Gladiaattorit is a Finnish competition television program part of the international Gladiators franchise .
51-444: The show originally ran for three seasons from 1993 to 1994; it was directed by Hollywood director Renny Harlin , produced by Markus Selin , and filmed at Planet FunFun . It was hosted by Juha-Pekka Jalo alongside Katariina Ebeling in 1993 and Minna Aaltonen in 1994. It was rerun on the original MTV3 channel in 2002. Persons becoming famous from the show included Tony Halme ( Viikinki —Gladiator Viking) who would become
102-407: A budget of $ 11 million. More recently, his film The Misfits received U.S. and international deals. In 2021, he was selected as jury member at 11th Beijing International Film Festival for Tiantan Awards . Harlin was interested in making a biopic about fellow Finnish personality, composer and national hero Jean Sibelius . Die Hard 2 used Sibelius' Finlandia in an crucial scene, but
153-582: A buyer for a Finnish film distributor and met fellow Finn Markus Selin in Los Angeles in 1982. They became friends and started writing a screenplay called "Arctic Heat", which later evolved into Born American , with Mike Norris in the leading role. They secured financing from the U.S., and in 1986, Born American became the most expensive Finnish film ever. It opened in the U.S. in over 1,000 theaters. By July 9, 1986, he set up his own production company with partner Markus Selin , Larmark Productions, with
204-445: A copy of the DVD is ordered, and then ship it to the customer. A distributor may also maintain contact with wholesalers who sell and ship DVDs to retail outlets as well as online stores, and arrange for them to carry the DVD. The distributor may also place ads in magazines and online and send copies of the DVD to reviewers. Although there are now numerous distribution techniques, in the past
255-401: A distributor is going to distribute a movie on a physical format such as DVD, they must arrange for the creation of the artwork for the case and the face of the DVD and arrange with a DVD replicator to create a glass master to press quantities of the DVD. Some movie producers use a process called "DVD-on-demand." In DVD-on-demand, a company will burn a DVD-R (a process called "duplication") when
306-399: A member of the parliament and Virpi Butt ( Timantti —Gladiator Diamond) who committed a murder in 2003. Competitors Pirjo Litilia, Riikka Hartikainen, Jarmo Jousisto, and Tommi Vuoristo would later compete on International Gladiators 1 . Gladiators Flash ( Salama —Marjo Krishi) and Terminator ( Terminaattori — Mikko Tukonen) would also appear on IG1. On 6 April 2017, it
357-644: A more traditional horror version of Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), after the studio was unhappy with the version cut by director Paul Schrader , which was more of a psychological drama. Mindhunters was released in the US in 2005. Harlin directed the WWE Studios action movie 12 Rounds , starring John Cena . It was released in March 2009. In 2009, Harlin directed an independent war film in Georgia . The film, 5 Days of War ,
408-486: A non-theatrical screening are that the latter has to be to a closed audience in some way, e.g. pupils of a school, members of a social club or passengers on an airline, and that there can be no individual admission charge. Most non-theatrical screening contracts also specify that the screening must not be advertised, except within the group that is eligible to attend (e.g. in a membership organisation's newsletter or an in-flight magazine ). Non-theatrical distribution includes
459-596: A producer when the finished film was released in 2005. In 2006, Harlin collaborated with Markus Selin to direct a biopic of the Finnish President and Marshal of Finland Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim , but budget constraints put the project on hold. Instead, Harlin made another foray into low-budget horror with The Covenant , which was another moderate commercial success. In 2007 the Mannerheim film project resumed temporarily and Harlin returned to Finland. The screenplay
510-415: A profit and eliminate failure. These new distribution methods benefited audiences that were normally too small to reach and expanded the content of television. With the new age of technology, networks accepted the fact that it was a consumer demand industry and accepted the new models of distribution. The primary distribution companies will usually receive some billing for the film. For example, Gone With
561-558: A single being, fearing that they both would begin developing fly-hybrid characteristics. In 1999, Harlin began developing the action-comedy Nosebleed at New Line Cinema , starring Jackie Chan as a window washer who foils a terrorist attack to destroy the World Trade Center . The film was delayed after changing studios to MGM in May 2001. After the September 11 attacks the plot
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#1732876772844612-560: A son born, April 2024, both in Miami, Florida. Harlin lived in the United States from the mid-1980s until 2014, when he moved to China. After Harlin finished the shooting of the Finnish film Reunion 3: Singles Cruise in 2020, he moved to Sofia , Bulgaria. Film distributor A film distributor is a person responsible for the marketing of a film . The distribution company may be
663-449: A specified time period. The latter are often purchased by pubs and students' unions , to enable them to show occasional feature films on a TV in their bars. Some distributors only handle home video distribution or some subset of home video distribution such as DVD or Blu-ray distribution. The remaining home video rights may be licensed by the producer to other distributors or the distributor may sub-license them to other distributors. If
