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   

 

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