Production: Guillaume Godard, Carolyn Caldera and Jean-Luc De Fanti for Kcraft & Co/Les Films Caldera-De Fanti, Une Souris Verte. Director: Mathias Ledoux.
Cast: Edward Furlong, Sharleen Spiteri, Elsa Zylberstein.
Starts: January 2002, UK.
Subject: A young man (Furlong) witnesses a murder live on the web and is drawn into a dark and sinister world by a former hacker-turned-cyberdetective (played by Texas lead singer Spiteri in her movie debut).
International distribution: Beyond Films.

Spiteri: leading the Blind Hopkins: inked for Stain Biehl: playing the Rules.

Production: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Scott Steindorff for Lakeshore Entertainment.
Director: Robert Benton.
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman.
Starts: 2002 (tba).
Subject: Based in Philip Roth’s prize-winning novel, the story of an ageing classics professor at a small New England college (Hopkins) whose scandalous relationship with a much younger cleaner (Kidman) eventually reveals a 50-year secret. International distribution: Lakeshore.

Production: Greg Shapiro and Jeremiah Samuels for Kingsgate/Lions Gate Entertainment.
Director: Roger Avary.
Cast: James Van der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Ian Somerhalder, Kip Pardue, Jessica Biehl, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Faye Dunaway, Eric Stoltz.
Started: 13 August, Los Angeles.
Subject: A ‘scabrous satire’ by Brett Easton Ellis in which Patrick (American Psycho) Bateman’s younger brother, Sean (Van der Beek), becomes involved in a surreal triangular relationship with two fellow students (Sossamon and Somerhalder).
International distribution: Lions Gate International.