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19 Jahre, 8 Monate

The Megahit Movies Ezine 1 : Nov 1, 2004

von Richard Michaels Stefanik

The Megahit Movies Ezine 1 November 1 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Story Design: Creating Popular Movies * The Megahit Movies Book 2004 Edition * RMS Story & Screenplay Consultations * LA Screenwriting Expo 3 November 5-7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Story Design: Creating Popular Movies Each month this ezine will contain excerpts from the new 2004 edition of The Megahit Movies book. The Fundamental Question Hollywood has produced thousands of feature films, but only a few have received megahit status and generated more than $250 million in North American box office receipts. What is it about these films that made them so successful? Story Design for Creating Popular Hollywood Movies This book is designed to show a screenwriter how to create an original script that has the potential of becoming a popular Hollywood movie. Screenwriters reading this book should want to create commercially successful movies. We start our story development process with a discussion of what it means to be a Popular Hollywood Movie. Popularity is defined by different measures: U.S. Domestic Box-Office Grosses, Worldwide Box-Office Grosses, Academy Awards, and WGA Screenwriting Awards. Every film critic also has his own choice for The Best Movie of the Year, as do the filmmakers who attend the Sundance Film Festival and the IFP Independent Spirit Awards. A writer should be certain about which type of popularity he wants to achieve. From the start of the screenwriting process, the writer should understand that he is writing for a specific audience. This is made clear when we discuss genres and the standard categories of scripts as classified by Hollywood producers and agents. Genres segment the audience into groups of people who enjoy different types of stories. The total potential audience is partitioned into market segments. Some of the questions that a screenwriter should answer are: Why do I want to write a screenplay? Do I want to create a financially successful or a critically acclaimed screenplay? Who is my intended audience? The first thing that a writer should create is the concept of the story. Will it be a high concept story? Next, he should create a logline for the movie: a single sentence description of the main character and the goal that the character is trying to achieve. Most popular movies are designed around three main characters: the protagonist, the love interest, and the antagonist, as well as a unique object that they are trying to possess. Since only one character can eventually obtain the unique object, this structure guarantees conflict throughout the story. The climax scene is a life-and-death struggle between the protagonist and the antagonist for the unique object. A writer should try to imagine the movie poster that will be used to market the film to a global audience. Study the poster designs of the current popular movies. Within these images are the core elements of the story: protagonist, antagonist, love interest, and an image which defines the genre of the movie. A movie that hopes to become popular will need to have such a poster. Given these core elements, we then go on to discuss the psychology of the audience. The writer must understand the importance of creating empathy in the audience for the protagonist and love interest, while simultaneously generating enmity (fear and hatred) for the antagonist. This is essential for creating mass-market popular Hollywood movies. The classic Hollywood Three-Act Structure is used to this effect. We explicate this structure in terms of the plotting of the story that will create an emotionally satisfying experience for the audience. The key to creating popular and commercially successful Hollywood movies is to learn how to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience. The writer should create an empathy scene for the protagonist and love interest and an enmity scene for the antagonist. The writer should also cast the three primary characters (protagonist, antagonist, and love interest) with currently popular Hollywood actors. This will make the characters easier to write and also will eventually help in marketing the finished screenplay to Hollywood producers. We next focus on creating three-dimensional characters by analyzing character personality types, motivation, personal objectives, emotional decisions, character relationships, ethical values and codes of behavior, character arcs and transformations, and supporting characters. The screenwriter should write a description for the protagonist supporter, who should be humorous and likeable and the antagonist supporter, who should be vicious and hateful. They should also describe the motivation, personal objective, and transformation for each of the five primary characters of their story: protagonist, antagonist, love interest, protagonist supporter, and antagonist supporter. Hollywood recognizes the importance of supporting roles by giving Academy Awards each year to the Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Now that we have created the basic elements of our story, a unique object that is desired by the protagonist and antagonist and the key supporting characters, we will then show how to make the story unpredictable. This is done by creating subgoals to the protagonist's primary objective which conclude as plot twists. Plot twists result when the expected consequence of completing a subgoal does not happen once that subgoal is achieved. An example of this can be found in the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy believes that the Wizard will get her back home (her primary objective). Her first major subgoal is to get to the Emerald City to see the Wizard. She overcomes many obstacles to achieve this subgoal. When she meets the Wizard, he does not help her go home, but instead assigns her the task of getting him the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. This is a plot twist. Examples of many other plot twists from popular Hollywood movies will be discussed in this book. Creating expectations in the audience with the intention of having these expectations not fulfilled is the key to creating surprise and unpredictability. Essential to creating excitement is conflict that produces jeopardy for the protagonist and his supporters. These conflicts are generated by the obstacles and problems that the protagonist must solve in order to achieve the subgoals and primary objective. Jeopardy producing obstacles can be the result of self-conflicts, enemies, relatives, friends, lovers, physical objects, the natural world, and the supernatural world. We review many examples of each type of obstacle found in popular movies. The writer will also come to understand that in each scene of the script, there should be an obstacle or problem that the characters in the story must overcome. This ensures that there will be conflict and excitement in each scene. We next discuss the difference between a plot and a story, events and actions, the inciting event, subplots, and different ways that a writer can organize a plot. At this stage, the writer will be prepared to design a Prelude, Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, and Resolution structure for their story. They should be able to write a plot outline that contains forty (40) major obstacles; one for each scene. A story is different from a plot. While a plot is a series of events that constitute the movie, the story is the series of actions and decisions the protagonist makes in the movie. Story is the sphere in which human values, virtues, vices, and community ideals interact and come into the foreground of the movie. The screenwriter must choose virtues for their