Unitel acquires Golden Maile winner 'Cavite'

Coming of age: The 25th annual Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival helped land the biggest distribution deal in the event's history. Unitel Pictures International tells Reel News that it has acquired worldwide rights to the Philippine political thriller "Cavite," winner of the Golden Maile for best feature.

Mark Cuban's Truly Indie Films (Cuban owns the Dallas Mavericks NBA team) will release the film next spring in the United States ...

An Aloha Airlines 737 is playing the role of a 747 in Samuel L. Jackson's film "Snakes on a Plane" which shot on Oahu for two days in August. The cargo hold scene was filmed at Honolulu International Airport ...

Oscar nominee and frequent Hawaii visitor Peter Fonda will attend HAPA's performance next Tuesday at the opening night cocktail reception of The Hollywood Reporter & Billboard's Film & TV Music Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, sponsored by Maui-based Blaise Noto & Associates. (Fonda hosted a PBS Hawaii special on HAPA back in September.)

This is the first time that Hawaiian music has been featured at this important music conference that draws music industry VIPs, executives and music supervisors from the record labels, film studios and television networks ...

The History Channel documentary "Aloha Flight 243," based on the 1988 in-flight tragedy, has finished filming in Hawaii and will air Dec. 11. Executive Producer is Lee Fulkerson; Ann Marie Lynch is associate producer ...

"COLLISION," the eighth "Lost" episode that airs in two weeks, features a guest cast of Francois Chau as Dr. Marvin Candle, L. Scott Caldwell as Rose, Sam Anderson as Bernard, Michael Cudlitz as Big Mike, Mark Gilbert as Detective Raggs, Rick Overton as Matthew Reed, Aaron Gold as Jason Elder, Matt Moore as Travis, Jeanna Garcia as Shawna and Rand Wilson as an assistant D.A.

By the way, Ana-Lucia, played by Michelle Rodriguez, is apparently a former cop.

And leading into tonight's much-anticipated episode, don't tell anyone, but it's not Ana-Lucia, Libby or Rose dies ...

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