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stanley cup antistevan s thriller The Cry and Riding With The King, an account of life on the road with Elvis Presley.The Cry takes place in New York City and is based on the Latino myth of La Llorona, which holds that men who cheat on their wives are abducted by a vengeful female apparition.Presley s stepbrother and former bodyguard David Stanley directed Riding With The King, which recounts the highs and lows of touring life with the King. Michael Rosenblatt has been named president and chief executive officer of Echo Bridge and Michael Alexander a
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Film Office, a subsidiary of Frenchmedia and publishing giant Hachette Filipacchi, which has been increasinglyboarding foreign feature film projects at an early stage in order to build upits library of theatrical rights, is now to develop its own titles.Theveteran French home video company, which has been a pioneer of all-rightsacquisitions for the French mar
stanley cup ket since Basic Instinct, is to underlinethe move by changing its name to Hachette Filipacchi Films HFF . Film Office sgeneral manager Franck Ribiere, said: We are truly doing another job now. Wehave moved from being a home video distributor to become a film rights tradingoutfit and, although our titles are physically distributed by other companiessuch as Paramount as far as home video is concerned, we control their marketingin all sectors. Thenext step i
stanley romania s to initiate our own films, which will be exclusivelyEnglish-language European projects. I will still be acquiring films and seekingpartnership on third party titles, but I will also be looking for book rights and scripts. There is enoughtalent and financ
stanley cup ing in Europe to produce high-end European titles with aninternational potential. What we need to do is think differently and useAmerican marketing methods. HFFhas recently acquired all rights to Deauville title The Man From ElysianFields, and to Sundance film Narc, which are both to be distributedin France by Mars Films. It also co-acquired Lakeshore s WilliamFriedkin-directed The Hunted, with French distributor CTV
