FALL AFM 2004 November 3rd - 10th
FRIES FILM GROUP, INC. 22817 Ventura Blvd. #909 Woodland Hills, CA 91364 Corporate Tel: 818 888 3052 Corporate Fax: 818 888 3042
OFFICE at AFM: Topanga Suite
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Completed (Selected Titles):
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Presales:
DR. LOPEZ. (Period Drama) 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'' 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. Directed by Michael Radford. Starring Dustin Hoffman.
Post Production
COOKERS (Thriller) 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.
In Pre-Production:
ALIEN AGENT. Action. A lawman from another Galaxy must stop an invading force from building a gateway between the two worlds. Cast: Dolph Lundgren. Director: Sidney Furie (IRON EAGLE I-IV; SUPERMAN IV).
HUNT FOR THE DEVIL. Thriller. A New York City detective tracks Europe's bloodiest serial killer after his fiancé becomes the latest victim. Cast: Michael Madsen, Charles Durning. Director: BJ Davis. Budget: $4M. Pre-sale.
CANES. Thriller. A New York executive tries to break a pact with the devil who has been controlling him with a mystical, evil cane. Cast: tba. Director: Gerry Lively.
Completed (Selected Titles):
HITTERS. (Thriller) A respected civic leader is caught between two rival underworld crime families on the verge of war. He must either betray generation s of family loyalty and turn government informer, or face certain death. Cast: Robert Davi, Carol Alt, Costas Mandalar, Louis Mandalar Frank Stallone. Completed. (2003)
TIME OF FEAR - (Thriller) A psychological thriller thrusting an FBI agent and a grieving father into the dark world of demented killer. Completed (2003)
LAPD- TO PROTECT AND TO SERVE. Action. 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. Completed January 2001.
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO. Live-action family adventure. 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. Martin Landau and Udo Kier reprise their starring roles. Gabriel Thomson (ENEMY AT THE GATES; GREAT EXPECTATIONS) Completed. 2000.
FATAL BLADE. Action. 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. Completed. 1999.
CHARADES (aka FELONS). Thriller. 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. Completed. 1999.
SINBAD: BEYOND THE VEIL OF MISTS. Animated adventure. Sinbad undertakes a perilous voyage into uncharted waters to save a Kingdom from a wizard's evil spell. Voices by Brendan Frasier, Leonard Nimoy, John Rhys-Davies and Mark Hamill. Completed. 2000.
12 BUCKS. Action Road movie. Two brothers separated at 6 years old reunite against their will and set out on a cross-country journey that goes from bad to worse. Cast: Jonathan Silverman, Alexandra Paul, David Faustino (MARRIED WITH CHILDREN). Ernest Borgnine, Ming-Na Wen (THE JOY LUCK CLUB; ER), David Chokachi (BAYWATCH'S Cody Madison). US Blockbuster Exclusive. Completed. 2000.
FOR HIRE. Thriller. 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. Completed. 1998.
HEMOGLOBIN. Sci-Fi/ Horror thriller. 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. 1999.
PROGENY. Sci-Fi thriller. 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). Completed. Director: Brian Yuzna. Executive Producer: Stuart Gordon (SPACE TRUCKERS, FORTRESS). Completed. 1999.
Sir Arthur Conan Dole's THE LOST WORLD. Adventure. 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. Completed.1998.
UNDERCURRENT. Thriller. 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. Completed.1998.
Jack London's THE CALL OF THE WILD. Adventure. 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. Completed.1997.
MEN. Erotic Drama. 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. Completed 1999.
SOUTHERN CROSS. Thriller. 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. Completed 1999.
THE CLOWN AT MIDNIGHT. Horror/ Thriller. A teenaged girl confronts the psychotic killer who murdered her mother years ago. Cast: Christopher Plummer, Margot Kidder. Director: Jean Pellerin. Completed. 1997.
THE POSSESSION- WITCHBOARD III. Horror/ Thriller. 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-fulfill ment and destroying anyone in his path. Director: Peter Svatek. Completed. 1997.
DEMON HOUSE. Horror/ Thriller. 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). Completed. 1996.
ICE RUNNER. Action/ Adventure. A CIA Agent, abandoned by his government, is forced to escape the icy Russian Gulag on his own. Cast: Edward Albert. Director: Barry Samson. Completed. 1994
MEMORY RUN. Sci-Fi thriller. 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. Completed. 1995.