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EXHIBITORS AT AFM: Follows the story of a high2001 school cheer- WHISPERS FROM A SHALLOW DEATH CULT leader whose parents, friends and lovers GRAVE Martial Arts (85 minutes) think she is drifting toward becoming a les- Drama (90 minutes) Language: English bian. She is sent to a camp with other girls Language: English Director: Leo Fong and boys whose parents want them to Director: Ted Newsom Producer: Philip R. Cable A AAA become straight. Producer: Trudi Keck Cast: Leo Fong, Lorin Taylor Cast: Michelle Baurer, Trudi Keck Delivery Status: Available October 1, 2001 KILLER INSTINCT Delivery Status: Available Now Horror Thriller Budget: $250,000 A PLUS Budget: $200,000 For three decades assassins continually hunt Director: Ken Barbet The true story of a bikini model and her the man who ruined their plans for global ENTERTAINMENT Producer: Tony DiDio shocking murder which made headlines A Plus Entertainment, 15030 Ventura conquest. Exec. Producer: Denis Shusterman throughout the world. STAR FORCE Blvd., Suite 762, Sherman Oaks, CA THE NASA COLLECTION 91403 USA. Tel: 818.994.9831. Fax: Cast: Corbin Bernsen, Dee Wallace Stone, Sci-Fi, Action (85 minutes) Paige Moss Documentary (80 short films, 15 - 30 min- Language: English 818.994.9837. E-mail: utes each) [email protected]. Delivery Status: Completed Director: Mervin Fulton In the tradition of Scream and the US box Language: English At AFM: Emilio Ferrari (President), Gregg Director: Various Producer: Philip R. Cable Ratinoff (Vice-President of Worldwide office sensation Scary Movie, Killer Producer: Various Cast: Lorin Taylor Sales and Acquisitions) Instinct is a Generation X horror thriller that Cast: N/A Delivery Status: December 1, 2001 Office: 810, Tel: 310.458.6700, hauntingly reveals big problems in a small Delivery Status: Available Now Budget: $$450,000 Fax: 310.458.6761 town as three stories mysteriously inter- Budget: $25,000 to $100,000 each An extra-terrestrial soldier fleeing from the I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST twine, with an unsolved series of crimes Various films detailing the world of space Vagan Imperium, is stocked by blood- WINTER from fifteen years before providing the and all matters of science. thirsty killers and rampaging robots. Generation X Horror Thriller common thread. BEST OF NASA IT’S ALL ABOUT LOU Director: Emilio Ferrari HEART OF STONE Documentary (85 minutes) Comedy (85 minutes) Producer: Emillio Ferrari Psychological Thriller Language: English Language: English Director: Mike Su Cast: TBA Director: Dale Trevellion Director: Various Delivery Status: Pre-production Producer: Lou Klein Producers: Tony DiDio Producer: Charles Dichiera An extreme snow boarding competition Cast: N/A Cast: Lou Klein goes out of control in this adrenaline pump- Exec. Producer: Denis Shusterman Delivery Status: Available May 1, 2001 Delivery Status: Available Now ing thriller that follows in the vein of Cast: Angie Everhart, James Wilder Budget: $100,000 Budget: $165,000 Scream and I Know What You Did Last Delivery Status: Post Production A feature highlighting the amazing history Comic sensation, Lou Klein, gives his Summer. When a beautiful older married woman of aviation and space travel. uproarious take on life, work, and death in LUCKYTOWN attempts to hide her affair with a younger MONSTERS AND MANIACS Hollywood. Drama (101 minutes) man, she reluctantly becomes involved with Horror, Documentary (90 minutes) KNIGHTS OF JUSTICE Language: English detectives who are trying to find a serial Language: English Sci-Fi, Action (40 minutes) Director: Paul Nicholas killer. Director: Ted Newsom Language: English Producers: Paul Nicholas, Emilio Ferrari Producer: Ted Newsom Director: Philip R. Cable Cast: Kirsten Dunst, James Caan, Luis Cast: Brinke Stevens Producer: Charles Dichiera Guzman, Theresa Russell, Jennifer Gareis, AAA AMERICAN Delivery Status: Available Now Cast: Lorin Taylor, Alan Woodman, Daniel Vincent Kartheiser Budget: $150,000 Layne, Sandra Kuhn Delivery Status: Completed ENTERTAINMENT A chronicle highlighting the history of the AAA American Entertainment, 415 North Delivery Status: Available now. A romantic thriller, Luckytown follows two horror movie containing footage lost for Budget: $100,000 teenagers at the crossroads of their lives as Akers Street, # 100, Visalia, Ca. 93291. decades. The “Image Comics” superhero team face they struggle to love and survive but they U.S.A. Tel: 559.733.5342. Fax: 559. 734. THE CHAMPIONS deathtraps while saving humanity from a must win big in Las Vegas to save their 9583. Action (85 minutes) crazed masterminds androids. futures, families and their love. Company Type: Distributor Language: English MATH ANIMATION SORTED At AFM: Philip R. Cable (President), Lisa Director: Emilo Agrasanchez Documentary Instructional (30 minutes) Thriller (100 minutes) Todd (Sales Rep), Belinda Cable (P.R.) Producer: Steven Ross Cast: Blue Demon, Tineblas, Mil Language: English Language: English Acquisition Executive: Philip R. Cable Director: Charles Dichiera Director: Alexander Jovy Masquedes Office: 319, Tel: 559.799.9562 Delivery Status: Available September 1, Producer: Charles Dichiera Producers: Mark Crowdy, Fabrizio Chiesa BATTLE BEAST 2001 Cast: N/A Production Company: Jovy Junior Martial Arts, Horror (87 minutes). Budget: $200,000 Delivery Status: Available Now Enterprises Language: English Five masked wrestlers search for beauty Budget: $50,000 Cast: Tim Curry, Kelly Brook, Matthew Director: Philip R. Cable contestants kidnapped by insane criminals. The world of advanced mathematics is Rhys, Jason Donovan, Stephen Marcus, Producer: Philip R. Cable FIST OF FONG made simple by computer animation. Sienna Guillory Cast: Lisa Todd, Lorin Taylor, Charles Martial Arts KENNEDY, THE CHALLENGE WE Delivery Status: Screening Language: English ACCEPT Fast paced generation X thriller featuring Dierkop, James Willis Delivery Status: Available Now. Director: Leo Fong Documentary (22 minutes) some of Britain’s hottest young talent, Producer: Leo Fong Language: English Sorted takes viewers on a psychological Budget: $$300,000 Beautiful private eye, and martial artist, Cast: Leo Fong, James Willis, Amon Director: N/A journey through the hip London Gregory, Deborah Dutch Producer: Charles Dichiera Underground Rave scene. as a young Diana Powers battles extraterrestrial assas- Delivery Status: Available September 1, Cast: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson lawyer gets more than he bargains for while sins as she tries to stop the earth’s destruc- 2001 Delivery Status: Available Now investigating his brother’s mysterious tion from millions of ravenous monsters. Budget: $165,000 Budget: $45,000 death. SHADOW LOVE A lone martial artist fights vicious gangs The only “color” film of a John F. Kennedy G-MEN FROM HELL Erotic thriller (85 minutes) and corrupt politicians in his personal quest speech which was made shortly before his Action (94 minutes) Language: English for justice. death. Language: English Director: Philip R. Cable BOXING’S BEST BOUTS TRICKS Director: Christopher Coppola Producer: De’Ann Power Documentary (85 minutes) Gameshow (10 episodes, 30 minute each). Producer: Richard Albert Cast: De’Ann Power, Lisa Todd, Allen Language: English Language: English Cast: William Forsythe, Tate Donovan, Wade, Steven Quimby Director: N/A Director: David Van Chaney Gary Busey, Bobcat Goldthwait, Paul Delivery Status: Available March 15, 2001 Producer: Belinda P. Cable Producer: David Van Chaney Rodriguez, Charles Fleischer, Robert Cast: Boxing’s greatest champions Cast: David Van Chaney Goulet Budget: $200,000 Delivery Status: Available October 1, 2001 After a passionate affair with a mysterious Delivery Status: Available Now Delivery Status: Screening Budget: $120,000 Budget: $50,000 per episode Based on the comic book series Ghoulash, stranger, lovely Karen Summers encounters Boxing’s most exciting moments, which murder, danger, and betrayal. An uproarious gay gameshow with outra- G-Men From Hell is a modern psychologi- includes the ultra-rare “Gentleman Jim geous stunts, music, and dancing. cal thriller about two ex-FBI agents who LISA TODD’S HOLLYWOOD Corbet” fight from 1898. escape from Hell hoping to perform a few FANTASIES NANA BEA’S STORYBOOK good deeds and beat the Devil at his own Erotic Comedy, (87 minutes) THEATRE game. Language: English Children (85 minutes) E-mail elspeth, betsy BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER Director: Philip R. Cable Language: English Comedy (95 minutes) Producer: Lisa Todd Director: Philip R. Cable Language: English Cast: Lisa Todd, Brinke Stevens, Deborah Producer: Belinda P. Cable Director: Jamie Babbit Cast: Nana Bea or angela @ Dutch Delivery Status: November 1, 2001 Producers: Andrea Sperling, Leanna Creel Delivery Status: Available Now Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Clea Du Vall, Cathy Budget: $105,000 Beautiful TV star, Lisa Todd, has a slumber Storyteller, Nana Bea, weaves an enchanted Moriarty, Rupaul party with five sexy actresses to save her thebusinessoffilm.com Delivery Status: Screening world while reading her collection of movie deal from falling apart. beloved children’s stories.

2 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE ADRIANA CHIESA TOBIA’S DREAM (TOBIA AL WINNEBAGO FAKIN DA FUNK CAFFE’) Noir Adventure Comedy (90 min) ENTERPRISES Comedy (115 min) Director: Nick James Director: Tim Chey Adriana Chiesa Enterprise srl, Via Language: Italian (English Subtitles) Producer: Rosanne Milliken/Danny Trejo Producer: Harry Yoo Barnaba Oriani, 24/A, 00197, Rome, Italy. Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi Cast: Steve Buscemi, Mickey Rourke, Cast: Pam Grier, Dante Basco Chris Tel: 3906.807.0400. Fax: 3906.8068.7855. Producer: Factory Film Danny Trejo Spenser At AFM: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma Cast: Roberto Citran, Nicola Russo, Delivery Status: Completed Candice Hugo Delivery Status: Packaging (President), Rossella Gori (Sales Manager) Three Santa Monica locals decide to head to An accidental switch at an adoption agency Office: 701, Tel: 310.576.7017, Fax: Delivery Status: screening sends a newborn Chinese baby to an New passions and daring adventure sweep Baja to ride the big waves but they get 310.576.7018 embroiled in a botched drug transaction and African American family, creating comedic ASK ME IF I AM HAPPY (CHIEDIMI away broken hearts and broken dreams in ultimately are forced to outwit the villains and poignant results. SE SONO FELICE) the staid universe of an elegant old Café. RETURN TO SAVAGE BEACH Comedy (109 min) BRANCHIE AN INDIAN DREAM and save the girl. Action (96 min) Adventure (105 min) LIONS HYENA’S & OTHER Language: Italian, English subtitles Language: Italian (English Subtitles) Delivery Status: Completed Director: Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo e CARNIVORES Director: Andy Sidaris Director: Francesco Ranieri Martinotti Action/Drama Massimo Venier Producer: Iter Film, Alia Film Producer: Arlene Sidaris Producer: A.GI.DI – Medusa Film Director: Daniel Baldwin Cast: Julie Strain, Shae Marks Delivery Status: screening Cast: Daniel Baldwin. One other Baldwin Cast: Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo Videogames. Comics. Dreams. Nightmares. Julie Strain leads the LETHAL Force, a top Delivery Status: screening A fantastic voyage to India which becomes brother. secret government agency made up of the “Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo break all box an exploration of the meaning of life and Delivery Status: Packaging world’s most attractive and deadly men and office records with their new comedy that is death. An unemployed former bank executive voluptuous women to recover two comput- both intelligent and personal…all in great SCARLET DIVA unable to resurrect his career and struggling er disks which hold the secret of the loca- style.” Erotic Drama (90 min) to raise his 10 year old daughter has to join tion of a great treasure. SLEEPLESS (NON HO SONNO) Languages: English, French, Italian up with his brother whom he hasn’t seen in GUT FEELING Thriller (117 min) Director: Asia Argento many years and his brother’s gang to get Black Comedy (94 min) Language: English Producer: Asia Argento cash. Director: Ian Sears Director: Dario Argento Production Company: Opera Film TURNING BLUE Producer: Irwin Olian Producer: Opera Film Delivery Status: Screening Comedy Cast: Julie Haggerty, Susan Blakely, Cast: Max Von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, A young star torn between fame and soli- Director: Alain Zaloum George Lazenby tude. Her loveless adventures in a corrupt Chiara Caselli Producer: Jean Zaloum Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Screening and amoral world. Her search for purity and A young advertising executive creates the Dario Argento’s spellbinding return to his true love. Cast: TBA Delivery Status: Casting world’s hottest advertising campaign for the all-time classic thriller. A masterful blend of best ad agency in Los Angeles only to find Deep Red, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, The AKA MOVIES In a case of mistaken identity, a small time thief escapes from Chicago owing the mob himself fired a week later. Bird With the Crystal Plumage takes us one AKA Movies, 6464 Sunset Boulevard, Available worldwide step beyond into chilling crime and death. Suite 920, Los Angeles, CA 90028 USA. $50,000 and gets mistaken for New York’s RACE UNFAIR COMPETITION Tel: 323.464-7345. Fax: 323.464.7396. E- #1 heroic police office. Drama (104 min) (CONCORRENZA SLEALE) mail: [email protected] DEALING WITH DONNA Cast: Paul Rodriguez, CCH Pounder, Cliff Drama At AFM: Arthur Kananck (President), Comedy Robertson Language: Italian (English Subtitles) Michael Kananack (Vice-president of Director: Richard Turner Sales), Claude Kananack (Director of Sales Delivery Status: Completed Director: Ettore Scola Producer: David Hannay A Los Angeles neighborhood becomes the Producer: Mass Film & Acquisitions) Cast: Lucy Lawless (“Xena”), Rebecca Office: 605, Tel: 310.458.6700, ext. 605 battleground for a grassroots Latino house Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Sergio Castellitto, Gibney (“Lucky painter and a well organized black political Diego Abadantuono Tel: (Arthur Kananack) 203.454-3032, (Michael Kananack) 818.634.4760 Status: Packaging insider who fight a dirty campaign for a Delivery Status: Post-production Break”), Andrew Gilbert (“Paperback vacant city council seat. Holy Tongue (La Lingua Del Santo) WHAT’S COOKING Drama (106 min.) Hero”) THE NORTH END Comedy (117 min) Delivery Status: Completed (Screening at An off-beat comedy about a teenage girl Drama (96 minutes) Language: Italian (English Subtitles) AFM) who wins a beauty contest. Director: Frank Ciota Director: Carlo Mazzacurati Director: Gurinder Chadha THE ASPERN PAPERS Producer: Michael King Producer: Rodeo Drive – Medusa Film Producer: Jeffrey Taylor Drama Cast: Frank Vincent, Tony Darrow (“The Cast: Antonio Albanese – Fabrizio Cast: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Sopranos”), Lina Sivio Bentivoglio Director: Mariana Hellmund Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Producer: Abe Shainberg Delivery Status: Delivery - NOW Delivery Status: Screening Alfre Woodard Two friends who are living in the Italian A crazy delightful moving comedy of two Cast: Probable: Eric Stoltz, Karen Allen Four families with very diverse back- Delivery Status: Packaging section of Boston find adventure, conflict heroes, two impossible losers who steal the grounds facing contemporary problems in and love there. sacred relic of St. Anthony. Los Angeles prepare for their Thanksgiving Based on the famous story by Henry James and set in Latin America. THE FINGER KICKS AGAIN PLACIDO RIZZOTTO (THE MAN dinner. Action/Comedy WHO DEFIED THE CORLEONE WAR BRIDE SPECIAL DELIVERY Director: Steve Wang MAFIA BOSSES) Drama Comedy (95 min) Producer: Aki Komine Drama / Action (110 min) Director: Lydon Chubbeck Director: Kenneth Carlson Cast: Mark Dacascos Language: Italian (English Subtitles) Producer: Alistair MacLean-Clark Producer: Scott & Marcy Willmann Delivery Status: Pre-production Director: Pasquale Scimeca Cast: Anna Friel, Brenda Fricker, Molly Cast: Sean Young, Penny Marshall, Nell A legendary martial arts movie superstar Producer: Arbash Film Parker, Aden Young, Loren Dean Carter mysteriously disappears during the filming Cast: Marcello Mazzarella, Vincenzo Delivery Status: Completed (Screening at Delivery Status: Completed of his last motion picture but reappears to Albanese, Carmello Di Mazzarelli, Gioia AFM) In a moment of desperation a 10 year old confront an evil villain and his deadly team Spaziani Set during World War II, the story follows promised God anything to get her out of an the fortunes of two young London women of henchmen in the fight sequence of his Delivery Status: screening extreme situation. 20 years later God asks life. A legendary film about a man who defied who marry two Canadian soldiers. When they move to Canada while their husbands her to fulfill the promise in a very unusual RISQUE the Corleone Mafia bosses: the tragedy of way. Sexy Comedy life, passion, love, friendship and death. go off to fight, they find the new families hostile and reality far harsher than their WAYWARD SON Cast: TBA WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH Delivery Status: Pre-production (ESPERANDO AL MESIAS) dreams. Drama (98 min) ORDINARY SINNER Director: Randall Harris A dancer at an exotic dance club gets her Comedy (103 min) wish to own her own club and opens “Chez Language: Spanish (English Subtitles) Drama (93 Minutes) Producer: Carey Brokaw Director: John Henry Davis Cast: Harry Connick, Jr., Pete Risque” just across the street from the club Director: Daniel Burman of her former mobster boss. Producer: Classic srl Producers: William Mahone, Chris Postlethwaite, Patricia Clarkson Bongirne, J.B. White Delivery Status: Completed THE DEVASTATING PATTEN Cast: Daniel Hendler, Stefania Sandrelli, Action Chiara Caselli, Melina Petriella, Enrique Cast: Brendan Hines, Elizabeth Banks, After being wrongly imprisoned for nine Kris Park, A. Martinez years, a young man is released and, Cast: Patrick Bergin, John Rjys Davies Piñeyro Delivery Status: Completed (Screening at Delivery Status: screening although penniless, attempts to make his Delivery Status: Pre-production AFM) After an American businessman has A fresh and original urban fable of a young A dropout from an Episcopalian seminary way home, struggling against tremendous Jewish boy waiting for the promise of love launched his new hi-tech business enter- solves the murder of his mentor, a gay odds to maintain his dignity and make a prise at a party in Johannesburg, he and his and a world free from solitude. priest. new life for himself. SOUTH SIDE STORY (SUD SIDE family are hi-jacked. His wife is killed and IMNOMAD ESKIYA (“THE BANDIT”) his daughter is kidnapped. He exacts STORI) Allegory Drama (121 min) Musical Comedy (78 min) revenge with the help of his hi-tech skills Director: Russell James Language: Turkish/English Subtitles) and a local gold miner. Language: Italian (English Subtitles) Producer: Linda York Director: Yavuz Turgul Director: Roberta Torre JUSTICE Cast: Heidi Klum, Rachel Roberts, Estella Producer: Mine Vargi Drama Producer: GAM Srl Warren Cast: Sener Sen, Ugur Yucel, Sermin Sen. Cast: Forstine Ehobor, Bobo Rondelli Cast: TBA Delivery Status: In Production. Delivery Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Pre-production Delivery Status: screening Early 2001 Romeo and Juliet in the year 2000 are a Super models journey through the After spending 35 years in prison, a hillside Based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s last black woman and a white man who struggle Australian outback with Nomad in a surre- bandit sets out on a journey to Istanbul to novel (“Weir of Hermiston”) of love, deceit for the right to love each other – music alistic and wholly interactive time-travelled find the man who betrayed him and stole his and adventure set in the Scottish lowlands unites them, prejudice divides them. adventure/action picture. sweetheart. during the early days of the last century.

THE MOST FERTILE MAN IN OWNING MOLONY IRELAND Drama PRODUCT Romantic Comedy (93 min) Director: Richard Kwietniowski Language: English Producers: Andras Hamori, Seaton Director: D. Appleton McLean, Alessandro Camon Producer: David Collins Exec. Producers: Edward R. Pressman, SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT Delivery Status: completed / Screening Sean Furst Country Kilburn Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman Comedy (85 min) Delivery Status: Pre-production Language: English Owning Molony is based on the true story of AFM 2001 Director: Elliot Hegarty Brian Molony, an unassuming bank manager Producer: Nick Heyworth who quietly embezzled millions over a year Delivery Status: completed and a half to feed his secret gambling habit. A romantic, libidinous ride through the pol- MOVERN CALLAR itics of a funky new Northern Ireland. Drama PASSING STRANGERS Director: Lynne Ramsay Delivery Status: pre-production Producer: George Faber, Charles Pattinson, Noir Thriller Robyn Slovo Language: English Exec. Producer: Seaton McLean, Andras Director: John Irvin Hamori, David Thompson, Barbara Producer: Eddie Dick, André Paquette & McKissack Lisa Katselas Cast: Samantha Morton Delivery Status: Pre-production Delivery Status: Pre-production BLOOD & GUTS A darkly comic tale of a disaffected and dis- Thriller passionate young woman who disposes of her Language: English boyfriend’s body, then hits the road to take a Director: Scott Roberts walk on the wild side from the bleak Scottish Producer: Al Clark highlands to the raves of sunny Ibiza. Delivery Status: Pre-production SLACKERS LUCKY TONY Comedy Black comedy Director: Dewey Nicks Language: English Producers: Neal Moritz, Erik Feig Director: Richard Loncraine Cast: Devon Sawa, Jason Schwartzman, Producer: Liam Badger & Lisa Katselas James King, Michael Maronna, Jason Delivery Status: Pre-production Segel, Laura Prepon THE LIFE OF RILEY (AKA THE Delivery Status: Completed Slackers follows the riotous path of three NEWLYWEDS) buddies who scam their way through college. Comedy 51ST STATE Language: English Action Comedy Director: Joel Moffett Director: Ronny Yu Producer: Linda James, Lisa Katselas & Producers: Andras Hamori, Samuel L. Matthias Visser Jackson, Seaton McLean, David Delivery Status: Development Pupkewitz, Malcolm Kohll, Jonathan Debin HALLELUJAH BROTHERS Exec. Producers: Julie Yorn, Eli Selden, Comedy Stephanie Davis Language: English Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Director: Jim Shields Emily Mortimer, Rhys Ifans, Ricky Producer: Linda James Tomlinson, Sean Pertwee, Meatloaf PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 Delivery Status: Development Delivery Status: Post-production ALL TOO SOON Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American Road Movie/Black Comedy master chemist, who becomes embroiled in The Order, AVAILABLE FROM NuImage Language: English a web of double-dealing as he’s escorted Director: TBA around Liverpool’s underworld and rave Producer: Liam Badger scene by rabid local hood who hates all THE BLACK SWALLOW OF DEATH things American. Bio/Drama ALIBI FILM Delivery Status: Development RIVIERA WORLD TRAVELER Director: TBA INTERNATIONAL Drama Cast: TBA Alibi Film International, 12 Maiden Lane, Comedy London WC2E 7NA UK. Tel: Language: English Director: Bart Freundlich Delivery Status: Packaging Producer: Tim Perell The true story of James Bullard, the first 44.20.7845.0410. Fax: 44.207.836.6919. Director: Marc Evans African-American pilot, who flew for E-mail: [email protected]. Website: Producer: Sheryl Drown Cast: Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup www.alibifilms.co.uk. Delivery Status: Development Delivery Status: Post-production France in WWI and became a hero of At AFM: Gareth Jones (Managing France and the toast of Paris in the “Roaring ONE MORE KISS What would it be like to just pick up one Director, Alibi Films International), Hilary day and run away from your life? Cal does 20’s.” Davis (Director of Sales, Alibi Films Romance (102 min) THE LAST OUTLAW Language: English just that when he impulsively leaves his International), Roger Holmes (CEO, Alibi wife and child, hitting the road on a cross- Western Communications) Director: Vadim Jean country voyage of self-discovery. Cast: TBA Office: 750, Tel: 310.576.6929, Fax: Producer: Vadim Jean & Paul Brooks Delivery Status: Pre-production 310.576.6930 CLAIRE’S HAT Cast: Valerie Edmond, James Cosmo, Film Noir Caper A famous outlaw having finished his prison SOUTH WEST 9 Gerard Butler, Valerie Gogan sentence travels back to his home and dis- Drama Director: Bruce McDonald Language: English Delivery Status: Completed – screening Producer: Robert Lantos covers that he has been robbed by his son cassette available which causes him to seek restitution and Director: Richard Parry Exec. Producer: Seaton McLean end up being chased by the same sheriff Producer: Allan Niblo & Renata S Aly Cast: Juliette Lewis, Gina Gershon, Kelly Cast: Wil Johnson, Frank Harper, Stuart ALLIANCE ATLANTIS Harms who had incarcerated him before. Laing BLACK MAMBA Alliance Atlantis, 121 Bloor St. East, Suite Delivery Status: Post-production Delivery Status: In post-production 1500, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W Thriller Brixton, South London 2000: the meeting Over a 24-hour period, Claire is on the run Cast: TBA point of black, white, gay, straight, home- 3M5. Tel: 416.967.1174. Fax: and gets in way over her head by being in Delivery Status: Pre-production less and affluent. 416.960.0971. Website: www.allianceat- the wrong place at the wrong time. A big, bad snake goes crazy in Central Park. ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD TEN lantis.com POLLOCK Drama (110 min) At AFM: Mark Horowitz (President, Drama Language: English Alliance Atlantis Pictures International), Director: Ed Harris Director: Karl Francis Ariel Veneziano (Director, International Producers: Fred Berner, Ed Harris, Jon Kilik Producer: Juan Gordon, Stuart Pollok, Karl Francis Sales, Alliance Atlantis Pictures Ex. Producers: Peter M. Brant, Joseph Allen Send Your Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Greta Scacchi, International), Patrice Theroux (President, Cast: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Angela Molina Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Madigan, Jennifer Connelly, Jeffrey Tambor Delivery Status: Screening at AFM 2001 Distribution), Victor Loewy (Chairman, Delivery Status: Completed Press Releases to: Set in the US at the height of the Cold War Motion Picture Group), Seaton McLean Ed Harris’ directorial debut about the life of in the 1950s the film examines the personal (President, Motion Picture Production) Jackson Pollock, an extraordinary man who struggle and triumph of Herbert Biberman, has fittingly been called “an artist dedicated A Hollywood director, in his crusade to Office: Loews Hotel, Suite 744, 1700 [email protected] Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica 90401, Tel: to concealment, a celebrity who nobody make the controversial American cult film knew.” “SALT OF THE EARTH.” 310.576.7477

MAELSTRÖM JERKS Drama ALLIED Drama (90 min) (1999) ALPINE PICTURES Director: Denis Villeneuve ENTERTAINMENT Director: Ted Grouya INTERNATIONAL INC. Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal Producer: Ted Grouya Alpine Pictures International Inc., 6919 Cast: Marie-Josée Croze, Jean-Nicolas GROUP, INC. Cast: Sarah Wynter, Emmanuel Xuereb, Valjean Ave., Van Nuys, California 91406 Allied Entertainment Group, Inc., 8899 Francis Fallon, Patrick Sheehan and Scott USA. Tel: 818.909.5207. Fax: Verreault, Stéphanie Morgenstern Beverly Boulevard, Suite 911, West Mallon Delivery Status: Complete/screening Hollywood, CA. 90048 USA. Tel: Watch what happens when beautiful Celeste 818.902.5021. E-mail: Maelström follows the dramatic conse- 310.271.0703. Fax: 310.271.0706. E-mail: has to choose between the “Jerk” who says [email protected]. Website: quences and psychological turmoil that a [email protected] he loves her and the life long friend who www.alpine-ent.com young woman endures after her car hits an At AFM: James R. Moder (Chairman), shows her how she deserves to be treated. Company Type: Foreign Sales Agent & old man on a rainy summer night. Michelle Glenn (Director of Sales and GROTESQUE Production Company POSSIBLE WORLDS Servicing), and our VP Sales Team Horror (90 min) (1988) At AFM: Rene Torres (President), Tom Drama Office: #455, Tel: 310.458.6700, ext. 455 Director: Joe Tornatore Hamilton (Sr. VP), Oliver Page (Sales Director: Robert Lepage Home Sweet Hoboken Producer: Joe Tornatore, Executive Director), John Bunzel (President of Producers: Sandra Cunningham, Bruno Comedy (92 min) (2000) Producer: Maurice Smith Production) Jobin Director: Yoshifumi Hosoya Cast: Linda Blair, Donna Wilkes, Tab Acquisition Executive: John Bunzel Hunter Stand: Loews suite 532 & Le Merigot suite Ex. Producers: Victor Loewy, Charlotte Producers: Yuko Yoshikawa & Daisuke A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a fam- Mickie, Ted East Sekiguchi ily’s vacation home in the mountains and 156A, Tel: 310.576.7323, Fax: Cast: Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus, Sean Cast: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, slaughters the entire family, except for one 818.902.5021 and 310.458.6761 McCann, Gabriel Gascon, Rick Miller Richard Kind, Aida Turturro daughter who gets away. WAYDOWNTOWN Delivery Status: Completed/Screening Beth is a waitress in a Hoboken diner who’s SEASIDE SEDUCTION Comedy (94 mins) Robert Lepage’s surreal murder mystery raised two good-for-nothing grandsons. Erotic Fantasy (98 min) (1999) Language: English delves into the many forms of love through When an appraiser offers her cash for some Director/Writer: Patrick Coppola Director: Gary Burns the exploration of man’s consciousness. old jewelry, she discovers that a ring she Producer: Patrick Coppola Producer: Shirley Vercruysse thought was worthless is actually a rare Cast: Belinda Carroll, Monique Parent, and Cast: Don McKellar Fabrizo Filippo Louis XV diamond valued at $10 million! Vick Andrews Delivery Status: Completed - screening ALLIANCE MAXIMUM JUSTICE A beautiful young stripper dreams of escap- A group of twentysomething office workers Action Thriller (92 min) (1999) ing the sleepy, honky-tonk beach town of who bet a months salary on who can go the ATLANTIS/LEMONDE Director: Jesse Dell Seaside. BELINDA longest without stepping outside. ENTERTAINMENT Producer: Jesse Dell RUM AND COKE Cast: L.P. Brown III, Timothy Bottoms, Erotic Drama (97 min) (1999) Alliance Atlantis/LeMonde Entertainment, Director: Pamela Gibbons Romantic Comedy/ Family (95 min 808 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA Scott Valentine, Martin Kove & Roxana Director: Maria Escobedo Zal Producer: Bedrich Kabriel 90401 USA. Tel: 310.899.8000. Fax: Cast: Deanne Jeffs, Mary Regan, Robyn Producer: Charles Gherardi 310.899.8100 McQuade poses as the leader of a feared Moase Cast: Diana Marquis, Juan Carlos At AFM: Mark Horowitz (President, biker gang to infiltrate the mob-controlled A group of showgirls get entangled in a net Hernandez Alliance Atlantis Pictures International), L.A. Harbor. of underworld crossfire; they live to dance, New York born daughter to Cuban parents Ariel Veneziano (Director, International PUPS they dance to stay alive. Innocence is a state Action Drama (95 min) (1999) has spent her life denying her Latin heritage Sales, Alliance Atlantis Pictures of grace, it’s always under siege. until she meets a dashing Latino firefighter Director: Ash TOO MUCH SEX International) Producer: Daniel Berger who teaches her love and Salsa dancing are Office: Loews Hotel, Suite 744, 1700 Romantic Comedy (80 min) (1999) not without risk. Cast: Burt Reynolds, Mischa Barton Director: Andrew Ainsworth Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica 90401, Tel: (“Sixth Sense,” “Notting Hill”) Cameron Producer: Tina Grewal and Jeffrey Berman THE CLUB 310.576.7477 Von Hoy Cast: Michael McMurtry, Janet Kidder, Thriller PROTECTION Chronicles the story of a rebellious “latch- Murray Furrow and Christine Donato Cast: Christian Slater Thriller key” teenager who finds his mother’s gun, After receiving a divine warning from his Director: Dan Ireland Director: John Flynn and instead of heading to his suburban guardian angel, a young girl-crazy sex Budget: $12.5 M U.S. Producer: Lee Faulkner school, he embarks on a spontaneous bank addict has to suppress his erotic desires in Producer: Andy Emilio Ex. Producers: Ralph Bibo, Werner Bibo, robbery with his girlfriend (Barton) that fear that his next female conquest will be Exec Producer: Anthony Esposito Marc Forby holds the nation’s attention. his last. OUT OF ORDER Cast: Peter Gallagher, Stephen Baldwin PLANET PATROL LOVE UNTIL Comedy Delivery Status: Post-production / Sci Fi Action (72 min) (1999) Romance (91 min) (1999) Director/Writer: Dave Thomas Director: Russ Mazzolla Director: Bedrich Kabriel Producer: Andy Emilio Screening Producer: Bedrich Kabriel and Karel Sal, an ex-hitman, is forced into the witness Producer: Kirk Edward Hansen Kabriel Exec Producer: Anthony Esposito protection program after his gangland boss Cast: Michael David, Anthony Furlong, Cast: Rachel Blakely, Dino Marnika and Cast: Chevy Chase goes on trial. Robert Garcia Maureen O’Shaughnessy Delivery Status: Pre-Production ZEBRA LOUNGE Four teen members of the galactic patrol, An unsophisticated peasant from a small Budget: $8.5 M U.S. Erotic Thriller dedicated to protecting the citizens of the Czech village falls in love with a stylish A down on his luck attorney gets the case of Director: Kari Skogland Universe from evil intelligence forces, face English woman, who introduces him to the his life when he must defend a supermodel Producer: Lewis Chesler, Paco Alvarez the battle of a lifetime as they confront Lord cultured life of Prague, but in the end he for allegedly murdering her wealthy hus- Exec. Producer: David M. Perlmutter, Dan Doom and his nasty minions and gigantic must choose between this exquisite woman band. Witt, Marc Forby killer monsters. and his simple wife. FIRST SNOW TOTEM CHRISTMAS MAGIC IN CHICAGO Cast: Kristy Swanson, Brandy Ledford, Thriller Horror (80 min/1999) Romantic Comedy (92 min) (1999) Director: Mark Furus Stephen Baldwin, Cameron Daddo Director: Martin Tate Director: Timothy J. Elliott Delivery Status: Post-production Producer: John Condne III and Thomas Producer: Anthony Esposito Producer: Kirk Edward Hansen Cast: (Offer Out To Christian Slater) A couple’s lives are threatened when Cast: Marissa Tait, Jason Faunt, Eric Juarez become entangled with a sexy duo of Cast: Christopher Nendick, Steve Budget: $6 M U.S. Edwards Negative Midnight swingers they meet at the Zebra Lounge. Three TV-handsome teenage guys and their Matuszak and Nicole Soltis SECOND SKIN prom-queen wanabee friends find them- A frustrated, uninspired artist stuck in a Thriller Thriller selves mysteriously drawn against their will dead-end job, receives advice from a Director: Gerry Lively Director: Darrell James Roodt to a forgotten cemetery in the middle of guardian spirit on how to forget his lost Producer: Chad Oakes love, while he finds himself falling for his Exec Producer: Anthony Esposito Producers: David Lancaster, David Wicht, nowhere one stormy night where they find mischievous best friend’s girlfriend Jeffrey Morton themselves fighting off a ancient stone Cast: Casper Van Dien WHERE ANGELS DANCE Delivery Status: Pre Production Cast: Natasha Henstridge, Angus Totem that comes to life. Action (98 min) (1999) MacFadyen, Peter Fonda, Liam Waite POWDER BURN Budget: $3.5 M U.S. Director/Writer: Patrick Coppola A dream researcher treats a client whose Delivery Status: Completed/Screening Action Thriller (96 min/1999) Producer: Patrick Coppola Second Skin is a cat and mouse thriller Director: Stephen Prime Cast: Patrick Coppola, Lauren Martin, nightmares become real. about a man seeking a fresh start from the Producer: Gillian Phillips John Fiore, and Ayo Haynes, and Andrew UNDERDOGS mob who inadvertently saves the life of a Cast: Blazey Best and Nicholas Bishop Scudiero Family Action woman hired to kill him. This frantic rollercoaster ride of quick guns, A disillusioned ex prize fighter whose Director: Carl Goldstein WATCHTOWER rotten friendships, twisted hopes and sex, promising career was cut short because of Producer: Marina Martins Thriller drugs & rock ‘n roll will take you far and his father’s greed, has become just another Exec Producer: Anthony Esposito away to the middle of nowhere and back. shadow in the urban landscape. Now he Cast: (Offer Out To Matthew Modine) Director: George Milhalka only fights memories of what might have Producers: John Curtis, Evan Tylor, Dick Shot on location in Australia. Budget: $4.2 M U.S. THE DOORMAN been. MICROWAVE PARK Lowry Action (93 min) (1999) THE DISTRACTION Exec. Producer: Gary Howsam, Marc Action / Thriller Director: Jesse Johnson Drama (87 min) (1999) Delivery Status: Pre-Sales. Production Forby, Richard Brandes Producers: Chris H. Ullrich, Meg E. Gould Director: Greg Tennant scheduled summer, 2001. Cast: Tom Berenger Producer: Rene Tennant and Axel Aubrun Cast: Dominiquie Vandenburg, Nil Allen Cast: Chris Penn, Michael Rooker, James Delivery Status: Post-production Cast: Dean Bukowski, Jennifer Pruitt and Stewart, Sarah Bowen Elora Hayes Russo A magnetic stranger arrives in a small An ex-mercenary soldier, on a spiritual path Set in the 1980’s, Microwave Park tells the coastal town befriending a brother and sis- This redefinition of marriage examines a to settle down, gets a job as a bouncer at an young couple’s battles with love and fideli- story of four Los Angeles police detectives ter. After a series of brutal and apparently L.A. club, where he soon he realizes that the ty as a wife who has been unfaithful coerces who unveil a government agency conspira- random murders occur, the siblings begin to streets of Hollywood are as brutal as the her husband into having an affair with a cy to sell crack cocaine in order to fund have doubts about their new friend. battlefields of the Balkans. seductive office co-worker. covert overseas operations.

FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 5 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE LOVE IS THE DRUG AMAZING MOVIES AMBERLON AMERICA VIDEO Teen Thriller Amazing Movies, 7471 Melrose Ave. #7, Director: Wesley Strick Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel: PICTURES LTD. FILM Producer: TBA 323.852.1396. Fax: 323.658.7265. E-mail: Amberlon Pictures Ltd, 77 Oxford Street, America Video Film, Virrey Loreto 2426, Cast: TBA London, W1D 2ES, UK. Tel: Buenos Aires 1426, Argentina. Tel: [email protected]. Website: 54114.787.9098. Fax: 54114.787.9094. E- Delivery Status: Pre-Production www.AmazingPix.com 44.207.659.2644. Fax: 44.207.659.2100. Budget: $10 million Mobile: 44.7968.730199. mail: [email protected]. Company Type: Sales Agent Company type: Distributor Set in the L.A. rave scene. A love triangle At AFM: Douglas Witkins (President), E-mail: [email protected] At AFM: Christoph Ott (COO), Brenda At AFM: Enrique Maya (President), between three teenagers ends in treachery Orly Ravid (Vice-President), Douglas Freddie Hancock (Vice President and death. Hunter (Director of Operations) Reiss (President Sales), Norbert Maass (Vice President Sales & Acquisition), Acquisitions), Claudio Braslavsky DAZE OF SUMMER Office: Zuma Room – 7th Floor Atrium, (Marketing Director), Maria Fernanda Broad Teen Comedy Tel: 310.576.7549 Moyra Lock (Head of Marketing) Fernandez (Business Affairs) Language: English A DIRTY LITTLE BUSINESS Office: The Loews Hotel, office no. Office: 658/659, Tel: 310.576.7549 Director: Marni Banack Sexy Comedy (87 min.) 448/449, Tel: 310.576.2477. Fax: THE INVISIBLE MAN Delivery Status: Scheduled for production Language: English 310.576.2478 Sci-Fi (90 min) THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN September 2001. Director: Len Richmond Director: Breck Eisner Producer: Zoe Edgerton Comedy thriller (95 min.) Cast: Vincent Ventresca, Paul Ben-Victor Budget: $3 million Language: English Before heading off to college, handsome Cast: Michael York, Prunella Gee, Beverly A breakthrough human experiment D’Angelo Delivery Status: completed becomes the ultimate secret weapon. high school grad spends outrageous sum- Director: Sönke Wortmann THE IMMORTAL mer counseling at summer camp. Delivery Status: completed Budget: $2 million Producers: Leon de Winter, Gerhard Action/Adventure (90 min) THE CONVENT A Russian immigrant buys a sexual novel- Meixner, Angela Roessel Director: David Straiton Horror / Comedy. Premiered at Sundance ties shop and finds himself in bed with the Production Company: Pleswin Cast: Lorenzo Lamas 2000. (84 mins, 35mm) A Mike Mendez mob. Entertainment, Multifilm CV A master warrior becomes immortal to (Sundance 1998 acclaimed director of ALEC TO THE RESCUE! Cast: Tom Berenger, Rod Steiger and Burt avenge his wife’s death throughout eternity. Killers) helmed horror starring Adrienne Action/Adventure (85 min.) Reynolds SECRET AGENT MAN Barbeau and Coolio. Theatrical release Language: English They had nothing to live for until a dead Action/Adventure (90 min) most European territories & Japan, fall Director: Derrick Louw man gave them something to die for. Language: English 2000. Producer: Derrick Louw 7 DAYS TO LIVE Director: Stuart Gillard Scandinavia, Greece, South & Latin Cast: Costas Mandylorg, Dina Meyer Cast: Oliver Tobias, Barbara Carrera, Ben Suspense thriller (96 min) Delivery Status: completed America available. Jeffrey Language: English A team of covert agents save the world from PROMISE HER ANYTHING Delivery Status: completed Director: Sebastian Niemann lethal consequences. Romantic Comedy, Family (101 min) Budget: $2 million Producer: Christian Becker, Thomas Häberle Cast: Billy Zane and Patrick Bergin A young boy must save his archeologist Production Company: Indigo Film/Senator A sleepy town is turned upside down at father from ruthless kidnappers. Film/Roof Top Entertainment AMERICAN CINEMA Christmas with the arrival of a beautiful BELLYFRUIT Cast: Amanda Plummer, Sean Pertwee, INTERNATIONAL lady tax inspector. In love, is honesty Drama (86 min) Nick Brimble American Cinema International, 4640 always the best policy? Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Lankersheim Blvd., Suite 500, North THE THIN PINK LINE Director: Kerri Lee Green In this intense thriller Ellen Shaw (Amanda Hollywood, CA 91602 USA. Tel: Dark Comedy, (103 min) Producers: Bonnie Dickenson and Robert Plummer) can’t trust her eyes, can’t trust 818.985.8500. Fax: 818.985.4848. A “mockumentary” with Special Bauer her heart – she can only trust her fear. Publicity Firm: Lauren Lewis Associates Appearances by Mike Myers, Jennifer Cast: Tamara LeSeon Bass, Tonatzin MARLENE At AFM: George Shamieh (CEO) Aniston, Janeane Garafalo, Jason Priestly, Mondragon, Kelly Vint Drama (125 min) Office: 550, Tel: 310.458.6700. Fax: Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: Completed 310.458.6761 David Schwimmer. If you liked Spinal Tap Budget: $1 million THE ELITE and Waiting for Guffman you’ll love this Language: German, Subtitles in: English Three teenage girls struggle with unexpect- Director: Joseph Vilsmaier Action Thriller movie. Language: English ed pregnancy amid the chaos of urban life. Producer: Katharina M. Trebitsch, Jutta REAL KILLERS CENTURION FORCE Director: Terry Cunningham Lieck-Klenke, Joseph Vilsmaier Producers: Vince Ravine, Ion Ionescu Horror / Thriller (86 min) Action/Adventure (93 min.) Production Company: TPI Director: Mike Mendez’ Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Maxine Bahns, Language: English International/Perathon Film Robin Givens, Jason Lewis, Joel West, Two of America’s most wanted killers find Director: Troy Cook Cast: Katja Flint, Herbert Knaup, Heino Ferch Steven Williams sanctuary by taking an ideal American Producer: Faruque Ahmed The long anticipated film about an extraor- Delivery Status: Screening family hostage, or so they think. “…Real Cast: John Savage, Jennifer Barker, dinary woman who played the game of An elite team of crusaders against terrorism Killers looks like it could be the movie Charles Napier, Rhino Michaels fame by her own rules. is forced to fight the same adversary respon- Natural Born Killers wanted to be.” – New Delivery Status: completed AIMÉE&JAGUAR sible for their misfortune years before. Times Los Angeles Budget: $2.5 million Drama (124 min) Little Heroes 3 RESOLUTION A renegade centurion guard launches a one- Family Adventure Language: German, Subtitles in: English, Language: English Thriller (95 min) man assault against a powerful tyrant. French, Spanish, Italian JAMES DEAN: LIVE FAST, DIE Director: Henri Charr Cast: Rob Steinberg Director: Max Färberböck Producers: Oceanic Films And American At a New Year’s Eve party, a group of YOUNG Screenplay by: Max Färberböck, Rona Munro Cinema International friends are taken hostage at gunpoint and BioPic (90 min) Producer: Hanno Huth, Günter Rohrbach Cast: Thomas Garner, Brad Sergi, Candace forced to confess their darkest secrets and Language: English Production Company: Senator Film Bender deepest fears to one another. Violence and Director: Mardi Rustam Cast: Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Delivery Status: Screening sexual situations Producer: Mardi Rustam Johanna Wokalek Little Heroes 3 continues in the tradition of JOSEPH’S GIFT Cast: Casper Van Dien, Dianne Ladd, Delivery Status: Completed Little Heroes and Little Heroes 2 as it fol- Robert Mitchum Last year’s Golden Globe Nominee for best lows the adventures of Samson and Family Drama (97 min) Delivery Status: Completed Hercules, the two dogs who continue to be Director: Philippe Mora foreign film tells the story of two women hailed as Little Heroes. Budget: $2.5 million who fall in love against all odds. Cast: Sam Bottoms The true life story of James Dean. POWER PLAY A modern day retelling of the Biblical story STRAIGHT SHOOTER Action Thriller of Joseph and the coat of many colors. Set Action (83 minutes) Language: English in the present day Los Angeles garment dis- Language: German, Subtitles in: Dubbed Director: Joe Zito trict. HE USINESS in English Producers: American Cinema International T B Director: Thomas Bohn Cast: TBA LANCELOT: GUARDIAN OF TIME Delivery Status: Pre Production Family Fantasy / Adventure (85 min) Screenplay by: Thomas Bohn Producer: Joseph Vilsmaier/Hanno Huth When a mysterious consortium that puts Cast: Marc Singer and Claudia Christian OF FILM profit over safety funds a project that will The future King Arthur is kidnapped by a Production Company: Perathon harness hot fusion as an energy source, a wicked sorcerer and brought to modern day Film/Senator Film famed scientist finds himself in a fight for Los Angeles before he can pull the sword Cast: Dennis Hopper, Heino Ferch, Katja Flint his life before the West Coast becomes Delivery Status: Completed extinct. from the stone. Merlin sends Lancelot to Frank Hector (Dennis Hopper) created a rescue the boy. Los Angeles Office perfect human killing machine. Now he has THE DARK MIST to stop it. Family Fantasy / Adventure (92 min) HOME GAME (FKA HEIMSPIEL) Cast: Patrick Cassidy and Olivia Hussey, 5150 Wilshire Documentary (97 min) E-mail elspeth, betsy narrated by Charlton Heston Language: German, Subtitles in: English The world is saved from destruction by a Director: Pepe Danquart good magician and his band of followers. Blvd. Producer: Miriam Quinte TIGER STREET Production Company: Quintefilm or angela @ Action / Martial Arts (83 min) Delivery Status: Completed Karate Master Julien Lee (Iron Heart, My Los Angeles From Academy Award winning director Samuri & Fatal Revenge) teaches his craft Pepe Danquart. 10 years after the fall of the thebusinessoffilm.com at an inner city school and does battle with Berlin wall. An unusual story about hope the local drug lord. California 90036 and heroes, about the search for identity.

6 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE AMERICAN FILM AMERICAN WORLD MERCY STREETS FINAL PAYBACK Action-Adventure Action (90 Min) PARTNERS PICTURES Director: Jon Gunn Director: Art Camacho American Film Partners, 5731 Bonsall American World Pictures, 21700 Oxnard Producers: Kevin Downes and Bobby Cast: Richard Grieco, Corbin Bernson, Drive, Malibu, CA 90265 USA. Tel: Street, Suite 660, Woodland Hills, CA Downes, Geoff Ludlow, Travis Mann, 310.457.5254. Fax: 310.457.9266. E-mail: David White Martin Kove, Laura Herring, John Saxon 91367 USA. Tel: 818.715.1480. Fax: Delivery Status: completed [email protected] 818.715.1081. E-mail: awpics@earth- Cast: Eric Roberts, Stacy Keach, David At AFM: Aron Schifman (President/CEO), White and Cynthia Watros (“Titus” series). Action packed story of an ex-cop framed for link.net Delivery Status: Completed, Screening Nikolas R. Kopp (Sales Manager) At AFM: Mark L. Lester (President), Dana a murder he didn’t commit who sets out to Office: 747, Tel: 310.457.5254, Fax: John Cunningly steps into the calm subur- find the real killer. 310.457.9266 Dubovsky (President of Production), ban life of his twin brother Jeremiah and Terese Linden Kohn (Senior Vice President turns his seemingly perfect life upside SNAKE ISLAND BORN CHAMPION Thriller Family (90 min) of Distribution), Jenny Dillon (Dir., Intl. down. Language: English Sales) BEYOND THE CITY LIMITS Director: Wayne Crawford Director: Aron Schifman Office: Loews 816, Tel: 310.576.7329 Action-Adventure Cast: William Katt & Kimberly Kate Producer: Aron Schifman EXTREME DAYS Director: Gigi Gaston THE CIRCUIT Cast: Dan Haggerty, Josh Aubin Teen Comedy Producer: Joseph Nittolo, Vicent G. Action Delivery Status: completed Director: Eric Hannah Newwman & Tucker Tooley Cast: Natassja Kinski, Jennifer Esposito, Director: Jelal Merhi Follows a teenager’s dream of becoming a Producers: Cindy Bond, Betsy Chasse Cast: Oliver Guner motorcycle champion like his recently Alyson Hannigan, Todd Field, Steve Harris Cast: Dante Bosco, Ryan Browning, A. J. Delivery Status: Completed, Screening Delivery Status: post-production deceased father. With the help from a retired Buckley, Derek Hamilton, Cassidy Rae mechanic he might just be able to make his Two Russian gangsters planning to rob a An ex-champion of an illegal underground Delivery Status: Completed, Screening casino the day after a big prize fight are dream a reality. After high school graduation, four friends fighting society known as “The Circuit” LAKE OF FIRE headed off by their ex-girlfriends who comes out of retirement to save one of his take the “road trip” of their lives filled with decide to take the payoff themselves. Horror students from the corrupted owner of “The Language: English fun, love and extreme sports. BAD KARMA Circuit” who is his old enemy. Director: Vince DiMeglio AMSELL BLACK FRIDAY Producer: Aron Schifman & Vince Thriller DiMeglio Language: English ENTERTAINMENT INC. Action/Adventure (90 min) Delivery Status: Post-production Director: John Hough Amsell Entertainment Inc., 12001 Ventura Director: Darren Doane After a failed assassination attempt, three Producers: Dana Dubovsky, Mark L. Place #404, Studio City, CA 91064 USA. Producer: Gary Daniels, William Doane, young adults hide out in an abandoned Lester, Brian Etting Tel: 818.766.8500. Fax: 818.766.7873. E- Vannessa Righton house, only to discover that their haven of Cast: Patsy Kensit, Patrick Muldoon, Amy mail: [email protected] Cast: Gary Daniels safety was the locale of a satanic double Locane Company Type: Sales agent At AFM: Alan M. Solomon (President), Delivery Status: Completed murder 45 years prior. Delivery Status: Post-production Dean Campbell (Gary Daniels) is a high DEMON’S KISS Agnes Hatcher has an unbreakable karma Tien Liu (Director, Intl Distribution), Erotic/Horror Joseph Beral (Director of International powered attorney who returns home from with her psychiatrist at Darden State, Trey Servicing), Manu Savani (Associate). Language: English Cambell, the man she believes to be her the office to find his family is being held for Director: Brad Sikes Acquisition Executive: Tien Liu ransom by nuclear terrorists. devoted lover. When Trey leaves for his Office: 428, Tel: 310.458.6700, ext. 428. Producer: Aron Schifman and David long awaited vacation, Agnes torments him G.O.D. -GUARANTEED OVERNIGHT Sterling Fax: 310.458.6761 and his family beyond anything they can ROCKET’S RED GLARE DELIVERY Delivery Status: In Production Action Thriller (90 min) The story about a woman returning from a imagine. Action Drama (102 min) vacation in the jungle with an insatiable DEVIL’S PREY Director: Joseph Manduke Director: Dean Russo desire for human blood. Friends attempt to Teen Thriller Producer: Victor Bardack Producer: John Danylqiw solve this mystery, only to discover that the Delivery Status: Completed, Screening Cast: Chris Potter, Amanda Foreman, Tony Cast: Olivier Gruner, David Carradine, Language: English Denison demon’s kiss is all too real. Delivery Status: completed/screening Jalal Merhi VOYEUR Director: Bradford May The story of a Vietnam vet forced into the Delivery Status: Completed Erotic/Thriller (93 min) Producers: Dana Dubovsky, Mark L. dark world of the Mob in order to support Security Guard Ray Stanton watches in hor- Language: English Lester his handicapped brother. Director: Michael Goi ror as the Bank he’s protecting is robbed Cast: Patrick Bergin, Charlie O’Connell, FINAL STAB and his innocent wife is gunned down in the Producer: Stephen Hunter Ashley Jones, Elena Lyons, Jennifer Horror (85 min) Cast: Shauna O’Brien, Jack Maxwell Lyons, Brian Kirkwood, Rashaan Nall and Director: David DeCoteau street. Delivery Status: Completed Tim Thomerson Producer: Gary Barkin & David DeCoteau SOMETIMES A HERO One man’s obsession with a sexy, beautiful Four teenagers stumble upon a deadly Cast: Jamie Ganno, Erinn Carter, Melissa Action/Adventure (90 min) woman and a video camera leads him to an Renee Martin, Chris Boyd Director: Jalal Merhi international industrialist bent on his satanic cult on their way back from a High School Graduation Party. Now they are on Delivery Status: Completed/screening Producer: John Danylqiw destruction. It begins as a fun weekend of scary stunts the run for their lives and must escape from when a group of college kids are invited to Cast: Christina Cox, Bryan Genesse, Josh being the next Devil’s Prey. a remote estate to participate in a “murder Barker INSTINCT TO KILL mystery” game. Delivery Status: Completed L.A. Office Phone Action-Adventure SECRETS OF THE SHELL Two rival gangs battle for territory in a dif- Language: English Erotic Thriller (90 min) ferent kind of Cold War. Director: Gustavo Graef-Marino Director: Anthony Maharaj L.I.N.X. Producer: Anthony Maharaja (323) 935-8228 Producers: Dana Dubovsky, Mark L. Action, Sci-Fi (90 min) Lester Cast: Richard Norton, Laural Wiley, Chuck Delivery Status: Post-production Jefferys Director: Bryan Bagby Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Bryan Bagby, Lawrence Bagby Cast: Marc Dacascos, Tim Abell The rhythm of the waves creates an ideal J. T. Dillon (Marc Dacascos) is an ex- Cast: Larry Bagby III L.A. Office FAX setting for a story of lust and desire which Delivery Status: Completed marine and mercenary hired by Tess leads to murder mystery unravels on this Beckett to train her in the art of deadly com- exotic tropical island when the lives of three Government “search and destroy” mission (323) 935-8229 bat and defense to protect herself from her people turn into turmoil as the secrets of the to destroy group of renegade scientists who serial killer husband. shells are unveiled. have the power to turn back time to infinity.

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ANCIENT EVIL SCREAM OF THE MICHAELANGEL MUMMY Drama (90 minutes) RODUCT Horror (86 min) Language: English P Director: David DeCoteau Director/Writer: William Gove Cast: Jeff Peterson, Trent Latta, Ariauna Producer: Don Schneider, Igor Barkagan Albirght Cast: Dennis Hopper, Richard Grieco SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: Complete When six young archaeology students dis- A tormented priest traces his brother’s bru- cover the remains of an ancient Aztec tal murder to a brilliant, abstract painter. mummy, they accidentally unleash the fury THE FILM THIEF AFM 2001 of an evil God, determined to carry out a Coming of Age Drama horrific plan to annihilate all mankind. Language: English TIGER CLAWS III Director: TBD Action/Adventure (90 min) Producer: Cristian Sessa, Shimon Arama, Director: J. Stephen Maunder Don Schneider Cast: Harvey Keitel Producer: Jalal Merhi Delivery Status: Pre-production Cast: Loren Avedon, Cynthia Rothrock, A film projectionist and a runaway girl bond Jalal Merhi through the magic of film that changes their Delivery Status: completed lives forever. Detective Tarek Richards might fight THE ROMAN ancient Chinese Spirits at the dawn of a new Epic/Adventure millennium. Language: English AIRBOSS IV: ECOWARRIOR Director: Josef Rusnak Action/Adventure (90 min) Producer: Shimon Arama Director: J. Christian Ingvordsen Cast: International Cast Producer: Daniel Yawitz, Alan W. Delivery Status: Pre-production Sinsheimer St. Patrick-A Roman noble turned slave, Cast: Frank Zazarino overcomes great odds to free Europe. Delivery Status: Completed THE SAILMAKER Multinational corporation is illegally dump- Action/Adventure/ Drama ing contaminated waste material. The team Language: English headed by Web Buckley sets out to bring Director: Christian Duguay the culprits to justice. Producer: Shimon ARama THE ULTIMATE GAME Cast: International Case Action/Adventure (92 min) Delivery Status: Pre-production Director: Jack Kaprielian, Kayvon Mutinous sailors find themselves sentenced Derakhshanian to a desert prison, and plot an ingenious Cast: J. D. Rifkin, T. J. Storm, Paul Logan, escape back to the sea.. Stephanie Georcheva Delivery Status: completed A competition for a Prize of One million ARTBOX dollars lures hardcore martial artists from ARTBOX, a division of France Television four corners of the world to a bloody ren- Distribution, Le Barjac 1, bd Victor 75015 dezvous on a remote island in their quest for Paris, France. Tel: 331.44.25.01.62/01.49. the title of ultimate champion. Fax: 331.44.25.01.95. E-mail: AIRBOSS III: THE PAYBACK [email protected] Action/Adventure Company Type: Sales agent Producer: J. Christian Ingvordsen At AFM: Claudia Rae-Colombani (Vice Cast: Frank Zagarino, Kayle Watson, John President International sales), Jean-Paul PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 Christian, Caroline Strong Commin (Senior Vice President FTD) The film follows the exploits of the Office: 732, Tel: 310.458.6700, ext. 732 , AVAILABLE FROM Intermedia SPECOPS an anti-terrorists team of Navy Tel: Claudia Rae-Colombani’s mobile: Enigma Seals and Aviators whose mission is to 336.03.04.79.79, Fax: c/o Loews apprehend those responsible for terrorists TE QUIERO attacks and bring them back to the US to Dramatic (85’) THE CUTOFF THE YAKUZA WAY face justice. Language: French Action (90 min) Action/Adventure (90 min) Director: Manuel Poirier Director: Art Camacho Director: Shundo Ohkawa ARAMA Producers: Salome & Diaphana Producer: Gerald Waller Producer: Shundo Ohkawa Cast: Marine Delterme, Philippe Bas, ENTERTAINMENT Maruschka Detmers, Patrick Chesnais, Cast: Michael DePasquale, Joe Lewis, Cast: Riki Takeuchi, Eugene Nomura, Sergi Lopez Keith Vitali George Cheung Arama Entertainment, 18034 Ventura Blvd., #435, Encino, CA 91316 USA. Tel: Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: completed 818.788.6400. Fax: 818.990.9344. E-mail: Jean returns to Lima where he was born to A down-and-out private detective who, A John Woo/Chow Yun Fat genre film. A [email protected] begin a new life with Sylvia, the woman he while trying to keep his financially strapped Yakuza gangster arrives in Los Angeles for Company Type: Sales agent, producer, dis- loves. She has left France and her husband, NY-based agency above water, has his a drug deal. After the deal goes awry, the tributor with a diamond she has stolen from him, to whole world turned inside out by the brutal Yakuza avenges his girlfriend’s death and At AFM: Shimon Arama (Chairman), live with Jean in Lima. mob-directed murder of his younger brother. defends his honor the Yakuza Way. Beppe Brezzo (Creative Affairs) MADEMOISELLE Office: 517, Tel: 310.458.6700, Mobile: Romantic Comedy NO MORE HEROES BIKINI GODDESSES Language: French Action/Drama (92 min) Sex Romance (80 min) 818.389.4144 CHAPTER ZERO Director: Philippe Lioret Director: Blaine Skender Director: Ellen Cabot Comedy (105 minutes) Producer: Aliceleo Cast: Kevin Sansalone, Paul Dzenkiw, Producer: Viorel Sergovici Jr. Language: English Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin Mike Scott & Ben Davies Cast: Alton Butler Director/Writer: Aaron Mendelsohn Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: completed Producer: Tony DiTocco Claire is a young woman who leads a some- An inclusive look at the unbelievable world Billy accidentally releases three beautiful Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, Dylan Walsh what formatted life. She is a medical repre- of snowboarding through the lives of four goddesses from their centuries-old prison Delivery Status: Complete sentative for a pharmaceutical lab, has a husband, two children, a certain happiness. pro snowboarders. while visiting his father’s hotel during his Novelist must examine his life and ambitions when his world is turned upside down KIRIKOU & THE SORCERESS I’LL BE HERE TILL I LEAVE summer vacation. by a sexy publisher. Animation (70’) Comedy/Action (95 min) FARE GAMES THE HEIST Language: French Director: Ryan Wise Sexy Romance (90 min) Action/Drama (90 minutes) Director: Michel Ocelot Cast: Ominic Dofelmier, Maria Knox, Alan Director: Brian O’Hara Language: English Producer : Les Armateurs et Odec Kid Higbee Cast: Eddie Estafan, Russell Stewart, Director/Writer: Kurt Voss Cartoons Delivery Status: completed Elizabeth Curtain Producer: Shimon Arama and Alfred Sapse Delivery Status: completed A twisted comedic adventure loaded with Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Luke Perry, Ice-T, Amy Locane Once upon a time, in a small village, somewhere in Africa...A voice coming from the cars and fun about a failing filmmaker who Two New York taxi drivers get involved Delivery Status: Complete Two brothers, a musician and a parolee, turn belly of a pregnant woman, says “Mother can’t even get his mom to buy a cassette of with two sexy female passengers and get against each other when confronted with a deliver me.” And out comes a little boy, he his own movie and his friend, a busboy taken for a ride that they never counted on chance to get millions of dollars found in a cuts his umbilical cord and announces : “I obsessed with winning a radio contest. in the life of a New York cabbie. stolen armored car. am KIRIKOU.”

ATLANTIS CONSPIRACY ARTEDIS Thriller (90 Minutes) Artedis, 12, Rue Raynouard, 75016 Paris, Language: English France. Tel: 331. 53.92.29.29. Fax: Producer: Marlen Hecht, Klaus Volkenborn 331.53.92.29.20. E-mail: [email protected] Director: Dean Silvers At AFM: Pierre Richard Muller (Director), Cast: Amanda Donohoe, Jeremy Davies, Chantal Lam (Director), Keith Selin (Director) Danton Stone, Bill Sage Office: 832, Tel: 310.458.6700, Fax: Delivery Status: Completed 310.550.1182 An intricate thriller involving a beautiful THE BRIDESMAID woman, a young bookie and a cynical fed- Thriller eral agent. Together they are pulled into a Language: French mystery born of suicide that ends where it Director: Claude Chabrol began. Delivery Status: Pre-production HORSE CRAZY Based upon the novel from mystery/thriller Family Adventure (90 Minutes) writer Ruth Rendell, an updated story to be Language: English adapted and directed by Claude Chabrol. THE TARGET TO KILL (LA CIBLE) Producer: Eric Hendershot, Steele Comedy/thriller Hendershot Language: French Director: Eric Hendershot Put your Entertaining/Company’s Director: Pierre Courrege Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Daniel Russo, Hippolyte Girardot, Cast: Scott Subiono, Dallin Christensen, needs in the hands Anemone Marvin Paine of the Experts Delivery Status: completed In a suspense filled adventure three young Chris, a young navy serviceman desperate kids with high hopes of capturing their own to find a lost love, tries to enlist the help on wild mustang outsmart a ruthless ring of a TV show to help him find his girlfriend. horse thieves and return a prize stallion to CANNES INTERNATIONAL THE POACHER (LA BRACONNE) its owner. Comedy FILM FESTIVAL 2001 Language: French OUT OF THE STORM MAY 10-21 Director: Serge Penard Psychological Thriller (90 Minutes) Cast: Francis Perrin, Henry Guybet Language: English Delivery Status: completed Producer: Elaine Frontain Bryant For young Jean, life in Normandy after Director: Marcus Spiegel One Hotel Stands Apart for World War II takes on a new beginning Cast: Blythe Danner, Leo Burmester, Kurt when he starts living with his relatives. His Deutsch, Katherine Kendall Elegance, Style & Professionalism uncle, a poacher, proceeds to befriend Jean Delivery Status: Completed The Carlton Inter-Continental and educate him in the ways. A beautiful young girl on the run from her HONEY SWEET LOVE past, a violent storm and a family with a Cannes Drama Director: Enrico Coletti secret set the backdrop for this haunting 500 personnel at your service Cast: Ben Cross, Eli Wallach, Jo Champa thriller of murder, lies and deceit. Delivery Status: completed LAKEBOAT A wonderful romantic comedy in which a Adventure (92 Minutes) Eric Aceto British colonel unwittingly becomes Language: English involved in a Sicilian town’s collaborative Producer: Eric R. Epperson, Tony Rooms Division & efforts for survival during World War II. Mammet, Morris Ruskin PURE RACE Director: Joe Mantegna Business Developement Manager Action Cast: Peter Falk, Denis Leary, George is in Los Angeles at AFM Language: English (USA) Wendt, Robert Forster, Charles Director: Rocco Devilliers Durning. JJ Johnson to discuss your requirements for Cast: Greggory Haynes, Fred Hunting, Katherine Willis Delivery Status: Completed - Screening Delivery Status: completed From Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet Two friends, on their way home from col- comes Lakeboat, a tale about life on a Advertising Space, lege, become stranded and unsuspectingly freighter on America’s Great Lakes. stumble up on a neo-Nazi militia. CHOKE Offices, ARTEDIS LIBRARY Thriller (90 Minutes) Cocktails Parties, A collection of over 80 European Classic Language: English Films including works by such directors as Producer: Traci Vaccaro, John Sjogren Catering that Special Event Claude Chabrol, Andre Techine, Claude Director: John Sjogren (inside or outside of the Hotel,) Sautet, Michel Deville, Just Jaeckin, and Cast: Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, Henry Verneuil among others, offers a diverse selection of adventure, comedy, Chelsy Reynolds Media Luncheons, drama, and eroticism. Delivery Status: Post Production A straight laced businessman finds himself Dinner Parties caught up in a web of extortion, murder and & ARTIST VIEW blackmail antics of a serial killer. ENTERTAINMENT MESSAGE IN A CELL PHONE Media Events Artist View Entertainment, 12500 Family Adventure (85 Minutes) Riverside Drive, Suite 201, North Language: English Hollywood, CA 91607 USA. Tel: Producer: Steele Hendershot, Karri The only place to be is 818.752.2480. Fax: 818.752.9339. E-mail: O’Reilly, Eric Hendershot [email protected]. Publicity Firm: Director: Eric Hendershot The Carlton Inter-Continental Hotel Lauren Lewis Associates Cast: Nick Whitaker, James Laub, Robbi Le Centre du Festival At AFM: Scott J. Jones (President), Merrill Thomas C. Emma (Senior Vice President), Delivery Status: Completed Casey Waskiewicz (Director Of Sales), In a race against time, young boys must out- Paul Eyres (Acquisitions And Contact Eric Aceto Development) smart the bad guys, crack the voicemail Office: 707, Tel: 310.576.7077 code and find out what the message is. at AFM: DIAMOND MEN THE BROTHERHOOD Fairmont Miramar Hotel Thriller (90 Minutes) Thriller (88 Minutes) Language: English Language: English TEL: 310.576.7777 Producer: Daniel M. Cohen Producer: David DeCoteau Director: Daniel M. Cohen Director: David DeCoteau FAX: 310.458.7912 Cast: Robert Forster, Donnie Wahlberg, Cast: Nathan Watkins, Bradley Stryker, Jasmine Guy, Bess Armstrong Elizabeth Bruderman Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed THE CARLTON INTER-CONTINENTAL HOTEL An aging diamond salesman is forced to A campus town has become the home of train his own replacement, a brash kid an ancient secret society. 58, LA CROISETTE 06400 CANNES whose every move rubs him the wrong way. Hot, sexy and out for blood, this intense Their job seems simple: protect the dia- TEL: (33) 4 93 06 40 06 monds, sell the diamonds and stay out of thriller shocks to the extreme. Vampires are FAX: (33) 4 93 06 40 25 trouble. the legend, this is reality.