714-404: A studio decides to partner with a native distributor, upon release both names will appear. The foreign distributor may license the film for a certain amount of time, but the studio will retain the copyright of the film. When a film is produced and distributed by an independent production company and independent distributor (meaning outside the studios), generally an international sales agent handles
765-440: A theatrical exhibitor, the distributor secures a contract stipulating the amount of the gross ticket sales the exhibitor will be allowed to retain (usually a percentage of the gross). The distributor collects the amount due, audits the exhibitor's ticket sales as necessary to ensure the gross reported by the exhibitor is accurate, secures the distributor's share of these proceeds, surrenders the exhibitor's portion to it, and transmits
816-439: A year in the United States alone on direct buys of advertising such as TV commercials, billboards, online banner ads, radio commercials and the like. That distributor-spending figure does not include additional costs for publicity, film trailers and promotions, which are not classified as advertising but also market films to audiences. Distributors typically enter into one of the two types of film booking contracts. The most common
867-614: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Renny Harlin Renny Harlin (born Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola ; 15 March 1959) is a Finnish film director , producer , and screenwriter who has worked in Hollywood , Europe, and China . His best-known films include A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master , The Adventures of Ford Fairlane , Die Hard 2 , Cliffhanger , The Long Kiss Goodnight , and Deep Blue Sea . Harlin's films have grossed over $ 520 million in
918-437: Is also responsible for ensuring a full line of advertising material is available for each film which it believes will help the exhibitor attract the largest possible audience, create such advertising if it is not provided by the production company, and arrange for the physical delivery of the advertising items selected by the exhibitor at intervals prior to the opening day. Film distributors spend between $ 3.5 billion and $ 4 billion
969-421: Is the aggregate deal where total box office revenue that a given film generates is split by a pre-determined mutually-agreed percentage between distributor and movie theater. The other method is the sliding scale deal, where the percentage of box office revenue taken by theaters declines each week of a given film's run. The sliding scale actually has two pieces that starts with a minimum amount of money that theater
1020-424: Is to keep—often called "the house nut"—after which the sliding scale kicks in for revenue generated above the house nut. However, this sliding scale method is falling out of use. Whatever the method, box office revenue is usually shared roughly 50/50 between film distributors and theaters. If the distributor is handling an imported or foreign film, it may also be responsible for securing dubbing or subtitling for
1071-453: The Sibelius movie was eventually directed by Timo Koivusalo in 2003. In the 1990s, Harlin was set to direct Flies , a sequel to Cronenberg 's The Fly with his then-wife Geena Davis reprising her role. The script by Richard Jefferies featured a story in which Davis' character gives birth to twin boys, and is later suspected of murder when she merges their untainted human genes into
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#17328767728441122-409: The airlines and film societies . Non-theatrical distribution is generally handled by companies that specialize in this market, of which Motion Picture Licensing Company (MPLC) and Film bank media are the two largest: Motion Picture Licensing Company Film bank media Representing the major Hollywood studios and independent producers. Home video media is sold with a licence that permits viewing in
1173-628: The 1992 Independent Spirit Awards and earned its star and Harlin's then-partner Laura Dern a Best Actress Oscar nomination at the 1992 Academy Awards . Harlin, Markus Selin and a number of other businessmen founded the indoor amusement park Planet FunFun in Kerava , Finland, in 1992, which included everything from a tropical park to a cinema park, the latter of which Harlin also gave his own special stamp to by loaning his film sets and props to special theme rooms. The park also hosted sports competitions and filmed television series . However Planet FunFun
1224-456: The United States and over $ 1.2 billion in the worldwide aggregate box office, making him the 151st highest-grossing director in the global film market as of October 2022 , and the most internationally successful Finnish filmmaker in terms of revenue. Harlin was born in Riihimäki , Finland. His father was Oiva Harjola (formerly Harlin), a chief physician at Riihimäki Hospital, and his mother
1275-457: The Wind was shown on the one sheet as "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Release". A modern example, Jurassic Park , would be the credit " Universal Pictures presents ...". The Universal production logo also opened the film's trailer . In some cases, there is split distribution as in the case of Titanic (1997) : " 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures present ...". Both companies helped to finance
1326-411: The distributor owns the theaters or film distribution networks, or through theatrical exhibitors and other sub-distributors. A limited distributor may deal only with particular products, such as DVDs or Blu-ray, or may act in a particular country or market. The primary distributor will often receive credit in the film's credits , one sheet or other marketing material. If a distributor is working with
