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...when to get involved in an industry with a potentially massive upside. Twentieth Century Fox, which purchased the international rights to the ethereal Russian vampire movies Night Watch and Day Watch, opened offices in Moscow last year. Paramount and Disney are kicking the tires. And Sony, through its Columbia Tristar division, joined with several American investors last year to form Monumental Pictures, which is producing Russian-language movies for the domestic market. Monumental's general director, Paul Heth, an American, built the first Western-style cinemas in Russia. He and his business partner, Shari Redstone, the daughter of Viacom chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reel Russia | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...business move for Chan?Arclight, a U.S. film distributor based in Australia, has already bought the movie's international and U.S. distribution and licensing rights for a seven-figure sum. (Chan's 1998 Jackie Chan vehicle Who Am I? and Gen-X Cops were both distributed overseas by Columbia TriStar.) Like his previous action flicks, Heroic Duo goes for the mainstream jugular, but this time Benny Chan devotes enough screen time to character development so that you care (slightly) about these characters before they're blown to smithereens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up the Heat | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

...Seoul's secrets are out, big time. Sony's Columbia TriStar Films recently agreed to fund a South Korean production com-pany's movie about the hit squad ordered to kill Kim Il Sung. (Filming will start this August.) Hewing closely to the original story, the movie will expose a part of history that most Koreans know little about. Under past military governments, it was taboo to mention the spy operations, says producer Jonathan Kim: "We were taught we didn't do stuff like that, only the North did. Nobody has talked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korea's Dirty Dozen | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...faltering, the campy keyboard player is summoned for another one-liner. (Such as: "It's so anal being straight!") There are enough inside jokes to keep Malaysian audiences happy without alienating international ones. It is Malaysia's first motion picture shot almost completely in English, and U.S. giant Columbia TriStar plans to distribute it in Singapore later this year and possibly throughout Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Your Parents' Movie | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

These stands are slickly run machines dispensing food, drink and hype in equal doses. The most popular is easily Columbia-TriStar's. Perhaps visitors are attracted by a chance to buy "Pyramid" starring Donny Osmond. More likely it's the gourmet food on tap daily from Wolfgang Puck, who personally serves guests his signature pizzas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Dogs, Hot Pizzas and Hot Hooters Girls | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

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