Doog, I have never herd a mention except very casual mentions like controlling ancillary rights. But never specific words like DVD, at least to my memory. I am positive that if we had something to put in our pockets they would say something. I believe that the only thing that they have said is residuals. Never a mention about DVD royalty's and library (which mostly is Avi Lerner)
In their reporting they continue to report old films even if their is no income. A couple of times something (money) old did pop up but they did not specify what exactly it was.. They called it royalty's or something like that.

Cleaner (2007)

IN PRODUCTION

Status: Filming
Start Date: 29 January 2007
Release Date: 2007
Locations: Shreveport, Louisiana, USA

Should be wrapped up by now since the festival started??

I will probably go see this one cause my name sake is in it.
Ed

Updates abound

Marble City (2007)
IN PRODUCTION
Start Date: 1 June 2007
The status was last updated on 2 May 2007.

We got a new one!!

Past Tense (2009)

IN DEVELOPMENT

Status: Script Edit Info
Contact: BenderSpink
Los Angeles, CA:
110 South Fairfax Ave.
Ste. 350
Los Angeles, CA 90036
USA
Phn: 323-904-1800
Fax: 323-904-1802
http://www.benderspink.com/
info@benderspink.com

Production Co: BenderSpink

Genre: Action /
Summary: Follows a San Francisco detective who teams with a Hong Kong cop whose partner has come to the U.S. intent on stealing a weapons system that could threaten the safety of America. more »

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Filmmakers: Paul Da Silva - Writer, Randall Emmett - Producer, George Furla - Producer more »

Writers
Paul Da Silva

Producers
Chris Bender ... executive producer
Randall Emmett ... producer
George Furla ... producer
J.C. Spink ... executive producer

Production Companies
BenderSpink

Los Angeles, CA:
110 South Fairfax Ave.
Ste. 350
Los Angeles, CA 90036
USA
Phn: 323-904-1800
Fax: 323-904-1802
http://www.benderspink.com/
info@benderspink.com

Emmett/Furla Films

Beverly Hills, CA:
8530 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 420
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
USA
Phn: 310-659-9411
Fax: 310-659-9412

IN DEVELOPMENT
The status was last updated on 16 April 2007.
Since this project is categorized as being in development, the data is subject to change or could be removed completely.

Always wondered where they got the props (machine gun) from... I would bet big money that Avi Lerner got it from his hall closet..
LOL

Check Out John Rambo in Action!
So far, all we've seen from the set of John Rambo (the fourth and final film in Sylvester Stallone's action-packed franchise) are a few pics of Stallone standing around, looking jacked. Oh, and then there was one of a beaten and bloody Stallone standing with his wife and kids. Now that was creepy. Well fans, the time has finally come -- Arrogantics has our first look at John Rambo in action (via an Italian newspaper) and, while he still looks jacked, at least this time he's in the midst of kicking some major ass. We're not sure what exactly is taking place in this pic (the newspaper just says it's a scene from Rambo 4), but from the looks of it, John Rambo has gotten hold of a pretty powerful weapon in which he's using to wipe out a whole truckload of baddies. Do you dig it?
http://www.bww.cinematical.com/2007/05/15/check-out-john-rambo-in-action/

In the past, because they are ready on the 17 they will not be posted for another 5-7 days.. Just for your information.. At least that is what has happened in the past.

I was just thinking to put it in the beginning remarks cause its a current picture for a current film we are involved in..

wrong picture

Stallone pleads guilty to importing growth hormone
(AP)

15 May 2007


SYDNEY, Australia - Aging Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone pleaded guilty Tuesday to bringing vials of a restricted muscle-building hormone into Australia.

Lawyers for the 60-year-old star of the Rocky’ and Rambo’ movie franchises entered the guilty plea on behalf of the actor, who did not appear before Sydney’s Downing Center Local Court on Tuesday.

Stallone was charged with importing a banned substance into Australia after a customs search of his luggage during a Feb. 16 visit to Sydney revealed 48 vials of the human growth hormone product, Jintropin.

Human growth hormone, a naturally occurring substance that can be replicated synthetically and is used to build muscle mass, is considered a performance enhancing drug in Australia and it cannot be imported without a permit from the national drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

The maximum penalty for bringing Jintropin into Australia illegally is a fine of 110,000 Australian dollars (US$91,500; Ð67,532) and five years in prison, but Stallone faces a maximum penalty of just A$22,000 (US$18,000; Ð13,000) because the matter is being heard by a local, not federal, court.