LUMINARIAS IMPOSSIBLE ESCAPES 1999 Romantic Comedy (95 Minutes) ASSOCIATED Variety (1eps. x 60min.) Comedy Language: English TELEVISION Cast: Hosted by Franz Harary Director: Nick Davis Producer: Sal Lopez Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Dan Futterman, Amanda Peet, Steven Director: Jose Luis Valenzuela INTERNATIONAL The most terrifying footage ever recorded Wright, Buck Henry, Timothy Olyphant Cast: Scott Bakula, Evelina Fernandez, Associated Television International, Los of the most death-defying feats in the world. It is the eve of the new millennium. Rufus Cheech Marin, Robert Beltran, Angeles: 4401 Wilshire Blvd., Los In this hour, a man is chained and dropped wants to end things with his girlfriend in Angelea Moya, Dyana Ortelli, Seidy Angeles, CA 90010 USA. New York: 36 100 feet into the Pacific Ocean nearly two order to consummate his lust for his sexy Lopez West 44th Street, Suite 1400, New York, miles from Alcatraz. He will then escape coworker. Delivery Status: Completed NY 10036 USA. Tel: 323.556.5600, Fax: from the chains and swim to Alcatraz. Once THE BIG EMPTY A Latino lawyer who loves to meet with her 323.556.5610. E-mail: there, he must lock himself in one of the Thriller close friends and share secrets about love [email protected] Rock’s highest security cells. Director: Jack Perez and sex, falls in love with a Jewish lawyer Company Type: Producer/ Distributor LORDS OF THE MAFIA A desperately alienated Los Angeles after finding out that her husband has been Documentary (16eps. x 60min) gumshoe uses the tools of his trade to At AFM: David McKenzie (President), Cast: Hosted by Robert Stack cheating. James Romanovich (Sr. Vice President), Delivery Status: Completed manipulate the lives of the woman who KAT & ALLISON Glenn Aveni (VP International Sales), Rich The most amazing undercover Mafia hired him and the adulterous husband he’s Dark Comedy (95 Minutes) Sagehorn (VP TV Syndication), Richard footage ever assembled from around the shadowing. Language: English Casares (VP Business Affairs), Cathy world. Elliott Ness (Robert Stack: The ART HOUSE Producer: Kristen Masters Berry-Mozingo (Director Sales Untouchables) takes us inside the lives of Comedy Director: Shawn Schepps Administration) real life “Godfathers” of the Italian, Director: Leigh Slawner Cast: Jami Gertz, Sybil Temchen, Adewale Office: 646, Tel: 310.576.7435 Chinese, South American, Russian, & Cast: Chris Hardwick, Adam Carolla, Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Michael Goorjian, Amy Weber FORBIDDEN SECRETS Japanese Mafia’s. Christian Camargo, Johnathan Silverman THE SECRET KGB UFO Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed- Screening Documentary (26 x 60 min) Ray is an independent filmmaker – when Top magicians will expose the real trick of ABDUCTIONS FILES In this dark stylish adventure, two beautiful Documentary (1eps. x 120min) he’s not making lattes at the coffee shop. ex-college roommates reunite under the how those that use their “psychic” abilities Cast: Hosted by Roger Moore NIGHT ORCHID strangest of circumstances. One is very by demonstrating step by step how the Delivery Status: Completed Psychological Thriller conservative and successful, the other lives process is done. Shot on location from the Pyramids in Director: Mark Atkins a wild life with no rules. Together they are “NEW” MASTERS OF ILLUSION Egypt, we reveal the hidden KGB docu- Cast: Dale Paris trouble. Variety (13 x 60min) ments of strange UFO activity from the Delivery Status: Completed DEXTER DICKIE Cast: Hosted By Franz Harary Great Sphinx of Egypt. For the first time Clay, a brooding young drifter, finds himself Comedy (88 Minutes) Delivery Status: Partially Completed captured on camera, the “mummified in a small Southern town, full of secrets. Language: English Airing in primetime on PAX Network, the remains” of alien corpses. Witnesses who However, what the townspeople don’t know Producer: Ted Roesgen world’s most amazing magicians, escape claim to have been abducted offer remark- is that the dead tell tales…to Clay. Director: Ted Roesgen artists, and illusionists demonstrate their able evidence that all points to this sacred SHE LIVES BY NIGHT Cast: Lonnie Quinn, George Caldwell, awesome power, performing their newest Egyptian land! Horror SANTA’S FUNNIEST CHRISTMAS Morgan Gerk, Nikki Ashley magic illusions on the street with a live Director: Brett Hull Delivery Status: Completed MOMENTS Cast: Lilliana Cabal, John Woodhouse audience. Family (1eps. x 120min.) A fun adventure involving one man’s polit- WORLD MAGIC AWARDS 2000 Delivery Status: completed ical dreams and a B movie director who Cast: Host Alan Thicke A man rescues a beautiful, mysterious Variety (1eps. x 120min.) Delivery Status: In Production uses bikini models and fake alien acts for Cast: Hosted by Jonathan Frakes woman, suffering from amnesia. Soon, his wild campaign Its “Americas funniest home videos” meets however, her dark secret is revealed…as his HITMEN Delivery Status: Completed “kids say the darndest things!” “The night friends begin to die, victims of the sexy Premiering on PAX NETWORK, THE before Christmas” will be an annual event Action (92 Minutes) special for the whole family. Featuring “real vampire. Language: English WORLD MAGIC AWARDS 2000 brings LATE NIGHT SESSIONS together the finest magicians from around family home videos” sent in from around Producer: Serge Rodnunsky the world depicting some of the funny and Youth drama/thriller Director: Serge Rodnunsky the world. Shot on location in Egypt, Director: Joshua B. Hamlin England, Las Vegas and Hollywood. Watch wacky events that happen during the holi- Cast: Tommy Lee McCafferty, Jamie day season. Cast: Christine Chatelain, Terry Chen, Donahue, Mark Vasconcellos, Steven A. a Russian Tank disappear right in front of SAFARI Alisen Down Gonzales the Russian Army! Documentary (78eps. x 30min) Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Post Production THUNDERDOME Delivery Status: complete When local thugs decide to launch a new When a professional hitman kills one of his Live Action (26eps. x 60min.) Safari takes you on a candid journey from dance club the same night as a huge rave, a rivals, all hell breaks loose as four other Delivery Status: In Development the jungles of Africa to the Yukon frontier. fierce competition arises…with dramatic assassins are sent to hunt him down. It’s “Monster Truck,” meets “Wrestling” in Shooting on location in North and South consequences. SPLIT INTENT this live action weekly series. Completely America, Africa, Australia, Japan and India, Action (92 Minutes) original cars and characters will clash, Safari brings you adventure, action and AVRIO STONERIDGE Language: English smash, bang & crash in the Thunderdome excitement from the most interesting animal Producer: Serge Rodnunsky super events never before attempted for tel- habitats in the world. Wildlife in their own ENTERTAINMENT Director: Serge Rodnunsky evision! habitat! Anything can happen! Cast: Michelle Rene Jordan, Declan INC. INSIDE TELEVISION Avrio Stoneridge Entertainment Inc., 4428 Galvin, Eric A. Wittgren, Sarah Hughes Documentary (5eps. x 60min.) THE ASYLUM Delivery Status: Post Production The Asylum, 6671 Sunset Blvd., Bldg. Juneau St., Burnaby, B.C., Canada, V5C When Angela is found standing over the Delivery Status: In Production, Partially 1593, Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Tel: 4C8. Tel: 604.298.1976. Fax: body of her dead husband she is charged Completed 323.463.6575. Fax: 323.463.6299. E-mail: 604.298.3664. E-mail: with his murder and embarks on an adven- These one-hour programs will chronicle [email protected]. [email protected] ture to prove her innocence and find the real some of the best and most successful shows At AFM: Sherri Strain (International Company Type: Producer, Distributor killer. in television history - “Cheers,” “I Love Sales), David Rimawi (International At AFM: Michael Derbas (Producer), ENTICEMENT Lucy,” and “Gilligan’s Island.” With exclu- Sales), Karl T. Hirsh (VP, Acquisitions) Richard Pepin (Producer) Erotic Thriller (95 Minutes) sive celebrity interviews, insightful com- Office: 327, Tel: (Sherri Strain) Office: 304, Tel: 310.458.6700, ext. 304 Language: English mentary, and behind the scenes gossip, 213.505.4799, (David Rimawi) MINDSTORM Producer: Serge Rodnunsky “Inside Television” will entertain and 213.712.6080, Karl T. Hirsch Action Adventure (97 min) Director: Miles Feldman inform fans around the world. Produced for (323.839.0293) Language: English Cast: Conrad Whitaker, Nicole Krauter, The Learning Channel in the US! THE SOURCE Director: Richard Pepin Erika Michels, Lisa Marie Bolick EVIL Teen Supernatural Thriller Producer: Michael Derbas and Richard Delivery Status: Post Production Documentary (13eps. x 60min.) Director: S. Lee Taylor Pepin In this sexy thriller two couples find them- Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Mathew Scollon, Melissa Renee Cast: Antonio Sabato Jr., Eric Roberts, selves lost in a web of deceit and unforgiv- An intense, psychological profile on what Martin Michael Ironside, Clarence Williams III, William Davis, Emmanuelle Vaugier, ing jealousy. Though the initial intent was causes those to cross the line of sanity and Delivery Status: Post-production to have a good time the results turn out to be Four teenagers develop paranormal powers Michael Moriarty commit the most heinous crimes in history. Delivery Status: completed fatal. This series covers evil in sports, science, after channeling a mystical stone found deep in the woods. They go from outcasts to Budget: $5million politics, film, and every day life! Produced gods on campus, but soon learn that A beautiful psychic investigator’s search for for Universal Television 13th Street absolute power corrupts, when one of them a senator’s missing daughter leads to a mys- Channels Worldwide. loses control…with deadly consequences. terious and dangerous cult. E-mail elspeth, betsy KILLER INSTINCT KILLERS 2 ANTIBODY Documentary (6eps. x 60min.) Action Thriller Action Adventure Delivery Status: Pilot Complete Director: David Michael Latt Language: English or angela @ The trill of the hunt... the excitement of the Cast: Kim Little Director: Richard Pepin chase... going in for the kill... it’s all here in Delivery Status: Production Producer: Michael Derbas and Richard Pepin Killer Instinct. Experience a close-up, fast- Trapped in a maximum security insane asy- Delivery Status: pre-production paced look at the brutal raw nature of the lum, a girl must escape not only the psy- Budget: $5 million thebusinessoffilm.com animal kingdom. Pride lions, pack wolves, chological demons which inhabit her own A quest for a lost tribe in the depths of the cobras, and lynx must “kill and eat” in the mind, but a band of killers determined to Amazon jungle forces a soldier of fortune to wild to survive. silence her forever. confront the sins of his past.

10 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE UNDERTAKER’S PARADISE (EIN BETA CINEMA CUBBYHOUSE B BBB TODSICHERES GESCHÄFT) Beta Cinema, Robert-Bürkle-Str. 2, 85737 Horror Black Comedy (89 min) Ismaning, Germany. Tel: 49.89.9956.2719. Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Fax: 49.89.9956.2703. Website: Director: Murray Fahey BAVARIA FILM Language: English www.betafilm.com Producer: Chris Brown and David Hannay Production Company: Claussen + Wöbke Company Type: International Sales Agency Cast: Joshua Leonard, Belinda McClory, INTERNATIONAL Producer: Jakob Claussen, Thomas Wöbke At AFM: Dirk Schuerhoff (Hd. Theatrical Lauren Hewett Bavaria Film International, Dept. of Director: M.X. Oberg Sales) Tel: 49.89.9956.2345, Cell: Delivery Status: Post-production Bavaria Media GmbH, Bavariafilmplatz 8 Cast: Thomas Schmauser, Ben Gazzara 49.(0)170.4307231; Andreas Rothbauer A family relocates from America to 82031 Geiselgasteig, Germany. Tel: When Hugo, a young German, founds an (Sales Executive) Tel: 49.89.9956.2719. Australia and discovers that the house 49.89.6499.2686. Fax: 49.89.6499.3720. undertaker’s business in Wales, he encoun- Cell: 49.(0)179.1071873 they’ve moved into is actually a gateway to ters the highest density of old-age pension- Website: www.bavaria-film- Office: Double Tree Hotel, 1707 Fourth Hell and all of hell is about to break loose. ers but also the resistance of the locals and Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401, Tel: TAKING SIDES international.de. Email: bavaria.interna- the craftiness of his competitors. 310.395.3332. Fax: 310.458.6493 [email protected] THE TUNNEL Drama MORTAL TRANSFER (MORTEL Language: English At AFM: Michael Weber (Managing TRANSFERT) Language: German Director), Thorsten Schaumann (Head of Black Comedy (122 min) Director: Roland Suso Richter Director: Istvan Szabo Language: French/Subtitled in English Production Company: teamWorx Producer: Yves Pasquier Sales) Office Cast: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgard Office: 760, Tel: 310.576.7040 Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix Producer: Nico Hoffmann / Ariane Krampe Production Company: Cargo Films Cast: Heino Ferch; Sebastian Koch; Nicole Delivery Status: Post-production Hotel: The Georgian Hotel, Tel: Krebitz Based on actual events and set in Berlin fol- 310.395.9945, Fax: 310.451.3374 Producer: Jean-Jacques Beineix, Reinhard Klooss Delivery Status: Completed / Screening lowing WWII, Taking Sides focuses on US EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES (FKA Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglades, Héléne de The true story of four men who risked their Army Major Steve Arnold and his assign- EMIL UND DIE DETEKTIVE) Fougerolles lives digging a tunnel from West Berlin into ment to prove that the esteemed German Family (100 min) Delivery Status: Post Production the communist East to save those they loved. conductor, Dr. Wilhelm Furtwangler was a Language: German/ Subtitled in English A wicked comedy, full of surreal touches, THE SASS BROTHERS Nazi collaborator. Language: German/ Subtitled in English decidedly black and blue in tone, charming Language: German LANTANA Director: Carlo Rola Thriller Director: Franziska Buch offbeat, delicious sexy and weirdly roman- Delivery Status: In Post-Production Production Company: Bavaria Film pro- tic. Bavaria Film is not holding the rights Production Company: movie - the art of Director: Ray Lawrence duction for German, French speaking territories and entertainment Language: English Producer: Uschi Reich, Peter Zenk North America. Producer: Oliver Berben Producer: Jan Chapman Cast: Tobis Retzlaff, Kai Wiesinger, Maria IN JULY (IM JULI) Cast: Ben Becker; Jürgen Vogel; Otto Sander Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Anthony La Paglia, LOVE STORY / ROADMOVIE (100 MIN) Schrader CRAZY Barbara Hershey Language: German / Subtitled in English Delivery Status: Post-production Delivery Status: completed Language: German Director: Fatih Akin Director: Hans-Christian Schmid A woman disappears. Four marriages are The humorous story about a children’s gang Production Company: Wüste Producers: Claussen and Wöbke drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, in Berlin into the present days and takes into Filmproduktion Cast: Robert Stadlober; Tom Schilling; sex and death. Not all of them survive. account the changing roles of gender in Producer: Ralph Schwingel, Stefan Schubert Dagmar Manzel BOSWELL FOR THE DEFENSE society. Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Delivery Status: Completed Drama FANDANGO Idil Uener SUN ALLEY Language: English Drama (94 min) Delivery Status: Completed Language: German Director: Bruce Beresford Language: German/ Subtitled in English His pupils play him up, he can’t get served Director: Leander Haussmann Producer: Mark Pennell & Nik Powell Director: Matthias Glasner in any of the hip bars, and even his spaced Producer: Boje Buck Production Cast: Michael Caine, Michael Gambon, out neighbor has a better social life: how Cast: Alexander Scheer; Alexander Beyer; Production Company: Calypso Katharina Thalbach Samantha Morton square can you get? But Daniel’s drab life is Delivery Status: Pre-production Filmproduction about to change, when he falls in love with Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Werner Possard a beautiful girl and follows her to Istanbul... Lawyer James Boswell, regarded by his Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Richi Müller, GRIPSHOLM BEYOND FILMS peers as a drunken has-been, takes on the Nicolette Krebitz Period Picture / Love Story Beyond Films Ltd, 53 - 55 Brisbane St., case of a young woman, unjustly sentenced Delivery Status: Completed Language: German/ / Subtitled in English Surry Hills NSW 2010, Australia. Tel: to death for theft. PUCKOON After ‘run lola run’, here comes the next Director: Xavier Koller 61.2.9281.1266. Fax: 61.2.9281.9220. E- Production Company: Thomas Wilkening Film mail: [email protected]. Website: Comedy visually breathtaking, up-beat ride, an www.beyond.com.au Language: English intriguing comment on the club scene of Producer: Thomas Wilkening Cast: Ulrich Noethen, Heike Makatsch, Company Type: Sales Agent Director: Terence Ryan the 90s, featuring Moritz Bleibtreu (‘run Jasmin Tabatabai At AFM: Gary Hamilton (eneral Manager), Producer: Ken Tuohy lola run’) and Nicolette Krebitz Delivery Status: Completed Richard Guardian (VP, International Sales), Cast: Sean Hughes, Richard Attenborough, (‘Bandits’). Gripsholm sets out in the pleasure-craving, Stephen Kelliher, European Sales & Elliot Gould ZOOM decadent world of Berlin cabaret in the early Marketing Executive), Andrea Kreuzhage Delivery Status: Post-production Drama (100 min) (German Sales Representative) Based on Spike Milligan’s best-selling 30s. With the brownshirts looming on the Acquisition Executive: Gary Hamilton Language: German English Subtitles horizon, the pugnacious publisher and author Office: 817 novel. In 1924 the boundary commission Director: Otto Alexander Jahrreiss Kurt Tucholsky decides to leave the country RISK from Britain and Ireland decide on the new Production Company: Vega Film for what turns out to be a last summer of love. Thriller (92 mins) frontier and the village of Puckoon is cut in Producer: Michael Schwarz FEMALE2 SEEKS HAPPYEND Language: English two. Cast: Florian Lukas, Oana Solomon (FRAU2 SUCHT HAPPYEND) Director: Alan White AMAZONS AND GLADIATORS Romantic Love Story (97 min) Producer: Marian Macgowan Epic Action Delivery Status: Completed Language: German Subtitled in English The young Rumanian Wanda is forced by Cast: Bryan Brown, Claudia Karvan, Tom Long Language: English Director: Edward Berger Delivery Status: Completed Director: Zachary Weintraub her husband to work as a callgirl. She has no Production Company: box! Film production Madigan gets a job with an insurance com- Producer: Tom Kuhn, Fred Weintraub idea that her retiring neighbour Waller is Producer: Andreas Eicher, Philipp Homberg pany and becomes part of an ingenious Cast: Patrick Bergin, Richard Norton blackmailing her clients with videotapes, or Delivery Status: Completed claim scam where the most important thing Delivery Status: Post-production that this is the source of the money in her The young director Edward Berger has shot is not who’s at fault, or who’s to blame but For her country, for her family, for her sur- mailbox. a love story full of yearning. who gets to walk away. vival.

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RECONCILED (RICONCILIATI) WOODY ALLEN’S FALL PROJECT Drama (96 Min) 2000 PRODUCT Direction: Rosalia Polizzi Comedy Production: Gherardo Pagliei for Director/writer: Woody Allen Tecnovisual Delivery Status: Post- production SPOTLIGHT Cast: Beatriz Spelzini, Emilio Bonucci, City of Ghosts SPOTLIGHT Franco Castellano, Giuliana Delivery Status: pre-production Lojodice, Paola Pitagora Director/writer: Matt Dillon Delivery status: completed - first market Thriller AFM 2001 screening Cast: Matt Dillon, Natascha Mcelhone, Previous participation at Berlinale festival James Caan 2001 - section Panorama Gripping dark thriller set in the seamy One sentence of description: A group of underworld of Cambodia where an friends meet after long time for a week-end; American conman is drawn into a danger- one of them just got out of jail...He wants ous web of lies and deceit. to know who is the one who singled him out GHOST WORLD to the police. Comedy MOTHER VIPER (VIPERA) Director: Terry Zwigoff Drama (100 min) Cast: Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi, Brad Direction : Sergio Citti Renfro Production: Elide Melli for Cosmo Delivery Status: premiere screening Production Cool and twisted comedy where two sex- Cast: Harvey Keitel,Giancarlo Giannini, hungry girls make the transition between Elide Melli teen-summer and the “real world.” Delivery Status: in post production - no FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA’S market screening AMERICAN ZOETROPE A father and a daughter betrayed by the ASSASSINATION TANGO woman that messed up their lives...... Thriller DANCING WITH WITCHES Delivery Status: Pre-production (TERRITORI D’OMBRA) Director/Writer: Robert Duvall Drama (93 min) Cast: Robert Duvall Direction: Paolo Modugno A US hitman is sent to Argentina to assassi- Production: Veronica Salvi for Esse&bi nate a war criminal and finds himself Cinematografica becoming a target instead in this fast mov- Cast: Laurent Terzieff,Leo Gullotta,Pino ing thriller. Quartullo MONSTER Production status : completed - first market Drama screening Delivery Status: Post-production A rich and well documented film-survey Director/Writer: Hal Hartley about the most obscure part of the human Cast: Sarah Polley, Helen Mirren, Julie conscience... Christie, Robert Burke INTO THE WIND (CONTROVENTO) Monster is a modernist fable of an ageless Drama (98 min) and eternal monster doomed to exist in per- Direction: Peter Del Monte petuity who challenges humanity to discov- Production: Andrea de Liberato for er a means of destroying him. Poetiche Cinematografiche and Carlo PUMPKIN Pontesilli Drama for Controvento Film Directors: Adam Broder & Anthony Cast: Valeria Golino, Margherita Buy, Abrams Ennio Fantastichini, Maria Monti PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 Delivery Status: completed - first market Cast: Christina Ricci, Brenda Blethyn, screening Dominique Swain Wit, AVAILABLE FROM HBO The story of two sister, Clara is a psychia- Delivery Status: Post-production trist and Nina is always on the run... their A straight-laced sorority girl and a mentally lives is suddenly disturbed by Leonardo’s challenged young man fall in love and come arrival... up against the taboos of the overly protec- THE FINDER STEALING BUDDHA tive society around them. Thriller (92 mins) Thriller JEEPERS CREEPERS Director: Frank Shields Language: English C CCC Fantasy thriller Language: English Director: TBD Director/ Writer: Victor Salva Producer: Phil Avalon Cast: TBD Cast: Gina Philips, Justin T. Long Cast: Simon Westaway, Paul Mercurio, Delivery Status: Pre-production CAPITOL FILMS LTD. Delivery Status: Post-production Anja Coleby An action-oriented lovey story about an Capitol Films Ltd, 23 Queensdale Place, Journeying cross-country for summer vaca- Delivery Status: Completed American woman’s mysterious three day London, W11 4SQ, UK. Tel: tion, two college students encounter a terrify- Thirty-five year old ex-cop Les Kearney affair with an intriguing man in Hong Kong. 44.20.7471.6000. Fax: 44.20.7471.6012. ing force of evil in this tongue-in-cheek thriller. specialises in one thing - finding missing E-mail: [email protected] CQ people. When he reluctantly takes on the BUSKIN FILMS Company Type: Sales Agent / Financier Drama job he doesn’t realise that within twenty- Buskin films, Via Tiepolo 13/a, 00196 At AFM: Sharon Harel (Managing Director: Roman Coppola four hours his life will be turned upside Roma, Italy. Tel: 39.06.32600580. Fax: Director), Jane Barclay (Managing Cast: Jeremy Davies, Gérard Depardieu, down and his skills tested to the extreme. 39.06.3235027. Director), Hannah Leader (Director of Élodie Bouchez, Massimo Ghini Office: # 321 - third floor - Loews Santa Business Affairs), Penny Wolf (V.P of Delivery Status: Post-production BLUEVISION MEDIA, INC. Monica International Distribution), Ana Ayesta A neo-modernist look at the frivolity of the BlueVision Media, Inc., 3015 Main Street, Tel: 310.576.7121. Fax: 310.576.7122 (Sales Executive) filmmaking process set against 1960’s Paris Suite 390, Santa Monica, CA 90405 USA. At AFM: Roberto Bessi (President), Office: 643 & 645, Tel: 310.576.7425, as a young director journeys of life and art Tel: 310.396.1919. Fax: 310.396.2991. E- Antonio Guadalupi (CEO), Renzo Fax: 310.576.7396 finding that one greatly affects the other. mail: [email protected]. Website: Rossellini (U.S. Representative), Fabrizia DEUCES WILD ME WITHOUT YOU WWW.BLUEVISIONMEDIA.COM. Migliarotti (International Sales), Arianna Gang-thriller Drama At AFM: Lucas E. Devenn (CEO), Markus La Gioia (Press and Promotion) Director: Scott Kalvert Baettig (CFO), Florence DePrez (Director Director/writer: Sandra Goldbacher A LONG LONG LONG NIGHT OF Cast: Stephen Dorff, Matt Dillon, Brad Cast: Anna Friel, Kyle Maclachlan, of International Sales), Claudia Schoelzel Renfro, Fairuza Balk (Sales Assistant) LOVE (UNA LUNGA LUNGA LUNGA Michelle Williams Office: 837/839, Tel: 310.576.2473, Fax: NOTTE D’ On the streets of 1950s Brooklyn two gangs Delivery Status: In production 310.576.2474 amore) clash violently competing for the same ter- Coming of age tale charting the friendship THE RUSSIAN GIRL Romantic (109 min) ritory. As events spin out of control the bru- of two women over three decades until their Drama Direction: Luciano Emmer tal culmination of their dispute provides a bond is threatened by an old teenage crush. Language: English Production: Gherardo Pagliei and shocking finale. NOT AFRAID, NOT AFRAID Director: Xavier Koller Elisabetta Riga for Gam Film Drama Cast: TBD Cast: Ornella Muti, Giancarlo Giannini, Director: Annette Carducci Delivery Status: Pre-production Marie Trintignant Cast: Dianne Wiest, Jack Davenport, World-renowned psychiatrist Carl Gustav Delivery Status: Completed L.A. Office FAX Miriam Margolyes Jung becomes involved with his teenage The 21st of December is the longest night of female patient, Sabina Spielrein. This pas- Delivery Status: In post-production sionate love affair may very well heal her the year: a long night of love: six stories of A touching comic road movie charting the mental anguish, yet threatens to destroy meetings, passions, contrasts happening in (323) 935-8229 developing relationship between a tough- both of their families and careers. the same night... talking woman and her unusual grandson.

ON THE NOSE DROWNING ON DRY LAND Comedy Romance (90 min) Director: David Caffrey Director: Carl-Jan Colpaert MIDEM • MIPTV • CANNES • MIPCOM Cast: Robbie Coltrane, Dan Aykroyd, Producers: Ruth Charney, Susan Shapiro Brenda Blethyn Cast: Barbara Hershey, Naveen Andrews OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND Delivery Status: screening Delivery Status: Completed (Tented & Heated) A college porter can’t believe his luck when A female advertising executive hails a he finds a foolproof method of picking win- young New York cabby and together they journey on a steamy, lust filled road-trip ning horses. However, events rapidly spin that climaxes with a sizzling rendezvous in Lunch on the beach out of control with hilarious consequences. the Nevada desert. SIN’S KITCHEN CARGO FILMS Drama (90 min) Whatever the weather Cargo Films, 201 N. Occidental Blvd, Director: Fabien Pruvot Bungalow 7, Hollywood, CA 90026 USA. Producers: Jennifer Farrell, Fabien Pruvot Tel: 213.384.3210. Fax: 213.384.1210. Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Gabrielle Lazure, At AFM: Bruno J.F. Cavelier (President), Pierre Cosso Andrew A. Brown (Vice President, Delivery Status: Post Production Distribution) An excavation crew, Mafia men, bounty Office: Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, hunters, a lone drifter, and a beautiful 5th Level, Suite 509, Tel: 310.458.6700, woman all cross paths and unknowingly ext. 509 alter each others fate in the merciless STRANGER THAN FICTION Mojave Desert. Adventure/Romance THE ENTREPRENEURS Director: Fabien Pruvot Comedy (90 min) Producers: Jennifer Farrell, Fabien Pruvot Director: Marcus Gautesen Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Jeffrey Wright, Producers: Marcus Gautesen, Roger Pierre Cosso, Gabrielle Lazure Mende Delivery Status: Pre-Production Cast: Jimmy Fallon, Kamala Dawson, Fiction meets reality as four friends find Timothy Bottoms, Nathan Anderson themselves trapped in the Florida Delivery Status: Completed Everglades. Three unemployed friends come up with a The Restaurant PRESENCE OF MIND scheme to blackmail a prominent politician Period Drama/Suspense (98 min) by exposing his daughter as a sex addict, on the beach Director: Antonio Aloy but when one of the friends falls for the girl Producer: Jordan Leibert he must choose between love and money. (Between Miramar & Martinez) Cast: Harvey Keitel, Lauren Bacall, Sadie IMPROPER BEHAVIOUR Frost Erotic Thriller Delivery Status: Completed Director: TBA Contact Olivier In this adaptation of the Henry James clas- Producers: Jean Gosselin, Jesse Marquez, sic “Turn of the Screw,” a neurotic gov- Michel Zgarka Tel.(33) 4 93 94 20 68 Fax. (33) 4 93 43 60 91 erness, believing two children in her care Cast: Fawnia Mondey, Karen Strassman are haunted by malevolent ghosts, seeks to Delivery Status: Pre Production site address: http://www.rado-plage.fr exorcise them. A college student engages in sexual game- GOD’S HANDS, WOMEN’S FINGERS playing with her biology professor, who notre e-mail: [email protected] Romantic Comedy becomes obsessed with her. Director: Anna Penido A REGULAR FRANKIE FAN Producer: Quelita Moreno Documentary Cast: Marilia Pera, Suzana Vieira, Director: Scott Mabutt INTERVENTION NO EASY WAY Delivery Status: Pre-Production Delivery Status: Post Production Dark Comedy (90 min) Drama (117 min) When a seductive stranger pays a visit to a Cast: Barry Bostwick Director: Glen Freyer Director: Jeffrey Fine small village located in the heart of the Prod Year: 2000 Cast: Alison Eastwood, Jamie Harris, Chad Cast: Khandi Alexander, Alan Boyce, Amazon, three unhappily married women Along the line of “Trekkies,” this comical Lowe, Phil Lamarr Brandon Hammond rediscover the power of their own sensuali- documentary takes a look at the day in the Delivery Status: Completed ty and get revenge on their husbands. life of the fans who keep the “Rocky Horror Delivery Status: Completed Loved ones must intervene to prevent a sui- When a male pianist with HIV develops a SPANISH JUDGES Picture Show” phenomenon alive. friendship with a single mother living in Drama/Dark Comedy (98 min) PREDATORS FROM BEYOND cidal 30-something from going off the deep end amidst a midlife crisis. South Central LA, an extraordinary friend- Director: Oz Scott NEPTUNE ship develops that provides the unlikely Producers: Richard Mann, Betsy Chase Comedy (76 min) SNITCH Director: Scott Mabutt Drama (96 min) pair with the strength needed to face their Cast: Vincent D’Onofrio, Matthew Lillard, individual struggles. Valeria Golino Cast: Neve Campbell, Jason Priestly, Don Director: Keith Markinson Delivery Status: Completed Murphy, Dean Devlin Cast: Marlee Matlin, William McNamara NOT AGAIN Double crossing occurs when three grifters Delivery Status: Completed Romantic Comedy (93 min) Delivery Status: Completed Director: Fred Kennamer combine forces to pull off an antique gun Reminiscent of “This is Spinal Tap,” this A woman accidentally finds out too much deal that could make them all rich. mockumentary about the “Worst of Cast: Marissa Ribisi, Susie Cusack, Bo about a jewelry heist and now fears for her life. Eason, Jill Schoelen SHADES Hollywood” ironically features some of DISTANT BRIDGES Drama (94 min) Tinseltown’s finest. Delivery Status: Completed SOUNDMAN War/Romance (110 min) Friends and former lovers create a romantic Director: Erik Van Looy Director: Dusty Rhodes Producer: Paul Breuls Drama (105 min) web of comedic confusion while attempting Cast: Mickey Rourke, Jan Decleir Director: Steven Widi Ho Cast: Richard Harbutt, Laura Patch, David East to rekindle past relationships. Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed SPILT MILK A has-been movie director has one final Cast: William Forsythe, Wayne Pere, An epic story of a young man’s quest for Dark Comedy (88 min) shot at resurrecting his career but encoun- Eliane Chappuis, Wes Studi adventure, a soldier’s call to arms, and two Director: Gregor Von Bismarck ters resistance when it is leaked that his con- A working class parable of a mild-man- lovers torn apart by the rage of nations Cast: John Reilly, Kandeyce Jensen, Justin troversial, biographical film glorifies a local nered soundman who finds his life spinning around them. Caroll mass murderer. out of control, while trying to impress a ONE DEADLY ROAD Delivery Status: Completed SIDE STREETS beautiful woman. Action/Drama (90 min) A love triangle turns dangerous when a Drama (90 min) COLD FISH Director: Frank Adonis father and son unknowingly fall for the Director: Tony Gerber Thriller (90 min) Cast: William DeMeo, Frank Adonis, and same woman. Producers: Ismail Merchant (Executive), Director: David Faiman THE GIFT Delivery Status: Completed Burt Young Bruce Weiss Delivery Status: Completed Supernatural Thriller (86 min) Cast: Valeria Golino, Shashi Kapoor, Art Cast: Jon-Paul Gates, Conrad Asquith, Director: Dominique Luchart Nadia Strahan Two brothers from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn Malik, Shabana Azmi are seduced by the glamour of Mafia life, Cast: George Eddington, Ann Michelle Delivery Status: Completed An ambitious TV reporter becomes entwined in a web of violence, deception, but their quest for power leads to an Fitzgerald, Gunnar Jones Merchant-Ivory presents an urban folk tale Delivery Status: Post Production that offers a realistic, day-in-the-life look at and sexual game playing when he encoun- inescapable road toward destruction. ters a team of shock-video artists using con- THE ENTREPRENEURS A Kafkaesque tale of a man who’s life is being immigrants living in the boroughs of New controlled by mysterious outside forces. York City. troversial methods. Comedy (90 min) PRIDE Director: Jeffrey Fine FULL CIRCLE CEMENT Urban Drama (90 min) Drama (95 min) Epic Drama (171 min) Cast: Jimmy Fallon, Kamala Dawson, Director: Shunya Ito Director: The Bridges Bros Director: Adrian Pasdar Timothy Bottoms, Nathan Anderson Cast: Scott Valentine, Stoney Jackson, Lisa Wu Producer: D.J. Paul Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa, Scott Wilson, Delivery Status: Post Production Ronny Cox, Gitan Otsuru Delivery Status: Post Production Cast: Chris Penn, Jeffrey Wright, Sherilyn Three unemployed friends come up with a Fenn, Henry Czerny Delivery Status: Completed A bigoted real estate developer is driving A touching Japanese masterpiece that tells scheme to blackmail a prominent politician out inner city families to regentrify an urban Delivery Status: Completed by exposing his daughter as a sex addict, When the paths of mobsters and crooked the personal story of WWII General Hideki center, but his personal connection to the Tojo’s last days during the International but when one of the friends falls for the girl people he is under-handing is much closer cops collide, a gangster’s fate is sealed in he must choose between love and money. cement by a woman’s love. Military Tribunal for the Far East. than he realizes.

FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 13 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE CARLTON AMERICA A TIME TO DECIDE CECCHI GORI GROUP CELLULOID DREAMS Carlton America, 12711 Ventura 1 x 2 hours Cecchi Gori Group, Via Valadier 42, Celluloid Dreams International Sales, 24 Boulevard, Suite 300, Century City, CA Language: English Delivery Status: Complete 00193 Roma, Italy. Tel: 39.06.32472244. rue Lamartine, 75009 Paris, France. Tel: 91604 USA. Tel: 818.753.6363. Fax: Fax: 39.06.32472300. Website: www.cec- 33.1.49.70.03.70. Fax 33.1.49.70.03.71. E- 818.753.6388 “A Time To Decide,” produced by Carla Singer Productions for CBS in association chigori.com. mail: [email protected]. Company Type: Producer Company Type: Producer, Sales and Website: www.celluloid-dreams.com At AFM: Stephen J. Davis (President and with Carlton America, is a story of Mick (Ronny Cox) and his struggle to decide Distributor At AFM: Mrs. Hengameh PANAHI Chief Executive Officer), Gary Goldberger At AFM: Mr. Marco Duradoni (Managing (President) (Executive Vice President), Jeri Sacks between family and being alone at sea. DANGER BENEATH THE SEA Director), Mr. Faruk Alatan (Head of Office: c/o Unifrance booth, 611, Tel: (Vice President of Domestic Sales), Corie Acquisitions & Sales) Mr. Leandro Pesci VanDeutekon (Director of International 1 x 2 hours 310.576.7055 Sales) Language: English (Head of Distribution), Mrs. Roberta Randi I LOVE BEIJING Acquisitions Executive: Stephen J. Davis TRIANGLE (Director of Acquisitions & Sales) Director: NING Ying 1 x 2 hours Acquisition Executive: Mr. Faruk Alatan Producer: HAN Sanping, WANG Office: 503, Tel: 310.576.7063 Language: English AMY AND ISABELLE Office: 524, Tel: 310.576.7233, Zhonglei, NING Ying 1 x 2 hours 310.576.7234 Cast: YU Lei, ZUO Baitao, TAOHong, Language: English CASTLE HILL DENTI (TEETH) GAI Yi, LIU Miao CRIMINAL INSTINCT: COLDER Drama (92 min) Delivery Status: completed KIND OF DEATH PRODUCTIONS, INC. Language: Italian with English subtitles Following Dezi, a young philandering taxi 1 x 2 hours Castle Hill Productions, Inc., 1414 Avenue Director: Gabriele Salvatores driver, we are taken on a voyage across con- Language: English of the Americas, New York, NY 10019. Tel: Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori for C.G.G. temporary Beijing allowing the film to cap- 212.888.0080. Fax: 212.644.0956. E-mail: Delivery Status: Complete FIN.MA.VI. Maurizio Totti for Colorado ture the multiple realities in post-Mao’s Joanne Kilbourne (Wendy Crewson) must [email protected] Film At AFM: Arthur Schweitzer (VP China. face a difficult circumstance, in the fourth Cast: Sergio Rubini, Anouk Grinberg, Tom MAN OF THE CROWDS (LÕHOMME installment of the “Criminal Instinct” series. International) Office: 725, Tel: 310.576.7267, Fax: Novembre, Anita Caprioli, Fabrizio DES FOULES) CRIMINAL INSTINCT: THE Bentivoglio, Paolo Villaggio (special Director: John Lvoff WANDERING SOUL MURDERS 310.576.7268 HOME INVADERS appearance) Producer: Martine Marignac 1 x 2 hours Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Action/Adventure (90 min) Cast: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Maria de Language: English Antonio is an ordinary middle-aged man. A Medeiros, Danuta Stenka, Zbigniew Delivery Status: Compete normal life, apart from his enormous teeth. This is the third installment in the popular Director: Gregary Wilson Zapasiewicz “Criminal Instinct” series, featuring crimi- Producer: Gregary Wilson His teeth are his main concern, but they are Delivery Status: completed nologist and former policewomen, Joanne Cast: Keith David, Luis Guzman, Yancey Arias also an excuse not to face the responsibili- Lisbon. A man collapses while visiting a Kilbourne (Wendy Crewson) and Inspector Delivery Status: Completed/Screening ties of an adult life. church with his wife. A young psychiatrist Phillip Millard (Victor Garber). A street punk is forced to join a dangerous QUASI BLU (ALMOST BLUE) (Maria de Medeiros) will help him recover FLIGHT OF THE REINDEER criminal ring specialising in invading sub- Thriller from a previous psychological trauma. But 1 x 2 hours urban residences robbing the contents and Language: Italian can one be a victim after having been a tor- terrorising victims. Language: English Director: Alex Infascelli turer in the former Eastern Bloc? Delivery Status: complete HAMMERLOCK Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori for C.G.G. Comedy (90 min) PLATFORM (RE-EDITED VERSION) Finally, after years of being scoffed at by FIN.MA.VI. Drama (155 min) friends and colleagues, Jerry McNeal Language: English Cast: Lorenza Indovina, Andrea Di Director: Chris McIntyre Language: Chinese (Richard Thomas) has secured documented Stefano, Claudio Santamaria Production: Hu Tong communications proof that reindeers can fly. Producer: Chris McIntyre Cast: Pat Morita, Joe Santos Delivery Status: completed (Hong Kong) and T-Mark Inc. (Japan) FOR LOVE OF OLIVIA Delivery Status: Post-production A serial killer lurks in the streets of Bologna Delivery Status: Post-production: 1 x 2 hours Two dangerous prisoners escape during a killing mainly young Students of which he Letter To America Language: English jail transfer. Two silly prison guards have 48 takes on the identity like a sort of THE INCREDIBLE ELEPHANT Delivery Status: in post-production hours to recapture the prisoners. chameleon becoming unrecognizeable. Va Savoir 1 x 2 hours BLUE MOON CANONE INVERSO: MAKING LOVE Language: English Cast: Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellito, Drama (90 min) Drama (90 min) Marianne Basler, Jacques Bonnaffe, Delivery Status: complete Language: English Language: English version After the loss of his mother, little Daniel Helene de Fougerolles, Bruno Todeschini Director: John Gallagher Director: Ricky Tognazzi Delivery Status: in post-production Harris really wants a pet. After seeing a Producer: Ronnie Shapiro, Sylvia Caminer falling star, Daniel wishes for the coolest Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori for C.G.G. Beach Cafe Cast: Ben Gazzara, Rita Moreno, Brian FIN.MA.VI. pet, the one that his mother told him “never Vincent Cast: Jacques Nolot forgets.” Cast: Fabrizio Hans Matheson, Melanie Delivery Status: in post-production A couple married 40 years at a crossroads Thierry THE LAST DANCE spending a weekend in the country Based on the novel by Paul Bowles. 1 x 2 hours Delivery Status: completed THE ROAD encounter a young couple that lead them to A captivating story about love and friend- Language: English a second chance at love. Delivery Status: in post-production Delivery Status: complete COLD FEET ship set in the thirties and forties accompa- A film by Darejan Omirbaev (Kazakstan) A young couple, Todd (Eric Stoltz) and Romantic Comedy (92 min) nied by the beautiful music of a violin the director of KARDIOGRAMMA and Denise Cope (Trini Alvarado), fell in love, Director: Brian Evans through the decades. KILLER. got married and had two children, but lose Cast: Chenoa Maxwell, Rahsan Lindsay ZORA LA VAMPIRA – ZORA THE DESERT MOON sight of the love they once shared - both in A young coule ready for marriage is driven VAMPIRE career and family. Delivery Status: in post-production apart by well meaning meddling siblings. Comedy A film by Shinji Aoyama (Japan) the direc- ROUGH AIR: DANGER ON FLIGHT Delivery Status: screening Director: Manetti Bros. 534 tor of EUREKA. DOUBLE PARKED Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori for C.G.G. 8 WOMEN 1 x 2 hours Drama (92 min) FIN.MA.VI. Language: English Delivery Status: Pre-production Language: English Cast: Toni Bertorelli, Micaela Ramazotti, By Francois Ozon (France) Delivery Status: complete Director: Stephen Kinsella Chef Ragoo, Carlo Verdone TIME OUT After a frustrating delay at Frankfurt airport Producer: Stephen Kinsella Dracula becomes comedy when in the sub- during winter, Flight 534 departs in stormy Delivery Status: Pre-production Cast: Carrie Thorne, William Sage, Noah urbs of Rome he meets a gang of hip hop- skies for an even stormier ride to the United Fleiss By Laurent Cantet (France) the director of States. pers. HUMAN RESOURCES. Delivery Status: Completed MY WEST SECOND HONEYMOON A mother and sons bond together to protect MONDAY MORNING 1 x 2 hours Western (95 min) Delivery Status: Pre-production each other from the boy’s violent and abu- Language: English version Language: English sive father By Otar Iosseliani (France) Delivery Status: Complete THE DESTINY OF MARTY FINE Director: Giovanni Veronesi George (Tim Matheson) and Diane Weston Drama (94 min) Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori for C.G.G. (Roma Downey) have decided to file for Language: English FIN.MA.VI. HE USINESS OF divorce, but their children, not knowing Director: Michael Hacker Cast: Leonardo Pieraccioni, Harvey Keitel, T B this, plan a surprise second honeymoon for Producer: Michael Hacker David Bowie them on a romantic island. Cast: Alan Gelfant, Catherine Keener, Delivery Status: completed FILM SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS Michael Ironside In the whiteness of the surrounding snowy 1 x 2 hours Delivery Status: Completed peaks and of the dusty trappers’ village Language: English An ex-boxer witnessed a mob murder. To unfolds the story of a father and son who Los Angeles Office Delivery Status: Complete keep his own life the gangster forces him to meet again after 20 years and pick up the Abused as a child by his alcoholic father, murder another man. pieces of a relationship buried by time. Joe Brown (Aidan Quinn) never learned to 5150 Wilshire Blvd. trust another – not even his loving wife This Product Guide will be available (Marcia Gay Harden). Los Angeles SLEEP EASY on-line at www.thebusinessoffilm.com 1 x 2 hours T HE B USINESS OF F ILM’ S California 90036 Language: English home on the internet.

CACOPHONY SAINT JUDE THE CHRISTOPHER CINE EXCEL Horror (USA) Drama JOHNSON CO. LTD. ENTERTAINMENT, Director/Writer: Marc Cushman Director: John L’Ecuyer The Christopher Johnson Co. Ltd., Golden Producer: Phil Leirness, Robert Ballo Producer: Sandra Cunningham, Nicole Robert INC. Delivery Status: Pre-production Cast: Liane Balaban, Nicholas Campbell, House 29 Great Pulteney Street suite Cine Excel Entertainment, Inc., 1102 112/113, London W1R3DD, United When a rock band experiments with a for- Raymond Cloutier Screenland Drive, Burbank, CA 91505 bidden, four hundred year old musical man- Delivery Status: Screening Kingdom. Tel: 44.20.7287.3328. Fax.44 USA. Tel: 818.848.4478. Fax: 20.7287.2837. E-mail. cj- uscript, their music wakes the dead. On a quest for love, Jude finds promise and 818.848.1590. YOUNG EMMANUELLE disappointment. [email protected] Company Type: Sales Agent/Production Erotic (USA) INNOCENCE Company Type: Producer Co. Director/Writer: Marc Cushman Drama (95 min) At AFM: Christopher Johnson (President) At AFM: David Huey (President) Delivery Status: Pre-production Language: English Office: Loews 758/759 c/o European Film Acquisition Executive: David Huey Young Emmanuelle comes of age, compet- Director: Paul Cox Promotion, Tel: 011.44.7768.734437, Office: Suite #502, Tel: 818.679.2994, ing with her famed novelist father and Cast: Julia Blake, Charles Tingwell, Terry Norris 310.576.7020, Fax: 310 656 2510 Fax: 310.458.2813 exploring her curiosities while writing her Delivery Status: Screening ONE WAY SPLIT Extreme Caution own book of erotic fiction. Over time the innocence of first love can be Action adventure ACTION ADVENTURE THE SETTING SUN lost, but for some it can never be forgotten. Language: English Director: Caribou Seto Drama (Japan) A poignant homage to the human spirit, Director: Julian Simpson Director: Tomono Ro INNOCENCE is a tragicomic tale of love Producer: David Huey Cast: Diane Lane and lust, of tenderness and hope. A pas- Producer: Christopher Johnson Cast: TBA Cast: Hugh Jackman, Courtney Love Delivery Status: Complete sionate reminder to live life to the full. Delivery Status: In production Set in the 1930’s during the opium wars PSYCHO BEACH PARTY Delivery status: pre-production American mercenaries have taken the between China and Japan, an idealist Comedy (95 min) Budget: US$10 million President of the United States hostage. Japanese soldier is forced to question Language: English A love story wrapped inside a crime story S.W.A.T. SPECIAL WEAPONS AND alliances when he meets and falls in love Director: Robert Lee King POETS ‘N’ GANGSTERS TACTICS with the leader of the rebel movement in Cast: Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, Romantic comedy Action Adventure Manchuria fighting against Japanese con- Nicholas Brendon Language: English Director: Caribou Seto trol of the opium trade. Delivery Status: Screening Director: Martin Brierley Producer: David Huey Sun, surf and one psycho babe. Producer: Christopher Johnson Cast: TBA CINEMAVAULT Cast: To be announced at AFM Delivery Status: In Production CINE TIROL Delivery status: pre-production Special police force encounters an elite RELEASING Cine Tirol, Maria-Theresien-Strasse 55, A- Budget: US$6 million group of international counterfeiters. Cinemavault Releasing, 434 Queen Street 6020 Innsbruck, Austria, Europe. East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 1T5. Tel: 43.512.5320.182. Fax: A male-in-crisis New York tale. +43.512.5321.500. E-mail: cinetirol@tirol- THE CRIMINAL Tel: 416.363.6060. Fax: 416.363.2305. CINEMA ARTS At AFM: Nicolas Stiliadis (CEO), Amy werbung.at. Website: www.cinetirol.com Thriller Beecroft (Director of International Company Type: Film commission & Film fund Language: English ENTERTAINMENT Distribution), Steve Arroyave (VP At AFM: Erich Hoertnagl (Project Consultant) Director: Julian Simpson Cinema Arts Entertainment, 9350 Wilshire Production), Michael Paszt (V.P. Office: 758, Tel: 310.576.7020 Producer: Christopher Johnson Blvd, Suite 203, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Acquisitions & Development) Cast: Eddie Izzard, Steven Mackintosh, USA. Tel: 310.550.1085. Fax: Office: 848-849, Tel: 310.576.7005. CINETEL FILMS INC. Natasha Little 310.550.1182. E-mail: Hotel: Radisson Huntley, Tel: Cinetel Films Inc., 8255 Sunset Blvd., Los Delivery status: completed ( US rights [email protected] 310.394.5454, Fax: 310.458.9776 Angeles, CA 90046-2432 USA. Tel: available) At AFM: Pierre Richard Muller HOCHELAGA 323.654.4000. Fax: 323.650.6400. (Chairman), Chantal Lam (Vice President), Budget: US$5 million Drama At AFM: Paul Hertzberg (President), Lisa Keith Selin (Director) Director: Michel Jette A high quality conspiracy thriller that traps Hansen (Executive Vice President), Marcy Office: 832, Tel: 310.458.6700, Fax: Producer: Louis Sabourin, Michel Jette Rubin (Sr. Vice President, International an innocent “wrong-place-wrong-time” 310.550.1182 Cast: Dominic Darceuil, David Boutin, Distribution) musician as the main suspect. DREAMERS Ronald Houle Office: Suite 609, Tel: 310.576.7035 Drama (USA) Delivery Status: Screening SURVIVAL Director: Ann Lu A young man’s decision to join a biker Action Adventure Cast: Jeremy Jordan, Mark Ballou, gang ends in tragic consequences. Delivery Status: Pre-production L.A. Office Phone Courtney Gains, Portia Dawson, Paul EXPECTING MERCY Taking a cue from “Survivor,” this exotic Bartel Thriller action adventure begins when a group of Language: English ordinary game show contestants find them- Delivery Status: completed Director: Dave Hansen Two childhood friends growing up in small- selves up against not only a group of hard- (323) 935-8228 Producer: Dave Hansen ened criminals, but also the forces of nature town dream about escaping to Los Angeles Cast: Carrie Hitchcock, Brian Muni, to pursue their fame and fortune. gone mad. Heather Prete, Jim Wagner GUARDIAN -AKA DEFENDER STORY OF O Delivery Status: Screening Erotic/Drama (USA) Action A tale of twisted romance gone bad Cast: Mario Van Peebles, James Remar, Director: Philip Leirness 2 BY 4 Producer: Pierre Richard Muller Drama Katrina Lombard and Ice T. L.A. Office FAX Cast: Danielle Ciardi, Neil Dickson, Max Director: Jimmy Smallhorne Delivery Status: In Production Parrish, Michelle Ruben Producer: John Hall, Virginia Biddle During an unearthing, archaeologists unveil Delivery Status: completed Cast: Jimmy Smallhorne, Chris O’Neill, an obelisk, which houses the Babylonian (323) 935-8229 Based on the international huge success Kimberly Topper god of Death. The god of Death escapes the novel by Pauline Reage, a 2000 new adap- Delivery Status: Screening obelisk and it is up to the archaeologists to tation set in the USA. Johnny, an immigrant Irish labourer, is forced battle the Death God and defend his life, a to come to terms with his abusive past. child’s life, and his very soul.

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FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 15 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE CLT-UFA THE COPRODUCTION INTERNATIONAL OFFICE PRODUCT CLT-UFA International, 45, boulevard The Coproduction Office, Pierre Frieden, Luxembourg, 1543, Mommsenstrasse 27, 10629 Berlin, Luxembourg. Tel: 352.42142.3935. Fax: Germany. Tel: 49.30.32.77.78.79. Fax: 352.42142.3771. E-mail: contact@clt-ufa- 49.30.323.20.91. E-mail: SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT [email protected] international.com. Website: www.clt-ufa- international.com Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer Company Type: Distributor At AFM: Philippe Bober (Managing At AFM: Ludwig zu Salm (President & Director), Rebekka Garrido (Sales Agent) AFM 2001 Office: 611, Tel: 310.576.7055 CEO, Rights and Distribution), Heinz SONGS FROM THE SECOND Thym (Head of International Acquisitions FLOOR and Sales), Olaf Wiehler (Senior Sales and Drama (100 min) Acquisitions Executive, German Market), Language: Swedish Sandra Keser-Stajnberger (Senior Director: Roy Andersson International Sales Executive), Carola Producer: Roy Andersson, Studio 24 and Bossert (Head of Creative Affairs), Val_rie Philippe Bober, Essential Filmproduktion Danielski (Marketing Manager) Cast: Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson Office: Loews Hotel # 634, Delivery Status: completed, screening Tel: 310.576.7295 A slice of life pastiche of modern urban DOWN (A.K.A. THE ELEVATOR) society where catastrophe is looming. Thriller (TBC) AUDITION Language: English Drama (115 min) Director: Dick Maas Language: Japanese Producer: Laurens Geels, Dick Maas Director: Miike Takashi Cast: James Marshall, Naomi Watts, Eric Thal Producer: Omega Project Delivery Status: Post-production Delivery Status: Completed, screening When a New York elevator seems to take an Seven years after the death of his wife, horrific life of its own, Mark, an elevator company executive Aoyama is invited to technician and Jennifer, an ambitious reporter sit in on auditions for an actress, to look for a new woman in his life. investigate the case to find that an evil exper- LOVELY RITA iment has gone terribly out of control. Drama (95 min) JULIETTA Language: Austrian Drama/Love Story (approx. 100’) Director: Jessica Hausner Language: German Producer: Heinz Stussak, Prisma Film and Director: Christoph Stark Philippe Bober, Essential Filmproduktion Producer: Nico Hoffmann, Bettina Reitz, Cast: Barbara Osika, Wolfgang Kostal, Sascha Schwingel Karina Isabella Brandlmayr, Christoph Bauer Cast: Lavinia Wilson, Barnaby Metschurat, Delivery Status: Post-production, pre-sell- Matthias Koeberlin ing at the market Delivery Status: Post-production Rita is 15 years old and firmly in the grasp A beautiful girl and two guys get caught in a of puberty and an outsider. Unable to com- dramatic love triangle when their paths cross municate with her, her parents resort to pun- at a gigantic rave party (Berlin Love Parade). ishment: They lock her in and things are CLAIM heading for a disaster. Thriller (TBC) Language: English Director: Martin Lagestee CREATIVE LIGHT Producer: Iris Hogendijk WORLDWIDE Cast: Louise Lombard, Billy Zane Creative Light Worldwide, 8383 Wilshire Delivery Status: Post-production Blvd. Suite #212, Beverly Hills CA 90211 PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 Ellen Brachman, claim assessor with USA. Tel: 323.658.9166. European Hayward, investigates the claim Fax: 323.658.9169. of 58 million dollars after the ship All Website: www.creativelightworldwide.com Killing Me Softly, AVAILABLE FROM Myriad Pictures Virtue sinks off the Argentine coast. At AFM: Ted Chalmers (President) Ray Everything points to fraud. When she gets Haboush (Head of International Sales), to Buenos Aires to search for the truth, not Scott Zakarin (Chairman), Jenn Thomas a single trace of the All Virtue can be found. (Sales Assistant) GREEN SAILS A TWIST OF FATE CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LOS Office: AFMA Office 859, Tel. Action adventure Suspense thriller ANGELES 800.235.6397x859, Fax. 310.458.6761 Director: Whitney Ransick Delivery Status: Pre-production Comedy Adventure (TBC) HIGHWAY 395 Cast: Marcus Graham, Michael Ontkean During a shoot-out, a detective’s partner is Language: English Action / Crime (105 min) (2000) USA and Alexandra Paul. killed. After a brief and strange encounter Director: Simon Wincer Language: English Delivery Status: Completed with a man, the detective begins to believe Producer: Lance Hool, Paul Hogan Director: Fred Dryer A TV pilot in partnership with Germany’s that the man is framing him in a carefully Cast: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Paul Producer: Fred Dryer, Michael Gordon SAT 1. This action adventure series was Rodriguez Cast: Fred Dryer, Geoffrey Lewis laid plan. Delivery Status: Post-production shot in Australia with an ensemble cast. DETONATOR Delivery Status: Competed PAST TENSE Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles follows Budget: $2 Million Action Thriller our hero Mick Dundee, who uproots him- A tough, local Sheriff battles drug dealers A suspense thriller about a high level CIA Director: TBA agent working deep cover within the self from the Australian outback to accom- and serial killers on a Death Valley highway. Cast: TBA pany his partner Sue, a journalist, to the ELVIS IS ALIVE! I SWEAR I SAW Peoples’ Free Revolution. After a heist of Delivery Status: Pre-Production bustling and trendy city where he accident- technical explosives kills an innocent vic- HIM EATING DING DONGS A deranged serial bomber wreaks havoc in ly gets caught up in her investigations. OUTSIDE THE PIGGLY WIGGLY’S tim, he decides to leave the organization. the heart on the great metropolis. With mar- IGNITION (A.K.A. KINGDOM Comedy (90 min) (2000) USA Unfortunately, the CIA and the PFR have ital law declared and a city fleeing in panic, COME) Language: English different plans for him. Action Thriller Director: Robert Diaz LeRoy Director: Jonathan Winfrey Special Intelligence agent Mike Hoskins races against the clock to find the madman’s Language: English Producer: Amy Freeman Delivery Status: Pre-production Director: Yves Simoneau Cast: Fred Willard, Wayne Newton, Vickie CRAWLERS next target before it’s too late. Producer: Thomas Hedman SEDUCED Lawrence, Rip Torn, Dr. Joyce Brothers A freak toxic spill accelerates the growth of Cast: Bill Pullman, Lena Olin, Colm Feore Delivery Status: Competed a swarm of cockroaches in Los Angeles. Thriller Delivery Status: Completed Director: TBA Budget: $1Million There are over 100,000 of them for every The U.S. is about to put a man on the moon A mock-umentary in the style of BEST IN human being and only a small team of Cast: TBA for the first time in over thirty years. But SHOW and THIS IS SPINAL TAPE, takes experts aware of the grave danger facing the Delivery Status: Pre-Production beneath the euphoria of an historic moment a filmmaker on a journey to find Elvis, and city-it’s a desperate question that must be With a multi-million dollar buyout offer on lies a web of intrigue and conspiracy. the fanatics who think he is still alive. answered before the entire city falls victim the table for the Mind Gamz Software KEVIN OF THE NORTH DOUBLE DECEPTION to the mutant creatures. Company, everything seems to be perfect. Adventure Comedy (apprx. 92’) Action/Thriller (90 min) (2000) USA V.I.P.E.R But underneath the shining surface, a web of Language: English Language: English Action deceit, adultery, and murder is being spun. Director: Bob Spiers Director: Shundo Ohkawa Producer: Thomas Hedman Producer: Taka Arai Director: Jay Andrews. Cast: Skeet Ulrich, Natasha Henstridge, Delivery Status: Pre-production Cast: Louis Mandylor, James Russo, Udo Kier Leslie Nielsen Delivery Status: Post Production - Product A medical experiment with poisonous L.A. Office Phone Delivery Status: Completed snakes goes awry, and when one of the crea- Reel, Trailer Kevin Manley’s safe but boring life as trav- Budget: $3 Million tures settles into the lake at a tourist resort, el agent in L.A. is turned up-side-down A kidnap plot involving the daughter of a people begin to disappear... falling victims (323) 935-8228 when he inherits from his grandfather some powerful Japanese businessman goes terri- to a reign of terror that no one can stop. property and land in Alaska. bly wrong.

