Dear Broadcasters and Distributors:
American World Pictures is pleased to be attending MIPCOM and the FALL AFM. Supplying commercial feature film product for all media for over a decade, we are pleased to announce our product lineup below and you can be assured that we will have exciting updates as we move closer and closer to each market.
Feel free to request availabilities for your territories and screeners for your pre-market evaluation. Also check into our website periodically at www.americanworldpictures.com for more information on each title, new trailers, artwork, and updates. Library titles and reissues are available with the upcoming re-release of the cult classic “Class of 1984.”
I would also like to take this opportunity to request an appointment with you for Mipcom. Located in the Palais, our Booth is #18.07, telephone: 33.04 92.99.81.72 and my cell: 33.06.20.04.48.61. Advise by return email on a convenient date and time. If you are not attending Mipcom and are interested in meeting in Los Angeles for the Fall AFM, just advise your suggested date and time also.
Thank you and looking forward to hearing from you and meeting you this Fall!
All my best,
Terese Linden Kohn
Executive VP of Distribution
Email: terese@americanworldpictures.com
Website: www.americanworldpictures.com
Product Listing:
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
Director: Dave Rosenbaum
Producers: Steven Gordon, Methodius Petrikov, Reyna Rosenshein
Cast: Josh Duhamel
Running Time: 90 minutes
Year of Production: 2004
Delivery Status: Completed.
Country of Origin: Bulgaria
Synopsis: Based on Oscar Wilde’s novel, handsome, young, but morally corrupt Dorian Gray (Josh Duhamel) has a portrait made of himself. As the years pass, he does not age, but the evidence of his sins are apparent in the portrait, which grows uglier and more grotesque with each vile act. He keeps it safely hidden in the attic, but his mysterious behavior and ageless appearance begin to attract suspicion, as he correctly fears he will soon have to face the deadly consequences of his actions.
SHUT UP AND KISS ME
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Director: Gary Brockette
Producer: Suzanne DeLaurentiis
Cast: Brad Row, Krista Allen, Christopher Barnes, Burt Young
Running Time: 90 minutes
Year of Production: 2004
Delivery Status: Completed.
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: Pete (Brad Rowe) and Ryan (Christopher Barnes) are 27 year old best friends in Miami, and each meets the woman of his dreams on the same day. Unfortunately, Ryan passes out before he can get Jessica’s phone number, and Peter finds out Tiara’s uncle is an over-protective mob boss. This high-energy romantic comedy asks--How far will you go for true love?
THE CURSE OF EL CHARRO
Genre: Horror
Director: Rich Ragsdale
Producers: Ryan Johnson, Kevin Ragsdale
Cast: Andrew Bryniarsky (Leatherface of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”/New Line)
Year of Production: 2004
Delivery Status: In post production for a Sept. Delivery
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: A young woman in college keeps having vivid, gruesome dreams of death. What she doesn’t realize is that she is the reincarnation of the woman who was murdered over a hundred years ago. When she and her best friends travel down to Mexico for vacation, they find something more terrifying than they could ever have imagined – the undead corpse of the 19th Century land baron – El Charro.
Ghost Lake
Genre: Horror
Running Time: TBA
Director: Jay Woelfel
Producer: Johnnie J. Young
Cast: Tatum Adair, Timothy Prindle, Gregory Lee Kenyon, Azure Sky Decker, Chuck Franklin, Damian Maffei, Dan Metcalf, Rick Kesler
Delivery Status: In Post Production
Year of Production: 2004
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: Every 13 years, residents of a quiet New England town are terrorized by the undead who rise from a local lake seeking to capture the souls of the living.
Crime Scene
Genre: Thriller
Director: Eric Delabarre
Producer: Mark Boot, Eric Delabarre
Cast: Amber Smith
Running Time: 90 minutes
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: Charlie (Amber Smith, “American Beauty”, “Tomcats”) is a lethal detective on the trail of a serial killer who is out to punish young, beautiful girls. Eluding the police at every turn, the murderer strikes quickly and disappears. As Charlie works to uncover the killer’s motives, she discovers that she is in more danger than she ever imagined…
INTOXICATING
Genre: Thriller
Director: Mark David
Producer: Kirk Harris, Mark David, Jack Rubio, Tony Hewett
Cast: Kirk Harris, Eric Roberts, John Savage
Year of Production: 2004
Running Time: 108 minutes
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: Dorian Shanley (Kirk Harris, “My Sweet Killer”) is a young talented surgeon with an insatiable taste for sex, booze, and drugs. Since Dorian can heal his patients, but not his own dying father (John Savage, “The Thin Red Line”) he escapes through as many substances and one-night stands as he can get his hands on. Dorian must confront the choices that he's made in his life and decide between intoxication, responsibility and love.