Details of the sentence were not immediately released, and Stallone’s lawyers made no immediately comment.

Prosecution documents handed to the court in March said Stallone had marked No’ on a customs declaration card that asked if he was bringing into Australia restricted or prohibited goods such as medicines, steroids, firearms, weapons, or any kind of illicit drugs.’

During his three-day visit to Australia, Stallone shrugged off the airport incident.

It was just a minor misunderstanding,’ Stallone told reporters. They were just doing their jobs. I just didn’t understand some of the rules here.’

Stallone is expected to be sentenced later Tuesday.

He came to Australia on a three-day tour to promote the latest movie in the Rocky’ series, Rocky Balboa’ _ the most critically acclaimed since the original.

His hair appeared uncharacteristically long because he was preparing to reprise his role as renegade Vietnam war veteran John Rambo in another movie, media reported at the time.

His trouble with customs officials became immediately obvious when a media throng was kept waiting for hours outside Sydney International Airport for the actor and his entourage.

When a tightlipped Stallone emerged, he signed his autograph for several fans but avoided media questions about the delay.

Three days after his arrival, customs officials searched Stallone’s Sydney hotel room and private jet then allowed him to leave the country.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/May/theworld_May409.xml&a...

doog can you post this picture?

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/05/13/photo-john-rambo-in-action/

Nu Image Millennium library. I thought someone would of posted it by now. Just thought I would help out.
http://www.nuimage.net/film_library_detail.asp?txtQuickSearch_FilmTitle=%7BE4216658-2FFA-409B-AF3D-1....

I think all of you would like to see this post again (if you ever saw it).. Its been said..I believe about mid 2004 and aside from missing the current information with "The real deal", "John Rambo" as well as King of California and the rest..... I think before we see penny land again Furla also stated quite bluntly that the buy-in notice was already in place and he put everybody on notice that he buy back shares if the money was there and I believe he would do it.

I believe Family Room is an ideal penny stock to own. Family Room is like a biotech stock without the biotech overhead. One hot product could put millions in the bank account. However, since they use other people's money to develop products, they don't have the huge expenses associated with biotech research. In fact, they run the entire company for about $750,000 a year. One hit movie and Family Room could earn $1 per share. (this was when we were in the 50M OS range)

They are better positioned for a big hit than they have ever been in their six year history. They are currently developing the popular 1980's Micronauts brand along with Hollywood heavyweight Gale Anne Hurd (produced Terminator 1 and 3, the Hulk, and Armageddon). They are also developing the Abominable Snowman story for a movie along with producer Ilya Sulkind (Superman 1,2, and 3).

"Project Notes Live-action feature version of "Micronauts", a line of miniature toys with removable, interchangable parts and a popular Marvel comic. Created in the 1970's by Mego Toys.
Phone Numbers 310-360-8530 (Valhalla Motion Pictures)"

http://www.megomuseum.com/tradingcards/index.html

Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH
Company Profile

Equity Pictures is one of the leading German providers of entrepreneurial media investments.

The company was founded in 2001 by experienced film producers, distributors and finance and tax experts with the goal of earning an attractive rate of return for its investors by producing successful movies and distributing them internationally. To achieve that goal, Equity Pictures is working closely with internationally renowned partners.

Due to the high market acceptance of its funds, the company has grown substantially against the market trend and has become the leader in entrepreneurial film production funds. With its funds Equity Pictures I through IV, the company managed to raise a total investment volume of $310 Million Euro from over 4,700 investors and to produce a total of 30 international pictures and television projects.

Among the pictures are “Hostage” and “Sixteen Blocks” starring Bruce Willis, “The Matador” featuring Pierce Brosnan and a number of other pictures starring such renowned actors like two-time Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank (“The Black Dahlia”), Nicolas Cage (“The Wicker Man”), John Travolta (“Lonely Hearts”), Al Pacino (“88 Minutes”) and many more.