protagonist and vices for their antagonist. They should write scenes showing the protagonist exhibiting this virtue when confronting an obstacle and a scene showing the antagonist displaying a vice when dealing with a different obstacle or problem. An example of this is the way that Bruce Wayne and Jack Napier court Vickie Vale in Batman, or the way that Indiana Jones and the sadistic Nazi negotiate with Marion for the headpiece of the staff of Ra in Raiders of the Lost Ark. We next discuss the design of scenes, concentrating on scene actions, point-of-attack, crisis, confrontation, climax, resolution, exposition scenes, transition scenes, opening scenes, protagonist introduction, antagonist introduction, climax scenes, and resolution scenes. The writer should create a 3x5 index card (40 cards) for each scene that includes the major obstacle (or problem), crisis, confrontation, climax, and the emotional reactions of the characters in the scene. These elements constitute the essential moments or beats of the scene. From these index cards the writer should create a detailed plot outline. A full length screenplay can have between 40 and 60 scenes, each between 3 to 2 minutes in length. We then discuss connecting scenes together into sequences. Each sequence should be designed to have a specific emotional effect on the audience. We will also analyze ways of entertaining the audience and conveying information during exposition scenes. We will discuss how "Chase" sequences and "Ticking Clocks" sequences can generate suspense. These types of sequences are especially important in the third act of the story because they are used to drive the audience into an emotional frenzy before the final climax scene. Since the key to creating a popular Hollywood movie is to create an emotionally satisfying experience for the audience, it is critical for a writer to understand how to create situations that will elicit specific emotions in the audience. We discuss the relationship of emotion to story design, the Cognitive Theory of Emotions, techniques to heighten the intensity of emotional reactions, and ways to elicit specific emotional reactions to events, actions, and objects. Emotions also form the subtext underlying powerful dialogue. To entertain the audience is to make them laugh while vicariously experiencing situations of jeopardy. Eliciting emotions in the audience is very important when creating humorous scenes. We discuss the techniques used in creating humorous dialogue, humorous situations, and humorous characters. Ultimately, the writer must be clear on the theme of the story. What is the movie really about? What does it have to say about the human condition? What will the members of the audience learn about life and human relationships? Does the story have universal appeal? Does the narration rely on mythic structures? How does the theme of this movie compare with the themes found in many of the megahit movies? We next present the Standard Screenplay Format that Hollywood agents, producers, and Studio Executives expect to see in a script. Not having your script correctly formatted is the fastest way for it to get rejected by readers. The formatting rules are simple, but extremely critical, if the writer wants to be considered a professional screenwriter. Next we discuss Strategies for Selling a Screenplay.Topics include: the Screenwriting Business; Hollywood Studio Development Deals; Referrals from Family & Friends; Greenlighters- Players-Champions; Casting Bankable Actors; Packaging Bankable Directors; High Concepts & Loglines; Creating Extraordinary Worlds; Pitching Stories & PitchFests; Query Letters, Synopsis, and Treatments; Agents, Managers, & Lawyers; Legal Issues for Screenwriters; Screenwriting Contests; Screenwriting Consultants; Screenwriting Conferences; Write the Novel Version of the Script. The new world of digital moviemaking offers alternative options to screenwriters. We explore this by discussing Independent Digital Video Movie Production; Internet Digital Broadband Distribution; and DVD Movie Production & Distribution. The screenwriter should be able to write a query letter. Then prepare a five minute verbal pitch of the story, based on the content of the query letter. They should be able to write a one page synopsis of their story based on the plot outline. The writer can expand their detailed plot outline into a screenplay format outline before they start writing the first draft screenplay of their story. Information about The Megahit Movies Hollywood Story Design Workshops is included at the end of the book. These workshops will be valuable to screenwriters who would like help further developing their original stories into commercial scripts. The Megahit Movies book is designed for screenwriters, directors, and producers who want to create commercially successful movies. We hope the reader finds this book to be a useful tool in achieving that objective. The Megahit Movies - http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=9suv8a44.0.y69tp9n6.zb985y67.40637&p=http%3A%2F%2Fw… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Megahit Movies Book 2004 Edition The new 525+ page 2004 edition analyzes The Megahit Movies, those films which have generated more than $250 million in North American Box Office receipts. It presents principles of story construction that can be used to develop popular movies by providing an analysis of cinematic techniques. It also offers stimulating ideas that can be helpful in the creative process. The book is designed for writers, directors and producers who want to create commercially successful films. The fundamentals of dramatic structure, the human emotions, and the construction of humorous characters and situations are explained, with examples drawn from some of the most popular motion pictures Hollywood has ever produced. The Foreword to the book is written by Christopher Lockhart, Executive Story Editor, International Creative Management (ICM) in which he discusses what Hollywood Producers, Agents and Studios are looking for when reading screenplays. Analysis of recent mega-blockbuster movies such as SHREK 2, SPIDER-MAN 2, HARRY POTTER, BRUCE ALMIGHTY, MATRIX TRILOGY, FINDING NEMO, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING The book is available for purchase at www.TheMegahitMovies.com, www.Amazon.com and www.WritersStore.com Purchase The Megahit Movies Book 2004 Edition - http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=9suv8a44.0.ru8vq8n6.zb985y67.40637&p=http%3A%2F%2Fw… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RMS Story & Screenplay Consultations A personal consultation on your original screenplay! Once you purchase this package, you will be permitted to submit a 120 page original screenplay. Between 3 to 5 pages of written comments about the screenplay will be emailed to you within 14 days after the receipt of the script by U.S. Priority Mail. Once you have read my comments, I will schedule a one-hour chat session to further discuss your script. Start developing your script into a feature screenplay that can be made into a popular Hollywood movie! Also included is The Megahit Movies Book 525+ pages of information about the structure of popular films. RMS Screenplay Consultations - http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=9suv8a44.0.9uxt57n6.zb985y67.40637&p=http%3A%2F%2Fw… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LA Screenwriting Expo 3 November 5-7 Richard Michaels Stefanik will be giving a Story Design: Creating Popular Hollywood Movies lecture at the LA Screenwriting Expo 3 November 6th Saturday 5 pm. For 3 days of Guests of Honor including Jerry Lewis, Robert McKee, William Goldman, Aaron Sorkin, Richard Donner, Paul Attanasio, Arnold Kopelson, and many more. 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19 Jahre, 8 Monate

