse gets Films Tracy Scoggins Language: English himself arrested. Delivery Status: Completed/Screening Delivery Status: Completed Director: Stephen Cookson PAS SI GRAVE Year Produced: 2002, Production Year of Production: 2002, Country of Producer: Stephen Cookson, David Ball Romantic Comedy (98 min) Country: UK Origin: USA Delivery Status: pre-production Language: french The epic story of love, sex, violence, A young doctor uncovers a demonic cult Country of Origin: UK Director: Bernard RAPP death and dreams. The story of our lives, and must escape before becoming the Budget: $9 million Producer: Didier CRESTE Co- told through moving images from around next victim of “The Harvester” Strange aliens arrive on earth to taste the production partners: the world. BACKFLASH Cast: Sami BOUAJILA, Romain DURIS, Thriller (90 min) best tomato soup in the galaxy. NINE DEAD GAY GUYS Jean Michel PORTAL Language: English Comedy (83 minutes) Delivery Status: completed Director: Philip Jones Language: English Year of Production: 2002, Country of Producer: Philip Jones, Matthew Director: Lab Ky Mo Origin: France McCombsh Producer: Lamia Nayeb St-Hilaire Three feuding foster brothers, Leo, Max Key Cast: Robert Patrick, Jennifer Cast: Steven Berkoff, Michael Praed, Vas and Charlie, are suddenly sent from Esposito, Melissa Joan Hart, Colm Blackwood foggy Liège in Belgium to sunny Meaney Delivery Status: completed Valencia in southern Spain on a mission Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2002, Country of to fulfill the dying wish of their foster Year of Production: 2001, Country of Origin: UK father. Origin: USA Two ordinary Irish lads’ outrageous MALEFIQUE There’s nothing real in this...but the journey through London’s underground Horror (90 min) money. gay scene. Language: french TWO MEN WENT TO WAR Director: Eric VALETTE The usual Comedy Drama (108 minutes) Producer: Marc Missonnier & Olivier Language: English DELBOSC Co-production partners: Location for the Director: John Henderson Cast: Gérald LAROCHE, Philippe 23RD year Producer: Ira Trattner, Pat Harding LAUDENBACH, Clovis CORNILLAC, Cast: Kenneth Cranham, Leo Bill, Derek Dimitri RATAUD The Carlton Hotel Jacobi Delivery Status: (pre, post, in production Room 149 Delivery Status: completed or completed) SAV E THE GREEN PLANET Year of Production:2001, Country of Year of Production: 2002, Country of CJ ENTERTAINMENT The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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BROKEN WINGS (K’NAFAYIM Eleven year-old David Wiseman is mad Status: Completed Alibrandi), Kristian Schmid SHVUROT) about cricket but no good at it. He has all Country of Origin: UK (Neighbours), Jessica Gower (Secret Life Drama (87 minutes) the kit but none of the skill, and he’s a This Universal Pictures UK release of Us), Petra Yared (MDA) Language: Hebrew (English-subtitled) laughing stock at school. depicts a stylized London underworld Delivery Status: completed Director: Nir Bergman GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING where deception and intimidation are Year of Production: 2002, Country of Producer: Assaf Amir Romantic Drama 24/7 and betrayal is the only way out. Origin: Australia Production Company: Norma Language: English SEVEN GIRLFRIENDS School’s Out...and it’s only 200 miles to Productions Director: Peter Webber Romantic Comedy the party of a lifetime! Every year more Cast: Orly Zilberschatz Banai, Maya Producer: Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker Director: Paul Lazarus than 70,000 Australian school leavers Maron, Nitai Gvirtz Production Company: Archer Street Producers: Paul Lazarus, J. Todd Harris, head for the beaches of Australia’s Gold Year Produced: 2002, Production Cast: Colin Firth (Bridget Jones’ Diary, Barry Opper Coast to celebrate with a wild mixture of Country: Israel The Importance of Being Earnest), Principle Cast: Tim Daly (TV’s The sun, surf and sex. An uplifting and optimistic tale, Scarlett Johansson (Eight Legged Freaks, Fugitive, Object of My Affection), Mimi UNDER THE RADAR BROKEN WINGS portrays a family, Ghost World, The Man Who Wasn’t Rogers, Olivia D’Abo, Jami Gertz, Comedy Thriller (95 min) which despite a series of crises, manages There), Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom, Elizabeth Pena Language: English to come back from the brink of disaster. The Importance of Being Earnest, The Status: Completed Director: Evan Clarry THE PRINCIPLES OF LUST Full Monty) Producer: Chris Brown, Chris Fitchett Drama (108 minutes) Country of Origin: USA Status In Post-Production Co-production partners: Macquarie Film Language: English It’s hard to be “Mr. Right”; just ask his Year Produced: 2003, Production Investments, Nine Films, Hoyts, Director: Penny Woolcock (The Death of seven girlfriends! Country: UK FFC, PFTC. Klinghoffer, Tina Goes Shopping) Set in 17th century Holland, GIRL Cast: Clayton Watson (Matrix Reloaded), Producer: Madonna Baptiste WITH A PEARL EARRING tells the PICTURE THIS! Nathan Phillips (Australian Production Company: Blast! Films imagined and highly seductive story Rules), Chloe Maxwell, Steady Eddy. Cast: Alec Newman (Long Time Dead; ENTERTAINMENT behind one of Vermeer’s greatest and Delivery Status: post Greenwich Mean Time), Marc Warren Picture This! Entertainment, 7471 most enigmatic paintings. Year of Production: 2003, Country of (Men Only; Dad Savage; Band of Melrose Avenue, Suite 7, Los Angeles, Origin: Australia Brothers), Sienna Guillory (Late Night CA 90046 USA. Tel: 323.852.1398. Fax: Four twenty-somethings travel to the Shopping; Take a Girl Like You) PFG 323.658.7265. [email protected], coast together, each with their own Status Completed/Screening www.picturethisent.com agenda. Chaos ensues as they unwittingly Year Produced: 2002, Production ENTERTAINMENT Company Type: Sales Agent, Distributor find themselves caught up in the midst of Country: UK PFG Entertainment, Inc., 429 Santa At Cannes: Acquisition Executive: a deadly crossfire between two rival Paul is suffering from writer’s block and Monica Boulevard, Suite 600, Santa Douglas Witkins (President), Koing gangs. a growing languidness, until he meets Monica, California 90401 USA. Tel: Kuoch (Vice-President) THE LOCALS two people: Billy, a charismatic and 310.393.5788. Fax: 310.393.0882. EBAN AND CHARLEY Horror (95 min) Drama (89 minutes) dangerous risk-taker who exposes Paul to www.pfgentertainment.com. Language: English Language: English the darker side of life; and Juliette with [email protected] Director: Greg Page Director: James Bolton whom he falls passionately in love. At Cannes: Ted Rosenblatt, Daniel Gerst Producer: Steve Sachs WONDROUS OBLIVION Producer: Chris Monlux and Tamar Chafets Co-production partners: New Zealand Drama (104 minutes) Cast: Giovani Andrade, Brent Fellows Office: Carlton Inter Continental Hotel, Film Commission Language: English Delivery Status Complete Suite 201, Tel: 33.493.064.201. Fax: Cast: John Barker (Mercy Peak), Dwayne Director: Paul Morrison (Oscar Country of Origin: USA 33.493.066.901. Cameron (The Tribe, Street Legal), Kate nominated for Solomon and Gaenor) Budget: 1 Million Elliott (Toy Love, Street Legal), Aidee Producer: Jonny Persey A SLIPPING-DOWN LIFE Romantic Drama When a fifteen year old boy’s friendship Walker Co-Producer: Lesley Stewart (The Full Director: Guy Pearce (Memento, The with a young school teacher begins to Delivery Status: completed Monty, Trainspotting) Count of Monte Cristo, Time Machine), deepen, controversy erupts. Year of Production: 2003, Country of Executive Producer: Michael Kuhn Lili Taylor (Live From Bagdad, High Origin: New Zealand Production Company: APT Films Fidelity, The Haunting), Two best friends Grant and Paul hit the Cast: Delroy Lindo (Malcolm X, Get PICTURES IN Producer: Richard Raddon road for a weekend of surfing, booze and Shorty, The Cider House Rules), Emily Status: Completed PARADISE hopefully . . . girls. Woof (Pandemonium, The Full Monty, Country of Origin: USA LAB RATS This Year’s Love), Stanley Townsend (In Pictures In Paradise, Ocean Studios, 1 Romantic Comedy (95 min) Guy Pearce gives another amazing the Name of the Father, The Snapper, John Lund Drive, Hope Harbour 4212, Language: English performance, here as a seductive The Miracle), Sam Smith (Oliver Twist - Australia. Tel: 61.7.55108466. Fax: Producer: Chris Brown, Chris Fitchett musician whose newfound success TV Mini Series)Year Produced: 2003, 61.7.55108522. Country of Origin: Australia becomes dependent on the obsessive Status Screening/World Premiere www.picturesinparadise.com.au Five Backpackers find themselves down infatuation of a devoted fan (Lili Taylor). Company Type: producer, distributor Production Country: UK WOOLY BOYS and out in London. Desperate for money Adventure Comedy At Cannes: Chris Brown (Producer), they’ll do anything including becoming Director: Leszek Burzynski Defrim Isai (Co-producer Business guinea pigs at a drug research facility. Producers: Robert Schwartz Affairs) CLASS Black Comedy Thriller (95 min) Principle Cast: Peter Fonda (Ulee’s Gold) Office: c/- Australian Film Commission, Language: English ,Kris Kristofferson (Blade II, Planet Of Level 8, 52 La Croisette, Tel: Director: John Ruane (Death in The Apes), Keith Carradine (Wild Bill), 33.4.93998507. Fax: 33.4.93998504 Brunswick, That Eye The Sky) Joseph Mazzello (Jurassic Park I & II) BLURRED Teen Comedy (92 min) Producer: Chris Brown, Chris Fitchett Status: Completed Language: English Country of Origin: Australia Country of Origin: USA Director: Evan Clarry When American student Julian Mitchell It’s family friendly fun when a city-bred Producer: Chris Brown, Chris Fitchett enrolls at the exclusive Darworth teenager gets caught up in a series of Co-production partners: Claymoss, Grammar he doesn’t expect to be misadventures after being “kidnapped” Portman Films, Becker Ent, FFC, PFTC. persecuted by the elitist teacher nick- by his sheep rancher grandfather. SHOOTERS Cast: Mathew Newton (Looking for named ‘Spider’. Crime Drama Director: Colin Teague, Glenn Durfort Producers: Margery Bone The Business Of Film Location