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Tim Helfet, president
Jim Burke, exec. vp
Meggan Kimberley, sr vp int'l sales
Joseph Drake, vp int'l theatrical sales
Beve Regas, sr vp int'l marketing
Ron Collins, sr vp, int'l distribution
Adam Wright, director, int'l sales
Brent Jack, director, int'l marketing
Michael Horn, manager, int'l theatrical sales
George Majewski, sr director, int'l legal affairs
Joanna Gardner, director, home video
Featured product
The Summer of Ben Tyler Drama. Completed. Dir: Arthur Allan Seidelman. Cast: James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Charles Mattocks. A moving account of racial prejudice set in the Deep South.
Mandela & De Klerk Drama. Completed. Dir: Joe Sargent. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine. A recreation of the meetings in which two successive leaders of white-ruled South Africa negotiated with a prisoner - Nelson Mandela.
Weapons of Mass Distraction (US) Satirical comedy. Post-production.
Dir: Steve Surjik. Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Ben Kingsley, Mimi Rogers. Two media tycoons embark on a vicious campaign of blackmail, political intrigue and tabloid mud-slinging that culminates in the near destruction of both men.
Inside (US) Drama. Completed. Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Eric Stoltz, Louis Gossett Jr.
A drama about the torture that existed in South African jails during the apartheid regime. Running time: 90 mins.
20,000 Leagues under the Sea Drama. Completed. Dir: Michael Anderson. Cast: Richard Crenna, Ben Cross, Julie Cox. The story about a 19th-century Navy expedition to find a mysterious sea creature.
Private Parts (US) Comedy. Screening. Dir: Betty Thomas. Cast: Howard Stern, Robin Quivers, Mary McCormack. Based on Howard Stern's best-selling autobiography. Running time: 108 mins.
A Smile Like Yours (US) Romantic comedy. Screening. Dir: Keith Samples. Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Holly, Joan Cusack. Events do not run smoothly when a young married couple try to start a family. Running time: 96 mins.
Going West in America (US) Action/adventure. Completed. Dir: Jeb Stuart.
Cast: Danny Glover, Jared Leto, Dennis Quaid. A seasoned FBI agent trails a vicious serial killer who has kidnapped his infant son. Running time: 120 mins.
The Eighteenth Angel (US) Thriller. Screening. Dir: William Bindley. Cast: Christopher McDonald, Maximilian Schell, Rachel Leigh Cook. A father and his daughter encounter the forces of the Devil in a terrifying struggle between good and evil. Running time: 84 mins.
Zeus and Roxanne (US) Romantic comedy. Completed. Dir: George Miller. Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Kathleen Quinlan.
A unique relationship between a roguish dog and a delightful dolphin is witnessed by a marine biologist. Running time: 97 mins.
Turbulence (US) Action thriller. Completed. Dir: Robert Butler. Cast: Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Hector Elizondo. A stewardess must land a jumbo jet while avoiding a convicted serial killer who has escaped on board the flight. Running time: 103 mins.
The Evening Star (US) Drama. Completed. Dir: Robert Harling. Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Miranda Richardson. A continuation of the award-winning Terms of Endearment. Running time: 128 mins.
Dear God (US) Comedy. Completed. Dir: Garry Marshall. Cast: Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Maria Patillo. A con artist is newly employed by the post office and thrown in with an embittered group of misfits. Running time: 114 mins.
Hard Eight (US) Thriller. Completed. Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson. Cast: Philip Baker Hall, John C Reiller, Gwyneth Paltrow. When a professional gambler takes a young man under his wing, he becomes ensnared in a web of murder and revenge.
Running time: 100 mins.
Foxfire (US) Drama. Completed. Dir: Annette Haywood-Carter. Cast: Heather Burress, Angeline Jolie, Jennie Lewis. An adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' best-selling novel about girlhood friendship. Running time: 102 mins.
Mistrial (US) Drama. Completed. Dir: Heywood Gould. Cast: Bill Pullman,
Robert Loggia, Blair Underwood. A NYC cop takes a courtroom hostage when a jury lets a suspected cop-killer go free. Running time: 93 mins.
Gotti (US) Drama.
Completed. Dir: Robert
Harmon. Cast: Armand Assante, William Forsythe, Anthony Quinn. The career of notorious mobster John Gotti. Running time: 117 mins.
Don't Look Back (US) Thriller. Completed. Dir: Geoff Murphy. Cast: Eric Stoltz, John Corbett, Josh Hamilton. Three long-time friends test the limits of their loyalty when one of them is marked for death by drug traffickers. Running time: 91 mins.
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