NEW docs & films screening at AFM

von Passion River International

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AFM 2004

von Armada Pictures International

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19 Jahre, 9 Monate

*****SPAM***** FINAL AFM PRODUCT LISTINGS

von Adam Welles

FRIES FILM GROUP, Inc. REVISED AND FINAL AFM PRODUCT LISTINGS To: Film Studio An Der Buyer Pleas be advised these are our Final mass e-mail product listings. We look forward to potentially meeting many of you in Los Angeles at the AFM. OFFICE at AFM: Topanga Suite, 7th Floor of Loews Hotel. (If you have already received our invitation please accept our apology for the duplicate transmission.) =============================================================== Dear Mr. Charles Fries and myself, Adam Welles (New team member to the Fries Film Group) invites you to discuss our exciting slate of films at AFM - FALL MARKET 2004. Please take a moment to make an appointment with us. If you can suggest two times that will be convenient for you, we will get back to you with a confirmation. Please respond via email - <mailto:awelles@friesfilms.com> awelles(a)friesfilms.com or via fax at 818-888-3042. Best regards. Adam Welles Vice President, Worldwide Sales ============================================================== YOUR COMPANY: _______________________ EXECUTIVES ATTENDING: Executive Name:______________________________ Email:________________________ Executive Name:______________________________ Email:________________________ Executive Name:______________________________ Email:________________________ 1st Suggested Date ______________ Time______________ 2nd Suggested Date ______________ Time______________ =============================================================== PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT: NEWLY COMPLETED AND SCREENING AT THE AFM: COOKERS Genre: Thriller Synopsis: Two white-trash drug addicts, Hector (Brad Hunt) and his girlfriend, Dorena (Cyia Batten), steal a van load of chemicals used to "cook" crystal-meth. On the run from outlaw bikers they ripped-off, the couple breaks into a rural farmhouse where they cook up the batch of grade-A speed with the intent of selling and getting out from under. However, as they begin to use the speed, strange things begin to happen at the house and they're not sure if they are hallucinating or is it real. "Cookers" is being released in the US by Palisades Pictures. SCREENING SCHEDULE: Nov. 5th Laemmle Monica Screen #1 11:00 am Nov. 8th Laemmle Monica Screen #1 09:00 am =============================================================== IN POST PRODUCTION: BANDIDOS Genre: Thriller Synopsis: Super thief Max Cruz must rescue a kidnapped CIA operative who is held by a Mexican crime Lord in an impenetrable fortress. Carlos Gallardo plays Max Cruz, the character he created in EL MARIACHI and DESPARADO in this action-packed thriller directed by Academy Award winner Roger Christian (BATTLEFIELD EARTH). Cast: Carlos Gallardo, Angie Everhart, Kim Coates, Matt Craven. LAGUNA Genre: Thriller Synopsis: The son of a mafia hit man must confront his father's violent legacy before his checkered past catches up to him permanently. Cast: Joe Mantegna, Henry Cavill, Sergio Castilito, Emanuelle Seigner, Charles nzavour. Shot in New York and Venice, Italy. European certified production. In post-production. =============================================================== IN PRE-PRODUCTION: ALIEN AGENT Genre: Action Synopsis: A lawman from another Galaxy must stop an invading force from building a gateway between the two worlds. Cast: To be announced at AFM. CANES Genre: Thriller Synopsis: A New York executive tries to break a pact with the devil who has been controlling him with a mystical, evil cane. Cast: Eddie Furlong (In negotiation). HUNT FOR THE DEVIL Genre: Thriller Synopsis: A New York City detective tracks Europes bloodiest serial killer after his fiance becomes the latest victim. =============================================================== PRESALES: LAMBS OF GOD Synopsis: Carla, Margarita and Iphigenia are three nuns living in a crumbling monastery on a remote island, forgotten by time, the world and the Church. Their liturgical calendar is governed by changing of the seasons, and by the rising and setting sun. Their days are spent performing a ritual of prayer and storytelling, as they knit the wool of the sheep that inhabit the monastery grounds and into whose bodies they believe their deceased sisters souls to have entered. Then one day, seemingly out of nowhere, a priest appears. Hoping to rise in the Church hierarchy, he has presented plans to his bishop to convert what he believes is an uninhabited and valuable piece of Church property into a resort for the wealthy-and he has come to survey the land. Father Ignatius is as surprised to see the nuns as they are to see a flesh and blood man, and what follows is the strange, moving, and often hilarious story of their struggle-a struggle of wills, but also faith. Lambs of God is a beautifully written, haunting story of colliding