THE CLEAN AND NARROW THE SID CAESAR COLLECTION Drama (90 min) (2000) USA Variety/Comedy (3 X 70 min) / (65 X 30’) Language: English (2000) USA Director: William Katt Language: English Producer: Kermit Christman Director: N/A Cast: Laura Leighton, Sondra Locke, Producer: Creative Light Entertainment Wings Hauser and Jack Noseworthy Cast: Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Imogene Delivery Status: Completed, Market Coca, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Neil Screening ( October 27th, 13:30 at the Simon and more. The collection that Mignon; October 31st, 15:30 in Sala everyone’s talking about! Digitally restored Leonardo) classic sketches from “Your Show of Budget: $2.5 Million Shows” and “Caesar’s Hour,” plus new An ex-con tries to make an honest living, but interviews with the writers and stars. is forced to make some dangerous choices. Artie (A.K.A. Fart – The Movie) EXTREME FORCE Comedy (90 min) (2000) USA Action/Martial Arts Movie (90 min) (2000) USA Language: English Language: English Director: Michel Qissi Producer: Hector Echavarria Cast: Hector Echavarria (world champion CROWN kickboxer) and Michael Qissi INTERNATIONAL Delivery Status: Completed, Market ESTABLISHED IN 1988 Screening (October 26th, 15:30 at the PICTURES, INC. Ambasciatori; October 30th, 15:30 in Sala 700) Crown International Pictures, Inc., 8701 FAIR SET ORGANISATION OFFERS: Budget: $3 Million Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211 An action-packed saga of murder, seduction USA. Tel: 310.657.6700. Fax: THE DESIGN & PROBLEM-FREE SETTING-UP OF and international espionage as a thief turns 310.657.4489. E-mail: crown@crown- STANDS AND ADVERTISING BILLBOARDS, AT ALL into a hero in his quest to restore the sacred intlpictures.com. Website: www.crown- seal of Mongolia. intlpictures.com MAJOR EUROPEAN FILM & TV MARKETS ARTIE At AFM: Mark Tenser (President/CEO), FAIR SET ORGANISATION IS PROUD TO BE OF Comedy (90 min) (2000) USA Scott E. Schwimer (Sr. VP), Lisa Agay Language: English (Dir., Publicity & Advertising), Marilyn J. SERVICE ANNUALLY TO OVER 185 Director: Matt Berman Tenser (Producer) Producer: Matt Berman Office: no office – exhibitors WORLDWIDE COMPANIES. Cast: Kevin Farley and Heather McComb Tel: 310.657.6700, Fax: 310.657.45489 Delivery Status: Completed, Videocassette Crown Film Library Budget: $1 Million Consists of over 100 titles, covering a wide A college boy with an uncontrollable gas variety of genres with a number of stars. problem chases the woman of his dreams, but CANNES FILM FESTIVAL unexpectedly finds true love in the process. JUST FOR THE TIME BEING C-SALES MAY 10 - 21, 2001 Romantic Drama – 90 Minutes (2000) USA C-Sales, Ferdinand Bolstraat 426, NL - Language: English 1072 ME Amsterdam, Netherlands. Tel: Director: Gil Brenton 31.20.6221640. Fax: 31.20.6393169. FOR THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, FAIR SET Producer: Gil Brenton Website: www.lek-film.nl Cast: Eva Herzigova Company Type: Sales Agent / Distributor / ORGANISATION IS THE OFFICIAL Delivery Status: Completed, Videocassette. Film financing REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE MAJOR Budget: $1.2 million At AFM: Ellis Driessen (Head of Sales) The story of a beautiful woman who comes Office: European Film Promotion, Room HOTELS IN CANNES: between a father and son. Best Actress and 758 & 759, Tel: 31.653652567 Best Director at the 2000 N.Y. International LEAK Independent Film Festival. Drama (109 min) THE MAJESTIC • THE MARTINEZ PLAY FOR ME Language: Dutch, English subtitles Romance, 84 Minutes (2000) USA Director: Jean van de Velde THE CARLTON • THE NOGA HILTON Language: English Producer: Rolf Koot & Jean van de Velde THE GRAY D’ALBION Director: David Kantar for ‘All Yours Film’ Producer: David Kantar Cast: Moira Kelly; Jamie Harrold Cast: Cas Jansen, Victo L_w, Ricky Koole Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed, screening in AND IS ENTRUSTED WITH THE MANAGEMENT OF Budget: $1 million the market A talented, shy violinist struggles with stage Budget: $2 million THEIR ADVERTISING PANEL SITES AND OFFICE fright until a beautiful woman helps him to A young cop is forced to run an old buddy RENTALS. FAIR SET CAN ALSO ARRANGE ANY conquer his fears. turned drug-dealer as an informer. A drama THE HI-LINE. about drug trafficking and corruption in the FURNITURE AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT RENTALS Drama, 94 Minutes (2000) USA Dutch police force. Based on a true story. Language: English FOR YOUR COMPANY Director: Ron Judkins Producer: Ron Judkins CURB Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook; Tantoo ENTERTAINMENT THE FSO TEAM WILL BE PRESENT DURING THE Cardinal; Margot Kidder Curb Entertainment, 3907 West Alameda AFM TO HELP YOU PREPARE FOR THE Delivery Status: Completed Ave., Burbank, CA 91505 USA. Tel: Budget: $2 million 818.843.8580. Fax: 818.566.1719. CANNES FILM FESTIVAL A Montana girl discovers she was adopted At AFM: Carole Curb Nemoy (President), and begins a quest to meet her true biologi- Sarah Chapin (International Sales cal mother and finds love along the way. Coordinator) U.S. Theatrical! Office: 704 & 705, Tel: 310.576.7077 Contact PETER FLOWER at AFM: SUCKERS Kill Me Later Fairmont Miramar Hotel Thriller, 90 Minutes (2000) USA THRILLER Language: English Director: Dana Lustig TEL: 310.576.7777 Director: Roger Nygard Producer: Ram Bergman, Dana Lustig, FAX: 310.458.7912 Producer: Michael Leahy Carole Curb Nemoy, Mike Curb Cast: Daniel Benzali; Lori Loughlin Cast: Selma Blair, Max Beesley, and Delivery Status: Completed, Videocassette Brendan Fehr Budget: $2 Million A man on the run for his life meets a woman WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU In the style of THE SOPRANOS, a car sales- who wants to end hers. They make a deal, man gets involved in a crime deal gone wrong. “Help me now and I’ll kill you later.” And COLORZ OF RAGE Head Office: Romance, 90 Minutes (2000) USA so begins a run for both their lives. Language: English FSO ZI de L’Argile Lot No. 23 Director: Dale Resteghini Producer: Dale Resteghini 460 ave de la Quiera Cast: : Redman, Cheryl “Pepsii” Riley L.A. Office FAX 06370 Mouans Sartoux Delivery Status: Completed, Videocassette Budget: $ 1 million FRANCE An interracial couple moves to New York and is confronted with the hard-core reali- (323) 935-8229 Tel: (33) 4 92 92 39 39 ties of love and hate. Fax: (33) 4 92 92 39 30

FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 17 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE THE OPERATOR DOMINION DREAM Thriller D DDD Director: Jon Dichter ENTERTAINMENT ENTERTAINMENT Producer: Jay Barnet And Jon Dichter Dominion Entertainment, Universal Dream Entertainment, 8489 W. 3rd Street, Cast: Michael Laurence, Jacqueline Kim, DIMENSION FILMS Pictures, 100 Universal City Plaza, Building Suite 1038, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Christa Miller, Stephen Tobolowsky, Dimension Films, 99 Hudson Street, 5th 9128/Suite 1386, Universal City, CA 91608 Tel: 323,655,5501, Fax: 323,655,5603, Brion James Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel: USA. Tel: 818.733.0624. Fax: 818.733.0759. At AFM: Ehud Bleiberg (CEO & Attorney Gary Wheelan had a loving wife, 212.219.4100. Fax: 212.941.3836. Website: www.dominion-ent.com Chairman), Yitzhak Ginsberg (President), a thriving career, and a world of temptation At AFM: Rick Sands Chairman, Company Type: Producer, Distributor Richard Fleming (CFO), Dave Schulz until someone put his world on hold. Now Worldwide Distribution, Miramax Films), At AFM: David DeFalco (President and (Director of Operations) someone is changing the rules and telling Cedric Jeanson (Executive Vice President, CEO), Kelly Hirano (Executive Sales Agent) Office: Suite #622, Tel: 310.458.6700 ext. the truth. International Sales, Miramax Office: Loews Santa Monica Hotel, Room 622 ZOE International), Stephen Klain (Executive # 333, Tel: 310.458.6700, ext. 333 100 WOMEN Adventure Vice President, International Marketing, GANGLAND Sexy Teen Comedy Director: Deborah Attoinese Miramax Intl.), Julie Roach (Vice Action-Adventure (96 minutes) Director: Michael Davis Producer: Ehud Bleiberg, Terence Michael, Producer: Bill Kenwright, Carole Curb President, Business and Legal Affairs, Language: English Miramax International), Mark Lindsay Director: Art Camacho Yitzhak Ginsberg, Richard Finney Nemoy, Mike Curb Cast: Chad Donella, Jennifer Morrison, Cast: Jenny Seagrove, Vanessa Zima, (Vice President, International Distribution, Producer: David DeFalco Miramax International), Marc Bunag Cast: Costas Mandylor, Kathleen Kinmont, Erinn Bartlett Stephi Lineburg, Victoria Davis Delivery Status: In Post-Production Three runaway girls hijack the car of a lost (Creative Director, Miramax International) Sasha Mitchell, Ice-T, Coolio, Tim Office: Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Thomerson The follow-up to the hit “100 Girls.” Art Englishwoman and begin the adventure of a student Sam can make 99 of the girls in the lifetime. Featured Selection at the Santa Suite 831 Delivery Status: Completed. SPY KIDS 2 Budget: $4 million women’s residence laugh, but he can’t make Barbara and the Palm Springs film festivals. the girl he loves smile. THE BIG DAY Delivery Status: In Pre-Production In 2005, three heroes battle to free a scien- Action Adventure tist in a plague-ridden, post-apocalyptic city GET GIRL Romantic Comedy Comedy Director: Ian McCrudden Language: English controlled by an evil gang and ruled by the Director: Robert Rodriguez malevolent Lucifer. Director: Shane Edelman Producer: Forrest Murray, Andy Buckley, Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Terence Producer: Elizabeth Avellan REDEMPTION Nancy Banks Michael, Yitzhak Ginsberg, Richard Cast: Julianna Margulies, Ivan Sergei, Cast: TBD Drama The sequel to “Spy Kids.” Finney Dixie Carter, Alanna Ubach Language: English Cast: Jesse Bradford, Mia Kirshner, Adam JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE Sara and John’s big wedding day inspires a Director: Art Camacho Goldberg, Marissa Ribisi, David BACK small confession leading to a big misunder- Producer: David DeFalco Krumholtz, Giovanni Ribisi Comedy standing ending in a stolen car, newspaper Cast: Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Chris Delivery Status: In Post-Production headlines, and too much truth being told. Language: English Penn, Cynthia Rothrock, Carrie Stevens A young man, reunited with his childhood OUT OF LINE Director: Kevin Smith Delivery Status: Post production crush, is determined to make her fall in love Thriller Producer: Scott Mosier Budget: $3 million Director: Johanna Demetrakas with him. Cast: Shannon Elizabeth, George Carlin, A bank robbery forces an ex-cop to choose MONSTERMAN Producer: Carole Curb Nemoy, Mike Curb, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Jason Lee, a path of greed and evil or...redemption! Harvey Kahn, Jonas Goodman Horror Jason Biggs, Will Ferrell, Judd Nelson, POINT DOOM Producers: Yitzhak Ginsberg, Ehud Cast: Jennifer Beals, Holt McCallany, Tracy Morgan Action-adventure (100 minutes) Michael Moriarty Bleiberg Delivery Status: In Pre-Production Language: English Delivery Status: In Pre-Production A young female parole officer falls in love From the director of “Clerks,” “Chasing Director: Art Camacho with tough ex-con putting both their lives in An ancient sin causes a threat to a modern Amy” and “Dogma,” comes the new come- Producer: David DeFalco city, jeopardizing its inhabitants. jeopardy. In this dangerous game of love, dy for the summer of 2001. Cast: Richard Grieco, Ice T, Angie he has an old score to settle and she has to CAPITAL KIDS THE ACCIDENTAL SPY Everhart, Andrew Dice Clay, Jennifer Family Comedy keep it a little above the law. Comedy/Martial Arts/Action Adventure O’Dell MEXICO CITY Director: Michael Addis Language: Chinese Delivery Status: Completed Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Yitzhak Thriller Director: Teddy Chin Budget: $3 million Director: Richard Shepard Ginsberg, Terence Michael, Richard Producers: Jackie Chan, Willie Chan A Hollywood talent agent falls into a love Finney Producer: Carole Curb Nemoy, Mike Curb, Cast: Jackie Chan triangle with a beautiful woman who thrusts Jonathan Stern Delivery Status: In Post-Production Cast (Current Offer): Darrell Hammond him into the world of strip clubs, drugs and (“Saturday Night Live”) Cast: Stacy Edwards, Johnny Zander, The biggest budget actioner to ever come out deadly motorcycle gangs. Delivery Status: In Pre-Production Robert Patrick of Hong Kong! Martial arts superstar Jackie WHATEVER IT TAKES From the director of Oxygen. Knowing no Chan stars as an exercise equipment salesman Action-Adventure (98 minutes) A comedy of errors about four kids who one in Mexico but a helpful ex-con taxi who is led into believing that he is the long Language: English manage to turn the White House and the driver, Mitch (Stacy Edwards) sets off to lost son of a wealthy Korean businessman. Director: Brady Makenzie country upside. search for her missing brother in one the SCARY MOVIE 2 Producer: David DeFalco 100 GIRLS most dangerous cities in the world. Comedy/Horror Parody Cast: Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Andrew Sexy Teen Comedy STRAIGHT RIGHT Language: English “Dice” Clay, Fred “The Hammer” Director: Michael Davis Action Director: Keenan Ivory Wayans Williamson Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Terence Director: P. David Ebersole Producers: TBD Delivery Status: Completed Michael, Yitzhak Ginsberg, Richard Producer: Maricel Pagulayan, Chris Cast: TBD Budget: $2 million Finney Donahue, and Brent Smith Delivery Status: In Pre-Production A cop battles his own demons as he and his Writer: Michael Davis Cast: Brent Smith, Lynn Evans, Zeke Sequel to the worldwide mega-hit “Scary partner go undercover to expose the illegal Cast: Jonathan Tucker (“The Virgin Rippy, Mickey Cottrell, and Mary Movie,” which has scared-up $275 Million traffic of steroid use in the uncompromising Suicides,” “Sleepers”), Larisa Oleynik Woronov. to date. world of bodybuilding. (“Ten Things I Hate About You”), Jaime What makes a man fight? Is it his anger or EQUILIBRIUM GANGLAND II: THE ORIGIN Pressly (TV’s “Jack and Jill”), Katherine his passion? Up-and-coming boxer, Caleb Sci-Fi Action-Adventure Heigl (TV’s “Roswell,” “My Father The Johnson, struggles with his dark secrets Language: English Language: English Hero”), Emmanuelle Chriqui (“Snow while fighting to become a boxing champi- Director: Kurt Wimmer Director: TBD Day,” “AI”), Marissa Ribisi (“True on. Producers: Jan De Bont, Lucas Foster Producer: David DeFalco Crime,” “Dazed and Confused”) Cast: Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Taye Cast: TBD Delivery Status: Completed Diggs, Sean Bean, Angus MacFayden, and Delivery Status: In Development A college freshman meets his dream girl William Fichtner Events leading up to the apocalypse of 2005 during a blackout and must find his mystery Delivery Status: In Post-Production and the rise of cities controlled by an evil gang. girl amongst 100 young female suspects. Militaristic police and the emotion-killing SUPER MAX Website: www.100girls.net E-mail: drug called Librium rule the futuristic city Drama MORE DOGS THAN BONES of Libria. After elite officer John Preston Language: English Dark Comedy stops taking the drug, his emotions surge Director: TBD Director: Michael Browning elspeth@, back to life. Producer: David DeFalco Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Yitzhak IMPOSTOR Cast: TBD Ginsberg, Brittany Taylor, Miriam Leffert Sci-Fi Thriller Delivery Status: In Development Cast: John Mantegna (“The Rat Pack,” betsy@ Language: English A former Mafia hit-man is recruited by the “Celebrity”), Peter Coyote (“Bitter Director: Gary Fleder FBI to take down the head of the mob. Moon”), Mercedes Ruehl (“The Fisher Producers: Daniel Lupi, Marty Katz BACKLOT MURDERS King”), Whoopi Goldberg (“Ghost”), Debi or angela@ Cast: Gary Sinese, Madeline Stowe, Vincent Horror Mazar (“Goodfellas,” “She’s So Lovely”), D’Onofrio, Tony Shalhoub, Mekhi Phifer Language: English Paul Hipp (“Midnight In The Garden Of Delivery Status: Completed Director: TBD Good And Evil”) thebusinessoffilm.com An average, unsuspecting family man is Producer: David DeFalco Delivery Status: Completed accused of being an alien robot spy and Cast: TBD A series of mishaps and misfortunes over a must prove his innocence before he is hunt- Delivery Status: In Development bag of a million dollars cash leads to mur- ed down and eliminated by the government. A killer stalks a Hollywood studio back lot. der, mayhem and greed upon greed.

VALERIE FLAKE BYE BYE BABYLON L’AUTRE MONDE Drama EUROPEAN FILM Road movie (80 min) Drama Director: John Putch PROMOTION Language: French Language: French / Arab Producer: Julie Philips European Film Promotion, Friedensallee Director: Rapha’l Frydman Director: Merzak Allouache Cast: Susan Traylor (“Bastard Out Of 14 16, 22765 Hamburg, Germany. Tel: Producer: Francois Cuel / CLP Productions Producer: Christian Tison / Lancelot Films Carolina,” “A River Runs Through It”), 49.40.3906252. Fax 49.40.3906249. E- Cast: Isild Le Besco, Emmanuel Delivery Status: Postproduction Jay Underwood (“Afterglow,” “Possums”) mail: [email protected]. Website: Faventines SANSARA Delivery Status: Completed Romantic drama A powerful portrait of a contemporary www: efp.online-dienst.de Delivery Status: Post-production Company Type: Promotion Network Language: French young, American woman coping with the Anouk, 16, instantly falls in love with a Director: Siegfried death of her husband. At AFM: Jo Muhlberger (Project stranger. She follows him to the airport and Producer: Jean Cazes / Initial Productions 30, STILL SINGLE Manager), Liz Law (Project Assistant) witnesses his sudden and intriguing depar- Cast: Roschdy Zem, Marie Trintignant, Sexy Comedy Office: 758 (main) & 759 ture for Brazil. Anouk tries to understand... Emma Suarez Director: Greg Lanesey DE L’HISTOIRE ANCIENNE Delivery Status: In production Producers: Matt Radecki, Greg Lanesey Drama (121 min) Cast: Christopher May, Terry Gatens, Jill F FFF Language: French Zimmerman Director: Orso Miret FIREWORKS Delivery Status: Completed A hilarious tale Producer: Nathalie Mesuret / Sunday about a modern man searching for his PICTURES dream woman in Los Angeles. Website: FILMS Morning Productions Fireworks Pictures, 421 South Beverly www.30stillsingle.com Cast: Yann Goven, Olivier Gourmet, Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA. Tel: DISTRIBUTION Brigitte Catillon 310.789.4700. Fax: 310.789.4747. E-mail: Films Distribution, 6 rue de l’Ecole de Delivery Status: Completed [email protected] E EEE M_decine, Paris, 75006, France. Tel: An old man dies; a former French Company Type: Distribution and Production 33.1.53.10.33.99. Fax: 33.1.53.10.33.98. Resistance fighter. Although they want to At AFM: Daniel Diamond (President), E-mail: [email protected]. minimise the consequences of his death, his Maura T. Hoy (Director of International EUROCINE Website: www.filmsdistribution.com three children find themselves faced with a Sales), Pamela Delaney (Director of Eurocine, 33, Av. Champs Elysees, 75008 Company Type: Sales agent symbolic legacy that is particularly difficult Business and Legal Affairs), Bob Aaronson Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.42256492. Fax: At AFM: Nicolas Brigaud-Robert (Chief to bear. (VP of Acquisitions & Co-Productions), 33.1.42257338. E-mail: executive Officer), Nicolas Brigaud-Robert GREGOIRE MOULIN CONTRE Jay Firestone (Chairman, CanWest Entertainment), Adam Haight (President, [email protected]. Website: www Office: 611, Tel: 310.576.7055, cell: L’HUMANITE eurocine.net Comedy Fireworks Entertainment) 33.6.15.39.13.07 Office: Room 853, Tel: 310.576.7405. At AFM: Daniel Lesoeur (Chairman), Language: French Ilona Kunesova (Head HAIR UNDER THE ROSES Fax: 310.576.7506 Comedy (85 min) Director: Artus de Penguern RAT RACE Acquisition/Development), Michelle Producer: Cyril Colbeau-Justin / LGM Magnan (Sales) French Comedy Office: 617, Tel: 310.576.7055 Director: Agnes Obadia & Jean-Julien PRODUCTIONS Language: English SADE’S EUGENIA Chervier Delivery Status: In production Director: Jerry Zucker Horror (90 min) Producer: Laurent Benegui / Magouric WOLVES IN THE SNOW Producer: Jerry Zucker, Janet Zucker, Sean Language: English Productions Thriller Daniel, Jim Jack Director: Jess Franco Cast: Julie Durand, Alexis Roucout, Alice Language: French Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, John Cleese, Producer: Eurocine / JK Films Houri, Nicolas Duvauchelle Director: Michel Neltervin Rowan Atkinson, Kathy Bates, Cuba Cast: Susan Korda, Andre Montcall, Alice Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Eric Porcher / Alterego Gooding Jr., Seth Green, Jon Lovitz, Amy Arno Productions Smart, Breckin Meyer, Paul Rodriguez Delivery Status: completed Roudoudou, 14, is deeply in love. She Delivery Status: Post Production (Promo Reel) makes a secret wish: to have big tits like her csJean-Philippe Ecoffey, Marie-Jos_ Croze Part 1 of “De Sade’s Collection.” Eugenia Delivery Status: Post-production A band of hapless misfits competes with and her father plan to commit together a mother. But it’s half a success... each other in a hilarious scramble to be the ONCE WE GROW UP A woman finds that her husband has been perfect crime. cheating on her and what starts as a domes- first to recover $2 million from a Silver City Comedy (102 min) JUSTINE DE SADE tic squabble soon becomes crueler and more train station locker. Horror (90 min) HARDBALL Language: French violent. Director: Claude Pierson Director: Renaud Cohen Comedy Producer: Pierson TU NE MARCHERAS JAMAIS SEUL Language: English Producer: Laurent Lavole / Gloria Films Drama Productions/ICAR/CITEL Cast: Mathieu Demy, Amira Casar, Director: Brian Robbins Cast: Alice Arno, Yves Arcanel, Georges Language: French Producer: Michael Tollin, Herbert W. Gains Maurice Benichou, Louise Benazeraf Director: Gilles Chevalier Beauvillier Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane Delivery Status: completed Producer: Guy Marignane / Leo & Delivery Status: Post production (Promo Reel) Part 2 of “De Sade’s Collection.” A young At thirty, Simon is juggling with life and its Compagnie A down-and-out gambler and ticket scalper gets orphan, Justine, is maltreated along all the problems. When he meets Claire, a pregnant Cast: Jean-Clement Doukaga, Maud Forget a chance to redeem himself when he coaches a meetings in her life, opposite to her sister neighbour neglected by her husband, his life Delivery Status: In production rag-tag baseball team from the projects. Juliette. takes an unexpected turn. NUAGES CLETIS TOUT Documentary Romantic Comedy (98 minutes) Language: French Language: English THE BUSINESS OF FILM - Los Angeles Office Director: Marion Hansel Director: Chris Ver Wiel Producer: Marion Hansel / Man’s Films Producer: Dan Grodnik, Matt Grimaldi, Delivery Status: Postproduction Robert Snukal 5150 Wilshire Blvd. TRANSBRESIL Cast: Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfus, Portia de Rossi, RuPaul, Billy Connolly Los Angeles, California 90036 Musical and Tim Allen Language: French Delivery Status: Complete (Screening AFM) Director: Sophie Tati Two thieves set out to recover diamonds L.A. Office Phone (323) 935-8228 Producer: Sophie Tati / Specta Films from an old heist but go on the run when Delivery Status: Preproduction one is mistaken for a murdered journalist.

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MONEY FOR NOTHING DRIVEN (F.K.A. “CHAMPS”) Cast: Dominique Swain Director: Renny Harlin Director: Andy Fickman Producers: Elie Samaha, Sylvester PRODUCT Producer: Verna Harrah, Elie Samaha, Stallone, Renny Harlin Andrew Stevens Executive Producers: Andrew Stevens, Delivery Status: Principal Photography Don Carmody, Andrew Kramer SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT April 2001 Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, An adopted seventeen year old learns that Kip Pardue, Stacy Edwards, Til Schweiger, his real parents have died a tragic yet comi- Gina Gershon, Estella Warren cal death and left him the fortune to a play- After a tragic racing accident, a disenchant- AFM 2001 boy-like magazine and it’s empire. ed race car driver is lured back to the tracks SPAM ON RYE to help a younger racer become world Director: Penelope Spheeris champion. Producers: Demitri Samaha, Elie Samaha Cast: Tba CITY BY THE SEA Delivery Status: Principal Photography Director: Michael Caton-Jones Starts May 1st, 2001 Producers: Matt Baer, Elie Samaha, After ‘borrowing’ a valet car to impress his Andrew Stevens date, a young man’s evening on the town Executive Producers: Robert Paradiso, Don results in a car-jacking, a kidnapping, and a Carmody televised car chase through the streets of Cast: Robert De Niro; Frances L.A. With a mob boss, two crooked cops Mcdormand; Eliza Dushku and a shotgun-wielding movie producer Delivery status: post - production licking his heels. The son of a convicted killer, now a respect- A SOUND OF THUNDER ed detective, must bring in his own son on Producers: Elie Samaha, Howard Baldwin, suspicion of murder. Karen Baldwin, Andrew Stevens HEIST Executive Producer: Stuart Benjamin, Director / Writer: David Mamet Nicolas Clermont, Don Carmody Producers: Art Linson, Elie Samaha, Director: Renny Harlin Andrew Stevens Cast: Pierce Brosnan Executive Producer: Don Carmody Delivery status: pre-production – start prin- Cast: Gene Hackman, Danny Devito, cipal photography may 2001 Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell A tourist, on a time-travel safari to hunt dinosaurs in the Jurassic age, accidentally Three expert jewel thieves pull off a grand steps off the marked path and changes the heist. After they repeatedly double-cross course of evolution. eachother only one will finally survive to AVENGING ANGELO keep the entire take. Director: Martyn Burke ANGEL EYES Producers: Elie Samaha, Stanley Wilson, Director: Luis Mandoki Andrew Stevens Producers: Elie Samaha, Mark Canton Executive Producer: Don Carmody Executive Producers: Andrew Stevens, Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Madeline Stowe Don Carmody Delivery status: start principal photography Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Jim Caviezel april 15 2001 Jennifer Lopez plays a daring policewoman When an Italian Mafia don dies, his body- in this romantic thriller set against the back- guard pledges to take care of his daughter. drop of Chicago’s high crime district. ECKS VS. SEVER 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND Director: Kaos Director: Demian Lichtenstein Producers: Elie Samaha, Chris Lee, Producers: Elie Samaha,Richard Spero, Andrew Stevens Demian Lichtenstein, Eric Manes Executive Producers: Don Carmody, Executive Producers: Andrew Stevens, Tracee Stanley Don Carmody, Tracee Stanley PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 Cast: Antonio Banderas Delivery status: pre-production Cast: Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney The Cats Meow, AVAILABLE FROM Lions Gate Films Two agents, each trained by a different gov- Cox, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollak, David ernment “special forces” operation, must Arquette, Jon Lovitz, Howie Long face each other and fight to the death. A gritty heist tale centering on a gang of ex- PSYCHIC cons who rob a Las Vegas casino during INTERSTATE 60 THE BELIEVER Director: Charley Stadler Elvis convention week. Comedy/Fantasy/Adventure Drama Producers: Devesh Chetty, Tag Mendillo GREEN DRAGON Language: English Language: English Exec. Producers: Elie Samaha, Andrew Directors: Tim Bui Director: Bob Gale Director: Henry Bean Stevens Producers: Elie Samaha, Andrew Stevens, Producer: Neil Canton Producers: Susan Hoffman, Christopher Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr. Tony Bui, Tajamika Paxton Cast: James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Harvey Roberts (please add) Delivery status: pre-production Executive Producer: Forest Whitaker, Keitel, Kurt Russell, Michael J. Fox, Amy Cast: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, A man tormented by psychic visions Alison Semenza Smart, Christopher Lloyd, Amy Jo Johnson Billy Zane, Theresa Russell becomes the key in helping the FBI solve a Cast: Forest Whitaker, Patrick Swayze Delivery Status: Complete (Screening AFM) Delivery Status: Complete series of violent crimes. When a young man takes a mysterious jour- Set in California in 1975, two young Based on a true story, this is the tale of a ZIGZAG Vietnamese children are sent to live in the ney down a highway that doesn’t exist, his Director: David Goyer life is changed forever. fervent religious student who becomes an orientation camp at the camp Pendleton AMERICAN RHAPSODY anti-Semitic neo-nazi, until the contradic- Producers: Elie Samaha, Andrew Stevens, marine base. Drama (103 Minutes) tions of his life destroy him. Tracee Stanley CAVEMAN’S VALENTINE Language: English/Hungarian Delivery status: in production Director: Kasi Lemmons Country: US/Hungary With the help of his counselor a young boy Producers: Danny Devito, Michael Director: Eva Gardos FRANCHISE tries to return the money he has stolen from his employers to appease his father. Shamberg, Stacy Sher, Scott Frank, Elie Producer: Colleen Camp, Bonnie PICTURES Samaha, Andrew Stevens Timmerman Franchise Pictures, 8228 Sunset Blvd., PLAN B Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Scarlett Johansson, Director: Greg Yaitanes Executive Producers: Samuel L. Jackson, Tony Goldwyn Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel: 323- Producers: Matt Sallinger, Steven Hoffman Julie Yorn, Elie Selden, Nicolas Clermont Delivery Status: Complete 848-3444. Fax: 323-822-2165 Executive Producers: Elie Samaha, Cast: Samuel L. Jackson Based on a true story, this moving and epic At AFM: Elie Samaha (Chairman),Andrew Andrew Stevens A mysterious homeless man living in drama unfolds against a backdrop of politi- Stevens (President, C.O.O.),Lisa Wilson Cast: Diane Keaton, Paul Sorvino Central Park, who was himself once a mem- cal turmoil and personal rebellion as a fam- (President, International Distribution), Lori Delivery status: premiere screening ber of the elite, aids New York police in ily searches for its identity. Drazen (President, Worlwide Marketing), A female bookkeeper who works for a apprehending the “society” murderer of a A SHOT AT GLORY (AKA “THE Richard Novey (V.P. Administration), small-time gangster thinks she killed three young boy. CUP”) mobsters and is subsequently promoted by Drama (114 Minutes) Nolan Pielak (International Distribution) IVA LAS NOWHERE Language: English Office: Loews Hotel – Suites her boss to be a “hitman.” Cast: Daniel Stern, James Caan, Patricia Country: UK 534/536/537/539, Tel: 310.576.7343 RENNIE’S LANDING Richardson Director: Michael Corrente DOLAN’S CADILLAC Director: Marc Fusco Producers: Demitri Samaha, Tracee Producer: Robert Duvall, Rob Carliner, Director: Stacey Title Cast: Peter Facinelli, Charlotte Ayanna, Stanley, Josh Miller Michael Corrente Ethan Embry, Scott Foley Producer: Paula Wagner & Tom Cruise Producers: Michel Shane, Michael Garrity, Executive Producers: Elie Samaha, Cast: Robert Duvall, Ally McCoist, Cole Andrew Stevens Hauser, Brian Cox, Kirsty Mitchell, Cast: Kevin Bacon, Sylvester Stallone Mike Gabrawy And Tony Romano Morag Hood Delivery Status: principal photography Delivery status: premiere screening Director: Jason Bloom Delivery Status: Complete starts may 2001 To recapture the idealistic spirit from their The mundane life of the owner of a failing A soccer team from a small fishing village Ahen an innocent woman witnesses a mob college days, four friends reunite and defy motel in middle America is turned upside must win the Scottish Cup against all odds hit and is murdered to protect a local boss, “the system” by planning a bank robbery down by a femme fatale lounge singer and or be sold to Ireland. her husband exacts revenge. and becoming modern day “robin hoods.” her abusive manager.

THE PLEDGE THE NEW ADVENTURES OF METTERNICH HAUNTED SUBMARINE Director: Sean Penn PINOCCHIO Drama Horror Producers: Michael Fitzgerald, Elie Family Language: English Language: English Samaha, Sean Penn Language: English Delivery Status: Pre-Production Director: TBA Executive Producer: Andrew Stevens Director: Michael Anderson Producers: Dr. Dirk Scharrer Producer: TBA Cast: Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro, Producers: Raju Patel, Jeffrey M. Sneller, Director: Luc Bondy Cast: TBA Aaron Eckhart, Costas Mandylor, Helen Harold Reichebner, Knut Boeser Cast: Jason Isaacs, Klaus Maria Brandauer The legendary Austrian prime minister must Delivery Status: Pre-production Mirren, Michael O’keefe, Vanessa Cast: Martin Landeau, Udo Kier Delivery Status: Completed use all his wits and cunning to defeat Deep sea treasure hunters stumble upon a Redgrave, Mickey Rourke, Sam Shepard, Sequel to “The Adventures Of Pinocchio”; Napoleon Bonaparte and bring peace to submarine of deadly ghosts. Harry Dean Stanton, Robin Wright Penn An evil spell casts both Pinocchio and war-torn Europe. KILLJOY The retiring police chief of a small mid- Geppetto into wooden puppets. NEW YORK DREAM Horror western town becomes obsessed with the L.A.P.D. TO PROTECT TO SERVE Thriller Language: English recent murder of a little girl and makes a Action/Thriller Language: English Director: Craig Ross solemn oath to her mother that he will catch Language: English Director: Paul Lynch Producer: Mel Johnson the killer. Director: Ed Anders Producers: Jean Marc Felio Cast: Angel Vargas, Vera Yell, Lee Marks ANIMAL FACTORY Producers: Maurice Smith Cast: Natacha Henstridge, James Belushi, Delivery Status: Completed Director: Steve Buscemi Cast: Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper, Michael Ironside, Elias Koteas, Michael A ghastly figure is killing off the bad guys. Producers: Elie Samaha, Julie Yorn And Charles Durning Moriarty, Christopher Plummer A beautiful high school student, Jada will Andrew Stevens, Steve Buscemi Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Pre-Production LA’s Finest have crossed the line between soon come face-to-face with the killer Executive Producers: Allan Cohen, Barry A classic tale of good versus evil brought to clown known as KILLJOY. Cohen, Danny Trejo cop and criminal in this explosive action modern day Manhattan. thriller based on a hard hitting and gut ALIEN AGENT PUPPETMASTER VS. DEMONIC Cast: Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, TOYS Steve Buscemi, John Heard, Mickey wrenching true story of the Los Angeles Sci-Fi police department’s battle with corruption. Language: English Horror Rourke, Tom Arnold, Danny Trejo, FATAL BLADE Language: English Seymour Cassel Delivery Status: Pre-Production Action Adventure An unstoppable alien warrior collides in a Director: TBD A young man wrongly sent to prison learns Language: English Producer: Gary Schmoeller the ropes of racial division, violence and titanic battle with an assassin from beyond Director: Talun Hsu Cast: TBD how to stay alive. the stars. Earth is the arena and the fate of Producers: Simon Tse the world hangs in the balance. Delivery Status: Pre-production AUGGIE ROSE Delivery Status: Completed Director: Matthew Tabak RAY BRADBURY’S FROST & FIRE New puppets for the “Puppetmaster” series Cast: Gary Daniels, Kiyoshi Nakajo, Eric Sci-Fi Action/Adventure Producers: Dan Stone, Matt Rhodes, Lutes and new Demonic Toys and dolls come to East meets west as the Japanese Yakuza bat- Language: English life again for a new type of terror. Andrew Stevens, Elie Samaha Director: Buz Alexander Executive Producers: Jeremiah Samuels, tle drug lords and the Lapd in the streets of HORRORVISION Los Angeles. Delivery Status: Pre-Production Horror Mark Mcgarry Space travelers crash land on a distant plan- Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Anne Heche, Nancy THE MICHIGANDERS Language: English Comedy et where days are consumed in a curtain of Director: Danny Draven Travis, Timothy Olyphant flame and the nights a frozen wasteland. A stranger dies in a man’s arms and the Language: English Producer: J.R. Bookwalter Director: Michael Zelnicker Compounding their misery, radiation has Cast: Jake Leonard, Maggie Fleck, Josh man, first motivated by compassion, then compressed the human life span to only Producers: Joanne Reay Covitt curiosity, then obsession, assumes the dead Cast: Thomas Jane, Olivia D’abo seven days. man’s identity. THUMB Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Pre-Production A new website, called horrorvision.com is THINGS YOU CAN TELL JUST BY A wacky slice of life set in the Midwest, this Live Action Adventure LOOKING AT HER poignant, sexy comedy is a cross between Language: English really a portal to a 3-D hell. Director: Rodrigo Garcia Magnolia and Fargo. Producers: Raju Patel STITCHES Producer: Jon Avnet 400 BOYS Delivery Status: Pre-Production Horror Executive Producers: Elie Samaha And Sci-Fi Adventure From the producer of jungle book (Disney) Language: English Andrew Stevens Language: English and Pinocchio (New Line) comes the fast- Director: Neal Stevens Cast: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Director: Alastair Paton paced fairy tale, full of dark wit, mind blow- Producer: J.R. Bookwalter Flockhart, Holly Hunter, Kathy Baker, Producers: Alastair Paton, Rosanne ing images and a pint sized hero with a Cast: Elizabeth Ince, Debra Mayer, Lindy Amy Brenneman, Gregory Hines Milliken, Aldo Tirelli cocky attitude. Bryant A dramatic and gripping anthology about Cast: Debbie Harry, Carly Pope, Will Delivery Status: Completed the lives of six women living in the San Sasso FULL MOON Combining the body parts and skin from her Delivery Status: Pre-Production victims, a wicked sorceress “stitches” Fernando valley in California which con- Pavia is a beautiful young cyberpunk with fronts the very real issues for women in the INTERNATIONAL together her immortal and demented sub- an invention that could change the world. Full Moon International, 1645 N. Vine world today. But praxis, a tyrannical wheelchair bound jects. Credits not contractual Street, 9th Floor, Hollywood, CA 90028 woman who runs extremely profitable...and USA. Tel: 323.468.0599. Fax: WITCHOUSE II violent...sporting events, will stop at noth- 323.468.0598. E-mail: eshields@fullmoo- Horror FRIES FILM GROUP, ing to control her and her machine. nuniverse.com Language: English 12 BUCKS Company Type: Selling international Director: J.R. Bookwalter INC. Dramatic Adventure rights, buying domestic video and interna- Producer: Vlad Paunescu & Gary Fries Film Group, Inc, 22817 Ventura Language: English tional video & TV rights. Schmoeller Blvd. #909, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 Director: Wayne Isham At AFM: Ed Shields (Vice President, Cast: Ariauna Albright, Elizabeth Hobgood USA.Tel: 818.888.3052. Fax: Producers: Cassidy Phillips, Elise Pritcher, International Sales), Christopher Shaw Nicholas Lanier (Director International Services) 818.888.3042. E-mail: Sean Graham, Scott Waugh Delivery Status: Completed Cast: David Faustino, Ernest Borgnine, Office: #856 Tel: 310.458.6700 extension [email protected] Waiting to extract her revenge, it’s time to At AFM: Charles M. Fries (President), David Chokachi #856 Fax: 323.468.0598 Gregory Stuart (VP, Worldwide Sales) Delivery Status: Completed THE VAULT return to the evil house where 300 years ear- Office: Topanga Suite 7th Floor, Tel: Two young brothers are separated by the Horror lier a witch was brutally tortured and killed. 310.576.7555. Fax: 310.576.7556. state when 6 year-old tanner shoots his vio- Language: English PRISON OF THE DEAD lently abusive parents. 15 years later, they Director: James Black Horror THE PEARL Producer: J.R. Bookwalter Drama are reunited on a cross country journey that Language: English goes from bad to worse. Cast: Michael Davis, Shani Pride Ted Lynn Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Director: Victoria Sloan Producers: Alfred M. Zacharias BANDIDOS Students mistakenly free evil spirits and Producer: Vlad Paunescu Director: Alfred Zacharias Thriller their school becomes a prison. Cast: Patrick Flood, Jeff Peterson, Samuel Cast: Richard Harris, Lukas Haas Language: English DEMONICUS Page Delivery Status: Post Production Director: Roger Christian Horror Delivery Status: In Production Kino, the young pearl diver, discovers an Cast: Gina Gershon, Joe Mantegna, Language: English During an Ouija Board séance, schoolmates invaluable pearl which becomes an obses- Madchen Amick, Eduardo Polomo Director: TBA Delivery Status: Pre-Production accidentally unearth three undead execu- sion for him and his entire community. Producer: TBA tioners from their grave. SINBAD: BEYOND THE VEIL OF Super thief Max Cruz must rescue a kid- Cast: TBA napped CIA operative who is held by a Delivery Status: Completed SIDESHOW THE MISTS Horror Animation Mexican crime lord in an impenetrable When an ancient, antique Roman gladiator THE SMILE OF A MURDERER is worn, the wearer becomes a gladiator, Language: English Language: English Thriller killing anyone they meet. Director: Evan Ricks, Alan Jacobs Director: Fred Olen Ray Language: English EVIL WRESTLING FEDERATION Producer: Gary Schmoeller Producers: Usha Ganesarajah, Sriram Director: Paul Lynch Horror Sundar Rajan Cast: Jamie Martz, Michael Amos, Scott Producers: Jean Marc Felio Language: English Clark Cast: Voices Of: Brendan Frasier, Leonard Cast: Deborah Unger, Gabriel Byrne Director: TBA Nimoy, Jennifer Hale, John Rhys-Davies, Producer: TBA Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Pre-Production While visiting a traveling carnival full of Mark Hamill When three recently paroled criminal Cast: TBA Delivery Status: Completed defendants of beautiful district attorney Delivery Status: Pre-production human freaks, high school classmates near- Sinbad undertakes a perilous voyage into Claire Watson are found brutally murdered, The Evil Wrestling Federation goes from ly join “Bug Boy” & “Inside-Out Girl” as uncharted waters to save a kingdom from a this sexy DA is suspected of vigilante jus- town to town acquiring new “dead” mem- permanent members of this hellish wizard’s evil spell. tice! bers from the towns’ living population. “Sideshow.”

FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 21 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE VOODOO ACADEMY REPLI-KATE GEMINI FILMS Horror Teen Comedy G GGG Gemini Films, 34 boulevard Sébastopol - Language: English Director: Frank Longo Director: Richard Chasen 75004 Paris, France. Tel: Producers: Warren Zide and Craig Perry 33.1.44.54.17.17. Fax: 33.1.44.54.17.25. Producer: Sky Sharp Cast: Ali Landry, James Roday, Eugene Cast: Riley Smith, Debra Mayer, Rhett Levy, Desmond Askew GAUMONT E-mail: [email protected] Jordan Delivery Status: Post-Production Gaumont, International Sales, 30 avenue Company Type: Producer, sales agent, dis- Delivery Status: Completed-Running A young lab assistant accidentally clones a Charles de Gaulle, 92200 Neuilly, France. tributor Time: 92 minutes drop-dead gorgeous woman, and then Tel: 331.4643.2000. Fax: 331.4643.2033. At AFM: Paulo Branco (Producer), A religious-college student must uncover molds her to become every man’s dream At AFM: Franck Chorot (President, Valentina Merli (Int’l Sales Manager) the truth about his school before he girl. Worldwide Marketing & Distribution), Office: UNIFRANCE Booth becomes a zombie. 2-11 (AKA HEIST) Philippe Rostain (President, International THE WOLF OF THE WEST COAST FRANKENSTEIN & THE Action Sales), Philippe de Chaisemartin (Senior Thriller WEREWOLF REBORN Director: Gerard Pires Vice-President, International Sales Feature Language: English Horror Producers: Claude Leger, Michael Cowan, Films), Loic Trocme (Director, Director: Hugo Santiago Language: English International Sales Feature Films) Producer: Paulo Branco (GEMINI FILMS) Director: Jeff Burr & Julian Breen Jason Piette, Eric Altmayer, Nicholas Altmayer Office: 647, Tel: 310.576.7475, Fax: Cast: William Hurt, Chiara Mastroianni Producer: Vlad Paunescu Delivery Status: Pre Production Scriptwriter: Benjamin Carr Cast: Stephen Dorff and Natasha 310.576.7446 Cast: Ben Gould, Jaason Simmons, Ashley Henstridge LE PLACARD (THE CLOSET) Budget: 6 M $ Cafagna Delivery Status: Pre-Production (Principal Comedy I’M GOING HOME Delivery Status: Completed-Running Photography starts April, 2001) Director: Francis Veber Dromedy Time: 92 minutes After a successful 20 million dollar bank Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Language: French Filmed on location in Transylvania, the clas- robbery, a thief who uses a combination of Thierry Lhermitte, Michele Laroque Director: Manoel de Oliveira sic stories of Frankenstein and The Werewolf extreme sports and street smarts finds him- Francois Pignon is an accountant in a big Producer: Paulo Branco (GEMINI FILMS) are combined are recounted for 2000. self on the run from the Mafia, his girlfriend company. He’s about to be fired, when a Cast: Michel Piccoli, Antoine Chappey, and a corrupt cop. rumor starts to go around that he’s gay. He Leonor Silveira and Catherine Deneuve & FUSION MEGALODON is not, but the rumor triumphs. John Malcovich Thriller LES RIVIERES POURPRES (THE Delivery Status: Post Production INTERNATIONAL Director: Gary J. Tunnicliffe CRIMSON RIVERS) THIS IS MY BODY Fusion International Sales Corp., 1551 Producers: Stanley Isaacs and Pat Corbitt Action Thriller Dromedy Ocean Avenue, #260, Santa Monica, CA Cast: Robin Sachs, Al Sapienza, Mark Language: French Sheppard Director: Mathieu Kassovitz 90401 USA. Tel: 310.260.6153. Fax: Cast: Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Director: Rodolphe MARCONI 310.260.6154. E-mail: Delivery Status: In Production Producer: Paulo Branco (GEMINI FILMS) Scientists aboard an arctic oil exploration Fares [email protected] Two separate criminal investigations. Two Cast: Jane Birkin, Louis Garrel, Elisabeth At AFM: John Fremes (President), Barbara submersible encounter the direct ancestor of Depardieu, Javitz (Creative and Business Affairs), the great white shark, supposedly extinct for very different cops. One secret. VATEL Delivery Status: Post Production Michael Cowan (Production), Brad Maeder fifty million years. ROSA (Executive Assistant) THE MACHINIST Historical Drama Language: Original English Version Musical drama Office: Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Action Language: Spanish Suite 862, 1700 Ocean Avenue, Santa Director: Steven Bratter Director: Roland Joffe Director: Valeria Sarmiento Monica, CA 90401, Tel: 310.576.7009 Producers: Steven Bratter and Faye Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, Producer: Madragoa Filmes (Portugal), DEAD IN THE WATER Schwab Tim Roth Gemini Films (France), ICAIC (Cuba), Thriller Cast: TBA Francois Vatel is the faithful and devoted Tornasol (Espagne) Director: Merlin Ward Delivery Status: Pre-Production servant of an ageing and ruined Prince of Delivery Status: Pre Production Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, Haunted by witnessing the brutal murder of Conde who is looking to regain the favours Merlin Ward ELECTROMENAGER his parents as a boy, a weapons engineer of the King Louis XIV and to take the com- Drama Cast: Michael Elphick, Sophie Ward, turns vigilante hitting the streets with his mand of military campaign against the Sophia Miles, Celia Imrie Language: French faithful Doberman in order to rid the city of Dutch. Director: Sylavain MONOD Delivery Status: In Production crime. A student is drawn into an affair with her LA VACHE ET LE PRESIDENT (A Producer: GEMINI FILMS (France) CRUSH DEPTH COW AND THE BOY) Cast: Eric Elmosnino, Camille Japy, Isaac professor at an all girls’ school, then he dis- Thriller appears. Comedy Sharry Director: Pat Corbitt Director: Philippe Muyl Delivery Status: Completed UNHINGED Producers: Stanley Isaacs and Pat Corbitt Thriller Cast: Bernard Yerles, Florence Pernel, Director: TBA Cast: TBA Mehdi Ortelsberg Producers: Jeff Burr Delivery Status: Pre-Production From Brittany to Paris, the funny and touch- GIANTS Cast: TBA A team of oceanographers joins forces with ing adventures of Romain, an obstinate the military when they discover an aban- ENTERTAINMENT, Delivery Status: Pre-Production farmer, Lucas, his 8 year-old son, and As a reality based television show goes ter- doned outpost in the depths of the Atlantic INC Ocean. Maeva, a very special cow whose life is at ribly wrong, the contestants begin to won- stake. Giants Entertainment, Inc, 5300 Melrose THE COLLECTOR Ave. # B202, Los Angeles, CA 90038 USA. der if the murderer is one of the survivors JUST VISITING (LES VISITEURS EN Thriller Tel: 323.960.4050. Fax: 323.960.4051. E- trying to win the $1,000,000 prize money or AMERIQUE) a homicidal maniac hiding in the surround- Director: TBA mail: [email protected]. ing woods. Producers: Lewis Chesler and David Comedy Website: www.reelplay.com/giantsenter- DARK SHADOWS Perlmutter Language: Original English Version tainment Thriller Cast: TBA Director: Jean-Marie Gaubert At AFM: David Dadon (Chairman), Lydia Director: TBA Delivery Status: Pre-Production Cast: Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Dadon (Exec.Producer), Udo N. von Tyrol, Producers: TBA When the Devil comes to Earth to collect a Christian Clavier, Tara Reid Tristram Buckly, Soheila Janoubi Cast: TBA debt from the US President, only a special- Just Visiting is a comedy about a heroic Office: 460, Tel: 310.576.6971, Fax: Delivery Status: Pre-Production ly ordained priest teamed with a beautiful knight from the Middle Ages, Thibault, and 310.576.6972 A best-selling author must race against time secret service agent can save him. his bumbling servant, Andre. VERY MEAN MEN to save his family as the horrific events he J’ai Faim (I’m Starving) Black Comedy, (97min) writes about in his books begin to come COMEDY Director: Tony Vitale Cast: Matthew true. Director: Florence Quentin Modine, Academy Award-winner Martin MUMMY QUEEN Cast: Catherine Jacob, Michele Laroque, Landau and Ben Gazzara Thriller Alessandra Martines, Yvan Le Bolloc’h To frighten a tip out of a cheap customer Director: TBA Producers: TBA THE BUSINESS OF Delivery Status: Post-Production (Landau), a clever bartender (Modine) spins Cast: TBA A little overweight, not enough love! Right a zany and terrifying tale of two notorious Delivery Status: Pre-Production after receiving an unexpected inheritance crime-families who go to war over a wait- When jewel thieves unwittingly release the FILM and celebrating with her boyfriend Barnabe, ress stiffed out of a tip. Mummy Queen from her crypt, she uses her Lily gets dumped. FACE TO FACE deadly powers in a relentless quest to bring LE RAID (THE RACE) Comedy Drama (95min) her evil agenda to fruition. Los Angeles Office Action Comedy Cast: Scott Baio, Carlo Imperato, Thomas FANGS Director: Djamel Bensalah Calabro Thriller Cast: Gerard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Three Italian-American cousins, vow to Director: TBA 5150 Wilshire Blvd. Helene de Fougerolles, Roschdy Zem close the emotional gap between them- Producers: TBA Delivery Status: Shooting starting April selves and their fathers. Cast: TBA 2001 BAD GUYS Delivery Status: Pre-Production Los Angeles I’M WITH LUCY Action Adventure (95min) When an over-eager biology student’s Romantic Comedy Cast: Michael Madsen, Bryan Genesse genetically engineered experiment escapes A D.E.A. agent is on assignment in a small from his lab, he must act quickly to stop the California 90036 Language: Original English version Director: Jonathan Sherman town to deal with a small drug problem. prehistoric snake before it devours all in the When the small problem unravels into a nearby town where his family and friends Delivery Status: Shooting starting in large situation nothing is as it seems and no live. Spring 2001 one can be trusted.

22 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE NEVER LOOK BACK BURNING KINGDOM PATHOLOGICAL GLOBAL CINEMA Action Adventure (95min) Horror Suspense Thriller Cast: Frank Zagarino, Charles Durning, Cast: Costas Mandylor, Louis Mandylor Delivery Status: In development GROUP Burt Young and Talisa Soto A father and son dead. A group of life long Global Cinema Group, 1007 Broxton Imprisoned for seven years following an Delivery Status: Pre-production friends under suspicion. A detective who Avenue, Suite 214 Los Angeles CA 90024 accidental death in the ring, innocent In a man’s search for immortality he acci- must expose a fanatical killer who has been USA. Tel: 310.443.7788. Fax: pugilist Donovan Wallace cuts a deal for dentally unleashes an uncontrollable demon plotting since childhood. A taut whodunit, 310.443.7739. E-mail: lschortz@global- early parole in order to visit his dying moth- from another dimension that can only be Pathological unravels as a web of deception cinemagroup.com er. Unbeknownst to Donovan however, he stopped by an ancient form of witchcraft. much in the vein of a Hitchcock classic. Company Type: Sales Agent is not being set free but rather, set up. in REVOLUTION NOW PHOENIX At AFM: Peter Elson (President), Linda order to see his mother one last time. Comedy Action Adventure OUTLAW Schortz (Executive Assistant) Cast: David Arquette, Lukas Haas and Delivery Status: In development Action Adventure (93min) A New York detective discovers a web of Office: 650, Tel: 310.576.7475, Fax: Cast: Michael Madsen, William Forsythe, Academy Award Winners Mira Sorvino 310.576.7476 and Anna Paquin political intrigue and a woman that can ruin Jeff Fahey, Cindy Ambuehl his career while investigating a murder. THE UNSAID A modern-day gunslinger is hired by a boy- Delivery Status: pre-production Thriller A delusional man is determined to bring JUSTICE hood friend to find his father’s killer. A clas- Action Adventure Language: English sic tale of murder, deceit and passion. down what he thinks is a corrupt govern- Delivery Status: In development Director: Tom McLoughlin IDES OF MARCH ment in Glendale, California. When ex-war-zone cameraman, Ron Producers: Tom Berry, Alex Campbell (co- Action Adventure (95min) INTO THE FLAMES Schmidt, gets fired from CNN and is forced producer) Cast: Gary Daniels, Michael Madsen Drama by circumstance to work for reality TV cop Cast: Andy Garcia, Teri Polo, Vincent International martial-arts expert stars with Cast: Academy Award Winner Mira show “Justice,” he realizes he’s in for a wild Kartheiser Michael Madsen in this tense thriller. Ex- Sorvino ride. Delivery Status: Post-Production S.A.S Agent, Thomas Kane (Daniels), lives Delivery Status: pre-production SONNY BOY a life considered the American dream, all Based on the autobiographical story of a A seemingly untroubled adolescent carries Drama disturbing secrets which compel a psychia- the while employed by a killer-for-hire young Polish woman, who saved 12 Jews Delivery Status: In development company called The Organization. during the Holocaust, by hiding them in the trist to unearth his patient’s gruesome past. Carlo Lucchetti, a respected Mafioso, is a YOU STUPID MAN DEAD MAN’S RUN basement of her employer: a high Nazi offi- survivor of the great Mafia wars of the early Suspense Thriller (95min) cial. 30’s. After rising to power through respect Romantic Comedy Cast: John Savage HOUSE RULES rather than fear, he had hoped that his only Language: English On their way home from a weekend in Las Comedy) son would one day take over the empire he Director: Brian Burns Vegas, two couples are kidnapped by a psy- Director: Blake Edwards built. But Sonny Boy had different plans. Producers: Tom Berry, Alex Campbell, chotic killer. Carrying a duffel bag filled Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, MURDER.COM George Gatins, Cathy Schulman, Rick with five million dollars and a shot-gun, the Jack Lemmon, and Joshua Jackson Action Adventure Yorn killer holds the couples hostage in a seclud- Delivery Status: pre-production Delivery Status: In development Cast: Milla Jovovich, Denise Richards, ed mountain cabin. Two cops unveil a twisted web of intrigue David Krumholtz STRIKE ZONE The residents of a rooming house in Atlantic City must come up with a large mortgage surrounding the kidnapping of a billion- Delivery Status: In Production Action Adventure (97min) aire’s daughter. Director/Writer: Chris Ingvordsen and payment or lose the house. One of the resi- After being dumped by his newly famous Matthew Howe dents had been a professional gambler in his NOCTURNE girlfriend, Owen reluctantly agrees to go on Producer: Chris Ingvordsen and Matthew Howe youth. So with high hopes, the residents Horror a blind date with the Maid-of-Honor in his Cast: Frank Zagarino, Billy Drago, Joe Lara pool the little money they have and send the Delivery Status: In development best friend’s wedding. An elite team of US Navy SEALS fights off former gambler into a casino to win the A group of musicians decide to incorporate THE FOURTH ANGEL a band of terrorists from obtaining a new mortgage. Renaissance music into their Rock and Roll, Thriller (95 minutes) but come to find that they have awakened deadly missile system. KILLING TIME Language: English SAVAGE SEASON Action Adventure Carlo Gesualdo: a Renaissance Composer Vampire. Director: John Irvin Action Adventure (95min) Delivery Status: In development Producers: Allan Scott, Peter Simpson Shot entirely in Digital Video and directed by In the shadow world that is the criminal FREEDOM BOAT Drama Cast: Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Jason world-renowned special effects and weapons underbelly of Los Angeles, there exists a Preistley expert, Mike Tristano, Savage Season is a Delivery Status: In development mysterious group of guns for hire that make Set in post-war Vietnam, Freedom Boat is Delivery Status: Completed heist film like no other. When an emerald themselves available to those who don’t heist goes wrong, a group of thieves find the story of a little girl who escapes her war- The Fourth Angel tells the story of Jack want to get their hands dirty. Brutal hit men torn country by raft only to be abducted by Elgin, a thoughtful and civilized man, who themselves on a mysterious island filled with of the highest caliber, this group works in deception and sexual freedom. Pirates and held captive on an island. After is driven to extremes he never imagined complete anonymity, even to those who a harrowing escape, the little girl is rescued after seeing his family gunned down in an ON DAY AND A PC have hired them. Comedy (95min) by an American vet who vows revenge on apparent terrorist attack. A man is convinced that his midlife crisis the island. CLOSE YOUR EYES would be remedied by a multi million-dol- MOTORCITY Thriller lar invention that is inside the hard drive of Action Adventure Language: English his computer. L.A. Office Phone Delivery Status: In development Director: Craig Rosenberg DON JUAN Only one man stands in the way of a Producers: Joel Michaels, Garth Drabinsky Adventure, Romance Comedy (323) 935-8228 Japanese crime organization and their plot to take over downtown Los Angeles. Cast: Yet to be determined Cast: Billy Zane Delivery Status: In Development Delivery Status: Pre-production LUCIANO AND DEWEY (STORY OF SPAIN- Don Juan- Based on the Spanish LUCKY LUCIANO) A romantic supernatural thriller about a play about the greatest lover of all time, L.A. Office FAX Thriller prominent mystery writer haunted by guilt Don Juan, who, after five years of romanc- Delivery Status: In development over the accidental death of her young son ing women, returns to his home to settle a Chronicles the events surrounding the life who is trying to warn her from the grave score with his archenemy - proving he has (323) 935-8229 of Lucky Luciano and his battles with New about a conspiracy being plotted by her ex- seduced more women than his rival. York District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. husband and her best friend.

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BRING ME THE HEAD OF MAVIS CRYSTAL FORTUNE RUN DAVIS Action/adventure (90 min) Comedy (99 min) Language: Chinese PRODUCT Language: English Director: Lee Kon Sang Director: John Henderson Producer: Chan Ping Ping Producer: Stephen Colegrave, Joanne Reay Cast: Simon Yam Tat Wah, Cheung Man, Cast: Rik Mayall, Jane Horrocks, Danny Aiello Anita Yuen SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT Delivery Status: completed (1997) Delivery Status: Completed Marty Starr manages a failing record compa- Budget: $5 million ny. His only hope of financial salvation lies in A hazardous adventure in pursuit of the turning former star Marla Dorland into a cult crystal fortune. AFM 2001 revival by organizing her untimely death. HERO AMONG HEROES CLOCKWATCHERS Martial Arts Comedy (96 min) Language: Chinese Language: English Director: Yuen Woo Ping, Chan Hsien Director: Jill Sprecher Chung Producer: Gina Resnick Producer: Chan Hsien Chung Cast: Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Cast: Donnie Yen Zi Dan, Yuen Kit Ying, Kudrow, Alanna Ubach Ng Man Tat Delivery Status: Completed (1997) Delivery Status: completed Four women find that the common bond of Budget: $6 million temping helps them to survive the ordeal of day to day work for a faceless corporation. A heroic story of one of the famous martial Their friendship is tested however as a petty artist in assisting the Ching government to office thief sets friend against friend. A ban opium. comedy for all office workers. ISLAND OF FIRE (THE PRISONER) Action/Adventure Language: Chinese GOLDEN SUN FILM Director: Chci Yen Ping CO LTD Producer: Ko Chun Hiang, Wong Yu Golden Sun Film Co Ltd, 4/F. 7B Dragon Cast: Jacky Chan, Sammo Hung, Andy House, 7-7B Cameron Rd., Tsimshatsui, Lau Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel: Delivery Status: Completed 852.2385.5939. Fax: 852.2368.3873. E- A story on a fatal mission as assigned to the mail: [email protected] prisoners gradually came up with mass At AFM: Tien Hong (LAN (President), killings and blood shed. Ketsarinh, LAN (Distribution Manager) THE NEW LEGEND OF SHAOLIN Office: 329, Tel: 310.458.6700 (ext. 329), Martial Arts (94 min) Fax: 310.458.6761 (Ext. 329) Language: Chinese FLYING DRAGON LEAPING TIGER Director: Wong Jing Martial Arts (100 min) Producer: Yeung Teng Kwei Language: Chinese Cast: Jet Li Lien Kit, Yau Suk Jing, Chu Director: Allan Lan Hoi Han Goh Leung Producer: Lan Tien Hong Delivery Status: completed Cast: Sammo Hung, Jay Leung Jing, Louis A story on the heroic deeds of Shaolin mas- Fan Siu Wong ters whose aim was to cease the ruling of Delivery Status: In production the Ching Dynasty towards setting up a new Budget: $5 million government. A horse thief, also a skillful martial artist HIGH RISK whose loyalty was torn between his bloody Action/Adventure (95 min) brother and his beloved wife. Language: Chinese PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 ANGEL COP “FINAL CRISIS” Director: Wong Jing Action/Adventure (92 min) Producer: Yeung Teng Kwei Language: Chinese Cast: Jet Li, Lien Kit, Jackie Cheung, Yau Casper Meets Wendy, AVAILABLE FROM Saban Director: Lam Pak Han Suk Jing Producer: Ma Yuk Sing Delivery Status: completed Cast: Elaine Ng, Wong Pui Har, Ng Ngai A massive search by a China cop towards a Cheung GOLDCREST FILMS A ROOM WITH A VIEW Delivery Status: In production killer after the assassination of his wife and Romantic Drama (117 min) Budget: $3 million son. INTERNATIONAL Language: English A fatal adventure between the angel cops Goldcrest Films International, 65-66 Dean Director: James Ivory and the terrorists in hunting the missing GOOD MACHINE Street, London W1D 4PL, United Producer: Ismail Merchant missiles. Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.437.8696. Fax: Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie TREASURE HUNTER INTERNATIONAL 44.207.437.4448. Smith, Denholm Elliot, Daniel Day Lewis Action/adventure (90 min) Good Machine International, 417 Canal At AFM: John Quested (Chairman, NY Status: completed (1985) Language: Chinese Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013 Office), Stephen Johnston (President Tells the story of a young English couple Director: John Cheung USA. Tel: 212.343.9230. Fax: Goldcrest Films Inc., LA Office), Paola who encounter passion in Italy and defy Producer: Tse Yuen 212.343.7412. Zingaro (VP of International Sales, London convention and their elders to be true to Cast: David Leung, Chin Kar Wah, Benny Lai At AFM: David Linde (President), Amy Office), Peter McRae (Chief Operating Budget: $5 million Kaufman (Vice President of Acquisitions Officer, London office), Chris Quested their feelings for each other. The heroic sea dragons contend with evil ter- ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN and Co-Productions), Glen Basner (Vice (Business Affairs Executive, London rorists for a cache of lethal computer crystals. President of Sales), Noreen Ward (Vice Animation (84 min) office) DRUNKEN MASTER III President of Operations), Heta Paarte Office: 466, Tel: 310.576.7033, Fax: Language: English Acton/adventure (92 min) (Director of Marketing), Iddo Arad 310.576.7034 Director: Don Bluth Language: Chinese (Manager of Contracts), Pauline Piechota LORD OF THE DANCE – THE Cast (Voices): Burt Reynolds, Dom De Director: Lau Kar Leung (Coordinator of Marketing) MOVIE Louise Producer: Chan Ping Ping Office: Suite 709, Tel: 310.576.7097, Fax: Drama (105 min – approx.) Classic feature animation from Don Bluth. Cast: Andy Lau Tak Wah, Lee Kar Yan, 310.576.7128 Director: Willi Patterson A dog from the wrong side of the tracks Simon Yam Tat Wah ADAPTATION Producer: Matt Mazer helps a young orphan girl find a home. A Delivery Status: completed Comedy Cast: Michael Flatley, Carmen Electra, musical comedy adventure for all ages. The legend on heroism and patriotism in serving their loyalty, to serving up a new Director: Spike Jonze Additional Cast TBA THE MISSION Producer: Vincent Landay, Jonathan Delivery Status: Pre-production (shooting Drama (125 min) government towards the downfall of the Ching Dynasty. Demme, Ed Saxon in England, Chicago and Ireland) Language: English Cast: Nicholas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Sean Cronin (Flatley) is driven by two pas- Director: Roland Joffe A TASTE OF KILLING & ROMANCE Action/adventure (90 min) Cooper sions. Returning to his roots in Ireland from Producer: David Puttnam America he seeks to restore the honour of Language: Chinesse Delivery Status: Pre-Production Cast: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Director: Chan Ching Yee The story of Charlie Kaufman (Cage), a his family name while striving to impose his Neeson own unique style of dancing on a country Producer: Anthony Feng confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed obsessed with tradition. Status: completed (1986) Cast: Andy Lau Tak Wah, Anita Yuen, by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustra- Deep in the jungles of South America two Christine Ng tion, self-loathing and by the screenwriting men bring civilization to a native tribe. Delivery Status: completed ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Product Listings — After years of struggle together they find Budget: $6 million Donald (also Cage), while struggling to [email protected] themselves on opposite sides in a dramatic A love story of the top assassin in a crime adapt “The Orchid Thief” a book by Susan fight for the natives’ independence. syndicate. Orlean (Streep).