Principle Cast: Adrian Dunbar (The for the 23RD year General, The Crying Game), Andrew Howard (Band of Brothers), Louis The Carlton Hotel Dempsey (Stones In Their Pockets), Melanie Lynskey (Heavenly Creatures, PEACHES Room 149 CINEMAVAULT RELEASING INC. Coyote Ugly). The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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PM Cast: Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, de Rossi SVT- Sveriges Television- Stockholm Miranda Richardson Delivery Status: Completed (96:00) Cast: Luca Zingaretti, Amanda Sandrelli, ENTERTAINMENT Delivery Status: completed Country of Origin: USA Mathilda May PM Entertainment, Corporate Office: Year of Production:2002, Country of James Rhodes (Jeff Daniels) knows that Set in Budapest towards the end of the 11835 West Olympic Blvd., Suite #550, Origin: United Kingdom there is a corporate cover up to the Second World War, this is based on the Los Angeles, CA 90064 USA. Tel: Two struggling, eccentric actors Tom bodies that were found in Tijuana. true story of Giorgio Perlasca, the Italian (Dylan Moran) and O’Malley (Michael GRAVELAND “Schindler” who risked everything to 310.444.4113. Fax: 310.444.4102. Action-Adventure At Cannes: Lenny Shapiro, Dan March Caine) prove the little known adage that save thousands of Jews from being Language: English Office: Riviera, booth Tel (914), Tel: bad actors make great crooks. killed. Director: Robert Stadd 06.73.68.09.41 A.K.A A SECOND CHANCE Delivery Status: Pre-production (119 min) FIRETRAP Drama (118 min) Action / Adventure Language: English Country of Origin: USA Language: Original version with English Director: Harris Done Director: Duncan Roy A spaceship headed by ambitious subtitles Producers: Vince Ravine, John Kelly Producer: Richard West Captain Kyle Baskin of XYCOR Director: Pasquale Squitieri Cast: Dean Cain, Richard Tyson, Mel Cast: Matthew Leitch, Lindsey Coulson, Corporation is en route to Mars to Production: Rai Cinema, Cosmopoli Harris Diana Quick investigate a mysterious energy source Corporation Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed which could save the earth. Cast: Giorgio Albertazzi, When the robbery of a classified Year of Production:2002, Country of GHOST MONKEY Naples is a city of a thousand intrigues Action-Adventure computer chip goes awry, the burglar Origin: United Kingdom and contrasts. De Gregorio is a cynical, Language: English must elude the police, secret agents and a Audaciously split into three simultaneous disillusioned and eccentric lawyer who Director: Paul Andersen deadly fire. frames, AKA tells the story of Dean, hates the squalor and meanness of the Delivery Status: Pre-production LAYOVER young, disaffected and trapped. With city. Country of Origin: USA ANTONIA’S RECIPES Thriller cunning and deceit, he adopts a fantasy A simian-like serial killer moves in the (96 min) Director: Alan McElrory life among the upper echelons of British Producers: Vince Ravine, John Kelly shadows and strikes with vicious force, Language: Original version with English and European society. subtitles Cast: David Hasselhoff, Gregg Henry, BLURRED ripping out the hearts of its victims. Yvonne Scio Comedy/ Road Movie (92 min) BACKTRACK Director: Tonino Cervi Action-Adventure Status: Completed Language: English Production: Rai Cinema, Splendida Language: English A steamy airport affair becomes one Director: Evan Clarry Produzioni Director: Tim Bogart man’s nightmare, as the woman he made Cast: Emanuela Muni, Gabriele Lavia, Producer: Chris Brown, Chris Fitchett Delivery Status: Pre-production love to turns out to be the wife of a Domiziana Giordano, Laura Betti, Andy Cast: Matthew Newton, Jess Gower, Country of Origin: USA dangerous jewelry dealer. Luotto Kristian Schmid When a mysterious man with no identity EPICENTER Delivery Status: completed The story, set in the 1900s, revolves Action / Adventure and no memory of his past saves the life Year of Production: 2002, Country of around a writer called Augusto and a Director: Richard Pepin of a homeless woman, the FBI must rather special cook. Origin: Australia Producer: Michael Derbas track him down before he realizes who TI DISPIACE SE BACIO MAMMA Every year more than 70,000 school Cast: Traci Elizabeth Lords, Gary he truly is. (120 min) leavers head for the sun-drenched Daniels, Jeff Fahey Language: Original version with English beaches of the Gold Coast to celebrate Status: Completed subtitles their release from school. A female cop must escort a notorious R Director: Alessandro Benvenuti ANITA & ME Production: Rai Cinema, Massimo criminal across Los Angeles to jail Comedy (92 min) RAI TRADE Ferrero for Blu Cinematgografica during an earthquake crisis. Language: English Rai Trade (Sales), Via Umberto Novaro Cast: Alessandro Benvenuti, Natasha Director: Metin Huseyin 18, 00195 Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.374 Stefanenko Producer: Paul Raphael 98469. Fax: 39.06. 37516222. Sandro finds it difficult to get PORTMAN FILM Cast: Kathy Burke, Lynn Redgrave, [email protected], www.raitrade.it romantically involved when he’s got Mark Williams Portman Film, 21-25 St Anne’s Court, At Cannes: Roberto Di Russo (President three over-curious sisters and a father Delivery Status: completed London, W1F OBJ UK. Tel: and Ceo), Andrea Portante (Sales and who is still chasing after every woman he Year of Production: 2002, Country of 44.20.7494.8024. Fax: 44.20.7494.8046. Marketing Director), Sesto Cifola (Head sees. [email protected]. Origin: United Kingdom of Cinema and Fiction International www.portmanfilm.com Meena (Chandeep Uppal) is 12 years old Sales), Giulia Filippelli (Cinema and Company Type: Sales agent and lives in the village of Tollington, Fiction International Sales Executive), At Cannes: Tristan Whalley, Tim Buxton, “the jewel of the Black Country” - in Susanna Gianandrea (Promotion, Jane Baker, Jenifer Landor, Mia Walker, 1972. She is the daughter of Indian Corporate Image and International Louise Matthews parents who have come to England to Festivals) Office: Grand Hotel Residences, give her a better life. Office: M 10- Riviera Palais Des Festival Entrance Flamant, 6th Floor, Bell 60CH, IL CUORE ALTROVE (A HEART Tel: 04.93.99.81.41. Fax: 04.93.99.81.60 ELSEWHERE) INTERMISSION PROMARK (103 min) Black Comedy (100 min) Language: Original version with English Language: English ENTERTAINMENT subtitles Director: John Crowley GROUP Director: Pupi Avati Producer: Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan, Production: Rai Cinema, Antonio Avati Alan Moloney Promark Entertainment Group, 3599 for Duea Film Cast: Colin Farrell, Kelly Macdonald, Cahuenga Blvd. West, Los Angeles, CA Cast: Neri Marcorè, Giancarlo Giannini, Shirley Henderson 90068 USA. Tel: 323.878.0404. Fax: Vanessa Incontrada, Sandra Milo, Guilio Delivery Status: completed 323.878.0486. [email protected] Bosetti, Nino D?Angelo. Year of Production: 2002, Country of Website: The film is set in the 1920s. Nello , a shy Origin: Republic of Ireland/ United At Cannes: Mr. Jonathan Kramer academic type lives with his family in Kingdom (President), Mr. Eric Bernstein (Vice Rome where his father is tailor to the A couple break up briefly (the President of International Sales), Ms. Pope. “intermission” of the title), sending Annouchka Lesoeur (Vice President PERLASCA (THE COURAGE OF A ripples through the lives of everyone International Sales) JUST MAN) around them. Office: Riviera Both M9/N10 (131 min) THE ACTORS I WITNESS Language: Original version with English Comedy (96 min) Action-Adventure subtitles Language: English Language: English Director: Alberto Negrin Director: Conor McPherson Director: Rowdy Herrington Co-production with Rai Fiction, Palomar Producer: Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan, Producer: David Bixler, Shelly Strong - Endemol, Focus Film- Budapest, Redmond Morris Cast: Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Portia France 2/Hamster Productions- Paris, THE COOLER - CONTENT INTERNATIONAL The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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RAMOJI FILMS USA TUJHE MERI KASAM A virologist and her son, vacationing on An American businessman caught in the Language: Hindi language an island, race against time to prevent a middle of a drug deal gone bad, must Ramoji Films USA, 7726 Laurel Canyon Cast: Ritesh Deshmukh, Genelia deadly virus from reaching the mainland. race against time to survive a powerful Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91605 USA. Delivery Status: Completed TERROR PEAK Russian Mafia Drug Lord. Tel: 818.255.5333. Fax: 818.255.5666. A heartwarming romantic comedy about Action Disaster .