1377-451: The exclusive right to exploit the film in various media (theatrical, TV, home entertainment, etc.) for a certain amount of time. This term, used mainly in the British film industry , describes the distribution of feature films for screening to a gathered audience, but not in theatres at which individual tickets are sold to members of the public. The defining distinctions between a theatrical and
1428-413: The film, and securing censorship or other legal or organizational "approval" for the exhibition of the film in the country/territory in which it does business, prior to approaching the exhibitors for booking. Depending on which studio that is distributing the film, the studio will either have offices around the world, by themselves or partnered with another studio, to distribute films in other countries. If
1479-439: The film. It became the highest-grossing film in the series until the 2003 release of Freddy vs. Jason , and its budget was seven times greater than the original A Nightmare on Elm Street . After the success of A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master , Harlin was set to direct the science-fiction thriller Alien 3 . He was attached to the project for a little over a year, but he left due to creative differences with
1530-539: The first two projects went low-budget, and it was a Los Angeles -based production company. Harlin moved to Los Angeles and got a job from Irwin Yablans , who offered him a script of Prison to film. The film was made with a low budget and distributed with only 42 copies. In the same year, 1988, he got a job from New Line Cinema to direct A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) after meeting producer Robert Shaye , who at first did not want Harlin to direct
1581-502: The home only. Until these technologies were widespread, most non-theatrical screenings were on 16 mm film prints supplied by the distributor. Today, the most common business model is for a distributor to sell the exhibitor a licence that permits the projection of a copy of the film, which the exhibitor buys separately on a home video format. These licences can either be for individual, one-off screenings, or cover an unlimited number of screenings of titles represented by that distributor for
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1632-402: The licensing of international rights to the film. The international sales agent will find a local distributor in each individual international territory and license the exclusive rights to the film for a certain amount of time but in the same case as the studios described above, the production company will retain the copyright of the film. This means that this distributor in a certain territory has
1683-506: The other being Hercules , starring Dwayne Johnson – it was critically panned and was a box-office bomb. Harlin directed the 2016 action comedy film Skiptrace , which starred Jackie Chan alongside Johnny Knoxville and Fan Bingbing . He then directed the 2018 film Legend of the Ancient Sword for Alibaba Pictures , based on a Chinese role-playing video game . The film was a box-office bomb, grossing only $ 1.25 million against
1734-466: The prints' return to the distributor's office or other storage resource also on the contract-based return date. In practical terms, this includes the physical production of release prints and their shipping around the world (a process that is being replaced by digital distribution in most developed markets) as well as the creation of posters, newspaper and magazine advertisements, television commercials , trailers, and other types of ads. The distributor
1785-412: The producers. The comedy The Adventures of Ford Fairlane and the action thriller Die Hard 2 were edited simultaneously and released a week apart in 1990. The former flopped, but the latter was a commercial success. Harlin achieved critical acclaim the following year when he produced Rambling Rose through his own Midnight Sun Pictures for director Martha Coolidge . The film won Best Feature at
1836-511: The production was delayed after the change in studios and since he was contracted for the production of The Tuxedo in Toronto months before the attacks. Harlin's next project after Driven was to be a movie adaptation of the Ray Bradbury short story A Sound of Thunder , but Harlin left the project after a disagreement with Bradbury. Although the director was changed, Harlin was credited as
1887-453: The remainder to the production company (or to any other intermediary, such as a film release agent). The distributor must also ensure that enough film prints are struck to service all contracted exhibitors on the contract-based opening day , ensure their physical delivery to the theater by opening day, monitor exhibitors to make sure the film is in fact shown at the particular theatre with the minimum number of seats and show times, and ensure
1938-472: The same as, or different from, the production company . Distribution deals are an important part of financing a film. The distributor may set the release date of a film and the method by which a film is to be exhibited or made available for viewing; for example, directly to the public either theatrically or for home viewing ( DVD , video-on-demand , download , television programs through broadcast syndication etc.). A distributor may do this directly, if
1989-501: The science fiction horror film Deep Blue Sea in 1999. Harlin wanted to direct a movie based on Formula One , but unable to secure the rights, he instead produced the film Driven in 2001, based on the American Champ Car series. Harlin took over directing the action mystery film Mindhunters when the original director Peter Howitt dropped out, but the release was delayed by studio conflicts. Harlin went on to re-shoot