traditions, conflicting beliefs and magical transformations. It weaves together Christian belief, classical mythology, fairy tales, Celtic lore, and mysteries of the natural world into one of the most memorable and gripping contemporary novels. Lambs of God is a wildly original investigation into the nature and complexities of faith. Cast: Winona Ryder, Judy Davis & Martin Henderson DR. LOPEZ Genre: Period Political Thriller Synopsis: Dr. Roderigo Lopez, an exiled Portuguese Jew, is appointed to the highly prestigious position of personal physician to Queen Elizabeth I, seemingly by sheer chance only to be implicated in a conspiracy to poison the Queen. Devastated by the Queen's seeming reluctance to intercede on his behalf, but fully aware of her conflicting loyalties, Lopez can do little more than helplessly watch as political machinations push him inexorably toward the gallows. Director: Michael Radford. Cast: Dustin Hoffman. THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO Genre: Family Synopsis: The adventures continue in this third installment of the franchise which stars Martin Landau and Udo Kier. MIDNIGHT BOOGIE Genre: Action Thiller Synopsis: Ivory Coast- Africa -- five young parachutists go on a competition jump over IVORY COAST, but as a result of a "dare devil" escapade end up in northeastern part of the country where their plane is shot down by REBEL FORCES. The young men are captured and accused of spying for the C.I.A., then brutally tortured. GUERILLA FORCES wage a surprise attack on the camp where the young men are held, but instead of being rescued they become prisoners of the guerillas and are forced to take part in their MISSION -- the destruction of the CABINDA OIL FIELDS. It is this complex, which the life blood of the communists, for without it there would be no money to pay for the rebel defense force, no money for the French supplied arms -- and NO WAR! Starring: Steven Dorff =============================================================== COMPLETED (SELECTED TITLES): Jack London's THE CALL OF THE WILD Genre: Adventure Synopsis: As BUCK grows from a prized and pampered house pet, he is forced to kill or be killed at the head of a sled team. Through his eyes, we see that the the fierce conditions of the Klondike Gold Rush come not only from the brutal weather of Alaska's winter, but from the evil and stupidity of men. When a good man, JOHN THORNTON (played by Rutger Hauer) saves BUCK's life, BUCK returns the favor by ripping out the throats of Indians who kill THORNTON in a climatic showdown. Finally free to heed THE CALL OF THE WILD, BUCK returns to run with his wild wolf brothers. Cast: Rutger Hauer. Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss. Director: Peter Svatek. CHARADES (aka FELONS) Genre: Thriller Synopsis: What starts as a nice afternoon barbecue with good friends quickly turns ugly as one man begins a sadistic game of violence and blackmail, eventually revealing a dark secret- that the host and hostess are murderers. Cast: Erika Eleniak, C. Thomas Howell, Jack Scalia, James Russo. Director: Stephen Eckelberry. THE CLOWN AT MIDNIGHT Genre: Horror/ Thriller Synopsis: A teenaged girl confronts the psychotic killer who murdered her mother years ago. Cast: Christopher Plummer, Margot Kidder. Director: Jean Pellerin. DEMON HOUSE Genre: Horror/ Thriller Synopsis: A group teens on the run from the police seek refuge in the remote Hull House where a beautiful demon seeks to transform her guests into her bloodthirsty minions. Director: Jimmy Kaufman (POLTERGEIST- THE LEGACY). EL TRONADOR Genre: Action/ Thriller Synopsis: EL TRONADOR is a cold blooded executioner who stalks the mean streets of Los Angeles. He is a man with no name, no feelings and no mercy. CARDIMIL, an ex-gangster, hires EL TRONADOR to collect on a large sum of money from the villainous WALDO EL HERMOSO, the most powerful drug lord in town. But when HERMOSO murders CARDIMIL and kidnaps his beautiful daughter a bullet-ridden frenzy ensues as EL TRONADOR will stop at nothing to rescue the only thing he cares about. FATAL BLADE Genre: Action Synopsis: When a drug deal goes bad, the Japanese Mafia send their most lethal assasin from Tokyo to Los Angeles to deal with the problem. Only one man can stop him, an LAPD Detective who figures out the truth behind theYakuza. Cast: Gary Daniels. Director: Talun Hsu. FOR HIRE Genre: Thriller Synopsis: A successful writer manipulates an innocent man into committing murder by convincing him he's only got two months to live. Cast: Rob Lowe, Joe Mantegna. Director: Jean Pellerin. HEMOGLOBIN Genre: Sci-Fi/ Horror thriller Synopsis: A man and his wife journey to a remote island off the coast of Maine in a desperate attempt to find a cure to the blood disease killing him, but find a horrifying family secret instead. Cast: Rutger Hauer, Roy Dupuis (TV's LA FEMME NIKITA) Director: Peter Svatek. Completed. HITTERS Genre: Thriller Synopsis: A respected civic leader is caught between two rival underworld crime families on the verge of war. He must either betray generations