Family Room Gets on the ``Guest List''
January 21, 2004 06:00:00 AM ET

Emmett/Furla Films, a wholly owned subsidiary of Family Room Entertainment Corporation FMLY, is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Holly Wiersma's Phad Films to finance and produce "Guest List Only."

"Guest List Only" is a documentary of the club scene in Los Angeles that follows the lives of Los Angeles celebrities and club promoters Pantera Sarah and Paris Hilton (FOX TV's "The Simple Life").

Emmett/Furla Films' Randall Emmett and George Furla will executive produce the project while Wiersma will produce. Giles Clarke will direct the picture.

Emmett/Furla Films has also jumped on board "Talk Back," which Wiersma plans to produce with Thunderbird Pictures' Peter MacAlevey. Emmett and Furla will executive produce the picture.

"Talk Back" was originally scripted by Carla Garapedian, who is the only American to ever anchor the BBC World News. The script is currently undergoing a polish by Lawrence Marks and Maurice Gran, who wrote "Stand By Your Man" for the FOX network and "Mr. Sunshine" for ABC along with numerous other projects for the BBC.

Emmett and Furla most recently partnered with Wiersma on James Cox's "Wonderland," which starred Val Kilmer, Lisa Kudrow, Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott and Josh Lucas. Lions Gate released "Wonderland" in theaters in September of 2003.

Family Room Entertainment Corporation, with its subsidiaries, Emmett/Furla Films Productions, Emmett/Furla Films Distribution and EFF Independent, is a publicly held company trading on the Nasdaq Bulletin Board under the symbol "FMLY." Family Room Entertainment develops, produces and performs production-related services for the entertainment industry. Family Room Entertainment's aim is to create and produce high-quality motion pictures with high-profile talent that can be distributed to a worldwide audience. FMLY derives its income from producer fees, consulting and service fees as well as its participation in the profits of the various pictures it produces.

The FMLY co-founders, Randall Emmett and George Furla, believe that they have the expertise and contacts within the entertainment industry, specifically in the competitive production and distribution arenas, to profitably acquire content, package product by adding value to the content with top-quality talent and produce motion pictures which are in the moderate to higher level budgets, which can be distributed to a mass worldwide audience. However, there is no assurance that any motion picture, which has not yet been released, will be released, that a change in the scheduled release dates of any such films will not occur or, if such motion picture is released, it will be successful.

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