THE BARBER MOVIE Drama, Film-Noir GOODTIMES Director: Joel Coen ENTERTAINMENT THE Producer: Ethan Coen GoodTimes Entertainment, 16 East 40th THETHE Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances Street, New York, NY 10016 USA. Tel: McDormand, James Gandolfini 212.951.3743. Fax: 212.679.6857. E-mail: Delivery Status: Post-Production [email protected] FREIGHTFREIGHT A suspenseful film-noir melodrama from At AFM: Andrew Greenberg (Vice FREIGHT the creators of “Fargo” and “Raising Chairman and CEO), Seth Willenson, Bill Arizona,” “The Barber Movie” tells the Sondheim (President ), Myriam Diaz story of Ed Crane, a barber living in a small (Director, International Sales & Operation) northern-Californian town in 1949, who is FORWARDERSFORWARDERS Office: 870, Tel: 310.576.7536, Fax: utterly dissatisfied with his life. BUFFALO SOLDIERS 310.576.7535 Drama Cindy Crawford: A New Dimension Director: Gregor Jordan Live Action Fitness (1 hour) YOUYOU CANCAN BANKBANK ON.ON. Producer: Rainer Grupe, Ariane Moody Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Ed A one-hour special, Cindy Crawford: A Harris New Dimension introduces a balanced Delivery Status: Production approach to fitness that combines a highly Based on the critically acclaimed novel, energizing exercise regime with innovative “Buffalo Soldiers” is a haunting look at the relaxation techniques. military at the end of the Cold War. MINI MUSCLES: A FITNESS IN THE BEDROOM ADVENTURE Drama Animated Activity/Fitness for children (1/2 Director: Todd Field hour) Producers: Graham Leder, Ross Katz, Todd Delivery Status: Completed Field Mini Muscles: A Fitness Adventure marks Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, the first fitness special designed exclusively Marisa Tomei for children. Colorful, imaginative and fun. Delivery Status: Post-Production Mini Muscles: A Fitness Adventure also An introspective drama, Todd Field’s “In the Bedroom” is a finely observed portrait brings children an extremely important of an upper-middle-class New England message: it is never too early to be thinking family faced with sudden tragedy. about physical fitness. Contact SESSION 9 POCAHONTAS: THE LEGEND Norman Bank Drama Drama(101 Minutes) Director: Brad Anderson Delivery Status: Completed Producer: David Collins Most came the New World seeking their Cast: Peter Mullen, Stephen Gevedon, Josh fortunes, but John Smith arrived in 1607 to Lucas, Brendan Sexton and Paul Guilfoyle embrace adventure in the wilderness of the Brad Anderson delivers a frightening exer- Americas. He founded more than he bar- ALL NATIONS cise in mood and tension as a crew of gained for. asbestos removal workers hurry to finish an abandoned insane asylum in order to receive their finishing bonus... but their own GREEN personal demons bubble up to the surface, COMMUNICATIONS FORWARDING up to the point where one of them snaps Green Communications, 303 N. Glenoaks completely in a thrilling conclusion. Blvd., Suite 605, Burbank, CA 91502 USA. UNTITLED Tel: 818.557.0050. Fax: 818.557.0056. E- Director: Todd Solondz mail: [email protected]. Website: CO. INC., Producers: Ted Hope, Christine Vachon Cast: James Van Der Beek, Selma Blair, www.greenfilms.com Paul Giamatti, John Goodman At AFM: Talaat Captan (President), Delivery Status: Post Production Marion Captan (EVP) “Untitled” is, in form, a triptych: two stories Office: 603, Tel: 310.458.6700, Ext. 603 FREIGHT FORWARDERS and an epilogue set against the sadly comi- FLIGHT OF FEAR cal terrain of high school and college, past Action and present. Following the paths of its Language: Enlgish young hopeful/despairing characters, it Director: James Becket & CUSTOMS BROKERS explores issues of sex, race, celebrity, and Producer: Talaat Captan atrocity. Cast: TBA at AFM Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN Delivery Status: Pre-production Drama A stuntman and a flight attendant outwit and FOR Director: Alfonso Cuarón outfight ruthless skyjackers. Producers: Jorge Vergara, Alfonso Cuarón LIBRARY Cast: Maribel Verdú, Gaël García Bernal, 20 Films; action and science-fiction genre. Diego Luna Delivery Status: Post-Production AFM•CANNES•MIFED An irreverent and sexually charged drama GRUPO NOVO DE that explores relationships, friendships, and the value of life in the face of death. CINEMA E TV Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV, Rua Marechal Niemeyer, 24 – cep 22251-060 NEW YORK MIAMI –Rio de Janeiro – RJ – Brazil. Tel: This Product Guide and 5521.539.1538. Fax: 5521.266.3637. E- One Cross Island Plaza 8438 N. W. 66th Street mail: [email protected] other sections of the Company Type: distributor Jamaica•New York 11422 Miami•FL 33166 At AFM: Daniela Ribeiro, Alessandra main magazine Durso, João Vargas Penna Tel: (718) 525-5800 Tel: (305) 591-9899 Office: 206, Tel: 458-6700 ext. 206. will be available 2000 NORDESTES – TOO MUCH Fax: (718) 712-3939 Fax: (305) 592-5064 BRAZIL Documentary (70’) on-line at Language: Portuguese Director: David França Mendes e Vicente LOS ANGELES LONDON www.thebusinessoffilm.com Amorim Producer: L.C. Barreto - Luiz Carlos 5261 West Imperial Hwy Aerodrome Way•Cranford Lane THE BUSINESS OF FILM’S Barreto - Luci Barreto Los Angeles•CA 90045 Hounslow•Middx TW5 9QB•UK Delivery Status: completed home on documentary of the migration of Brazil’s Tel: (310) 645-9700 Tel: 011-44 181-897-7973 northeastern people to other regions of the the internet. country. Fax: (310) 645-0810 Fax: 011-44 181-759-6722

FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 25 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE URBANIA – RETURN CRONICAMENTE INVIÁVEL – ROBIN COOK’S ACCEPTABLE RISK HARMONY GOLD Docudrama (70’) CHRONICALLY UNFEASIBLE Sci-Fi-Fantasy Movie of the Week (TBS/2 Harmony Gold, 7655 Sunset Blvd., Los Language: Portuguese Drama (101’) hours) Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel: Director: Flavio Frederico Language: Portuguese Cast: Kelly Rutherford, Chad Lowe, Sean Producer: Cinematográfica Superfilmes / Director: Sérgio Bianchi Patrick Flannery 323.851.4900. Fax: 323.851.5599. E-mail: Zita Carvalhosa Producer: Agravo Produções Science and superstition collide as a break- [email protected] Cast: Turíbio Ruiz, Adriano Stuart Cast: Cecil Thire, Betty Gofman, Umberto through new drug offers miraculous prom- At AFM: Frank Agrama (Chairman & Delivery Status: completed Magnani ise at a terrifying price. From the block- CEO), Colleen Morris (President), Alan Portrait of decadent São Paulo through the Delivery Status: completed buster novel by Robin Cook, the master of Letz (Senior Vice President, Sales & point of view of an old blind man that lived Experts of six characters! Life stories, the mind-bending medical thriller. Acquisitions), Joanne Hoffman (Vice during the city´s golden years, in the 50´s. thereby discussing the difficulties involved President, Legal Affairs), Sherry Farrell ÔNICA DOMINANTE – TONIC in surviving, both mentally and physically, HANWAY (Contract Administrator) DOMINANT in the chaotic Brazilian society HanWay, 24 Hanway Street, London, W1T Office: 501, Tel: 310.458.6700 Drama (80’) O AUTO DA COMPADECIDA – THE 1UH UK. Tel: 44.20.7290.0750. Fax: Secrets Of Nature Language: Portuguese DOG’S WILL 44.20.7290.0751. E-mail: info@hanway- Nature Series (13 x Half-Hours) Director: Lina Chamie Comedy films.com Delve into the beauty of South Africa’s Producer: Zita Carvalhosa Language: Portuguese At AFM: Thierry Wase-Bailey Managing National Parks and witness first hand the Cast: Fernando Alves Pinto – Vera Director: Guel Arraes Director/Head Of Sales), Simon Gosling vibrant and stunningly visual impact of this Zimmermann – Carlos Gregorio – Vera Holtz Producer: Globo Filmes (Exec Sales Assistant) informative nature series. Delivery Status: completed Cast: Mateus Nachtergaele, Selton Mello, Office: Level 3, 309 QUEEN KONG The film narrates three days in the life of a Virgínia Cavendish, Fernanda Montenegro RABBIT PROOF FENCE Telefilm (72 minutes) young musician, wich correspond to the Delivery Status: completed Drama Not to be confused with King Kong, this three movements of a classical sonata. The Dog’s Will focuses on the acts of two Language: English satirical feature film stars Rula Lenska as SENTA PÚA – THE BRAZILIAN friends, they are the leading thread that Director: Phillip Noyce Luce Habit and Robin Askwith as an FIGHTER SQUADRON IN WORLD intertwines three stories. Producer: Phillip Noyce, Christine Olsen, unforgettable Ray Fay. WAR II AMÉLIA John Winter Walking After Midnight Documentary (112’) Comedy (120´) Cast: Kenneth Branagh And David Gulpilil Reality Series (13 x Half-Hours) Language: Portuguese Language: Portuguese Delivery Status: In Production Shot on location throughout the world with Director: Erik de Castro Director: Ana Carolina Three aboriginal girls forcibly taken from well-known celebrities, “Walking After Producer: Christian de Castro Producer: Ana Carolina their outback families in 1931 to be trained Delivery Status: completed Cast: Béatrice Agenin, Marília Pêra, as servants, escape their captors and set out Midnight” delves into the realm of the para- The story of the first Brailian fighter Myriam Muniz, Camila Amado, Alice Borges on the 1500 mile journey home, pursued by normal and inexplicable, staggering events squadron told by its pilots. A rare statement Delivery Status: completed the authorities that have changed the lives of today’s lead- of the brazsilian participation in World War A fiction freely inspired by the trip of Sarah THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE ing stars. II. Bernhardt to Rio de Janeiro in 1905, Romantic Comedy THE ADVENTURES OF RIN TIN TIN QUASE NADA – ALMOST NOTHING according to the director, “a comedy of mis- Language: English Family (65 Half-Hours) Drama (100’) understandings” Director: Clare Peploe A television favorite for over four decades, Language: Portuguese VILLA-LOBOS, UMA VIDA DE Producer: Bernardo Bertolucci re-mastered in brilliant color with new Director: Sergio Rezende PAIXÃO – VILLA-LOBOS, A LIFE OF Cast: Mira Sorvino, Ben Kingsley, Fiona music and effects. “Rin Tin Tin” is an action Producer: Morena Filmes/ Filmanía S.A. PASSION Shaw adventure series starring the legendary de C.V. / Mariza Leão Drama (130’) Delivery Status: In Production German Shepherd. Cast: Genesio de Barros, Denise Weinberg, Language: Portuguese A princess, determined to restore her home- AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Augusto Pompeu Director: Zelito Viana land’s throne to its heir and win the heart of Mini-series (6 Hours) Delivery Status: completed Producer: Mapa Filmes the man she loves, assumes both masculine An exciting adventure filled with exotic Budget: Cast: Antonio Fagundes, Marcos Palmeira, and feminine identities to achieve her goal. sights, comedy, action novel forms of trans- Six individuals, who have difficulty Letícia Spiller BROTHER portation and a compelling love story. expressing themselves expose their person- Delivery Status: completed Action/Gangster SHAKA ZULU al conflicts and reflect the society in which The life and work of modernist Heitor Villa- Language: English/Japanese Mini-Series (10 Hours) they live. Lobos, internationally known as one of the Director: Takeshi Kitano SHAKA ZULU, set in 19th century Africa, O CHAMADO DE DEUS – THE CALL greatest composers of his time; the struggle Producer: Jeremy Thomas, Masayuki Mori is one of the highest rated syndicated minis- OF GOD of a latin american composer in the begin- Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps, Claude eries of all time. With a $24 million produc- Documentary (80’) ing of this century, trying to be universal Maki tion budget, the program recaptures the rise Language: Portuguese through his music. Delivery Status: Completed to power of Shaka Zulu, King of the Zulus, Director: José Joffily Violent gangster epic, set in la where a who revolutionized African warfare with Producer: Coevos Filmes / José Joffily yakuza just arrived from Japan sets out to ingenious battle strategies and an invincible Delivery Status: completed H HHH take over the drug turfs of the Japanese, Documentary on the new directions of the Chinese and finally the mafia. army. catholic church in Brazil through its semi- HELP! I’M A FISH MASTERS OF WAR narists. Animated Adventure Docu-series (13 Hours) POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRES HALLMARK Language: English Witness the extraordinary strategy and Drama (102 min) ENTERTAINMENT Director: Stephan Fjeldmark And Michael courage of the minds behind the machine of Language: Portuguese Hallmark Entertainment, 1325 Avenue of Hegner war. The series brings to life the amazing Director: Andre Klotzel the Americas, 21st Floor, New York, NY Producer: A-Film, Munich Animation, victories and agonizing defeats of the Producer: Cinematografica Superfilmes – 10019 USA. Tel: 212.977.9001. Fax: Terraglyph and Eiv Entertainment wartime commanders who have fought in Zita Carvalhosa 212.977.9049. Cast: (Voices Of) Alan Rickman and Terry some of the greatest battles of all time. Cast: Reginaldo Farias, Petronio Gontijo, At AFM: Torquil Macneal (VP, Jones FLESH AND BLOOD, THE HAMMER Vietia Rocha, Sonia Braga (Guest International Sales) Delivery Status: Completed HERITAGE OF HORROR Appearance) Office: 201B Three children stumble across a magic Documentary (100 minutes) Delivery Status: completed THE MONKEY KING potion that turns them in to fish. Now they This horror documentary charts the rise and Adapted from the classical novel by Action-Adventure Mini Series (NBC/4 only have 48 hrs to find the antidote that fall of the world’s most successful inde- Machado de Assis, the most important Hours) will turn them back. pendent film company with film clips, Brazilian writer of the 19th century. Cast: Russell Wong, Thomas Gibson, Bai Ling THE CUP behind the scenes home movies, rare photos LATITUDE ZERO An American businessman working in Comedy and in-depth interviews with the actors, pro- Drama (85’) China goes on a journey to the mythical Language: Tibetan ducers and writers who changed the way Language: Portuguese world of Chinese gods and demons to save Director: Khyentse Norbu horror movies were made. Director: Toni Venturi the world from destruction and to recapture Producer: Mal Watson And Raymond the original manuscript and author of ROBOTECH Producer: Olhar Imaginário Steiner Animated Series (85 Half-Hours) (plus 2 Cast: Débora Duboc, Cláudio Jaborandy “Journey to the West.” Cast: Jamyang Lodro, Orgen Tobgyal And VOYAGE OF THE UNICORN features) Delivery Status: completed Neten Chockling The year is 2009 AD and the earth has been Ex-police officer running from justice Action Adventure Mini Series (Odyssey/4 Barely Contained Excitement Over The Hours) invaded by a fleet of alien spaceships capa- meets abandoned pregnant woman 1998 World Cup Unsettles A Tibetan ble of destroying the entire planet in a split CRUZ E SOUZA - THE POET Cast: Beau Bridges, Heather McEwen, Monastery In Exile. BANISHED Colin Heath, Kristian Ayre second. The only hope for survival lies in Biography (86’) When a disillusioned mythology professor the secrets of ROBOTECH, an ancient sci- Language: Portuguese and his daughter encounter a ship run by ence that has created powerful robotic Director: Sylvio Back dwarves, they embark on a journey to seek weapons systems and interstellar space- out mythical creatures. Based on a book by crafts. Producer: Sylvio Back James C. Christensen. Cast: Kadu Carneiro, Maria Ceica, L.A. Office Phone ADVENTURES ON RAINBOW POND 3 A.M. Animated Series (26 Half-Hours) Danielle Ornellas Drama Movie of the Week (Showtime/2 Hours) Delivery Status: completed Follow the escapades and adventures of two Cast: Danny Glover, Pam Grier, Michelle frogs, Jonathon Jumper and Hillary Hopper. True life of the black poet João da Cruz e Rodriguez (323) 935-8228 Souza, founder of the simbolism movement Three New York cabbies try to get their lives Jonathon comes from such a poor family in Brazil who died of tuberculosis at the age together as they work the mean streets and that he can’t even go to school in his wood- of 36 try to dodge a bandit who’s killing cabbies. land Rainbow Pond community.

26 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE HBO ENTERPRISES HEARST POPULAR MECHANICS FOR KIDS BIGGLES FLIES NORTH HBO Enterprises, 1100 Avenue of the Series (72 original half-hours) Action Americas, New York, NY 10036 USA. Tel: ENTERTAINMENT Curiosity and the thrill of discovering how Director: Russell Mulcahy 212.512.1000. Fax: 212.512.5698. Hearst Entertainment, New York Office: things work is the hallmark of “Popular Producer: Scott Millaney & Peter 235 East 45th St., New York, NY 10017 Mechanics for Kids,” the distinctive 30- Mackenzie Company Type: distributor USA. (212) 455-4000. Fax (212) 983- At AFM: Charles Schreger (President), minute, live action weekly series, shot on- Delivery Status: In Pre-Production 6379. Los Angeles Office: Hearst location throughout North America as it A hunky, English gentleman, Biggles is the Suzanne Barron (Director, International Entertainment Productions, 1640 S. Sales), Heather McVicar (Manager, explores the limits of science, imagination dashing daredevil superhero of this new UK Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025. and new technology. blockbuster. English Language. Marketing) Tel: (310) 478-1700. Fax: (310) 478-2202. Office: Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, RON HAZELTON’S HOUSECALLS THE CASE London Office: 136 Sloane Street, London, Series (72 original half-hours) (UK) Thriller Suite #748, Tel: 310.576.7527. England SW1X 9AY. Tel: 44.20.7565.6666. WIT Back with new episodes, Ron continues to Director: Mark Warner Fax: 44.20.7565.6675 travel in his amazing state-of-the-art motor Producer: Piers Jackson Drama (99 minutes) At AFM: Tom Devlin, Sr. Vice President, Language: English International Sales home outfitted as a workshop-on-wheels to Cast: TBC Director: Mike Nichols Office: Suite # 654, Tel: 310.458.6700 ext. real families’ homes to tackle realistic, do- Delivery Status: In Pre-Production Producer: Cary Brokaw, Mike Nichols 654 it-yourself home improvement projects. Legendary cat-thief, Vinny, has one last job Cast: Emma Thompson, Christopher SANTA WHO? B. SMITH WITH STYLE to do: steal a briefcase from ‘crimelord’ Big Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald, Comedy Series (120 original half-hours) Leo and deliver it to an anonymous Jonathan Woodward and Harold Pinter Cast: Leslie Nielsen Entertaining with style at a price you can client...seems easy enough! Delivery Status: complete A holiday event to remember, starring afford is why former high fashion model, CLUB LE MONDE Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols come Leslie Nielsen as Santa! Santa has amnesia author and restaurateur Barbara Smith and (UK) Comedy together for this adaptation of Margaret and doesn’t remember a thing about his her series, “B. Smith With Style” from Director: Simon Rumley Edson’s compelling and critically duties when he tumbles out of his sleigh and Hearst Entertainment, has emerged as the Producer: Piers Jackson acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning play. lands in front of a TV news reporter who’s most engaging and exciting new life style Cast: Danny Nussbaum, Emma Pike and BOYCOTT looking for a great scoop. program on television. Tania Emery. Drama (108 min) BLIND TERROR (H.E.A.T. - HEARST Delivery Status: In Post-Production Language: English ENTERTAINMENT HELKON West End trendies find their ultimate club- Director: Clark Johnson ADVENTURE/THRILLERS) bing experience... Mystery / Adventure BURNING DESIRES Producer: Norman Twain and Shelby Stone Cast: Nastassja Kinski INTERNATIONAL Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Terrence Howard, (USA) Erotic A young widow’s pain and grief finally PICTURES Director: J. Edie Martin CCH Pounder, Carmen Ejogo fades after meeting a charming and hand- Delivery Status: complete Helkon International Pictures, Rauchstr. Producer: Diane Laney some man who helps her forget the past. 9-11, Munich 81679 Germany. Tel: Cast: Kristi Carlson, Griffin Drew & Jason “Boycott” dramatizes the historic mid-50’s But everything begins to go terribly wrong public bus boycott that played a pivotal role 49.89.98.24.7180. Fax: Stewart when it’s discovered that Mr. Right has a 49.89.98.24.71811. in the Civil Rights movement. deadly secret of his own. When it’s about lust, who can you 61 At AFM: Glenn Kendrick Ackerman trust...your murdering wife, her boyfriend RANGE OF MOTION Office: Loews Hotel Santa Monica, Office Drama Drama or your lover? Language: English Cast: Rebecca De Mornay # 202B, Tel: 310.576.2678. DALKEITH Director: Billy Crystal Based on the book, “Range of Motion” by Fax: 310.576.2679 Family Drama (94 min) Producer: Billy Crystal, Ross Greenburg Elizabeth Berg. A woman whose husband Director: Leigh Sheehan Cast: Thomas Jane, Barry Pepper, Anthony sustains a coma gets a cold lesson in the HIGH POINT & THE Producer: John Chase Michael Hall reality of health care economics. Cast: Ray Barrett, Gus Mercurio and Alan Delivery Status: post production A LONG WAY HOME FILM COMPANY Hopgood. The true story of the pursuit of Babe Ruth’s Drama When the residents of a retirement home Cast: Meredith Baxter, Robert Urich GROUP adopt a greyhound it transforms their lives, home run record by New York Yankees High Point & The Film Company Group, stars Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. Before a family can finally bury a dark, hor- as well as their bank accounts in this heart rible secret, it must first dig up the painful London Office: 25 Elizabeth Mews, warming family drama. DINNER WITH FRIENDS London NW3 4UH UK. Tel: Drama (running time tbd) memories that led to this disturbing event. And for Carol Ryan, her husband’s return is 44.20.7586.3686. Fax: 44 20.7586.3117. Language: English Email: sales@highpoint- Director: Norman Jewison the only way the healing process can bring closure to sins of the past. thefilmcompany.co.uk. Website: www.high- Producer: Laura Ziskin, Margo Lion and point-thefilmcompany.to.uk Daryl Roth MY HUSBAND’S DOUBLE LIFE HE USINESS OF Drama Office: Loews Hotel, Office #453 T B Cast: Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell, Cast: Margaret Colin Tel: 310.458.6700 Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette Based on a true story. A perfect love story At AFM: Ronald De Neef, Julie Murphy- FILM Delivery Status: post production turns into a harrowing mystery as a woman Delaney (Group General Manager), Chris A couple is forced to examine their seem- tries to track down the man who abandoned Bluett (Sales Executive), Ruth Saxton ingly happy marriage when their best her years ago in an apparent suicide. (Acquisitions & Marketing Manager) friends marriage disintegrates. Unsure of what she hopes to find, in the end GOING OFF BIG TIME CONSPIRACY she knows she must do what’s right for her, Crime Thriller (87min) Los Angeles Office Drama her family and others who would likely be Language: English Language: English betrayed. Director: Jim Doyle Director: Frank Pierson FAMOUS HOMES & HIDEAWAYS Producer: Ian Brady 5150 Wilshire Blvd. Producer: Frank Pierson, Peter Zinner and Series (48 original half-hours) Cast: Neil Fitzmaurice, Sarah Alexander, Frank Doelger From private places to hot properties, post- Bernard Hill & Dominic Carter Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci cards from paradise to celebrity hideaways, Delivery Status: screening Los Angeles Delivery Status: post production this fresh, hip and fast-paced weekly half hour hosted by TV, film and publishing per- Mark Clayton survived his time in prison A chilling drama about the true-life meeting and now has to forge a career in the crime among high-ranking Nazi officers at the sonality Donna Hanover looks at living California 90036 large with some of the most notable names world. “Razor-sharp wit matched with start of WWII to determine the Final razor-sharp violence.” Solution. in Hollywood.

PRODUCT PROFILE MIRAMAX AFM 2001

HEAVEN SERENDIPITY THE FOUR FEATHERS

WICKED THE RING 0 Thriller (96 min) Thriller (98 min) RODUCT Language: English Language: Japanese P Director: Michael Steinberg Director: Norito Tsurata Producer: Frank Bedoor Producer: Shinji Ogawa Cast: Julia Stiles, Patrick Muldoon Cast: Yukie Nakama, Seicht Tanabe, SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT Delivery Status: Completed Kumiko Aso Budget: $4,000,000 Delivery Status: Completed A killer is loose inside the tranquil gated Budget: $6,000,000 community where 15-year-old Ellie is Victims of a video curse are investigated AFM 2001 growing up fast as she takes the place of by survivors. her murdered mom. MANAGUA Action/Thriller (108 min) I III Language: English Director: Michele Taverna Producer: Robert Straight IAC FILM Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., John Savage IAC Film, London Office, Greencoat Delivery Status: Completed House 15 Francis Street, London SW1P 1DH Tel: 44.207.592.1620. Fax: Budget: $4,000,000 44.207.592.1620 A lost friend. A lost war. A mission of mad- [email protected]. www.iac- ness and mercy. He was forced to choose film.co.uk between his country and his friend. L.A. Office: Suite 401, 4th Floor, 9100 LIFELINE Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Thriller (92 min) USA. Tel: 310.288.9727. Fax: 1 310 288 Language: English/French 9775 Director: Fred Gerber At AFM: Guy Collins (Chairman), Ann Producer: Bob Frederick Dubinet (President, IAC America), Cast: Lorraine Braco Michael Ryan (Director), Keith Cousins Delivery Status: Completed (Managing Director), Natalie Brenner Budget: $4,000,000 (V.P. Sales) When her daughter is kidnapped by dealers Office: Suite 717, Loews Hotel, 1700 in the international sex trade, a woman Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, Tel: heads out to sea on an impossible mission. 310.576.7187. Fax: 310.576.2683 RUPERT’S LAND SHINER Comedy (93 min) Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Thriller (100 mins) Director: Jonathan Tammuz Language: English Producer: Ian Tracey Director: John Irvin Cast: George Wendt, Ian Tracey Cast: Michael Caine, Martin Landau Delivery Status: Completed The fast moving, tragic story of a ruthless- Budget: $4,000,000 ly ambitious boxing promoter whose past Half brothers travel to their father’s funer- catches up with him on the most important al on what becomes a very strange trip. day of his life. THE LAST STOP LAVA Thriller (93 min) Black comedy (97 mins) Language: English Language: English Director: Mark Malone Director: Joe Tucker Producer: Colleen Nystedt Cast: Joe Tucker, Philip Holmes, Nicola PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 Cast: Adam Beach, Jurgen Prochnow, Stapleton Rose McGowan Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed A stylish, violent, sophisticated and excru- The Whole Shebang, AVAILABLE FROM 2K Media USA Budget: $3,500.000 ciatingly funny film about two unlikely A cop investigating a bank robbery visits a friends who set out on a revenge mission snowed-in motel where guests begin turn- during the Notting Hill Carnival. ing up dead. THE TESTIMONY OF TALIESIN SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY MR. RICE’S SECRET JONES HIGHLAND CREST Action/Adventure (90 min.) Drama (97 min) PICTURES Language: English Drama (94 min) Language: English Highland Crest Pictures, 7471 Melrose Director: Adam Bernstein Language: English Director: Martin Duffy Ave. Suite 7, Los Angeles, CA 90046 Producers: David Collins, Michael Director: Nick Kendall Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Ian Bannen, Griff USA. Tel: 323.852.9848. Fax: Naughton, Adam Bernstein Producer: Colleen Nystedt Rhys Jones, Geraldine James, John Paul 323.658.7265. E-mail: highlandcrest- Cast: Norman Reedus, Adrien Brody, Cast: David Bowie, Bell Switzer, Teryl [email protected]. Website: MacLeod Deborah Harry Rothery Delivery Status: Completed www.HighlandCrestPix.com Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: Completed Company Type: Sales Agent/Producer A magical story about a 12-year-old boy At AFM: Douglas Witkins (President), Budget: $2.5 million Budget: $3,500,000 who discovers he has a miraculous power Orly Ravid (Vice President), Douglas An eighteen-year-old ‘mama’s boy’ joins A man befriends a ten-year-old boy and to help and heal. Emotional and evocative, Hunter (Director of Operations) the mob with unexpected results. leaves him messages of hope that send the this beautiful film features a raft of out- Office: Zuma Room – 7th Floor Atrium, boy on an excursion of self-discovery. standing performances from a stellar Tel: 310.576.7549 HORIZON THE RING British cast. THE ASSASSINATION Thriller (95 min) Action Thriller (120 min) THE GOLD COAST Language: English ENTERTAINMENT Language: Japanese Thriller Director: George A. Romero LTD. Director: Hideo Nakata Language: English Producers: Michael Carrazza, T.J. Horizon Entertainment Ltd., Suite 205 - Producer: Shinya Kawai Director: Harold Becker Castranovo, Sandy Martin 1040 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, B.C., Cast: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani Cast: Al Pacino Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Ed Harris, James Canada. V6B 2R9. Tel: 604.632.1707. Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Development Coburn, Anthony Quinn, Luis Guzman, Fax: 604.632.1607. E-mail: Budget: $6,000,000 A conventional socialite couple are unwit- Seymour Cassell, Elizabeth Pena [email protected]. Website: An estranged couple reunite to save them- tingly drawn into the world of Mafia vio- Delivery Status: pre-production onlinefilmsales.com Budget: $25 million selves and their son by uncovering the lence. Company Type: Sales Agent curse locked in a video that kills viewers in The epic, true story of the CIA’s bungled At AFM: Rob Straight (President) involvement in the assassination of ruthless Office: 443, Tel: 310.576.7441 one week. Dominican Republic dictator Rafael THE RING 2 Trujillo. Tel: 323.816.7745 KILLER BUD Thriller (95 min) Send Your BROKEN VESSELS Language: Japanese Thriller (90 min.) Comedy (94 min) Language: English Language: English Director: Hideo Nakata Director: Scott Ziehl Director: Karl T. Hirsch Producer: Taka Ichise Producers: Scott Ziehl, Roxana Zal Producer: Richard Mann Cast: Miki Nakatani, Kyoko Fukada, Press Releases to: Cast: Todd Field, Jason London, Roxana Zal Cast: David Faustino, Caroline Keenan, Hitomo Sato Delivery Status: completed Robert Stack Delivery Status: Completed Budget: $2.5 million Delivery Status: Completed Budget: $6,000,000 A rookie paramedic follows his veteran Budget: $3,000,000 partner into a deadly free-fall from which Two teenage boys face hilarious conse- A reporter tracks victims of a video that [email protected] there is no escape. “Best Picture,” Los quences when they attempt to seduce two kills within one week of seeing it unless it Angeles Independent Film Festival. girls on a double date. is shown to someone else.

28 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE ICON IFM FILM ENTERTAINMENT ASSOCIATES INC IFM Film Associates Inc, 1328 East INTERNATIONAL Palmer Avenue, Glendale, CA 91205, Icon Entertainment International, The Quadrangle, 180 Wardour Street, London, USA. Tel: 818.243.4976. Fax: W1V 3AA UK. Tel: 44(0)20.7494.8100. 818.550.9728. E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 44(0)20.7494.8101. At AFM: Antony I. Ginnane (President), At AFM: Bruce Davey (Chairman ), Jamie Ann Lyons (Executive Vice President), Carmichael (Head of International Anthony J. Lyons (Vice President Distribution), Simon Crowe (Head of International), David Makhlout (Sales Television Sales), James Norrie (Sales Executive), Brad Benjamin (Executive Manager), Caroline Johnson (Head of Assistant) International Marketing) Office: 738, Tel: 310.576.7417, Fax: Office: 754, Tel: 310.576.6970, Fax: 818.550.9728 310.576.6940 SOLITUDE THE MAN WHO SUED GOD Drama (89 minutes) Romantic Comedy Director: Mark Joffe Director: Robin Schlaht Producer: Ben Gannon Producer: Robin Schlaht, David Cast: Billy Connolly, Judy Davis Christensen Delivery Status: In pre-production Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Vanessa Martinez, A wonderfully romantic comedy about a Wendy Anderson man who decides to sue God for damages Delivery Status: Completed after his fishing boat is destroyed by a bolt They came from the city in search of a sim- of lightening. pler life. It was harder to find than they WHAT WOMEN WANT expected. Romantic Comedy SWEET REVENGE Named LA’s Best Jazz Club Director: Nancy Meyers Thriller (92 minutes) Producers: Bruce Davey, Matt Williams, Director: Gordon McLennan Susan Cartsonis, Nancy Meyers, Gina - New Times LA Matthews Producer: David Doerksen, Leanne Arnott Cast: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei Cast: Richard Greico, Brigitte Bako, Greg Delivery Status: Completed Evigan A hilarious romance about two feisty, seem- Delivery Status: Completed Vibraphonist Terry Gibbs observed, ingly very different people, who somehow An unusual and subversive twist on the have to get together. average thriller in which a woman searches “It’s like a little Carnegie Hall. TOSSPOT for the man who betrayed her. Comedy DEAD EVIDENCE But this is so intimate. Director: Tony Grounds Thriller (94 minutes) Producer: Dixie Linder, Greg Brenman Director: Charlie Haskell You play a slow song, Cast: Lee Evans, Kathy Burke Producer: Tim Sanders and you can hear Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Kevin Smith, Angela Dotchin, C. When Robert Martin fails to win another Thomas Howell competition, he decides to steal a dream every note because holiday instead, dragging his wife, his kids Delivery Status: Post Production and the mother-in-law along for the ride. A hard nosed ex cop and a pretty young everyone is listening.” GENTLEMEN’S RELISH Private I. hunt down a serial killer. Period Comedy BEYOND JUSTICE Director: Douglas Mackinnon Thriller (94 minutes) Producers: Sarah Boote, Martin Auty Director: Geoffrey Cawthorne Added the great George Shearing, Cast: Billy Connolly, Douglas Henshall, Producer: Tim Sanders Sarah Lancashire Cast: Jenifer Rubin, Dean O’Gorman “Of the many places I have played Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Post Production in recent years, I have not encountered Gentlemen’s Relish is a cheeky, occasional- Two private investigators discover the truth ly naughty and rumbustious romantic com- behind a gangland drug deal gone wrong many audiences who know how to listen like edy set in London at the turn of the 19th BLIND HEAT Century - the dawning of a new age. THE MAGIC PUDDING Thriller (97 minutes) The Jazz Bakery patrons. Animation Delivery Status: Completed Director: Karl Zwicky and Robbert Smit Director: Adolfo Martinez Solares It is a haven, and we are very belssed to have Producers: Gary Travers and Ed Trost Producer: Harry John Trube, Adolfo Cast (voices): John Cleese, Geoffrey Rush, Martinez Solares such a place to go.” Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill, Jack Thompson Cast: Maria Conchita Alonso, Jeff Fahey, J. Delivery Status: Completed Eddie Peck Take a spoonful of magic, add a large help- An industrialist’s wife is kidnapped and ing of adventure and a healthy dose of held for ransom. Help to assure the future of the Jazz Bakery. humour - mix well with fantastic characters UNDER HELLGATE BRIDGE and you have THE MAGIC PUDDING. Thriller (90 minutes) Make a donation today or book the Jazz Director: Michael Sergio IFD FILMS AND ARTS Producer: Michael Sergio, Isil Bagdadi Bakery for a private performance Cast: Jonathan La Paglia, Michael Rodrick, LIMITED Vincent Pastore, Dominic Chianese Frank IFD Films and Arts Limited, Flat 4, 3rd Vincent Floor, Block B, Vigor Industrial Building, Delivery Status: Completed Contact: Ruth Price - President & Artistic Director 14-20 Cheung Tat Road, Tsing Yi, New On the mean streets of New York city, in a Territories, Hong Kong. Tel: 852.2730.0048. Fax: 852.2730.8756. E- world where easy money and violence are a mail: [email protected]. Website: way of life, two old enemies confront each http://www.ifd.com.hk other in a battle for love and power. Company Type: Producer and Distributor DEATH ON SATURN’S MOON At AFM: Joseph Lai (CEO) Thriller (87 minutes) THE JAZZ BAKERY a non-profit organization Office: Room 506, Code C, Tel: Delivery Status: Completed 310.458.6700 ext. 506 Director: John Krawlzik Office: 1836 Benedict Canyon, WONDERS & WONDERS EPISODE Producer: Lorrie King 1-13 Cast: Paul Nolan, Curt Karibalis, Sally Beverly Hills CA 90210 (13 x 30 min) Mercer Language: Mandarin, Cantonese & English Special investigator Hayes is sent to a sci- Tel: 310.275.8961 • Fax: 310.275.9931 Director: Ng Kim Hung entific base on a remote moon of Saturn to Producer: Rigo Jesu & Stephen Ching investigate a mysterious homicide. Cast: Jin MingDe, Shi ZhaoJie & Fang The Jazz Bakery Performance Space located YuanQing TORRENT Delivery Status: Completed Thriller (90 minutes) in the historic Helms Bakery Complex Educational and Entertaining. Inspired by Director: Hugo Steiglitz the world’s greatest inventions like com- Producer: Peter Hamilton 3233 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles Ca 90034 • pass, printing, the kids roma about the uni- Delivery Status: In Production verse and the natural world, unbounded by Four women, friends from college meet up Information telephone: 310.274.9039 the time and space and experience endless 10 years later on a rafting adventure. The Wonders & Wonders. trip becomes a nightmare.

FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 29 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE THE HIT INTERLIGHT INTERMEDIA SLAP HER SHE’S FRENCH Thriller (95 minutes) Interlight, 8981 Sunset Boulevard, Suite Intermedia, 9-13 Grosvenor Street, Director: Melanie Mayron Delivery Status: Pre- Production 101, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA. Tel: London W1K 4QA UK. Tel: Producers: Matthias Emcke, Beau Flynn, Director: Gordon McLennan 310.248.4477. Fax: 310.248.4494. Jonathan King Producer: David Doerksen, Leanne Arnott 44.20.7495.3322, Fax: 44.20.7495.3993. Cast: Piper Perabo, Jane McGregor Website: www.Interlightusa.Com. E-mail: E-mail: [email protected]. A husband organizes a murder contract on [email protected] Delivery Status: Post Production his ex-wife through an intermediary, but At AFM: Patrick Choi (President), Nile Website: www.intermediafilm.com Popular, successful and selfish high-school when he has a change of heart, he is unable Niami (Executive Vice President), Clark At AFM: Jere Hausfater (President, Motion student Starla realizes the error of her ways to halt the process and has to stop the Peterson (Senior Vice President, Picture Group, Worldwide Distribution and when her position is gradually usurped by unknown killer himself. Production And Development), Jeremy Acquisition), Michael Dragotto (Executive French exchange student Genevieve, who is Lappen (Vice President, International Sales Vice President, Motion Picture Group, not what she seems. IMCINE And Business Affairs), Ryan Rey (Senior Worldwide Distribution), Tim Haslam ENIGMA Director, Sales And Services), Laura (President of Distribution), Paul Davis Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía Spence (Director, International Sales), Director: Michael Apted (IMCINE), Tepic 40 Roma Sur 06760 (President of Marketing), Charlotte Arnold Producer: Mick Jagger, Lorne Michaels Jessica Woods (Story Editor), Seon Park (Sales Manager), Harold Van Lier (Sales México. Tel: 525.574.49.02. Fax: (Executive Assistant) Cast: Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Jeremy 525.574.07.12 .. E-mail: Office: The Director’s Room (Ground Executive) Northam, Saffron Burrows [email protected]. Website: Floor), Le Merigot Hotel (Directly South Office: 552, 553 & 554, Tel: 310.576.6935, Delivery Status: Completed www.imcine.gob.mx Of Loews Hotel), Tel: 310.576.2667, Fax: Fax: 310.576.6926 As the Battle of the Atlantic rages, a brilliant Company Type: Government institution, 310.576.2668 K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER young man frantically races against time to sales agent, producer. WHITE JAZZ Director: Kathryn Bigelow crack the enemy code and solve the mystery At AFM: Susana López Aranda (Deputy Film Noir Thriller Producers: Joni Sighvattson, Kathryn surrounding the woman he loves. Based on Director International Distribution) Language: English Bigelow, Chris Whitaker the best selling novel by Robert Harris. Tel: 525.574.49.02, Fax: 525.574.07.12. Director: Robert Richardson Cast: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson AFTER IMAGE E-mail: [email protected]; Miguel Producers: Nick Nolte, Greg Shapiro, Nile Delivery Status: Pre-Production Director: Robert Manganelli Angel Ortega (Head International Sales), Niami, And Clark Peterson Producer: Christopher Nakis, John Cocca Cast: Nick Nolte, John Cusack Log line: In 1961, a new Soviet nuclear sub- Tel: 525.564.73.96. Fax: 525.574.07.12, E- Delivery Status: Principal Photography marine sets out on its first tour of duty with Cast: John Mellencamp, Robert Forster, mail: [email protected] Begins March 19, 2001 a fatally unprepared crew, a new hard-line Louise Fletcher Office: 770 at Loews, Tel: 310.576.7159 Budget: $28 Million captain and unresolved technical problems. Delivery Status: Completed LA PERDICION DE LOS HOMBRES The finale of James Ellroy’s LA Quartet, Soon they are racing against time to mend a A haunting psychological thriller energized (THE RUINATION OF MEN) “White Jazz” exposes the corruption of radiation leak and prevent a nuclear explo- by the passion between a crime Drama (98 min.) 1950s Los Angeles. from Oscar nominated sion that threatens not only their lives but scene photographer and a beautiful woman Language: Spanish “LA Confidential,” Ellroy continues his tale might set off World War III. who possesses psychic powers. Director: Arturo Ripstein of police brutality and ambition with Nick THE QUIET AMERICAN THE DISCOVERY OF HEAVEN Nolte as amoral detective David Klein. Producer: Laura Imperiale, Jorge Sánchez Director: Phil Noyce Director: Jeroen Krabbe Cast: Rafael Inclán, Patricia Reyes Klein is bought and paid for by the mob but Producer: Ate de Jong when the game changes. Producers: Staffan Ahrenberg, Sydney Spíndola, Luis Felipe Tovar, Carlos Pollack, Bill Horberg Cast: Stephen Fry, Greg Wise Chávez. GIANTS Delivery Status: Post Production Drama Cast: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Delivery Status: Production A child’s birth is closely followed by a num- A famous Mexican folk song says that Director: John Frankenheimer (Reindeer ber of mysterious accidents, untimely “damn women are the ruination of men.”.. Adapted from the famous Graham Greene deaths and other acts that reveal the influ- Games, Ronin, The Manchurian Candidate) novel - a powerful love story set against the In our story there are two women and a Producers: David Arnold, Dannel Arnold, ence of higher powers. baseball game of unforeseeable conse- epic panorama of Vietnam in the early IRIS Dan Gordon, Patrick Choi And Nile Niami 1950’s. quences. A black humor comedy in the Cast: Tbd Director: Richard Eyre purest ripstenian style. Delivery Status: In Development BASIC INSTINCT 2 Producers: Anthony Minghella, Sydney ESCRITO EN EL CUERPO DE LA Budget: Approximately $70 Million Director: David Cronenberg Pollack, Scott Rudin, Robert Fox NOCHE (WRITTEN ON THE BODY A poignant drama about a German soldier, Producers: Mario Kassar, Andy Vanja Cast: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent OF THE NIGHT) in the final stages of World War II, who is Cast: Sharon Stone Delivery Status: Pre-Production Drama (128 min.) ordered to execute a group of handicapped Delivery Status: Pre-Production The moving and beautiful story of the great Language: Spanish children as part of Hitler’s plan. Sharon Stone returns in the long-awaited novelist, Dame Iris Murdoch and her devoted Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo TART sequel to the $352 million global hit Basic husband, John Bayley, as the witty, brilliant Drama Instinct. Bisexual crime novelist and mur- Producer: Fernando Gou Language: English Iris fights the devastation of Alzheimer’s. Cast: Martha Aura, Ana Ofelia Murguía. Director: Christina Wayne der suspect Catherine Tramell this time FOGBOUND Delivery Status: Completed Producers: Diane Silian Isaacs, Patrick exercises her considerable charms on an Director: Ate de Jong The arrival of boarder Adela Hache pro- Choi And Nile Niami over-ambitious male psychiatrist, who falls Producer: Angela Roessel vokes conflicts in an ordinary family, as Cast: Dominique Swain, Brad Renfro, under her hormone-churning spell while he Cast: Luke Perry, Orla Brady, Ben Daniels, well as positive changes. A nostalgic view Bijou Phillips, and Melanie Griffith struggles to establish the truth about her Jeroen Krabbe of endearing characters. Delivery Status: Completed seemingly wicked ways. Delivery Status: Production SU ALTEZA SERENISIMA (HIS Budget: $8 Million ADAPTATION A married couple and their best friend are MOST SERENE HIGHNESS) Set against the backdrop of the sex, drugs and Director: Spike Jonze trapped by fog on a dangerous mountain Drama (112 min.) music of the ‘80s, tart is a dark coming-of-age Producer: Edward Saxon road, the tension between them rise to boil- Language: Spanish drama about a fourteen year-old private school ing point and before the night is over the girl’s struggle to be accepted by New York Cast: Nicholas Cage, Chris Cooper Director: Felipe Cazals Delivery Status: Pre-Production husband kills himself. Producer: Gerardo Barrera City’s most privileged and decadent kids. THE WATCHER Charlie Kaufman plays himself just after Cast: Alejandro Parodi, Ana Bertha Espín, Thriller (96min, 47sec) the fame of having written BEING JOHN INTERNATIONAL Blanca Guerra, Pedro Armendáriz Jr, Ana Language: English MALKOVICH. He is given a book to adapt Ofelia Murguía. Director: Joe Charbanic (Music Videos For called THE ORCHID THIEF in which a FILM GROUP Delivery Status: Completed Sonic Youth, Soul Asylum And Dog Star) novelist writes about a passionate renegade International Film Group, 106 Sunridge This story is about the last three days in the Producers: Chris Eberts, Elliot Lewitt, Jeff environmentalist who steals orchids. Street, Penthouse Suite, Playa Del Rey, life of the most hated Mexican of the XIX Rice, And Nile Niami Charlie hits a horrible streak of writer’s CA 90293 USA. Tel: 310.406.0670. Fax: century. Cast: James Spader, Marisa Tomei, Keanu block. All worlds collide in a hilarious third 310.821.7060. PERMUME DE VIOLETAS (VIOLET Reeves At AFM: Scott Vandiver, Phil Botanta Delivery Status: Completed act. PERFUME) RESIDENT EVIL Office: 440, Tel: 310.458.6700, Fax: Drama (100 min.) Budget: $45 Million Joel Campbell (James Spader), a retired FBI Director: Paul Anderson 310.458.6761 Language: Spanish Beneath Loch Ness Director: Maryse Sistach agent with a tortured past, is trying to Producers: Bernd Eichinger, sammy restore his sanity in modern day Chicago. Hadida, Jeremy Bolt Creature Thriller Producer: José Buil Ríos When he receives a photo of a young Language: English Cast: Jimena Ayala, Nancy Gutiérrez, Cast: Milla Jovovich woman in the morning, and by afternoon Delivery Status: Production Producers: Scott Vandiver, Phil Botana Arcelia Ramírez, María Rojo. she is dead, he realizes that his old nemesis Director: Chuck Cummisky Delivery Status: Completed A team of highly trained, military soldiers Griffin (Keanu Reeves) is not going to let square off against the undead after a secret Cast: Patrick Bergin, Lysette Anthony Yessica and Miriam two teenagers of him recuperate. Delivery Status: Completed - 2001 Mexico City begin a passionate friendship CAMOUFLAGE government experiment goes wrong. A team of paleontologist exploring the depths at school. The girl friends share their games, Comedy (96min, 47sec) K-PAX of Loch Ness discover a 60 foot prehistoric notebooks, make up and tastes until two Language: English Director: Iain Softley marine reptile that is terrorizing the lake. violent youngsters kidnap and rape Yessica. Director: James Keach Producer: Larry Gordon THE WARNING Producers: Karl Schanzer, Mark Malis, Patrick Cast: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges Disaster Thriller Choi, Nile Niami, And Anthony Esposito Delivery Status: Post Production Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Lochlyn Munro Language: English A New York psychiatric institute is turned Producers: John Saviano, Todd Berger Delivery Status: Completed upside down with the arrival of charismatic L.A. Office Phone Budget: $18 Million Director: Frank Military A down and out detective and his failed act- genius inmate Prot. Soon acting director Dr Cast: TBA ing partner take on their last “easy” case. Brewer is fixating on the strange being from Delivery Status: Production April 2001 What was supposed to be a simple stake- planet K-Pax who exercises a magical effect A research team investigating a virus that (323) 935-8228 out of the wrong person in the wrong bed on his patients, friends and family. Con wiped out an oil rig crew hundreds of miles out turns into a case of murder, deception and artist or extra-terrestrial? Method or mad- in the ocean is stranded with little oxygen left in embezzlement in a wacky, backward town. ness? their protective suites and fighting to survive.

30 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE SABRETOOTH KEYSTONE PILLOW FIGHT Creature Thriller K KKK Teen Comedy Language: English ENTERTAINMENT Director: TBA Producers: Scott Vandiver, Phil Botana Cast: D.J. Qualls, Will Estes, Melissa Director: TBA INC. George, Amy Adams Cast: TBA KATHY MORGAN Keystone Entertainment Inc., 23410 Civic Delivery Status: In development – produc- Center Way, Suite E-9, Malibu, CA 90265 Delivery Status: Pre Production INTERNATIONAL USA. Tel: 310.317.4883. Fax: tion Summer 2001 A scientist gene splices DNA from a Kathy Morgan International, 12424 310.317.4903. Email: [email protected] Girl’s night in…a night of pj’s, pillow fights Sabertooth Tiger with a modern day moun- Wilshire Blvd. Suite 740, Los Angeles CA At AFM: Monique R. White (Vice and skinny dipping…every teenage guy’s tain lion. The results are terrifying when the 90025 USA. Tel: 310.979.9100. Fax: President International Sales), Mike dream. creature escapes and preys on a group of 310.979.9200. E-mail: kfox@kathymor- Strange (President), Mark Borde (Co- TROIS young adults in the mountains. ganintl.com President, Keystone Releasing), Gene Erotic Thriller Company Type: Sales Agent Irwin (Co-President, Keystone Releasing) Director: Rob Hardy INTRAMOVIES At AFM: Kathy Morgan (President), Office: Santa Monica Lowes, Suite 628, Cast: Gary Dourdan, Gretchen, Palmer, Intramovies, Head Office (for sales): Via Kimberly Fox (Director of Sales and Tel: 310.576.7235, Fax: 310.576.7236 Kenya Moore E. Manfredi 15 - 00197 Rome, Italy.Tel: Acquisitions), Carrie Kommers (Director of AIR BUD: SEVENTH INNING FETCH Delivery Status: Completed. Screening at 39.06.807.72.52. / 39.06.807.64.28. Fax: Marketing), Caroline Raufi (Business Family AFM 39.06.807.61.56. E-mail Affairs), Rosella Morgan (Market Assistant) Director: TBD A young, successful couple decide to add a mail@intramovies .com. Website: Office: 518, Tel: 310.576.7523, Fax: Cast: TBD little “spark” to their marriage by bringing a www.intramovies.com 310.979.9200 Delivery Status: In Development – produc- mysterious seductress into their bed, setting At AFM: Paola Corvino (President), CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LOS tion Fall 2001 off a shock wave of events that may cost Micaela Fusco (Vice President), Paola ANGELES The incredible Air Bud is back and this time them their lives. Eugeni (Sales Manager), Maria Laura Action Adventure he’s trying his paws at baseball!! Mozzetti (Sales Manager) Director: Simon Wincer BIRD BRAIN KOBA FILMS Office: Room 602, Tel: 310.576.6955 Cast: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Paul Family Koba Films, 124 rue des Rosiers, 93581 Mobile: 39.335.84.10.149 Rodriguez Director: TBD Saint-Ouen, Tel: 331.40.12.32.32. Fax: THE HUNDRED STEPS (I CENTO Delivery Status: Production Cast: TBD 331.40.12.20.43. E-mail: Budget: US$40 Million Delivery Status: In development – produc- PASSI) tion 2001 [email protected] Language: Italian Paul Hogan will reprise his world- At AFM: Nicolas Velle (CEO & Managing renowned role as the infamous Mick George is the ‘assistant’ coach of the Drama Terrytown Junior High football team. Well Director), Armelle Biagioli (Sales & Director: Marco Tullio Giordana “Crocodile” Dundee. Linda Kozlowski Marketing) returns as his longtime love, Sue Charlton. ‘assistant’ is probably not quite the right Producer: Fabrizio Mosca term. George, you see, is a parrot. Office: 758, Tel: 310.576.7020 Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio ¡ Luigi Maria With their eight year old son, Mikey, they GUNBLAST VODKA will once again leave the outback of THE STRANGER Burruano ¡ Lucia Sardo Drama Action Thriller (97 min) A search for a better world can take all you Australia to explore new surroundings. Director: Joe Morton Language: English have-even your life. The true story of BEAUTIFUL Cast: Ben Affleck, Olympia Dukakis, Director: Jean-Louis Daniel Peppino Impastato. Comedy Charles Dutton, Eartha Kitt, Joe Morton, Producer: Nicolas VELLE HE DIED WITH A FELAFEL IN HIS Director: Sally Field John Sayles, Charlie Sheen, Sinbad, Cast: Angie Everhart, Jurgen Prochnow, HAND Producers: John Bertolli and B.J. Rack Vanessa Williams, Alfre Woodard Gotz Otto Cast: Minnie Driver, Hallie Kate Producer: co-production with Andora Comedy Eisenberg, Joey Lauren Adams Delivery Status: Produced in 2000, some Director: Richard Lowenstein Pictures and Mandalay Sports & Urban territories are available for distribution Delivery Status: Complete Entertainment Producer: Notorious Films Pty. Ltd Budget: US$ 15 Million rights (Australia) - Fandango (Italy) Delivery Status: In development – Spring Budget: 7.5 M$ Ahilarious and heartwarming story that follows 2001 Cast: Noah Taylor ¡ Emily Hamilton the unconventional life of a young woman An undercover cop from Tel Aviv is sent Danny is on a search for love, fulfillment A coming of age drama centered around a against his will to Poland where he is whose obsession is to be the most “Beautiful.” young boy whose father, a US Army and the meaning of existence. THOMAS AND THE MAGIC obliged to work with an easy-going Polish Captain, is killed as a result of his attempts partner on a kidnapping case of young mod- RAILROAD to help integrate the United States Army in ITALIA CINEMA Family the 1950’s. els involving the Russian Mafia. Italia Cinema Srl, 63 Via Aureliana, Director: Britt Allcroft DETONATOR Rome, Italy 00153. Tel: 39.06.4201.2539. Producer: Britt Allcroft Action E-mail: [email protected]. Website: Cast: Alec Baldwin, Mara Wilson, Peter Fonda Director: www.tamtamcinema.it Budget: US$20 Million Cast: TBD Company Type: Promotion Agency A romantic adventure packed with thrills, Delivery Status: In Development – produc- HE USINESS OF At AFM: Luciana Castellina (President), spills, whistles, steam-and trains. A story tion Spring 2001 T B Giorgio Gosetti (Director) about folks who were far apart and a rail- Slade, an ex-navy Seal who specialises in Office: 860-861, Tel: 310.576.2657 road that brought them together. explosives, is pulled back into active duty FILM for the Secret Service. Someone has target- ed the President for annihilation. MALICIOUS INTENT Los Angeles Office Erotic Thriller Director: TBD E-mail elspeth, betsy Cast: TBD 5150 Wilshire Blvd. Delivery Status: In development – production Fall 2001 or angela @ A young woman falls in love with her Mr. Los Angeles Right – the Captain of the Water Polo Team. But her happiness turns to obsession when she suspects him of cheating on her with California 90036 thebusinessoffilm.com another woman…This is one lady you don’t want to ignore!

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THRILLS Erotic Series LIBERTY RODUCT Language: English INTERNATIONAL P Director: Madison Monroe, Lucas Riley, ENTERTAINMENT Alon Kaplan Producer: Kushner-Locke INC. SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT Cast: Lauren Hayes Liberty International Entertainment Inc., Delivery Status: Post Production 1990 Westwood Boulevard Penthouse, Los THRILLS takes a sexy peek behind the scenes Angeles, CA 90025 USA. Tel: at a Details/FHM style men’s magazine. 310.474.4456. Fax: 310.474.7455. E-mail: AFM 2001 [email protected]. Website: www.libertyinteractive.com Company Type: Distributor L LLL At AFM: Randy Naft (President), Irv Holender (Chairman), Richard J. Redlich, Jr. Esq. (Vice President, Business & Legal LAKESHORE Affairs), Aida Torres (Secretary-Director), Helen Sevel-Stredder (Director- INTERNATIONAL International Sales), Noel Gimbel Lakeshore International, 5555 Melrose (Director-Liberty International Publishing Avenue, Gloria Swanson Bldg. 4th Floor, Inc.) Hollywood, CA 90038, USA. Tel: Acquisition Executive: Randy Naft 323.956.4222. Fax: 323.862.1456. At AFM: Tom Rosenberg (CEO & Co- Office: H509, Tel: 310.458-6700 Chairman), Stephanie Denton (President), Eric BOY WONDERZ Reid (Chief Operating Officer), Robert Burke Family/Teen (90 min) (Vice President, Worldwide Marketing), Language: English Virginia Longmuir (Vice President, Director: Morris Sim International Business & Legal Affairs), Producer: Mark L. Anderson, Jennifer Lea Renee Mancuso (Vice President, Finance) Hinkey, Morris Sim Office: Suite 731, Loews Hotel, Tel: Cast: Mickey Blaine, George Mitchell, 310.576.7337 Dylan Cooper, Hunter Garner, Coltin Scott THE HUNTED Delivery Status: Completed Action/Thriller A funny and touching coming of age story Director: William Friedkin about one of America’s most loved pop Producers: Ricardo Mestres, Tom bands. Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi THE ULTIMATE PREY Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Connie Nielsen Delivery Status: Pre-Production Action/Adventure (95 min) A female FBI agent and a legendary wilder- Director: Benjamin Kobby ness tracker team up to catch a killer in the Producer: Benjamin Kobby mountains of Washington State. The killer Cast: Benjamin Kobby, Joe Estevez, Neil escapes custody and takes his deadly cat- Delama and-mouse game onto the streets of down- Delivery Status: completed town Seattle. An ex-Green Beret who has opted for a qui- THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES eter life; living the “American Dream.” Paranormal Thriller Finds an illegal hunting expedition where Director: Mark Pellington the prey is human. Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary AMERICAN REEL Lucchesi, Gary Goldstein Drama (90 min) Cast: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Language: English Paton, Debra Messing Director: Mark Archer Delivery Status: Production PRODUCT PROFILE After the death of his wife, journalist John Producer: Darrell Griffin AFM 2001 Klein ‘s life takes an unexpected turn as he Cast: David Carradine, Michael Maloney, begins to investigate paranormal events in the Mariel Hemingway YiYi, AVAILABLE FROM Winstar TV & Video simple town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Delivery Status: completed THE GIFT A satirical buddy drama with a music score Thriller about a pop-rock singer-songwriter, who is Director: Sam Raimi a twenty year overnight success. WOLFGIRL Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Jim Jacks, Rob LAST RIDE KUSHNER-LOCKE Thriller Tapert Teen/Action (100 min) Kushner-Locke, 11601 Wilshire Blvd., 21st Language: English Cast: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Language: English Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90025 USA. Tel: Director: Thom Fitzgerald Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes Greg Director: Jeremy Gosch 310.481.2000.Fax: 310.481.2101. E-Mail: Producer: Kushner-Locke Kinnear, Hilary Swank, Producer: Monika Melendez Gosch [email protected]. Website: Cast: Grace Jones, Time Curry, Victoria Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Todd Malta, Mark Taylor, Anne A small town is turned upside down when a Lockhart www.kushner-locke.com Sanchez young widow with psychic abilities is Company Type: Sales Agent/Distributor Delivery Status: Post Production brought in to help solve a murder. Her Delivery Status: completed At AFM: Peter Locke (Co-Chairman), Wolfgirl tells the story of a beautiful instincts draw both the authorities and her Two best friends are about to have their last Donald Kushner (Co-Chairman), Rob Aft teenage girl, who due to a rare disfiguring faith astray leading to the conviction of an intoxicating snowboarding adventure genetic disorder lives her life as a freak, (President, International Distribution), innocent man. before they part company forever. being ridiculed and taunted, until a kind Snowboarding action sequences shot in Cynthia Griffiths (VP, International U.S. Release: Paramount Classics young man tries to help her and his cure DELIVERING MILO Mammoth highlight this fast paced, edgy Distribution), Mevelyn Valladares (VP, brings out the beast in the girl, sending her Comedy teenage movie. Sales Administration), Vaughdrea Harvey on a ferocious rampage. Director: Nick Castle LEIF ERICSON (Manager, Contracts) LIONS ARE LOOSE Producers: Heriberto Schoeffer, Heidi Animation/Family (84 min) Office: 843/845 at Loews Santa Monica, Thriller Levitt Language: English Tel: 310.576.7303 (Suite #845), Fax: Language: English Cast: Bridget Fonda, Albert Finney, Lesley Director: Phil Nibbelink 310.576.7203 (Suite #843) Delivery Status: Pre-Production Ann Warren, Campbell Scott, Alison Producer: Margit Friesacher It’s man against fang and claws when the Lohman Delivery Status: completed HARVARD MAN ferocious creatures escape from a wildlife Delivery Status: Completed Sexy, Crime Thriller From acclaimed animation director Phil safari theme park, invading an isolated sub- A comedy about Milo, a soul who is next in Nibbelink, comes the epic saga of a young Language: English urban community in their desperate hunt for line to be born, but refuses to leave Heaven. A reluctant guardian angel assigned to Milo Viking Oby who discovers American 500 Director: James Topack food. years before Columbus. Producer: Daniel Bigel, Michael DARK PRINCE: THE TRUE STORY has only 24 hours to convince him that life OF DRACULA on Earth is worth the effort. Mailer/Kushner-Locke STEAL THIS MOVIE! Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Adrian Epic Action Biopic Grenier, Joey Lauren Adams, Rebecca Language: English Director: Robert Greenwald Gayheart, Ray Allen, Eric Stoltz Director: Joe Chappelle Producers: Jacobus Rose, Liz Lang Producer: Kushner-Locke/Butch Kaplan Cast: Vincent D’Onofrio, Janeane L.A. Office FAX Delivery Status: Screening Cast: Rudolph Martin, Jane March, Peter A college basketball star (Grenier) unwit- Garofalo, Kevin Pollak, Jeanne Weller Tripplehorn, Kevin Corrigan tingly gets mixed up with a mafia don’s Delivery Status: Screening Delivery Status: Completed beautiful daughter (Gellar) and finds him- Dark Prince is the epic true story of warlord The film charts the rise and fall of Abbie self thrown into the world of illegal sports Vlad Dracula, the man history would call Hoffman-activist, radical, fugitive, lover- (323) 935-8229 betting, with both the FBI and mafia watch- vampire, who when betrayed by his brother, and leads us through the maze of music, ing his every move. embarks on a bloodthirsty quest to save his politics and personal struggle of the late kingdom from foreign oppressors. Sixties and Seventies in America.

32 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE LIFESIZE MOTOR SPORTS CRASH AND PERFUME TURBULENCE 3 CRUNCH Drama Action Thriller ENTERTAINMENT Documentary (30 x 40 min) Language: English Language: English Lifesize Entertainment, 708 Main Street, Speeding and crashing cars and boats, all Director: Michael Rymer Director: Jorge Montesi Suite 103, Boonton, NJ 07005. Tel: set to rock n roll. Great video packages Executive Producer: Damita Nikapota Cast: Joe Mantegna, Rutger Hauer, Craig 973.884.4884. Fax: 973.428.9550. already a proven sell-through hit in USA. Producers: Nadia Leonelli, Fredrik Sheffer At AFM: Jim McNally (V.P. Acqusitions), SNAKE SKIN JACKET Sundwall, L.M. Kit Carson, Cynthia Erotic Thriller (92 min) Producer: Ogden Gavansky Bruce Frigeri (President), Alexander Von Hargrave Delivery Status: Screening Roon (V.P. Sales), Mitchell Banks (Sales Director: Norman Gerard Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Rita Wilson, Paul Associate) Cast: Silas Cooper, Jennifer Starr, Rupert Green To finish his career with a bang, the dark Sorvino, Omar Epps, Peter Gallagher, Sonia lord of Gothic Rock, Slade Craven, will per- Office: 435, Tel: 310.458.6700 A small time scam artist is drawn into a Braga, Mariel Hemingway, Harry Hamlin, GROWING DOWN IN BROOKLYN deadly lover’s triangle with a vicious petty form the world’s first airborne rock con- thief and an irresistible beauty. Estella Warren Drama (92 min) Delivery Status: Screening cert...in the belly of a specially outfitted 747 Director: Robert Santoli CHINA BASIN at 30,000 feet, broadcast live on the inter- Erotic Thriller (95 min) The film focuses on the lives of five people Cast: Vincent Pastore, Tina Louise, Louis trapped in the machinery of the cut-throat net. Director: Norman Gerard SKIPPED PARTS Vanaria, Amy Hargreaves Cast: Elizabeth Rossa, Chris Byrne, fashion industry where ultimately, all that Mean Streets for the new millennium. Boys Jennifer Staff really matters are appearances and labels. Bittersweet Comedy from the neighborhood confront the local An “innocent” shop owner is seduced by FLASHBACK: MURDEROUS Language: English Mafioso when they seek revenge for their the bored wife of a wealthy musician. When VACATION Director: Tamra Davis friend’s murder. the man turns up dead, the shop owner Horror Thriller (97 min) Producer: Shelby Stone, Allison Dickey SHOWER OF BLOOD becomes the prime suspect and is forced to Language: German Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bug Hall, Erotic Thriller (90 min) ask his ex wife to help prove his innocence. Director: Michael Karen Mischa Barton with Brad Renfro and Drew Director: Joe Marchetta WITH OR WITHOUT YOU Producers: Rikolt von Gagern Barrymore Coed Hardbodies on a road trip get more (90 min) Cast: Valerie Niehaus, Xaver Hutter, Delivery Status: Screening than they bargained for when they’re forced Director: Wendell Jon Andersson Alexandra Neldel, Simone Hanselmann, to take shelter in the home of a distant A rebellious 29-year-old firecracker of a Cast: Marisa Ryan, Kristoffer Winters, Elke Sommer, Erich Schleyer, Katja mom and her 14 year old son, who is far Uncle. Rachel True Woywood, Detlev Buck and Allegra CHILDHOOD’S END The SoHo Punk scene comes alive when a wiser than his years, are banished to a Curtis remote provincial town by her domineering Drama (118 min) carefree Punker gets pregnant by her “tem- Delivery Status: Screening Director: Jeff Lipsky porary” boyfriend. father. While life in a small town presents A serial killer is on the loose -- ten years something of a culture shock, it soon brings Cast: Heather Gottlieb, Sam Trammel after witnessing her parents’ murder, a Sexy expose of suburban malaise chronicles LIONS GATE FILMS young woman begins rebuilding her life, about an unexpected coming-of-age for libertine neighbor’s affair with her best Lions Gate Films, Head Office: 4553 only to discover the killer is back! both mother and son. friend’s teenage son. A fine, often erotic Glencoe Ave, Suite 200, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 USA. Tel: 310.314.2000. Fax: RACE TO SPACE meditation on love, loyalty and leaving Family Adventure (8 min) LOLAFILMS home. 310.399.1570. Website: www.lionsgate- Lolafilms, C/ Velazquez, 12 7th floor, films.com Director: Sean McNamara POSTAL WORKER Executive Producers: Peter Lambert, Al 28001-Madrid, Spain. Tel: Dark Comedy (97 min) At AFM: Joe Drake President (Lions Gate 34.91.436.74.00. Fax: 34.91.435.59.94. E- Films International), Sergei Yershov Lapin, Jr., Neil White Director: Jeffrey Jackson Producers: David Brookwell, Glen Greene mail: [email protected]. Website: Cast: Brad Garrett (Executive Vice President, International), Andrew Reimer (Senior Vice President, Cast: James Woods, Alex Linz, Annabeth www.lolafilms.com A dark satire about sex, violence and other Company Type: Producer staples of American culture. Worldwide Television), Nicolas Meyer (VP Gish, William Atherton, International Sales and Distribution), Jeff Delivery Status: Screening At AFM: Mr. Andres Vicente Gomez HEATER (CEO), Mrs. Marina Fuentes (Vice Drama (Canada 1999) (89 min) Sackman (President, Lions Gate Films), Language: English Cast: Gary Farmer, Stephen Ouimette Peter Block (President, Home Video, Based on a true story, the son of a NASA President of International Sales), Ms. Acquisitions and New Media) scientist develops a touching relationship Miriam Lopez (Business Affairs), Ms. Delivery Status: Availability: All except Office: Loews Suite #544, Tel: Canada with Mac, the first chimpanzee in space, Frida Torresblanco (Director of New 310.576.7453 and must decide whether to save his friend Media) Funny, hard hitting neo-realist fable of two FRAILTY homeless men struggling through a winter or encourage him to fulfill his destiny. Office: 464, Tel: 310.576.7023 Psychological Thriller AFTER THE STORM LA COMUNIDAD (COMMON day and night as they try and exploit the Director: Bill Paxton only possession they have, an electric space Adventure WEALTH) Executive Producers: Karen Loop, Tom Language: English heater. Huckabee, Michael Paseornek Thriller (112 min) CRAZE Director: Guy Ferland Language: Spanish Producers: David Kirschner, David Producer: Mark Amin, Nelle Nugent, and Horror/Thriller (UK/USA 1974) (110 min) Blocker, Corey Sienega Director: Alex de la Iglesia Director: Freddie Francis Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Peter A. Marshall Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez Cast: Jack Palance, Hugh Griffith, Diana Paxton, Powers Boothe, Matthew O’Leary, Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Armand Assante, Cast: Carmen Maura, Emilio Gutierrez Mili Avital Dors, Trevor Howard Jeremy Sumpter Caba; Jesus Bonilla; Terele Pavez; Sancho Delivery Status: Availability: all Delivery Status: In Post Production Delivery Status: Screening When a luxurious yacht, laden with a for- Gracia; Kiti Manver; Paca Gabaldon;... A debonair London Antique dealer makes Language: English Delivery Status: Screening: Completed- human sacrifices to an Idol in his basement. A chilling study in psychological terror cen- tune in jewelry, goes down in a violent storm the race is on to salvage the bounty at Screening MIND SNATCHERS tering on the FBI’s search for a serial killer Budget: $ 4 million Action/Horror (USA 1973) (94 min) who calls himself “God’s Hands.” any cost, causing two couples to commit the Cast: Christopher Walken, Ronny Cox, THE CAT’S MEOW ultimate betrayal. Story: A lucky real estate agent, a decom- Joss Ackland, Ralph Meeker Dramatic Thriller XCHANGE posing corpse, $3 million hidden under- Delivery Status: Availability: All, except Language: English Futuristic thriller neath a floor tile, and an apartment complex Germany Director: Peter Bogdanovich Language: English full of greedy neighbours. Something really A misfit G.I. admitted to a military psychi- Executive Producers: Wieland Schulz-Keil, Director: Allan Moyle stinks in this building! atric hospital discovers that the Army is Michael Paseornek, Peter Bogdanovich Producer: Jean Desormeaux, Marc S. OBRA MAESTRA (MASTERPIECE) using men with anti-social behaviour pat- Producers: Kimberley Bieber, Carol Lewis, Grenier Comedy (115 min) terns as guinea pigs in brain control Dieter Meyer, Julie Baines Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Kyle MacLachlan Language: Spanish research. Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Cary Elwes, Edward Delivery Status: Screening Director: David Trueba YETI Herrmann, Eddie Izzard, Joanna Lumley, In the not too distant future the fastest and Producer: Cristina Huete Action Thriller Jennifer Tilly most exclusive way to travel is by exchang- Delivery Status: In Post Production Cast: Ariadna Gil, Santiago Segura, Pablo Delivery Status: Pre-production ing bodies with someone in your chosen Carbonell Set in Hollywood’s Golden Era, this dra- destination. When a skeptical ‘passenger’ is Budget: $2 million matic thriller recounts the scandal-ridden Delivery Status: Screening: Completed- “Scream” goes to the Himilayas when a events surrounding the celebrity party forced to resort to this revolutionary mode Screening climbing expedition battles a bloodthirsty aboard media baron William Randolph of transport, his worse fears are realized Budget: $ 3 million Big Foot, blizzards and themselves. Hearst’s yacht. when his body is hi-jacked by a ruthless ter- Two aspiring film directors kidnap a famous WORD GET WELL SOON rorist. actress and force her to star in the 2master- Documentary (1 x 52) ATTRACTION Twisted Romantic Comedy piece” which they hope will bring them Director: Tony Greer Language: English Drama Capitalize on the huge popularity of Rap Language: English fame and fortune. Director: Justin McCarthy SON DE MAR (SOUND OF THE SEA) Music with this history of Hip Hop, and told Executive Producers: Jeff Sackman, Director: Russell DeGrazier by the people who started it all. Michael Paseornek Producer: Mike Elliott Romantic Drama ALMA Producers: Galt Niederhoffer, Daniela Cast: Gretchen Mol, Tom Everett Scott, Language: Spanish Documentary (1 x 53 or 1 x 94) Soto-Taplin, Randy Simon, Joanna Vicente Samantha Mathis, Matthew Settle Director: Bigas Luna Director: Ruth Leitman Cast: Courtney Cox Arquette, Vincent Delivery Status: Screening Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez Tennessee Williams meets John Waters in Gallo, Jeffrey Tambor Even though their love affair has ended, Cast: Eduard Fernandez, Jordi Molla, this heady, imaginative cocktail of a film. Delivery Status: In Post Production Matthew is obsessed with Liz, who, while Leonor Waitling Harrowing, tragic and ultimately redemp- Bobby Bishop is lovesick and is willing to rejecting his advances, has got used to being Delivery Status: Screening: Post tive, ALMA is the brilliant portrait of two give up his TV show and Playboy lifestyle the object of his desire. When Matthew Production- Show Reel Available fascinating women who overcome the most to get back the woman he loves. The only forms a relationship with Liz’s friend Corey Budget: $ 4 million horrifying circumstances with humor, intel- thing standing in his way is her colorful a complex web of jealously and manipula- Six years after his death, a man comes back ligence and love. family and their circle of social misfits. tion is laid bear. to reclaim his wife.