(90 minutes) ANTI-KILLER www.ramojifilmcity.com two friends who grow up as neighbors Language: English Action Adventure (111 min) Company Type: Worldwide distribution, and their misadventures in romance, only Executive Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Language: Russian production, co-production, financing, and to find out that the ideal mate is really Paul Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck Director: Yegor Mikhalkov- facilities available. living across the street! Producers: Grant Bradley, Jozsef Fityus Konchalovsky At Cannes: Ramoji Rao (Ramoji Film Director: Dale G. Bradley Producer: Vladimir Kilburg, Yusup City Chairman), Sridhar Sreekakula Cast: Parker Stevenson, Lynda Carter, Bakshhiev Worldwide Sales & Marketing – cell: REGENT Antony Starr Cast: Gosa Kytenko, Mikhail Ulyanov 001.646.258.8519), Chandra Pandula Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: completed (Acquisition & Development), Arun ENTERTAINMENT While on tour in New Zealand, a thrill- Year of Production: 2002, Country of Kumar (General Manager, International Regent Entertainment, 1401 Ocean seeking family confronts the forces of Origin: Russia Film Division) Avenue, Suite 300, Santa Monica, nature when the volcano they are Budget: 4 million $ Office: Palais 01- Stand 22.02 California 90401 USA. Tel: exploring becomes active. #1 Box Office in Russia 2002. Criminal HOME INVADERS 310.260.3333. Fax: 310.260.3343. investigator, Fox is released from prison Action/Drama Company type: Producer and distributor only to find that hit men are after him in Delivery Status: New, Completed Web: www.regententertainment.com RENAISSANCE a tale of violence and redemption. Executive Produced by Spike Lee At Cannes: Gene George (President, ANTI-KILLER 2 Starring: Yancey Arias (from lead from FILMS Action Adventure (95 min.) Regent Entertainment), Mark Reinhart Kingpin), Keith David, Luis Guzmán) Language: English (Senior V.P., Sales/Acquisitions), Jeff Renaissance Films, 34-35 Berwick Street, Year of Production: 2003 Director: Yegor Mikhalkov- Schenck (COO) London W1F 8RP, UK. Tel: A street punk is forced to join a Konchalovsky Office: Mobile: USA 310-804-9360 44.20.7287.5190. Fax: 44.20.7478.5100. dangerous criminal ring. Great action, A GOOD NIGHT TO DIE [email protected]. Producer: Vladimir Kilburg, Yusup gritty, and similar in style to Sopranos. Crime Drama (90 Minutes) www.renaissance-films.com Bakshhiev SEA OF RAGE Language: English Cast: Gosa Kytenko, Mikhail Ulyanov Thriller At Cannes: Angus Finney (Managing Delivery Status: In-Production Delivery Status: Development Director: Craig Singer Director), Claire Taylor (Head of Year of Production: 2003, Country of A killer is loose. Thriller and suspense Executive Producers: Jeffrey Schenck, International Sales), Michaela Piper Origin: Russia action that takes place on board a Gary Stretch, Mark R. Harris (Head of Marketing & Publicity), Sophie Budget: 5 million $ catamaran in the middle of the ocean, it Producers: Chris Williams, Paul Janson (Head of Development & Colichman, Stephen P. Jarchow, Jeffrey Acquisitions) Sequel to the successful Anti-Killer 1 will leave you on the edge of your seat! BASE SEX AND THE TEENAGE MIND Schenck Office: Villa Antoine, 3 rue Jean Baptiste Action Adventure (95 min.) Comedy (96 min) Cast: Michael Rapaport, Gary Stretch, Dumas, Tel: 04.93.68.92.67 or Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Seymour Cassel, Robin Givens, Deborah 04.93.68.84.23, Fax: 04 93 99 81 90 Director: TBA Cast: Michael Ray Bower, Dinica THE MOTHER Harry, Ralph Macchio, James Russo, Producer: George Lascu, Cyndy Kuipers McKeller, Richard Karn, Dee Wallace Drama Ally Sheedy, Lainie Kazan Cast: TBA Stone Director: Roger Michell Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Pre-Production Country of Origin: filmed completely in Producer: Kevin Loader Two screwed-up hit men trying to get out Year of Production: 2003, Country of USA Cast: Anne Reid, Daniel Craig of the mob business discover that one is Origin: USA An “American Pie” style of comedy that hired to kill the other. Delivery Status: Delivery June 2003 Country of Origin: UK Budget: 7 million $ shows us all strange and funny thoughts FRIENDS AND FAMILY DARKNESS FALLING that happen inside the mind of a teenage Comedy (90 minutes) From the acid pen of Hanif Kureishi Thriller (90 min) boy. Language: English comes another brilliant and shocking Language: English MERCY OF THE SEA Producers: Linda Moran, Kristen Coury, slice of modern metropolitan life. Director: Dominic Shiach Drama (112 min) Joseph Triebwasser Producer: Peter Simpson Cast: Martin Sheen, Renee Estavez, Mike Director: Kristen Coury Co-production partners: Bernardo Cast: Tony Lo Bianco, Anna Maria REX MEDIA Cast: Jason Priestley, Patsy Kensit, Paul Delivery Status: Completed Alberghetti, Greg Lauren, Christopher Rex Media, 17351 Sunset Blvd., Suite Johansson Country of Origin: filmed completely in Gartin 304, Pacific Palisades, CA, 90272, USA. Delivery Status: completed Europe Delivery Status: Completed Tel: 310.230.8420. Fax: 310.230.8520. Year of Production: 2002, Country of A touching story about children who are Stephen and Danny are a gay couple in [email protected], rexfilms.com Origin: Canada separated from their family during a war, Manhattan who have it all, until a Company Type: Sales agent, producer, Budget: 2 million $ and the mother who gives up everything surprise visit from Stephen’s parents distributor A lawyer investigating the suicide of her in order to search for them. threatens to blow the boys’ big secret. At Cannes: George Lascu (President), sister uncovers a sinister plot. CAVE IN Action Disaster (90 minutes) Cyndy Kuipers (VP); Acquisition Language: English Executive: George Lascu RIKI SHELACH Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul Office: Carlton Suite 145, Tel: Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck 310.435.7383. Fax: 310.230.8520 PRODUCTIONS LTD. RED SERPENT Director: Rex Piano Action/Adventure (93 min) Riki Shelach Productions Ltd., 14 Beit Cast: Mimi Rogers, Ted Shackleford Language: English Zuri st.Tel-Aviv, 69122 Israel. Tel: Delivery Status: In production Director: Eugen Tanasescu 972.3.6429783 / 972.3.7329954. Fax: A tough woman in charge of a large Producer: Oleg Kapanets, George Lascu 972.3.6412648 / 972.3. 5739808. mining operation learns that a massive Cast: Roy Scheider, Michael Paré, Oleg [email protected] cave-in has trapped her husband and son Taktarov Company Type: Sales agent / Production miles underground....in a tunnel that is Delivery Status: completed At Cannes: Riki Shelach rapidly filling with water. Year of Production: 2003, Country of Office: F 21 ( Israeli Pavilion), Tel: PARADISE VIRUS Origin: USA 972.52.508133 Action Disaster (90 minutes) A TRUMPET IN THE WADI Language: English Drama (97 min) Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul L.A. Office Phone Language: Hebrew-Arabic Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck, Brian (323) 935-8228 Director: Lina and Slava Chaplin Trenchard-Smith Producer: Riki Shelach Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith Cast: Alexander Senderovich, Khawlah Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Ralf Moeller, L.A. Office FAX Debsy Melody Thomas-Scott (323) 935-8229 Delivery Status: completed MY TUTOR FRIEND - CJ ENTERTAINMENT Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2001, Country of The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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Origin: Israel Abraham, Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Acquisition, International Business Origin: Japan Budget: $ 500,000 Geraldine Chaplin Division) Budget: US$2,000,000 An impossible love story between two Status: Pre-Production Office: Res. Grand Hotel - Albatros 1C, The old man after losing his wife is outsiders in Israeli society; Alex is a new Set in the 18th century, is about a quest Tel: 04.93.68.59.80 surprised when a white dog suddenly immigrant from Russia, and Huda is an for the reason behind the deaths of five THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI comes into his life and gives him reason Arab young woman from Haifa. people caused by “the finest bridge in all Drama, Samurai (129 min.) to live. ROAD SALES USA of Peru” mysteriously collapsing. Language: Japanese SHORELINE THE GRUDGE Director: Yoji Yamada Road Sales USA, 3599 Cahuenga Blvd. Horror Producer: Shigehiro Nakagawa, Hiroshi ENTERTAINMENT, West, Los Angeles, CA 90068 USA. Tel: Language: English Fukazawa, Ichiro Yamamoto 323.878.0404. Fax: 323.878.0486. Director: Takashi Shimizu Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, INC. [email protected] Producers: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Taka Min Tanaka Shoreline Entertainment, Inc., 1875 At Cannes: Mr. Jonathan Kramer Ichise Delivery Status: Completed Century Park East, Suite 600, Los (President), Ms. Annouchka Lesoeur Status: Pre-Production Year of Production: 2002, Country of Angeles, 90067 California USA. Tel: (Vice President International Sales), Mr. Centers on a murderous supernatural Origin: Japan 310.551.2060. Fax: 310.201.0729. Eric Bernstein (Vice President of curse, born from a grudge held by Budget: $5,000,000 Mobile phone: 310.985.2152. International Sales) someone who dies in the grip of Competition film at Berlin 2003. Seibei [email protected]. Office: Riviera Both M9/N10 powerful anger. is a reserved low-ranking samurai, but he www.shorelineentertainment.com THE BLUES HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO gets involved in a dispute within the clan At Cannes: Morris Ruskin (President), Documentary (7X 90 min.) WHITE CASTLE (WORKING and must take order of his lord to kill Steve Chicorel (Exec. VP Sales & Language: English TITLE) WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS Marketing) Director: Charles Burnett, Clint Comedy DRAWN Office: Carlton Hotel, Room 147, Tel: Eastwood, Martin Scorsese Language: English Drama, Samurai (137 min.) Language: Japanese 04.93.06.41.47 Delivery Status: Completed Director: Danny Leiner MOVING ALAN Country of Origin: USA Producer: Greg Shapiro Director: Yojiro Takita Road movie/Comedy (85 min) Under the guiding hand of Executive Status: Pre-Production Producer: Hideshi Miayajima Language: English Producer Martin Scorsese, THE BLUES The ultimate comedy for the Cast: Kiichi Nakai, Koichi Sato, Miki Director: Christopher Shelton is a series of impressionistic and disenfranchised. One night, two very Nakatani Production Company: Roadkill iconoclastic films- each director likeable underdogs determine that they Delivery Status: Completed, Screening at Productions exploring the music through his own absolutely must have White Castle Cannes Producer: Ray Donohue & Andrew personal connections. hamburgers and set off on an Year of Production: 2003, Country of Berman TEN MINUTES OLDER: THE unbelievable quest to obtain them. Origin: Japan Key Cast: : Marely Shelton, Samantha TRUMPET AND THE CELLO THE VIRGIN OF LIVERPOOL Budget: $4,000,000 Shelton, Misha Collins Compilation Film (2X 85 min.) Comedy Closing film at Tokyo Internatinal Film Status: First market screening of Language: Various Language: English Festival 2002. Inside “Shinsen-gumi,” completed film Director: Victor Erice, Spike Lee, Director: Lee Donaldson group of patriotic samurai, was Country of origin: USA Bernardo Bertolucci Producers: Andrew Boswell, Vadim Jean Yoshimura, the best swordsman among A ditsy young widow and her