Emmett/Furla Films and Bigel/Mailer Films Get a ``Night Job''

Business Wire, May 30, 2001

Business/Entertainment Editors

LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--May 30, 2001

Emmett/Furla Films, a subsidiary of Family Room Entertainment Corp. (OTCBB:FMLY), announced their partnership with Gotham-based production company Bigel/Mailer Films on the motion picture project "The Night Job."

Michael Mailer and Daniel Bigel will produce the picture along with Randall Emmett and George Furla, who will exec produce. Mercy Santos and M. Dal Walton, III will co-executive produce.

"The Night Job," based on an original screenplay by James O'Hanlon, is the story of an ex-con out on parole who is drawn back into the life he left behind by a crooked cop trying to corner a flamboyant mobster who is running an international art smuggling ring. This tale of one man's murder, one woman's lust, another man's betrayal and their violent redemption is set against the ominous skyline of New York City at night.

Dennis Hopper is set to direct and star as the cop, with Val Kilmer set to play the mobster. The producers are currently casting the ex-con. Hopper has appeared in more than one hundred movies, including the classic "Easy Rider," which he also directed. Other directorial efforts include "Colors" with Sean Penn and Robert Duvall. Kilmer, whose credits include "The Doors" and "Red Planet," will next star in Warner Brothers' "The Salton Sea" with Vincent D'Onofrio.

Bigel/Mailer Films is currently in production on "Lost Junction," a small-town romantic comedy starring Neve Campbell, Billy Burke and Jake Busey, with Peter Masterson ("The Trip to Bountiful," starring Geraldine Page) directing. Upcoming releases include "Empire," starring John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard and Denise Richards, and James Toback's "Harvard Man," starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Lauren Adams, Adrian Grenier and Eric Stoltz.

Emmett/Furla recently announced a 10-picture non-exclusive distribution/financing arrangement with Millennium Films. Under that arrangement is "In God We Trust," currently in production, starring Christian Slater, Val Kilmer, Daryl Hannah, Bokeem Woodbine and Vern Troyer. Peter Antonijevic ("Savior," starring Dennis Quaid) is helming the project. Also falling under this arrangement is the recently wrapped "Behind the Sun" by writer/director Robby Henson. Billy Bob Thornton and Patricia Arquette star in this dark, twisting tale of corruption and love in backwoods of Louisiana.

Hopper is repped by Artists Management Group and Kilmer by Creative Artists Agency. The co-production was negotiated by Steven Beer on behalf of Bigel/Mailer and Walton and Rick Rosenthal, Esq. of Grakal, Root & Rosenthal for Emmett/Furla.