of family loyalty and turn government informer, or face certain death. Cast: Robert Davi, Carol Alt, Costas Mandylor, Louis Mandylor Frank Stallone. Completed. ICE RUNNER Genre: Action/ Adventure Synopsis: A CIA Agent, abandoned by his government, is forced to escape the icy Russian Gulag on his own. Cast: Edward Albert. Director: Barry Samson. LAPD- TO PROTECT AND TO SERVE Genre:Action Synopsis: L.A.'s finest have just crossed the "thin blue line" between cop and criminal in this explosive action thriller based on a hard hitting and gut wrenching true story of the Los Angles police department's battle with corruption. Cast: Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper, Charles Durning, Marc Singer. Director: Ed Anders. Sir Arthur Conan Dole's THE LOST WORLD. Genre: Adventure Synopsis: A brilliant scientist forms a crack team of explorers and embarks in a hot-air balloon to test his theory of a hidden island where dinasaurs and cave-men still roam. Cast: Patrick Bergin. Director: Bob Keen. MEMORY RUN Genre: Sci-Fi thriller Synopsis: In the future, huge corporations use the bodies of condemned criminals to offer immortality to their customers. Cast: Matt McCoy, Saul Rubinek. Director: Allan A. Goldstein. MEN Genre: Erotic Drama Synopsis: A beautiful and fiecely independent young woman pursues her ambition to become a haute cuisine chef while seducing a variety of men to educated herself in the realm of lust and love. Cast: Sean Young, John Heard, Dylan Walsh. Director: Zoe Clarke-Williams. THE NEW ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO Genre: Live-action family adventure Synopsis: From academy award-winning director Michael Anderson (whose latest picture is 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA for Hallmark) comes an all new magical adventure. Cast: Martin Landau and Udo Kier reprise their starring roles. Gabriel Thomson (ENEMY AT THE GATES; GREAT EXPECTATIONS). THE POSSESSION- WITCHBOARD III Genre: Horror/ Thriller Synopsis: Lured by the spirit of the Ouija, Brian Fields passes through a portal to a parallel universe as a demon passes into his body, intent on ruthless and avaricious self-fulfillment and destroying anyone in his path. Director: Peter Svatek. PROGENY Genre: Sci-Fi thriller Synopsis: A young doctor finds that his wife is carrying an Alien fetus in her womb and seeks to destroy it but save his wife's life. Cast: Arnold Volsoo (THE MUMMY; THE MUMMY RETURNS) Brad Dourif (THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy). Director: Brian Yuzna. Executive Producer: Stuart Gordon (SPACE TRUCKERS, FORTRESS). SINBAD: BEYOND THE VEIL OF MISTS Genre: Animated adventure Synopsis: Sinbad undertakes a perilous voyage into uncharted waters to save a Kingdom from a wizard's evil spell. Cast of Voices: by Brendan Frasier, Leonard Nimoy, John Rhys-Davies and Mark amill. SOUTHERN CROSS Genre: Thriller Synopsis: When his father dies in a mysterious mining accident, PHILIP BERGMAN inherits his father's wealth. But during his trip to Chile for the funeral, PHILIP winds up avoiding death at every turn until he can figure out who murdered his father. Cast: Esai Morales, Malcolm McDowell, Michael Ironside. Director: James Backet. TIME OF FEAR Genre: Thriller Synopsis: A psychological thriller thrusting an FBI agent and a grieving father into the dark world of a demented killer. UNDERCURRENT Genre: Thriller Synopsis: A ex-cop just-released from prison arrives in Puerto Rico to manage a night club and becomes a pawn in a local power play involving a major drug dealer and the beautiful femme-fatale wife of the club owner. Cast: Lorenzo Lamas. Director: Frank Kerr. THE VERSACE MURDER Genre: Thiller Synopsis: July 15, 1997... The world is shocked at the news that acclaimed Italian fashion designer GIANNI VERSACE (Franco Nero "Camelot" & "Die Hard 2") has been brutally murdered, execution style, on the steps of his posh Ocean Drive villa in the famous South Beach section of Miami Beach, Florida. Shortly thereafter, the authorities, led by FBI Special Agent JOHN JACOBY (Steven Bauer "Scarface" & "Primal Fear") announce a nationwide manhunt for their only suspect, alleged spree killer ANDREW PHILLIP CUNANAN (Shane Purdue), part time hustler and full time play boy, from San Diego, California. Follow Andrew's bloody steps from his farewell dinner party in san diego to executing VERSACE and CUNANAN's subsequent suicide on a Miami Beach houseboat. CHANINAGO Genre: Action / (Spanish language feature film) Synopsis: Braulio, a young man of Chinese descent, discovers an ancient Shoalin Medallion in his grandfathers grave. Unbeknownst to Baulio, the medallion is priceless, and is being sought by a powerful Hong Kong crime lord who will stop at nothing to recover the unique gold piece. Cast: Marko Zaror, Susana Gonzalez ENTRE LLAMAS: Into The Flames Synopsis: When a policeman uncovers a conspiracy by several corrupt cops to steal a large supply of cocaine, he is shocked to learn that he is marked for death and that his Uncle, the Mayor is part of the plot. Cast: Marko Zaror, Maria Zapico