EL EMBRUJO DE SHANGAI (THE GAUDI AFTERNOON SILENT JUSTICE SHANGAI SPELL) Dramatic Comedy MAINLINE Action Thriller (90 min) Drama Director: Susan Seidelman RELEASING Director: James Dalthorp Language: Spanish Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez Mainline Releasing, 1801 Avenue Of The Producer: Steven Owsley Director: Fernando Trueba Cast: Judy Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Lili Stars, Suite 1035, Los Angeles, Ca 90067 Cast: Richard Tyson, Michelle Stafford, Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez Taylor, Juliette Lewis USA. Tel: 310.286.1001. Fax: Robert Vaughn, Steven Owsley Cast: Javier Bardem, Ariadna Gil, Delivery Status: Screening 310.286.0530. Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: Screening: In Pre Budget: $6 million At AFM: Marc Greenberg (President), When the justice system fails, a vigilante cop Production/ Pre-sales In this comedic mystery set against the Rich Goldberg (President), Jay E. Joyce takes the law into his own hands and dispens- Budget: $ 6 million background of Gaudi’s Barcelona, (Vice President, International Sales), es his own punishment from the end of a gun. Barcelona, 1940. When Captain Blay intro- Cassandra, an ex-pat American translator, is Joseph Dickstein (Vice President, PRAY FOR POWER duces 14 year old Dani to Susana, the too broke to refuse a glamorous stranger’s Acquisitions), Tannaz Anisi (Director, Erotic Thriller (90 min) daughter of a legendary anarchist, he falls International Sales), Lawrence Silverstein Director: Brad Jacques in love with her and gets caught up in her cry for help. Chasing shadows and chaotic cross-dressers, she soon finds herself in a (Director, Acquisitions & Development) Producer: Marc Johnson fantasy in which she imagines her father on Cast: Laura Boyle, Christopher Roblee a secret mission in Shanghai. Their dreams world of mistaken identities and ends up Office: Las Flores Room, 8th Floor, Tel: finding her true self. 310.458.6700, ext. 2230 Delivery Status: completed are shattered with the arrival of one of her A beautiful model witnesses a murder and father’s old comrades. SYDNEY Kids Adventure becomes trapped in a world of crime. EL PORTERO (THE GOALKEEPER) BALLAD OF THE NIGHTINGALE Romance-Comedy (88 min) M MMM Director: Bill Tannen Producer: Chuck Binder, Grant Bradley, Romantic Comedy (90 min) Language: Spanish Director: Guy Greville Morris Director: Gonzalo Suarez George Lasku Cast: Spencer Breslin, Joan Collins, Producer: Jordan Leibert Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez MAGIC FILMS Cast: Virginia Madsen, Michael Madsen, Cast: Carmelo Gomez, Maribel Verdu Magic Films, Edificio Bronce.Avda. De Rachel Hunter, Rolf Moller Delivery Status: Production Seymour Cassel, Harry Dean Stanton Delivery Status: Screening: Completed/ Burgos 8-A, 10º. 28036 Madrid- Spain. Delivery Status: completed Screening on tape. Tel: 34.91.383.15.72. Fax: A young boy helps a talking Koala bear Budget: $ 4 million escape his kidnappers and return to his A beautiful and charming prostitute down 34.91.383.08.45. E-mail: on her luck embarks on a wild adventure A football con artist earning a meagre living [email protected] homeland. from informal games around war-torn EXPOSURE that puts her the Mafia and finding the man Company Type: Sales Agent of her dreams. Spain meets his match in a fugitive anar- At AFM: Angel Blasco (General Manager) Suspense Thriller (90 min) chist... and the arms of a local beauty. Director: David Blyth FRIENDS AND LOVERS Acquisition Executive: Angel Blasco Romantic Drama (90 min) Office: European Film Promotion Stand, Producer: Cool Films Ltd. / Richard Stewart Director: George Haas LOLAFILMS UK #758, Tel: 310.576-7020 Producer: Josi W. Konski Lolafilms UK, 19 Garrick Street, London, MARRY ME MARIBEL Cast: Ron Silver, Alexandra Paul WC2E 9AX UK. Tel: 44.20.7845.7900. Delivery Status: completed Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Danny Nucci, Fax: 44.20.7845.7909 Romantic Comedy (100 minutes) Life becomes dangerous for a photographer Robert Downey Jr., Claudia Schiffer, Company Type: Production & Sales Language. Spanish when one of his models is murdered under Alison Eastwood Company Director: Angel Blasco suspicious circumstances. Delivery Status: completed At AFM: Nicole Mackey (President, Prdoucer: Angel Blasco ON THE QT Featuring an all-star cast with Academy International Sales), Will Machin (Vice- Cast: Natalia, Dicenta, Carlos Hipolito, Drama (90 min) Award nominee Robert Downey Jr., President, International Sales), Ludwig Natalie Seseña Director: Yale Strom Stephen Baldwin, and super model Claudia Wagner (Director of Marketing), Nadine Delivery Status: completed Producer: Donald Rabinovitch Schiffer, Friends & Lovers is a sexy Luque (Director of Creative Affairs), Budget: US $ 2M Cast: James Earl Jones, Trudie Styler, Sam Generation-X movie about best friends who David Terrien (Head of Development) Simple countryman falls in love with a city Ball, Annie Parisse pair up in unexpected ways over a memo- Office: The Loews Hotel, Suite 464, Tel: hooker and wants make her the woman of An elder mentor (James Earl Jones) rable ski weekend. 310.576.7023 his dreams. attempts to educate a young music prodigy 15 AMORE RAIN THE JOURNEY OF ARIAN (LIVE Drama (90 min) through the mean streets of New York. Producer: Brooke Wilson Thriller ACTION) NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU Director: Katherine Lindberg Thriller-Drama (100 minutes) Director: Maurice Murphy Suspense Thriller (90 min) Cast: Lisa Hensley, Steve Bastoni, Producer: Jordi Ros & Martin Scorsese Language. Spanish Producer: Cool Films Ltd. / Richard Cast: Melora Walters, Kris Park, Jamey Director: Eduard Bosh Domenic Galati, Tara Jakszewicz, Stewart Gertraud Ingeborg Sheridan, Diane Ladd Producer: Angel Blasco Cast: Kelly McGillis, Barry Corbin Delivery Status: In post-production Cast: Ingrid Rubio, Silvia Munt, Abel Folk Delivery Status: completed Budget: $5 million Delivery Status: completed 15 Amore is a story of love and loss, set in Delivery Status: completed Suburban, sedate and safe family lives turn Set in contemporary America’s Heartland, Budget: US $ 2M the final year of WWII. Rain tells a story of murder, sex and rather gruesome with the arrival of a house- SINFUL TEMPTATIONS redemption set against the backdrop of a Young idealistic Arian joins Basque terror- guest who not what seems to be. ist organization and can’t pull out. Erotic Thriller (90 min) dead-end town suffering through a severe DO YOU WANNA KNOW A SECRET? Director: Eric Gibson drought. TIME GATE Thriller / Horror (90 min) Producer: Marc Greenberg OFF KEY Animation (90 minutes) Director: Tom Bradford Delivery Status: completed Comedy Language: English Producer: Del Tenney, Kermit Christman Cast: Mia, Marie West, Richard Moses, Director: Manuel Gomez Pereira Director: Pedro Delgado Cast: Joey Lawrence, Jeff Conaway, Chad Burke Morgan Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez Producer: Angel Blasco Allen, Dorie Barton PRIVATE CALL Cast: Jo Mantegna, Danny Aiello, George Cast: Animation Delivery Status: completed Erotic Thriller (90 min) Hamilton Delivery Status: preproduction As a night out on the town turns into a Producer: Marc Greenberg Delivery Status: In post-production Two Kids are accidentally thrown back to nightmare, six young college students must Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Danny Nucci, Budget: $9.5 million the past and they try to get back home fight for their lives as a killer hunts each of Robert Downey Jr., Claudia Schiffer, Ten years after their acrimonious split, the through different history periods. them down. Alison Eastwood world-famous three tenors are reunited for WILLIAM TELL SCANDELOUS BEHAVIOR Delivery Status: completed what promises to be the messiest wedding Animation (90 minutes) Erotic Thriller (90 min) CARNAL SINS of the year. As old hatreds surface, the Language: English Director: James Hong Erotic Thriller (90 min) world press gathers to witness the chaos. Director: Angel Blasco Producer: Jeff Eubank, John Bettis Director: Madison Monroe THE DANCER UPSTAIRS Producer: Angel Blasco Cast: Shannon Tweed, James Hong Producer: Marc Greenberg Thriller Cast: Animation Delivery Status: completed Cast: Brandy Davis, Danny Pape, Anthony Director: John Malkovich Delivery Status: preproduction Her recklessness made her a prisoner. Her Skordi Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez passion and sex bought her a way out. Her Delivery Status: completed Cast: Javier Bardem, Laura Morrante, Juan deceit poisons those who love her. Her KIDS WORLD Diego Botto scandalous behavior drives powerful men Family Adventure (90 min) Delivery Status: In Post-Production This Product Guide and insane. Director: Dale Bradley Budget: $5.5 million 587- THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY Producer: Grant Bradley, Tom Taylor Peru - 1980s: As daily bombings strike at Family Adventure (90 min) the government’s foundations, a surreal other sections of the Cast: Christopher Lloyd, Blake Foster, Director: Dan Hall Michael Purvis cocktail of martial law, savage violence and Producer: Dan Hall end-of-the-world gaiety grips the nation. main magazine Delivery Status: Completed THAT GIRL FROM RIO Cast: Ray Burns, Nick Abeel, Araiadne When a young boy unearths an ancient Comedy will be available Baker-Dunn Indian wishing stone, he discovers the per- Director: Christopher Monger Delivery Status: completed ils of having his wish come true – all the Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez, Muir A group of adventurous children and their adults disappear. Sutherland on-line at dog try to save an old stream engine train BIG BROTHER TROUBLE Cast: Hugh Laurie, Vanessa Nunez, and its conductor from the scrap yard. Family Adventure (90 min) Santiago Segura www.thebusinessoffilm.com GETTING TO KNOW YOU Director: Ralph Portillo Delivery Status: Screening Action Thriller (90 min) Producer: Ralph Portillo Budget: $6 million HE USINESS OF ILM S Director: Lisanne Skyler Cast: Bo Hopkins, Mario Lopez, Dick Van Discovering your wife is sleeping with your T B F ’ Producer: Shadowcatcher Entertainment Patten, Shad Hart boss can make a man do strange things! Cast: Heather Matarazzo, Zach Braff, Bebe Delivery Status: Completed For a Samba-obsessed London clerk home on Neuwirth, Chris Noth, Bo Hopkins Mitch, a young boy constantly competing named Raymond, robbing a bank and Delivery Status: completed with his older soccer star brother Sean, boarding the first flight to Rio are just the the internet. 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34 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE THE LOST TREASURE OF MDP WORLDWIDE THE BODY MEDIA ASIA GROUP SAWTOOTH ISLAND MDP Worldwide (formerly Behaviour Political Thriller Media Asia Group, Rm 414-416, 4/F Family Adventure (90 min) Director: Jonas McCord Commerce Center, 11 Canton Road, TST, Director: Richard Brauer Worldwide), 1875 Century Park East, Suite 2000, Los Angeles CA 90067 USA. Producer: Rudy Cohen Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel: Producer: William Immerman, Richard Exec. Producer: Diane Sillan Isaacs, Tel: 310.226.8300. Fax: 310.226.8350. 852.2314.4288. Fax: 852.2314.4248. E- Brauer Werner Koenig, Mark Damon, Moshe At AFM: Mark Damon (Chairman and mail: [email protected]. Web-site: Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Seth Howard, Diamant www.mediaasia.com Brennan Hesser, Logan Lipton CEO), Reiko Bradley ( Exec. Vice Cast: Antonio Banderas, Olivia Williams President Worldwide Distribution), Company Type: Producer, Distributor Delivery Status: Completed and Derek Jacobi At AFM: Thomas Chung (Group A young boy searches for an ancient pirate Richard Kiratsoulis (President and Delivery Status: Completed. COO), David Gaynes (Sr. Vice Managing Director), Wellington Fung treasure based on a story told to him by his Budget: $30 million (Group Deputy Managing Director), Peter late father. President Marketing & Publicity), Set against the turbulent physical, political Poon (Deputy General Manager), Ricky Tatyana Joffe (Director, International and spiritual backdrops of the Middle East Tse (Senior Manager (Distribution), Apple MATE PRODUCTION, Operations), Rick Short (Director of and Rome at the dawn of the new Chiu (Distribution Executive), Cora Yim Distribution Services) Millennium, “The Body” tells the story of (Sr. Manager – Marketing & Acquisition) S.A. Offices: Loews Santa Monica Hotel, Israeli archaeologist Sharon Golban Office: Loews Hotel – Room 302-303, Tel: Mate Production, S.A., Hortaleza, 59 - 1º Suite 842, Tel: 310.576.7103 (Williams), who makes a find that may 310.576.6921 A, 28004 Madrid, Spain. Tel: D’ARTAGNAN threaten the foundation of western civiliza- VISIBLE SECRET 34.1.532.02.25. Fax: 34.1.532.94.50. E- Romantic Action adventure tion. Drama mail: [email protected] Director: Peter Hyams THE BLACK DAHLIA Language: Cantonese Company type: producer Producer: Moshe Diamant Noir Crime Thriller Director: Ann Hui At AFM: Mate Cantero (President), Exec. Producer: Rudy Cohen, Mark Director: David Fincher Producer: Thomas Chung, Willie Chan Stephane Sorlat (Vice President) Damon, Frank Hubner, Stephen Paul, Producers: Rudy Cohen, Moshe Diamant Cast: Shu Kei Office: 758, Tel: 310.576.7020 Romain Schroeder, Datty Ruth and David Fincher Delivery Status: In Development AMOR, CURIOSIDAD, PROZAK Y Cast: Tim Roth, Mena Suvari, Catherine Exec. Producer: Mark Damon Budget: USD2.5 million DUDAS Deneuve, Stephen Rea, Justin Chambers Cast: TBD A young woman with the ability to see Urban Comedy (93 min) and Nick Moran Delivery Status: In Development ghosts delivers a haunting message to the Language: Spanish new man in her life. Director: Miguel Santesmases Delivery Status: Principal photography Budget: $70 - $80 million completed. When the torture-ravaged body of a beauti- BEIJING ROCK & ROLL Producer: Mate Cantero / Stephane Sorlat Drama Cast: Pilar Punzano, Guillaume Budget: $40 million ful young starlet is discovered, it launches the biggest man-hunt in LA history. She Language: Cantonese Depardieu, Rosa Mariscal A mysterious warrior named D’Artagnan Director: Mabel Cheung Delivery Status: Complete arrives in Paris to join the Musketeers in becomes known as “the Black Dahlia” and for the two detectives assigned to her case, Producer: Thomas Chung & Willie Chan Budget: 420 million pts. an effort to save a country on the verge Cast: Shu Kei, Daniel Wu This is the story of three sisters, whose lives of war. In an epic time when danger she becomes their dark obsession. Based on the best selling novel by James Ellroy. Delivery Status: Post-production are extremely different, that will find out lurked around every corner, D’Artagnan Budget: USD2 million they need each other more than they ever must defeat the evil Cardinal Richelieu FOUR DOGS PLAYING POKER A youngster joins a Beijing rock band, and thought. and his shadow army of deadly merce- Psychological thriller takes a walk on the wild side of modern UTOPIA naries. Director: Paul Rachman China. Thriller THE EXTREMISTS Producers: Steven Hoffman and Matt PRINCESS D Language: Spanish Extreme Sports Action Salinger Romantic Comedy Director: Maria Ripoll Director: Christian Duguay Exec. Producers: William Sherak, Jason Language: Cantonese Producer: Mate Cantero / Stephane Sorlat Producer: Moshe Diamant Shuman Director: Sylvia Chang Cast: (Not confirmed) Exec. Producer: Mark Damon, Steven Cast: Olivia Williams, Balthazar Getty, Producer: Thomas Chung, Willie Chan Stacy Edwards, Tim Curry Delivery Status: In Development Paul, Frank Hubner, Rudy Cohen and Cast: Angelica Lee, Edison Chen, Daniel Budget: (Not confirmed) Delivery Status: Completed. Wu Romain Schroeder Budget: $6 million Co-Producer: Jan Fantl Delivery Status: In Pre-production With the help of their mentor Felix, a group The success of digitally-created pop idol Delivery Status: Pre-production of best friends and first-time thieves steal a An extreme sports film crew is inadver- leads to a star-crossed romance in the real valuable statuette for a ruthless black mar- world. THE BUSINESS OF tently drawn into the adventure of a life- ket art dealer. After the amateurs botch the THE TOUCH time when they accidentally discover the delivery of the objet d’art, the art dealer Action/Thriller FILM whereabouts of a war criminal high in kills Felix and forces the remaining four to Language: Cantonese the Austrian Alps. ‘find’ $1 million within a week’s time or Director: Peter Pau FEAR.COM face certain death. Producer: Thomas Chung Cyber thriller LOVE AND SEX Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Daniel Wu Director: William Malone Romantic Comedy Delivery Status: In Development Los Angeles Office Producer: Moshe Diamant Director: Valerie Breiman A pair of daredevil circus performers moon- Exec. Producer: David Saunders, Steven Producer: Timothy Scott Bogart, Brad lights as thieves to avenge the betrayal of Paul, Mark Damon, Frank Hubner, Wyman, Martin Barab, Darris Hatch their father. 5150 Wilshire Blvd. Rudy Cohen, Exec. Producer: Mark Damon Romain Schroeder and Datty Ruth. 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PRODUCT PROFILE BEYOND FILMS AFM 2001

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LIFE AS A FATAL SEXUALLY MEDIA LUNA TRANSMITTED DISEASE PRODUCT ENTERTAINMENT (99 min) GMBH & CO. KG Producer: Grazyna Kozlowska – Studio Media Luna Entertainment GmbH & CO. Filmowe Tor KG, Hochstadenstrasse 1-3, D-50674 Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Krystyna SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT Cologne, Germany. Tel: 49.221.139.2222. Janda, Tadeusz Bradecki, Pawel Okrasa Fax: 49.221.139.2224. When he knows the end stage of his illness, At AFM: Ida Martins (CEO) Tomasz, a sixty years old doctor, begins to Office: 760, Tel: 310.576.7040, Fax: deny all moral values he used to cherish and AFM 2001 310.576.7049 tries to prove they’re wrong. JUST THE BEGINNING KOROSHI – FILM NOIR Romantic Comedy (95 min) (86 min) Director: Pierre Franckh Producer: Seiichi Ono – Museum Co Producer: Christopher Meyer-Wiel Cast: Ryo Ishibashi, Nene Otsuka, Sansyo Cast: Julie Richter, Rene Hofschneider, Dieter Landuris, Clelia Sarto, Martin Shinsui, Ken Ogata Armknecht Yuji, a gentle, honest and typical Japanese Ann, attractive and possessing a zest for life, salaried-man has been laid off. He is hang- has had enough of Thorsten, her selfish and ing around a town with a depressed heart, career-obsessed boyfriend. After a fight with thinking of his loving wife and daughter. him, Anna randomly meets Michael, a shy One day, he meets a stranger who offers him actor, because she dialed the wrong number. a job. This job is a murder… BERLIN IS IN GERMANY FAIS-MOI REVER Drama (93 min) (80 min) Director: Hannes Stohr Producer: Jacky Katu – Over Mars Cast: Jorg Schuttauf, Julia Jager, Tom Cast: Fabienne Babe, Rachid Djaidani, Jahn, Valentin Platareno, Robin Becker Sacha Bourdo, Antoine Basler Martin Schulz, who was incarcerated for 11 years under the East German regime, is Delivery Status: Completed released into reunified Germany. Alice only falls in love with people who FINNLANDIA make her dream. As a result, she loves Drama (114 min) Mickey who makes her dream about an Director: Eleni Ampelakiotou & Gregor adventure life. But Alice thinks that such a Schnitzler man can’t be interested in a porn video sell- Producer: Gudrun Ruzickova-Steiner er and makes up a new character… Production: Luna Film GmbH ORIGINE CONTROLEE Cast: Caroline Baehr, Marc Hosemann, (90 min) Erdal Yildiz Producer: Raymond Blumenthal – Blue After the tragic loss of her husband a young Film woman reconstructs the circumstances, which caused his death. Cast: Patrick Ligardes, Ronit Elkabetz, BOY’S CHOIR Atmen Kelif Drama (130 min) Delivery Status: completed Director: Ogata Akira A rare mixed ethnic trio; Patrick dressed as Producer: Sento Takenori a woman, Sonia an Algerian prostitute and Production: Sunscent Cinemaworks Yussef playing a tough guy. Charged to be Cast: Ito Atsushi, Toma Sora, Kagawa evicted from France they escape from a Teruyuki, Takizawa Ryoko, Kunimura Jun. police van. On the run the three learn to In the late sixties, a whole generation of know and love each other…A mad come- Japanese students were swept into the dy… dream of a new society. LA VILLE EST TRANQILLE GANGSTER PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 Drama (90 min) (132 min) Director: Volker Einrauch Producer: Gilles Sandoz – AGAT Films & Producer: Lothar Kurzawa Cie Equilibrium, AVAILABLE FROM Dimension Films Cast: Laura Tonke, Frank Giering, Dietmar Cast: Ariane Ascaride, Pierre Banderet, Mues, Saskia Vester, Andreas Schmidt, Jean-Pierre Darroussin… Rufus Beck Delivery Status: completed A love story between the small gangster Peculiar and mixed up stories – all in the MEDIA FILM CURSE OF THE EMPEROR’S TOMB Vincent and the policeman’s daughter same place and same moment, in Action/Adventure Mona. Marseilles, just before the year 2000 – indi- INTERNATIONAL Language: English cate that in front of the rising of insignifi- Media Film International, 3345 Wilshire Producers: Yong Ho Lee, David A. Smitas, Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90027 MERCURE cance, the town is not quiet. P.J. Leone VAILLONT USA. Tel: 213.736.6060. Fax: Delivery Status: Pre-Production 213.736.6066. E-mail: DISTRIBUTION Producer: Renzo Martinelli – Martinelli The Curse Of The Emperor’s Tomb is Mercure Distribution, 27, rue de la Butte Films [email protected], [email protected]. unleashed upon the world when an army of Company Type: Worldwide Distributor / aux Cailles 75013 Paris, France. Tel: Cast: Michel Serrault, Daniel Auteuil, Ancient Chinese Terracota Soldiers are 331.44.16.88.44. Fax: 331.45.65.07.47. Production and Co-Productions reanimated to life in the present day. Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu, Laura Morante, At AFM: Yong Ho Lee (President), David At AFM: Natalie Dana, Loic Magneron Jorge Perugorria A. Smitas (Executive Vice President), P.J. YONGGARY Office: Unifrance booth 618, 611, Tel: Science Fiction/Adventure 310.576.7055, Fax: 310.576.7056 Delivery Status: Post-Production Leone (International Vice President), The Vailont is a river whre the biggest Marty Poole (Director of International Language: English Cell: 336.14.48.00.94, Radison Huntley Director: Hyung Rae Shim Hotel, Tel: 310.394.5454. Fax: European barrage was about to be built. Sales), Matthew Perniciaro (International Based on real events, this movie evokes the Sales) Producers: Yong Ho Lee, David A. Smitas, 310.458.9776 Acquisitions: Yong Ho Lee, David A. P.J. Leone ON APPELLE CA LE PRINTEMPS disaster which happened in the Dolomites Smitas, Marty Poole Delivery Status: Completed (107 min) in Italy on October the 9th, 1963. Office: Office 766-767, Tel: 310.576.7119 An archeological expedition accidentally Producer: Gilles Sandoz – AGAT Films & ROBERTO ZUCCO THE BOSS awakens and ancient beast of destruction Cie Producer: Gilles Sandoz – Agat Films & Drama/Action which threatens to destroy the world. Cast: Marie Matheron, Marilyne Canto, Cie Language: Korean (Subtitled in English) Naryse Copaiolo, Pierre Berriau Cast: Stefano Casseti, Patrick Dell’lsola, Delivery Status: Completed Three married women, Fanfan, Joss and Isild Le Besco Cast: Cho Yang Eun Manu leave home and squat at Claude’s, a Delivery Status: Post-Production The true story of the consolidation of organ- man they have just met. But the three husbands are still tracking around… Based on the real story of the serial killer ized crime in Korea and the brutal ascension Roberto Succo. to power of it’s Gun Dal leader, Cho Yang EVERYBODY FAMOUS (IEDEREEN Eun. Politically banned from theatres after Send Your BEROEMD) Le Pornographe becoming one Korea’s most successful (97 min) Producer: Carole Scotta – Haut Et Court films ever. Producer: Loret Meus & Dominique Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Dominique Blanc, ICEMAN FIREMAN Deruddere – Otomatic Jeremie Renier An Animated Adventure Press Releases to: Cast: Josse De Pauw, Werner De Smedt, Delivery Status: Post-Production Language: English Thekla Reuten, Eva Van der Gutch Jacques, a famous porn actor in the 1970’s, Producer: G:Company Marva is a regular at singing contests which returns to the screen following some finan- Delivery Status: Pre-Production she unfortunately always loses. cial problems. A few years previously, his A coming of age story in which Solo Ice, a [email protected] Nevertheless, her father, Jean, dreams of a beautiful career for her. But one day Jean seventeen year old son, Joseph, left him young Iceman who has super powers, real- when he found out his father’s activity. izes he is the one who can restore peace to a gets laid off. In revenge, he decides to kid- world of conflict, where Ice and Fire are in nap the number one singer in the country, Time has passed. Jacques and Joseph are a constant battle. Debbie… going to meet again.

TANGOS VOLES THE HOURS IN THE WEEDS Producer: Hubert Niogret – Kanpai Drama MOONSTONE Romantic Comedy Productions Language: English ENTERTAINMENT Director: Michael Rauch Cast: Guy Marchand, Sylvie Testud, Director: Stephen Daldry Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box 7400, Producer: Peter Glatzer Liberto Rabal, Juan Echanove, Atmen Producer: Scott Rudin Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel: Cast: Molly Ringwald, Josh Leonard, J.P. Kelif Delivery Status: In Pre-Production 818.985.3003. Fax: 818.985.3009. Pitoc, Ellen Pompeo, Sam Harris, Eric Delivery Status: Post-Production Cast: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, At AFM: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh (CEO), Bogosian, Michael Buchman Silver, Peter A young Argentine living in modern-day Julianne Moore Mrs. Yael Stroh (President), Mr. Dana Reigert Paris falls for a young actress. He writes a Oscar-winner Meryl Streep top lines this strong Williams (V.P. Business Administration), Delivery Status: Completed script for her, which is set in Buenos Aires ensemble adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Through one night’s dinner shift at a New in the 30s, in a film studio, where all the Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller. Mr. Michael Kasher (Director) Office: 546, Tel: 310.458.6700 ext. 546, York City bistro, a wait staff of artists and films made include tangos. THE FOUR FEATHERS students flirt and argue while managing J’AI TUE CLEMENCE ACERA Epic Adventure Fax: 310.458.6761 THE HOTEL concerns about their careers, finances and Producer: Laurent Penegui – Magouric Language: English relationships. Productions Director: Shekhar Kapur Dark Comedy Cast: Gerald Laroche, Catherine Mouchet, Producers: Stanley Jaffe & Bob Jaffe, Director: Mike Figgis Sacha Bourdo, Patrick Chesnais Marty Katz Producer: Mike Figgis, Annie Stewart, Delivery Status: Post-Production Cast: Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Etchie Stroh MORGAN CREEK Clemence is missing. Where is she? What Hudson, Djimon Hounsou, Kris Marshall, Cast: Selma Hayek, David Schwimmer, happened? Has she been murdered? Michael Sheen. Alex Jennings and Rupert Julien Sands, Danny Huston, Valeria Golino INTERNATIONAL LOKARRI Penry-Jones Delivery Status: In Production Morgan Creek International, 4000 Warner Producer: Jean-Pierre Grasset – Atlan Delivery Status: In Production Four frames of simultaneous action give a Boulevard, Building 76, Burbank, CA Films & Cie A sweeping romantic action adventure in peek into every nook and cranny of a Venetial 91522 USA. Tel: 818.954.4800. Fax: Cast: Stephane Rideau, Elenore Gosset, the tradition of “Lawrence of Arabia,” “The hotel as they follow interwoven stories of 818.954.4990. Website: www.morgan- Nicolas Abraham English Patient,” and “Braveheart,” this political intrigue, assassination, prostitution, a creek.com Delivery Status: Post-Production epic tale is set at the end of the 19th film production, and the maid service. At AFM: Howard Kaplan (CFO), Brian Imanol, a young Cesta Punta pelota player, Century, as the British Empire fought sav- DANCING AT THE BLUE IGUANA Robinson (Head of Worldwide Marketing), dreams to leave the Basque country. But he agely to retain its control of the Sudan. Director: Michael Radford Jonathan Deckter (VP International) meets Viviane, a Parisian girl who is fond of SERENDIPITY Office: 525, Tel: 310.576.7243 Basque culture, and Ximixta, a famous player Romantic Comedy Producers: Etchie Stroh, Ram Bergman, Dana Lustig, Michael Radford, Damian AMERICAN OUTLAWS of the 70s. Both of them will gradually make Language: English Action him realize that happiness may be just here. Director: Peter Chelsom Jones, Graham Broadbent, Sheila Kelly Producers: Simon Fields, Peter Abrams, Cast: Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilly, Sandra Language: English Robert Levy & Andrew Panay Oh, Elias Koteas, Vladimir Mashkov, Sheila Director: Les Mayfield MIRACLE Screenplay by: Jennie Bicks Kelly, Charlotte Ayanna, Robert Wisdom Cast: Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Cast: John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Molly Status: Screening Timothy Dalton, Kathy Bates ENTERTAINMENT Shannon, Bridget Moynahan, and Jeremy Piven A non-glamorous portrayal of the lives of a Delivery Status: Post-production Miracle Entertainment, 8730 Sunset Blvd., Delivery Status: Post-Production number of characters who make their living When the US railroad starts forcing farmers Penthouse House East, Los Angeles, CA A chance encounter leads to one magical night at a strip club in contemporary Los Angeles. from their homes, a group of young ranch- 90069 USA. Tel: 310.360.7490. Fax: in New York City for two young strangers. PANDAEMONIUM ers band together to take back what is 310.358.2249 Ten years later - and only weeks from marry- Director: Julien Temple theirs.As their fame grows, so will the leg- At AFM: Jason Zelin ( President), Tony ing other people - Jonathan and Sarah’s mem- Producers: Nick O’Hagen and Michael end of their leader, an outlaw by the name Cataldo (Chairman and Chief Executive ories of that fateful night resurface. Kustow of Jesse James. Officer), Martin Landau (Senior Consultant GET OVER IT Cast: John Hannah, Linus Roach, JUWANNA MANN and Board Member), Cliff Brune (Chief Language: English Samantha Morton, Emily Woof Comedy Financial Officer), Carol M. Rossi (Vice Romantic Comedy Status: Screening Language: Comedy President, International), Odette A. Tyler Director: Tommy O’Haver A story of the friendship and betrayal of two Director: Jesse Vaughan (Director of International Sales) Producers: Paul Feldsher, Marc Butan, poets, Sam Coleridge and William Cast: Miguel A. Nuñez, Jr., Vivica A. Fox, Office: Room 305, Tel: 310.576.6951 Michael Burns Tommy Davidson, Ginuwine Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Sisqo, Wordsworth who through the haze of opium and in the heat of the passions of the French Delivery Status: Post-production Martin Short, Mila Kunis, Melissa Sage Juwanna know a secret? What do you get MIRAMAX Miller, Kylie Bax, Zoe Saldana, Colin Revolution explore the edges of both. when you cross a suspended basketball Hanks and Carmen Electra HIDDEN AGENDA superstar with a pair of high heels? Juwanna INTERNATIONAL Delivery Status: Post-Production Thriller Mann- the best-kept secret to hit the Miramax International, 99 Hudson Street, When the high school’s star athlete is Director: Marc S. Grenier women’s basketball league. 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel: dumped by the love of his life, he will go to Producer: Shimon Dotan, Marc S. Grenier, THE IN CROWD 212.219.4100. Fax: 212.941.3836. any extreme to win her back, even if it Joanne Forgues Thriller (105 min) At AFM: Rick Sands (Chairman, means joining her in the school’s produc- Delivery Status: Post Production Language: English Worldwide Distribution, Miramax Films), tion of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” When the FBI can’t protect a witness, it’s up Cedric Jeanson (Executive Vice President, Director: Mary Lambert HEAVEN to ex-Agent price and his own private wit- Cast: Susan Ward, Lori Heuring, Mathew Miramax International), Stephen Klain Drama ness protection program to take them under. (Executive Vice President, International Settle, Nathan Bexton Language: English HOLLYWOOD PALMS Delivery Status: Completed Marketing, Miramax Intl.), Julie Roach Director: Tom Tykwer Comedy (Vice President, Business and Legal Producers: Anthony Minghella, Mark A psychological thriller surrounding a girl Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff with a mysterious past who is seduced into Affairs, Miramax International), Mark Bachett, Maria Kopf, Stephan Arndt, Producer: Paul Canterna, William Lindsay (Vice President, International Frederic Dumas a country club’s “in crowd” by its charis- Distribution, Miramax International), Marc Blaylock, Yoram Barzilai matic leader, but later learns that the good Cast: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi Cast: Judge Reinhold, Elizabeth Mitchell, Bunag (Creative Director, Miramax Delivery Status: In Post-Production life is not all it seems. International) A woman (Oscar-nominee Cate Blanchett) Dean Cameron Office: Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, accused of killing four people in a bombing, Delivery Status: In Post-Production MYRIAD PICTURES Suite 831, 1700 Ocean Avenue, Santa escapes from police custody with the aid of A turbulent evening of romance, mayhem Myriad Pictures, 421 S. Beverly Drive 5th Monica, CA 90401, Tel: 310.576.7490, a young police officer who has fallen in and outright confusion displayed by the ten- Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA. Tel: Fax: 310.576.7499 love with her. ants of a beaten down Hollywood apartment 310.789.4500. Fax: 310.789.4545. THE SHIPPING NEWS complex comes to a rousing conclusion. At AFM: Kirk D’Amico (Co-President), Romantic/Drama MODERN DORIAN Philip von Alvensleben (Co-President), Language: English Thriller Eric Christenson (Executive Vice Director: Lasse Hallstrom ENTERTIANMENT, Director: Allan Goldstein President, Sales & Distribution), Gary Producers: Irwin Winkler, Rob Cowen, Producers: Allan Goldstein, Luciano Lisi, Phillips (Senior Vice President, Linda Goldstein LTD. Charmaine Carvalho, Christine Cavana, Modern Entertainment, Ltd., 16255 International Distribution), D’Arcy Cast: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore Harry Alan Towers Conrique (Sales Executive), Nicolas Delivery Status: In Pre-Production Ventura Blvd., Suite 1100, Encino, CA 91436 USA. Tel: 818.386.0444. Fax: Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Ethan Ericson Chartier (Vice President, Sales and Liberated from his tempestuous wife, a Delivery Status: Screening Acquisitions) down-and-out writer travels North with his 818.728.8294. E-mail: [email protected] A modern day update of the Oscar Wilde Office: Suite 631, Tel: 310.576.7265, Fax: young daughter and settles into a quaint novel, “The Portrait of Dorian Gray.” new home filled with colorful characters, At AFM: Michael Weiser (President & 310.576.7286 more exciting stories, and second chances. CEO), Ken DuBow (Sr. VP, Worldwide EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER PEOPLE I KNOW VIEW FROM THE TOP Sales), Allyson Hall (VP, International Drama Suspense Comedy Sales), Michelle Lara (Account Executive- Language: English Executive Producer: Robert Redford Language: English International Sales), Janice Manley Director: Marc Forster Producers: Michael Nozik, Leslie Urdang, Director: Bruno Barreto (Consultant) Producer: Sean Furst Karen Tenkhoff Producers: Brad Grey, Matthew Baer Acquisition Executive: Ken DuBow Cast: Radha Mitchell, Justin Louis, Megan Cast: Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Tea Leoni, Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Kelly Preston, (Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales) Mullally, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Matt Ryan O’Neal Christina Applegate, Rob Lowe, Candice Office: 822, Tel: 310.458.6700, ext. 822 Malloy, Michelle Hicks, Alan Ruck, Mark Director: Dan Algrant Bergen, Mark Ruffalo, Marc Blucas, DUNE Boone Jr. Writer: Jon Robin Baitz Stacey Dash, Robyn Peterson and Mike HALLOWEEN II & III Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Pre-Production Myers. 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Mortensen, John Rhys-Davis, Liv Tyler thinks he is Holden Caulfield. www.neuroplanet.com Drama Delivery Status: In Post-Production Thriller Company Type: Producer And Distributor Language: English The Lord of the Rings, the book of the 20th Director: Chen Kaige At AFM: Marc MINJAUW (Producer), Director: Menahem Golan Century, is about to become the motion pic- Executive Producers: Tom Pollock, Ivan Jean-Paul BASTIN (International Sales Producer: Menahem Golan and Evgeny ture event of the 21st Century - A ground- Reitman Manager), Acquisition executive: Marc Afineevsky breaking epic of good versus evil, extraor- Producer: Joe Medjuck, Lynda Myles, Minjauw Cast: Sean Young and Martin Landau dinary heroes, wondrous creatures and dark Michael Chinich, Dan Goldberg Office: 758, Tel: 310.576.7020. Fax: Delivery Status: Pre-production armies of terror. 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RESTLESS ARIANA’S QUEST LETHAL TARGET NONSTOP SALES AB Drama (erotic) (110 minutes) Fantasy/Adventure (95 minutes, approx.) Sci-Fi (95min.) NonStop Sales AB (member of the Language: Finnish with English subtitles (new to AFM) Millennium Media Group), Döbelnsgatan Language: English - no subtitles Director: Aku Louhimies Language: English - no subtitles Director: Lloyd A. Simandl 24, SE-113 52 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel. Producer: Markus Selin (The South, Born Producer/Director: Lloyd A. Simandl & 46.8.673.9980. Fax: 46.8.673.9988. E- American directed by Renny Harlin) Danny Virtue Producer: Lloyd A. Simandl mail: [email protected]. Website: Cast: Mikko Nousiainen, Laura Cast: Rena Mero Cast: CC Costigan, Kim Dawson & Josh www.nonstopsales.net Malmivaara, Irina Björklund Delivery Status: Post-Production Baker At AFM: Michael Werner (Sales Director: Budget: 1,7 mil. USD Set in the Dark Ages, a princess, robbed of Delivery Status: complete mobile phone +46-70-733 2855 (stays at Ari, a young ambulance doctor seduces and her kingdom and taken prisoner learns a Sent aboard a deathtrap starship, a young Hotel Carmel, Santa Monica) meets girls just once until he meets his six secret that has kept her kingdom safe for cen- woman Marshal must go undercover to pre- Office: EFP - European Film Promotion new friends in a coming of age story of turies, but she must bend time itself to regain vent a terrifying alien invasion though a umbrella stand: 758 – 759, Tel: friendship, love and betrayal! her kingdom and the freedom of her people. beach in the very fabric of the universe. 310.576.7020, Fax: 310.576.7029. SHIT HAPPENS DAKOTA BOUND LAST STAND Drama – Comedy (109 minutes.) Action/Adventure (95 minutes, approx.) FLICKERING LIGHTS Sci-Fi (95min.) Action-Comedy (109 minutes) Language: Swedish with English subtitles (new to AFM) Director: Måns Herngren & Hannes Holm Language: English - no subtitles Language: English - no subtitles Language: Danish with English subtitles Producer/Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Director: Anders Thomas Jensen (Academy (Adam & Eva) Producer/Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Producer: Patrick Ryborn Cast: Fawnia Mondey & Esther Hanuka Cast: Kate Rodger, Josh Barker & Orestes Award in 2000 for Best Short Film) Cast: Bibi Andersson, Josefin Nilsson, Delivery Status: Post-production Producers: Kim & Tivi Magnusson Matacena Marie Richardson In a not so distant future, a massive plague Delivery Status: complete Cast: Iben Hjejle, Ulrich Thomsen, Sofie Budget: 1,8 mil. USD has killed almost everyone on the planet and Gråböl (Mifune, Nightwatch) In a nightmare Washington of the future, a Three young sisters finds out that parenthood 20 young women must venture off into the small band of desperate freedom fighters Delivery Status: Completed, and family life is much harder then expected unknown and make their way to Cheyenne Budget: 2,3 mil. USD in this bitter sweet comedy about life! Mountain, in the hopes of finding peace. must topple a vicious dictator before it is to As for criminals get their hands on USD THE SOUTH RAGE OF THE INNOCENTS - late and he destroys the last hope for 500.000, they run from all and everything Romantic Thriller (85 minutes) Action/Adventure (95 minutes, approx.) mankind. towards Spain, but Torkild who more than Language: Swedish with English subtitles (new to AFM) LIBRARY anything looks for... Director: Aleksi Mäkelä Language: English - no subtitles Over 30 feature films, Sci-Fi, SWEDISH BEAUTY Producer: Markus Selin (Restless, Born Producer/Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror/Thriller Drama (coming of age) (89 minutes) American) Cast: Justine Priestley, Todd Farr & Kira & Erotic Action/Adventure. Language: Swedish with English subtitles Cast: Juha Veijonen, Outi Mäenpää, Reed Released: Nov. 3, 2000 Samuli Edelmann Delivery Status: Complete Director: Daniel Fridell (The Searchers) Budget: 2 mil. USD In a distant future, a young warrior must NU IMAGE, INC. / Producer: Håkan Bjerking Two criminals meets by coincidence 12 band together with a small group of rebels Cast: Fransisco Jacob, Jenny Ulving, years after a successful plunder, now as and wage a guerilla war in order to rescue MILLENNIUM FILMS, bored civilians. Note! Only one got the his true love and save his people from cer- Victor Källander plunder in the first place. tain death. INC. Delivery Status: Completed STARFIRE MUTINY Nu Image, Inc. / Millennium Films, Inc., Budget: 1,5 mil. USD Sci-Fi (95 minutes, approx.) (new to AFM) 9145 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA In the summer of 1963, two young boys are NORTH AMERICAN Language: English - no subtitles 90069 USA. Tel: 310.246.0240. Fax: spellbound by a young Brigitte Bardot Producer/Director: Lloyd A. Simandl 310.246.1655. E-mail: [email protected] lookalike arriving for holiday! RELEASING INC. North American Releasing Inc., 808 Cast: Joe Lara, Maureen La Vette & Elise At AFM: Danny Dimbort (Co-Chairman & THE UNKNOWN Muller CEO), Avi Lerner (Co-Chairman & CEO), Psycho-Horror (90 minutes) Nelson, Suite 2105, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H2 Canada. Tel: 604.681.2165. Fax: Delivery Status: Complete Carole DeLosSantos (Vice President Language: Swedish with English subtitles 604.681.5538. E-mail: www.nar.bc.ca Millions of colonists in suspended anima- International), Michele Pettit (Vice Released: Oct. 6, 2000 At AFM: Lloyd A. Simandl (Chairman and tion within a gigantic starship will be killed Director: Michael Hjort (one of Swedens most by a band of vicious escaped convicts President International ), Dave Sobieraj Chief Executive Officer), Sharla Bullard (resident Domestic Video & Television), acclaimed scriptwriters, both TV & Film) (VP Distribution), Suzanne Daley (VP unless Shayana Black can save them. Producer: Martin Persson CRACKERJACK 3 Rachel Adler (International Sales) Worldwide Sales), Diana Chapman (VP Office: The Loews Hotel, Suite # 521 & Cast: Jacob Ericksson, Ann-Sofie Rase, Finance) Action/Adventure (95 min.) Ingar Sigvarsdotter Office: 606 & 607, Tel: 310.458.6700, Ext. 607 Language: English - no subtitles 523, Tel: 310.576.7193 Delivery Status: Completed OMEGA FORCE Director: Lloyd A. Simandl UNDISPUTED Budget: 0,5 mil. USD Action/Adventure (new to AFM) Producer: Lloyd A. Simandl Action Cast: Olivier Gruner, Bo Svenson & Leo Director: by Walter Hill (“48 Hours”) 5 young scientists arrives to a faraway Language: English - no subtitles Rossi wilderness to research a burnt down forest. Producer/Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Delivery Status: complete Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames Their discoveries will gradually make them Cast: Olivier Gruner A group of retired spies are forced to work Delivery Status: Pre-Production lose their minds, one by one... Delivery Status: Pre-production in a blundering attempt to recapture a neu- A riveting and suspenseful action/boxing BAD LUCK LOVE Paul Gerard, a Belgian NATO weapons story about the world heavyweight champi- expert, is being blackmailed into to helping tron bomb stolen by the new wave of high- Action-Drama (90 minutes) tech young operatives who have taken over on who is incarcerated in a maximum secu- Language: Finnish with English subtitles Boris Vukov, an infamous Balkan warlord, activate a Russian nuclear bomb. the post-cold war intelligence game. rity prison and comes head to head with the Director: Olli Saarela KILLER LOVE FATAL CONFLICT other inmates and the prison’s own unde- Producer: Anna Heiskanen Thriller (95 minutes, approx.) (new to AFM) Sci-Fi (95 min) feated champion. Cast: Jorma Tommila, Tommi Eronen, Language: English - no subtitles Language: English - no subtitles Producer/Director: Lloyd A. Simandl EDGES OF THE LORD Maria Järvenhelmi Producer/Director: Lloyd A. Simandl Drama Delivery Status: Completed, video screen- Cast: Kari Wuhrer Cast: Kari Wuhrer, Jennifer Rubin & Leo ings at stand. Rossi Director: Yurek Bogayevicz Delivery Status: Complete - market pre- Producer: Zev Braun, Phillip Krupp Budget: 1,5 mil. USD miere Delivery Status: complete As a hard criminal with a done jail sentence While researching countess Elizabeth Ex star freighter pilot, Sasha Burns, must Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Willem Defoe for murder, Ali decides to change and take Bathory, a 15th Century serial killer, a stop a mad criminal and his gang from Delivery Status: Post-production responsibility for his actions and newly young woman must use her historical destroying what`s left of civilization by A young Jewish boy lives with a peasant ramming an enormous ship into Los family and pretends to be Catholic during born son. But will his former life let him do expertise to outwit a modern-day monster Angeles. this? that is driven by the same desire for blood. the German occupation of Poland.

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SOCIETY’S CHILD BAD FAITH Drama/ 90:00 Suspense/90:00 Language: English Language: English PRODUCT Producer: Sienna Films Director: Randy Bradshaw Cast: Margot Kidder, Jessica Steen, Kyley Producer: Bradshaw and Macleod Statham Cast: Michael Moriarty (Courage Under SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT Delivery Status: Completed Fire), Gloria Reuben (“ER,” Nick of Budget: $4 million Time), Patti LuPone (Summer of Sam), Based on a true story, Society’s Child is a and Kenneth Welsh (Legends of the Fall) powerful story told through the eyes of an Delivery Status: Complete AFM 2001 exceptional child - aimed at an adult audience. When twelve teenagers disappear without a JACOB TWO TWO MEETS THE trace, some say runaways are a reality of HOODED FANG modern society. But a seasoned reporter Family Drama/96:00 doesn’t buy it, and is the only one who can Language: English reveal the truth. Producer: Shaftesbury Films THE WRONG GUY Cast: Gary Busey (Lethal Weapon), Comedy (92:00) Miranda Richardson (Sleepy Hollow), Language: English Mark McKinny (Superstar), and Ice-T Producer: Handmade Films (Johnny Mnemonic) Cast: Dave Foley (Brain Candy), David Delivery Status: Completed Higgins (Snake Eyes), Jennifer Tilley Budget: $4 million (Bound), and Colm Feore (Face off) Tells the adventurous tale of a young boy Delivery Status: Complete who says everything twice, and is thrown in Budget: $10 million jail because of it. Now he must outsmart the Nelson Hibbert looses a big promotion, and dreaded fang, and save the day. discovers his boss is dead. Unbeknownst to TOUCHED him the killer was filmed in the act, howev- Drama (103 min) er Hibbert goes on the lam for the wrong Language: English reasons, he’s the wrong guy. Director: Mort Ramsen DEAD INNOCENT Producer: Ronfilms Suspense Thriller (87:00) Cast: Lynn Redgrave (Gods and Monsters), Language: English Lolita Davidovich (Blaze), Maury Chaykin Producer: Blackwatch (The Mask of Zorro), Graham Greene (The Cast: Genevieve Bujold (The House of Green Mile) Yes), Graham Green (The Green Mile) Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Complete Budget: $3 million Budget: $3 million Carrie was a self-destructive cowgirl until Suzanne returns home from work to find her she met Shawn. Now, just as things are look- daughter has been kidnapped. A phone call ing brighter, Shawn reveals a darker side and warns her, the only way for her daughter to she is faced with a difficult decision. live is if Suzanne agrees to commit suicide. PUDDLE CRUISER CAPTIVE Comedy (93:00) Suspense Thriller (93:00) Language: English Language: English Producer: Broken Lizard Director: Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Blackwatch Puddle Cruiser is a film about college, sex Cast: Michael Ironside (Starship Troopers), and vengeance. It captures college life - and Erica Eleniak (Baywatch) especially college characters - with an orig- Delivery Status: Complete inal and observant eye. Budget: $3 million MONUMENT AVENUE She was institutionalized for her grief after PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 Crime Drama (94:00) the brutal murder of her wealthy husband, Language: English and in order to escape the asylum she must Simsala Grimm, AVAILABLE FROM Greenlight Director: Ted Demme reveal a deadly conspiracy. Cast: Denis Leary (The Thomas Crown THE ASSISTANT Affair), Martin Sheen (The American Drama/107:00 President), Colm Meaney (Con Air), Language: English THE ORDER Famke Janssen (X-Men) Producer: Handmade Films Action - Adventure O OOO Delivery Status: Complete Cast: Gil Bellows (Miami Rhapsody), Director: by Sheldon Lettich Budget: $ 8million Armin Mueller-Stahl (Shine) and Joan Produced: Boaz Davidson, Danny Lerner A local hoodlum is torn between honoring Plowright (Jane Eyre) Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme the crime boss that he works for and honor- Delivery Status: Complete Delivery Status: Pre-production OASIS ing his own flesh and blood. Budget: $10 million An FBI Agent enters a world of intrigue INTERNATIONAL CONQUEST A young man down on his luck robs a deli- when he is sent to Israel to retrieve two men Oasis International, 6 Pardee Ave, Romantic Comedy (90:00) catessen. The guilt is too much, and he who have confessed to killing his father Toronto, Ontario, M6K 3H5, Canada. Tel: Language: English starts helping out around the store, until the during the heist of an ancient religious man- Director: Pierre Haggard daughter notices something familiar about uscript. 416.588.6821. Fax: 416.588.7276. E-mail: Producer: Shaftesbury Films this new assistant. PROZAC NATION [email protected]. Website: Cast: Lothaire Bluteau (Black Robe), Tara MY DOG VINCENT Drama www.oasisinternational.com Fitzgerald (Brassed Off), and Monique Drama/87:00 Director: by Erik Skjoldbjaerg Company Type: Distributor Mercure (Red Violin) Language: English Associate Producer: Rainer Bienger At AFM: Peter Emerson (President), Steve Delivery Status: Complete Director: Michael McGowan (Cinerenta) Murphy (VP, Sales &), Valerie Cabrera Budget: $4 million Producer: On the Porch Co-Producers: Andrea Sperling, Christina (Executive Vice President), and Brian An Idealistic banker tries to reinvigorate his Cast: Zehra Leverman (The Last Don II), Ricci small prairie town of Conquest after much Chuck Campbell (Superstar!), Gavin Executive Producers: Avi Lerner, Danny Barrett (VP, Finance & Operations) of its youth has moved away. When the Crawford (The Five Senses), and Ben Dimbort, Trevor Short, Paul Miller, Willi Acquisition Executive: Michael Souther adventurous Daisy’s car breaks down in Carlson Baer (VP Production and Development) town, she brings with her a new spark of Delivery Status: Complete Producer: Galt Niederhoffer, Brad Weston Office: Loews Rm. 706, Tel: life. Three men in their twenties on a transitional Cast: Christina Ricci, Jason Biggs, Anne 310.458.2469. Fax: 310.451.1218 PROGRAM TITLE: SILENT HEARTS journey of self discovery, take the steps from Heche, Michelle Williams, Jessica Lange TORSO Drama (94:00) youthful goofiness to tentative maturity. Delivery Status: Post-production Crime Drama (90:00) Language: English RELUCTANT ANGEL A true story of a college freshman strug- Language: English Director: John Caire Drama (100:00) gling with depression. Producer: NTG Productions Language: English Producer: Shaftesbury Films Cast: Marianne Jean-Baptise (Secrets and Director: John Itelike Cast: Kathleen Robertson (Beverly Hills: Lies), John Shea (The Adventures of Producer: Blackwatch E-mail elspeth, betsy 90210), Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot), Sebastian Cole), Tricia Vessey (Ghost Cast: Megan Follows (Anne of Green Victor Garber (Titanic) Dog), and Carroll Baker (Kindergarten Gables), Jaimz Woolvett (Unforgiven) Delivery Status: Completed Cop) Delivery Status: Complete or angela @ Budget: $4 million Delivery Status: Complete Budget: Tells the true-life story of Evelyn Dick who Budget: $2 million A story about a woman and two men in A rebellious teen threatened with expulsion search of, in need of, or posing as saviors. thebusinessoffilm.com is convicted of her husband’s murder and from school is given a second chance with They are a triangle of lost souls in search of sentenced to be hanged. opportunity to counsel troubled children. love and salvation in a crazy world.

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE OVERSEAS A QUESTION OF FAITH PANDORA Drama, Suspense (88:00) Drama (91 min) Pandora, 7, rue Keppler, F-75116 Paris, Language: English FILMGROUP / FIRST Director: Tim Disney France. Tel: 331.40.70.90.90. Fax: Producer: Blackwatch Producer: William Hancy 331.40.70.90.91. Cast: Sara Botsford (The Arrow, E.N.G.) LOOK PICTURES Overseas Filmgroup / First Look Pictures, Cast: Martha Hackett, Bernard Hill, Paul At AFM: Delivery Status: Complete Guilfoyle, Daniel Von Bargen, Naveen Office: 811, Tel: 310.576.7270, Fax: Budget: $2 million 8800 Sunset Blvd., Suite 302, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA. Tel: 310.855.1199, Fax: Andrews, Joe Spano 310.576.7320 An off-duty officer comes home to find his Delivery Status: completed wife has been murdered. Is it as clear-cut as 310.855.0719. Rome Office: Via E. Jenner, 45 00151 Rome, Italy. Tel/Fax: A member of the priesthood experiences a See Late Listings. a break and enter, or is Ray more than a 3906.5327.5511. E-mail: [email protected]. miraculous encounter with implications grieving husband? Website: www.firstlookmedia.com that are both stunning and uplifting. As the THE CHALLENGERS At AFM: Robert Little (President, Co- community struggles with the ramifica- PATHE Family Drama (97:00) Chairman), MJ Peckos (President, First tions, long buried conflicts begin to sur- Language: English INTERNATIONAL Look Pictures), Liz Mackiewicz (Senior face. Pathe International, 10 rue Lincoln, Cast: Gema Zamprogna (Road to Avonlea), VP, Overseas Filmgroup), Brian O’Shea SWIMMING Eric Christmas (Air Bud), Gwynth, Walsh 75008 Paris, France. Tel: (Senior VP, Overseas Filmgroup), Gina Drama (98 min) 331.40.76.91.65. Fax: 331.40.76.91.23. E- (Da Vinci’s Inquest) Nahum (VP, International Sales / Rome, Delivery Status: Complete Director: Robert J. Siegel mail: [email protected]. Overseas Filmgrouup), Bryan Hambleton Producer: Robert J. Siegel, Linda Moran Website: patheinternational.com. Budget: (Sales Consultant, Overseas Filmgroup), After her father’s death and move to a small Cast: Lauren Ambrose, Jennifer Dundas At AFM: Pascal Diot (Sales Director), Dana Lambert (Director, Creative Affairs, Lowe, Joelle Carter Christine Hayet (Sales Director), Abel town, Mackie struggles to begin a new life. First Look Pictures), Peter Lawson With a little intrigue and deception she Delivery Status: completed Nahmias (Buyer) (Coordinator, Acquisitions and Marketing, Set in a bustling beach town, a local girl is Office: 762, 764, 765, Tel: 310.576.7090 makes some new friends, but she must First Look Pictures) remember deception has a way of unravel- confronted with the complexities of friend- FELIX & LOLA – THE FUN OF THE Office: 801, 802, 804, Tel: 310.576.7179 FAIR ing QUICKSAND ship, seduction and love when a sexy young LOYALTIES woman and a handsome drifter come to Romantic Drama (89 min) Action/Thriller Language: French Drama (97:00) Director: John Mackenzie town. Language: English DEVILSTONE: WISHMASTER 3 Director: Patrice Leconte Cast: Michael Caine, Michael Keaton, Producer: Philippe Carcassonne Cast: Kenneth Welsh (Legends of the Fall), Judith Godreche, Rade Serbedzija Horror Tantoo Cardinal (Black Robe) Delivery Status: Post-production Director: Chris Angel Cast: Philippe Torreton, Charlotte Delivery Status: Complete When massive sums of money are being mys- Producer: Walter Josten Gainsbourg) Why a doctor moves with his family from teriously deposited in an offshore bank, Cast: Jason Connery, A. J. Cook, Louisette Felix owns and operates the bumper cars in England to a small town is a mystery to the Inspector Martin Raikes is summoned to Geiss an amusement park. One day, he is intrigued locals. His wife is desperately trying to keep Monaco. What appears to be a routine investi- Delivery Status: Post-Production by a silent girl riding round and round the the family together but her loyalties shift gation turns into a consuming web of survival. While researching an ancient artifact, coed track, all alone, letting herself get bumped and knocked about by the other cars. when a terrible secret is revealed BARK Diana unwittingly awakes the evil Djinn ISAAC LITTLEFEATHERS Comedy L’ANGLAISE ET LE DUC (THE from the Devilstone. LADY AND THE DUKE) Family Drama/100:00 Director: Kasia Adamik HERE’S TO LIFE! Language: English Producer: Alicia Allain, Tom Reed Period Drama Romantic Comedy (91 min) Language: French Cast: Lou Jacobi (My Favorite Year), Scott Cast: Lisa Kudrow, Hank Azaria, Vincent Producer: William Vince, Charles Martin Hylands (Titanic) D’Onofrio, Lee Tergesen, Heather Morgan Director: Eric Rohmer Smith, Rob Merilees Producer: Francoise Etchegaray – Francois Delivery Status: Complete Delivery Status: Post-production Cast: Eric McCormack, James Whitmore, Abandoned by his mother at a grocery store, Peter and Lucy are happily married, until Ivernel Lucy starts behaving like a dog and ceases Kim Hunter, Ossie Davis Cast: Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus Isaac, now a teen just can’t seem to fit in. Delivery Status: completed/screening Now he must make a choice between a human behavior entirely. Peter enlists the help The true story of Grace Elliott, a young of Darla, an eccentric veterinarian who quick- From the confines of his office, amidst his Scottish aristocrat stuck in Paris during the father who loves him and the father who left piles of paper, Owen is determined to avoid him. ly becomes the object of Peter’s affections. French Revolution. BEFORE NIGHT FALLS personal contact, thus letting the finer TOUT LE MONDE Y PENSE (ON Drama (125 min) things in life, including romance, pass him EVERYONE’S MIND) OMEGA Director: Julian Schnabel by – until he’s forced by a group of “old” Dramatic Comedy (105 min) Producer: Jon Kilik friends to explore life and love far beyond Language: French ENTERTAINMENT Cast: Javier Bardem, Andrea di Stefano, his wildest dreams. Director: Anne Fontaine Omega Entertainment, 8760 Shoreham Olivier Martinez, Johnny Depp, Sean Producer: Philippe Carcassonne Drive, Los Angles, CA 90069 USA. Tel: Penn, Michael Wincott Cast: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, 310.855.0516. Fax: 310.652.2044. E-mail: Delivery Status: Completed/screening Natacha Regnier, Amira Casar, Stephane [email protected]. Website: As a child being raised in absolute poverty, P PPP Guillon www.omegapic.com. novelist and poet Reinaldo Arenas grew up Son of a small-town doctor, Jean-Luc Borde Company Type: Producer and Worldwide in total freedom in rural Cuba. The later has become an “anti-aging” specialist over Distributor horrors he encountered as an artist, cen- PARAGON FILM whom stressed-out managers and mature At AFM: Nico Mastorakis sored and persecuted in Castro’s Cuba, led GROUP middle-class women fight are ready to (President/CEO), Carole Mishkind (VP, to his exile in the US where he found Paragon Film Group, 1111 S. Victory spend small fortunes. International), Christy Pokarney (Vice acceptance for his life and stunningly Blvd., 2d Fl., Burbank, CA. 91502 USA. RUE DES PLAISIRS (LOVE STREET) President), Bill Cunningham (Executive beautiful work. Romantic Drama Assistant) Tel: 818.845.7148. Fax: 818.566.6639. E- PROXIMITY mail: [email protected] Language: French Office: 866, Tel: 310.576.7409 Thriller (91 min) Director: Patrice Leconte .COM FOR MURDER Company Type: Producer, Sales Agent Director: Scott Ziehl At AFM: Phil Jones (Partner), Matt Producer: Philippe Carcassonne Suspense Thriller Producer: Joel Silver Cast: Patrick Timsit, Laetitia Casta, Language: English Cast: Rob Lowe, James Coburn McCombs (Partner) Acquisition Exec: Colin Chin Vincent Elbaz Director: Nico Mastorakis Delivery Status: completed 1945. The Eastern Palace, a brothel that’s Producer: Nico Mastorakis When a prison inmate realises he is about to Office: 433, Tel: 310.458.6700, ext. 433 BACKFLASH about to close, Marion, one of the girls, dreams Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Nicolette Sheridan, be murdered, he escapes and goes on the of music halls, love and the life of a couple. Roger Daltrey, Huey Lewis run. Unbeknownst to him, the prisoner he Thriller (90 min.) Language: English SUR MES LEVRES Delivery Status: In Production escapes with is the man who will go to any Romantic Thriller From the underbelly of the internet, a poet- length to see him dead. Director: Phil Jones Producer: Matt McCombs Language: French ic killer hunts his unsuspecting victim for a YOUNG BLADES Director: Jacques Audiard frightening, terrifying night of murder. Drama (93 min) Cast: Robert Patrick, Jennifer Esposito, Producer: Jean-Louis Livi – Philippe Delivery Status: completed/screening Melissa Joan Hart Carcassonne Director: Mario Andreacchio Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Producer: Georges Campana, Gwen Field Budget: $4 million Cast: Hugh Dancy, Sarah-Jane Potts, Ben Cross Olivia Bonamy A failing video store owner picks up a beau- Carla Bhem has been an assistant at Delivery Status: completed/screening tiful hitchhiker who offers him ‘the chance In 1615 France, young D’Artagnan Promim, a property development company, Send Your of a lifetime’. for quite awhile now. And she’s the one embarks on a journey where his skill with a BOROUGH OF KINGS sword serves him far too early in life. doing the work…the whole lot of it: first to Drama (95 min.) get in, last to leave. REVELATION Language: English Thriller SAMOURAIS Press Releases to: Director: Stuart Urban Director: Elyse Lewin Thriller Producer: Jonathan Woolf Producer: Chris Brinker, Patrick Newall Language: French Cast: Terence Stamp, Udo Kier, James Cast: Philip Bosco, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Director: Giordano Gederlini D’Arcy, Natasha Wightman, Liam Olympia Dukakis Producer: Marc Missonnier, Olivier Cunningham Delivery Status: Completed Delbosc [email protected] Delivery Status: Post-production Budget: $2 million Coming back from the faraway Middle A cryptographer and a student of alchemy An aspiring young actor is torn between Ages Japan, Soshin Kodeni, the immortal find themselves on a perilous mission to loyalty to his neighborhood friends and a cruel Samourai has gotten hold of a power- locate an ancient relic known as the Loculus. new career in NYC. ful worldwide videogames company.

FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 41 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE SABOTAGE NERO WOLFE: CHAMPAGNE FOR PFG OUT OF SEASON Comedy ONE Lesbian Love Story (98 min.) Language: English Drama (2 Hour Movie) ENTERTAINMENT Language: English Director: Jose-Miguel & Esteban Ibarretxe Language: English PFG Entertainment, Inc., 429 Santa Director: Jeanette Buck Producer: Eduardo Carneros, Javier Director: Tim Hutton Monica Boulevard, Suite 600, Santa Producer: Jeanette Buck Ibarretxe, Iñaki Nuñez, Philippe Cast: Timothy Hutton and Maury Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel: Cast: Carol Monda, Joy Kelley, Dennis Carcassonne Chaykin 310.393.5788. Fax: 310.393.0882. E- Fecteau, Nancy Daly. Cast: David Suchet, Stephen Fry, Delivery Status: Completed 2000 mail: [email protected]. Delivery Status: completed Dominique Pinon, Alexandra Vandernoot, When Archie accepts an invitation to a Website: www.pfgentertainment.com. A dramatic story about two women who Juan Inciarte, Santiago Segura At MIFED: Ted Rosenblatt, Daniel Gerst, unexpectedly fall in love off-season at Nothing but the truth about what did not black-tie charity dinner, he becomes an and Tamar Chafets. a summer resort. happen at the battle of Waterloo accidental witness to the apparent suicide Office: 430, Tel: 310.576.7311, Fax: THE BLAIR PRINCESS PROJECT BOESMAN & LENA of a young woman. But Archie knows it’s 310.576.7380 Short Film Spoof of you know what. (20 Drama murder, and enlists his boss, detective SHOOTERS Min. includes two short films) Language: English Nero Wolfe, to help him prove it. Crime Drama Language: English Director: John Berry CLASS WARFARE Director: Colin Teague, Glenn Durfort Director: Paula Goldberg Producer: Francois Ivernel, Pierre Rissient Drama (2 Hour Movie) Cast: Adrian Dunbar, Andrew Howard, Producer: Paula Goldberg Cast: Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Language: English Louis Dempsey, Melanie Lynskey Cast: Paula Goldberg, Shannon Conlon, Willie Jonah Director: Richard Shepard Producer: Margery Bone Coley Sohn The story of one man, one woman and the Cast: Lindsey J. McKeon and Wade Delivery Status: Screening at AFM Delivery Status: completed intense love and hatred that has brought Carpenter SEVEN GIRLFRIENDS In August of 1999 three Jewish girls set them through secrets, violence and person- Delivery Status: Completed 2000 Romantic Comedy out to a synagogue in Malibu to document al tragedy to the Cape Flats in South Africa. When both their sizeable family fortunes Director: Paul Lazarus their friend Blair’s wedding. A week later are lost, a scheming high school beauty Producers: Paul Lazarus, J. Todd Harris, their footage was found. PEARSON convinces her boyfriend to kill one of their Barry Opper classmates, who has just won $23 million Cast: Tim Daly (TV’s The Fugitive), PM TELEVISION in the lottery. Not surprisingly, the scheme Mimi Rogers, Olivia D’Abo, Jami Gertz, Elizabeth Pena goes awry. ENTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL Delivery Status: Screening at AFM PM Entertainment, c/o Harvey Pearson Television International, 1 SHARING THE SECRET It’s hard to be “Mr. Right”; just ask his girl- Drama (2 Hour Movie) 2000 Entertainment, 11835 W. Olympic Blvd., Stephen Street, London, W1T 1AL United friends! Suite 550, Los Angeles, CA 90064 USA. Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.691.6000. Fax: Language: English WOOLY BOYS Tel: 310.444.4100. Fax: 310.444.4101. 44.207.691.6060. E-mail: ptisales@pear- Director: Katt Shea Adventure Comedy At AFM: Mary Judy (Vice President sontv.com Website: www.pearsontv.com Cast: Mare Winningham, Diane Ladd, Director: Leszek Burzynski Distribution Services), Roger Burlage At AFM: Joseph Abrams (President, Alison Lohman and Tim Matheson Producers: Robert Schwartz (CEO Harvey Entertainment) Pearson Television International), Brian Delivery Status: Completed 2000 Cast: Peter Fonda (Ulee’s Gold), Kris Office: Loew’s Hotel - Cinetel Suite 609, Harris (President and CEO, Pearson About a loving mother and child psychol- Kristofferson (Blade), Keith Carradine Tel: 310.576.7035 Television North America and Chief ogist devoted to helping distressed fami- (Wild Bill), Joseph Mazzello (Jurassic CON EXPRESS Executive, Pearson Television lies but unable to see the signs that her Park I & II) Action/Disaster International), Rand Stoll (EVP, own daughter is confronting a mental and Delivery Status: Post-Production Director: to be announced Programming, East Coast, Pearson An old-fashioned sheep rancher’s visit to the Cast: to be announced Television), David Jacquemin (Vice physical crisis alone. 100 CENTRE STREET big city triggers a mischievous adventure Delivery Status: Pre-production President, Western Division Manager, with his teenage computer-whiz grandson. Pearson Television), Amanda Evans (Sales Drama (1 hour series) When an FBI agent and a security liaison Language: English PARTNERS IN CRIME for the Kremlin join forces to hunt a politi- Analysis and Strategy) Crime Thriller Office: 653, Tel: 310.458.6700 Cast: Alan Arkin, LaTanya Richardson cal prisoner, they find themselves on a Language: English deadly chase through the wilds of Alaska. PASSION AND PREJUDICE and Paula Devicq Director: Jennifer Warren Drama (2 Hour Movie) Delivery Status: Completed 2000 LAST BREATH Producers: J. Todd Harris, Ram Bergman, Thriller Language: English From Sidney Lumet, “100 Centre Street” Dana Lustig Cast: Frances Fisher Director: Gerry Lively follows the lives of the judges, prosecu- Cast: Rutger Hauer, Paulina Porizkova Cast: Frank Zagarino, Ernie Hudson, Billy Delivery Status: in production tors, defense attorneys and the criminally Delivery Status: Completed A repressed professor has a passionate Drago accused who find themselves caught up in FBI involvement in the investigation of an Delivery Status: Post-Production affair with a prisoner on work-release. the never-routine chaos of a hectic urban apparent kidnapping in a tranquil suburban When he leaves jail and tries to end the When a sexual encounter with a stripper night court. community leads to resentment among the local turns into a stalking nightmare; one cop affair, she becomes increasingly obsessed, JAILBAIT! authorities and suspicion of their lead detective. eventually trying to kill him and make it end up dead, another is seriously wounded, look like self-defense. Comedy (2 Hour Movie) a wife feels betrayed and a kidnapped child LIVIN’ FOR LOVE: THE NATALIE Language: English PICTURE THIS! is left fighting for his last breath. COLE STORY Director: Allan Moyle LOST TREASURE Drama (2 Hour Movie) Cast: Reagan Pasternak, Kevin Mundy, ENTERTAINMENT Action Language: English Alycia Purrott and Matt Frewer (Max Picture This! Entertainment, 7471 Director: to be announced Director: Robert Townsend Headroom) Melrose Ave. #7, Los Angeles, CA 90046 Cast: to be announced Cast: Natalie Cole Delivery Status: Completed 2000 USA. Tel: 323.852.1398. Fax: Delivery Status: Pre-production Delivery Status: Completed 2000 An unsuspecting, all-American high 323.658.7265. E-mail: An archaeologist and a military historian Natalie Cole narrates and co-stars in the school senior creates a controversy that [email protected]. Website: accidentally team up in the treacherous riches-to-rags-to-riches story of her own shocks his entire community in this out- www.PictureThisEnt.com jungles of Brazil to search for a downed Company Type: Sales Agent World War II plane filled with stolen rare unforgettable life. rageous teen comedy. Now, the most AFTER THE HARVEST At AFM: Douglas Witkins (President), art and treasure in a race against time and a popular guy in class faces 40 years Orly Ravid (Vice President), Douglas race against other more dangerous treasure Drama (2 Hour Movie) behind bars for his amorous exploits in Language: English Hunter (Director of Operations) hunters. JAIL BAIT! Acquisition Executive: Orly Ravid Director: Jeremy Podeswa THE MOVING OF SOPHIA MYLES Cast: Sam Shepard, Alberta Watson, Liane Office: Zuma Room – 7th Floor Atrium, Balban and Nadia Litz Drama (2 Hour Movie) Tel: 310.576.7549 Delivery Status: Completed 2000 Language: English EDGE OF SEVENTEEN A story of love and tyranny, destruction Director: Michael Switzer Coming-of-Age/Romantic Comedy (103 min.) and survival, set in the Canadian prairie of Cast: Della Reese and Rue McClanahan Language: English THE BUSINESS OF the 1920s. Sam Shepard stars as Caleb Delivery Status: Completed 2000 Director: David Moreton Gare, a farmer obsessed with owning all Two-time Emmy nominee Della Reese of Producers: David Moreton, Todd Stephens FILM the land he can see, and controlling the Touched by an Angel stars in this uplifting Cast: Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, lives of his family, whom he keeps as vir- family drama. In the wake of her influen- Anderson Gabrych, Lea Delaria tual prisoners. tial husband’s death, Reese must learn for- Delivery Status: completed JACKIE BOUVIER KENNEDY giveness in order to reunite her crumbling Budget: $1.5 million ONASSIS community. A teenage boy becomes enmeshed in a Los Angeles Office Drama (2 X 2 Hour Mini-Series) RIVALS multi-sexual love triangle between his best friend and his girlfriend. Language: English Drama (2 Hour Movie) Director: David Burton Morris NO ORDINARY LOVE 5150 Wilshire Blvd. Language: English Comedic Thriller (104 min) Cast: Joanne Whalley, Tom Skerritt, Director: Norma Bailey Andrew McCarthy and Tim Matheson Language: English & Spanish Delivery Status: Completed 2000 Cast: Marnette Patterson and Mary- Director: Doug Witkins Los Angeles The life and times of Jacqueline Bouvier Margaret Humes Producer: Eli Kabillo Kennedy Onassis — her childhood in a Delivery Status: Completed 2000 Cast: Smith Forte, Ericka Klein, Koing Kuoch broken, privileged home; her courtship and In this shocking true story of teenage rival- Delivery Status: Completed California 90036 often lonely marriage to Jack Kennedy; her ry gone out-of-control, the perfect friend- Budget: $1 million days in the White House; and her life after ship turns to unbridled obsession… and Sexually ambivalent housemates uncover the assassination. then cold-blooded murder. murder and infidelity in the Hollywood Hills.

42 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE PORCHLIGHT THE BRAINIACS.COM THE SHIPMENT GREENMAIL Family Action Action/Thriller ENTERTAINMENT Language: English Director: Alex Wright Director: Jonathan Heap Porchlight Entertainment, 11777 Director: Blair True Cast: Matthew Modine, Elizabeth Berkley, Cast: Stephen Baldwin Mississippi Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90025 Producer: Roger Menole, Joe Broido and Nick Turturro, Paul Rodriguez, Joe Cortese Delivery Status: Principal Photography start date February 19, 2001 USA. Tel: 310.477.8400. Fax: Mark Headley and Robert Loggia 310.477.5555. Cast: Kevin Kilner, Don Deluise, Rich Budget: $5.5 million Delivery Status: Post-Production Trailer A U.S. federal agent seeks the assistance of At AFM: Michael Jacobs (SR VP Little Available Worldwide Sales), Adam Wright (VP Delivery Status: Completed a radical environmental activist when the Budget: $5.5 million most prominent citizens of Seattle are Worldwide Sales), Stephanie Slack (VP Eleven year old Matt Tyler (Micheal Three New York gangsters attempting to methodically blown up one by one. The two Angarano) misses his father, David (Kevin Worldwide Sales), Zac Reeder (Head of smuggle bootleg Viagra inside cattle find are led on a cat and mouse chase by the Acquisitions) Kilner), who owns a toy company, Tyler themselves in a mess when the cows acci- bomber who always seems to be one step Office: Suite # 614 & 616, Tel: Toys. Matt thinks his father is spending too ahead of the game. 310.458.6700, ext. 614 much time at the office and the only way to dentally end up in a small Texas town. In an effort to recover the lost “shipment,” CONTAMINATED MAN INFERNO see more of him is to become his father’s Action/Thriller (95 minutes) Action Adventure boss. the mobsters face off against well-armed Director: Anthony Hickox Language: English DURNAGO KIDS locals resulting in a series of double- Cast: William Hurt, Peter Weller, Natascha Director: Dusty Nelson Family crosses, a hail of gunfire and even a McElhone Producer: Kenneth Burke Language: English romantic rendezvous. Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Jeff Fahey, Janet Gunn and Dean Director: Ashton Root STYX Budget: $7 million Stockwell Producer: Ashton Root and Willian Martin Action/Thriller (95 minutes) A highly contagious and lethal toxin is unwit- Delivery Status: Completed Brennan Director: Alex Wright tingly unleashed when disgruntled chemical Darcy Hamilton, a smoke jumper and newly Cast: Brandon Ryan Barett, Larry Drake Cast: Peter Weller, Bryan Brown, Angus plant employee, Joseph, breaks into a top appointed Head Ranger at Loch Lomond and Curtis Willams MacFadyen secret laboratory and sets the building ablaze. Forest, must fight to gain control over her Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Screening at AFM 2001 rebellious daughter, Kylie, two suspicious The adventurous story of four kids as they Budget: $5.5 million PROPHECY forest fires, and the haunting memory of the journey back in time in search of lost gold. A bank robber turned legitimate is coerced man she lost to a deadly firestorm so many into participating in a heist when his broth- ENTERTAINMENT years ago. PROMARK er finds himself in trouble with a loan shark. INC. LIGHTNING: FIRE FROM THE SKY With thirteen million dollars worth of dia- Prophecy Entertainment Inc., 225 West 8th Action Adventure ENTERTAINMENT monds at stake, the brothers learn quickly Avenue - 4th Floor, Vancouver, British Language: English Columbia, Canada, V5Y 1N3. Tel: Director: David Giancola GROUP that no one can be trusted. Promark Entertainment Group, A Das THE ENEMY 604.681.8567. Fax: 604.602.8752 Producer: Peter Bechwith Website: www.prophecy-entertainment.com Cast: Stacy Keach, Jesse Eisenburg, John Werk AG Company, The Promark Center, Spy/Thriller (95 minutes) Director: Tom Kinninmont At AFM: Melanie Kilgour (President of Scheinder and Michele Greene 3599 Cahuenga Blvd. West, 3rd Floor, Los Marketing & Distribution), Petros Tsaparas Delivery Status: Completed Angeles, California 90068 USA. Tel: Cast: Luke Perry, Olivia d’Abo, Roger (President & CEO), Evan Tylor (President When Eric Dobbs (Jesse Eisenburg) warns 323.878.0404. Fax: 323.878.0486. E-mail: Moore, Tom Conti, Horst Buchholz of Production), Trevor Lesmeister that a disastrous lightning storm will bring [email protected] Delivery Status: Screening at AFM 2001 (Creative Affairs), Paul Sullivan (President death and destruction in the next 24 hours, Office: 703, Tel: 310.576.7037 & Budget: $5.5 million of 4WallFilms), no one takes him seriously, especially his 310.576.7038 CIA agent Penny Johnson and handsome Office: Loews Suite 457, Tel: father, Sheriff Tom Dobbs (John At AFM: Mr. Conny Lernhag (Chief geneticist Mike Ashton discover that Mike’s 310.458.6700 ext: 457 Scheinder). Operating Officer), Mr. Jonathan Kramer father had years ago developed a deadly RIPPER: LETTER FROM HELL: 2000 THE BEST MAN IN GRASS CREEK (President), Ms. Annouchka Lesoeur biological weapon. Suspense Thriller Romantic Comedy (Director, International Sales), Mr. Eric THE STICK UP Language: English Language: English Bernstein (Director International Sales and Action/Suspense Director: John Eyres Director: John Newcombe Operations), Mr. Jim Marrinan Director: Rowdy Herrington Producers: John Curtis, Evan Tylor (Consultant) Cast: A.J. Cook (“The Virgin Suicides”), Producer: Mark Klitsie and John Cast: James Spader Newcombe LAST RUN Ryan Northcott ( “Mystery, Alaska”), Action Delivery Status: Principal Photography Derek Hamilton (“Disturbing Behavior”), Delivery Status: Completed Began February 5, 2001 A romantic comedy about a salesman who Director: Anthony Hickox Jurgen Prochnow (“Das Boot”) and Bruce Cast: Armand Assante, Jurgen Prochnow, Budget: $7 million Payne (“Highlander: Endgame,” makes a deal with a stranger to be his best In a quiet rural town up in the Sierras, a man at his wedding in order to keep his job. Ornella Muti, Aleksandra Vujcic “Dungeons and Dragons”). Delivery Status: Screening at AFM 2001 bank has just been robbed of a half a mil- It has been over a century since the killing Winner, Crystal Heart Award, Heartland rampage of Jack the Ripper. This autumn, a Film Festival. Budget: $6.5 million lion. It seems clear to the authorities that Former Cold War spy Mike Locken recruits John Parker, a L.A. police detective, has young psychology student and her friends TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE will soon discover that this is a history they Romantic Comedy some of his ex-colleagues to help him pulled off the heist. smuggle a Russian spymaster to the West, ONE WAY OUT don’t want to repeat. Language: English HIGH ADVENTURE: 2000 Director: Bill Semans with hopes of getting to the KGB’s former Action Action-adventure Producer: Jeffrey Hohman, Patrick Wells ace assassin responsible for the death of a Director: Allan Goldstein Language: English and Bill Semans friend. Cast: James Belushi Director: Mark Roper Cast: Michael O’Keefe Delivery Status: Principal Photography Producer: Harry Alan Towers, Gary Delivery Status: Completed Began February 12, 2001 Howsam & Evgeny Michailev Five years ago, 78 eligible bachelors of tiny Budget: $6 million Cast: Thomas Ian Griffiths, Harry Peacock, Herman, Minnesota issued their “cry from Product Listings — A veteran homicide police officer that has Anja Kling, Barry Flatman, Gotz Otto & the heart,” their yearning for female com- developed a lifestyle far beyond his Kendra Torgan. panionship. When women from 37 states [email protected] means masterminds the murder of a gor- From the Black Sea coast to the mountains and 4 foreign countries arrive for Harvest geous and wealthy yet demented nympho- of Turkestan, three young adventurers will Weekend, the lives of the Herman farmers maniac. face all perils in their quest to uncover the are changed forever. lost treasure of Alexander the Great.

PRODUCT PROFILE SABAN INTERNATIONAL AFM 2001

FINAL DESCENT THE MERCURY PROJECT AFAMILY IN CRISIS: ELIAN GONZALES STORY

QUEEN’S MESSENGER: 2000 SEA WOLF: 2000 Action Suspense thriller Language: English Language: English PRODUCT Director: Mark Roper Director: Mark Roper Producers: Harry Alan Towers, Gary Producers: Harry Alan Towers & Gary Howsam, Gary Daniels Howsam SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT Cast: Gary Daniels, John Standing, Teresa Cast: Thomas Ian Griffiths Sherrer and Christoph Waltz. Synopsis: A dashing adventurer and exotic By order of Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Colombian beauty team up to retrieve a Captain Strong (Gary Daniels) is given a long-lost treasure. AFM 2001 dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate THE PITCH communication to the British Ambassador Budget: U.S. $4.1 million. in Kazakhstan. As the senior officer for the A dark comedy about an out of work writer elite Queen’s Messenger corps, Captain whose girlfriend kidnaps a Hollywood Strong must pledge to protect his diplomat- ic cargo with his life. movie star in a sordid attempt to get her THE OPERATIVE (A.K.A.” THE boyfriend’s film produced. An uncoopera- COMPANY MAN”): 2000 tive star and a soiled past begin to blur the Action lines between what is real and what is fiction. Language: English Director: Robert Lee (“The Silencer,” “Act of War,” “Hostage Train”) Q QQQ Producers: John Curtis, Evan Tylor Cast: Brian Bosworth, Teryl Rothery, John Tench QUANTUM An ex-CIA agent is blackmailed into performing a bank heist in order to rescue his ENTERTAINMENT former lover who was abducted 10 years Quantum Entertainment, 3599 Cahuenga earlier by the KGB. Blvd. West, Suite: 319, Los Angeles, CA HIGH EXPLOSIVE: 1999 90068 USA. Tel: 323.878.2578. Fax: Action 323.878.0235. Publicity Firm: Lauren Director: Timothy Bond (“The Shadow Lewis Associates Men,” “Running Wild,” “Animorphs”) At AFM: Booth: 812, Tel: 310.458.6700. Producers: Gary Howsam, Harry Alan At AFM: Michael Sellers (President), Towers, Michael Games Pamela Vlastas (Vice President), Patricia Cast: Patrick Bergin, Daniel Petronijevic, Pawlak (International Sales) Desiree Nosbusch, Nina Muschallik DOOMSDAYER Retired US Army captain, Jack Randall Action - 95 Minutes (Patrick Bergin), is applying his expertise in Language: English Angola for P.A.L.M. -- People Against Director: Michael Sarna Land Mines -- the late Princess Diana’s Producers: Michael Sellers campaign to rid the country of the deadly, Cast: Joe Lara, Udo Kier, Brigitte Nielsen, hidden explosives. T.J. Storm THE SILENCER: 1999 Delivery Status: Completed - Screening Espionage drama An American explosives expert must save Language: English the world from a global holocaust. Director: Robert Lee (“Hostage Train,” CHILDREN OF THE LIVING DEAD “Dead Fire,” “Act of War”) Horror Producers: John Curtis, Evan Tylor Language: English Cast: Michael Dudikoff, Brennan Elliott Director: Tor A. Ramsey (“G-Savior”) Producer: John Russo, Karen Wolf Quinn Simmons (Dudikoff), a steely-cold Cast: Tom Savini, Martin Schiff, Damien PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 assassin, is given the assignment of school- Luvara, Jamie McCoy ing a new protégé, Jason Black (Elliott), an Delivery Status: Completed - Screening undercover FBI agent with the task of Fourth installment in the classic Night Of Gangland, AVAILABLE FROM Dominion Films revealing the secret Division 5 organization. The Living Dead Horror films. A TWIST OF FAITH: 1999 CONTROL Suspense thriller Language: English Thriller SHE: 2000 THE HAVEN: 2000 Director: Chris Angel (“Fear II: Halloween Language: English Action-adventure Drama Night” and “Mr. October,” Academy Director: Tom Whitus Language: English Award(r) Producers: Evan Tylor (“Stag”), Producers: Dennis Fallon, Michael Sellers Language: English Cast: Sean Young, Will Schaub, William Director: Timothy Bond Director: Andrew Bowen John Curtis (“Laserhawk”) Producer: Harry Alan Towers, Gary winning short film). Devane Producers: Andrew Bowen, Jordan Liebert, Delivery Status: Post Production Howsam & Evgeny Michailev Peter N. Bowen Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Michael Ironside, Cast: Ophelie Winter, Ian Duncan, Edward Matthew Laurance, Jayne Heitmeyer The search for his missing brother leads a Cast: Melissa Crider, Michael Cade, Admittedly a “devout atheist,” Detective man into a dangerous relationship with the Harwick & David Ross Andrew Bowen, John McLoughlin and A young man’s search for an ancient Lost Henry Smith (Andrew McCarthy) is forced woman he suspects to be the murderer. Timothy Bottoms. to reconsider his own “dis-belief” system to QUICKSAND City, ruled by a strange queen whose beau- Thriller ty has mysteriously been preserved for over A chronicle of the poignant and tragic pursue a religiously-inclined serial killer events that changed the lives of four best (Michael Ironside). Language: English 2000 years. Based on the classic novel by Director: Sam Firstenberg Rider Haggard. friends during the summer after their gradu- LASERHAWK: 1998 ation from college. Sci-fi/action Producers: Frank DeMartini QUEEN’S MESSENGER 2: 2001 Cast: Michael Dudikoff Action DEATH, DECEIT AND DESTINY Language: English Director: Jean Pellerin Delivery Status: Production Language: English. ABOARD THE ORIENT EXPRESS A psychologist and an admiral’s daughter Director: Darrell Roodt Action Producers: John Curtis, Pieter Kroonenburg are caught in a scandalous military plot on a Producers: Harry Alan Towers, Gary Language: English Cast: Jason James Richter, Mark Hamill, naval base. Howsam & David Goldstein Cast: Richard Grieco, Romina Mondello Melissa Galianos, Gordon Currie. DOOMSDAYER II Cast: Gary Daniels, John Standing, Eva and Christoph Waltz. Zach (Jason James Richter) and Cara Action Habermann & Francoise Yip. Actors, models, moguls and magnates are (Melissa Galianos), eccentric high-school stu- Director: Michael Sarna Once again, the Queen’s Messenger, the invited guests for what has been publi- dents obsessed with UFOs, commandeer the Language: English Captain Strong (Gary Daniels) has been cized as the greatest New Year’s Eve chari- spaceship Laserhawk and fly into the skies for Producers: Michael Sellers called in by Her Majesty’s Secret Service. ty train ride of all time. Unfortunately, the earth-saving aerial duels against a carnivorous Cast: TBA This time, to convey vital dispatches to a passengers soon discover that the sponsor super-species, the “ARACTOIDS.” Delivery Status: Pre Production highly secretive conference called to com- BARBECUE...A LOVE STORY: 1998 A covert international organization stops ter- bat the activities of modern poachers who is none other than international terrorist Osama Bin Laden, and the aid organization Dark comedy rorists, organized crime and unstable nations threaten the economies of many African Language: English from using weapons of mass destruction. states with the smuggling of ivory, dia- benefiting from this scheme is his death Director: Stacy Kirk ETHAN mond, drugs, and even people. fund. Producers: Bob Millar, Mar Andersons Horror Cast: Peter Flemming, Suzy Joachim, Director: John Carl Buechler Babz Chula Language: English L.A. Office FAX L.A. Office Phone Our leading man, Lucky Striche (Peter Producers: Gary LoConti, Michael Sellers Flemming), is an unlucky man whose insa- Cast: TBA tiable desire for slow-cooked meat and Delivery Status: Pre Production (323) 935-8229 (323) 935-8228 sweet women are not suited to him; they Teenagers are disappearing in Demonwood both always lead to heartburn. and the killer is not what you might expect.

DEEP FREEZE R RRR Action-Adventure (93 Minutes) Language: English Director: John Beuchler RAI TRADE Producers: Jim Rosenthal Rai Trade, Via Novaro, 18, 00195 Rome, Italy. Cast: Gotz Otto, Alexandra Kamp, Karen Tel: 39 06 374 981. Fax: 39 06 370 1343 Nieci, Allen Lee Haff, David Milbern At AFM: Sesto Cifola (Cinema and Delivery Status: Completed Fiction Sales Director), Giulia Filippelli Set in the Arctic, an expedition team (Sales Executive for Cinema and Fiction) unearths a disaster of global proportions Office: C 604, Tel: 310.576.6975 when they discover a deadly creature that HONOLULU BABY threatens the lives of the team and the Language: English subtitles world. Delivery Status: February 2001 JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH: THE Cast: Maurizio Nichetti, Maria de CHIPPENDALES’ STORY Medeiros, Jean Rochefort Drama (93 Minutes) Honolulu Baby is a story about how to solve Language: English your marital problems when you’re going to Director: Dave Payne get fired, and you know it - using seven kids and thousands of pipes. Producers: Sam Irvin DOMENICA Cast: Jonathan Aube, Shelley Malil, Paul Language: English subtitles Clark, J.P. Pitoc Delivery Status: January 2001 Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Claudio Amendola, Domenica A film noir look inside the famed 80’s club Giuliano, Annabella Sciorra and how it all ended with lust, greed and The film follows the journey of a police murder. Inspector, Sciarra, and an orphan girl RATED X Domenica, through the streets of Naples in Drama (97 Minutes) the course of a single day. It is the dramatic Language: English and moving story of two lonely people: the Director: Emilio Estevez daughter the Inspector never had and the Producers: Dick Berg and Allan Marcil father Domenica has lost. Cast: Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Rafer THE SKY WILL FALL Weigel Language: English and French subtitles Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé, Based on the true story of the Mitchell Veronica Niccolai brothers, this feature examines the dreams Summer 1944, in an elegant villa in and obsessions the porn industry’s leading Tuscany. Penny and her sister Baby, who pioneers, which culminates in a tragic con- have lost both their parents in a car accident, frontation. are taken to live with their aunt and uncle in POSSESSED the country. Thriller (90 Minutes) WATCH THE SKY Language: English Language: English subtitles Director: Steven E. de Souza Delivery Status: Ready Exec. Producer: Barbara Title Cast: Sandra Ceccarelli Delivery Status: Completed Three situations about women’s lives in Cast: Timothy Dalton, Henry Czerny, three different periods. For each protago- Jonathan Malen, Piper Laurie, Christopher nist, the problem is the same: the conflict in Plummer maintaining a balance between work and Based on a 1949 Catholic-sanctioned exor- private life. cism, a collision of good and evil occurs ROSA AND CORNELIA when a mentally unstable priest agrees to Language: English and French subtitles save the life and soul of a possessed child. Delivery Status: Ready HARLAN COUNTY WAR In the glittering Venice of the Eighteenth Drama (100 Minutes) Century, the destinies of two girls - the poor Language: English servant Rosa and the aristocratic Cornelia - Director: Tony Bill meet during their forced living together. Producers: Mimi Rogers, Chris Ciaffa, Through each other, they discover them- Robert W. Cort, and David Madden selves and their tie becomes more than a Delivery Status: Completed friendship... and strengthen their capacity of Cast: Holly Hunter (Emmy-nominated), love and sacrifice. Stellan Skarsgard, Ted Levine, Wayne Robson REGENT Based on a real Kentucky coal miners’ strike, a determined miner’s wife mobilizes ENTERTAINMENT a picket line and affects a bittersweet victo- Regent Entertainment, 1401 Ocean ry for the workers at the Brookside Mining Avenue, Suite 300, Santa Monica, Company. California 90401 USA. Tel: 310-260-3333. LOOKING FOR AN ECHO Fax: 310-260-3343. Website: www.regen- Drama (95 Minutes) tentertainment.com Language: English Company type: Producer, distributor & Director: Martin Davidson sales agent Producers: Steve Tisch, Paul Kurta and At AFM: Mark R. Harris (Partner, Regent Martin Davidson Entertainment), Paul Colichman (Partner, Regent Entertainment), Stephen P. Jarchow Cast: Armand Assante, Diane Venora, (Partner, Regent Entertainment), Gene Edoardo Ballerini, Joe Grifasi, George (President, Regent International), Tom Mason, Anthony John Denison Meggan Kimberley (Senior Vice President, Delivery Status: Completed Regent International), Michael Stone In this East Coast buddy film, an “oldies do (Director of Sales & Servicing, Regent wop” group reminisces about the good old International) days and a potential come-back, as the Acquisitions Executive: John Lambert leader finds true friendship and love. Office: Booth #737, Tel: 310.576.7397 KIN GEN-Y COPS Action Adventure (90 Minutes) Action (95 minutes) Language: English Language: English Director: Elaine Proctor Director: Benny Chan Producers: Margaret Matheson Producers: Thomas Chung, Willie Chan Cast: Miranda Otto, Isaiah Washington, Cast: Paul Rudd, Stephen Fung, Edison Chris Chameleon Chen, Sam Lee, Maggie Q Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: In Post-production A stunningly visual tale of passion and A rocket-fueled drama about an American betrayal set in Africa, where elephants are weapons company that has devised a lethal being slaughtered by poachers, a brother attack robot to replace human soldiers on and sister confront hard truths about love the battlefield and save millions of lives. and their convictions.

FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 45 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE THE GHOST TEEN MONSTER REX MEDIA CATALINA TRUST Action/Adventure (90 Minutes) Comedy (90 Minutes) Rex Media, 17351 Sunset Blvd., #304, Drama (105 minutes) Language: English Language: English Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 USA. Tel: Language: English Director: Douglas Jackson Director: Mitch Marcus 310.230.8420. Fax: 310.230.8520. E- Director: Will Conroy Producers: David Waters, Tony Eldridge Producers: Paul Colichman and Mark R. mail: [email protected]. Website: Producer: Todd Hagopian, David Kohner- and Louis W. Herthum Harris www.rexfilms.com Zuckerman Cast: Michael Madsen, Chung Lai, Cary- Cast: Matthew Lawrence, Ryan Reynolds, Company Type: Producer, Distributor Cast: John Shea, Jay Harrington, Arabella Hiroyuki Tagawa, Richard Hatch, Judge Reinhold, Shelly Duvall, At AFM: George Lascu (President), Holzbog, David Vegh, Erica Shaffer Brad Douriff Christine Lakin Cynthia Kuipers (Senior Vice President Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Marketing/Sales), William Shields Budget: $500,000 The Ghost, China’s most feared female In this edgy comedy, a brilliant high (President Distribution) Faith matters most when there’s no reason fighting soldier, must pose as an Internet school student rejuvenates a classmate Acquisition Executive: George Lascu to have it. LOVE 101 bride in Los Angeles when her cover is who is accidentally killed by school jocks. Office: 458, Tel: 310.614.1234, Fax: blown during a difficult assignment. 310.901.9492 Drama/romance (90 minutes) However, the recycled brain belonged to a Language: English SANCTIMONY notorious criminal and chaos ensues. THE DEEP FREEZE GIRLS Mystery/Thriller (90 Minutes) Comedy Director: Adrian Fulle Language: English RENAISSANCE FILMS Language: English Producer: David Miller Director: Uwe Boll Director: Zoe Clark-Williams Cast: Jeff Anderson, Michael Muhney, Producers: Uwe Boll, Shawn Williamson Renaissance Films, 34-35 Berwick Street, Mary Kay Cook London, W1F 8RP, UK. Tel: Producers: Rastar / Kiper Lascu & Paul Colichman Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Thora Birch Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Casper Van Dien, Michael Pare, Eric 44.20.7287.5190. Fax: 44.20.7287.5100. Budget: $200,000 E-mail: [email protected]. Delivery Status: Pre-production Roberts, Catherine Oxenberg, Jennifer Budget: $10 million Three college students discover that there is Rubin Website: www.renaissance-films.com The story is in the vein of “Clueless” and more to life than sex, drugs and rock & roll. Delivery Status: Completed Company Type: Film Sales and “10 Things I Hate About You” revolves SOUTHERN MAN This highly stylized suspense thriller fol- Production around the secret games of seduction Mystery/ Drama (90 minutes) lows a brilliant stock trader’s descent into a At AFM: Angus Finney (Joint Managing played by a bunch of ultra-sophisticated Language: English sadistic serial killer, who dispatches his Director), Bill Stephens (Director of 17-year-old American and European girls Director: Rick Rosenberg victims in public arenas, and culminates in Sales), Charlie Bloye (Senior Sales at a Swiss boarding school. Producer: Rick Rosenberg, Richard T. a shocking showdown. Executive), Michaela Piper (Marketing & THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA Cornfield SPEEDWAY JUNKY Publicity Manager), Eve Schoukroun Drama Cast: Mark Austin Bowers, Ellia Vierling, Drama (90 Minutes) (Executive Assistant, Sales) Language: English Jesse Head (completed two episodes for Language: English Office: Suite 721, Tel: 310.576.7227 Director: Gaga Antonijevic “Judging Amy”), Leigh Rose, Jack Betts Director: Nickolas Perry MORALITY PLAY Producers: Rastar / Kiper Lascu (supporting role in Madonna’s movie, Exec. Producer: Gus Van Sant Medieval Thriller Cast: Jeremy Irons “The Next Best Thing”), Joyce Guy Cast: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jesse Language: English Delivery Status: Pre-production Delivery Status: Completed Bradford, Daryl Hannah, Tiffani-Amber Director: Paul McGulgan Budget: $7 million Budget: $300,000 Thiessen Producer: Caroline Wood A modern Adaptation of the Tennessee In the Deep South, folks look at things one Delivery Status: Completed Williams Classic. way: with their eyes closed. Questions of Cast: Willem Dafoe, Paul Bettany, Gina parental influence, sexual abuse and homo- A gritty drama about a school dropout, who McKee BLUE THUNDER II dreams of becoming a NASCAR racing Action/Adventure phobia come to light. Delivery Status: Post-production ALL MY LOVED ONES driver, but his misadventures leave him Budget: $14 million Language: English stranded and strapped for cash in Las Producers: Rastar / Kiper Lascu Drama and biography/portrait (92 minutes) A renegade priest and a troupe of actors Language: Czech with English subtitles Vegas. and be re-enacting a real-life murder he Cast: Jeremy Irons SPENT Delivery Status: In Development Director: Matej Minac exposes a depraved killer, and finds self- Budget: $60 million Producer: Exec. Prod. Sting, Veronika Drama (90 Minutes) respect and love. Language: English Western European powers decide to hire an Marczuk-Pazura, Prod. Rudolf Bierman; THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS American prototype “B.T. 2002” helicopter Prod. Jiri Bartoska Co-producers- Olaf Director: Gil Cates, Jr. Drama Lubaszenko, Cestmir Kopecky, Cezary Producers: Rana Joy Glickman, Jordan to fight high profile crime. Language: English MY PET VIKING Pazura, Martin Sulik Summers and Gil Cates, Jr. Director: Rose Troche Cast: Jiri Bartoska, Josef Abrham, Libuse Cast: Jason London, Charlie Spradling, Comedy Producer: Dorothy Berwin, Christine Language: English Safrankova, Ondrej Vetchy Richmond Arquette, Rain Phoenix, Delivery Status: Completed Barbara Barrie, Margaret Cho Vachon Director: John Fasano Cast: Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Producers: Kiper Lascu Budget: $400,000 Delivery Status: Completed The Silberstein’s, headed by Jewish doctor Focusing on the dysfunctional twenty- Timothy Olyphant Delivery Status: Pre-production Delivery Status: Post-production Budget: $5 million Jacob Silberstein, believed, as so many something’s, a compulsive gambler loses a others did, that decency would prevail in bet he can’t afford and is forced to deal Budget: $7 million 11-year-old Clyde finds his unhappy life In this witty American suburban drama we turned around when he discovers a Viking the face of the Nazi threat. with the consequences and his web of lies. LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH MAZE uncover the lives of four neighbouring who had been caught in a great storm in 934 families. A.D. and twirled through time into modern Romantic Drama (90 minutes) Drama (90 Minutes) Language: English Language: English DISCO PIGS day Florida, where Clyde hides him in the family garage and bonds with him. Director: Robbie Moffat Director: Rob Morrow Romantic Drama (95 min, approx.) Producer: Mairi Fraser Sutherland and Producers: Paul Colichman, Mark R. Language: English Robbie Moffat Harris, Stephen P. Jarchow, and Rob Director: Kirsten Sheridan RGH/LIONS SHARE Cast: Hazel Ann Crawford, Paul Morrow Producer: Ed Guiney Cunningham, Adelle Brown, Niall Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy PICTURES RGH/Lions Share Pictures, 8831 Sunset Sutherland, Kevin Barclay, and Ian Stirling Cast: Rob Morrow, Laura Linney, Craig Status: Post-production Delivery Status: Completed Sheffer, Paul Dooley, Kathryn Harrold, Budget: $3.7 million Blvd., Suite 300, West Hollywood, CA 90069 USA. Tel: 310.652.2893. Fax: Budget: $500,000 Nicole Nieth A twisted rites of passage that is funny, “Love The One You’re With” is a moving por- A charming sculptor with Tourett’s 310.652.6237. E-mail: rghlionssharepic- sexual and violent. [email protected]. trait of how homelessness can happen to anyone. Syndrome falls in love with his best THE LUZHIN DEFENCE A PIECE OF EDEN friend’s pregnant girlfriend. All three must Website: www.lionssharepictures.com Romantic Drama (120 min) Company Type: Sales Agent Comedy/Drama (106 minutes) resolve complex issues of loyalty and Language: English At AFM: Eric Louzil (Co-CEO), Billy Language: English responsibility in this uncommon love story. Director: Marleen Gorris Blake (Co-CEO), “Anthony” MyungHoon Director: John Hancock I’LL REMEMBER APRIL Producers: Caroline Wood & Stephen Hong (Executive VP of International Sales) Producer: John Hancock Drama (90 Minutes) Evans, Louis Becker & Philipe Guez Acquisition Executive: Scott Ellingwood Cast: Marc Grapey, Tyne Daly, Rebecca Language: English Cast: John Turturro, Emily Watson Office: Office 739- room code C, Tel: Harrell, Frederic Forrest Director: Bob Clark Status: Completed 310.458.6700 Delivery Status: Completed Producers: Paul Colichman & Mark R. Budget: $9 million Tel: Hotel phone 310.458.6700, Fax: Budget: $2.5 million Harris An eccentric chess grandmaster battles his Hotel Fax 310.458.6761 This bittersweet comedy follows three gen- Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Trevor Morgan, demons to woo a vivacious aristocrat in a Eric Louzil’s cell phone: 818.621.0419, erations of the unlucky Tredici family from Mark Harmon, Pam Dawber, Pat Morita sumptuous, sensual and profoundly mov- “Anthony” MyungHoon Hong’s cell Corsica in the 1940’s to an Indiana fruit Delivery Status: Completed phone: 714.349.8642 farm in the present. A coming-of-age story set during World ing adaptation of Nabokov’s novel BEHIND THE SEAMS HUMAN TRAFFIC THE ASYLUM War II. A group of young boys capture a Romantic Comedy (93 minutes, 31seconds) Psychological Thriller (99 minutes) stranded, Japanese sailor in California and Drama (95 min) Language: English Language: English face difficult issues of loyalty and courage. Language: English Director: James Lima Director: John Stewart Director: Justin Kerrigan Producer: Cathleen Gallagher Producer: Carol Lemon Producers: Allan Niblo & Emer McCourt Cast: Cathleen Gallagher, Soupy Sales, Cast: Steffanie Pitt, Nick Waring, Ingrid Pitt Cast: John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington, Moon Zappa, Dick Cavett, Bridget Hall Delivery Status: Completed E-mail elspeth, betsy Shaun Parkes Delivery Status: Completed Budget: $1. 5 million Status: Completed Budget: $1 million Plagued by endless visions and night- or angela @ Budget: $3 million Casey McCan, a top supermodel who mares, Jenny Adams suspects that, as a thebusinessoffilm.com Five friends spend one lost weekend in a seemingly has it all - looks, fame, wealth, child, she was responsible for the brutal heady mix of music, love and club culture. an intellectual playboy boyfriend...a stalk- murder of her own mother. er? Well, maybe not everything!

RAZOR SHARPE POCO LOCO JIGSAW INTERRUPTIONS Action (90 minutes) Drama (90 minutes) Action / Adventure / Thriller (90 minutes) Comedy ( minutes) Language: English Language: English Language: English Language: English Director: Troy N. Ashford Director: Deborah Koons Director: Paul Shoebridge Director: Gretchen Somerfeld Producer: Lenny Daniels and Troy N. Producer: Deborah Koons and Ellen Osborne Producer: E. Thomas Canton / William Producer: Michael R. Blaha / Bruce Ashford (exec. prod.) Cast: Susan Brecht, Sandra Chapin, Meeka Corno / Dean Perlmutter / Paul Shoebridge Lazarus / Steven Olivieri / Gretchen Cast: Tim Murray, Bache Holland, Frank Schmalle, George Castillo Cast: William Corno / Erica Ehm, Edgar Somerfeld Cullen, Kevin Kilgore, Drew Woods, Delivery Status: Completed George, Marcus Hondro Cast: James Brinkley / Harry Cohn / Kelly Bonnie Gillespie and introducing Martial Budget: $500,000 Maguire / Jessica Renae Miller / Kirk B. Arts Sensation Troy Nikolo Ashford as A contemporary Midsummer Night’s Dream Delivery Status: Completed Budget: $250,000 R. Woller Justin Sharpe in which a widower and her daughter live hap- Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed pily alone until a healer with magic potions, Julius Rimero, a has-been boxer, doesn’t Budget: $250,000 Budget: $100,000 mysteriously appears on the property. know what he’s getting into when his ex- An edgy comic take on a chaotic clan that In his quest to become a successful martial EXILE IN BUYUKADA lover entices him into a drug deal. turns the typical Woody Allen-neurotic- arts action star, Justin Sharpe is betrayed by Documentary (72 minutes) THE DONOR vision into a comparative Paradise. his life-long friend, Rik Cooper. Language: English Drama / Romance (95 minutes) THE AUTEUR THEORY Director: Turan Yavuz Language: English RKO PICTURES Comedy (77 minutes, 40 seconds) Producer: Ayda Yavuz Director: Jean-Marie Pallardy Language: English RKO Pictures, 1875 Century Park East, Cast: Narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, Producer: Sedat Akdemir / Bernard Suite 2140, Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA. Director: Evan Oppenheimer Victor Sergachev as Leon Trotsky, Isik Producer: Holly Sorenson and Evan Bergman / Jean-Marie Pallardy Tel: 310.576.7257. Fax: 310.576.7258. Yenersu as Natalia Cast: Karen Black / David Carradine / At AFM: Ted Hartley (Chairman and Oppenheimer; Assoc. Prod.-Martin Delivery Status: Completed Schepelern Pierre Du Lat / Florence Guerin CEO), Adam Rosen (Senior VP of Budget: $1 million Business Affairs and General Counsel), Cast: Alan Cox, Natasha Lyonne, Angeline Ball A documentary of Joseph Stalin-rival Leon Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Budget: $500,000 Ron Gell (VP of Production and Trotsky’s exiled years in Istanbul narrated Development/Radio Pictures), Doris Budget: $250,000 by Vanessa Redgrave. It’s a love story set in the deal-making, At a relentlessly self-important student film OLIVER TWISTED power hungry pathos of Los Angeles and is Schwartz (VP Production), June Shelley festival, the directors of the (mostly terrible) Horror/mystery (90 minutes) contrasted by the idyllic simple world of a (Head of Sales & Marketing) short films are being killed off one by one. Language: English Mediterranean village. Office: 724, Tel: 310.576.7257 NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN Director: Dean Gates ILLUSION INFINITY REVELATION Action (90 minutes) Producer: Socrates Ballis Drama (104 minutes) Thriller (98 min) Language: English Director: Avi Nesher Cast: Erik Estrada, Karen Black, Signe Language: English Director: Derek Partridge Kiesel, Brain Ahmes, and Jason McMahan Producer: Ted Hartley Producer: Executive Producers: Director: Roger Steinman Cast: Jennifer Grey, Craig Sheffer, Tim as “Oliver.” Producers: Markus Imthurn / Eric Louzil Christopher and Derek Partridge; Co- Delivery Status: Completed Curry Prod.-Eli Mizrachi Cast: Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Delivery Status: Completed / screening at Budget: $500,000 Showä)/ Dee Wallace Stone (E.T.ä)/ Cast: Christopher Coburn, Reiko The family secret is out. AFM Alylesworth and Peter Billingsley Barbara Carrera / Mickey Rooney (Black Inspired by director Jacques Tourneur’s Delivery Status: Completed WARPATH Action adventure (90 minutes) Beautyä) 1943 classic “I Walked With A Zombie,” Budget: $250,000 Delivery Status: Completed this new offering explores the mystical and A young entrepreneur lets a best friend talk Language: English Director: Peter Maris Budget: $500,000 sensual, yet oftentimes terrifying world of him into a miracle cure mail-order business Patricia Paradise, a Las Vegas singing star, Voodoo spirituality. that turns out to be a front for the mob. Producer: Kurt Swansick REDBOY 13 Cast: Billy Parish, Amy Lindsay, Michelle rejects wealth, fame and success to seek Kid’s Adventure (87 minutes) Jones love and build a family in her dream place, Language: English Delivery Status: Completed “Shangri-La.” Director: Marcus Van Bavel Budget: $250,000 FLOATING This Product Guide and Producer: Executive Producers: Drew A taut, riveting action adventure thriller Drama ( minutes) Dennett and Louis Saldana about one man’s search for justice. Language: English Produced by Marcus Van Bavel and David GANGSTRESSES Director: William Roth other sections of the main Boone Documentary (90 minutes) Producer: Mary Feuer / Anaye Milligan Cast: Robert Logan (“The Wilderness Language: English Director: Harry Davis Cast: Norman Reedus, Chad Lowe, Will magazine Family,” “77 Sunset Strip,” “Daniel Boone), Lyman, Sybil Temchen, Jonathan Quint Devon Roy-Brown, Charlie Schmidt Producer: Cornelius Pitts and Percy Davis Cast: Champagne, Mama Mayhem, Mary Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Budget: $700,000 Budget: $250,000 J. Blige will be available Sean Rains, a 13-year-old boy who goes to Delivery Status: Completed One particular summer, the once-still waters school, comes home, does his homework Budget: $300,000 of the lake suddenly ran turbulent with our on-line at and then saves the world from evil. 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FINAL DESCENT PRINCESA Action Thriller Drama (96 minutes) RODUCT Language: English Language: Italian with English subtitles P Director: David Warry-Smith Director: Henrique Goldman Producer: Shawn Williamson Producer: Rebecca O’Brien Cast: Antonio Sabato, Jr., Jurgen Cast: Ingrid De Souza, Cesare Bocci & SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT Prochnow, Heidi Noelle Lenhart and Lulu Pecorari Patrick Muldoon Delivery Status: Completed / Screening Delivery Status: Completed When Brendan Met Trudy A beautiful alpinist leads an expedition to Romantic comedy (91minutes) AFM 2001 the treacherous pinnacle of Mt. Long’s Peak Director: Kieron J Walsh only to become entangled with a deadly Producer: Lynda Myles band of thieves in search of their lost loot. Cast: Peter McDonald & Flora A FAMILY IN CRISIS: THE ELIAN Montgomery GONZALEZ STORY Language: English language True Life Drama Delivery Status: Completed / Screening Language: English Brendan’s imaginative life is full of images Director: Christopher Leitch from his favourite films and the exploits of Producer: Leanne Moore his favourite actors. He meets Trudy, who turns his life upside down. Cast: Esai Morales, Laura Harring, Alan GABRIEL & ME Rachins, Miguel Sandoval and Alec Director: Udayan Prasad Roberts Producer: Marc Samuelson & Peter Delivery Status: Completed Samuelson An innocent young boy becomes the focus Cast: Iain Glen, David Bradley, Rosie of an international media frenzy when in a Rowell & Billy Connolly moment, a mother’s desperate bid for free- Delivery Status: In Post-production dom alters the course of many lives forever. Jimmy Spud is not your average eleven- RACE THROUGH TIME year-old Newcastle lad. Suspense Thriller THE NAVIGATORS Language: English Director: Ken Loach Director: Jeff Woolnough Producer: Rebecca O’Brien Producer: Shawn Williamson Cast: Joe Duttine, Tom Craig, Venn Tracey, Cast: William Devane, Rob Estes, Laurie Steve Huison, Dean Andrews holden and Woody Jeffreys Delivery Status: In Post-production Delivery Status: completed When privitasation reaches British Rail a If you had a chance to change your life, gang of railtrack workers take their chance would you take it? A framed police officer with redundancy cash and life as casual risks everything to travel back in time to agency workers. alter a tragic course of events. NO MAN’S LAND THE MERCURY PROJECT Director: Danis Tanovic Drama Producer: Frederique Dumas-Zajdela, Language: English Marc Baschet & Cedomir Kolar Director: Christopher Bremble Cast: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Producer: Mike Elliott Simon Callow & Katrin Cartlidge Cast: Robert Wagner, Marilu Henner, Ryan Delivery Status: In Post-production Merriman and Danielle Fishel UNDER THE STARS Delivery Status: completed Director: Christos Georgiou When disaster strikes a space shuttle in Producer: Sam Taylor, Christos Georgiou orbit, the survival of the crew onboard & George Lykiardopoulos PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 depends solely on the success of a risky and Cast: Akis Sakellariou & Myrto Alikaki unconventional rescue mission. Delivery Status: In Post-production Phoebe and Lukas, a pair of mismatched Santa Who?, AVAILABLE FROM Hearst Entertainment lovers, travel illegally across No-Man’s THE SALES Land in Cyprus, back to their childhood COMPANY home. CASPER MEETS WENDY The Sales Company, 62 Shaftesbury S SSS Live Action, Adventure Comedy Avenue, London W1V 7DE UK. Tel: SCANBOX Language: English 44.207.434.9061. Fax: 44.207.494.3293. INTERNATIONAL Director: Sean McNamara Tel: c/o Loews 310.458.6700, Fax: c/o Loews 310.458.6761 Scanbox International, 11846 Ventura SABAN Producer: Mike Elliott Blvd., Suite 300, Studio City, California Cast: Cathy Moriarty, Shelley Duvall, Teri At AFM: Jane Wright (CEO), Rebecca 91604, USA. Tel: 818.762.8662. Fax: INTERNATIONAL Kearey (Head of Marketing), Joy Wong Garr, George Hamilton, Hilary Duff, 818.762.0094. E-mail: Saban International, 10960 Wilshire Blvd., (Sales Executive) Vincent Schiavelli, Richard Moll and [email protected] Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA. Tel: Office: Loews 809 310.235.5100. Fax: 310.235.5446. Jeremy Foley At AFM: Chris Davis, Lisa Shectman DUST Office: Loews Hotel, Suite 837, Tel: At AFM: Stan Golden (President, Saban Delivery Status: Completed Director: Milcho Manchevski International), Lance Robbins (President, LIFE IN THE BALANCE 310.576.7301, Mobile: 818.652.6128 Producer: Chris Auty, Vesna Jovanoska, SWEDISH BEAUTY Fox Family Television Studios), Tomas Suspense Thriller Domenico Procacci Arteaga (Vice President, Sales, German Language: English Coming-of-Age Cast: Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham, Language: Swedish Speaking Territories), Maria Torregrosa Director: Adam Weissman Adrian Lester, Anne Brochet (Vice President, International Sales), Amy Director: Daniel Fridell Producer: Kimberley Berlin Delivery Status: In Post-production, Goldberg (Vice President, Motion Picture), Cast: Bo Derek and Bruce Boxleitner Producer: Hakan Bjerking Susan Cooper (Vice President, screening promo reel at AFM Cast: Francisco Jacob, Victor Kallander, Delivery Status: completed New York meets The Wild East in a tale of Jenny Ulving, Nadine Kirschon Acquisitions) A brilliant trial lawyer must look beyond the Office: Loews Hotel, Suite 756, Tel: love, loss and revenge. Delivery Status: completed evidence to prove a convicted murder inno- LAST RESORT A teenage boy gets more than he bargained 310.576.6989 cent. DIGIMON: THE MOVIE Drama (75 minutes) for when he decides to trick the woman of MURDER SCENE Language: English his desire into allowing him to film her in Aminated Psychological Thriller Language: English Director: Pawel Pawlikowski the “starring role” of his first film. Director: Takaaki Yamashita, Hisashi Language: English Producer: Ruth Caleb SHREDDED Nakayama and Masahiro Aizawa Director: Rob King Cast: Dina Korzun & Paddy Considine Thriller (Animation) Jeff Nimoy and Bob Producer: Mark Reid Delivery Status: Completed / Screening Language: Danish Buchholz (Voice) Cast: Callum Keith Rennie, Nicole Eggert Tanya, young and naïve, leaves Moscow Director: Heini Grunbaum Producer: Terri-Liechtenstein Omalley and Timothy Bottoms with her 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her Producer: Heini Grunbaum and Isak Cast: N/A Delivery Status: completed English fiance. But after he fails to turn up Thorsen Delivery Status: completed When a beautiful university student is sud- at the airport, Tanya and her son find them- Cast: Thomas Bo Larsen, Josephine Digimon must battle a powerfully ferocious denly tormented by chilling visions of a selves virtually imprisoned in a deserted Akvana, Michel Brendstrup and evil Digimon with the aid of kids mysterious abduction, she becomes a help- seaside resort without passports, money or Delivery Status: completed around the world via the internet. less victom’s only hope for survival rights. A successful man, happily married and in love with his wife, has the misfortune of Product Listings — discovering her in the act with her L.A. Office Phone L.A. Office FAX lover…and he is consumed by a jeaous (323) 935-8228 (323) 935-8229 [email protected] rage.

WHITE WATER FURY BABY JUICE EXPRESS WINDHORSE ANOTHER HEAVEN Action Thriller Action/Comedy Drama Horror(131 min) Language: Swedish Language: English Director: Paul Wagner Language: Japanese Director: John Lindstrom Director: Michael Hurst The urgent, contemporary story of an aspir- Director: George Iida Producer: Lennart Duner Producer: Spice Factory (UK) / Filmhouse ing Tibetan pop singer who faces a crisis of Producer: Shinya Kawai Cast: Emil Forselius, Rafael Edholm, (Canada) conscience when her cousin, a Buddhist Cast: Yosuke Eguchi / Miwako Icikawa / Alexander Skarsgard, Yaba Holst Cast: TBD nun, is tortured for her beliefs. Yoshio Harada A wild time camping along the river Kalix Delivery Status: Pre-production ELFQUEST Delivery Status: completed turns to terror when four youths discover An old gangster veteran, TATE and his Feature film Budget: $3,000,000 that the river harbours a dark secret. younger partner, JAY, both want to break Director: Ptarick Claeys Two detectives try to find solve the mystery FLICHERKING LIGHTS from the mob, but in order to do so they will Status: In production. Delivery AFM 2003 of “something” that has possessed the Drama need lots of cash. Stealing from their own The internationally popular comic books human brain to cause serial killings. Language: Danish mob boss sounds like a simple enough plan, come to life onscreen in an animated fea- LILY OF THE VALLEY Director: Anders Thomas Jensen until things go wrong and their lives are at ture! The tale of Cutter, leader of a band of Drama (101 min) Producer: Kim Magnusson and Tivi stake. wolf-riding warrior elves, and his struggle Language: Japanese Magnusson BYE BYE BLUE BIRD to save the tribe. Director: Rintaro Mayuzumi Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Soren Pilmark, Drama DASH Producer: Kouzo Tanaka / Yasuo Takahashi Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas Language: Danish Feature film Cast: Isao Hashizume / Rumi Hiiragi / Delivery Status: completed Director: Katrin Ottarsdottir Status: in Pre-production Hitomi Kuroki They have always known each other – Now Producer: Annette Norregaard A jazzy tribute to the film noir detective Delivery Status: completed they have to get to know themselves… Cast: Hildigunn Eyofinnsdottir, Sigri Mitra genre of the 1940s proposed by Storyboard Budget: $2,500,000 about four friends and criminals, who Delivery Status: Completed and Pictor Media. A heartwarming story orphan girl seeks for against all odds have scored one million This is a film about hypocrisy, broken Delivery Status: Delivery Mifed 2002 her mother. dollars! dreams, unfortunate fate and finding one- TEDDY’S COMING OUT BODY ARMOR self, but ultimately with a positive outlook. A sweet, provocative ode to difference Action/Thriller Denmark’s answer to “Thelma and Louise.” from Pictor Media. SHORELINE Language: English (USA) Delivery Status: Mifed 2003 ENTERTAINMENT Director: TBD SCENERIES HERMES: WINDS OF LOVE Shoreline Entertainment, Inc., 1875 Producer: Juan Collas and Brad Southwick Animated Adventure Century Park East, Suite 600, Los Cast: TBD INTERNATIONAL Director: Tetsuo Imazawa Angeles, CA 90067 USA. Tel: Delivery Status: Pre-production Sceneries International, 1660 Ocean Japanese Box Office Hit! Based on the 310.551.2060. Fax: 310.201.0729. E-mail: After his high profile client is killed during Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA. Greek myth, this is a thrilling animated [email protected]. an ambush, Ridley, an elite bodyguard, Tel: 310.652.9900. Fax: 310.652.9901. E- adventure the whole family can enjoy. Website: www.shorelineentertainment.com. becomes a recluse away from his col- mail: [email protected] Featuring Hermes’ romance with Aphrodite leagues, his friends and his girlfriend…until and his heroic battle with evil King Minos, At AFM: Vicky Pike (Co-Principal), At AFM: Philippe Lenglet (President, Morris Ruskin (Co-Principal), Shelly Gant he is offered the job that will help him fight Sceneries International), Philippe Diaz the film is filled with delightful characters away his demons. (Chairman, Sceneries Entertainment), and visual beauty. (VP Distribution Services), Eluana Okilo YOUNG AT HEART Robert Jordan (Business Affairs), Austin J. (Director of Development) Comedy/Action Saito (Sceneries Asia-Tokyo), Kindra SHOCHIKU CO., LTD. Office: Loews Suite 641, Tel: Language: English (USA) Ruocco (Sales Executive) Shochiku Co., Ltd., 4-1-1 Tukiji, Togeki 310.458.6700, ext. 641. Director: John Warren Office: 1660 Ocean Avenue (near Loews Blg. 12th floor, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8422 THE MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS Producer: Triple Peak Productions Hotel), Tel: 310.652.9900, Fax: Japan. Tel: 81.3.5550.1623. Fax: Drama Delivery Status: Pre-production 310.652.9901 81.3.5550.1654. E-mail: Cast: Andy Garcia, Anjelica Huston, Mick Having lost his job, but found money in his VANILLA GORILLA [email protected] Jagger, Julianna Margulies, James Coburn, bank account that does not belong to him, a Family Adventure Company Type: Sales, acquisition, produc- Olivia Williams. sixty-something dance instructor goes cross Director: Randal Kleiser er, distributor Delivery Status: In Post Production country with a young woman and the mob Producer: Irvin Kershner At AFM: Jay Sakomoto (CEO), Masaki A struggling writer ignores his principles hot on their trail in the pursuit of his lifelong Cast: Olympic Sensation Nikki Webster Koga (Head, International Business and accepts work as a gigolo for the beauti- dream. and an A-level ensemble cast Division). Acquisition: Shinobu Suzuki ful young wife of a world famous author. NICE ITALIAN GIRL Delivery Status: Shooting in South Africa, (Manager), Meri Koyama (Assistant ASYLUM Romantic Comedy Spring 2001 Manager), Ichiro Takase (Representative of Scary Thriller Language: English When an albino gorilla fires up a kid by Shochiku Films of America). Sales: Cast: Judd Nelson, Paulina Porizkova, Director: Paolo Mazzucato teaching her sign language, a journey is Kiwamu Sato(Assistant Manager), Satoko Jurgen Prochnow, Larry Drake. Producer: Triple Peak Productions sparked and a fabulous adventure begins. Ishida(Assistant Manager) A CHAIN OF VOICES Delivery Status: Ready For Delivery Cast: TBD Office: #714, Tel: 310.576.7147, Fax: A psychopath terrorizes a female psycholo- Delivery Status: Pre-production Director: Chris Menges 310.576.7148 gist when she is trapped in an insane asy- Joe Biagio, a first-generation Italian / Delivery Status: Shooting in South Africa, FACE American, sidesteps his parents’ plot to fix Spring 2002 lum. Drama (123 min) A CRACK IN THE FLOOR him up with a nice Italian bride by escaping An epic love story set in the world of slav- Language: Japanese to Italy. ery. Director: Junji Sakamoto Horror SUGARFOOT ZEN INTERGALACTIC NINJA Producer: Yukiko Shiii Cast: Mario Lopez, Bo Hopkins, Tracy Romantic Drama Live-action feature Cast: Naomi Fujiyama / Etsushi Toyokawa Scoggins, Justine Priestly, Gary Busey. Language: English Cast: Ching Siu-Tung / Koichi Sato Delivery Status: Ready For Delivery Director: Terry Linehan Delivery Status: Delivery AFM 2002 Delivery Status: completed A weekend camping trip turns out badly Producer: Sugarfoot Productions, LLC The Sci-fi adventures of the blue-skinned Budget: $1,000,000 when a group of teenagers take shelter in a Cast: TBD alien, and his young human friend Jeremy. A murder suspect charges her face and way cabin, occupied by a tormented recluse. Delivery Status: Pre-production When the evil Baltoonians attack, only of living to get away. Through the escape THE KING’S GUARD World War II is over and Sugar Stiles is the Jeremy and Zen can save Earth. Action Adventure THE ROYAL WAY she finds her real self. best white boy dancer in North Carolina. He RENDAN-QUARTET FOR TWO Cast: Ron Pearlman, Eric Roberts, Lesley- uses his skillful dance moves to impress the Live Action Feature film Anne Down, Khrysten Haje. Director: Andrei Konchalovsky Drama (104 min) girl of his dreams, but her war-hero Language: Japanese Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery boyfriend won’t let anyone steal his girl Cast: Keifer Sutherland, Richard Harris Delivery Status: shooting January 2001 in Director: Naoto Takenaka A swashbuckling adventure about a without a fight. Producer: Hideshi Miyajima / Toshiaki Princess who escapes the burning palace is ATIKUS Vietnam The eagerly anticipated epic adventure set Harada hunted down by bandits. Action/Adventure Cast: Naoto Takenaka / Yuki Amami THE VISIT Language: English in the Indochinese revolutionary struggles of the 1920s by the director of Runaway Delivery Status: completed Drama Director: TBD Budget: $1,000,000 Directed by Jordan Walker Pearlman, stars Producer: Scanbox Pictures U.S.A. Train. INNOCENTS Poignant comedy of parents growing apart Hill Harper, Obba Babatunde, Billy Dee Cast: Michael Jai White and children growing up. The family barely Delivery Status: Pre-production Thriller (97 min) Williams, Phylicia Rashad, Rae Dawn Director: Gregory Marquette stays together through mother and daugh- Chong. 2040 A.D., America. After mass destruction ter’s piano duet(RENDAN). due to toxic waste and nuclear fallout, there Cast: Connie Nielsen, Jean-Hugues Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery Anglade, Mia Kirschner, Anne Archer THE HAPPY FAMILY PLAN A heart-wrenching drama about a prison ar eonly two cities left standing in this vast Delivery Status: ready for delivery Drama (104 min) land. A couple of renegades who’ve been inmate’s reevaluation of his life, and the A pair of beautiful, mysterious sisters lure a Language: Japanese hope and the sadness as he tries to reconnect wrongfully sentenced to life in prison are Director: Tsutomu Abe European musician into a harrowing jour- with his family. assigned the task of transporting a live plage ney across America. Producer: Hiroshi Fukasawa / Tomohiko virus across the country. Saito BEEPER THE NEW WORLD ORDER: Action Thriller SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA Cast: Tomokazu Miura / Eriko Watanabe Delivery Status: Shoots March 2001 Send Your Documentary Delivery Status: completed Director: Philippe Diaz Budget: $2,000,000 Cast: TBC Press Releases to: A revealing feature-length documentary A father who loses his job tries his best for A doctor’s son is kidnapped and his beeper which exposes the interntional involvement the homework and during the procedure he is the only form of contact with the kidnap- [email protected] of the Western nations in the ongoing regains his bond with his family, which had per. When his beeper is stolen, he must team hunger crisis in Sierra Leone. all but vanished. up with a drug dealer to save his son’s life.

FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 49 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE SHOWCASE THREE’S A CROWD TRAVELING BOWLS OF SOUP FUGITIVAS (FUGITIVES) Romantic Comedy Romantic-Comedy Road movie (100 minutes) (2000) ENTERTAINMENT Director: Adam Vetri Director: Malcom Clark Language: Spanish Showcase Entertainment, Inc. Warner Producer: Michael Reichman, Glen Producer: Jacquelin Beaudette, Larry Director: Miguel Hermoso Center, 21800 Oxnard Street, Suite 150, Trotiner and Adam Vetri Healy, Leman Cetiner, Axel Munch Producer: Maestranza Films Woodland Hills, CA 91367, USA. Tel: Cast: Adam Vetri, Chelsea Lagos, Monica Cast: Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Amy Cast: Laia Marull, Beatriz Coronel, Juan 818.715.7005. Fax: 818.715.7009. Trombetta Madigan Diego, Mar’a Galiana Website: http://www.showcaseentertain- Proves that love can be complicated but Delivery Status: Pre-production Delivery Status: Completed ment.com well worth the wait – especially when you A good-hearted lawyer and a self-centered Tony (25), young and tough, finds herself AT AFM: David Jackson (President), combine a man, his best friend and the bohemian painter fight for the love of a alone on the road with Laura (7), having Shauna Shapiro Jackson (Executive Vice woman who comes between them. beautiful but eccentric hostess of a been dumped by her boyfriend who has run President), Bibi Channer (Vice President, EASTSIDE Japanese piano bar. International Sales and Co-Productions), off with the ill-gotten gains of a robbery in Director: Lorena David TEA CAKES OR CANNOLI Madrid. In hot and angry pursuit are their Renae Black (Vice President, U.S. Sales Producer: H. K. Chopra Romantic-Comedy (90 min) & Int’l. Distribution). cheated companions in crime: MAXI and Cast: Mario Lopez, Mark Espinoza, Language: English MOCO - both as mad as hell - and the Office: 086 & 807 Efrain Figueroa THE CODE CONSPIRACY Director: Francine Pellegrino & Nino POLICE. Thriller An inspirational story of one young man’s Pepicelli KM. 0 Director: Hank Whetstone personal transformation from criminal to Cast: Abe Vigoda, Carmen D’Ellorefre, Comedy, 100 minutes (2000) Producer: Hank Whetstone local hero. Conor Michael Dubin, Frank Santorelli, Language: Spanish Cast: Jin Fitzpatrick, Maria Concita TURN OF FAITH John Fiore Director: Yolanda Garc’a Serrano & Juan Alonso, Lou Rawls Directed by Charles Jarrott Delivery Status: completed / screening Luis Iborra Follow software billionaire John Davis in Produced by Raymond Mancini Young Joey’s path to manhood takes a Producer: Universal/Cuarteto p.c. his race to develop a revolutionary technol- Cast: Tony Sirico (“Goodfellas,” gigantic leap when he sets his sights on a Cast: Concha Velasco, George Corraface, ogy that the government will stop at noth- “Godfather II”), the award winning drop-dead-gorgeous girl from Boston’s Silke, Carlos Fuentes ing to destroy. Charles Durning (“Oh Brother Where Art upper class and his best friend is recruited Delivery Status: completed Thou,” “Dick Tracy,” “Shelter”), world DUMPED into the Mafia. A steamy hot summer’s afternoon at the famous boxing champion Ray “Boom Romantic Comedy very heart of Spain: kilometer 0, Madrid. Director: Oliver Robins Boom” Mancini (“Body and Soul”), Costas Mandylor (“The Pledge,” “The SMILE Fourteen people unexpectedly face life- Producer: Jeremy Rubin and Oliver changing events at the very point where it Robins Doors,” “Shelter”) and Mia Sara (“Ferris ENTERTAINMENT all begins. Cast: Dana Barron, Seth Peterson Bueller‚s Day Off”). Smile Entertainment, Indiakaj 12, DK- Laura embarks on a mission to snare her An explosive action thriller unfolds as a A–O MARIANO 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Tel: Comedy (119 minutos) (2000) long-time boyfriend Will into marriage with cop, a priest and a wise guy, who have been 45.35.44.11.05. Fax: 45.35.43.40.08. the help of a well-known dating manual. Language: Spanish friends all of their lives, are confronted with Website: www.smile.dk Director: Karra Elejalde & Fernando ALTERED SPECIES a union boss who is set out to destroy them. Company Type: Producer / Distributor Sci-Fi Guill_n Cuervo THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS At AFM: Mr. Timo T. Lahtinen (President Producer: Bailando con la Luna P.C. & The chilling tale of what happesn when sci- Directed by John Putch & CEO) ence takes a wrong turn. In a high-tech Asegarce Zinema Produced by Alex Hyde-White Stand: 758 Cast: Karra Elejalde, Fernando Guill_n pharmaceutical lab, scientists are on the Cast: Frank Whaley (“Swimming With THE GUARDIAN ANGEL verge of creating a cure for one of the dead- Cuervo, Manuel Manqui–a Sharks,” “Joe The King,” “Pulp Fiction”), Thriller (100 min.) Delivery Status: completed liest disases on earth. Annabeth Gish (star of TV, -Files” ˆ tak- Language: English Delivery Status: pre-production The adventures of Mariano take him from ing the place of Gillian Anderson, Director: Arto Halonen failed salesman to Media Preacher in a KISSED BY AN ANGEL “Mystic Pizza”), Amy Jo Johnson (TV’s Producer: Michael Obel, Timo T. Lahtinen Romance crazy journey of dope-induced Virgin “Felicity,” “The Power Rangers”), Adam Cast: TBA sightings, accompanied by odd-balls and Director: Gregory C. Haynes Baldwin (“The Patriot,” “My Bodyguard,” Delivery Status: In development Producer: Greggory B. Peck and Kathryn wild eccentrics. “Full Metal Jacket”), Patrick Van Horn Budget: 3.0 mil EL ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO (THE Arnold A story about the most incredible series of Cast: Adam Trese, Radha Mitchell, Mia (“Swingers”) and Jean Stapleton (TV’s DEVIL’S BACKBONE) “All In The Family”). crimes, committed under hypnosis. Based Thriller (2000) Kirschner on true happenings. An idealistic romantic man who has lost all An ad executive, in pursuit of happiness, Language: Spanish hope after being deserted at the altar. In his learns that sometimes your true love ends Director: Guillermo del Toro quest to find Miss Right, he involves him- up being your first love. SOGEPAQ, S.A. Producer: El Deseo/Tequila Gang self in an emotionally charged triangle with Cast: Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Sogepaq, S.A., Gran V’a 32, 1st floor, Federico Luppi an eccentric free spirited woman and a SILVERLINE 28013 Madrid, Spain. Tel: down to earth girl. Delivery Status: post-production THE TOMORROW MAN PICTURES 34.91.524.7220. Fax: 34.91.5210875 Spain is being torn apart by the Civil War. Sci-Fi Thriller Silverline Pictures, 22837 Ventura Blvd., E-mail: [email protected]. Abandoned in a grim and isolated orphan- Director: Doug Campbell Suite 205, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 Company Type: Distributor age, newcomer Carlos, 12, faces hostility Producer: Vanessa Finan and Michael USA. Tel: 818.225.9032. Fax: At AFM: Margaret Nicoll (General and violence from his fellow inmates - led Wehling 818.225.9053. E-mail: silverline@earth- Manager), Alix Goldschmidt (Director of by tormented Jaime - and the brutal handy- Cast: Corbin Bernsen, Beth Kennedy, link.net. Website: Sales), Mar’a Angulo (Director of man, Jacinto. But the dark cellars and Morgan Rusler, Adam Sutton, Elizabeth www.silverlinepictures.com Acquisitions), Eva Diederix (Head of Intl’ empty cloisters of the orphanage hide far Sandifer At AFM: Axel Munch (President), Leman Sales), Ana Roman’ (Marketing & Sales greater terrors. A dedicated father and husband finds him- Cetiner (CEO), Robert Yap (Director Administration), Donald Ranvaud (Intl’ BESOS PARA TODOS (KISSES FOR self in a deadly chase that catapults him Development & Sales), Gunther Heinlein Sales Consultant) EVERYONE) into the future. (Head of German Office) Acquisition Executive: Mar’a Angulo Dramatic Comedy (2000) THE GENTLEMAN BANDIT Office: Le Merigot #150, Tel: (Director of Acquisitions) Language: Spanish Director: Jaime Chavarri Action Thriller 310.576.7541 Office: Loews office #437 Director: Jordan Allan KRÁMPACK Producer: Sogecine FINDER’S FEE Cast: Emma Suarez, Eloy Azor’n, Roberto Producer: Charlie Mattera and Jordan Allan Thriller (95 min) Coming of Age drama (90 minutes) Cast: Charlie Mattera, Ed Lauter, Ryan Hoyas Language: English (2000) Delivery Status: completed O’Neal, Peter Green Director: Jeff Probst Language: Spanish A young ex-convict, when unable to get Three students are sent to C‡diz by their Producer: Katy Wallin-Sandalis, Brad Van Director: Cesc Gay families, in 1965, in a last attempt to have legitimate work, gets involved with an older Producer: Messidor Films gentleman played by Ryan O’Neal who Arragon, Shawn Williamson them graduate and live up to expectations. teaches him a refined form of bank robbery. Cast: Matthew Lillard, James Earl Jones, Cast: Fernando Ramallo, Jordi Vilches, The arrival on the scene of a troupe of BEYOND BELIEF Robert Forster, Erik Palladino Marieta Orozco, Esther Nubiola dancers sends their plans haywire: the guys Special Delivery Status: Completed/screening Delivery Status: Completed flunk their course and the girls lose their Cast: (host) Sir David Frost The close relationship between four friends Spain, summer of 1999. Dani invites jobs. But together they learn to decide their This highly rated network special seen by is tested when one of them discovers a $6.0 Nico, his best friend and schoolmate, to own future. over 30 million viewers features incredible million winning lottery ticket. his parent’s holiday house, on the PLENILUNIO (PLENILUNE) feats performed by world famous paranor- ANGELS DON’T SLEEP HERE Mediterranean coast. During ten days of Dramatic Thriller (118 minutes) (2000) malists before a live audience asking the Thriller (90 min) freedom, together they discover love, Language: Spanish ultimate question -–is it real, is it an illu- Language: English sex, jealousy and disenchantment and Director: Imanol Uribe sion or is it simply…Beyond Belief?! Director: Paul Cade thus cross that vague border separating Producer: Sogecine GOODNIGHT VIENNA Producer: Axel Munch, Leman Cetiner adolescence from manhood. Cast: Adriana Ozores, Miguel Ángel Solá, Thriller Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Patrick, Kelly Juan Diego Botto, Fernando Fernán Director: Rudolf van den Berg Rutherford, Dana Ashbrook, Kari Wuhrer Gómez, María Galiana Producer: Rudolf van den Berg Delivery Status: completed (2000) Send Your Delivery Status: completed Cast: Alan Cumming, Juliet Aubrey, Frank Michael Daniels is accused of murder and A small, cold and rainy provincial town. Finlay manipulated into a web of deceit and Press Releases to: The body of a little girl is discovered in the A young Austrian comedian struggles with betrayal as his thought-to-be-dead twin middle of the woods. She has been brutal- the nightmare of his past and a dead sister brother plots revenge on those who tried to [email protected] ly murdered in a night bathed by a full who refuses to die by laying claim to his soul. kill him. moon.

50 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE SPICE FACTORY MARRIED-UNMARRIED FUEL SOOTHSAYER Spice Factory, 81, The promenade, Thriller (‘A Sexy Sex lies and Video Tape) Sci-fi action thriller in the style of ‘The Action/Fantasy Director: Noli (acclaimed West End stage Crow’meets ‘Blade Runner’ Language: English Peacehave, Brighton, East Sussex, BN10 Director: Andrew Goth 8LS UK. Tel: 44.1273.585.275. / director and writer) Director: Johnny Kevorkian Producers: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan, Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, Producer: Joanne Reay, Andrea Gorfolova, 44.1273.585495. Fax: 44.1273.585.304. Jennifer Peckham Arundale E-Mail: [email protected] Jonathan English Claude Leger, Cast: TBA Office: c/o Fusion International, Storm Cast: Paolo Seganti (LA Confidential, Tea Executive producer: Jonathan Vanguard, Delivery Status: Pre-production Entertainment, Scanbox International, With Mussolini, Lago Watch for Fox Delivery Status: Pre-production Budget: $30 million Beyond Films, or TF1 International Network), Romaine Bohringer, Elodie Cast: Out To Cast A fiercely fantastic tale of passion and sor- Mobile for Michael Cowan: Bouchez, Dennis Lanvant. Set in a society where the gene to violence cery. The story surrounds Morien, a young 44.468.102468 Delivery Status: In Production has been removed now someone has re- Company Type: Distributor At AFM: Michael Lionello Cowan (Joint A very Sexy ‘Sex Lies and Video Tape’. invented the motion as a drug and society Moor who must wrestle with his own inner Managing Director), Jason Piette (Joint REDEMTION ROAD has a problem. To fight this new threat they demons as he engages in a brutal pursuit of Managing Director), Alex Marshall Comedy ‘Withnail and I’ meets ‘The create the FUELER.... honor. (Business Affairs) POSSESSION HEAVEN SENT Dream Team’ Drama (92 min) BEING CONSIDERED Director: Lloyd Stanton (Comic Strip for Thriller/Horror based on the best selling Comedy Language: English BBC) book by Peter James Director: Frank Shields Language: English Director: Peter Flinth Director(s): Jonathan Newman Producers: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan, Producer: Julie Marlow Producer(s): Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, Cast: Robbie Cultrane, Steve Marcus Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, Cast: Tushka Bergen, Marton Csokas Jonathan Newman (Lock Stock, Quills), Peter James, James Simpson, Soren Juul Status: completed Cast: James Dreyfus, Tania Levey. Saeed Delivery Status: In Production Petersen Shattered by the death of his fianceé, Raoul Jaffrey Adam Levy, Tom Farrelly, Nicholas Three desperate, large guys are thrown Delivery Status: In Development settles on a drought-wracked farmstead and together on a journey no-one wants to take, ‘A modern day Rose Mary’s Baby’... retreats into loneliness until one day, out of Le Provost the endless haze of the horizon, walks Delivery Status: completed to a destination no=one believes exists.... Julia… Budget: US$1.5M MR. IN-BETWEEN A romantic comedy about a paranoid, neu- A terrifying love story SPIN PICTURES SPRING rotic writer grappling with a faltering career Director: Paul Sarossy (Atom Egoyan’s INTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL UK in the film industry and a dubious love life... DP) Spin Pictures Intertainment, LLC, 6535 SABOTAGE Producers: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan, Wilshire Blvd., Suite 254, Los Angeles, CA LTD Comedy Drama Andreas Bajohra, Bob Portal. 90048 USA. Tel: 323.651.4566. Fax: Spring International UK LTD, 85 Wimpole Language: American Cast: Being Cast 503.217.1609. E-mail: [email protected]. Street, London, W1G 9RJ UK. Tel: Director(s): Esteban y Jose Miguel Delivery Status: In Production Website: www.spinintertainment.com 44.20.7935.1864. Fax: 44.20.7935.1834. Ibarretxe Jon Bennet inhabits a nightmarish twilight At AFM: Jennifer Peckham Arundale At AFM: Massimo Graziosi Co-production: Spice world, dominated by his employer, the pas- (President), Mark Buntzman (CFO) Factory/Ibarretxe/Cine b Office: 635, Tel: 310.576.7315, Tel: sionate, God-like and malevolent Tattooed Office: Producer(s): Inaki Nunez, Philippe RESOLUTION 310.576.7316 Carcassone, Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, Man. When Jon develops deep feelings for Action/Thriller JULIA PASTRANA Javier Ibarretxe an innocent woman, he is caught in a lethal Language: English Romance Cast: David Suchet, Stephen Fry, and terrifying love triangle: he is Mr. In- Director: Dwight Little Language: English Alexandra Vandernoot, Dominique Pinon, Between. Producer: Lance Hool, Conrad Hool, Director: Taylor Hackford Santiago Segura. MURDER CLUB Jennifer Peckham Arundale THIEF OF LIGHT Delivery Status: Completed Thriller Cast: TBA Thriler Budget: US$10M Director: Michael Hurst (New Blood) Delivery Status: pre-production Language: English Budget: $15 million Something Strange happened on the way to Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, Director: There is no director attached to Waterloo... Claude Leger, Jonathan Vanguard When his wife is shot and his son brutally beaten, French businessman Paul Breaux the project as yet. DEAD IN THE WATER Delivery Status: Pre-production Producer: David Permut, Permut Thriller must decide how far he will take this thirst ‘A Star Chamber’ style film for vengeance. Presentations Inc. Director: Melvin Ward ANGEL FOR MAY MICHIGANDERS Producers: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan, Delivery Status: Pre-production Family Film Based on the best selling Comedy Budget: $50-70 million Cast: Michael Elphick, Sophie Ward, book by Melvin Burgess Language: English Sophia Miles, Celia Imrie (The Borrowers, Chinese gangsters in N.Y.C. pursue an art Director: Harley Cokeliss (Pilgrim) Director: Michael Zelniker dealer over an art forgery scam gone bad. Hilary & Jackie) Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, Producer: Michael Zelniker, Jennifer Delivery Status: In Post Production harley Cokeliss Peckham Arundale A pupil gets drawn into a love triangle at a girl’s Delivery Status: Pre-production Cast: Thomas Jane, Olivia D’Abo, Michael public school. Then her lover disappears... 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THE DISH (NEW) NOVOCAINE Director: Rob Sitch Dark comedy PRODUCT Producer: Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Director: David Atkins Jane Kennedy, Rob Sitch, Michael Hirsh Producer: Paul Mones and Daniel Cast: Sam Neill, Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Rosenberg Jane Kennedy, Rob Sitch Cast: Steve Martin, Helena Bohnam SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT Delivery Status: completed Carter, Laura Dern Based on a true story which follows the Delivery Status: Post-production emotions, drama and laughter behind the When a beautiful girl walks into her four-day Apollo XI mission in July 1969, Dentist’s office, Dr. Frank Sangster’s pre- AFM 2001 and the extraordinary role Australia played dictable and dull life becomes a tangled web in the worldwide broadcasting of Man’s of lust, entrapment and murder in this rat- first walk on the moon. tling and pacey dark comedy. FEMME FATALE (NEW) SOUL SURVIVORS Director: Brian De Palma Director: Steve Carpenter Producer: Tarak Ben Ammar, Marina Producer: Neil Moritz, Stokley Chaffin Gefter Cast: West Bentley, Melissa Sagemiller, Cast: Antonio Banderas Eliza Dushku, Luke Wilson, Casey Affleck Delivery Status: Pre-production Delivery Status: Post-production An action-packed thriller where a beautiful, A violent car crash leaves one college stu- double-crossing, female criminal assumes dent dead and another trying to escape a the identity of another woman, only to have nightmarish netherworld inhabited by her things go awry when her new life forces her dead lover. to return to Paris where she must escape the STARK RAVING MAD men she betrayed. HAPPY NOW? 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E-mail: eshields@fullmoo- the creators of the original Blair Witch nuniverse.com Project. Company Contact: Ed Shields THE LEGEND OF ZU (NEW) At AFM: Ed Shields (Vice President, Director: Tsui Hark International Sales), Christopher Shaw Producer: Tsui Hark (Director International Services) PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 Cast: Zhang Zi Yi, Ekin Cheng, Cecilia Office: #857, Tel: 310.458.6700 extension Cheung, Sammo Hung #857, Fax: 323.468.0598 Delivery Status: Post production NOANGELS.COM Dark Prince, AVAILABLE FROM Kushner-Locke In the mythical land of Zu, the underworld, Erotic (90 minutes) the martial world and the enlightened world Language: English intersect and the forces of good and evil col- Director: Charles Band lide in the ultimate battle. 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FEMALIEN III “RETURN TO THE MIND WARS TANGUY LITTLE SENEGAL FUTURE” Action (90 min) Director: Etienne Chatillez Director: Rachid Bouchareb Erotic (90 minutes) Language: English Producer: Charles Gassot-Telema Producer: Jean Brehat – 3B Productions Language: English Director: Mike Tristano Cast: Sabine Azema, André Dussolier, Eric Cast: Sotigui Kouyate, Sharon Hope, Delivery Status: Pre-production Producer: Robert Abrams Berger Roschdy Zem, Karim Koussein Traore Producer: Pat Siciliano Cast: Robert Abrams, Kelly Packard, Delivery Status: October 2001, Shooting to Delivery Status: May 2001 Director: TBD Frank Zagarino begin February 2001 After many years as a tourist guide in the Cast: TBD Delivery Status: Post production He’s 28 and still lives with his parents! Slave museum in Senegal, Alloune, 65, a The sexy Aliens from the planet Altaria Budget: $1 million SCENES OF THE CRIME widower living alone, decides to go to return to Earth in 2099, becoming the WARM BLOODED KILLERS Thriller America, in search of his ancestors, taken worlds’ new sex experts, out to spread the Crime (88 min) Director: Dominique Forma away from his village two hundred years good word that there’s nothing wrong with Language: English Producer: Marc Frydman, Rod Lurie, Willi ago and sold as slaves in the New World. passion. Director: Stephen Langford, Nick Baer, Debra Lee THE KING IS DANCING LOLITA 3000 Siapkaris Musical Drama Producer: Daniel Wulkan Cast: Jeff Bridges, Jon Abrahams (Scary Erotic (90 min) Movie), Noah Wyle Director: Gérard Corbiau Language: English Cast: Mick Murray, Constance Zimmer Producer: Dominique Janne - K-Star Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: November 2001 Delivery Status: Pre-production A story about redemption and what person- Cast: Benoit Magimel, Tcheky Karyo Producer: Pat Siciliano Blood is thicker than water. That’s why it’s Delivery Status: completed so hard to clean it up. ality really means when you have to make Director: TBD SKIPPY the hardest choices of your life. Louis, heir to the throne in a troubled king- Cast: TBD Slapstick Comedy (90 min) TEMPTED dom, is a shy young man of 14 when the On a future world everything is controlled Language: English Deadly Thriller musician Lully makes an entry into the by The Firm. Lolita, a beguiling enchantress Director: Dens Zervos Director: Bill Bennett royal court and transforms his destiny. broadcasts erotic tales on pirate airwaves, Producer: Joe Convery and Timothy Producer: Bill Bennett Productions THE PRINCE OF THE PACIFIC stimulating and titillating the audiences’ Patrick O’Brien Cast: Burt Reynolds, Saffron Burrows, Adventure Comedy senses. Cast: William Sadler, Joe Convery, Danny Peter Facinelli Director: Alain Corneau SENSUOUS SPIRITS Trejo Delivery Status: May 2001 Producer: Louis Becker, Thierry Lhermitte Erotic Delivery Status: Completed A wealthy businessman hires a young man - ICE 3 Language: English Budget: $1 million to seduce his wife – to test her love for him. Cast: Thierry Lhermitte, Patrick Timsit, Director: TBD A hapless half-wit falls in love with a beau- DARK BLUE WORLD Marie Trintignant, Francois Berleand Producer: Pat Siciliano tiful movie star, with outrageously funny Drama Delivery Status: completed Cast: TBD consequences. Director: Jan Sverak 1918: On board a French Navy ship, Delivery Status: Pre-production-Running THUGS Producer: Eric Abraham, Jan Sverak, Captain Alfred de Morsac docks on the Time: 90 minutes Black Comedy (90 min) Helkon Media island of Fenua Poerava, a secluded para- After 100 years as sleeping ghosts, Alice & Language: English Cast: Ondrej Vetchy, Krystof Hadek, Tara dise, better known as “Pearl Island,” in the Thomas awaken to seduce a young work Director: Blake Calhoun Fitzgerald, Charles Dance Polynesian archipelago, where he discovers crew as they rebuild an old manor house, Producer: Blake Calhoun Delivery Status: May 2001 an ancient warrior tribe, the Hiva. and partake in some “spiritual” and Cast: Roald Martinsen, Steven A. Elkins, The story of the friendship between two ALIZAOUA amorous adventures. Keith Allgeier men – one older, one younger. The ultimate Director: Nabil Ayouch (Mektoub) Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Etienne Comar (Playtime) Budget: $1 million test of friendship. D.J., LE DÉFI Cast: Said Taghmaoui (La Haine), Street Two Texan hit men dwindle their boss out kids of Casablanca T TTT of his money and decide to start a new life, Hip-Hop Drama Director: Blanca Li Ali, Kouka, Omar and Boubker, 12 years but there’s a traitor amongst them. old, are street kids in Casablanca. GET A JOB Producer: Jean-Claude Fleury Delivery Status: completed TAURUS Satire (90 min) Cast: Blanca Li, Amanda Lear Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street ENTERTAINMENT Language: English Delivery Status: Autumn 2001 children. Since they left Dib and the gang, Director: Gregg Camnizzaro A musical where the actors don’t sing but they have been living on the Port. For Ali COMPANY Producer: Gregg Camnizzaro dance just like in the Hollywood musicals wants to go away: he wants to become a Taurus Entertainment Company, 5831 Cast: Jason Wolk, Jeremy London, Brenda of the 1950’s. sailor and travel the world. Sunset Blvd, Hollywood CA 90028 USA. Strong BEING LIGHT TOO MUCH FLESH Tel: 310.860.0807. Fax: 310.860.0834. E- Delivery Status: Completed Director: Jean-Marc Barr, Pascal Arnold Drama mail: [email protected]. Website: Taurus- Budget: $1 million Producer: Toloda Language: English Entertainment.com A 20-something slacker is forced to find a Cast: Romain Duris, Elodie Bouchez, Director: Jean Marc Barr & Pascal Arnold Company Type: Production Distribution job or lose his inheritance, so he dreams of Jean-Marc Barr Producer: Toloda & Bar Nothing Company a fantasy world in which he works as a bus- Delivery Status: May 2001 At AFM: James Dudelson (President Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Jean Marc Barr, boy in a rugby bar. From Paris to India, ‘Being Light’ tells of a Elodie Bouchez C.E.O.), Robert Dudelson (President SUITS friendship between two men from worlds C.O.O.), Stanley Dudelson (Chairman of Satire (90 min) Delivery Status: Completed apart. They decide to drop everything and Set in present day Illinois a 35 year old man, the Board), Ana Clavell (Vice President), Language: English free themselves from their social, profes- Steven Kripner (Director of Development), Director: Eric Weber subject of an arranged marriage for reasons sional and cultural ties… of holy patrimony had never consummated Tiffany Mayes (Executives Assistant) Producer: Chris Ciordano FATE IGNORANTI (IGNORANT Office: 734, 736, Tel: 213.716.1699, Cast: Robert Klein, Tony Hendura, Larry this marriage, until the day he discovers his FAIRIES) sexuality with a passing stranger. 310.576.7387 Pine Director: Ferzan Ozpetek HORROR 101 Delivery Status: Completed Producer: R&C Produzioni/Les Films Horror (92 min) Budget: $1 million Balenciaga TOMORROW FILM Language: English An advertising agency has to rush to come up with a concept for a new type of female Cast: Stefano Accorsi, Marghuerita Buy, Director: James Dudelson Serra Yilmaz CORP. Producer: James Dudelson underwear that allows her “Wootsie- Tomorrow Film Corp., 1453 3rd St. Watsie” to breathe. Delivery Status: March 2001 Promenade, Suite 350, Santa Monica, CA, Cast: Bo Derek, Josh Holland Antonia fell in love with Massimo during Delivery Status: completed 90401, USA. Tel: 310.656.6300. Fax: Budget: $1 million TF1 INTERNATIONAL high school. He was her first and only 310.656.6304. E-mail: admin@tomorrow- Ms. James (Bo Derek) teaches a class in TF1 International, 125 rue Jean-Jacques devoted love, until the day, Massimo is films.com. Website: tomorrowfilms.com fear. In order to pass the final exam, all you Rousseau, 92138 Issy-les-Moulineaux, killed in a fatal car accident. Company Type: Foreign sales agent, dis- need to do is survive… France. Tel: 331.41.41.15.04. Fax: LOST AND DELIRIOUS tributor, producer HORROR 102 “THE FIELD TRIP” 331.41.41.31.44. Website: www.tf1interna- Director: Léa Pool At AFM: Yoram Pelman (President), Marc Horror tional.com Producer: Lorraine Richard, Cite Schaberg (COO) Language: English At AFM: Perrine Teze (Managing Director, Amerique/Greg Dummett – Dummett Acquisitions Exec: Michael Mullen Director: James Dudelson International Film Sales), Sarah Chabot Films Office: Loews, Ste. #834, Tel: Producer: James Dudelson (International Sales Manager), Gaël Cast: Jessica Pare, Piper Perabo, Mischa 310.576.7001, Fax: 310.576.7002 Cast: N/A Nouaille (International Sales Manager), Barton, Graham Green JUDAS Delivery Status: Fall 2001 Cécile Gaget (International Sales) Delivery Status: March 2001 Thriller Budget: $2 million Office: Loews Hotel 827, Tel: The razor sharp tale about three girls’ secret Language: English LESSONS OF AN ASSASSIN 310.576.7450 cult of love and their sexuality. Director: Paul Hunter Action (90 min) EDEN (EX-PLAIN JANE) DE L’AMOUR Producer: Adam Rosenfelt, Chad Snopek, Language: English Director: Amos Gitai Director: jean-Francois Richet Stavros Merjos, Yoram Pelman Director: Iness Glenn Producer: Régine Konckier, Jean-Luc Producer: Why Not Productions Delivery Status: Pre-production Producer: Ana Clavell and James Dudelson Ormieres – Les Films Balenciaga Cast: Virginie Ledoyen, Yazid Ait, Mar A covert government agent murders the Cast: Shannon Lee, Michael Dorn, Robert Cast: Samantha Morton, Thomas Jane, Sodupe, Stomy Bugsy, Jean-Francois other eleven members of his team, casting Abrams Danny Huston, Uri Ran Klausner, Luke Stevenin, Bruno Putzulu himself as a Judas and triggering a huge Delivery Status: completed Holland, Daphna Kastner and featuring Delivery Status: April 2001 manhunt in the process. Budget: $1 million Arthur Miller Maria and Karim are in love. She acts on Martial Arts with a twist of suspense. Join Delivery Status: Summer 2001 impulse without much regard for the conse- Product Listings — Shannon Lee (Bruce Lee’s daughter) and 1939 Palestine. Jane is a young Jewish quences of her actions and, following the discover organized crime as you’ve never woman in her late twenties. She is by her theft from a large supermarket, finds herself [email protected] felt it before. own worlds “Not fully born yet.” in custody at the local police station.

THE REMAINS OF GLORY AMNESIA AMÉLIE FROM MONTMARTRE (LE Period Drama TSUNAMI Action Thriller (90 min) FABULEUX DESTIN D’AMÉLIE Language: English ENTERTAINMENT Language: English POULAIN) Director: Brian Cox Tsunami Entertainment, 292 S. La Director: Jason Priestley Romantic comedy Producer: Yoram Pelman, Bonnie Cienega Blvd., Ste. 306, Beverly Hills, Producers: Ken Nakamura; Exec Prods: Language: French Timmerman, Adam Rosenfelt CA 90211, USA. Tel: Los Angeles: Susan Wichmann Kane Picoy Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Cast: Xavier Bardem, Clive Owen 310.289.9231. Fax: 319.289.0253. 25 Cast: TBA Cast: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Delivery Status: Pre-production Polson St., 2nd Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Delivery Status: Pre-Production Rufus, Serge Merlin, Isabelle Nanty, An English country doctor finds himself on Canada M5A 1A4. Tel: 416.463.2366. Budget: $6 underground tunnels to mask Dominique Pinon, Jamel Debbouze, a journey of artistic development and sexu- Fax: 416.463.9001 his murders. Yolande Moreau. al intrigue when he meets a larger-than-life E-mail: [email protected] A man wakes from an accident with amne- Budget: $11 million French painter. Company type: Producer and Sales Agent sia and finds himself in the center of a mur- Delivery Status: Post-production Emily, an innocent and naïve girl in Paris, THE THIRD WHEEL At AFM: Ken Nakamura (Chairman der conspiracy. with her own sense of justice, decides to Romantic Comedy &CEO), Susan Wichmann (President of help those around her and along the way Language: English Production) 2K MEDIA USA discovers love. A romantic comedy with a Director: Jordan Brady Office: Loews Suite 452, Tel: 2K Media USA, 1401 Ocean Avenue, Suite difference... Producer: Chris Moore, Stavros Merjos, 310.576.2659 305, Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA. Tel: INVESTIGATING SEX Adam Rosenfelt, Chad Snopek THE SPREADING GROUND 310.395.8993. Fax: 310.395.8253.. E- Erotic comedy Cast: Luke Wilson, Denise Richards, Ben Mystery Thriller (98 min) mail: [email protected]. Language: English Affleck, Jay Lacopo Language: English Company Type: Producer Director: Alan Rudolph Delivery Status: Completed, Screening Director: Derek Vanlint At AFM: Sigrid Ann Davison (Consultant), Cast: Neve Campbell, Nick Nolte, Dermot A romantic comedy about a man’s perfectly Producers: Ken Nakamura; Co-Produc: Patrick Martin (Co-Chairman), Brad Mulroney, Til Schweiger, Julie Delpy, planned date that goes perfectly awry when Michael Doherty; Exec Prods: Beni Tadd Krevoy (Producer) Robin Tunney. he hits a homeless man with his car. Atoori, Susan Wichmann Office: 746, Tel: 310.576.7407 Delivery Status: Post-Production TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US Cast: Dennis Hopper (Speed), Leslie Hope THE WHOLE SHEBANG Budget: $9 million Drama (Paris, France), Frederic Forrest Romantic Comedy (93 min) New England, 1929. A professor looks for Language: English (Apocalypse Now), Tom McCamus (The Language: English the answers at the heart of sex. He doesn’t Director: Michael Petroni Sweet Hereafter) Director: George Zaloom expect love to come looking for him. A bril- Producer: David Redman, Nigel O’Dell, Delivery Status: Completed Producer: David Kirkpatrick, Paul E. liant game, an erotic dance, a love story. Thomas Augsberger, Matthias Emcke Budget: $5 million Harvey KARMEN GEÏ Cast: Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter The mob and the police both search for a Cast: Stanley Tucci, Bridget Fonda, Language: French Delivery Status: Completed, Screening serial killer who uses the city’s underground Giancarlo Giannini Drama A romantic fantasy in which a mysterious tunnels to mask his murders. Delivery Status: Completed Director: Joseph Gaye Ramaka woman helps a man come to terms with the WRONG NUMBER Budget: $ 17,000,000 US Cast: Djeynaba Diop, Magaye Niang. accidental loss of his childhood love. Thriller (95 min) The heartwarming story of a man from Delivery Status: Post-production Language: English Naples who comes to America to help save Budget: $3 million DOUBLE BANG The tragic destiny of an exceptional Action/Cop Director: Richard Middleton his relatives’ fireworks business and finds woman. A sensual, passionate African Language: English Producers: Ken Nakamura, Tim Riley; love along the way. opera. Director: Heywood Gould Exec Prods: Ciro Dammicco, Mark LES PORTES DE LA GLOIRE Producer: Yoram Pelman, Roee Sharon Burman Comedy Cast: William Baldwin, Elizabeth Mitchell, Cast: Eric Roberts, Brigitte Bako (Red Language: French Jon Seda Shoe Diaries), Kane Picoy, David Lipper U UUU Director: Christian Merret-Palmair Delivery Status: Completed, Screening Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Michel An honest cop reluctantly enters the world Budget: $2.5 million UGC Duchaussoy, Etienne Chicot, Yvon Back, of corruption and murder when his partner A BODY HEAT-like tale of greed and murder Julien Boisselier. is killed by a small time mobster. set in the tumultuous word of internet stocks. INTERNATIONAL Delivery Status: Post-production HOUSE ON TERROR TRACT THE SEABREEZE UGC International, 2, rue des Quatre- Budget: $4,5 million Horror-Comedy (97 min.) Comedy (90 min) Fils, 75003 Paris, France. Tel: The hilarious and tragic tribulations of five Language: English 33.1.40.29.89.00. Fax: 33.1.40.29.89.10. door-to-door salesmen trying to make it big. Language: English SEMANA SANTA Director: Clint Hutchison, Lance Dreesen Director: TBA At AFM: Patrick Binet (Chairman & Producers: Ken Nakamura; Exec Prod: CEO), Louisa Dent (Consultant- Scope Thriller Producer: Lance Dreesen, Greg Daniel Mark Burman Language: English Cast: John Ritter, Bryan Cranston, David Films), Olivier Albou (Sales executive) Cast: TBA Office: Loews Hotel – Stand 454-456, Tel: Director: Pepe Danquart Deluise Delivery Status: Pre-Production Cast: Mira Sorvino, Olivier Martinez, Delivery Status: Completed, Screeing 310.576.6923, Fax: 310.576.6924 Budget: $12 million BARNIE ET SES PETITES Féodor Atkine, Alida Valli. A hunt for the perfect house becomes a A smooth-talking, homophobic con-man Delivery Status: Post-production nightmare for a newlywed couple. CONTRARIETES Budget: $7 million finds himself trapped on a gay cruise ship Comedy SHADOW MAGIC while on the run from the ruthless men he An American female police detective is sent Drama/107 min Language: French w/o English Subtitles to Seville, Spain and becomes embroiled in swindled back on land. Director: Bruno Chiche Language: Chinese-with English subtitles TRIPWIRE a double murder case against the backdrop Director: Ann Hu Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Nathalie Baye, of the city’s Holy Week celebrations. Action Thriller (90 min) Marie Gillain, Hugo Speer TERMINUS DES ANGES Producer: Huang Dan, Tang Louyi, Kate Language: English Raisz, Bob McAndrew, Ann Hu Budget: $8 million Drama Director: Saul Rubinek Barnie has a wife in France, a mistress and Language: French Delivery Status: Completed Producers: Ken Nakamura, Elinor Reid; Director: André Téchiné At the turn of the last century, the Western a lover in London. It is complicated but Exec Prods: Mark Burman, Susan manageable, until the two illegitimate Cast: Stéphane Rideau, Lubna Azabal, magic of moving pictures turns a humble Wichmann Gaël Morel. Chinese assistant photographer into the lord Cast: Andy Garcia lovers decide to pay a visit to Barnie and his wife, pretending to be a regular couple… Delivery Status: Post-production of his own destiny. Delivery Status: Completed Budget: $4 million Budget: $17 million THE ESCAPIST Action / Thriller Tangier. Serge, Said, Sarah. Three stories, A Clear and Present Danger-like tale of an three lives, three days... TRANS-PACIFIC American serviceman whose life is put in Language: English LA TOUR MONTPARNASSE MEDIA jeopardy from a botched mission. Director: Gillies Mackinnon INFERNALE SEEING THINGS Cast: Jonny Lee Miller Comedy CONSULTANTS Horror (90 min) Delivery Status: Pre-production Language: French Language: English Budget: $8 million Director: Charles Nemes GROUP A man gets himself put into prison to exact Cast: Eric Judor, Ramzy Debia, Marina Foïs. Trans-Pacific Media Consultants Group, Director: Mark Irwin (Cinematographer, Scream) revenge on the killer of his wife. An intense, Delivery Status: Post-production 8491 Sunset Blvd., Suite 800, Los Angeles, Producers: Ken Nakamura highly charged thriller. Budget: $10 million CA 90069 USA. Tel: 323.654.4933. Fax: Cast: TBA MERCREDI, FOLLE JOURNÉE (DAY Eric and Ramzy, the French Laurel & Hardy 323.654.4921. Delivery Status: Pre-Production OFF) of modern times, are the heroes of a bur- At AFM: Michael Werner (President), Budget: $15 million Drama lesque, unbridled comedy filmed against the Laurie Woodrow (Senior VP), Dan A young family becomes victim to the haunt- Language: French background of Paris’ Tour Montparnasse. Griffiths (Director of Acquisitions) ings of their new house – in the vein of Director: Pascal Thomas VIDOCQ (WORKING TITLE) Office: 632, Tel: 310.576.7275 Poltergeist, Amityville Horror, and Sixth Sense. Cast: Vincent Lindon, Alessandra Thriller / Mystery Language: French Martines, Isabelle Carré, Catherine Frot, Director: Pitof Christian Morin. Cast: Guillaume Canet, Gérard Depardieu, Delivery Status: Post-Production Ines Sastre, André Dussollier. Budget: $5 million Delivery Status: Post-production L.A. Office Phone L.A. Office FAX French distribution Euripide / 28.03.01 Budget: $25 million A day off in the life of a French provincial 1830. As Paris trembles on the brink of rev- town’s half-pint community. A charming, olution, a terrifying mystery lurks in its dark- (323) 935-8228 (323) 935-8229 sometimes bittersweet comedy on the est shadows. Only one man can solve it. And ironies and role-reversals of modern fami- he’s already dead. Vidocq is a breathlessly- lies. paced, devastatingly stylish gothic thriller.

54 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE LA CONFUSION DES GENRES THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASE VISION FILMS Year 2000 V VVV TRILOGY Vision Films, Corporate offices: 4626 Dramatic Comedy (90 min) Drama Lemona Avenue, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Language: French Language: English USA. Tel: 818.784.1702. Tel: 818.788.3715. Director: Ilan DURAN COHEN Director: Peter Greenaway Cast: Pascal Greggory, Nathalie Richard, VINE Producer: Kees Kasander E-mail: [email protected] Julie Gayet, Vincent Martinez, Alain INTERNATIONAL Cast: Madonna, Isabella Rossellini, Kathy At AFM: Lise Romanoff (Managing Bashung. Bates, Vincent Gallo, David Thewlis Director), Michelle Siazon (Director of Budget: $3 million PICTURES Delivery Status: Pre-Production Sales and Servicing) Festivals 2001 Sundance Film Festival - Vine International Pictures, VIP House, The episodic adventures of the writer, film- Office: 726, Tel: 458.6700, ext. 726 World Cinema Greenacres, New Road Hill, Downe maker and professional prisoner, told in 3 A Love Divided A man’s tortuous lifestyle goes to show that Orpington, Kent, BR6 7JA, U.K. feature films, a 16x30 minute TV series, Romance (100 minutes) there is no single formula for the alchemy of Tel: 44.1689.854123. Fax: CD-Roms and on the World Wide Web. Cast: Liam Cunningham, Orla Brady, Tony love. Until love itself becomes elusive. 44.1689.850990. E-mail: PLOTZ WITH A VIEW Doyle [email protected]. Romantic Comedy A passionate love story set against the back- LES FANTÔMES DE LOUBA Website: www.vine-international.co.uk. Drama (107 min) Language: English drop of religious bigotry in 1950Õs Ireland. Company Type: Sales Agent Orla Brady, Winner Best Actress, Nymphes Language: French At AFM: Marie Vine (CEO), Barry Gill Director: Nick Hurran Director: Martine Dugowson Producer: Michael Cowan & Jason Piette D’Or the Monte Carlo Festival. (Managing Director), Sarah Goodwin THE SILENT FORCE Cast: Elsa Zylberstein, Camille Japy, Jean- (Sales & Marketing Executive) Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Walken Philippe Ecoffey, Vahina Giocante. Office: Room 621, Tel: 310.576.7155 (not contractual) Action (90 minutes) Budget: $3 million CHRISTIE MALRY’S OWN DOUBLE Delivery Status: Pre-Production Cast: Loren Avedon (King of the French distribution CTV International / ENTRY A story about two competing funeral par- Kickboxers), George Cheung (Lethal 14.02.01 Drama (90 min) lours set in a small English town. Weapon 4), Brian Tochi, Roger Yuan The troubled life of an orphaned girl who Language: English KNIFE EDGE (Shanghai Noon) battles fear and memory in her desperate Director: Paul Tickell Suspense Thriller A drug enforcement agency, the Silent search for the normalcy of love. Producer: Kees Kasander Language: English Force, trained as ultimate fighting machines MARIE-LINE Cast: Nick Moran, Kate Ashfield, Neil Director: TBC must stop a powerful Asian crime ring at Social drama (100 min) Stuke, Shirley Anne Field Producer: Kees Kasander; Fiona Combe; any cost. Language: French Delivery Status: Screening at AFM Hilary Fagg ONE HELL OF A GUY Director: Mehdi Charef The story of a simple man who encounters Cast: Anne Heche (not contractual) Romance (93 minutes) Cast: Muriel Robin, Fejria Deliba, Valérie the principles of Double-Entry Book- Delivery Status: Pre-Production Cast: Rob Lowe, Michael York, Alexandra Stroh. Keeping and adapts them in his own dra- A man embarks on a plan to drive his wife Powers Budget: $3 million matic fashion to settle his account with soci- insane, and gain control of the family millions. When a handsome devil, meets a living A brave working mother’s struggle to over- ety in the most alarming way. REMEMBER KING OF L.A. angel, it’s one hell of a time. come a life of misery and toil. A poignant Tense Drama SHARK IN A BOTTLE Drama (100 min) Language: English social drama. Language: English Action adventure (93 minutes) PLATA QUEMADA Director: Marcus Reichert Cast: Danny Nucci (The Titanic, The Director: James Mathers Producer: Gregor Wilson Drama (125 min) Producer: Kees Kasander Rock), Ben Gazzara (The Big Lebowski), Language: Spanish Cast: Rupert Everett, Molly Parker, Carole Hiep Thi Le (Heaven And Earth) Main Cast: Saul Williams, Leo Fitzpatrick, Bouquet, Peter O’Toole Director: Marcelo Piñeyro Hannes Jaenicke, Del Zamora An unhappy postal worker is programmed to Cast: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eduardo Delivery Status: Screening at AFM Delivery Status: Pre-Production kill, but fails his first assignment. He must Noriega, Pablo Echarri, Leticia Bredice, KING OF L.A. is a drama set in the shadow Four people, through manipulation and deceit, unveil the hidden secrets that haunt stop his current employers or die trying. Ricardo Bartis. of glamorous Hollywood in downtown Los INTERVIEW WITH A SERIAL Budget: $4,5 million Angeles. It is set in the forgotten world of their everyday lives. MUMBO JUMBO KILLER The passionate downfall of two men part- the homeless. Thriller (90 minutes) ners in crime and love. A tense and violent WHERE ESKIMOS LIVE Romantic Fairytale drama based on a true story. Language: Enlgish Directed By Chris Jones Adventure Drama Cast: Peter Firth (Pearl Harbor, Mighty Joe Language: English Director: Steve Cookson Director: Tomasz Wiszniewski Producer: Steve Cookson Young), and Harriet Robinson Producers: Paula Paizes; Chris Burdza; Cast: Jamie Walters, Joss Ackland, Brian A serial killer wants a crime novelist with Hagen Alexander Mueller Blessed, John Inman, Melinda Messenger, her own dark secret to write his biography. Main Cast: Bob Hoskins, Sergiusz Zymelka Richard O’Brien TROUBLE ON THE CORNER, USA THE BUSINESS OF Delivery Status: In post-production; promo Delivery Status: Completed - VHS tapes Thriller, Noir comedy (95 minutes) screening in AFM office available Cast: Tony Goldwyn (Ghost), Debi Mazar FILM A moving drama about an unlikely friendship A young man, down on his luck, runs into (Goodfellas), Edie Falco (Sopranos), between Sharkey, a ruthless man involved in good fortune when he is given a magic Tammy Grimes, and Joe Morton black market adoption, who travels under the amulet which takes him on a journey to a In a city tenement building, a psychologist guise of a UNICEF official, and a ten year old distant island where all is not as it seems... confuses his patientÕs bizarre problems orphan, Vlado, in war-torn Bosnia. with his own. Los Angeles Office SUPERSTITION JADED Suspense Drama Thriller (94 minutes) Language: English Cast: Carla Gugino, Christopher Director: Kenneth Hope E-mail elspeth, betsy 5150 Wilshire Blvd. Producers: Bob Hubar & Denis Wigman McDonald, Rya Kihlstedt. Main Cast: Sienna Guillory, Mark Strong, A girl’s night out started out innocently, Los Angeles David Warner, Charlotte Rampling, then things got out of control. Frances Barber or angela @ LA CUCARACHA Delivery Status: In post-production; promo Action (95 minutes) California 90036 screening in AFM office Cast: Eric Roberts, Joaquim de Almeida, A young British nanny is arrested on charges thebusinessoffilm.com Victor Rivers of arson and murder. A supernatural mystery Tempted by greed in a small Mexican town, evoking Carrie and Don’t Look Now. a writer ends up fighting for his survival.

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FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 55 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE MIFED PRODUCT GUIDE WILD BUNCH BULLY Wild Bunch (A Studio Canal+ Division), Drama PRODUCT 47 rue Dumont d’Urville, 2nd floor, 75116 Cast: Brad Renfro, Nick Stahl, Bijou Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.71.76.10.00. Fax: Philips, Rachel Miner, Michael Pitt II 33.1.71.76.11.24. Producer: Chris Hanley At AFM: Vincent MARAVAL (mobile : 33 A couple of good-looking small town SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT 6 11 91 23 93), Carole BARATON (mobile teenage slackers, Bobby and Marty have : 33 6 20 36 77 72) known each other forever. They work dead Office # 320, Tel: 310.576.7111 end jobs, do drugs and hustle cash from KISS KISS (BANG BANG) local homosexuals, selling porno home AFM 2001 Comic thriller videos and queer phone sex. Cast : Chris PENN, Stellan Skarsgard, LITTLE TOM THUMB (LE PETIT Douglas Henshall, Martine McCutcheon POUCET) Producer : James Richardson Children’s Tale Executive producer : Norma Heyman Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Romane Bohringer, Felix was the Man, the cold-blooded killer, Elodie Bouchez, Samy Naceri, Romain the number one gun - and he’s losing it all. DURIS, Saïd Taghmaoui, Clément Sibony. CHLOE - J WORKS COLLECTION Once upon a time... a shy little peasant boy Drama called Tom lives on a farm with his father, Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Shinya mother and four elder brothers. Constantly Tsukamoto, Rie Tomosaka, Miyuki bullied by his siblings, Tom is befriended Matsuda by Rose, a mysterious, magical fairy girl. Delivery Status: Screening DREAMING OF JULIA When Kotaro meets Kuroe, it’s love at first Drama sight. They marry, and Kuroe is welcomed Cast: Harvey Keitel, Iben Hjelje, Gabino warmly by Kotaro’s friends. Their idyll is Diego shattered when she collapses by the sea. Cuba, 1958. In a small country town, under LOVE BITES (LES MORSURES DE the spell of his beloved grandfather, the L’AUBE) equivocal, charismatic fixer Che (Keitel) - Comic Thriller and as Castro’s rebels draw ever closer - the Cast: Guillaume Canet, Asia Argento, Boy watches endless Hollywood movies, Gérard Lanvin, Vincent Perez) Roguish freeloader Antoine - full-time gate- dreaming of glamour, wrapped in magic. crasher and all-out loser - leads a charmed, R’XMAS if somewhat seedy, life. Unwittingly caught Christmas tale up in the search for the mysterious Jordan Cast: Lillo Brancato, Drea De Matteo and his seductive vampyric partner, he is Christmas time in Manhattan. The Husband seduced by the perverse glittering under- and Wife bask in a seasonal glow, secure in world of Paris by night. their gorgeous apartment. Bought with the DURIAN DURIAN (LIULIAN PIAO proceeds of their big time smack trade. PIAO) They’re in love and things are good. But Drama there’s trouble ahead. Cast: Qin HAILU, Mak WAI FAN PEDRO ALMODOVAR Fan is a young girl, a fugitive from main- PRESENTS:THE DEVIL’S land China. Yan lives in the neon-lit under- BACKBONE world of Mong Kok, circus of cheap tricks Drama and greedy pimps. As long as her visa lasts. Yan sells sex... Cast: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, HOTARU (FIREFLY) - J WORKS Federico Luppi COLLECTION Spain is being torn apart by the Civil War. LOVE STORY Abandoned in a grim and isolated orphanage, Naomi Kawase, winner of the 1997 Camera newcomer Carlos, 12, faces hostility and vio- d’Or for “SUZAKU” presents an abrasive, lence from his fellow inmates - led by torment- PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 edgy love story set in the ancient Japanese city ed Jaime - and the brutal handyman, Jacinto. of Nara. A man and a woman, both recently The Brainiacs.com, AVAILABLE FROM Porchlight bereaved, pursue a desperate relationship in WINCHESTER FILMS the harsh face of sorrow, sinking ever deeper Winchester Films, 19 Heddon Street, into love as they struggle to reveal and con- London, W1B 4BG, UK. Tel: front the terrible pain of their loss. 44(0)201.851.6500. Fax: DISH DOGS THE WISHER EL OTRO BARRIO (THE OTHER 44(0)207.851.6505. E-mail: MAIL@WIN- Romantic Comedy (94 minutes) Teen Thriller SIDE) CHESTERENT.CO.UK. Website:[Lucy Cast: Sean Astin (Bullworth), Brian Director: TBA Drama Fleet] www.winchesterfilms.com Dennehy (Presumed Innocent), Matthew Producer: TBA Cast: Alex Casanovas, Jorge Alcazar, Cast: TBA Lilliard (Scream), Shannon Elizabeth Guillermo Toledo, Monica Lopez Company Type: sales agent Delivery Status: Pre-Production Suspected of murder, fifteen year-old Attending Executives/Titles (6 maximum): (American Pie) A young, imaginative girl realizes that her A story about the friends you make the jobs worst nightmare has come to life and is lurk- Ramon is held in a detention centre. His Gary Smith (CEO), Hadeel Reda you take, and women who change everything. ing around every corner...watching her every lawyer - another son of the barrio who has (President), Billy Hurman (Snr Vice move and granting her every dark wish! since moved on - is at first reluctant to take President Sales And Marketing), Andrew DETOUR the case, happier to sever all ties with his Brown (Vice President Sales And Action /Adventure past. Slowly, however, he finds that he can- Marketing), Lucy Fleet (Publicity And W WWW Director: TBA not ignore the debt he feels he owes this Marketing) Cast: TBA boy. Acquisition Executive: Josh Bingham Delivery Status: Pre-Production GOJOE (Director of Development) WHITE ROCK FILM The story of 3 down and out friends who Office: 864/865, Tel: 310.576.7209 discover that they have a $50 Million win- Historical action drama Producer: Takenori Sento (Eureka, HEARTBREAKERS INTERNATIONAL ning lottery ticket, but they only have 18 Romantic Comedy (120 mins) White Rock Film International, 2412 hours to travel 500 miles to cash it in. With M/Other) Columbia Street - 2nd Floor, Vancouver, Cast: Tadanobu Asano (Gohatto), Daisuke Director: David Mirkin (Romy and no money, no car and a world of trouble on Michele’s High School Reunion) BC Canada V5Y 3E6. Tel: 604.684.8687. their heels, the adventure begins! Ryu (Ran) Fax: 604.684.8689. E-mail: Producer: John Davis (The Firm, Predator, CHRISTINA’S HOUSE 12th century Kyoto - a capital city raging Predator 2, Waterworld) [email protected], Website: Teen Thriller (92 minutes) with chaos and conflict. Two karmic rivals www.whiterockfilm.com Director: Gavin Wilding (“Convergence”) Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Gene Hackman, with superhuman powers engage in all out Ray Liotta, Jennifer Love Hewitt At AFM: Alfie Placktis, Carmen Bonnici, Cast: Brendan Fehr, Brad Rowe, John Savage physical and psychic warfare. Office: Suite # 438, Tel: 604.724.1934, Delivery Status: Completed (Select Delivery Status: Completed Territories Available) HAPPY MEN (HOMBRES FELICES) Budget: $53 million 310.458.6700, ext. 438 Drama SHOW & TELL (WORKING TITLE) In a seemingly quiet small town, a young A mother and daughter con artist team work girl is being stalked in her own home by a Cast: Sergi Lopez, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon together to swindle rich men. Sexy Comedy Delivery Status: Post-production Director: Anne Wheeler homicidal psychopath. HARV THE BARBARIAN CONVERGENCE Angel is a regular guy, living a regular life Adventure comedy Producer: Gavin Wilding Psychosexual Thriller (94 minutes) Cast: Wendy Crewson, Peter Coyote and dreaming of the perfect blow job. Director: TBC Director: Gavin Wilding Producers: Wind Dancer (What Women Delivery Status: In Post-Production Cast: Christopher Lloyd and Adrian Paul Thirty-nine year old author Jackie York is a Want, Where the Heart Is) Delivery Status: Complete (Select Delivery Status: In development sexy, successful and respected novelist who Territories Available) Send press releases to must chose between her carefully crafted Budget: $20 million Recently released on Video and DVD in the Harv, a simple barbarian, embarks on a hilar- public image and her burgeoning private US by Artisan under the title “Premonition.” [email protected] desires when she finally meets the man of A psychosexual thriller that will take you on ious journey of self-discovery, only to find her dreams: a twenty year old boy. a dangerous journey through time and fate. that he is the rightful heir of the Dirt People.

LAST ORDERS WILD ABOUT HARRY KUROSAWA BLIND OBSESSION Drama Romantic Comedy 2 hours/Documentary Thriller (92 min) Director: Fred Schepisi Director: Declan Lowney (Father Ted) Directed by: Adam Low Language: Enlgish Producer: Elisabeth Robinson and Fred Producers: Robert Cooper (Truly Madly Co-production: Thirteen/WNET New York, Director: Rob Malenfant Schepisi Deeply), Laurie Borg (B Monkey, Fanny & BBC, NHK and Winstar. Producer: Pierre David, Noel Zanitsch, Cast: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Elvis) Kurosawa is one of the greatest artists of the Ken Saunders David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Cast: Brendan Gleeson (The General, twentieth century. The documentary will Delivery Status: Completed Mirren, Ray Winstone Michael Collins, Braveheart), Amanda take a look at how the director emerged in When a private eye is blinded in a gunfight, Delivery Status: Post production Donohue (Liar Liar, the context of war-torn Japan, how his career he finds his life invaded by an obsessive Budget: $12 million The Madness of King George), James developed over the following fifty years. therapist and her demented sister. When Jack (Michael Caine) dies, he leaves Nesbitt (Waking Ned, Resurrection Man) AMERICAN MASTERS A MOTHER’S TESTIMONY a strange last order for his mates. On their Delivery Status: Completed 4 new programs in our award-winning series. Drama (96 min) roadtrip to fulfill it, they scatter his ashes Budget: $5 million Ella Fitzgerald: Something To Live For Language: Enlgish and raise a final glass to the power of The night before his divorce, sleazy, alco- 90 Minutes/ Documentary Director: Julian Chojnacki friendship. holic celebrity chef Harry McKee receives a Directed by: Charlotte Zwerin Producer: Robert Papazian, Jim Hirsch THE TREE bump on his head and completely loses his From that first night in 1934 when she wowed Cast: Kate Jackson, Susan Blakely, Chad Comedy memory. When he leaves the hospital, crowds at Amateur Night at the Harlem Opera Allen Director: Stephen Surjik Harry is forced to face the truth about the to her sixty-year career in music, Ella Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Charles Gordon man he has become and realises that, unlike Fitzgerald has enamored audiences world- When a woman suspects her son has been Cast: Johnny Knoxville most of us, he has the chance to begin again. wide with the bell-like clarity of her voice. the unwilling accessory to murder, she is Delivery Status: Pre production SIDNEY POITIER torn between protecting him or turning him Budget: $27 million WINSTAR TV & 60 minutes/Documentary in. An uptight presidential aide and an eccen- Directed by: Lee Grant DETERMINATION OF DEATH tric red neck trucker attempt to transport the VIDEO Produced by: Mary Beth Yarrow, Prudence Thriller (92 min) gigantic National Christmas Tree cross Winstar TV & Video, 419 Park Avenue Glass Language: English country to Washington D.C. in time for the South - 20th Floor, New York, NY 10016 Sidney Poitier’s landmark career has every- Director: Michael Miller holiday celebration. USA. Tel: 212.686.6777. Fax: 212.685.2625. thing to do with the film choices he has Producer: Robert Papazian, Jim Hirsch JANE DOE At AFM: Michael Thornton, Vice President made and his artistic vision. Cast: Marc Singer, William Katt, Michelle Psychological Thriller of Sales GEORGE CUKOR: ON CUKOR Greene Director: Kevin Elders Office: Booth Number: 851, Tel: 90 Minutes/ Documentary Delivery Status: completed Producer: Joel Silver 310.576.7205 Producer/Writer/Director: Robert A woman gets dragged into an insurance Cast: Gina Gershon YI YI Trachtenberg scam by her abusive husband and her nefar- Delivery Status: In development 3 hours /Asian Cinema Executive Producer: Susan Lacey Budget: $8 million Directed by: Edward Yang A Hollywood anomaly, no other director ious sisters. A high octane action thriller about a woman Cast: Wu Nienjen, Elaine Jin, Kelly Lee, before or since has duplicated the sophisti- PERILOUS who is framed for murder. Finding herself a Jonathan Chang cation and ease of his best work. Thriller pawn on a political chessboard, she must A sensitive observation of family life, Yi Yi LUCILLE BALL Language: English battle to uncover the truth that will save her is a generous, personal story from Edward 60 Minutes/ Documentary Director: Jamie Bruce life. Yang, a key figure in contemporary Asian Director: Pamela Mason Wagner Executive Producer: Fred Weintraub CHRISTMAS CAROL – THE MOVIE cinema since the early Eighties. Producer: Susan Lacey Cast: Bruce Boxleitner, Catherine Animation HUMANITÉ Producers: Thomas Wagner, Pamela Oxenberg Director: Jimmy Murakami 148 minutes /French Cinema Mason Wagner Delivery Status: Post Production Producer: Iain Harvey Directed by: Bruno Dumont Lucille Ball forever altered the character On a business trip to Russia, an American Delivery Status: In Production Police Lieutenant Pharaon DeWinter is a naïve, television. lawyer finds himself embroiled with a mys- Budget: $12 Million simple man who shoulders other people’s pain. terious woman who holds the key to a Cast: (Voices) Kate Winslet, Simon POLA X recent theft of art treasures from the Callow, Michael Gambon and Nicolas 134 minutes /French Cinema WORLDWIDE National Museum. Cage Directed by Leos Carax INTERNATIONAL THE AMATI GIRLS A ghost story with heart, Christmas Carol – Produced by: Bruno Pesery Family The Movie is a powerful, animated re- Production of Arena Films, Pola NETWORK, LLC Language: Enlgish telling of one of Dickens’ most enduring Production, Theo Films, France 2 Cinema, Worldwide International Network, LLC, Director: Anne DeSalvo classics. Pandora Filmproduktion, Euro Space, and 301 N. Canon Drive, Suite 300, Beverly Producer: Michael I Levy, Henry M. Shea, SOUL ASSASSIN Vega Film Hills, CA 90210 USA. Tel: 310.859.2500. Jr., James Alex, Steven C. Johnson Action Thriller Cast: Guillaume Depardieu, Katerina Fax: 310.859.7500. Cast: Mercedes Ruehl, Paul Sorvino, Director: Larry Malkin Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve, Delphine At AFM: Larry Gershman (CEO), Anita R. Cloris Leachman Producer: San Fu Maltha Chuillot, Petruta Catana, Mihaella Silaghi, Gershman (President and COO), Marc Delivery Status: completed Cast: Skeet Ulrich, Kristy Swanson, Derek Laurent Lucas, Patachou, Sharunas Bartas, Barson (VP, Acquisitions/Business A warm, poignant story about four grown de Lint Samuel Dupuy, Miguel Yeco Affairs), Tom Daniels (Sales Consultant), sisters who must attend to their death- POLA X focuses on the life of a young, Adele Yoshioka (VP, Contract obsessed mother. Delivery Status: Post production wealthy, and handsome author Pierre and his Budget: $8 million Administration), Linda Rexer (Dir. FACING THE ENEMY beautiful mother who share a life of wealth Personnel/Admin) An American securities expert for a multina- and luxurious pleasures in their chateau in Thriller tional financial company discovers that every- Acquisition Executive: Marc Barson Language: Enlgish Normandy, near the banks of the Seine. Office: 718 and 720, Tel: 310.576.7177 thing in his life has been part of a master plan LOLA (ALSO KNOWN AS DONNA DI Director: Rob Malenfant to turn him into a cold blooded assassin. HOLE IN THE WATER Producer: Pierre David, Noel Zanitsch VITA) Thriller ANOTHER LIFE 90 minutes /Drama Cast: Lynden Ashby, Maxwell Caulfield, True life drama Language: English Cynthis Preston Directed and Written by: Jacques Demy Director: Martin Kitrosser Director: Philip Goodhew (Intimate Cast: Anouk Aimee, Marc Michel, Elina Delivery Status: Completed Relations) Producer: Pierre David, Noel Zanitsch A cop In a groubled marriage tries to solve Labourdette, Alan Scott, Annie Duperoux, Cast: TBD Producer: Angela Hart (Intimate Relations) Jacques Harden, Margo Lion, Catherine a series of mysterious murder/suicides, then Cast: Natasha Little (The Criminal, The Delivery Status: Pre-production becomes romantically involved in the life of Lutz, Corinne Marchand, Yvette Anziani A woman and her new husband travel to his Clandestine Marriage), Nick Moran (Lock This tale of love involves several people’s the alluring suspect. Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Ioan hometown for the reading of his father’s SHE’S NO ANGEL lives as they come together in the port city will where she learns the townspeople sus- Gruffudd (Hornblower, 102 Dalmatians), of Nantes. Thriller Rachael Stirling (Still Crazy, Complicity), pect him of a murder twenty years ago. BAY OF ANGELS (ALSO KNOWN AS NIGHT CLASS Language: English Tom Wilkinson (Shakespeare in Love, The LA BAIE DES ANGES) Director: Rachel Feldman Full Monty) Thriller (88 min) 79 minutes /French Drama Language: English Producer: Pierre David, Noel Zanitsch Delivery Status: Completed Directed and written by: Jacques Demy Cast: Tracey Gold, Dee Wallace Stone, Budget: $5 million Director: Sheldon Wilson Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Producer: William R. Greenblatt Jeffrey Meek Another Life is a true story. Set in Guers, Henri Nassiet, Andre Certes Delivery Status: Completed Edwardian London, it is the colourful and Cast: Sean Young, Rick Peters, Edward Jean Fournier is a clerk in a bank and his Laurence Albert After surviving a beating and auto accident, moving account of Edith Thompson, a colleague Caron is an avid gambler who a hardened young woman is mistaken as the woman wrongly accused of the murder of Delivery Status: Completed soon draws Jean into his world of gambling A wet behind-the-ears security guard is new wife of a dead man, and welcomed into her husband, a case which became a ‘cause addiction. In the casinos, Jean falls in love a wealthy and loving family. celebre’ of its time. taught the art of robbery by a beautiful thief. with a beautiful and charming young FACE VALUE ABOVE AND BEYOND woman Jackie Demaistre. Drama Drama THE BUSINESS OF FILM SUPERSTAR: THE LIFE AND TIMES Language: English Language: English OF ANDY WARHOL Director: Michael Miller Director: Stuart Alexander 87 Minutes /Feature documentary Producer: Robret Papazian, Jim Hirsch Producer: Green, Epstein, Bacino Los Angeles Office Directed by: Chuck Workman Cast: Scott Baio, Krista Allen, James Cast: TBD The stylish and definitive documentary Wilder Delivery Status: Preproduction 5150 Wilshire Blvd. about painter Andy Warhol traces his life Delivery Status: In Production After he is paralyzed by his partner bullet in Los Angeles from Pittsburgh schoolboy to pop art leg- For fun, a boring guy assumes the identify the line of duty, a married cop must come to end, from advertising illustrator to chroni- of his busy mysterious friend…and ends up terms with his inner anger before he can California 90036 cler of the haut-monde of New York City. being pursued by murderous drug dealers. start heaing himself.