estranged Producer: Ulrich Felsberg, Nicolas Cast: Ricky Tomlinson, Johnny Vegas, its members, but also, anything but a sister go on the road to get rid of Alan’s McClintock, Nigel Thomas Imelda Staunton, Paul Barber, Claire usual image of a samurai. Delivery Status: Completed (2X 85 min.) body Hackett, Tom Georgeson, Jake Abraham, MOON CHILD A KIND OF AMERICA Country of Origin: Germany Ashley McKechnie, Katie Ellen Jones, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi (119 min.) Comedy (115 min) Each of the distinguished directors has Reece Noi Language: Japanese Language: Hungarian, Subtitles English been given ten minutes to present their Status: Screening Director: Takahisa Zeze Director: Gabor Herendi vision of the theme TIME. Country of Origin: UK/Germany Producer: Takashi Hirano Production Company: Skyfilm Studio A dysfunctional family is turned upside Cast: Hyde, Gackt, Lee-Hom Wang, Producer: Gabor Herendi down when a precocious 12 year-old girl Zeny Kwok Key Cast: Tibor Szervet, Csaba Pindroch, S brings home a Madonna effigy to save Delivery Status: Completed, Screening at Gyozo Szabo SENATOR her from demolition - only to discover Cannes Status: First market screening of that miracles can happen when you least Year of Production: 2003, Country of completed film INTERNATIONAL expect them. Origin: Japan Country of origin: Hungary Senator International, 8666 Wilshire Budget: US$3,000,000 Three Hungarian Brothers will do Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Friends struggle to live facing trust, love anything get an American film Producer: USA. Tel: 310 360 1441. Fax: 310 360 SHOCHIKU CO., LTD. and betrayal, but what they do not know to buy their script 1447. Shochiku Co., Ltd. 4-1-1 Tukiji, Togeki is that one has hidden powers. THE ONLY HOTEL LOVE COLLAGE (TENTATIVE Thriller (93 min) At Cannes: Hanno Huth (CEO), Joe Blg. 12th floor, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8422 TITLE) Language: English Drake (President), Brian Goldsmith Japan. Tel: 81.3.5550.1623. Fax: Romantic drama (115 min.) (CFO and EVP of Operations), Pierre 81.3.5550.1654. [email protected]. Language: Japanese Weisbein (EVP, Sales & Distribution), Website: http://www.shochiku.com/film Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi Brent Jack (VP International Marketing), (English), http://www.shochiku.co.jp Producer: Hiroki Ueda Mali Kinberg (ales Coordinator), Company Type: sales, acquisition, Cast: Ryoko Hirosue, Ryuhei Matsuda Delphine Perrier (Manager, Business and producer, distributor, exhibitor Delivery Status: Completed, Screening at Legal Affairs, Contract Administration) At Cannes: Takeo Hisamatsu (Director), Cannes Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 142, Tel: Masahiko Seki (Director), Masaki Koga Year of Production: 2003, Country of 33(0)4.97.06.86.00. Fax: (Manager, Sales, International Business Origin: Japan 33(0)4.97.06.86.03 Division), Shinobu Suzuki (Manager, Budget: US$2,000,000 THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY A letter arrives from ex-girlfriend who Drama ought to be dead. It is an invitation for Language: English her exhibition held in New York, where Writer/Director: Mary McGuckian HE USINESS OF T B she left to become a photographer. Producers: Michael Lionello Cowan, FILM TO DANCE WITH THE WHITE Samuel Hadida, Garrett McGuckian, DOG Mary McGuckian, Denise O’Dell Drama (99 min.) Co-Producers: Jason Piette Los Angeles Office Language: Japanese Executive Producers: Jeff Abberley, 5150 Wilshire Blvd. Director: Takashi Tukinoki Craig Darian, Victor Hadida, Peter Los Angeles Producer: Naotaka Yoshida James, Howard Kanzanjian, James Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Shiho Fujimura, Simpson California 90036 Kaho Minami Cast: Robert DeNiro, Kathy Bates, Delivery Status: Completed THE RED KNIGHT Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Year of Production: 2002, Country of FRANCE TELEVISIONS DISTRIBUTION The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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Production Company: Globocine Office: Carlton Hotel, Suites 241 & 242 Produced by Daniel Bigel & Michael Country of origin: Israel International Pictures – Phone 011.04.93.06.42.40 Mailer The legendary `VALLEY TRAIN` from Producer: Ivan Francis ClementsDirector: SUPER SUCKER Stars Mark Feurstein (“Two Weeks Haifa to Damascus was abruptly halted Stuart Collinge Collinge Comedy Notice,” “What Women Want,” “Rules Of during the war of independence in 1948. Key Cast: :Haidee Augusta, Danielle Directed by Jeff Daniels Engagement” And The Lead In Tv’s New But the vivid memory of that train Produced by Tom Spiroff Budlong, Eric Redman Hit “Good Morning, Miami”), Ali Larter remains. Status: First market screening of Cast: Jeff Daniels (“Gods and Generals,” (“Final Destination,” “Final Destination completed film “The Hours”), Matt Letscher (“Gods and 2,” “Legally Blonde”), Dabney Coleman, Country of origin: UK Generals,” “Good Morning Miami”), Amy Redford (Daughter Of Robert Escaping from muggers, a penniless Harve Presnell (“Legally Blonde,” “Mr. Redford, “Maid In Manhatten”) SOLO young woman barters work for shelter in Deeds,” “Patch Adams”) and Dawn Wells A handsome New York ad executive with ENTERTAINMENT a gangster infested hotel. (“Gilligan’s Island”) a harmless addition to the opposite sex PARASITE A couple of door-to-door vacuum cleaner meets his match in a smart and beautiful GROUP Horror (95 min) salesmen compete for territory, when one woman who wants nothing to do with Solo Entertainment Group, 9350 Wilshire Language: English of them discovers new uses for his him. Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90275 USA. Tel: Production Company: Fearnot and vacuum cleaner attachments, thrilling 310.205.6262. Fax: 310.205.6264. Shoreline housewives beyond their wildest www.solo-ent.com Producer: Jason and Chris Kingsley SOFI FILM imaginations! Company Type: International Sales Director: Andrew Prendergast SHELTER ISLAND At Cannes: Christian Halsey Solomon Key Cast: : Saskia Gould, Conrad Erotic thriller PRODUCTION GMBH (Partner), Lee Solomon (Partner), Glenn Whitaker Directed by Geoffrey Schaaf Sofi Film Production GMBH, Kendrick Ackermann (SVP, International Status: Completed Produced by Paul Corvino, Allen Bain, Panoramaweg 7A, 41334 Nettetal, Sales and Distribution) Country of origin: USA David Michaels III, Jesse Scolaro Germany N.R.W.. Tel: Office: Gray D’Albion, 3rd Fl., 17 A mutated Parasite feeds on the crew of Stars Patsy Kensit (“Twenty One,” 49(0)2153.40.25.40. Fax: “Lethal Weapon 2”), Ally Sheedy 49(0)2153.40.25.41. [email protected] Croisette, Tel: 04.93.99.80.51 an oil rig. NINE MILES DOWN CENTIPEDE (Independent Spirit Award winner for At Cannes: Mark Tachalov (Producer) Psychological Thriller Horror (95 min) “High Art,” “The Breakfast Club,” “St. Office: Riviera Hall, No. E-15 / F-16. Language: English Language: English Elmo’s Fire”), Stephen Baldwin (“Sex Tel: 33(0).4.92.99.32.26 Director: Anthony Waller Director: Gregory Gieras Monster,” “Table One,” “Friends & THE RETURN FROM INDIA Drama-Love Story (98 min) Delivery Status: Pre-Production Production Company: San Diego Films, Lovers,” “The Usual Suspects”), Chris Language: English. Year of Production: 2003 Ushakiron and Shoreline Penn (Award winner for “The Funeral,” Director: Menahem Golan. Producer: Eileen Craft “Stealing Harvard,” “Murder by Starring: Aki Avni, Riki Gal, Assi Dayan Key Cast: Margaret Cash, Larry Casey Numbers,” “Reservoir Dogs”). Status: Completed SPICE FACTORY (UK) Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Country of origin: Israel Country of origin: USA After being mugged, a wealthy New York LTD A strange and maybe impossible love Giant Centipedes attack a group of woman retreats to her country estate with Spice Factory (UK) Ltd, 81 The story between a young man (26) and an adventure enthusiasts as they are her girlfriend. Everything goes terribly Promenade, Peacehaven, Brighton, BN10 exploring a deep cave. older woman (50). wrong when they let a stranger into their FINAL COMBAT 8LS, UK. Tel: 01273.585.275. Fax: SHOWCASE home during a storm. Family-Action-adventure (90 min) 01273.585.304. [email protected] LEFT BEHIND 2: TRIBULATION Language: English Company Type: Film Production ENTERTAINMENT FORCE At Cannes: Michael Cowan (Joint Action Thriller Director: Menahem Golan Showcase Entertainment, Warner Center, Managing Director), Jason Piette (Joint Directed by Bill Corcoran Starring: Tonny White, Sonia Couling, 21800 Oxnard Street, Suite 150, Managing Director), Alex Marshall Produced by Nicholas D. Tabarrok and Richard Lynch Woodland Hills, California 91367 USA. (Head of Business Affairs, Lucy Cloud Ten Pictures Status: Completed Tel 818.715.7005. Fax 818.715.7009. Shuttleworth (Head of Development) Stars Kirk Cameron (“Left Behind,” Country of origin: U.S.A. www.showcaseentertainment.com Office: Arclight Films / Vine “Growing Pains”), Brad Johnson (“Left The story of the journey of a father and At Cannes: David A. Jackson (President), son, Tonni and Ben, to find meaning in International Pictures Bruce Livingston (Chief Financial Behind,” “Always,” “Nam Angeles,” BOLLYWOOD QUEEN “Flight Of The Intruder”), Clarence their lives. Officer), Monica Vespe (Vice President, SUPER NINJA Romantic Comedy (100 min) International Sales), Shauna Shapiro Gilyard ((“Left Behind,” Action, Martial Arts (90 min) Language: English Jackson (Executive Vice President), “Die Hard,” “Top Gun,” “Earthquake”), Language: English Director: Jeremy Wooding Leslee Jones-Allmon (Director Chelsea Noble (“Left Behind,” “Growing Director: Menahem Golan Production company/s: Spice Factory Worldwide Distribution Services), Cara Pains”), Gordon Currie, Janaya Stephens. Starring: Kely McClung, Gregory (UK) Ltd, Stretch Limo Productions, Shapiro (Vice President, Acquisitions), Delivery Status: Completed Levayov, Richard Lynch Great British Films / Enterprise Films Linda Paolucci (Sales Administration) Sequel to the international sleeper hit Status: Pre-production Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, LEFT