Nearest theaters showing Home of the Brave on 12 May 2007 :-

* Regal Countryside Stadium 20 (Sterling,VA)
* AMC Loews Rio Cinemas 18 (Gaithersburg,MD)
* AMC Loews Fairfax Square 8 (Vienna,VA)
* Regal Ballston Common Stadium 12 (Arlington,VA)
* Landmark's E-Street Cinema (Washington,DC)
* AMC Loews Shirlington 7 (Arlington,VA)
* AMC Hoffman Center (Alexandria,VA)
* Bow Tie Cinemas Annapolis Harbour (Annapolis,MD)
* GTC Cherokee 16 (Woodstock,GA)
* AMC Mansell Crossing 14 (Alpharetta,GA)
* GTC Park 12 Cobb (Marietta,GA)
* AMC Discover Mills 18 (Lawrenceville,GA)
* AMC Colonial 18 (Lawrenceville,GA)
* Regal Town Center Stadium 16-Kennesaw (Kennesaw,GA)
* Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 @ North I-85 (Chamblee,GA)
* AMC Phipps Plaza 14 (Atlanta,GA)
* AMC North Dekalb Mall 16 (Decatur,GA)
* AMC Stonecrest 16 (Lithonia,GA)
* AMC Magic Johnson Greenbriar Mall 12 (Atlanta,GA)
* AMC Southlake Pavilion (Morrow,GA)
* Legacy (Plano,TX)
* AMC Stonebriar (Frisco,TX)
* AMC Firewheel 18 (Garland,TX)
* Tinseltown Plano (Plano,TX)
* Regal Keystone Park Stadium 16 (Dallas,TX)

'It's nice to upset people'
12 May 2007

"I DON'T take anything seriously," Anthony Hopkins says. "I love to play. I'm young and happy. "I never grew up," the 69-year-old actor says. "This time in my life reminds me of when I was a lad in school.

I was a really poor student, so I became the clown. Playing the fool was my way of surviving. I got in a lot of trouble, and it was a lot of fun.'

Hopkins chuckles, and no wonder: The one-time class clown has become one of Hollywood's iconic actors, parlaying his Oscar-winning turn as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) into the status of a latter-day Olivier, the kind of classically brilliant thespian who moves fellow actors to do movies simply in order to work with him.

That was, in fact, the motivation that up-and-coming Ryan Gosling cited to leave his usual indie stamping grounds and go mainstream with the current Fracture, in which he plays a prosecutor trying to nail a canny aviation executive (Hopkins) who kills his cheating wife and then tries to manipulate the legal system so as to get away with murder.

But it's not Fracture that brings Hopkins to a Los Angeles hotel for this interview. Instead it's a journey into his past, a past that has defied steep odds to become his present.

'It's difficult when you wait a long time for a film to be released'

Back in 2001 Hopkins starred in an updated remake of The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), playing a publisher who, after it turns out that one of his writers (Alec Baldwin) has literally sold his soul to the devil (Jennifer Love Hewitt) in exchange for the ability to write brilliantly, has to go to court to defend the writer in order to save his soul.

The film, which was also Baldwin's directorial debut, was successfully completed despite financial problems during the shoot, but thereafter things went to, well, the devil. The producers, already short of money, quarreled among themselves amid allegations of fiscal wrongdoing. While Baldwin was working on postproduction, the FBI seized investors' assets, included the film. Eventually a frustrated Baldwin took his name off the picture as director.

Problems continued. A rough cut of the film was shown at film festivals in 2003 and 2004, but funding wasn't available for final editing, special effects and music clearances. It was not until the Yari Film Group acquired the film that it finally got a new title, Shortcut to Happiness, and an opening date: A limited release is set for May 18, a full six years after it was shot...................
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/CityHome.asp?xfile=data/citytimes/2007/May/citytimes_May96.xml§i...

Based on his fling with Vivica A. Fox, we already know 50 CENT has a thing for older women. Has the 31-year-old rapper turned his attention toward yet another 40-something actress?

In Touch Weekly claims the G-Unit general is dating Victoria Rowell, who met the artist on the set of their recent military drama, Home of the Brave. Apparently, sparks flew and the two have been a couple ever since.

"Victoria loves the edge that 50 Cent has," a friend of the actress tells In Touch.