2040-532: The series began on 11 February 2019 and is produced by MTV Warner Bros. International Television Production Finland. There were seven new Gladiators joining the team, with six staying from the previous series in 2017. Legendary original Gladiator Mohikaani ( Mika Ounaskari ) joined the show as the Gladiators coach and event expert. This sports-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Finnish television programme-related article
2091-437: The studios and networks were slow to change and did not experiment with different distribution processes. Studios believed that new distribution methods would cause their old methods of revenue to be destroyed. With time, the development of new distribution did prove to be beneficial. The studios revenue was gained from myriad distribution windows. These windows created many opportunities in the industry and allowed networks to make
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2142-400: The title role. Filming of the new Inspector Palmu should begin at the end of 2024. Harlin was married to actress Geena Davis from 1993 to 1998. He had a son, Lucas, with Davis' personal assistant in 1997, which prompted the divorce. Since September 2021, Harlin has been married to fitness athlete and school teacher Johanna Harlin (née Kokkila). They have a daughter, born July 2022 and
2193-556: The winter scenes during the spring of 2009 passed. Pre-production finally commenced in 2010, and the project was assigned to Dome Karukoski in August 2011. In 2007, it was announced that Harlin would direct an adaptation of the comic-book series Brodie's Law . In 2011 it was reported that he was planning a sequel to The Long Kiss Goodnight . On 16 June 2017 it was announced Harlin will direct Hanging Coffins for Shanghai Film Group and Shanghai New Wave Films. On 18 June 2017, it
2244-508: Was Liisa Koskiluoma, a nurse . Since 1987, Renny's surname has been Harlin, his father's original surname. Renny has a half-brother, Veli-Pekka Harjola , who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in sprint canoeing . After studying at the University of Art and Design Helsinki , Harlin started his career in the film business in the beginning of the 1980s, directing commercials and company films for companies like Shell . Later, he worked as
2295-648: Was a story about the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia in the region of South Ossetia . The film included real-life figures, including Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili , played by Andy García . Harlin next directed the 2013 film Devil's Pass , set in Russia's Ural Mountains and loosely based on the Dyatlov Pass incident in 1959, when nine experienced hikers were found dead. Harlin then directed The Legend of Hercules , which opened in theatres on 10 January 2014. One of two Hercules movies released in 2014 –
2346-409: Was announced Harlin will direct Operation Somalia . The film's story, based on true events, revolves around a rescue operation against Somali pirates mounted by Chinese Special Operations Forces . On 8 May 2018, it was announced Harlin will direct Solara , a Chinese sci-fi epic revolving around an international team that must work together to save Earth from a global catastrophe. On 18 June 2018 it
2397-483: Was announced Harlin will direct Operation Wild . On January 19, 2021, it was announced that Harlin will direct the new Inspector Palmu film, based on a character created by Finnish writer Mika Waltari . Although the film is shot in Finland, unlike the previous Finnish-language Palmu films, Harlin's film is becoming an international English-language production, where an actor is also being sought internationally for
2448-436: Was announced that the show, owned by MGM Television, will return to the airwaves in Finland for a revival on Nelonen . The new series will be hosted by Heikki Paasonen and recorded at Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre . It was announced that in 2019 a new series of Gladiaattorit would return to its original television channel MTV3 . The relaunched series was hosted by Viivi Pumpanen and Antero Mertaranta . Filming of
2499-503: Was drastically rewritten ultimately before being completely shelved. Chan later told Oriental Daily News that the film was scheduled to begin filming at the North Tower less than two hours before it was hit by American Airlines Flight 11 , and that he only escaped the attack because he made a last-minute decision to travel to Toronto to begin filming The Tuxedo instead. However, Chan's claim has been criticized as improbable since
2550-539: Was short-lived, closing in 1995. 1993's action thriller Cliffhanger was Harlin's first film with Sylvester Stallone . Harlin's career suffered a blow with the pirate adventure film Cutthroat Island in 1995, which starred Harlin's then-wife, Geena Davis . Cutthroat Island was one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time , losing $ 147 million and leading to the bankruptcy of Carolco Pictures . Harlin did go on to have moderate success with Long Kiss Goodnight , starring Samuel L. Jackson and Davis in 1996, and
2601-509: Was written by Heikki Vihinen and Marko Leino, and was scheduled to be the largest film production in Finnish history. Production began in 2008 with Mikko Nousiainen starring as Mannerheim, and the film was to premiere in Helsinki on January 15, 2010. However, 30% of the funding was cut by one of the financiers due to the Great Recession , and the delay meant that the time window for shooting
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