BEHIND, based on the best selling Country of origin: U.S.A. Jeremy Wooding book series that has sold copies Tells the story of the going on behind the Cast: Preeya Kalidas, James McEvoy, Ian worldwide in numbers comparable to scenes of the electronic industry. McShane Harry Potter. Z A Y A Delivery Status: Completed AMY’S ORGASM Adventure- Love Story (100 min) West Side Story set in East London with Romantic comedy Language: English. bindis. Directed by Julie Davis Director: Jonathan Paz. HONOUR THY FATHER Produced by Julie Davis and Fred Starring: Maayan Keret, Sami Hori, Dan Drama Kramer Tourgeman. Language: English Stars Julie Davis (“I Love You, Don’t Status: Completed. Director: Jacob Berger Touch Me”), Nick Chinlund (“Con Air,” Country of origin: Israel Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Guillaume “Eraser, “ Disney’s “Te Kid”), Caroline Based on a true story that happened in Depardieu Aaron (“Deconstructing Harry,” Morocco at the end of the 30`s. Zaya is a Delivery Status: Completed “Sleepless In Seattle,” “Primary Colors”), young beautiful Jewish girl living in the Year of Production: 2002 Mitchell Whitfield (“Sgt. Bilko,” “My Atlas Mountains who is drawn to a ONE PERFECT DAY Drama Cousin Vinny”). freedom that it not available in the Language: English A 29 year old Ivy League educated self- primitive Berber village. help author grudgingly falls in love with THE VALLEY TRAIN Director: Paul Currie the ultimate womanizer, a radio shock- Drama- youth sex (90 min) Producers Charles Morton (Lightstream jock who has a reputation for hitting on Language: Hebrew (Subtitles in English). Films) Australia, Michael Cowan Jason his bimbo guests. Director: Jonathan Paz. Piette (Spice Factory) UK GIVING IT UP Starring: Neta Moran, Ami Ushpitz, Dan Cast: Andrew Howard, Daniel Spielman, Romantic Comedy Tourgeman. Leeanna Walsman, Kerry Armstrong, CROCKED LINE CINEMAVAULT RELEASING INC. Directed by Christopher Kublan Status: Completed. Abbie Cornish The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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Delivery Status: Post Production When a rupture in Heaven unleashes the Production country: France dark personal life comes back to haunt Year Of Production: 2002 Country of full power of God on a hapless She goes to see a therapist and tells him her as she investigates a string of grisly Origin: UK, Australian congregation, a small town minister with her problems in intimate detail. He murders. EMPEROR’S WIFE a troubled past and an epic destiny finds listens and she trusts him. But he’s not a DOT THE I Drama himself facing Demons, Angels, rednecks shrink, he’s a tax adviser. LE Drama Language: English and the Saint of Killers himself. CONVOYEUR (CASH TRUCK) Director: Matthew Parkhill Director: Julien Vrebos Credits not contractual Comedy Producers: George Duffield, Meg Producers: Emjay Rechsteiner (Staccato EMMA THOMPSON PRESENTS Production companies: Eskwad Thomson Films) Dutch, San Fu Maltha (Fu Works) JOHNNY HIT AND RUN PAULINE Producers: Richard Grandpierre Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalia Drama Dutch, Jimmy De Brabant (Delux Production companies: Eskwad Verbeke, James D’Arcy Writer/Director: Fay Lellios Efrosini Productions) Luxembourg, Michael Leading Cast: Albert Dupontel, Jean Delivery Status: Completed Producer: H. Michael Heuser, Kees Cowan Jason Piette (Spice Factory) UK Dujardin, François Berléand, Aure Atika The classic tale of a woman choosing Kasander Cast: Rosana Pastor, Jonathan Rhys Production country: France between passion and safety is seen Executive Producer: Emma Thompson Meyers, Max Beesley Vigilant, a small cash transportation through multiple perspectives, and keeps Cast: To be announced Delivery status: Post Production company, is in crisis. Three of its you guessing until the final twist. Status: Start of Principal Photography: Year Of Production: 2002 armored trucks have been robbed in the GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS August 2003 Documentary In the land of 1001 nights the law last year. dictates that the Emperor must take a Young and beautiful Pauline meets the GENESIS Director: James Cameron new wife if his current Empress does not handsome and suave Johnny at the Documentary Producers: Chuck Comski, Ed Marsh, bear a son within seven years of beach; her life is changed- Mansions, Director: Claude Nuridsany and Marie Gig Rackauskas marriage. Grand Hotels and...Abuse. Pérénnou Cast: James Cameron, Bill Paxton JERICHO MANSIONS Credits not contractual Producers: Alain Sarde Delivery Status: Completed Thriller OUTLANDERS An African storyteller recounts the world James Cameron’s deep sea adventure to Action/Thriller Language: English ‘s creation. A tall story like every tale. the final resting place of the Titanic Director: Dominic Lees Director: Alberto Sciamma But this is a real story since it relates our comes to life in this ground-breaking Producers Producers: Michael Riley, Production company/s: Spice Factory past. documentary film. (UK) Ltd, Milagro Films, Snowfall Angus Lamont LA PROPHETIE DES I AM DAVID Films, Transfilm Inc. Executive Producer: H. Michael Heuser GRENOUILLES (RAINING CATS Drama Producer: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan, Cast: Bruno Ganz, Douglas Henshall, AND FROGS) Director: Paul Feig Jean-Marc Felio, Suzanne Lyons James McAvoy, Dagmara Dominczyk Animation Producers: Clive Parsons, Lauren Levine, Cast: James Caan, Jennifer Tilly, A series of murders are being committed Director: Jacques-Rémy Girerd Davina Belling Production companies: Folimage, Genevieve Bujold, Maribel Verdu in Berlin amid the migrant worker Cast: Joan Plowright, Jim Caviezel, Ben Studiocanal, France 2 Cinéma, Rhône- Delivery Status: Post Production community. Tibber Alpes Cinéma A murder in a NYC apartment building Credits not contractual Delivery Status: Completed Production country: France leads its agoraphobic superintendent to SHINER Based on the best selling book, I AM Action The frogs’ grim prophecy has become a suspect himself of the killing. DAVID is an exhilarating tale of a Director: John Irvin reality. Forty days and nights of rain see courageous young boy, who in 1951 Producer: Geoffrey Reeve, Jim Reeve Tom and Lili, heroes in short trousers, escapes from a Stalinist prison camp to Executive Producer: Laura Townsley, stranded on a modern-day Noah’s ark. walk across Europe and find freedom. STORM Barry Townsley ENTERTAINMENT Cast: Michael Caine, Martin Landau, SUMMIT SURF FILM S.R.L. Storm Entertainment, 127 Broadway, Frances Barber, Frank Harper, Andy Suite 200, Santa Monica, CA. 90401 Serkis, Matthew Marsden, Claire ENTERTAINMENT Surf Film S.r.l., Via Padre G. A. Filippini Rushbrook 130 - 00144 Rome, Italy. Tel: USA. Tel: 310.656.2500. Fax: Summit Entertainment, 1630 Stewart Status: Completed. Cassettes available 39.06.52.62.101. Fax: 39.06.52.93.816. 310.656.2510. [email protected] Street, Suite 120, Santa Monica, CA Michael Caine stars as Billy SHINER [email protected]. www.surfFilm.com Company Description: independent film 90404 USA. Tel: 310.309.8400. Fax: Simpson, a small time boxing promoter At Cannes: Mr. Massimo Vigliar finance, production and worldwide 310.828.4132. with big ideas. (President); Mrs. Stefania Carnevale distribution company At Cannes: Patrick Wachsberger (foreign sales manager); Mrs. Agnès At Cannes: H. Michael Heuser (President (President & CEO), Bob Hayward Trincal (foreign sales executive); Mrs. & CEO), Asadeh Khanedani (Manager, (COO), David Garrett (Executive Vice STUDIOCANAL Elena Francot (Italian sales manager). International Distribution) President), Erik Feig (President, Studiocanal, Espace Lumière, 5-13 Bd de Office: Focus Italy - Anica (Riviera) C5 / Office: Carlton Intercontinental Hotel la République, 92514 Boulogne- Production & Acquisitions), Harold van Cannes, Office # 234, 58, La Croisette - D4 - D1 /E8, Tel: 33.(0).4.92.99.88.15 Billancourt, France. Tel: Lier (Vice President, International Sales), THE END OF A MYSTERY (LA LUZ B.P. 155, 06414 Cannes Cedex, France. 33.1.71.75.99.99. Fax: 33.1.71.75.89.86. I.S. Film Distribution Executives PRODIGIOSA) Tel: 33.04.93.06.42.34. Fax: www.studiocanal.com attending: Paula Endara (Vice President, Art movie (102’) 33.04.93.06.69.34 At Cannes: Muriel Sauzay, Christine Marketing & Publicity ), Maitreya Language: Spanish, Italian, Subtitles: CRUSADE IN JEANS Yasuda (Vice President, English Action/Adventure Ghazarian, John Kochman, Marie Contracts/Business Affairs) Director: Miguel Hermoso Director: Ben Sombogaart Boudier, Saya Huddleston, Mylene Office: 2, la Croisette, Tel: Producer: Azalea Producciones Producer: Kees Kasander Cayol-Cythere Office: Pavillon Riviera, Stand N5, Tel: 33.4.93.99.80.83. Fax: 33.4.93.99.80.93 Cinematografica S.A. - Surf Film S.r.l. Executive Producer: H. Michael Heuser AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Key Cast: Nino Manfredi, Alfredo Cast: To be announced 33.4.92.59.02.95. Fax: 33.4.92.59.02.73 Action-Adventure COMME UNE IMAGE ( Delivery Status: Pre-Production LOOK AT ME) Director: Frank Coraci Brilliant scientists Jan and Joanne Language: French Producer: Hal Lieberman, Ed Saxon Hefting have invented the Displacement Director: Agnès Jaoui Cast: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecile Chamber: a time machine. When their Production companies: Les Films A4 de France 16-year old son Dolf secretly Production country: France Delivery Status: In Production experiments with the time machine in the Lolita Cassard is unhappy and Jackie Chan takes an epic turn in this lab of his parents, he is “shot” back in overweight, and all she wants is her extravagant adventure tale, based on the time... father’s approval. Jules Verne classic. PREACHER CONFIDENCES TROP INTIMES BLACKOUT Action (TOO MUCH INFORMATION) Thriller Director: Rachel Talalay Drama Director: Phillip Kaufman Producer: Rupert Harvey Language: French Producers: Arnold Kopelson, Anne Executive Producers: H. Michael Heuser, Director: Patrice Leconte Kopelson, Barry Baeres Tom Astor, Jim Reeve, Steve Robbins Producers: Alain Sarde Cast: Ashley Judd, Andy Garcia, Samuel Cast: To be announced Production companies: Studiocanal L. Jackson Status: Start of Principal Photography: Leading Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Delivery Status: Post-production June 2003 Fabrice Luchini A San Francisco homicide detective’s BUDDY - NONSTOP SALES AB The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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Landa, Kiti Manver Director: Juan Josè Jusid GmbH Anja Herden, Hinnerk Schoenemann Status: Completed Producer: Prisma Film (Argentina) - Surf Cast: Heino Ferch, Jan Josef Liefers, Delivery Status: Completed Federico Garcia Lorca did not die after Film (Italy) Heike Makatsch Year of Production: 2003, Country of an execution by Franco’s troops in Key Cast: Miguel Angel Solà, Federico Delivery Status: in Production Origin: Germany August 1936. Disfigured from the shot Luppi, Daniele Liotti , Omero Antonutti Year of Production: 3. 