Based in Santa Monica, Myriad Pictures is involved in financing, producing and the worldwide sales of major motion pictures and television programming.  Helmed by President and CEO Kirk D’Amico, the company has risen in the ranks as one of the top independent entertainment companies and holds an impressive and diverse library of both quality and commercially successful filmed programming that includes such acclaimed titles as Kinsey, The Good Girl, Factory Girl, Little Fish and Copying Beethoven.  Mr. D’Amico is one of the Top 50 independent producers of 2007, from an annual list published by The Hollywood Reporter.

Currently, Myriad is working on a extraordinary roster of films which includes:

• Gillian Armstrong’s Death Defying Acts starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce, which will be theatrically released in the United States by The Weinstein Company in 2008. Death Defying Acts received its World Premiere at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.
• Dario Argento’s highly-anticipated The Mother of Tears, starring Asia Argento and Udo Kier, which also received its World Premiere at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, opening the popular “Midnight Madness” program. The film opened in Italy on Halloween to impressive box office numbers and is slated for a targeted theatrical release in the U.S. in early 2008.
• the romantic comedy Jack and Jill vs the World, starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and “Hustle and Flow”’s Taryn Manning, directed by Vanessa Parise
• All Hat, a romantic caper starring Luke Kirby, Lisa Ray and Rachael Leigh Cook, also an  Official Selection at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

Upcoming projects include:

• In post-production, 174, a gritty drama based on the Brazilian bus hijacking directed by Bruno Barretto and written by “City of God’’’s Braulio Mantovani
• Cry of the Owl, currently filming in Toronto and starring Julia Stiles and Paddy Considine, the film is based on the Patricia Highsmith novel and is directed by Jamie Thraves
• The Other Side, a fantasy adventure starring Katie Holmes, Woody Harrelson, Giovanni Ribisi and Jason Lee and directed by David Michaels, is scheduled to begin principal photography in Nova Scotia in January 2008
• The Cup, based on the 2002 Melbourne Cup horse race and directed by Simon Wincer, a co-production with Village Roadshow
• the true-crime Six Bullets From Now, starring Josh Lucas, Tim Roth and Dermot Mulroney
• the political thriller Divided, starring Diane Kruger and Thomas Kretschmann
• The Shadowchaser, an action thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and directed by Renny Harlin
• the supernatural Not Forgotten, starring Simon Baker and Jordana Brewster and directed by Dror Soref.

November 2007