19 Jahre, 9 Monate

AFM - JETRO Japanese Film Reception - November 5th

von jetro_la＠jetro.go.jp

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19 Jahre, 9 Monate

GREAT RESULTS OF "MY BIG POLISH WEDDING" - in distribution of SPI INTERNATIONAL POLAND

von Katarzyna Kornacka

SPI INTERNATIONAL POLAND is happy to inform you that THE WEDDING aka MY BIG POLISH WEDDING, which opened 10 days ago, has been seen by more than 50.000 viewers ! The movie has been successfully presented at international festivals in Locarno, Sarajevo and Pusan. The international sales are held by SPI INTERNATIONAL POLAND. The WEDDING Black comedy about love and money. Or rather the love for money.... She was beautiful and young. He loved her dearly. The wedding cake was as sweet as ever and the wedding gift made the guests gape in jealousy. Everything was as planned which didn't come as a surprise since HE was the man here. The loving father of the bride, the future beloved father-in-law. And the plan was simple: the wedding of HIS daughter was to be remembered. Or so it seemed as in the evening it turned out that she wasn't that innocent, he wasn't that much in love and the father didn't pay for everything. Director Wojtek Smarzowski Cast Bartek Topa, Maciej Stuhr, Paweł Wilczak, Iwona Bielska Running time 109' Should you be interested in learning more about the movie, we will be attending this year's AFM from 4th to 8th November. We would be most glad to arrange a meeting with you. Please respond to this email with your preferential date and time. See you at AFM! Katarzyna Kornacka _________________________ SPI INTERNATIONAL POLAND ul. Tyniecka 38a 02-621 Warszawa tel. + 48 22 854 03 37 fax. +48 22 848 45 70

19 Jahre, 9 Monate

SPI POLAND: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE at the TOP OF POLISH BOX OFFICE

von Katarzyna Kornacka

We are proud to let you know that "THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE", in distriubution of SPI INTERNATIONAL POLAND, opened on 22nd of October with almost 22.000 admissions (40 prints). We are trully thrilled to see that in Poland there are so many horror enthusiasts. We hope there will even more in the upcoming time of the Halloween.... Katarzyna Kornacka _________________________ SPI INTERNATIONAL POLAND ul. Tyniecka 38a 02-621 Warszawa tel. + 48 22 854 03 37 fax. +48 22 848 45 70

19 Jahre, 9 Monate

Your AFM Fall 2004 Pre-Market Product Guide

von Elspeth Tavares

The Business of Film The International Business 2 Business PORTAL Link Directly to Film, Television, and Leisure Industry Websites The Business Of Film Available NOW Pre-Market AFM Fall 2004 Online Editions of the Product Guide The ON-LINE, unabridged comprehensive 1500 titles version of the AFM Fall 2004 Product Guide is available at: http://www.thebusinessoffilm.net/PDF/AFM_Fall_2004_ProductGuide.doc We are also pleased to add the service of direct link to the following companies: Lakeshore Entertainment Regent Entertainment Adriana Chiesa Enterprises New Films International National Film & Video Foundataion West Hollywood: The Perfect Place Ardmore Studios Hannibal Pictures National Film & Video Foundation Shoreline Entertainment Fiji Audio Visual Commission Bangkok International Film Festival Hollywood Classics The Business Of Film - Top Restaurants Worldwide The Business Of Film - Partnership Boutique Hotels The Business Of Film - Product Placement & Luxury Goods Click here to unsubscribe to special offers for AFM 2004, Cannes Film Festival 2004, & MIFED 2004.