2003, Country of An actress, a drifter and their love for which also made him amnesiac and Status: Completed Origin: Germany movies mentally disturbed, he lived many long Argentina 1969. Major Molina is sent to Budget: 6,500,000 $US; MY LAST FILM (MEIN LETZTER years without knowing who he really a remote garrison in south Patagonia to The story of two miners, who happen to FILM) was..... investigate the brutal murder of a soldier, be trapped 180 ft underground fighting to Drama (90 min) NOWHERE Lito. stay alive as the world watches and Director: German Art movie (110’) prays. Language: Oliver Hirschbiegel Language: Italian, Spanish, English, JOHANNA THE POPE Co-Production Partners: Multimedia Subtitles: English, French T Historical Drama (2x2 hrs. Mini Series) GmbH Director: Luis Sepúlveda Language: English Producer: Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt Producer: Surf Film (Italy) - Patagonik TANDEM Director: TBC Key Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Wanja Mues Film Group (Argentina)- Castelao COMMUNICATIONS Producer: Rola Bauer, Tim Halkin Delivery Status: Completed Productions S.A. (Spain) Co-production partners: Towers of Year of Production: 2002, Country of London & Telepool for ARD (German Key Cast: Harvey Keitel, Angela Molina, GMBH Origin: Germany Network) Jorge Perugorria, Luigi Maria Burruano Tandem Communications GmbH, This is Marie’s last film; the last solo Status: Completed Delivery Status: in Development Josephspitalstrasse 15, 80331 performance of a grand actress. Year of Production: 2003, Country of The secret services of a 1980s Latin Munich/Bavaria, Germany. Tel: Origin: Germany & UK American dictatorship round up a group 49.89.96.22.83.00. Fax: Budget: 20,000,000 $ US of opponents. The prisoners are taken to 49.89.96.22.83.10. [email protected]. THE WORKS an old abandoned railway station in the The story of a young girl raised in 9th www.tandemcom.de desert, called “Nowhere”. century Saxony, whose one day’s destiny The Works, 4 Great Portland Street, Company Type: Production & A NIGHT WITH SABRINA LOVE is to become the first and only female London W1W 8QJ UK. Tel: Distribution Art movie (99’) pope. 44.20.7612.1080. Fax: 44.20.7612.1081. Language: Spanish, Italian, subtitles: At Cannes: Rola Bauer (Managing THE RING (WORKING TITLE) At Cannes: Aline Perry (CEO ), Joy English Director), Irina Ignatiew (Head of Intl. Historical Drama (2 x 96 min Mini- Wong (Head of International Sales), Director: Alejandro Agresti Sales), Stefan Brunner (Business and Series and 1 x 120 min theatrical feature) Rebecca Kearey (Head of Marketing and Financial Affairs); Acquisition Executive: Producer: Patagonik Film Group Language: English Distribution), Clare Crean (Senior Sales Irina Ignatiew Director: Uli Edel (TBC) (Argentina) - Surf Film (Italy) - P.H.F Executive) Office: “La Brise”; 25, La Croisette, 5th Producer: Rola Bauer, Tim Halkin Film (Spain) Office: 4th Floor, Residence du Grand floor, Tel: 33.04.92.98.95.09 Delivery Status: in Development Key Cast: Cecilia Roth, Giancarlo Hotel (entrance ‘Flamant’), 45 La Giannini, Tomas Fonzi, Julietta Cardinali SUMURU Year of Production: 2003 Sci-Fi (90 min) Croisette Tel: 04.93.39.49.41 Status: Completed Country of Origin: Germany & South Language: English REMEMBER ME A young and bored seventeen years old Africa Drama Director: Darrell James Roodt boy from a very small village in Budget: 18,000,000 $ US Director: Gabriele Muccino Producer: Stefan Jonas, Rola Bauer, Tim Argentina, wins a night of love with the Invincible by a powerful sword, Producer: Domenico Procacci Halkin porno star Sabrina. invulnerable by a dragon’s blood, Cast Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura THE PROTAGONISTS” Co-production partners: 1. Towers of invisible by a magic helmet: Siegfried Art movie / drama (90’) London for RTL Morante, Monica Bellucci, Nicoletta might win all the world’s gold an glory. Romanoff & Silvio Muccino Language: English, Italian Cast: Alexandra Kamp, Michael Shanks If he hadn’t taken THE RING Director: Luca Guadagnino Delivery Status: Post Production Delivery Status: Market Screening Producer: Surf Film in collaboration with Year of Production: 2003, Country of The study of a seemingly content middle- Medusa Origin: Germany & South Africa TELEPOOL class household whose individual crises Key Cast: Tilda Swinton, Andrew Budget: 4,000,000 $ US tug at the seams of their fragile family Telepool, Sonnenstrasse 21, Munich, Tiernan, Michelle Hunziker, Fabrizia unit. Two astronauts land on far away planet, 80331 Germany. Tel: 49.89.558.76.0. Sacchi IN THIS WORLD that was colonized centuries ago finding Fax: 49.89.558.76.188. www.telepool.de. Drama Status: Completed out that women are the ruling class. [email protected] Director: Michael Winterbottom London. One night in January 1994 two POST IMPACT At Cannes: Dr. Thomas Weymar Producers: Andrew Eaton & Anita students decided to commit the perfect Action-Adventure (110 min) (General Managing Director), Marc Overland crime. They stop a stranger and brutally Language: English Gabizon (Deputy Managing Director), murder him, then they return to normal Director: Christopher Schrewe Cast: Jamal Udin Torabi & Enayatullah Dr. Cathy Rohnke (Deputy Managing college life. Producer: Phil Roth, Rola Bauer, Tim Delivery Status: Market Screening ORDER OVER JUSTICE - BAJO Halkin Director), Wolfram Skowronnek (Sales A road movie documenting the journey BANDERA Co-production partners: (German Executive), Silke Wilfinger (Acquisition of two Afghanis travelling from Drama (106’) Network) UFO Films & RTL Television Executive) Peshawar, Pakistan to London. Language: Spanish, Italian for RTL (German Network) Office: Palais Riviera L1/M2, Tel: 04,92 COUNTRY OF MY SKULL Cast: Bettina Zimmermann, Dean Cain; 993307 Drama ANGST (DER ALTER AFFE ANGST) Director: John Boorman Delivery Status: in Production Drama (95 min) Producers Robert Chartoff, Mike Year of Production: 2003. Country of Year of Production: 2003, Country of Medavoy, Lynn Hendee & Kieran Origin: Germany & Bulgaria & UK & Origin: Germany Corrigan Spain; Language: German Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Budget: 5,000,000 $ US Director: Oskar Roehler Binoche & Brendan Gleeson After the strike of a meteor, the European Co-Production Partners: TV 60 Film Continent is ice-covered; few survivors Producer: Neue Bioskop Film Delivery Status: In Production travel to the cold zone to locate a device Key Cast: Marie Bauemer, André Country Of My Skull is a story charting that could give mankind new hope. Hennicke,Vadim Glowna the unfathomable depths of human A LIGHT IN DARK PLACES Delivery Status: Completed cruelty and the redeeming power of Action-Drama (2x2 hrs. Mini Series) A modern lovestory, as unusual as life forgiveness and love. Language: English CODE 46 itself. Futuristic Drama Director: Kaspar Heidelbach KISS AND RUN Producer: Michael Souvignier, Sam www.kissandrun.de Director: Michael Winterbottom Davis, Martin Zimmermann Romantic Comedy (88 min) Producer: Andrew Eaton Co-production partners: Produced by Language: German Cast: Tim Robbins & Samantha Morton Zeitsprung Production for SAT 1 Director: Annette Ernst Delivery Status: Post-Production (German Network) Worldwide Producer: Stoked Film Set in the near future, Code 46 is a ALEX & EMMA - FRANCHISE PICTURES Distribution by Tandem Communications Key Cast: Ken Duken, Maggie Peren, compelling tale of forbidden love. The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS TRANSIT FILM Australia: Potential Films/Sydney A hilarious, thought provoking, and Comedy-Drama Cast: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf entertaining twist on marketing and Director: Writer Stephen Fry GMBH Klein-Rogge, Gustav Fröhlich, Fritz promoting your truly independent vision Producers Gina Carter & Miranda Davis Transit Film GmbH, Dachauer Str. 35, Rasp at Cannes. Cast: Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily APOCALYPSE SOON 80335 Munich, Germany. Tel: Delivery Status: completed Mortimer, Michael Sheen, Dan Aykroyd, Documentary (135 min) 49.89.599885.0. Fax: 49.89.599885.20. Year of Production: Original Version: Jim Broadbent, Stockard Channing, Peter Director: Gabriel Friedman [email protected]. 1925/26, Restored and Reconstructed O’Toole, Simon Callow, Jim Carter, Cast: Dave Mattey, Heidi Sjursen, Lloyd www.transitfilm.de Version with Original Music Score by Richard E Grant & David Tennant Kaufman Company Type: Worldsales, Distribution, Gottfried Huppertz: 2001, County of Delivery Status: In Post-Production Status: Completed Production company Origin: Germany Adapted from the Evelyn Waugh novel Country of origin: USA At Cannes: Loy W. ARNOLD (Managing Fritz Lang´s METROPOLIS out on ‘Vile Bodies’. Bright Young Things A no holds barred look at Lloyd Director), Acquisition Executives: Mark DVD. This 2 DVD Set includes 43 revolves around a set of friends whose Kaufman and the Troma Team’s GRUENTHAL (Head of Sales) Minute documentary on the making of; wild and shocking antics cause them to Feature: The Digital Restoration; Photo misadventures during the filming of Office: Tel.: Mr. Arnold: crash and burn in their search for newer galleries; Biographies; Surround sound Citizen Toxie. 