best regards, Nicolas Chartier Arclight Films 6422 Deep Dell Place Los Angeles, CA 90068 tel: (323) 464-8351 fax: (323) 464-8362 -----Original Message----- From: Arclight Films - AFM 2004 [mailto:chris@arclightfilms.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 6:05 PM To: 'Nicolas Chartier - Arclight Films US' Subject: ARCLIGHT FILMS LOOKS FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT AFM! AFM 2004 Dear Friends, We hope you will be attending this year's inaugural November AFM! Please email: linda@arclightfilms.com to book a meeting with us. We look forward to seeing you! All the best, Gary Hamilton Nicolas Chartier Lina Marrone AT AFM Loew's Hotel Suites 721 & 723 Tel: +1 310 260 4194 Fax: +1 310 260 4195 ATTENDING Gary Hamilton cell: +1 917 826 2113 email: gary@arclightfilms.com Nicolas Chartier cell: +1 310 890 4199 email: nicolas@arclightfilms.com Lina Marrone cell: +1 416 569 1224 email: lina@arclightfilms.com SCREENING DECK DOGZ * MARKET PREMIERE 6th November AMC Screen #4 11:00am 9th November AMC Screen #4 11:00am *This Premiere Screening is open to the public DEAD & BREAKFAST MARKET PREMIERE 7th November AMC Screen #4 11:00am 9th November AMC Screen #4 1:00pm THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER * 5th November AMC Screen #4 9:00am *This Premiere Screening is open to the public THE HUADU CHRONICLES: BLADE OF THE ROSE * MARKET PREMIERE 4th November AMC Screen #3 1:00pm 8th November AMC Screen #4 1:00pm *This Premiere Screening is open to the public THE LIBRARIAN MARKET PREMIERE 6th November Artisan Screening Room 1:00pm 7th November Artisan Screening Room 2:30pm 2700 Colorado Blvd, Santa Monica (location to be confirmed) THE MERCHANT OF VENICE * MARKET PREMIERE 8th November Broadway Cineplex Screen #4 8:45am *This Premiere Screening is open to the public 9th November Arclight Cinerama Dome 8:00pm *AFI screening RICE RHAPSODY * MARKET PREMIERE 3rd November AMC Screen #4 9:00am 7th November AMC Screen #4 9:00am *This Premiere Screening is open to the public STRANGE BEDFELLOWS * 5th November AMC Screen #3 3:00pm *This Premiere Screening is open to the public ANNOUNCING EVERY WORD IS TRUE drama While researching his book IN COLD BLOOD, legendary writer Truman Capote develops a bizarrely close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Mark Ruffallo, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Cummings, Anjelica Houston, and introducing the Royal Shakespeare Company's Toby Jones (HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, EVER AFTER) as Truman Capote Director: Douglas McGrath (EMMA, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY) US Distributor Warner Independent MATERIAL GIRL comedy Two celebrity socialite sisters find themselves penniless when a scheming executive tries to take control of their deceased father's cosmetics empire. Cast: Hilary Duff (A CINDERELLA STORY) US Distributor Fox WEED comedy A hip, offbeat, wacky journey through the course of a day in the life of a struggling actor and hopeless stoner (WINONA RYDER). WEED reunites Winona Ryder for the first time with her HEATHERS director Michael Lehman in a fresh, edgy comedy with strong cult and crossover potential. Cast: Winona Ryder Director: Michael Lehman (40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS & DOGS, AIRHEADS, HEATHERS) SCREENING DECK DOGZ action drama MARKET PREMIERE With cops, school and parents hot on their tail, three suburban skate punks hit the road to compete in a prestigious competition and pursue their dream of going pro. A deck grinding, wickedly funny coming of age story about friendship and growing up featuring the legendary US twelve times World Champion Tony Hawk. Cast: Sean Kennedy, Richard Wilson, Ho Thi Lu and featuring TONY HAWK Writer/Director: Steve Pasvolsky (Academy Award Nominee INJA) DEAD & BREAKFAST horror MARKET PREMIERE Six friends on their way to a wedding stop for the night at a quaint Bed and Breakfast in the sleepy town of Lovelock. But after a night than ends with both the Inn's owner and his chef dead, the gang finds themselves under suspicion by the local sheriff. The mystery quickly unravels when the already bizarre residents become possessed by an evil spirit and pin down the friends at the Bed & Breakfast. Armed with a rusty old chainsaw, a can of gasoline, and a half box of shotgun shells, the group must barricade the house and fight for their lives. "Could be the US answer to SHAUN OF THE DEAD" (Ain't-It-Cool-News). Cast: Jeremy Sisto (SIX FEET UNDER, MAY), David Carradine (KILL BILL), Erik Palladino (U571, CAN'T HARDLY WAIT), Gina Philips (JEEPERS CREEPERS) Director: Matt Leutwyler (ROAD KILL, THIS SPACE BETWEEN US) US theatrical release Anchor Bay January 2005 THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER murder thriller Dramatizing one of America's most gruesome serial killer cases, two aspiring pimps murder a prostitute and after displaying her naked body on a hillside, embark on a killing spree that grips southern California in a reign of terror for two years. From the Producers of ED GEIN and BUNDY. Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Nicholas Turturro, Allison Lange, Lin Shaye Director: Chuck Parello US Distributor TARTAN FILMS USA THE HUADU CHRONICLES: BLADE OF THE ROSE martial arts/action MARKET PREMIERE A beautiful young maiden is forced by the Emperor of Huadu to become his concubine although she is in love with another man. As a result, she learns to hate all men and usurps the Emperor to control Huadu with her eunuch lover as consort, setting up a new order where women rule and men serve. The only shadow across her plan is a prophecy that when a certain star is seen in the sky, a boy will rise to become king and restore the rule of men.