19 Jahre, 9 Monate

*****SPAM***** [reminder] Mirovision AFM Line-up

von donghyun＠mirovision.com

Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are excited to announce our line-up for the upcoming AFM and would be pleased to meet with you to discuss our titles in detail. To arrange a meeting with us at AFM, please complete the blank below with two suggested meeting times and send it back to us via email or fax. We will get back to you shortly to confirm. We look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Nelly Chang Int'l Division, Mirovision Inc. Your Contact Info in AFM(Telephone/Mobile No): Meeting Request: 1. Date: Time: 2. Date: Time: Mirovision at AFM 2004 AFM Office: Room No. #439, 441 Loews Hotel Tel: + 310 260 0956~7 MOBILE: +714 496 4039 In attendance: Jason Chae, President Mina Suh, Sales Manager SEOUL Office: 1-151 Shinmunro-2Ga, Chongro-Gu, Seoul 110-062, Korea Tel: +82-2-737-1185/6 Fax: +82-2-737-1184 Website: www.mirovision.com <http://www.mirovision.com/> E-mail: sales(a)mirovision.com (*Screenings at AFM) Sam's Lake Directed by Andrew Christopher ERIN TBA / 2005 / Adventure Thriller / U.S.A. Cast: Fay Masterson ('Rancid'), William Fregory LEE ('Dark Angel ') In the quaint area near the lake, an escaped psychiatric patient makes his way through the surroundings wilderness, back to his childhood home, slaughtering his family in their sleep, and disappearing into the woods never to be found. Many years later the horrifying massacre has turned legend as disappearances haunt the surrounding towns. Sam(Fay Masterson), a young woman who, every summer, returns home to the secluded lakeside cottage where she grew up. There she reconnects with her traditions, old friends and memories of the past. This year, a group of hip, young urbanites, Kate(Sandrine Holt), Franklin(Stephen Bishop), Melanie(Megan Fahlenbock) and Dominik(Salvatore Antonio) join Sam on her annual trip. But when Sam and her friend Jesse(William Gregory Lee), a local to the area, take the group on an adventure to revisit the site of the murder they all come face to face with the terrifying legend of 'Sam's Lake'. Green Chair Directed by PARK Chul-soo 101 min. / 2004 / Drama / Korea Cast: Suh Jung ('The Isle'), SHIM Ji-ho >From the acclaimed director <301, 302> An ordinary housewife, Moon-hee, gets convicted for conducting sexual assaults on a minor, Hyun, and sentenced for 100 hours of social work. However, from the moment getting released from the prison, Moon-hee and Hyun head for a hotel, and indulge in sex day and night. They both believe they're in love deeply, more than anybody, but at the same time, Moon-hee can't help doubting Hyun' love. Where does their reckless love end, or will they accomplish their love at the end? Antarctic Journal Directed by YIM Phil-sung TBA / 2005 / Adventure Thriller / Korea Cast: SONG Kang-ho('Memories of Murder') , YU Ji-tae('Old Boy') Point of Impossibility, Where the Antarctic becomes Madness Led by a charismatic team leader, CHOI Do-hyung(SONG Kang-ho), a six-men expedition team tries to reach the unreachable point in the Antarctic. Marching through the endless snow, they come across with an ANTARCTIC JOURNAL, written by a British 80 years ago. From the moment they find the journal, strange things start to happen to them, and end up with losing 2 members and equipment not working. However, with the leader's obsession, an exhausting expedition continues to conquering the unreachable. and they begin to experience the same things described in the journal.. Loft (Working Title) Directed By KUROSAWA Kiyoshi ('Cure', 'Bright Future') TBA / 2005 / Thriller / Korea, Japan Cast: NAKATANI Miki('Ring'), TOYOKAWA Etsushi('Love Letter') PPP Pusan Award at Pusan International Film Festival The place where secrets of death are hidden..Loft A prize-winning writer, Leiko(NAKATANI Miki), moves to a quiet sub-urban house to finish up her new novel with a help of the editor. That night while sleeping, she sees a man in the storage room transporting an object that is wrapped in cloth. She soon finds out that he is a renowned archaeologist, Professor Yoshioka(TOYOKAWA Etsushi), researching ancient mummies, and that object was a recently discovered mummy. Working late on her book, Leiko witnesses a ghost and finds out that her room once belonged to a woman who had been missing for a while. This brings unexplainable fear to Leiko as she starts to uncover more stories from the past. Red Eye Directed by KIM Dong-bin('Ring' Korea) TBA / 2005 / Horror / Korea Cast: JANG Shin-young('Springtime'), SONG Il-kuk A ride to your unforgettable tragedy. Life is