49.171.85.36.361 TALES FROM THE CRAPPER and faster sensations. FASSBINDER IN HOLLYWOOD of new orchestral score; Audio Erotic-Comedy/Horror/Sci-Fi/Action Documentary (60 min) Commentary (100 min) Language: English, German TRANS-PACIFIC Director: India Allen, Lloyd Kaufman, THOMPSON STARR Director: Robert FISCHER Dave Paiko, Doug Sakmann, Brian Spitz ORGANIZATION Producer: Fiction Factory, Munich MEDIA Cast: Julie Strain, Arban Ornelas, Lloyd Co-production partners: Crossed Arrows Trans-Pacific Media, 8491 Sunset Kaufman Thompson Starr Organization, 20211 & Bayerischer Rundfunk Boulevard, Suite 800, Los Angeles, CA Status: Completed Sherman Way, Ste. 1705, Beverly Hills, Cast: Ulli Lommel, Michael Ballhaus, 90069 United States. Tel: 323.654.4933. Country of origin: USA CA 90210 USA. Tel: 8l8.998. 8l26. Fax: Hanna Schygulla, Wim Wenders Fax: 323.654.4921. An anthology featuring sinister vampire 8l8.773.8962. [email protected] Delivery Status: completed [email protected] strippers, a man-eating penis, and the Company Type: Distributor & Sales Year of Production: 2002, County of At Cannes: Laurie Woodrow (President), largest amount of breasts ever in Troma’s Agents Origin: Germany Dan Griffiths (Senior Vice-President) thirty-years. At Cannes: Joey Thompson (President), Fassbinder was influenced greatly by Office: 47 La Croisette, Cormoran 2, 3rd Jen Starr (Sales), Chaya Finton TRUST FILM SALES American Studio films of the 1950s. Ulli Floor, Tel: 04.93.68.59.95 (Marketing), George Thompson Trust Film Sales, Avedoere Tvaevej 10, Lommel and Documentary Filmmaker R. (Acquisitions) Filmbyen 12, Hvidovre, 2650 Denmark. Fischer conducts a tour of Hollywood. Office: Hotel Bleu Rivage - 6l La Tel: 45.36.86.87.01. Fax: + 45 36 77 44 Fassbinder´s influence on Hollywood is TROMA Croisette, 06400 Cannes. Tel: 48. www.trust-film.dk, [email protected] still being felt today. ENTERTAINMENT At Cannes: Annakarin Ström (CEO), 4.93.94.24.25 – at Palais: 93.39.0l.0l, METROPOLIS Fax: 4.93.43.74.92 by Fritz Lang Troma Entertainment, 733 Ninth Avenue, Tine Klint (Sales and Projekt Co- BLITZKRIEG BOP Silent Feature Film (118 min) New York, NY 10019 USA. Tel: ordinator), Peter Aalbaek Jensen (Sales Family (62 min) Language: Intertitles in English, German, 212.757.4555 ext.30. Fax: 212.399.9885. Assistant), Rikke Ennis (TV - Sales Language: English www.troma.com/sales. [email protected] Executive), Lissy Bellaiche (Festival Cast: Blondie, The Dead Boys, The French, Spanish and Italian (DVD) Director: Fritz Lang At Cannes: Lloyd Kaufman (President of Consultant) Ramones Troma Entertainment), Jonathan Lees Office: Tel: 45 25 39 84 94, Fax: Delivery Status: completed/screening Producer: Original Version: Universum- Film AG (Ufa), 1925/26 (Director of International Sales), Jamie 45.22.22.80.60 Budget: High end DOGVILLE Restored and Reconstructed Version on Harvey (Film Buyer), Robert O’Dell Country of Origin: USA (Film Buyer), Dan Martin (Sales Drama (177 min) DVD 2001: Transit Film, Munich and The glory days of Punk Rock explosion Assistant) Language: English Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation, with Blondie. Office: F-13 (Riviera), Tel: Director: Lars von Trier Wiesbaden NASHVILLE SOUND 33.(0)4.92.99.33.10 Co-Production Partners: Danish Film Family (90 min) Distribution Partners: USA: Kino ALL THE LOVE YOU CANNES Institute, DR, Slot Machine, Arte France Language: English International/New York Great Britain: Documentary (108 min) Cinema, France 3 Cinema, Canal+, Cast: Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Loretta Eureka/London Director: Sean McGrath, Gabriel Euroimages, Is Lyn Germany: Transit Classics, distributed by Friedman, Lloyd Kaufman Producer: Vibeke Windeløv Delivery Status: Completed/Screening Universum Film/Munich and Blackhill Cast: The Troma Team & Friends Key Cast: Nicole Kidman and more Budget: High End Pictures/Hamburg Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Country of Origin: USA Spain: Divisa Red/ Madrid Country of origin: USA Back to best days of country music on 44th anniversary of Grand Old Opry. SCRUGGS AND FRIENDS Family (90 min) Language: English Producer: David Hoffman Cast: Earl Scruggs, The Byrds, Bob Dylan Delivery Status: screening Budget: High end Country of Origin: USA Scruggs performs fusion of country and rock with Charlie Daniels and friends. WEEKEND REBELLION Family (85 min) Language: English Cast: Grand Funk Railroad, The Tams, Swinging Medallions Delivery Status: completed/screening Budget: High End Country of Origin: USA LIBRARY 125 Titles. Predominantly English speaking, with great classic feature films and rare titles.

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Budget: 10 mill. USD Action Adventure Delivery Status: completed One day, at school, Mattew Smith fiddles Year of Production: 2002, Country of Delivery Status: in production In this modern day adaptation of the with a Tandy, a nearly serious computer: Origin: Danish A portal to the underworld is opened and Dostoyevsky novel, a struggling law he becomes the programmer of the best- Set in an American town in the Rocky a special team of operatives must save student confesses a gruesome crime in an selling videogame for ZX Spectrum, JET Mountains in the 1930s. Lars von Trier the world from supernatural forces. attempt to free his tormented soul. SET WILLY. re-explores the concept of goodness. DRAGON STORM NIGHTMASTER INHERITENCE (ARVEN) Action Adventure Action Adventure (87 minutes) Drama (106 min) Cast: Maxwell Caulfield, John Rhys- Language: English VORTEX PICTURES Language: Danish Davies Director: Mark Joffee Director: Per Fly Delivery Status: completed Producer: Robert Sanders, Peter Ramster, Vortex Pictures, 9420 Wilshire Blvd., Co-Production Partners: Danish Film A brood of dragons attack a kingdom and Grahame Jennings Suite 250, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA. Instituth e, Norwegian Film Institute, a group of mismatched but talented Cast: Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge), Tel: 310.278.1450. Fax: 310.278.0885. Nordisk Film & TV Fond, TV2 Denmark villagers is formed to destroy them. Tom Jennings, Vince Martin [email protected]. and Egmont Ente TORUS Delivery Status: Complete www.vortexpictures.com Producer: Ib Tardini Action Adventure Six select students from the leading At Cannes: Paul Brooks (President), Key Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Lisa Cast: David Keith, Billy Dee Williams karate school play private night games, Scott Niemeyer (CFO), Dean Shapiro Werlinder, Ulf Pilgaard, Ghita Delivery Status: completed sharpening their defense skills, until their (Sales Executive), Jennifer Cusentino Nørby,Lars Brygmann, Is it God? A machine? Weapon? games turn deadly. (Int’l Marketing Mgr), Erica Motley, Karina Skands,Peter Steen, Diana Questions fly after a rocky, towering Suzanne Barron (Sales) Axelsen, Jesper Christensen, Dick Kaysø structure known as a ‘torus’ bursts up Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 137 & 138, Delivery Status: Completed from the ground in Russia. VITAGRAPH Tel: 33.04.97.06.85.45. Fax: Budget: 18,6 mill. DK Kr. Vitagraph, Via Schiavonia 1, Bologna, 33.04.97.06.85.89 Year of Production: 2002, Country of 40121, Italy. Tel: 39.051.267150. Fax: ROLLING KANSAS Origin: Danish V 39.051.267310. [email protected] - Comedy INHERITANCE is the second film in Per VISION FILMS www.vitagraph.it Language: English Director: Thomas Haden Church Fly’s trilogy depicting three layers of Vision Films, 4626 Lemona Avenue, Company Type: Sales agent, distributor Producer: Norm Waitt, Paul Brooks, Jeff Danish society; this story deals with the Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel: At Cannes: Filippo D’Angelo (Managing Levine wealthy elite. 818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715. Director), Acquisition Executive: Filippo DOGS AND DEER: DOGVILLE Cast: Rip Torn, James Roday, Charlie [email protected] D’Angelo (Managing Director) CONFESSIONS Finn Documentary (52 min) At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing Office: Village INT’L - Media Program Year of Production: 2002, Country of Director: Danish / English Director Worldwide Sales), Andre Relis Pavilion, Tel: (reception desk) Origin: USA Language: Sami Sarif (Director of International Sales), Lauren 33.4.92590220 THE LAST PISTOLERO Rolling Kansas is the story of the three Producer: Carsten Holst Proctor (Distribution Coordinator) Western Comedy (9 min) brothers Murphy and their two best Key Cast: Lars von Trier, Nicole Office: Noga Hotel Language: original version English Kidman, Lauren Bacall SPANISH JUDGES friends who set out on a hilarious journey Action Thriller (90 min) Subtitled in search of a mythical “Magical Forest Delivery Status: Completed Director: Alessandro Dominici Budget: 365.000 Euro Language: English of Marijuana”. Director: Oz Scott Producer: CKS cinema e comunicazione DYSFUNKTIONAL FAMILY Year of Production: 2002, Country of & Ass. Culturale Celluloide Co- Comedy (95 Minutes) Origin: Danish Producer: Prosperity Pictures Cast: Mathew Lillard, Vincent production partners: Language: English Behind the scene, of the intense drama Cast: Franco Nero Director: George Gallo during the making of “Dogville” D’Onofrio, Valeria Golina Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: completed Producer: Paul Brooks, David Purmet, Mayhem breaks loose when a young Year of Production: 2002, Country of Eddie Griffin U ruthless con man talks his way into a Origin: Italy Cast: Eddie Griffin scam involving stolen antique guns. Only Budget: $ 30.000,00 Delivery Status: Complete UNIFIED FILM one person will walk out alive. A man roves the open space of an Year of Production: 2002, Country of ORGANIZATION BABERELLAS abandoned industrial complex. Wearing a Origin: USA Sexy Sci-fi Spoof (87 minutes) hat, boots and belt, the last pistolero is Eddie Griffin’s “DysFunKtional Family” Unified Film Organization, 100 E. Cedar Language: English ready to face his final challenge... is his hilarious comic stand-up routine