Wednesday July 14, 11:12 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
First Miracle Announces August 27th
Release of Van Damme's "Universal
Soldier, the Return" Through Sony
Pictures
Company to Receive 50% of Worldwide Revenues
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1999-- First Miracle Group announced today the
August 27th nationwide release of Universal Soldier, The Return starring Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Michael Jai White, Heidi Schanz, Kiana Tom and Daniel Von Bargen. The film, to be distributed
through Sony Pictures Entertainment, will be shown in over 1,600 theatres in the US. As part of First
Miracle's recently announced exclusive development deal with Van Damme's Long Road Films, all
worldwide revenues generated by the film will be shared on a 50/50 basis between the two entities.
Universal Soldier, The Return is the much anticipated follow-up to the highly successful 1992 action
film, Universal Soldier. The sequel revisits Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) who has
survived his experiences as a Universal Soldier, recovered, and is now working as a technical expert
on a government project to revive and improve the Universal Soldier training program. When
S.E.T.H. (Michael Jai White), the supercomputer controlling the Soldiers, goes haywire and takes
over, Luc is the only one who can battle this elite team of deadly, near-perfect warriors.
Commenting on the project, Mr. Van Damme stated, ''We are extremely excited about next month's
nationwide release of Universal Soldier, The Return, which we believe has the potential to do
extremely well at the box office given the tremendous success of the original Universal Soldier film,
coupled with the fact that we are able to release it just in time for the always lucrative Labor Day
weekend.''
First Miracle Group, Inc., is an independent and diversified film company with a unique corporate
structure based on strategic and exclusive alliances with high quality content producers, including
Long Road Films and Emmett/Furla Films. First Miracle Group (OTC BB: MVEE - news) is a
publicly-traded company.
Contact:
Rubenstein Public Relations
Clint Cantwell
(212) 843-8051 |