a train heading to the last station called Death. On July 16, 1988, a train accident which drives 100 hundred people to death occurs. Without knowing the cause, the case becomes a mystery and soon gets forgotten. After 16 years, a train attendant Mi-sun is on board first time at work. The train leaves its platform as scheduled and rapidly gains the full speed. All of sudden, it stops for 10 minutes without any reason, and restarts. However, when it begins to run, all Mi-sun can see is from the 80's and old newspaper with the date written July 16, 1988. What happened during the 10 minutes when the train stopped and where are they going? Bunshinsaba - Ouija Board Directed by AHN Byung-ki('Nightmare', 'Phone') 92 min. / 2004 / Horror / Korea Cast: KIM Kyu-ri('Whispering Corridor'), LEE Yu-ri, LEE Se-eun *Screenings on Nov.3 11:00 Mann Criterion Screen #5 Nov.4 11:00 Mann Criterion Screen #4 "Bunshinsaba, bunshinsaba, Oite Gudasai." A death spell from the director of <Phone> Yoo-jin(LEE Se-eun) and her family move to a small village from Seoul. On her first day at the new school, Yoo-jin gets picked on by her classmates. Along with other victims of hatred, Yoo-jin puts a curse on the four girls tormenting them through the "Ouija Board." on a long deserted chair where the long forgotten secret stays. On her second day at school, one of the spellbound bursts into flames and dies just as she sits down where Yoo-jin used the board. The next day, another victim burns to death, and now the school is enclosed by horror. The Big Swindle Directed by CHOI Dong-hun 117 min. / 2004 / Action Thriller / Korea Cast: PARK Shin-yang ('The Uninvited'), YUM Jung-a ('A Tale of Two Sisters') *Screenings on Nov.5 13:00 Laemmle Monica Screen #4 Never bet on a losing game. A heist that's a wet dream for any swindler! The best five thieves come together planning the biggest swindle in history. Starting with CHOI Chang-hyuk(PARK Shin-yang), the brain behind the perfect plan; Master KIM, the godfather of swindlers; Big Mouth, a con who can talk people into anything; Swallow, a remarkable lady-killer; and Gasoline the miraculous counterfeiter. But the only drawback is that they all can't trust each other. They have only one goal - to rob the Bank of Korea of $5 million - but each one of them has their own little plan in mind. Will they succeed in and who will be the winner of this deceiving game? A Wacky Switch Directed by JUNG Youn-won 105 min. / 2004 / Comic Action / Korea Cast: JUNG Jun-ho ('Marrying the Mafia'), SOHN Chang-min ('Father and Son:- The Story of Mencius') Dong-hwa(JUNG Jun-ho) is a complete loser with a nagging wife. His first novel made the publishing company go bankrupt but to bring home the bacon, he tries everything but only ends up in vain. One day Dong-hwa gets his big break by writing a biography for Man-chul(SOHN Chang-min), boss of the biggest criminal syndicate in Korea. However, things in life don't always go as planned and this encounter brings a life-changing experience for both of them, bringing their real vocation. They are not who they are! Road Directed by BAE Chang-ho('Last Witness',' 'My Heart', 'Deep Blue Night') 98 min. / 2004 / Drama / Korea Cast: BAE Chang-ho, KANG Ki-hwa('Bunshinsaba') "Road" takes a path less traveled in harder-hitting, contempo Korean cinema but one well worth the ride for auds responsive to well-honed, unflashy filmmaking. - Variety by Derek Elley Vagabond Tae-suk(BAE Chang-ho) is an old-fashioned blacksmith moving from one local market to another for over 20 years. One day, he comes upon a young girl heading for her father's funeral in a heavy snow storm. Tae-suk soon finds out she is the daughter of his old friend Duk-soo, the very person who had ruined his whole life. Memories resurface as they continue with their destinations. Possible Changes Directed by MIN Byung-kook 114 min. / 2004 / Drama / Korea Cast: JUNG Chan ('Road Movie'), KIM Yoo-suk ('The Isle') Moscow Int'l Film Festival Tokyo Int'l Film Festival - Winds of Asia Section Two childhood friends, Moon-ho(JUNG Chan) and Jong-kyu(KIM Yoo-suk), in their mid-thirties, feel the acute loss of their younger years as time goes by. They together commit spontaneous, unusual acts in order to try to fill their sense of emptiness. Moon-ho pursues in vain for an extramarital sexual affair while Jong-kyu meets his first love, Soo-hyun, for the first time in ten years and head for a hotel. But the movie goes on as if the two couples had never met, and the stories of the two couple mingles with each other.

19 Jahre, 9 Monate

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