Artisan



Office at Cannes: (sales) Majestic, Suite 759; (acquisitions) Salon Enghien
Tel: (sales) 04 92 98 79 02
Fax: (sales) 04 92 98 79 03
Tel: (acquisitions) 04 92 98 79 10
Fax: (acquisitions) 04 92 98 79 11
Executives attending
Ann Dubinet, president, int'l distribution
Mark Reinhart, sr vp int'l distribution
Nancy Screen, sr vp sales
Randy Parker, vp, int'l marketing
Amir Mulin, president, Artisan Entertainment
Bill Block, president, Artisan Entertainment
Featured product
The Ninth Gate Supernatural mystery. Pre-production. Dir: Roman
Polanski. Cast: Johnny Depp. A mercenary bookseller is hired to find the
only three copies of an ancient manuscript reported to have satanic
powers.
(aka PI) (US) Sci-fi. Screening. Dir: Darren Aronofsky. Cast: Sean
Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman. A brillinat young mathematician
is on the verge of unlocking the secret code to order in both the
material and spiritual worlds.
Permanent Midnight (US) Drama. Screening (tbc). Dir: David Veloz. Cast:
Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Hurley, Maria Bello. A successful TV writer's
addiction takes him from the glamorous boardrooms of Hollywood to the
mean streets of LA and back again.
Belly (US) Crime drama. Post-production. Dir: Hype Williams. Cast: DMX,
Nas, Method Man. Desperate to escape the poverty that surrounds him,
Tommy Brown chooses the life of crime.
Zack and Reba (US) Romantic comedy. Screening. Dir: Nicole Bettauer.
Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Brittany Murphy, Debbie Reynolds. A romance
between two people who have vowed never to fall in love again.
Suicide Kings (US) Thriller. Completed. Dir: Peter O'Fallon. Cast:
Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Henry Thomas. Four rich college
students kidnap a mobster.
Caught up (US) Thriller. Screening. Dir: Darin Scott. Cast: Bokeem
Woodbine, Cynda Williams, Clifton Powell. An ex-convict is struggling to
live a clean life.
The Second Arrival (Canada) Science fiction. Screening. Dir: Kevin
Tenney. Cast: Patrick Muldoon, Jane Sibbett. The aliens have invaded the
earth and are changing the planet's climate to render it uninhabitable
to humans.
Washington Square (US) Drama. Completed. Dir: Agnieszka Holland. Cast:
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith. A moving drama of
thwarted love based on the classic novel by Henry James.
Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (US) Horror. Pre-production. Dir: Jack
Shoulder. Cast: Andrew Divoff. The sequel to the box-office hit
Wishmaster.
Artisan International head office: 2700 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica,
California 90404, USA
Tel: +1-310 449 9200
Fax: +1-310 255 3840