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  • Solid Entertainment seals two deals with Discovery Intl.

    Solid Entertainment seals two deals with Discovery Intl.

    MUMBAI: Racking up a number of sales in the last few weeks, Solid Entertainment Founder and CEO Richard Propper announced today that they has just concluded sales for two of its highly rated series, Overhaulin’ and Rides, to several of Discovery’s International outlets.

    These two series are currently top-rated hits on The Learning Channel in the US.

    Overhaulin’ was sold to Discovery International in the UK, Italy, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Whereas, the Rides deals include sales to Discovery International in France and all French-speaking territories.

    Overhaulin’ (7×48 minutes), produced for The Learning Channel in the US, is the series where the owner gets tricked and the car gets tricked-out. The action begins with an unsuspecting vehicle owner who finds his or her shabby old ride missing and a week later ends up with a certified show car. Each episode brings in top custom designer Chip Foose, who teams up with his crew of professional builders, and spends the next seven sleepless days and nights making someone’s hot rod dream come true.

    Rides (11×48 minutes), narrated by Jason Priestly and produced for The Learning Channel in the US, is an 11 part series which defines the automotive genre on television, with its concept to completion coverage of the latest and greatest from the world of automotive design. Last seasons episodes included the exclusive start to finish coverage of Fords new Cobra, inside the newest sport of drifting, and inside the world custom street rods. Rides features interviews with the carmakers, designers, painters, and owners.

  • Solid Entertainment lines up documentaries for Mipcom

    Solid Entertainment lines up documentaries for Mipcom

    MUMBAI: Solid Entertainment, an expanding worldwide distributor of factual programming, headquartered in the US, has announced the acquisition of three new risk-oriented documentary titles from documentary production company Pacific Coast Video.

    The titles will be available for the first time at Mipcom 2004 to be held in Cannes from 4 October to 8 October.

    According to an official release, these new titles include Con Artist, Beating Vegas: Inside the MIT Card Counting Story and The Rescue Warriors: Inside the World of Para- Rescuemen.

    Announcing the deal, Solid Entertainment founder and CEO Richard Propper said, “Solid Entertainment is continually working to acquire the best documentary entertainment available and we are very pleased to be adding these new titles to our library.”

    Con Artist is a 50-minutes documentary portraying one of the greatest art frauds ever: Two men imitating the styles of modern artists, selling the forged works as originals. Beating Vegas: Inside the MIT Card Counting Story is based on the New York Times best seller entitled Bringing Down the House. The Rescue Warriors documents the challenges, agonies and triumphs of the men who strive to become Air Force para rescuemen.

  • Solid, Moriah forge distribution deal for WWII films

    Solid, Moriah forge distribution deal for WWII films

    MUMBAI: Solid Entertainment, a leading distributor of factual programming, today announced that it has signed an exclusive two-year distribution deal with two-time Academy Award winning production company Moriah Films for five of their landmark documentaries.

    Negotiated by Solid Entertainment founder and CEO Richard Propper and Moriah Films head Rick Trank, the deal includes worldwide broadcast, home video, and DVD rights and comes on the eve of the 60th anniversary (2005) of the end of World War II (WWII).

    Solid Entertainments first time offering of such films as Genocide, the first Holocaust documentary to win an Academy Award, The Long Way Home, a second Academy Award winning documentary, In Search Of Peace, Liberation, and the recently completed Unlikely Heroes, comes at the right time to present relevant programming for this monumental anniversary.

    The titles included in this deal are: Genocide, which is narrated by Elizabeth Taylor and Orson Welles is the story of the millions of men, women and children who fell victim to Hitler’s Final Solution. A unique multi-image documentary, this programme combines historical narrative with actual stories of ordinary people caught up in the Nazi’s reign of terror.

    The Long Way Home is narrated by award-winning actor Morgan Freeman and is a riveting documentary which tells the story of Holocaust survivors in the years 1945-1948 engaged in the battle to rebuild their shattered lives and to recapture human dignity.

    In Search of Peace has been narrated by Michael Douglas and chronicles the first two decades of Israel’s existence, offering new insights on the origins of the Middle East conflict. Combining rare archival film and photos, In Search of Peace not only examines events in Israel, but their impact on other places as well – the Arab refugee camps, the General Assembly of the United Nations, Moscow, Paris, London, Buenos Aires, Cairo and Washington DC.

    Liberation is narrated by Ben Kingsley and Whoopi Goldberg, and is a programme which focuses on the end of WWII as Hitler continued to persist on two fronts: fighting the allies attempting to liberate Europe and continuing the genocidal war against the Jews. This WWII documentary uses film footage, radio broadcasts, and period music gathered from archives around the world.

    Unlikely Heroes, which is Moriah Films’ latest release, is narrated by Kingsley and chronicles the untold stories of Jewish resistance and individual heroism throughout the Nazi Holocaust. Utilising never-before-seen film and photos discovered in European archives, this documentary shatters the myth that the Jewish people did not stand up to the Nazis.