Rowell, who has an 11-year-old son by ex-boyfriend Wynton Marsalis, is best known for her former role as Drucilla Barber Winters on the CBS soap The Young and the Restless.
http://www.sixshot.com/articles/7141/

Home of the Brave, the latest film to address the war in Iraq, attempts to deliver an important message about the negative and devastating effects of our nation's war on terror. But the movie has too many flaws to be considered anything more than a noble try. The dialog lacks creativity and subtlety, the direction is mostly generic, some of the acting is overdone and awkward and the story wraps up a little too neatly - and that's just a few of the film's weaknesses.
http://media.www.diamondbackonline.com/media/storage/paper873/news/2007/05/10/Diversions/A.Sad.Place...

‘Home of the Brave’ tries, but it’s a bundle of clichés

By Chuck Vinch - Staff writer

Mediocre movies don’t often implode in spectacular fashion; usually they just slowly deflate under the accumulated weight of their banalities and absurdities.

The earnest but hopelessly hokey “Home of the Brave,” clearly inspired by the 1946 classic “The Best Years of Our Lives,” is an exception — about two-thirds in, there’s a moment that will prompt audiences to cringe en masse.

It comes when phys-ed teacher Vanessa Price (Jessica Biel), an Army National Guard soldier who has recently returned from a tour in Iraq in which she lost a hand to a roadside bomb, finally lets herself open up emotionally.

She sits on her couch telling her war story to Cary (Jeffrey Nordling), a cute fellow teacher. They stare into each other’s eyes and he takes her hands — one real, one prosthetic — in his.

At this point, a low groan of wary “oh, no” anticipation rumbled through the audience at my screening. And then our fears were realized: Cary lifted Vanessa’s prosthetic hand and tenderly kissed it.

Derisive laughter rippled through the theater — surely not the reaction director Irwin Winkler and writer Mark Friedman were aiming for.

It’s no fun to criticize a movie like this, which is sincere to a fault and speaks uncomfortable truths about the apathy of a nation as its sons and daughters bleed on foreign battlefields.

But “Home of the Brave” is what it is — mawkish and awkward, cliché piled on cliché, with dialogue that starts out bad and goes downhill from there.....................
http://www.armytimes.com/entertainment/movies/military_moviehome_070511w/

Day of the Dead (2007) USA

Writers (WGA)
Screenplay
Jeffrey Reddick
Motion picture "Day of the Dead"
George A. Romero

Producers
Boaz Davidson ... producer
Danny Dimbort ... executive producer
James Glenn Dudelson ... producer
Robert Franklin Dudelson ... executive producer
Randall Emmett ... producer
George Furla ... producer
Avi Lerner ... executive producer
Paul Mason ... executive producer
Israel Ringel ... line producer
Jordan Rush ... executive producer
Joost Scholte ... assistant line producer
Trevor Short ... executive producer
M. Dal Walton III ... producer

WE ARE OPPORTUNISTS!!!!!!!
DVD Review: Creepshow 3

Somehow or another George Romero seemingly lost the rights to both the Day of the Dead and Creepshow names and these opportunists bought them up. They’ve made a sequel to Day of the Dead that should’ve stayed dead and have now turned their attentions to the Creepshow franchise. In the special features director Jim Dudelson says that they’ve been “threatening” the fanbase to make Creepshow 3 and a truer use of words has never been spoken – too bad they finally followed through on the threat. To say the film is horrible might actually be doing it a favor, it sucks. Our fiends take us through five tales of crap that really don’t make too much sense. The movie starts with what looks like flash animation and pretty crappy animation at that about a kid killing a dog then opening a hotdog stand.
http://dvd.monstersandcritics.com/reviews/article_1303322.php/DVD_Review_Creepshow_3

Hollywood Intermediate Busier Than Ever

GLENDALE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- May 11, 2007 -- Hollywood Intermediate, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: HYWI), a provider of digital intermediate film mastering services, announced today that it has worked on ten feature film projects so far this year and has expanded its HD preview service.

Hollywood Intermediate has worked with a wide variety of production companies, including Nu Image and Hyde Park Entertainment, on digital intermediates and HD previews. Digital Intermediates completed include "King of California," starring Michael Douglas, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, "The Final Season," which is premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, and "Deal," directed by Gil Cates Jr. and starring Burt Reynolds. All three were graded by pioneering DI colorist Julius Friede ("O Brother Where Art Thou").