CONTEMPT PROS & CONS OUT OF THE BLUE BAGGAGE Drama TV Movie/Comedy 93 min. Drama (85 minutes) Language: English Language: English Cast: Dennis Hopper, Linda Manz & Cast: M. Emmet Walsh, Mariette Hartley, Director: TBD Director: Boris Damast Raymond Burr Vincent Schiavelli, Christian Leffler, Producer: Green, Epstein, Bacino Producer: Paula Mazur and Robert Delivery Status: completed (1982) Dennis Spencer Vrooman. Cast: TBD Mickelson Hopper’s classic vision of the punked out A discouraged young writer and a dying 50- Delivery Status: Preproduction Cast: Larry Miller, Tommy Davidson, 80’s. Her dad’s in prison, her mom’s on year old man accidentally mix up their air- A female lawyer investigates a malpractice Delroy Lindo, David Rasch, Christine drugs, bad behavior is its own reward. plane baggage, leading them to investigate case that turns out to be murder. Ebersole, Darren McGavin and Julie Official selection Cannes Film Festival. and learn from each other’s life experience CLOVER BEND Warner FAIRY TALE FILMS COLD LIGHT OF DAY Drama Delivery Status: Complete Live-Action Feature-Length Cinematic Drama (85 minutes) Language: English When an honest but bumbling accountant is Fairy Tales. 12 Classic 35mm Fairy Tale Cast: Bob Flag, Claire King, Geoffrey Director: Michael Vickerman framed for embezzling $20 million from his Films (Each 70 to 90 minutes long) Greenhill. Producer: William R. Greenblatt employer, the judge makes an example of him Quality collection of imaginative - never Dennis Andrew Neilsen appeared to be a Cast: TBD by sending him to the toughest prison in the state. offered before. Includes 11 GRIMM’S model citizen: a one-time RAF pilot, a trust- Delivery Status: Preproduction A VOW TO CHERISH FAIRY TALES including The Singing ed police officer and eventually a popular An L.A. cop whose wife is killed in a TV Movie/Drama Ringing Tree, Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, bureaucrat at the Social Security office. He shootout moves back to his hometown and Language: English (multiple language Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood. was also the most dangerous serial killer in becomes the sheriff. tracks available) The first 3 for release - The Golden Goose, DOWN ‘N DIRTY Director: John Schmidt The Devil’s Three Golden Hairs, and Hauf’s Britain. Based on a true story. Action/Adventure (102 min) Producer: World Wide Pictures German classic - The Story of Little Mook. RENDEZVOUS IN SAMARKAND Language: English Cast: Barbara Babcock, Ken Howard, and DIAMONDS Adventure-drama (103 minutes) Director: Fred Williamson Ossie Davis Cast: Robert Shaw, Barbara Hershey, Cast: John Littlefield, Marie Ravel, Tsuyu Producer: Fred Williamson Delivery Status: Complete Richard Roundtree Shimizu. Cast: Fred Williamson, Gary Busey, David A couple faces a merciless illness that will SECRETS A bold young American and his French girl- Carridine either confirm their love or destroy their Cast: Jacqueline Bisset. friend attempt to smuggle a 4x4 vehicle Delivery Status: completed marriage. Careers and family are thrust into Two couples in Clandestine affairs. from Paris to Nigeria. After picking up a A determined cop sets out to expose a cor- turmoil which can be overcome only by the H.O.T.S. pair of Japanese hitchhikers, their adventure rupt police force. power of love in action. Cast: Danny Bonaduce. takes a mysterious turn and ultimately SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT Predecessor “sorority” comedy to Revenge changes their fate. TV Movie of the Nerds. DEADLY BEAUTY: SNOW’S WORLDWIDE Language: English (multiple language OVER THE EDGE SECRET LIFE ENTERTAINMENT tracks available) 97 min. Adventure Documentary Special (52 min- Worldwide Entertainment, 280 So. Beverly Director: Charlie Jordan Cast: Matt Dillon and Vincent Spano. utes) Drive, Suite 208, Beverly Hills, Ca., 90212 Producer: World Wide Pictures Directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The power of the avalanche -- never before USA. Tel: 310.205.9324. Cast: Irma P. Hall, Darius McCrary, “The best movie about teenage despair has it’s true fury been captured on film. In Fax: 310.205.9325. E-mail: info@world- Tamera Mowry, Grant Goodeve and John since Rebel Without a Cause.” - (New York Deadly Beauty: Snow’s Secret Life, film- widentertainment.com Amos Times). Filled with humor, romance, vio- makers have risked life and limb to photo- Company Type: Distributor Delivery Status: Complete lence. graph the most awesome displays of icy At AFM: Barbara Mudge (President), Challenges face an ex-con who joins a SOFT EROTIC devastation. Richard DeLong (Acquisitions), Natasha gospel choir and is discovered by a nation- Over 50 Movies SAVING THE ENDANGERED Shurdom (Sales Assistant) wide music promoter. While on his way to SOFT EROTIC SHOWS SPECIES Office: Suite 441, Tel: 310. 576.7421 becoming the next pop-music superstar, the 400 programs Wildlife Documentary Series (26 x 24 DINNER RUSH young man is confronted by the demons of SPORTS PROGRAMMING minutes) Drama/Comedy Over 2000 hours From the rugged peaks of the Andes moun- Language: English his past. THE RIDE tains to the predatory savannas of Africa, Director: Bob Giraldi animal species fight a daily battle for sur- Producer: Lou DiGiaimo and Patti TV Movie BRUDER RELEASING Greaney Language: English (multiple language vival. Each half hour episode chronicles the Cast: Danny Aiello, Eduardo Ballerini, tracks available) INC. (BRI) efforts of dedicated experts and volunteers Vivian Wu, Mike McGlone, Kirk Acevedo, Director: Michael O. Sajbel Bruder Releasing Inc. (BRI), 2020 who face great odds to save threatened John Corbett Producer: World Wide Pictures Broadway, Santa Monica, CA. 90404 species from extinction. Delivery Status: Complete Cast: Michael Biehn, Brock Pierce, and USA. Tel: 310.829.2222. Fax: IDITAROD… A FAR DISTANT The exciting downtown scene of New York Jennifer O’Neill 310.829.0202. [email protected] PLACE City’s TriBeCa finds Louis, the aging owner Delivery Status: Complete At AFM: Marc Bruder (President), David Adventure Documentary Special (52 & 84 of a neighborhood bistro dealing with its A rodeo cowboy gone bad gets pointed in Stidham (Director of Foreign Sales) minutes) transition to a trend-setting establishment; the right direction by a 14 year old boy from Office: In a journey of challenge and courage, three his turbulent son the head chef; its patrons; a ranch for wayward boys. THE ELF KING race contestants and their canine compan- and 2 local hoods eager to become partners. PERFECT GAME Children’s Animated series (13 X 30 min.) ions run the Iditarod sled dog race through ROAD TO REDEMPTION MOONGLOW 1,000 miles of the Alaskan outback. Each Family film Drama TV Movie/Comedy Language: English contestant must overcome their personal Language: English Cast: Milo O’Shea, Joanna Cassidy, Joe struggles, as well as the terrain. Director: Bob Vernon Director: Dan Guntzleman Moore, Ione Skye and Eileen Brennan) Producer: Up to Bat Productions ANIMAL ACTION WITH EDDIE & Producer: World Wide Pictures THE STORY OF O GREG Cast: Jay Underwood, Julie Condra, Leo Cast: Edward Asner, Patrick Duffy, Tracy Erotic (10 X 60 min.) Rossi, Pat Hingle, Wes Studi Nelson, Cameron Finley Children’s Wildlife Series (13 x 24 min- CHEYENNE utes) Delivery Status: Complete - Screening Delivery Status: Complete Western An estranged grandfather reunites with his An eleven year old boy finds in a game a In the footsteps of Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cast: M.C. Hammer, Bo Svenson, Gary and Greg explore the wild and find laughs. granddaughter for a road trip to way of overcoming life’s obstacles and Hudson, Bobbie Phillips) Redemption, Montana. learns to accept the early death of his father. HOT ICE ANIMAL WARS SPOOKY HOUSE The summer he learns to hit a baseball Erotic Thriller Animated Feature (90 minutes) Family becomes the best summer of his life. Cast: Alison Woodward, Vincent Lamberti, Two competing animal tribes play “animal Language: English John Glenn Hoyt) football” to determine which tribe Director: William Sachs 25 OTHER FEATURES OF ALL GENRE will rule the planet. Producer: William Sachs COMPANIES AT AFM – Cast: Ben Kingsley, Mercedes Ruehl, Matt Weinberg NON-EXHIBITORS CINAMOUR Delivery Status: Complete - Screening Cinamour, 221 West Alameda Avenue, It’s nearly Halloween night when a group of THE BLUM GROUP Suite # 203, Burbank, California 91502 kids sneak into the neighborhood spooky The Blum Group, 494 Tuallitan Road, Los USA. Tel: 818.558.3130. Fax: L.A. Office Phone house: the scariest place in town where a Angeles, CA 90049 USA. Tel: 818.558.3131. E-mail: recluse lives with his pet jaguar amongst 310.476.2229. Fax: 310.471.8659. E-mail: [email protected] mysterious contraptions and magical [email protected]. Website: At AFM: Glen Hartford (Chairman / devices. www.theblumgroup.net CEO), Cord Douglas (President, (323) 935-8228 PIGEONHOLED At AFM: Harry Blum, Suzanne Blum, Distribution) Screening TBA Amanda Zolper Office: Drama/Comedy Office: Suite 517 or Loew’s Lobby - by HALLOWEEN III & IV Language: English appointment only Horror (95 minutes each) Director: Michael Swanhaus Classic Theatrical Movies - Redigitized for The third and fourth installment in the Producer: Tripp and Michael Swanhaus, TV and DVD in sight & sound world’s most famous horror film series. Bill McCutcheon ANOOSH OF THE AIRWAYS Cast: Justin Pierce, Jon Abrahams, Chris OBSESSION L.A. Office FAX Noth, Allison Follard and Rosanna Director: Brian de Palma Comedy (94 min.) Arquette Cast: Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, Cast: Malik Malkasian, Richard Sanders, Delivery Status: Complete John Lithgow. Barbara Niven For the children of the rich, survival is just Obsessed by the image of his dead wife, a After serving as an American airline mascot (323) 935-8229 as difficult as for everyone else but in their New Orleans businessman falls in love with as a boy, a 21-year old Armenian sheepherder own trouble-filled minds finding a reason to an artist half his age, whom he meets in a returns to the U.S. to seek his fortune - only to live can be the hardest struggle of all. Florentine cathedral. Afatal obsession ensues. find broken promises crooked con-men.

URBANIA – RETURN LATITUDE ZERO COASTLINE FILMS Docudrama (70’) Drama (85’) IFDC INC Coastline Films Inc, 7345 Topanga Language: Portuguese IFDC Inc. (International Film Distribution Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, CA 91303 Language: Portuguese Director: Flavio Frederico Director: Toni Venturi Consultants), 1888 Century Park East, USA. Tel: 818.226.0488. Fax: Producer: Olhar Imaginário Suite 1900, Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA. 818.226.0489. Producer: Cinematográfica Superfilmes / Zita Carvalhosa Cast: Débora Duboc, Cláudio Jaborandy Tel: 310.284.6858. Fax: 310.552.1814. E- Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer Cast: Turíbio Ruiz, Adriano Stuart Delivery Status: completed mail: [email protected] At AFM: David B. Kravis (President) Delivery Status: completed Ex-police officer running from justice At AFM: Jerome Bliah (President), Office: Portrait of decadent São Paulo through the meets abandoned pregnant woman. Mariana Trujillo (Assistant to President) EROTIC HEAT point of view of na old blind man that lived CRUZ E SOUZA - THE POET Hotel: Local Los Angeles Office (see Erotic Series (16 x 60 min) BANISHED the city´s golden years, in the 50´s. address above) Language: English TÔNICA DOMINANTE – TONIC Biography (86’) Director: Various Language: Portuguese Tel: 310.284.6858. Fax: 310.552.1814 DOMINANT VOYAGE Producer: Diamond Productions Drama (80’) Director: Sylvio Back Cast: Various Producer: Sylvio Back Action/Adventure (90 min) Language: Portuguese Cast: Kadu Carneiro, Maria Ceica, Delivery Status: Completed and continuing Director: Lina Chamie Language: English There is nothing prettier than a pretty girl, noth- Danielle Ornellas Director: John MacKenzie Producer: Zita Carvalhosa Delivery Status: completed ing more beautiful than a beautiful woman. Cast: Fernando Alves Pinto – Vera Producer(s): John Davis, Tarak Ben True life of the black poet João da Cruz e Ammar, Peby Guisez, Merrill Karpf Zimmermann – Carlos Gregorio – Vera Souza, founder of the simbolism movement in GREENLIGHT Holtz Brazil who died of tuberculosis at the age of 36 Cast: Rutger Hauer, Eric Roberts, Karen Delivery Status: completed CRONICAMENTE INVIÁVEL – Allen INTERNATIONAL The film narrates three days in the life of a CHRONICALLY UNFEASIBLE Delivery Status: Completed Greenlight International, Lorentzweg 46 B, young musician, wich correspond to the Drama (101’) A couple embark on a high seas adventure 1221 EH Hilversum, The Netherlands. three movements of a classical sonata. Language: Portuguese across the Mediterranean to save their trou- Tel: 31(0)35.642.0677. Fax: SENTA PÚA – THE BRAZILIAN Director: Sérgio Bianchi bled marriage. 31(0)35.642.0668. FIGHTER SQUADRON IN WORLD Producer: Agravo Produções YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA At AFM: Rick van den Heuvel (President & WAR II Cast: Cecil Thire, Betty Gofman, Umberto CLAUS Documentary (112’) Magnani CEO), Sebastien Jaegers (Sales Executive) Family (90 min) Office: “Le Merigot” Santa Monica Beach Language: Portuguese Delivery Status: completed Hotel Director: Erik de Castro Experts of six characters! Life stories, there- Language: English 1740 Ocean avenue. Santa Monica Producer: Christian de Castro by discussing the difficulties involved in Director: Charles Jarrot California 90401 Delivery Status: completed surviving, both mentally and physically, in Producer(s): Duke Fenady Tel: Rick van den Heuvel’s mobile #: The story of the first Brailian fighter squadron the chaotic Brazilian society Cast: Edward Asner, Charles Bronson, 902.489.4401, Tel: 310.395.9700. Fax: told by its pilots. A rare statement of the O AUTO DA COMPADECIDA – THE Richard Thomas 310.395.9200 brazsilian participation in World War II. DOG’S WILL Delivery Status: Completed QUASE NADA – ALMOST NOTHING Comedy SIMSALAGRIMM - THE MOVIE Language: Portuguese Virginia is a little girl who lives in New Animation Drama (100’) York City at the turn of the century, whose Language: Portuguese Director: Guel Arraes Language: English Producer: Globo Filmes faith in Christmas rekindles the faith and Director: Gerhard Hahn Director: Sergio Rezende Cast: Mateus Nachtergaele, Selton Mello, hope of those around her. Producer: Greenlight Media AG / BAF Producer: Morena Filmes/ Filmanía S.A. Virgínia Cavendish, Fernanda Montenegro Cast: n/a de C.V. / Mariza Leão Delivery Status: completed Delivery Status: pre-production Cast: Genesio de Barros, Denise Weinberg, The Dog’s Will focuses on the acts of two INITIAL Budget: $ 30 million Augusto Pompeu friends, they are the leading thread that ENTERTAINMENT An original feature film about the adven- Delivery Status: completed intertwines three stories. tures of a young boy, based on the tales Budget: AMÉLIA GROUP drawn from the great European fairytale Six individuals, who have difficulty Comedy (120´) Initial Entertainment Group, 3000 W. treasure-trove of the Brothers Grimm. expressing themselves expose their person- Language: Portuguese Olympic Blvd., Ste 1550, Santa Monica, al conflicts and reflect the society in which Director: Ana Carolina CA 90404 USA. Tel: 310.315.1722. Fax: they live. Producer: Ana Carolina GRUPO NOVO DE O CHAMADO DE DEUS – THE CALL Cast: Béatrice Agenin, Marília Pêra, Myriam 310.315.1723. OF GOD Muniz, Camila Amado, Alice Borges At AFM: Graham King (President), CINEMA E TV Documentary (80’) Delivery Status: completed Schuyler Ha (Vice President Marketing) Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV, Rua Language: Portuguese A fiction freely inspired by the trip of Sarah Office: Loews Hotel, Rooms 528-530 Marechal Niemeyer, 24 – cep 22251-060 Director: José Joffily Bernhardt to Rio de Janeiro in 1905, accord- (530 Main reception) –Rio de Janeiro – RJ – Brazil. Tel: Producer: Coevos Filmes / José Joffily ing to the director, “a comedy of misunder- Tel: 310.576.7293 5521.539.1538. Fax: 5521.266.3637. E- Delivery Status: completed standings” ALI mail: [email protected] VILLA-LOBOS, UMA VIDA DE Company Type: distributor Documentary on the new directions of the Bio-Drama catholic church in Brazil through its seminarists. PAIXÃO – VILLA-LOBOS, A LIFE OF At AFM: Daniela Ribeiro, Alessandra PASSION Producers: Jon Peters, James Lassiter, Paul Durso, João Vargas Penna POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRES Ardaji, Michael Mann, A. Kitman Ho Drama (102 min) Drama (130’) Office: Language: Portuguese Executive Producers: Howard Bingham, 2000 NORDESTES – TOO MUCH Language: Portuguese Director: Andre Klotzel Director: Zelito Viana Graham King BRAZIL Producer: Mapa Filmes Director: Michael Mann Documentary (70’) Producer: Cinematografica Superfilmes – Zita Carvalhosa Cast: Antonio Fagundes, Marcos Palmeira, Cast: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Mario Van Language: Portuguese Letícia Spiller Peebles, Mykelti Williamson, Ron Silver, Director: David França Mendes e Vicente Cast: Reginaldo Farias, Petronio Gontijo, Delivery Status: completed Jon Voight Amorim Vietia Rocha, Sonia Braga (Guest The life and work of modernist Heitor Villa- Producer: L.C. Barreto - Luiz Carlos Appearance) Lobos, internationally known as one of the Delivery Status: In Production Barreto - Luci Barreto Delivery Status: completed greatest composers of his time; the struggle An epic story following the famed boxer Delivery Status: completed Adapted from the classical novel by of a latin american composer in the begin- Muhammed Ali’s early days and his rise in Documentary of the migration of Brazil’s north- Machado de Assis, the most important ing of this century, trying to be universal sports and politics. eastern people to other regions of the country. Brazilian writer of the 19th century. through his music.

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DESERT SAINTS HIGH NOON Action-Thriller Western (1 x 120) Director: Rich Greenberg Cast: Tom Skerritt, Susanna Thompson, PRODUCT Producers: Meg Ryan, Nina R. Sadowski, Reed Diamond, Maria Conchita Alonso, David Yudain Michael Madsen, Dennis Weaver and Executive Producers: Graham King, August Schellenberg. SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT Andreas Klein, Richard Treibick, Michael Few Westerns are as well known and as Greenberg highly acclaimed as Fred Zinnemann’s Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Melora Walters, 1952 classic HIGH NOON. The film, which James Sheridan, Leslie Stefanson starred Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly and AFM 2001 Delivery Status: Completed Lloyd Bridges, won four Oscars. An undercover FBI agent gains the confi- THE ‘70S dence of a hired assassin, and with the help Drama (2 X 120) of another renegade agent, the two proceed Cast: Brad Rowe, Vinessa Shaw, Amy to rob him and flee the country. Smart, Guy Torry, Kathryn Harrold and Leslie Silva This is the story of a group of twenty-some- MAJESTIC thing friends and their experiences as they ENTERTAINMENT encounter a magic carpet ride through the GROUP politics and pop culture of the 1970s. Majestic Entertainment Group, 468 N O ENTERTAINMENT Camden Dr, Suite 200, Beverly Hills, CA, O Entertainment, 31878 Camino 90210, USA. Tel: 310.858.5559. Fax: Capistrano, Suite 104, San Juan 310.642.6677. E-mail: Capistrano, CA 92675 USA. Tel: [email protected] 949.661.5495. Fax: 949.661.5995. E-mail: Company Type: Distributor [email protected]. At AFM: Aziz C. Alaoui (Chairman / CEO), At AFM: Steve Oedekerk (CEO), Paul Taso Tsakos (VP of Development),Wafae Marshal (Producer), Bonnie Foley (V.P. Benchekroun (Director of Marketing), Sales) Sandra Smith (VP) Office: Office: 716 (Note: Product information to follow) Tel: 310.458.6700 / 310.466.5282, Fax: 310.642.6677 INVISIBLE GIRL ONLINE- Language: English FILMANDTVSALES Director: Max Hoffman OnlineFilmandTVSales, 1400 North Producer: Aziz C. alaoui & Mark Boot Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028 Cast: TBA USA. Delivery Status: pre-production Tel: 323.468.6900. Fax: 323.468.6906. E- A young woman who has always been mail: [email protected] unnoticed by others falls in love with bank Company Type: Sales Agent robber suspected murder. The two lovers At AFM: Heidi Lester (CEO), Robert have a run in the law that catapults her into MacLean (Chairman), Dean Shapiro media spot light where she discovers what it (General Manager), Michael Bremer (VP feels like it be the center of attention. Sales & Marketing) Jungle Juice Tel: 310.394.4025, Fax: 310.394.2625 COMEDY Language: English Director: Tony Vitale SCENERIES Producer: Tony Cataldo & Rich Abramson PRODUCT PROFILE AFM 2001 Cast: R. J. Knol, Daren Geare, Robert INTERNATIONAL Sceneries International, 1660 Ocean Wagner, Morgan Fairchild, Christopher Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA. Road To Redemption, AVAILABLE FROM WWP Walken and Rutger Hauer Tel: 310.652.9900. Fax: 310.652.9901. E- Delivery Status: Post-Production mail: [email protected] Young groom gets jilted at the altar and his During AFM: Philippe Lenglet (President, best man talks him into taking advantage of Sceneries International), Philippe Diaz GANGS OF NEW YORK THE DANGEROUS LIVES OF ALTAR a paid Club Med type honeymoon vacation (Chairman, Sceneries Entertainment), Epic Drama BOYS to overcome his woes. Both are mistaken for Robert Jordan (Business Affairs), Austin J. Producer: Alberto Grimaldi Drama gay couple and the fun begins from there. Saito (Sceneries Asia-Tokyo), Kindra Executive Producer: Harvey Weinstein, Director: Peter Care Ruocco (Sales Executive) Michael Hausman, Maurizio Grimaldi MEDIAVISION, INC. Office: 1660 Ocean Avenue (near Loews Producers: Jodie Foster, Meg LeFauve, Jay Hotel), Tel: 310.652.9900, Fax: Director: Martin Scorsese Shapiro Mediavision, Inc., 3905 Via Dolce, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 USA. Tel: 310.652.9901 Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day- Executive Producers: John Watson, Guy VANILLA GORILLA Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson McElwaine, Pen Densham, Graham King 310.821.6780. Fax: 310.821.5162. At AFM: John Rodsett (President) Family Adventure Delivery Status: In Production Cast: Jena Malone, Jodie Foster Director: Randal Kleiser New York’s original gangsters in the 19th Delivery Status: Post Production Office: Tel: 310.821.5162 Producer: Irvin Kershner Century, who initiated the organized street QUIET KILL Cast: Olympic Sensation Nikki Webster The dramatic tale of a group of Catholic Murder Thriller gangs, fight for control of the city’s streets school friends who are caught drawing an and an A-level ensemble cast in this epic drama. Cast: Corbin Bernson Delivery Status: Shooting in South Africa, obscene comic book and who plan a heist MARCELLO THE CAT TRAFFIC that will outdo all their previous stunts and Spring 2001 Drama Family When an albino gorilla fires up a kid by make them local legends. teaching her sign language, a journey is Director: Steven Soderbergh DR. T AND THE WOMEN Producers: Edward Zwick, Marshall NBC ENTERPRISES sparked and a fabulous adventure begins. Herskovitz, Laura Bickford Comedy NBC Enterprises, 3500 W. Olive Avenue, A CHAIN OF VOICES Executive Producers: Mike Newell, Director: Robert Altman 15th Floor, Burbank, CA 91505 USA. Tel: Director: Chris Menges Cameron Jones, Rick Solomon, Graham Producers: Robert Altman, James 818.526.6900. Fax: 818.526.6922. Delivery Status: Shooting in South Africa, King, Andreas Klein McLindon At AFM: Julie McLaughlin (Director, Spring 2002 Executive Producer: Cindy Cowan Home Video) An epic love story set in the world of slavery. Cast: Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, ZEN INTERGALACTIC NINJA Michael Douglas, Dennis Quaid Catherine Cast: Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Liv Tyler, Office: # 430 Farrah Fawcett, Kate Hudson, Laura Dern, Live-action feature Zeta-Jones IN HIS LIFE: THE JOHN LENNON Cast: Ching Siu-Tung Delivery Status: Completed Tara Reid, Shelley Long STORY Delivery Status: Delivery AFM 2002 Robert Lewis is a conservative judge Delivery Status: Completed Drama (1 x 120) The Sci-fi adventures of the blue-skinned appointed by the President to spearhead Dr. Sully Travis, a handsome and dedicated Cast: Blair Brown, David Carson, Kristian alien, and his young human friend Jeremy. America’s escalating war against drugs, gynecologist, becomes overwhelmed by Ealey, Jamie Glover, Palina Jonsdottir, When the evil Baltoonians attack, only only to discover that his teenage daughter is some unusual events that occur involving Christine Kavanagh, Gillian Kearney, Jeremy and Zen can save Earth. a heroin addict. the many women that dominate his life. Daniel McGowan, Colin McKeown, THE ROYAL WAY Phillip McQuillan, Micheal O’Hara, Mark Live Action Feature film Rice-Oxley, Lee Williams Director: Andrei Konchalovsky This Product Guide will be available This authentic story recreates the early Cast: Keifer Sutherland, Richard Harris on-line at www.thebusinessoffilm.com musical performances of the young Beatles Delivery Status: shooting January 2001 in and was filmed on location in Liverpool, Vietnam THE BUSINESS OF FILM’S England at many of the actual locations that The eagerly anticipated epic adventure set in helped shape the life of John Lennon. the Indochinese revolutionary struggles of affiliate on the internet. the 1920s by the director of Runaway Train.

INNOCENTS SABOTAGE ANGEL FOR MAY Thriller (97 min) Comedy Drama Family Film Based on the best selling STORM Director: Gregory Marquette Language: American book by Melvin Burgess ENTERTAINMENT Cast: Connie Nielsen, Jean-Hugues Director(s): Esteban y Jose Miguel Director: Harley Cokeliss (Pilgrim) Storm Entertainment, 127 Broadway, Suite Anglade, Mia Kirschner, Anne Archer Ibarretxe Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, 200, Santa Monica, CA. 90401 USA. Tel: Delivery Status: ready for delivery Co-production: Spice harley Cokeliss 310.656.2500. Fax: 310.656.2510. E-mail: A pair of beautiful, mysterious sisters lure a Factory/Ibarretxe/Cine b Delivery Status: Pre-production [email protected] European musician into a harrowing jour- Producer(s): Inaki Nunez, Philippe Cast: Hugo Speers (Full Monty), Tom Company Type: Independent Film Finance, ney across America. Carcassone, Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, Wilkinson (Full Monty) Production And International Distribution THE NEW WORLD ORDER: Javier Ibarretxe ‘A boy Find himself 50 years in the past and Company SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA Cast: David Suchet, Stephen Fry, having to help a little girl in a rural communi- At AFM: H. Michael Heuser (President & Documentary Alexandra Vandernoot, Dominique Pinon, ty to find herself if he is to get back home...’ CEO), Jaime E. Jiménez (Vice President, Director: Philippe Diaz Santiago Segura. FUEL Worldwide Marketing), Susan Nickels A revealing feature-length documentary Delivery Status: Completed Sci-fi action thriller in the style of ‘The (Director, International Distribution) which exposes the intentional involvement Budget: US$10M Crow’ meets ‘Blade Runner’ Office: 127 Broadway, Suite 200, Tel: of the Western nations in the ongoing Something Strange happened on the way to Director: Johnny Kevorkian 310,656,2500, Fax: 310.656.2510 hunger crisis in Sierra Leone. Waterloo... Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, LONGSHOT WINDHORSE DEAD IN THE WATER Claude Leger, Romantic Comedy Drama Thriller Executive producer: Jonathan Vanguard, Director: Lionel C. Martin Director: Paul Wagner Director: Melvin Ward Delivery Status: Pre-production Producers: Louis J. Pearlman, Tony The urgent, contemporary story of an aspir- Producers: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan, Cast: Out To Cast DeCamillis, Lionel C. Martin ing Tibetan pop singer who faces a crisis of Cast: Michael Elphick, Sophie Ward, Set in a society where the gene to violence Cast: Tony DeCamillis, Joey Sculthorpe, conscience when her cousin, a Buddhist Sophia Miles, Celia Imrie (The Borrowers, has been removed now someone has re- Hunter Tylo, Danielle Fishel, Zachery Ty nun, is tortured for her beliefs. Hilary & Jackie) invented the motion as a drug and society Bryan, Ellen Albertini Dow, Jessica ELFQUEST Delivery Status: In Post Production has a problem. To fight this new threat they Wesson, Antonio Sabato, Jr., Paul Sorvino. Feature film A pupil gets drawn into a love triangle at a girl’s create the FUELER.... Cameo Appearances By: Director: Ptarick Claeys public school. Then her lover disappears... POSSESSION Britney Spears, N SYNC, O-Town, LFO, Take 5, Innocence, and many more. Status: In production. Delivery AFM 2003 HEIST Thriller/Horror based on the best selling Delivery Status: Completed. Screening at AFM: The internationally popular comic books Action book by Peter James And you thought it would be a LONG- come to life onscreen in an animated fea- Director: Gerard Peres (Taxi) Director: Peter Flinth SHOT to see all of your favourite recording ture! The tale of Cutter, leader of a band of Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, Peter stars in one movie...well think again! wolf-riding warrior elves, and his struggle Claude leger, Eric Altmayer James, James Simpson, Soren Juul Petersen LONGSHOT is a contemporary romantic to save the tribe. Executive producer: Jonathan Vanguard, Delivery Status: In Development comedy supported by cameos from today’s DASH John Fremes ‘A modern day Rose Mary’s Baby’... biggest music stars. Feature film Cast: Stephen Dorf, Natasha Henstridge FAST SOFA Status: in Pre-production Delivery Status: In Production SPIN PICTURES Action Delivery Status: Delivery Mifed 2002 Using a combination of extreme sports and Director: Salome Breziner A jazzy tribute to the film noir detective street smarts, a clever thief finds himself on INTERTAINMENT Producers: Steven J. Wolfe, Christopher genre of the 1940s proposed by Storyboard the run from the mob, his girlfriend and a Spin Pictures Intertainment, LLC, 6535 Figg and Pictor Media. crooked cop. Wilshire Blvd., Suite 254, Los Angeles, CA Exec. Producer: H. Michael Heuser TEDDY’S COMING OUT MARRIED-UNMARRIED 90048 USA. Tel: 323.651.4566. Fax: Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Eric Roberts, Jake Delivery Status: Mifed 2003 Thriller (‘A Sexy Sex lies and Video Tape) 503.217.1609. E-mail: [email protected]. Busey, Natasha Lyonne, Crispin Clover, A sweet, provocative ode to difference from Director: Noli (acclaimed West End stage Website: www.spinintertainment.com Adam Goldberg, Bijou Phillips Pictor Media. director and writer) At AFM: Jennifer Peckham Arundale Delivery Status: Completed. Screening at AFM: HERMES: WINDS OF LOVE Producers: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan, (President), Mark Buntzman (CFO) Based on the best selling fiction novel published Animated Adventure Jonathan English Office: in over 30 countries. Rick, our relentless urban Director: Tetsuo Imazawa Cast: Paolo Seganti (LA Confidential, Tea RESOLUTION cowboy hero, takes his hedonistic lifestyle on Japanese Box Office Hit! Based on the With Mussolini, Lago Watch for Fox Action/Thriller the road after his apartment is looted. Greek myth, this is a thrilling animated Network), Romaine Bohringer, Elodie Language: English LOVE THE HARD WAY adventure the whole family can enjoy. Bouchez, Dennis Lanvant. Director: Dwight Little Thriller Featuring Hermes’ romance with Aphrodite Delivery Status: In Production Producer: Lance Hool, Conrad Hool, Director: Peter Sehr and his heroic battle with evil King Minos, A very Sexy ‘Sex Lies and Video Tape’. Jennifer Peckham Arundale Exec. Producer: Wolfram Tichy the film is filled with delightful characters REDEMTION ROAD Cast: TBA CO-Producers: Peter Sehr, Jason Kliot, and visual beauty. Comedy ‘Withnail and I’ meets ‘The Delivery Status: pre-production Joana Vicente Dream Team’ Budget: $15 million Cast: Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Jon SPICE FACTORY Director: Lloyd Stanton (Comic Strip for BBC) When his wife is shot and his son brutally Seda, Pam Grier, August Diehl Spice Factory, 81, The promenade, Producers: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan, beaten, French businessman Paul Breaux Delivery Status: In Post-production. must decide how far he will take this thirst Promo available. Peacehave, Brighton, East Sussex, BN10 Cast: Robbie Cultrane, Steve Marcus for vengeance. 8LS UK. Tel: 44.1273.585.275. / (Lock Stock, Quills), The story of a petty thief who meets an MICHIGANDERS innocent young woman and brings her into 44.1273.585495. Fax: 44.1273.585.304. Delivery Status: In Production Comedy E-Mail: [email protected] Three desperate, large guys are thrown Language: English his world of crime while she teaches him Office: c/o Fusion International, Storm together on a journey no-one wants to take, Director: Michael zelniker the lessons of enjoying life and being loved. Entertainment, Scanbox International, to a destination no=one believes exists.... Producer: Michael Zelniker, Jennifer THE UNSCARRED Beyond Films, or TF1 International MR. IN-BETWEEN Peckham Arundale Thriller Mobile for Michael Cowan: A terrifying love story Cast: Thomas Jane, Olivia D’Abo, Michael Director: Buddy Giovinazzo 44.468.102468 Director: Paul Sarossy (Atom Egoyan’s DP) Zelniker Producers: Karen Arikian, Christopher Petzel At AFM: Michael Lionello Cowan (Joint Producers: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan, Delivery Status: Pre-production Exec. Producer: Wolfram Tichy Managing Director), Jason Piette (Joint Andreas Bajohra, Bob Portal. From the roller rink, to the local bar, to the Cast: James Russo, Ornella Muti, Heino Managing Director), Alex Marshall Cast: Being Cast wig store, Michiganders details the unique- Ferch, Steven Waddington (Business Affairs) Delivery Status: In Production ly funny events that reveal the Pelnv fami- Delivery Status: Completed. Screening at AFM: BEING CONSIDERED Jon Bennet inhabits a nightmarish twilight ly’s only too common human frailties. Four Stanford University exchange students Comedy world, dominated by his SOOTHSAYER meet up in Berlin twenty years after their Language: English Employer the passionate, God-like and Action/Fantasy graduation, what seems to be a light-hearted Director(s): Jonathan Newman malevolent Tattooed Man. When Jon devel- Language: English reunion, turns out to be a portrait of time’s Producer(s): Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, ops deep feelings for an innocent woman, Director: Andrew Goth frightening ability to mold those least want- Jonathan Newman he is caught in a lethal and terrifying love Producer: Joanne Reay, Andrea Gorfolova, ed character traits rooted in our youth. Cast: James Dreyfus, Tania Levey. Saeed triangle: he is Mr. In-Between. Jennifer Peckham Arundale MOOSE ON THE LOOSE Cast: TBA Family Entertainment Jaffrey Adam Levy, Tom Farrelly, Nicholas MURDER CLUB Director: Shawn Alex Thompson Le Provost Thriller Delivery Status: Pre-production Budget: $30 million Producer: Andy Emilio Delivery Status: completed Director: Michael Hurst (New Blood) Exec. Producer: H. Michael Heuser Budget: US$1.5M Producers: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette, A fiercely fantastic tale of passion and sorcery. The story surrounds Morien, a young Moor Cast: Moose (The real-life celebrity dog A romantic comedy about a paranoid, neu- Claude Leger, Jonathan Vanguard that plays “Eddie” on NBC TV’s smash hit rotic writer grappling with a faltering career Delivery Status: Pre-production who must wrestle with his own inner demons as he engages in a brutal pursuit of honor. “Frasier”). “My Dog Skip.” Additional in the film industry and a dubious love life... ‘A Star Chamber’ style film. HEAVEN SENT cast to be announced Drama (92 min) Delivery Status: In production Language: English Moose, the real-life celebrity dog who plays Director: Frank Shields “Eddie” in NBC TV’s smash hit show L.A. Office FAX L.A. Office Phone Producer: Julie Marlow “Frasier,” now stars in his own major Cast: Tushka Bergen, Marton Csokas motion picture in which he tackles a true to Status: completed life character; playing a TV celebrity dog Shattered by the death of his fianceé, Raoul who gets a dose of life on the other side of (323) 935-8229 (323) 935-8228 settles on a drought-wracked farmstead and the tracks when he’s involved in saving a retreats into loneliness until one day, out of poor young boy’s promising future as well the endless haze of the horizon, walks Julia… as the boy’s doomed pet dog.

THE CRIMINAL WIND WITH THE GONE (EL SKINHEAD CONNECTION Action Thriller SUNNY FILM VIENTO SE LLEVO LO QUE Thriller (90 min) Director: Julian Simpson CORPORATION SDN. Drama (91 min) (Argentina) Language: English Producers: Chris Johnson, David Director: Alejandro Agresti Director: Jean Uliczay Chapman, Mark Aarons BHD. Producer: Agresti Film, DMVB Films, Producer: UBU Productions Exec. Producers: H. Michael Heuser, Sunny Film Corporation SDN. BHD., 17 Studio Nieuwe, Maestranza Film, Sogeda Delivery Status: Pre-production Daniel Genetti, Suzette Newman Jalan Mewah 2/2A, Taman Subang S.A. Filmax Group Budget: $2 million Cast: Steven Mackintosh, Natasha Little, Mewah, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Cast: Angela Molina, Vera Fogwill, Jean The power of the skinheads and neo-Nazis Eddie Izzard, Bernard Hill, Yvan Attal, Malaysia. Tel: 60.3.80231481. Fax Rochefort in eastern Germany. Holly Aird 60.3.80231480 Status: Completed THE DINO ISLAND Delivery Status: Completed. Screening E-mail: [email protected]. Soledad is one of the few women taxi dri- Children/Teen (90 min) cassettes available. Website: www.sunnyfilm.com vres in Buenos Aires. One day she decides Language: English/French The Criminal is the story of J, an unem- Company Type: Producer, Distributor to steal the taxi and she aimlessly escapes Director: J. Kail ployed musician in London who becomes At AFM: Sunny Lim toward the vast south of Argentina. Producer: UBU Productions the prime suspect in a murder case. Office: Double Tree Suites, Tel: THE PROTAGONISTS Delivery Status: Pre-production BEING CONSIDERED 310.395.3332, Fax: 310.458.6493 Art Movie/Drama (90 min) (Italy) Budget: $2 million Comedy BLOOD STREET Director: Luca Guadagnino Adventures of a group of children on the Director: Jonathan Newman Action(90min) Producer: Surf Film in collaboration with island of the dinos. Producer: Jonathan Newman, Michael Language: English Medusa Cowan, Jason Piette Director: Leo Fong Cast: Tilda Swinton, Andrew Tiernan, VISTA STREET Exec. Producer: H. Michael Heuser Producer: Sunny Lim Michelle Hunziker, Fabrizia Sacchi Cast: James Dreyfus, Tom Farrelly, Tania Cast: Leo Fong, Stack Pierce Delivery Status: Post production/complet- ENTERTAINMENT Levey, Adam Levy, Viva Duce, Saeed Delivery Status: Completed ed Vista Street Entertainment, 1720 20th St., Jaffrey, David Tennant, Mathew Sharp, Budget: $1 million One night in January 1994 two students Suite 202, Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA. Nicholas LePrevost A private investigator fights corruption decided to commit the perfect crime. Tel: 310.453.1013. Fax: 310.453.2724. E- Delivery Status: Completed. Screening and drug dealers in the city of San ORDER OVER JUSTICE-BAJO mail: [email protected] cassettes available. Francisco. BANDERA During AFM: A small-time thief breaks into the car of a THE DADAH CONNECTION Drama (106 min) (Argentina) Office: c/o 310.453.1013 self-professed “artist and filmmaker” and Action(90min) Director: Juan Jose Jusid BABES IN THE WOODS steals his briefcase containing a book on Language: English Producer: Prisma Film, Surf Film Erotic Drama (90 min) screenwriting and a filofax of contacts. He Director: Toby Russell Cast: Miguel Angel Sola, Federico Luppi, Producer: Vista Street Entertainment then writes a screenplay making him the Producer: Sunny Lim Daniele Liotti, Omero Antonutti An erotic drama starring four cheerleaders, Cast: Steve Tartalia, Jacintha Lee, Alex lost in the woods, recounting their erotic talk of the town while the real writer drops Delivery Status: completed fantasies. They find love and fulfillment out of society and takes a road trip to Lowe A story about soldiers in Patagonia. A story Delivery Status: Completed among the trees… Brighton in search of some answers. of rage and pain. A true story. An old story? THE BEL AIR BITCH PROJECT PREACHER Budget: $1 million Not so old! A DEA agent teams up with a local police- Thriller (88 min) Action Producer: Vista Street Entertainment Director: Rachel Talalay woman to take on a drug baron in exotic Malaysia. THOMPSON/STARR Cast: Trisha Berdot Producer: Tom Astor, Rupert Harvey The life of a beautiful model, living in Bel Exec. Producers: Kevin Smith, H. Michael HAWKEYE Action(90 min) ORGANIZATION Air, is cut short by an unknown assailant, Heuser, Scott Mosier Thompson/Starr Organization, 270 North but her murder may not be a mystery to the Delivery Status: In Pre-production Language: English Director: Leo Fong Canon Drive, Suite 205, Beverly Hills, CA many men she teased along the way. When a rupture in Heaven unleashes the 90210 USA. Tel: 818.998.8126. Fax: BIKINI HOUSE CALLS full power of God on a hapless congrega- Producer: Sunny Lim, Leo Fong Cast: George Chung, Chuck Jefferies 818.773.8962. E-mail: [email protected] Erotic Comedy (6 x 1/2 hr or 87 min feature) tion, a small town minister with a troubled Company Type: Distributor Director: Michael Paul Girard past and an epic destiny finds himself fac- Delivery Status: Completed Budget: $1 million At AFM: Joey Thompson (President), Jen Producer: Vista Street Entertainment ing Demons, Angels, rednecks and the Saint Starr (Marketing), William Thompson Cast: Kim Dawson, Thomas Draper, of Killers himself. Meet Detective ‘Hawkeye’ Hawkomoto, an unorthodox cop who delivers his own brand (Sales), George Alain (Production), Chaya Tamara Landry, Sean Abbananto EMMA THOMPSON PRESENTS Finton (Acquisitions) So, how do Med School students relieve JOHNNY HIT AND RUN PAULINE of justice on the bad people of Las Vegas themselves of the stress of an arduous med- FOR A BOWL OF RICE Acquisition Executive: George Thompson Drama Office: TSO (above) Beverly Hills ical education? They Party! Director: Fay Efrosini Lellios Documentary (13 X 25 min) BLOODBATH Language: English Startling 4d Adventures Of Mr. “O” Producer: Kevin Segalla Thriller (70 min) Thriller (88 min) Exec. Producers: Emma Thompson, H. Director: Hans Treffers Director: Anne Kimberly and Dan Speaker Producer: Sunny Lim, Hans Treffers Language: English Michael Heuser Director: Arch Obeler Producer: Vista Street Entertainment Cast: Phyllida Law, Miranda Richardson, Delivery Status: Completed Cast: Susannah Devereux, Kathryn A documentary about the different and Producer: Arch Obeler Joanna Going, Lauren Bacall Incredible 3D sights leap out from the Cleasby, Dana Fredsti Delivery Status: In Pre-production unique ways the local people in Malaysia Shot in the heart of film land, “Bloodbath” make a living. screen in Obeler’s fabulous spacevision Young and beautiful Pauline meets the adventures. explores the darker side of Hollywood. handsome and suave Johnny at the beach; DOMO ARIGATO BLOOD REVENGE her life is changed- Mansions, Grand Hotels SURF FILM Thriller (90 min) Thriller (88 min) and...Abuse. With her own inner strength Surf Film, Via Padre G.A. Filippini, 130, Director: Ross Otterman 00144 Rome, Italy. Tel: 3906.52.62.101. Language: English and the love of her son Max, Pauline fights Director: Arch Obeler Producer: Vista Street Entertainment back and together, she and Max leave Fax: 3906.52.93.816. E-mail: surf@surf- Cast: Chris Cuthrell, Kim Blair, Jean- film.com Producer: Arch Obeler Johnny and start their lives anew. Cast: Jason Ledger, Bonnie Sher Michel Richaud Storm Entertainment will also be licensing At AFM: A lazy ex-martial arts professional finds his Young couple see Japan in strange adven- girlfriend murdered, and his partner in a coma. the following titles during AFM 2001: Office: tures in place and space. HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC. BIBO FOREVER (BIBO PER BRIEF AFFAIRS THE BUBBLE Erotic Comedy (90 min) DIE WHOLESALE SEMPRE) Horror/Thriller (90 min) CHILD 2 MAN Comedy (95 min) (Italy) Director: Michael Paul Girard Language: English Producer: Michael Paul Girard LOVELIFE Director: Enrico Coletti Director: Arch Obeler SUBTERFUGE Producer: Surf Production S.r.l., T. Time Cast: Jay Richardson, Monique Parent, and Producer: Arch Obeler Christian Noble S.r.l. Cast: Michael Cole, Deborah Walley and Cast: Teo Teocoli, Anna Galiena, Marco At the Law Firm of Grimes and Peterson, STUDIOS S.R.L. Johnny Desmond adultery has never been so much fun. Studios S.r.l., Via Tiburtina 521, 00159, Della Noce, Giogio Gobbi Aliens enclose a city in a sphere of fear. Delivery Status: completed CRACK Rome Italy. Tel: 3906.4386.792. Fax: Action (88 min) 3906.4380.392. E-mail: The story of the restless and amusing UBU PRODUCTIONS CRACK UP [email protected]. Website: www.studios- search for his identity of a man, who UBU Productions, P.O. Box 40 19 65, D- Action (90 min) international.com after a chance encounter with a homeless 80719 Munich. Germany. Tel: Director: Jefferey Le Roy At AFM: Daniele Taddei (Chief man, starts questioning his own certain- 49.8171.721.26. Fax: 49.8171.721.26. Producer: Bruce Frenzinger Executive), Kerrie-Lee Munroe (Marketing ties. At AFM: Mr. Jean Uliczay (President) Three down and out friends decide to rob a Director) A NIGHT WITH SABRINA LOVE Acquisition Executive: Jean Uliczay crackhouse and make off with a pile of drug Office: 860/861 Art movie (99 min) (Argentina) Office: Media Umbrella money. Their plan goes off without a hitch, Director: Alejandro Agresti COMEDY FOR SEVEN…AND A DOG until two obnoxious newscasters focus in on Producer: Patagonick Film Group Comedy (90 min) the robbery. Send Your (Argentina), Surf Film, P.H.F. Film (Spain) Language: English GAMES OF SURVIVAL Cast: Cecilia Roth, Tomas Fonzi, Director: Marius Mattei Action (76 min) Giancarlo Giannini, Julietta Cardinali Producer: Telecinclanda, UBU Productions Director: Armand Gazarian Press Releases to: Delivery Status: completed Cast: Timothy Dalton, Ornella Muti, Producer: Vista Street A young and bored seventeen year old Alberto Tomba, Michelle Huntziker Cast: Nikki Hill, Cindy Coatman, boy from a very small village in Status: pre-production Roosevelt Miller Jr. [email protected] Argentina, wins a night of love with the Budget: $3 million The story of Zane, a young rebel warrior porno star Sabrina. Love, troubles and jealousies at the Cotes from another planet, who is transported to d’Azur. Earth for an important mission.

62 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE STRANGERS LATE LISTINGS: COMPANY MAN DONNIE DARKO Thriller (86 min) Drama Fantasy Director: Sergei and Yuri Ivanov Language: English Language: English PANDORA Director: Vincenzo Natali (The Cube) Producer: Vista Street Pandora, 500 South Buena Vista Street, Director: Richard Kelly Delivery Status: In Development Producer: Adam Fields Cast: Richard Bent, Shana Betz, Victoria Animation Building 1E-17, Burbank, CA LOVE, PROZAC & OTHER Hunter, Jennifer Marks 91521 USA. Tel: 818.560.6790. Fax: CURIOSITIES Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, For nearly a year Trent hid himself in 818.841.3186. Comedy (100 min) Patrick Swayze remote towns all across the country in a At AFM: Hunt Lowry (President), Terry Language: Spanish Delivery Status: completed desperate attempt to spare innocent lives Pefanis (COO), Shebnem Askin (Senior Director: Miguel Santesmases A bright sixteen year old boy, after from his violent transformations into a VP Worldwide Sales), Paul Federbush (VP Producer: Mate Production & Vertigo miraculously escaping death in a freak werewolf. Acquisitions), Catherine Touati (Director Productions accident, is granted twenty eight more of Marketing & Publicity, Europe) Cast: Pilar Punzano, Guillaume Depardieu, days of life before he must relive the Office: Loews 811-815, Tel: 310.576.7270, Rosa Mariscal same accident. AFFILIATED Fax: 310.576.7320 Delivery Status: completed THE OLD MAN WHO READ LOVE A WALK TO REMEMBER This is the story of three sisters. Each of COMPANIES AT AFM: them thinks her life is the best one, but now STORIES Drama it is time for the three of them to decide their Drama Director: Adam Shankman lives must change and they need each other Language: English Producer: Denise Di Novi more than they would ever like to admit. Director: Rolf De Heer GREG S. BERNSTEIN Delivery Status: In Development Greg S. Bernstein, a Professional WHITE OLEANDER Corporation, 9601 Wilshire Blvd., Suite Drama 300A, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA. Tel: Language: English L.A. Office FAX L.A. Office Phone 310.247.2799. Fax: 310.247.2798. E-mail: Director: Peter Kosminsky [email protected] Producer: John Wells (323) 935-8229 (323) 935-8228 Delivery Status: In Development

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FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 63 AFM BUYERS CONTACT INFORMATIONGUIDE A-FILM DISTRIBUTION BV CAMERA FILM A/S DIETER-WAHL-FILM At AFM: San Fu Maltha (Chairman), Pim Hermeling At AFM: Kirsten Dalgaard (Managing Director) At AFM: Dieter Wahl (Chairman/Managing Director) Hotel: Shangri-La, Tel: 310.394.2791, Fax: 310.451.3351 Hotel: Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills Hotel: Four Seasons (Pico Boulevard) Tel: 310.276.2251 THE CANNES MARKET Fax: 310.887.2887 ALFA FILMS S. A. At AFM: Jerome Paillard (Executive Director, Cannes DIGITAL ESTATION At AFM: Mr. Hugo Kusnet (President), Mrs. Margarita Market), Myriam Arab (Director of Marketing), Edith Grant (US Representative), Anthony Klish (Director, At AFM: Neil B. Persky (Chief Financial Officer) Kusnet (Vice president) Contact information: Tel: 818.789.1065, Fax: cannesmarket.com), Lorraine Houssin (Associate Hotel: Hotel Shangri-La 818.789.3418 Producer, cannesmarket.com) Tel: 310.394.2791 Office: Atrium 7th Floor Northwest Fax: 310.451.3351 DMB FILM INTERNATIONAL CANNESMARKET.COM At AFM: Detlef Michael Behrens (President), Ursula AMERICAN FILM SERVICES Koch (Managing Director), Renate Steinbach (Head of At AFM: Jerome Paillard (Executive Director, Cannes Buyer Department), Ron Hays (Head of Coproduction), At AFM: Jorge Gallegos (President) Market), Edith Grant (U.S. Representative, Cannes Duke Harries (Assistant of Buyer Department), Louis Hotel: private Market), Jim Steele (Executive VP, Business Clemente (Chief Buyer) Development, ShowBIZ Data, Inc.), Anthony Klish Hotel: private ARROW FILM (Director, cannesmarket.com), Lorraine Houssin DISTRIBUTORS LTD (Associate Producer, cannesmarket.com) DOUBLE TREE At AFM: Neil Agran (Director) Office: Loews Hotel, The Atrium NW, 7th Floor, Tel: 310.576.6373 ENTERTAINMENT BVBA Hotel: Ritz-Carlton, Marina Del Rey, Tel: 310.823.1700 At AFM: Peter J. Boom (President), Marijke Boom Heesbeen (V.P) ATLAS AIR FILM + MEDIA CARLO ENTERTAINMENT Hotel: Double Tree SERVICE GMBH LTD Tel: 31.627.000.685 At AFM: Helmut Lauerbach (Deputy Head of At AFM: Carlo Ponnampalam (Managing Director) Programming) Hotel: Hotel Carmel EAGLE FILMS At AFM: Jamal Sannan (CEO) Hotel: Shangri-La (or Georgian Hotel or Best Western Tel: 310.451.2469 Fax: 310.393.4180, 310.445.8695 Hotel: Le Merigot Ocean View Hotel) Tel: 310.395.9700, Fax: 310.395.9200 A.T.M. FILM CAROLYN CROWNE EAGLE PICTURES SPA DISTRIBUTORS LTD. COMPANY At AFM: Stefano Dammicco (Managing Director), At AFM: Richard Teelucksingh At AFM: Carolyn Crowne (President) Giampaolo Sodano (President), Ciro Dammicco (Vice Hotel: Hotel Carmel Hotel: Georgian Hotel, Tel: 310.395.9945, Fax: President), Aldo Romersa (Acquisitions) Tel: 310.451.2469 310.451.3374 Hotel: Shutters On The Beach Fax: 310.393.4180 CINEPLEX EMERALD ENTERTAINMENT At AFM: Daniel Pérez (President) At AFM: Elba McAllister BANQUE INTERNATIONALE Hotel: Pacific Shore - Santa Monica Hotel: Carmel A LUXEMBOURG Tel: Mobile: 954.483.8858 At AFM: Mlle Edwige Rolin (Senior Manager), Mrs FILM FINANCES, INC. At AFM: Tom Pollak (Director of Business Affairs), Gillian Duffield (Senior Manager) CINE, VêDEO Y TV Richard Soames (President), Steven Ransohoff Hotel: Four Seasons S.A. DE C.V. (Executive Vice President), Kurt Woolner (Executive Tel: 323.656.2132 At AFM: David Chelminsky (Acquisitions), Hilel Vice President), Marion Speigelman (Senior Vice Fax: 323.656.2139 Chelminsky (CEO) President), Greg Trattner (Vice President) Hotel: Four Points Sheraton BJORCK FILM FILMES CASTELLO LOPES, CONSORCIO EUROPA LDA. INTERNATIONAL At AFM: Wilson Alves Feitosa (Director), Matteo Levi At AFM: José Manuel Castello Lopes (Chairman), At AFM: Penny Karlin (President), Kelly Green (VP (Director) Gérard Castello Lopes (Chairman), Ana Maria Nobre Acquisitions), Sonia Mehandjiyska (Admin. Assistant), Hotel: private (Director) Lennart Bjorck (Consultant) Hotel: The Beverly Hilton - L.A. Hotel: Loews Hotel CVD INTERNATIONAL Tel: 310.2747777 Tel: 310.458 6700 Fax: 310.2851313 Fax: 310.458 6761 CO.,LTD. At AFM: Mr. Wilson Wong (General Manager), Mr. FINTAGE HOUSE B.V. Somchai Rungthongoran (Sales Manager) At AFM: Robbert Aarts (Managing Director), Cécile BUENA VISTA HOME Hotel: Pacific Shore Huberts (Managing Director), Niels Teves (Managing ENTERTAINMENT Director), Gadi Wildstrom (Vice President Film & TV), At AFM: Dick van Vloten (Rental Director) DALL'ANGELO PICTURES Said Boudarga (Senior Account Manager), Akiko Kotake Hotel: Sunset Marquis At AFM: Mr.Giuseppe Dall'Angelo (Senior President), (Representative) Tel: 31.6.53.120139 Mrs.Barbara Dall'Angelo (President) Hotel: Le Merigot Beach Hotel, 1740 Ocean Avenue, CA Hotel: W Hotel 90401 Santa Monica BUENA VISTA Tel: 310 208 8765 Tel: 310.395.9700, 310.395.9200 INTERNATIONAL Fax: 310 824 0355 FORUM FILM At AFM: Alicia J. Keyes (Director, Worldwide DARO FILM DISTRIBUTION At AFM: Mr. Moshe Greidinger. Acquisitions) Hotel: Fairmont Miramar Santa Monica. At AFM: Anne-Marie Gaskin (Head of Acquisitions) Tel: 310.567.7777 Hotel: N/A Hotel: Doubletree Guest Suites, Santa Monica, Tel: Fax:310.458.7912 310.395.3332, Fax 310.458.6493

64 The Business of Film Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. FEBRUARY 2001 BUYERS GUIDE AFM FREE DOLPHIN ITV NETWORK LTD NEW SELECT CO., LTD. ENTERTAINMENT At AFM: Jeremy Boulton (Controller of Network At AFM: Mr. Akira Sugiyama (President), Mr. Keijiro At AFM: Fiorenza Cella (President), Bruno Maccarone Acquisitions) Hara (Senior Director), Mr. Shuntaro Kanai (Advertising (Vice-President), Alessandra Zampaglione (Acquisition), Hotel: TBC Producer),Ms. Megumi IMAI (International Charlotte Weston (Acquisitions) Acquisitions), Ms. Shoko Otsuyama O'Connell Hotel: private residence, Tel: 310.854.6411, Fax: JLD IMAGE INTERNATIONAL (International Acquisitions) 310.854.6413 Hotel: Hotel Shangri-La At AFM: Jean-Luc Defait (Chairman CEO), Didier Tel: 310.394.2791 Breitburd (Production Manager) Fax: 310.451.3351 GLOBUS UNITED Hotel: (Jean-Luc Defaita) Montrose Suite Hotel West Globus United, 24 Giborey Yisrael Street, New Industrial Hollywood, Tel: 310.855.1115. Fax: 310.657.9192; Zone Netanya, Israel 42504. Tel: 972.9.892.5000. Fax: Didier Breitburd (Production Manager) Georgian Hotel NEWVISION FILM 972.9.885.3311. E-mail: [email protected] Santa Monica, Tel. 310.395.9945. Fax. 310.451. 3374 DISTRIBUTORS At AFM: Shanki Alexander (Director of Acquisitions) At AFM: Frank Cox (Managing Director), George Hotel: private Papadopoulos (Manager of LANTERN LANE Finance and Acquisitions) GOLDEN SCREEN CINEMAS ENTERTAINMENT LTD. Hotel: Le Merigot Beach At AFM: David Garber (CEO), Enid Garber (CFO), Tel: 310.446.1093 SDN BHD Fax: 310.446.1600 Golden Screen Cinemas SDN BHD, 1 Jalan SS22/19, Cynthia Burnett (Operations Manager), Rob Lynch Damansara Jaya, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Darul (Sales Assistant) NONSTOP ENTERTAINMENT Ehsan, Malaysia. Tel: 6.03.7729.7708 / 6.03.7729.5666. Hotel: N/A At AFM: Ignas Scheynius (President), Jakob Fax: 6.03.7722.1655. Website : www.gsc.com.my Tel: 818.321.0121 Abrahamsson (Distribution Manager) At AFM: Yvonne Tan (Distribution Manager) Hotel: Hotel Carmel Hotel: Pending. Tel: 310.451.2469 LATIN AMERICAN PAY Fax: 310.393.4180 GREYCAT FILMS & TELEVISION SERVICE At AFM: Guillermo Sierra (VP Networks) NONTANUND RELEASING Hotel: private Greycat Films & Releasing, PMB 605, 2633 Lincoln ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD. Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405 USA. Tel: At AFM: Anont Asvanund (M.D.), Gumpon Rattanajangwang (Marketing), Pornthip Losoponkul 310.396.9775. Fax: 310.396.9885. E-mail: LUMIERE/EBA At AFM: Marc Beauchamps (CEO), Bruno Wainer (Marketing) [email protected] Hotel: Best Western Ocean View Hotel At AFM: David Whitten (Co-President) (Executive Director) Tel: 310.458.4888 Hotel: N/A Hotel: Casa del Mar Fax: 310.458.0848 Tel: 310.581.5533 HELKON MEDIA AG Fax: 310.581.5503 OCEAN FILM GROUP/ Helkon Media AG, Rauchstrasse 9-11, 81679 Munich, CEDERLAND FILM Germany. Tel: 49.89.99.805.100. Fax: 49.89.99.805.111. M3 ENTERTAINMENT CO. E-mail: [email protected] During AFM: Mr. Kouhei Matsuda COMPANY At AFM: Michel T. Chacra (Chairman), Gianluca Chacra At AFM: Martin Heldmann (CEO), Mark Ramakers Hotel: Best Western Ocean View Hotel (Marketing and Acquisitions Executive), Khalil N. Jaber (CFO), Christian Halsey Salomon (Managing Director), GUNSHY BEYOND (Diatribution Co-ordinator) Manuela Koller (Head of Marketing & Communication), Hotel: TBA Ulrike Beckmann (Manager Acquisitions & Sales) 7 DAYS TO LIVE BEAT Hotel: Hotel Shuttners ( Mr. Heldmann / Mr. Ramakers ) OCEAN SHORES LICENSING HIGH FLIERS VIDEO MAXMEDIA LTD At AFM: Jeffrey Winter (Head Of Acquisitions), J. Ethan At AFM: Jennifer Hung (Distribution & Acquisition DISTRIBUTION Manager) High Fliers Video Distribution, 16 Heathfield Terrace, Park (CFO) Hotel: Le Merigot Beach Hotel London W4 4JE UK. Tel: 44.208.742.2032. Fax: Tel: 310.395.9700 44.208.742.1475. E-mail: N/A MEDUSA COMMUNICATIONS Fax: 310.395.9200 At AFM: Peter Scott (Managing Director) & MARKETING LTD. Hotel: To Be Confirmed At AFM: David Hodgins (Chairman), Steve Rivers (Director) ODEON S.A. Hotel: TBA At AFM: Manos Krezias (President), Mahi Elianou HIGHLIGHT (Legal Advisor), Leda Galanou. (Marketing Manager) COMMUNICATIONS AG Hotel: Shutters on the Beach Highlight Communications AG, Schindellegistrasse 3, MELBAR ENTERTAINMENT Tel: 310.458.0030 Pfaeffikon, CH-8808, Switzerland. Tel: 41.55.415.68.18. GROUP Fax: 310.458.1483 Fax: 41.55.415 68 10. E-mail:[email protected] At AFM: Barry Avrich (President) At AFM: Bernhard Burgener (President), Paul Graf Hotel: Sunset Marquis Hotel, Tel: 310.657.1333 ON COMMAND (Managing Director), Kristina Dubin (Managing At AFM: Brent Jenkins (Director Worldwide, Feature Director), Stephan Giger (Manager) Prog), Brian Dalessi (Manager of International Prog) Hotel: Le Merigot, Tel: 310.395.9700, Fax: 310.395.9200 MERCURY INTL Hotel: Radisson Huntley Hotel PRODUCTIONS Tel: 310.394.5454 H.O.M. VISION B.V Fax: 310.458.9776 H.O.M. Vision b.v, Zuidwenk 34, 3751 CD Spakenburg, At AFM: Remy Sayada (Director) Netherlands. Tel:31.33.29.96088. Fax 31 33 29 96047. Hotel: Sheraton 4 points, Pico Blvd OZEN FILM FILMCILIK T.A.S E-mail: [email protected] At AFM: Mr. Mehmet Soyarslan (Managing Director), At AFM: Henk Opstelten (President) MULTI MEDIA FILM Mrs. Rezzan Soyarslan (Foreign Relations Manager) DISTRIBUTION Hotel: Hotel Merigot INDIES ENTERTAINMENT At AFM: Maria Serena Lastrucci (Executive) GROUP B.V. Hotel: Oceana PANORAMA At AFM: Hans Kok (President & CEO), Jean Heijl (Manager Film Distribution), Ron van den Berg MVS TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT CO LTD (Manager Home Entertainment), Wendy Yarbrough (V.P. At AFM: Alejandro Vazquez-Vela Duhalt (General At AFM:Allan Fung (CEO), Gigi Ko International Sales). Director, TV Networks), Gaston Lamabarry (A.D. (Acquisition/Development Executive) Hotel: Sunset Marquis Operations) Hotel: Sheraton Santa Monica Tel: 31.621.53.76.30 / 31.621.53.76.50 Hotel: private Tel: 310.399.9344 Fax: 310.657.1330 Fax: 310.399.2504

FEBRUARY 2001 Entire contents copyright © 2001 Elspeth Tavares. All Rights Reserved. The Business of Film 65 AFM BUYERS GUIDE P.C.V. S.A. STARZ ENCORE GROUP TVA INTERNATIONAL At AFM: Peggy Carajopoulou-Vavali (Chairperson- At AFM: Robert Leighton (President, Starz Encore At AFM: Stephen Greenberg (President Distribution), C.E.O.) Entertainment), Stephan Shelanski (Sr. Vice President, Jean Bureau (Executive Vice President Distribution), Hotel: Casa Del Mar Starz Encore Entertainment), Nancy Silverstone Dan Lyon (Executive Vice President Distribution), Tel: 310.581.5533, Fax: 310.581.5503 (Executive Director, Program Acquisitions), David Heather Wyer (Executive Director International Salinger (Vice President, Program Acquisitions), Richard Distribution), Anna-Sue Greenberg (Director Marketing PEACOCK FILMS Turner (Vice President, Business Affairs) International Distribution) At AFM: Lyn Shannon Hotel: LeMerigot, Tel: 310.395.9700, Fax: 310.395.9200. Office: #652 Hotel: Four Points Sheraton Santa Monica Robert Leighton, Hotel: Casa Del Mar, Tel: Tel: 514.284.2525 Tel: 310.399.9344 310.581.5533, Fax: 310.581.5503; Christopher Black & Fax: 514.985.4461 Fax: 310.399.2504 Chuck Lomis, Hotel: The Fairmont Mirmar, Tel: 310.581.5533, Fax: 310.581.5503 21ST CENTURY PICTURES RCV ENTERTAINMENT B.V. PTY LTD At AFM: Mr. Jan A. Kouwenhoven (President), Mrs. THE STEEL COMPANY At AFM: Bob Wright (Director), Dan Quinn (General Joke G.T.M. Wartenbergh (Executive Vice President), At AFM: Gordon Steel (President), Patrick J. Aluise Manager), Shelly Wright (Sales Assistant) Mr. Dirk R.G. de Lille (Executive Vice President), Ms. (Executive Vice President), John Baca (Director of Hotel: Fairmont Miramar Hotel Elike van Sluis (Head of Publicity), Ms. Dorien Goertzen Acquisitions) Tel: 310.576.7777 (Manager TV Sales) Office: Loews, Suite 538 Fax: 310.458.7912 Hotel: Le Merigot Tel: 310.3959700 STER-KINEKOR FILMS UBU PRODUCTIONS Fax: 310.395.9200 At AFM: Isabel Rao (Acting CEO), David Hadassin At AFM: Mr. Jean Uliczay (President) (Dept MD), Russel Rottenburg (MD) Hotel: Ocean Lodge REID & PUSKAR PTY Hotel: Double Tree Tel:310.395.3332 USA FILMS LIMITED At AFM: Scott Greenstein (Chairman), Donna Gigliotti At AFM: John Reid (Director), Rod Puskar (Director) fax:310.452.7399 (President / Production), Steven Raphael (Senior Vice Hotel: Double Tree (John Reid) President, Acquisitions and Production), Amanda Klein Tel: 310.395.3332 STRAND RELEASING (Vice President, Acquisitions and Production), Jack Fax: 310.458.6493 At AFM: Jon Gerrans (Co-President), Marcus Hu (Co- Turner (Director, Acquisitions and Co-Production), Chris President) Miller (Director, Production and Acquisitions) RTV FILM Hotel: N/A Office: Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Suite 710 Tel: 310.576.7117, Fax: 310.576.7118 At AFM: Mr. Omer Riza Cam CEO and President), Mr. Tel: 310.395.5002 Bulent Gencturk (Vice President), Ms. Erdi Zencirli Fax: 310.395.2502 (Director, International Acquisitions And Sales) VIDEO UNLIMITED (NZ) LTD Hotel: private At AFM: Jamie MacKinnon (Managing Director), Dayle SWIFT Reid (Sales Manager) At AFM: Didier COSTET (Chairman), Lionel JULLIEN Hotel: Double Tree, Tel: 310.395.3332, Fax: SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS 310.458.6493 At AFM: Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. (Chairman of the Board, (Acquisitions) Chief Executive Officer), Meyer Gottlieb (President), Hotel: Double Tree Guest Suites, 1707 Fourth Street, Tom Quinn (Director of Acquisitions (please contact Santa Monica, CA 90401. Tel: 310.395.3332. Fax: VIDEOVILLE SHOWTIME directly in the New York office), Tasha Cronin 310.458.6493 INC (Acquisitions) Videoville Showtime Inc, 4610 Cote Vertu West, TERRY STEINER Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H4S 1C7. Tel: 514.333.4091. Fax: 514.745.4274. E-mail: [email protected] SAR-AN INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INC. At AFM: Ernie Grivakis.(president), George Grivakis At AFM: Mr. Alan Saran (Head of International At AFM: Terry L. Steiner (President) (VP) Operations), Mrs. Julia Berköz (Acquisitions & Sales Hotel: private Hotel: private Manager) Hotel: The Fairmont Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica TF1 VIDEO W. P. DONNELLY & SENATOR FILM At AFM: Pierre BROSSARD (CEO), Charles BEN- ASSOCIATES At AFM: Hanno Huth (CEO), Christoph Ott (COO), LOULOU (Director of Editions & Acquisitions), At AFM: Bill Donnelly (President) Bernd Tietze (Managing Director of Distribution), Caroline GOT (Head of Film Acquisitions) Hotel: n/a Roman Paul (Head of International Acquisitions) Hotel: Shutters on the beach/Casa Del Mar Hotel: TBC Tel: 310.458.0030/310.581.5533 YORK ENTERTAINMENT Fax: 310.458.4589/310.581.5503 At AFM: Tanya York (CEO), Doug Schwab SHAW ORGANISATION (President/Maverick Entertainment) At AFM: Mr. Harold Shaw, Mr. Shaw Vee King, Mr. TIME MEDIEN GMBH Hotel: N/A Mark Shaw, Mr. Christopher Shaw At AFM: Rudy Tjio (Head of Acquisition & Distribution) Hotel: Casa Del Mar Hotel: Pacific Shore Hotel ZDF ENTERPRISES GMBH Tel: 310.451.8711 At AFM: Margrit Staerk (Director Acquisitions and Fax: 310.451.3962 Sales/Feature Films) SKIFAN HF Hotel: Georgian Hotel At AFM: Ragnar Birgisson (Managing Director), Bjorn Tel: 310.395.9945 Sigurdsson (Director Film Division ), Karl Dui Karlsson TMC FILM AS Fax: 310.451.3374 (Manager Home video Distribution) At AFM: Erol Avci ( President ) Hotel: Fairmont Miramar Santa Monica (RB), & Holiday Hotel: private Inn Santa Monica Beach (BS/KDK) Tel: 310.395.3332 & 310.451.0676 TOHO CO.,LTD. Fax: 310.458.7912 & 310.393.7145 At AFM: Hisanori Hiranuma (Executive Manager of Licensing & Video Software Division), Haruo Sai (Manager of Licensing & Video Software Division) SPLENDID FILM GMBH Hotel: Double Tree Guest Suites The Business Of Film At AFM: Andreas R. Klein, Albert E. Klein, Maren Schultz TOP TAPE Hotel: Shutters on the Beach (Messrs. Klein), Doubletree At AFM: Jose Sobrinho (VP Acquisitions), Celia Product Guide On-Line Guest Suites (Maren Schultz) Rosemblit.(VP Finance) Hotel: TBA STAR TV @ At AFM: Jamie Davis (SVP Programming), Simi Seth TRANS-PACIFIC MEDIA (VP Programming), Janice Lam (Sr. Secretary to Sr. Vice President Programming) CONSULTANTS GROUP www.thebusinessoffilm.com Tel: 852.2621.7647 At AFM: Michael Werner (President), Laurie Woodrow Fax: 852.2621.7771 (Senior Vice President), Dan Griffiths (Director, Hotel: private Acquisitions) Hotel: none, Tel: 310.576.7275, Fax: 310.576.7276