From the director of THE TRANSPORTER.

Cast: Donnie Yen, Jaycee Chan, Charlene Choi, Gillian Chung, Chen Po Lin and special guest appearance from JACKIE CHAN Directors: Cory Yuen, Patrick Leung THE LIBRARIAN action adventure MARKET PREMIERE Uber geek FLYNN (NOAH WYLE) finally finds a use for his encyclopaedic knowledge of the obscure and esoteric when he's selected to join a mysterious order of "Librarians". Assigned the grave responsibility of protecting a collection of mythical artifacts from the forces of evil who, if given the chance, would use the priceless treasures for their nefarious plans, FLYNN, along with sexy Amazon bodyguard NICOLE journeys to the most exotic, inaccessible and treacherous corners of the earth, but does he have what it takes to be... " The Librarian"? An action packed comedy adventure franchise from DEAN DEVLIN, the Writer/Producer of INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA and STARGATE. Cast: Noah Wyle (ER), Kyle McLachlan, Kelly Hu, Olympia Dukakis, Sonia Walger, Jane Curtain, Bob Newhart Director: Peter Winther Producer: Dean Devlin THE MERCHANT OF VENICE drama MARKET PREMIERE Shakespeare's story of lovers, vengeance and betrayal. A modern approach to a timelessly relevant epic which brings to the screen for the first time one of the world's most iconic courtroom confrontations. Directed and adapted for the screen by Academy Award Nominee Michael Radford (IL POSTINO). Cast: Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins Director: Michael Radford US Distributor SONY CLASSICS RICE RHAPSODY comedy MARKET PREMIERE Single mother JADE runs a Hainan chicken rice restaurant. Worried that her youngest son might turn out to be gay like his two older brothers, she takes in a sexy French exchange student to find out. Meanwhile, Jade's bachelor neighbour's specialty is Hainan Duck Rice. In the bicycle race and cooking competition that follows, gender signals and emotions aren't all that get mixed up in these kitchens.. Cast: Sylvia Chang, Martin Yan, Melanie Laurent, Maggie Q, Tan Lepham Director/Writer: Kenneth Bi STRANGE BEDFELLOWS comedy Starring two of Australia's leading comic actors Paul Hogan (CROCODILE DUNDEE) and Michael Caton (THE CASTLE), STRANGE BEDFELLOWS tells the hilarious and heart warming story of two very straight country blokes who, out of financial desperation, declare themselves a gay couple to exploit a new tax legislation. When a tenacious tax inspector played by Pete Postlethwaite (IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER) is sent to verify their authenticity, all hell breaks loose in the once sleepy township of Yackandandah as the blokes are suddenly forced to pose openly as a loving gay couple in a town that knows them as anything but! Cast: Paul Hogan, Michael Caton, Pete Postlethwaite Director/Writer: Dean Murphy PRODUCTION LORD OF WAR action thriller Dodging bullets and betrayal, a wily arms dealer schemes his way to the top of his profession only to face an enemy he never expected: his conscience. But it's not easy to leave behind a life of girls, guns and glamour, when no-one wants you to stop, not even your enemies.

From the Academy Award nominated writer of THE TRUMAN SHOW, Andrew Niccol.

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ian Holm Director: Andrew Niccol (GATTACA) Writer: Andrew Niccol (THE TRUMAN SHOW) BEOWULF & GRENDEL action adventure An epic tale based on the famous Old English poem, BEOWULF, which inspired Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS. The medieval adventure, part fable, part horror story is loosely based on the 9th century Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf, telling the blood soaked tale of a Norse hero's battle with a great and murderous troll. Cast: Gerard Butler (PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, DRACULA 2000), Stellan Skarsgard (EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING, DOGVILLE, GOOD WILL HUNTING), Sarah Polley (DAWN OF THE DEAD, MY LIFE WITHOUT ME) Director: Sturla Gunnarsson Writer: Andrew Rai Berzins THIEF LORD family/adventure Set in Venice, two young brothers on the run fall under the care and protection of a mysterious "Thief Lord." Stealing the missing component of a magical carousel capable of restoring youth, they discover a thrilling and unforgettable world of wonder and enchantment. Based on the international best selling novel by Cornelia Funke. Her novel INKHEART will be a major event movie trilogy from New Line Cinema. Cast: Caroline Goodall (SCHINDLER'S LIST), Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Carter, Robert Bathurst Director: Richard Claus Screenplay: Cornelia Funke from the novel THE THIEF LORD US Distributor Fox POST PRODUCTION PERFECT CREATURE horror/sci-fi In a world where humans and vampires co-exist "separately but equally", a human cop and vampire cop team up to stop a rogue vampire intent on starting a war between the two races. An innovative, stylish, genre blending re-telling of the vampire myth set in an alternate reality. Cast: Dougray Scott (MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2, ENIGMA), Saffron Burrows (TROY) Writer/Director: Glenn Standring (THE IRREFUTABLE TRUTH ABOUT DEMONS) WOLF CREEK thriller Based on true events, 'Wolf Creek' tells the chilling story of three backpackers travelling in remote Outback Australia. When their vehicle breaks down they accept help from a friendly local. But it soon dawns on them that he has no intention of fixing their vehicle, or of them leaving... ever again. Cast: John Jarrat Writer/Director/Producer: Greg Mclean We look forward to seeing you at AFM! Please visit our website: www.arclightfilms.com <http://www.arclightfilms.com> <http://www.arclightfilms.com> to see our entire catalogue with over forty titles! To view trailers, username: international, password: buyer