"Our flexible and efficient workflow enables us to handle multiple projects simultaneously," stated David Waters, President of Hollywood Intermediate, "and Julius Friede is able to draw on his vast experience to create the look that the client desires." Gil Cates Jr., director of "Deal," concurred, "The process and the people were truly amazing. The look of the film is exactly what I wanted."

For the movie "Homeland Security," starring Meg Ryan and Antonio Banderas and directed by George Gallo, Hollywood Intermediate was able to quickly provide multiple versions (i.e. HD outputs) for several preview screenings. "Because the scanning and color grading have already been done, it will be very easy to complete the digital intermediate process and deliver the film output," explains David Waters. "We believe we have created a cost-effective but high quality process that producers can use for test screenings."

Other recent projects completed by Hollywood Intermediate include "Asylum," directed by David R. Ellis, "Camille," produced by Albert S. Ruddy and starring Sienna Miller, and "Finding Rin Tin Tin." Hollywood Intermediate is in the process of completing digital intermediate work on "Day of the Dead," directed by Steve Miner and shot by Patrick Cady, and "Before the Rains," an Echo Lake production directed and shot in India by Santosh Sivan.

May. 10, 2007 17:03
Movie review: Not 'Brave' enough
By NATHAN BURSTEIN

Home of the Brave, the latest Hollywood drama from Israeli ex-pat producers Avi Lerner and Danny Dimbort, illustrates an odd rule of cinema: that it's possible both to like a movie and not care for either its beginning or its end.

The movie, which opened last week's Eilat International Film Festival, is the first to focus on the current Iraq war and how US veterans are greeted when they return home from the conflict.

In contrast to recent dramas like Jarhead and World Trade Center, Home of the Brave rejects the safe narrative remove of earlier wars and the simple, obvious heroism that emerged in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

But while the film demonstrates its own touches of bravery merely by tackling such a loaded subject, it also concludes its overlapping storylines too neatly, too reassuringly, to make a real statement about the difficulties of living in and fighting for a country embroiled in an unpopular war of its own making.

The film opens - annoyingly and unnecessarily - with its central team of US soldiers learning they're finally being sent home, months after their initial service was extended. The set-up is an almost offensively obvious emotional ploy - a dust particle in a distant galaxy would know something's going to prevent the group's peaceful homecoming from Iraq.

The good news, then, is that Home of the Brave gets back on track relatively quickly, delivering a startling burst of violence and surprise in the ensuing ambush scene. A humanitarian convoy led by the soldiers gets stalled behind a slow-moving truck on its way to al-Hay, and the film skillfully captures the soldiers' dawning sense of danger without belaboring the acute, lethal terror of the moment. The explosions and subsequent battle scenes feel as realistically bloody as they look, and a shivery sense of recognition is almost sure to run through the veins of Israelis watching the film's vivid house-to-house clashes. Cast members who looked sure to appear in the movie's closing scenes die instead in ghastly ways, as does a veiled Iraqi woman unlucky enough simply to turn the wrong corner at the wrong time. ... continues...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708572905&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

A Return to the 'Home of the Brave,' Where Soldiers Fight a New Enemy

By Stephen Hunter
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 11, 2007; Page C01

The heaviness of war hangs everywhere in "Home of the Brave," from director Irwin Winkler. But then Winkler has never been known for his light touch. He got into the biz as a moneyman, raising bucks all those years ago for Elvis movies, and slid into producing. ( He got a Best Picture nod for Sylvester Stallone's "Rocky.") After a while though, he tired of producing (even great movies like "Raging Bull" and "GoodFellas"), so he segued into directing. The conventional line: He was a rich guy who acquired clout and decided to indulge himself directing, rather than merely producing.

But it so happens that his coarseness of touch and maybe even his old-guy grumpiness (he's 75) are just right for "Home of the Brave," a sort of updating of the great soldiers' homecoming flick "Best Years of Our Lives," but with M-16s. In the first place, Winkler remembers that movie (he was 15 when it came out in 1946), and in the second, he values it. His variation, like the original, charts the difficulties of a group of GIs reintegrating in civilian life after the dead friends, the grievous wounds, the combat mistakes, the M.A.S.H. operating tents full of screaming, shattered boys they've seen. You probably wouldn't want too delicate a movie about all this.........
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/10/AR2007051001875.html

EXECUTIVE PROFILE*
George Furla
Co-Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Accounting Officer, Family Room Entertainment Corp.

