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Dear friends,

CANNES '06

Riviera C1 | Tel #: +33(0)4 92 99 32 20

Arclight Films is proud to announce our sensational new slate of films, including 2:37, which has been officially selected for Un Certain Regard, Slipstream (written and directed by Anthony Hopkins) and Sexual Healing. Our entire screening schedule can be downloaded below.

Note: Darclight and Easternlight line-ups / screening schedules will be sent to you separately.

If you would like to schedule a meeting, contact Mark Padilla at mark@arclightfilms.com.

We will be situated at: Riviera C1 | Telephone number: +33(0)4 92 99 32 20.

Download our complete screening schedule (Microsoft Word format, 31.5KB)

We look forward to seeing you there!

With best wishes from,

Gary Hamilton
gary@arclightfilms.com
+1 917 826 2113
Jonathan Deckter
jonathan@arclightfilms.com
+1 310 770 7727
Lina Marrone
lina@arclightfilms.com
+1 416 569 1224
 
 
ANNOUNCING >
 
Anthony Hopkins writes and directs SLIPSTREAM
 Slipstream
Slipstream
PRE PRODUCTION
[ thriller ]

From the pen of renowned actor Anthony Hopkins comes this devious and deliciously complex tale of English screenplay writer, Felix, who becomes entangled in a maze of changing realities as he begins to merge the world of the film he is writing and his real life.

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Christian Slater, Gena Rowlands, Kevin McCarthy, Stella Arroyave, Gavin Grazer

Writer / Director: Anthony Hopkins

Marvin Gaye
 Sexual Healing
Sexual Healing
PRE PRODUCTION
[ drama ]

Away from the public eye Marvin Gaye faced his own personal demons. In 1979, destroyed and broke after a year long crack binge, Gaye made his last big comeback with the hit 'Sexual Healing' but a happy ending wasn't to be and he died within 12 months at the hands of his merciless and abusive father.

Cast: To be announced at Cannes

Writer / Director: Lauren Goodman

Olivier Martinez in HARD DRIVE
 Hard Drive
Hard Drive
PRE PRODUCTION
[ action ]

Speed and fury fuel this high octane action adventure. When a futuristic super car is stolen, racing car drivers Zach and Pepper must forget their troubled pasts and focus on retrieving it, aided and abetted by a beautiful young girl on the run in her violent boyfriends muscle car.

Cast: Olivier Martinez

Writer / Director: Bill Bennett

 
 
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Lindsay Lohan and Elijah Wood in BOBBY
 Bobby
Bobby
POST PRODUCTION
[ drama ]

On the eve of Bobby Kennedy's presidential nomination and assassination at the Ambassador hotel, the lives of guests and workers cross paths and are changed forever in this stirring portrait of the turbulent 60's and the human stories behind an epoch defining tragedy.

Cast: Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Demi Moore, William H. Macy, Lindsay Lohan, Emilio Estevez, Christian Slater, Martin Sheen, Helen Hunt, Heather Graham, Ashton Kutcher, Laurence Fishburne (Credits not contractual)

Writer/Director: Emilio Estevez

Eric Bana in ROMULUS, MY FATHER
 Romulus, My Father
Romulus, My Father
IN PRODUCTION
[ drama ]

An adaptation of Raimond Gaita's award winning memoir. ROMULUS, MY FATHER is the story of how a compassionate and honest man taught his son the meaning of a decent life.

Cast: Eric Bana, Franka Potente

Director: Richard Roxburgh

Writers: Nick Drake (Screenplay), Raimond Gaita (Memoir)

Sam Worthington in MACBETH
 Macbeth
Macbeth
POST PRODUCTION / PROMO AVAILABLE
[ action / drama ]

A gangster murders his way to the top and suffers the consequences in this smouldering, sensual, savage contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's bloody tale of rampant ambition from the director of ROMPER STOMPER.

Cast: Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill, Lachy Hulme

Director: Geoffrey Wright

 
 
SCREENING >
 
2:37
OFFICIAL SELECTION IN UN CERTAIN REGARD
[ drama ]

Following a group of high school students through the course of a single fateful day which ends in shocking tragedy for one, an extraordinarily compelling, emotionally devastating exploration of teen suicide.

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Joel Mackenzie, Marni Spillane, Charles Baird, Clementine Mellor, Frank Sweet, Sam Harris, Gary Sweet

Writer / Director / Producer: Murali K. Thalluri

Prisoner
PREMIERE MARKET SCREENING
[ thriller ]

Golden Globe© winner Julian McMahon stars as an arrogant Hollywood director who's abducted and must search deep within his sinful past to discover what his mysterious kidnapper wants in order to save his own life.

Cast: Julian McMahon, Elias Korteas, Dagmara Dominczyk, Tom Gulry

Writer / Directors: David Alford, Robert Lynn

Return to Rajapur
SCREENING
[ drama ]

A heartfelt tale of love and destiny. A rich drama set in the sand swept terrains of Rajapur, a desert city in Northern India.

Cast: Lynn Collins, Justin Theroux, Manoj Bajpai, Kelli Garner, Frank Langella, Celia Weston

Writer / Director: Nanda Anand

Kokoda
PREMIERE MARKET SCREENING
[ drama ]

Set in Papua new Guinea during World War II, a stranded platoon of Australian soldiers must confront both the enemy and each other as they struggle to survive...

Cast: Jack Finsterer, Travis McMahon, Simon Stone, Luke Ford, Tom Budge, Steve Le Marquand, Angus Sampson, Christopher Baker, Ewen Leslie, Ben Barrack, Shane Bourne, William McInnes

Director: Alister Grierson

Writers: Alister Grierson, John Lonie

Come Early Morning
SCREENING
[ drama ]

Terrified of intimacy, a woman's emotional life has been reduced to a string of one night stands and when a stranger arrives in town who wants more, she struggles to accept that he might just be the best thing that's ever happened to her.

Cast: Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Laura Prepon, Tim Blake Nelson, Ray McKinnon

Writer / Director: Joey Lauren Adams

Material Girls
PREMIERE MARKET SCREENING
[ comedy ]

Two spoiled cosmetics heiresses must clear their names and reclaim their company when a corporate scandal strips them of their wealth and privilege.

Cast: Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Anjelica Huston, Brent Spiner, Maria Conchita Alonso, Lukas Haas

Director: Martha Coolidge

Writers: John Quaintance, Amy Rardin, Jessica O'Toole

Tirant Lo Blanc: The Maidens' Conspiracy
SCREENING

[ drama ]

While fearlessly defending Constantinople from overwhelmingly superior Turkish forces, a legendary knight fights an even more daunting campaign within his own camp; conquering the virginity of a virtuous Byzantine princess.

Cast: Caspar Zafer, Esther Nubiola, Victoria Abril, Leonor Watling, Jane Asher, Giancarlo Giannini, Ingrid Rubio

Writer / Director: Vicente Aranda

 
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