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.)
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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 - awelles@friesfilms.com
or via fax at 818-888-3042.
Best regards.
Adam Welles
Vice President, Worldwide Sales
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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
SCREENING SCHEDULE:
Nov. 5th Laemmle
Monica Screen #
Nov. 8th Laemmle
Monica Screen #
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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
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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
devil who has been controlling him with a mystical, evil cane.
Cast: Eddie Furlong (In negotiation).
HUNT FOR THE DEVIL
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: A
his fiance becomes the latest
victim.
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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.
Genre: Action Thiller
Synopsis:
parachutists go on a competition jump over
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
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
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COMPLETED (SELECTED TITLES):
Jack
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
man, JOHN THORNTON (played by Rutger Hauer) saves
BUCK's life, BUCK
returns the favor by ripping out the throats of
Indians who kill
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
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
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
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
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:
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:
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
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
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:
Italian fashion designer GIANNI VERSACE (Franco Nero
"Camelot" & "Die Hard 2")
has been brutally murdered, execution style, on the
steps of his posh
villa in the famous
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
bloody steps from his farewell dinner party in
VERSACE and CUNANAN's subsequent suicide on a
CHANINAGO
Genre: Action / (Spanish language feature film)
Synopsis: Braulio, a young man of Chinese descent, discovers an ancient Shoalin Medallion in his
grandfather’s grave. Unbeknownst to Baulio, the medallion is priceless, and is being sought by a
powerful
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