Spellbound Pictures

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Spellbound Pictures Ltd., USA LLC is a film and television production and distribution company founded by Mark McClafferty and Pamela Edwards McClafferty in 1996.

Spellbound Pictures completed a $60,000,000.00, 12 picture deal with Ellipse/Canal +, the French Entertainment giant in 1996 to supply the United Artist Theatre Circuit with a steady flow of family friendly films. [1] It was under this deal that Spellbound Pictures along with Mehra Entertainment completed The Climb , starring John Hurt, Gregory Smith, and David Strathairn, which won eight international film festival awards and was released February 26, 1999. [2]

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References

  1. Busch, Anita M. and Paul Smith: “UATC Gets Spellbound”, Page 5. Daily Variety, Jan 18. 1996
  2. "The Climb". IMDB.com. Retrieved 27 March 2009.