Avenue, Building 16, Burbank, CA 91502 Director: Chuck Cirino A BORDER OF MIRRORS intercut with cinéma vérité scenes of his USA. Tel: 818.846.0465. Fax: Documentary (60 min) Producer: Alexia Cirino actual family that lends insight into his 818.846.0256. Language: original version English Cast: Shauna O’Brian, Julie K. Smith, impersonations and insights on society. Subtitled At Cannes: Jeffery Beach (President), Sasha Peralta, Julie Strain POOLHALL JUNKIES Phillip Roth (C.E.O.), TJ Sakasegawa Delivery Status: Completed Director: Stefano Savona Thriller (95 Minutes) (VP Production and Distribution) Four beautiful over-sexed girls save Earth Producer: Alessandro Arangio Ruiz Language: English Office: Palais des Festival, Riviera Stand from the axis of evil. (Tipota Movie Company) & Maat Director: Mars Callahan No. J8 THE EROTIC FILM COLLECTION Produzioni Producer: Karen Beninati, Vincent PHANTOM FORCE OF JAG MUNDHRA Delivery Status: completed Erotic Thriller (90 minutes) Newman, Tucker Tooley Year of Production: 2002, Country of Cast: Christopher Walken, Chazz Language: English Origin: Italy Director: Jag Mundhra Palminteri, Rod Steiger, Rick Schroder Budget: $ 100.000,00 Year of Production: 2001, Country of Producers: Jag Mundhra and Victor Sicilian emigrants in Tunisia and Bhalla Origin: USAIn the violent world of high Tunisian emigrants in Sicily, exchanges stakes pool, Johnny’s betting the bank on Cast: Lee Anne Beaman, Tahnee Welch, and flows: the daily life of a precarious Steven Bauer, Richard Tyson, Jennifer a clean break. life on the borderline. THE MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS McShane SPECTRUM DIAMOND - THE Drama (105 Minutes) Delivery Status: completed MYTH AND THE LEGEND OF Language: English MATTHEW SMITH 6 feature films: MONSOON, SHADES Director: George Hickenlooper OF GRAY, IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSE, Documentary (54 min) Producer: Andy Garcia, Donald TAINTED LOVE, IMPROPER Language: English and Finnish spoken Zuckerman, Andrew Pfeffer CONDUCT. with English subtitles CRIME & PUNISHMENT Director: Opificio Ciclope Cast: Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Olivia Drama/ Thriller (90 min.) Producer: Opificio Ciclope Co- Williams, James Coburn, Julianna Language: English production partners: Tele+ (Italy); YLE Marguiles Director: Menahem Golan (Finland) Delivery Status: Producer: Evgeny Afineevsky & Delivery Status: completed Year of Production: 2001, Country of Menahem Golan Year of Production: 2002, Country of Origin: USA Cast: Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Vanessa Origin: Italy Byron Tiller (Andy Garcia) could please 1868 - OVERSEAS FILM GROUP Redgrave, Margo Kidder Budget: $ 70.000,00 any woman...except the one he loved. The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com

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EMMETT’S MARK always played a special role in one’s life. Delivery Status: complete Comedy (100 min) Thriller (100 Minutes) A love story of an upcoming singer and A savagely funny, black-as-night Language: English Language: English his promoter. Success and confusion gets supernatural thriller: Christmas becomes Director: Doug Naylor Director: Keith Snyder in between their romantic future as a a living hell as the Harrington family is Producer: Charles Armitage Producer: Graham Taylor, Brad Fuller, couple. torn bloodily apart. Cast: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny Franny Baldwin Benullo CHURA LIYAA HAI TUMNE DEVILS (LES DIABLES) John-Jules Co-production partners: Taylor/Fuller www.clht.com Director: Christophe RUGGIA Delivery Status: pre-production Production, Genuine Article Pictures Thriller / Romance (144 min) Cast: Adèle Haenel, Vincent Rottiers, Year of Production: 2003, Country of Cast: Scott Wolf, Gabriel Byrne, Tim Director: Sangeeth Sivan Rochdy Labidi, Jacques Bonaffe, Aurélia Origin: UK Roth Producer: PFH RAVE Petit. Budget: $ 15 million Delivery Status: Post Production Key Cast: Zayed Khan, Esha Deol, Sahil Delivery Status: complete A comedy based on the globally Year of Production: 2001, Country of Ankola, Rakhi Sawant, Vijay Raaz & Chloé is 13 and mute, entirely dependent successful sci-fi comedy TV adventure Origin: USA Gulshan Grover on her younger brother, Joseph. Driven series. Police Detective Emmett Young has three Delivery Status: Completed by his limitless love for her, Joseph does HOLLYWOOD NORTH days to solve a brutal murder...his own. Country of Origin: India, Year of whatever it takes to keep them together. Comedy (89 min) Production: 2003 PERSONA NON GRATA Language: English Tina is urgently summoned to Bangkok, Director: Oliver Stone Director: Peter O’Brian W where she is told that her uncle has died Production: Rule 8, Wild Bunch, Ixtlan Producer: John Gillespie in an accident. She is shocked to learn Cast: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Ariel Cast: Alan Bates, Mathew Modine, WEG INDIA that her uncle was wanted in India for a Sharon, Ehud Barak, Benjamin Jennifer Tilly WEG India, 8 Palm Crest, Main Avenue, massive gold heist. Netanyahu Delivery Status: Completed Santacruz (West), Mumbai 400-054, DHUND - THE FOG Delivery Status: complete Year of Production: 2002, Country of India. Tel: 9122.26051011 / 26051842. Thriller / Suspense (135 min) March 2002. Israelis and Palestinians at Origin: Canada/UK Fax: 9122.26052621. [email protected]. Director: Shyam Ramsay war. Diplomacy deadlocked. Violence Budget: $ 3.5 million www.dvdworldwide.com Producer: Yashovardhan Tyagi escalating. In search of first-hand A comedy drama about a smart, At Cannes: Avinaash Jumani Key Cast: Amar Upadhya, Aditi perspectives, Oliver Stone leads a handsome and successful lawyer. (International Sales & Acquisitions), Gowitrikar, Apoorva Agnhhotri, Divya documentary crew into the very heart of Nothing had ever stood in his way...until Amit Jumani (International Sales & Palat, Shweta Menon, Prem Chopra & the conflict. he decided to make a movie! Acquisitions), Kavi Jumani (International Gulshan Grover SCORCHED Comedy Sales & Acquisitions), Ranchor Jumani Delivery Status: Completed Language: English. (International Sales & Acquisitions) Country of Origin: India, Year of WINCHESTER FILMS Director: Gavin Grazer. Office: Riviera - Booth # J6, Tel: Production: 2003 Winchester Films, 19 Heddon St., W1B Producer: Neverland Films, Al Corly, 06.75710630 A group of college friends become the 4BG, London, United Kingdom. Tel: JISM - THE DARK SIDE OF target of an unknown serial killer who 0207.851.6500. Fax: 0207.851.6505. Bart Rosenblatt. DESIRE keeps a close eye on them to take [email protected]. Cast: John Cleese, Woody Harrelson, www.jismthefilm.com revenge one by one. www.winchesterent.com Alicia Silverstone, Rachel Leigh Cook. Thriller / Romance (133 min) Company Type: Sales agent, distributor, Delivery Status: Completed Director: Amit Saxena film finance Year of Production: 2001, Country of Producer: Pooja Bhatt WILD BUNCH At Cannes: Gary Smith (CEO), Hadeel Origin: USA Key Cast: John Abraham, Bipasha Basu Wild Bunch, 99 rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Reda (CEO LA Office), Billy Hurman Budget: $15 million & Gulshan Grover Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.53.01.50.24 / (snr VP sales and marketing), Andrew Three small town bank employees all Delivery Status: Completed, Market 33.1.53.01.50.49 Brown (snr VP sales and marketing), unwittingly make plans to rob the bank Screenings At Cannes: World Sales: Vincent Gareth Jones (Head of UK Film during the same weekend. Country of Origin: India, Year of Maraval, Carole Baraton, Gaël Nouaille; Production and Finance); Acquisition Production: 2003 Co production financing: Juliette Renaud Executive: Mick Southworth (CEO of Kabir Lal, a restless, reckless alcoholic Office: Sales Office: 3 La Croisette, 2nd Distribution) lawyer, has a chance encounter with floor, Tel: 33.4.93.99.84.54. Fax: Office: Noga Hilton, Presidential Suite Soniya Khanna a young, sexy and 33.4.93.99.85.11. Marketing Office: 6 La 305, Tel: 33.4.92.99.75.66. Tel: dangerously ambitious wife of middle- Croisette, 4th floor, door on the right, 33.4.92.99.75.67. Fax: 33.4.92.99.75.68 aged industrialist Rohit Khanna. The Tel: 33.4.93.99.85.10. Fax: THE NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY sexual chemistry between the couple 33.4.93.99.85.08 Drama (100 mins) intensifies their relationship. ALEXANDRA’S PROJECT Language: English SUPARI Directed by Rolf de Heer Director: Paul Goldman Action Drama (125 min) Cast: Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bodgan Producer: Nik Powell, Emile Sherman, Director & Producer: Padam Kumar Koca Peter Clifton Key Cast: Uday Chopra, Nandita Das, Delivery Status: complete Cast: Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Rahul Dev, Nauheed, Purab Kohli, Akash Steve arrives home on his birthday to David Hemmings Saigal and Irfan Khan find his family gone. His wife has left Delivery Status: Completed-World Delivery Status: Completed, Market him a videotape. Alone in the house, he Premiere Screenings starts to watch... Year of Production: 2002-3, Country of Country of Origin: India, Year of THE CAT RETURNS Origin: Australia/UK A Studio Ghibli Film Production: 2003 Budget: $8 million. Directed by Hiroyuki Morita Easy money was what a group of best The true story of Frank Sinatra’s 1974 Produced by Toshio Suzuki and Nozomu friends Aryan, Papad, Chicken and Australian tour during which he managed Takahashi Mushy wanted. And one person who to alienate a whole nation. showed them the easiest way to make all Delivery Status: complete HARV THE BARBARIAN their dreams come true was the A spellbinding animation fantasy from Comedy mysterious woman Mamta. Studio Ghibli, a tale of enchantment and Language: English YEH LAMHE JUDAAI KE adventure from the producers of Hayao Director: TBC Romance / Drama Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning Producer: Winchester Films Director: B. Tiwari “Spirited Away”.DEAD END Cast: TBC Producer: Vishva Light & Sound Ltd. 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