Age 46 Total Annual compensation $549,819
As of Fiscal Year 2006
BACKGROUND*

George Furla serves as Director, Co-Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and President of Family Room Entertainment Corp. Mr. Furla has over 18 years of business experience in entertainment and financial services. He began his business career with Cantor Fitzgerald where he was a trader in the equity securities area. After spending several years with Cantor Fitzgerald, George then worked for Jones and Associates for 3 years in a similar capacity. ... In 1988, Mr. Furla left Jones and Associates to run a hedge fund, which he established. Mr. Furla entered the film business in 1995, financing several productions. George jointly formed the current production company in 1998 and is principally responsible for financing arrangements, distribution and has joint responsibility for concept development. Mr. Furla is a 1982 graduate of the University of Southern California with a degree in business administration.

CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS*
8530 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, California 90211

Phone: 310-659-9411
Fax: 323-850-2831

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEMBERSHIPS*
Co-Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Accounting Officer

Family Room Entertainment Corp.
Co-Chairman
Emmett/Furla Films Productions Corp

EDUCATION*
Bachelor's Degree 1982
University of Southern California

OTHER AFFILIATIONS*
University of Southern California
Emmett/Furla Films Productions Corp

ANNUAL COMPENSATION*
Other Annual Compensation $549,819
Total Annual Compensation $549,819

STOCK OPTIONS*
There is no Stock Options data available.

TOTAL COMPENSATION*
Total Annual Compensation $549,819
Total Compensation $549,819
*Data is at least as current as the most recent Definitive Proxy.

Doog,, Yes the 15th will be some serious update information..
I just wanted to ask you what you think the price will/could be if they should get lucky and start running on all the cylinders?
Grass

Akon Feels Bad About Getting Punked By Verizon, 50's Still Tappin ...
SOHH - Jersey City,USA
Supposedly she fell for the 31-year-old 50 on the set of the their military drama Home of the Brave movie and the couple has been an item ever since. ...
http://blogs.sohh.com/ya_heard/2007/05/akon_feels_bad.html

After taking on a teen heartthrob role, McKenzie is now more focused on landing more mature and challenging projects. His latest movie, which will be released this year in the United States, is entitled “88 Minutes,” a drama-thriller about a college professor (Al Pacino) who receives death threats while working as a forensic scientist for the FBI. McKenzie plays Mike Stemp, a criminology grad student who becomes a suspect.
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/the-oc/what-are-they-up-to-the-ocs-be-6329.aspx

May 10, 2007

HOME OF THE BRAVE
Only theaters that are posted and showing HOTB STB,Us

Theater
Regal Countryside 20
45980 Regal Plaza, Sterling, VA

AMC Loews Rio Cinemas 18
9811 Washingtonian Blvd., Gaithersburg, MD
375 Miles | Stadium Seating

AMC Loews Fairfax Square 8
8065 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA
383 Miles

I am not sure if we participate in any profits considering the many years of law suits that were over the money that was misspent. Their could be something and I am not sure what???

Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
Release Dates
France – 17 May 2003 (Cannes Film Market)
USA – 13 July 2007 (limited)

Original Title
The Devil and Daniel Webster

Yes thats what I am counting on!

Never Happen there are literately thousands of production companies

And...what if Avi Lerner decides he wants to r/m First Look/Millenium into FMLY?

May 9, 2007
Expect more reality game shows If you thought reality programming already had taken over TV, there's even more in store.

A combination of earlier success, cost pressures and the threat of strikes by Hollywood writers and actors has sparked the biggest appetite yet among networks for new "unscripted" series.

But will viewers remain hungry?

ABC has nine reality shows due this summer, starting with Bingo Night in America May 18. CBS is filming five game-show pilots this month, part of its busiest reality push yet, and Pirate Master from Survivor producer Mark Burnett is due May 31.

CW's limited success rests largely with series such as America's Next Top Model, so look for Crowned, a mother-daughter beauty pageant. NBC plans series about former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and another in which teenage couples care for borrowed babies.