REMEDY
Genre: Thriller
Running Time: 93 min.
Director: Christian Maelen
Producer: Jon Doscher, Christian Maelen
Cast: Christian Maelen, Frank Vincent, Vincent Pastore, Arthur Nascarella
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004
Country of Origin: US
Synopsis: A New York City artist is witness to his best friend’s murder – or was he? Due to a drug problem, he can’t recall what happened. Now he is the prime suspect and desperately tries to remember before it’s too late … In a world of sex, drugs and murder – choose your poison wisely.
The 24th Day
Genre: Thriller
Running Time: 93
Director: Tony Piccirillo
Producer: Nick Staggliano
Cast: Scott Speedman, James Marsden, Sofia Vergara
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: In a cat and mouse game of lies and deceit, two men must uncover the deadly secret that threatens to destroy them.
Six: The Mark Unleashed
Genre: Sci-Fi
Running Time: 93
Director: Kevin Downes
Producer: Kevin Downes, David White
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, David White, Eric Roberts
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: In the days of Armageddon, mankind lives under the rule of a brutal dictator. Now, three political prisoners must escape the executioner’s blade in order to give humanity a fighting chance.
Two Days
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 91
Director: Sean McGinly
Producer: M. Jonathan Roberts, James R. Zatolokin, Mohit Ramchandan
Cast: Paul Rudd, Donal Logue, Joshua Leonard
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: Paul Miller (Paul Rudd) decides he’s done with show business and life. So he decides to kill himself – Hollywood style – in front of a camera.
HEAVEN MUST WAIT
Genre: Family Adventure
Running Time: 93 min.
Director: Tom Reeve
Producer: Romain Schroeder, Michael Burks
Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Louise Lombard, Bill Treacher
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
Country of Origin: UK
Synopsis: Raymond inherits a run down church in the English countryside and turns a small village upside down when they discover a valuable chest of gold is hidden there.
FUGITIVES RUN
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 90
Director: Thomas Leigh
Producer: Jack Clements, Eda Lishman, Jeff Lester
Cast: David Hasselhoff, Gordon Tootoosis, Michael Moriarty
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
Country of Origin: Canada
Synopsis: A washed-up rodeo cowboy (David Hasselhoff) and a corporate American Indian (Gordon Tootoosis) find themselves unlikely partners on the run after they’re mistaken as the culprits of a huge heist.
Wild Roomies
Genre: Sexy Comedy
Running Time: 88
Director: Oliver Robins
Producer: Michael Baumgarten, J. David Williams
Cast: A. J. Buckley, Holly Fields, Jennifer Lyons
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: Reno (A. J. Buckley) is worried that his new roommates, Chad and Nicole (Jennifer Lyons) want to sleep with his girlfriend (Holly Fields). Sexual tensions mount – who will come out on top…or the bottom.
DarkHunters
Genre: Horror
Running Time: 90
Director: Johannes Roberts
Producer: Caroline Hancock, Johannes Roberts
Cast: Dominique Pinon, Susan Paterno, Jeff Fahey
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004
Country of Origin: UK
Synopsis: Charlie (Dominique Pinon) is dead, but his soul has been left behind, trapped between realms with demonic ghouls haunting him. Only one woman (Susan Paterno), a psychologist with a dark secret, can help him escape from the Dark Hunters.
Keeper of Souls
Genre: Horror
Running Time: 85
Director: Tim Card
Producer: Tim Card
Cast: R. G. Armstrong, Kelly Rowen, Tim Card, Graham Timber
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: As unsettling visions of ghouls and zombies begin to manifest themselves, a couple’s romantic weekend getaway soon turns into one of pure terror.
PTERODACTYL
Genre: Sci-fi/Action
Status: In Post
Director: Mark L. Lester
Producers: Dana Dubovsky, Mark L. Lester.
Cast: Cameron Daddo, Amy Sloan, Coolio
Synopsis: A dormant volcano in the South American Jungle holds within it a deadly secret. Perfectly preserved, a nest of ancient dinosaur eggs are finally ready to hatch... When they do, the consequences for mankind could be dire. Past and present collide as a special ops military unit battles an enemy unlike any they’ve ever seen before...
All my best,
Terese Linden Kohn
Executive VP of Distribution
Email: terese@americanworldpictures.com
Website: www.americanworldpictures.com