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In a two-prongedcampaign catering to the fastest growing demographic in the US, producerMoctesuma Esparza is launching a theatre chain and production/distributioncompany aimed at the continent s 41million-plus English-speaki <a href=https://www.stanleywebsite.us>stanley cup</a> ng Latinocommunity.Esparza s MayaCinemas chain will open state-of-the-art multiplexes in minority communityareas, chiefly in what a statement called Latino-centric, family-orientedcommunities in underserved urban and rural areas. As part of aconstruction plan hatched with Urban Retail Properties, Maya Cinemas firsteight venues will house more than 100 screen <a href=https://www.stanleycups.com.mx>stanley cup</a> s and will be located throughoutCalifornia and N <a href=https://www.cups-stanley.ca>stanley cup</a> ew Mexico, Chicago, Dallas and The Bronx, New York.The first site,a 14-screen complex in Salinas, California, will open on Jul 29. Sevencomplexes are scheduled to open in 2006 and the partners plan to build morethan 500 screens over the next five years.Esparza willserve as chief executive officer of Maya Cinemas, which is backed by Esparzaand private investors and will play first-run Hollywood titles while reservingat least one screen for community-interest pictures.Maya Pictureswill produce and distribute pictures with strong appeal to the young Latinomarket and is backed by a $30m private equity fund.Longtime Esparzaassociate Kimberly Myers has been named head of production and niche marketersMichael Harpster and Kevin Benson will head up theatrical marketing anddistribution.Production isalready underway on the first title Walkout, the true story of a Rued Europe pays steep price for bargain DVDs - summit claim
Trust Film Sales,the world sales offshoot of Denmark s Zentropa Entertainment has had a busystart to Venice, acquiring David Mackenzie s The Last Wilderness andstriking a number of sales deals on Venice competition picture Lilja 4-Ever.Trust bought Wilderness, adebut feature by noted British shorts director Mackenzie, after its outing atlast month s Edinburgh International Film Festival. It will next travel toToronto. Appropriately for the company that has sold films by Lars von Trierand Soren Kragh Jaconsen, Screen International critic Allan Hunterdescribed the stalled road movie-cum psychological drama as having more in common with the sensibility of early Dogme features thananything currently emerging from British cinema. Produced by Sigma Films, thefilm will be handled in the UK by Winchester Entertainment subsidiary FeatureFilm Company.Kicking off her Venicepitch by working in a <a href=https://www.stanleycup.fr>stanley cup</a> bikini, Trust s Annakarin Strom sold Lukas Moodysson sR <a href=https://www.stanleyus.us>stanley us</a> ussia-set tale of abandonment and teenage prostitution Lilja 4-Ever to A-Film for TheNetherlands, as part of a paclkage with another Toronto-bound picture OpenHeart. Lilja was also sold to Monopol Pathe for Switzerland and toCreative for the Ex-Yugoslavian territories. The UK was previously sold toMe <a href=https://www.stanleycup.it>stanley italy</a> trodome. Although rumoured to be on the pointof closing licence deals for France and Italy on the film, Strom said she wasfielding plenty of offers from international and US buyers, but will probablywait until Toronto to close other major territ
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