Grey's Anatomy notwithstanding, recent history shows reality series have better odds than sitcoms or dramas of becoming breakout hits, and they appeal to families and young adults, who command higher ad rates. "Some of the biggest game-changers tend to be on the alternative side," says Ghen Maynard, reality chief at CBS and CW.

"Reality programming is doing so well at the networks," says Carolyn Finger, vice president at TV Tracker, which monitors trends. "The No. 1 and No. 2 shows this season are American Idol and Dancing With the Stars, while struggling NBC's top show is Deal or No Deal. "It's just simple economics."

TV Tracker says 56 network reality series will air this season, up from 51 last year, and pilot orders are up 50 percent. Entire cable networks, including MTV and Bravo, build their original lineups exclusively with the genre. "We're looking for shows that can be expanded that night if need be or the next day with a results show," NBC's Craig Plestis says.

Games are the flavor of the moment, thanks to the success of Deal and the low upfront cost. Though they tend to burn out more quickly, even with lower ratings they remain enormously profitable. "Other than clip shows, it's pretty much the least expensive thing you can do," Fox reality chief Mike Darnell says.

The bonus starts at 45M and increases as the number goes up. You can plan on 300 or 400K as a bonus, which is good but the big money will come when they can double the 45M.. Till they get on their own like Borderland,White Air and Rin Tin Tin there is just a share of the profits.. They got a good model and it should be good for some time cause their down side is small.. Which is why their pay at these low level of earnings (2 or 3M a year) is way too high. And still leave money in development for greater profits.

Production Companies for King of California
Emmett/Furla Films
King of California Productions "Thats the group of them siphoning money"
Lone Star Film Group "Not sure"
Michael London Productions "Dont know"
Millennium Films Avi Lerners Company


Distributors
3L Filmverleih (2007) (Germany) (theatrical) (equity pictures)
First Look International (2007) (USA) (theatrical) Avi Lerner's company
Nu Image Films (2006) (worldwide) (all media) Avi Lerner's company

sure are allot of hands in the pie.. We need to hit 70M to get anything substantial..

'Wanted' and 'Watchman' Employ Common Sense
Co-stars will include Jolie, Freeman, Reeves and Whitaker

May 8, 2007
Actor-rapper Common has signed on for supporting roles in Universal's "Wanted" and in Fox Searchlight's "The Night Watchman."

In "Wanted," Common (his birth certificate reads "Lonnie Rashid Lynn") will play Gunsmith, a supervillain who helps train a young assassin (James McAvoy) when the other man discovers that he's inherited some of his late father's killing skills. Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman co-star in the comic book adaptation, set to be directed by Timur Bekmambetov.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Common will also play a drug dealer posing as an undercover cop in James Ellroy's "The Night Watchman" (a film the other trade paper thinks has been retitled "Night Watch"). The David Ayer-directed film features Keanu Reeves as a disgraced cop going head-to-head with his mentor (Forest Whitaker) to root out corruption in the LAPD. Hugh Laurie and Chris Evans co-star.

Common made his big screen acting debut in the ensemble "Smokin' Aces." He'll next be seen with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in "American Gangster."

The artist formerly known as Common Sense will release his latest album, "Finding Forever," in July.

For Douglas,,, I seriously doubt if we are involved.. But if we are?? It will be.

You did if it pans out!

"""This is why I say that Equity Pictures is more than likely the financier! Connecting all the recent dots kind of thing Equity Pictures is the obvious speculative financier from where I sit.""" YOUR QUOTE!!!

Treat Equity pictures like a bank with its hand out... They get a piece of the pie and they are guaranteed their money back or at least all the first money to satisfy the debt.

You are correct about the old sour grapes and thats what they are.

FMLY is tied to Millenium because of Emmett.. Nothing more,, and Emmett in my opinion does some pretty good work for cheep.. Still looking for that block buster..

Every year that goes buy FMLY falls slightly farther away from Millennium and their picture deal has not been mentioned in about 2 years.. SO there is no guarantee picture number that they have planned. You cannot show me anything recent.

Emmett and Furla go out and create and find actors to fill the ticket.. Then they go to Avi Lerner and sell the package..Lerner has the connections with Equity Pictures.. Emmett and Furla do not.. So they sell their sole to the devil and take very little risk and only get paid well when their idea does 45M. Its a good program and unfortunately it can take awhile to hit the big one.