Cohen Media Acquires Merchant Ivory Catalog

The Cohen Media Group has acquired 30 films -- twenty-one narrative feature films and nine documentaries and shorts -- from the Merchant Ivory Productions library. The U.S. label plans to restore and re-release them theatrically as well as on the home video market via the Cohen Film Collection.

The deal does not include big-budget projects such as A Room with a View, Remains of the Day, Jefferson in Paris, and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge.

Director James Ivory will work closely with the U.S. label on the restoration and re-releases of the films.

ACQUIRED FEATURE FILMS:

1. The Householder
2. Shakespeare Wallah
3. Autobiography of a Princess
4. Bombay Talkie
5. Savages
6. Roseland
7. Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
8. The Europeans
9. Jane Austen in Manhattan
10. Quartet
11. The Bostonians
12. The Courtesans of Bombay
13. Howards End
14. The Perfect Murder
15. The Ballad of the Sad Café
16. In Custody 1994
17. The Proprietor
18.The Mystic Masseur
19. Heat and Dust
20. Maurice
21. The Deceivers

ACQUIRED DOCUMENTARIES AND SHORTS:

1. The Sword and the Flute
2. Venice: Themes & Variations
3. The Creation of Woman
4. The Delhi Way
5. Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization
6. Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls
7. Mahatma and the Mad Boy
8. Sweet Sounds
9. Street Musicians of Bombay 1994