Oasis Scores International Deals for HD Film on Celine Dion

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO, December 20: Oasis International has
shored up a number of sales on its HD feature film Celine, an unauthorized biography of famed Canadian pop
singer Celine Dion.

Launched at MIPCOM in October, the feature-length movie has
been sold in the U.S., France, Benelux, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Eastern
Europe, South Africa, India and Latin America. Oasis is in advanced
negotiations for the film with several other major territories. Celine was originally created for the CBC in Canada and its
airdate is still to be determined.

The unauthorized biographical film, from Barna-Alper
Productions, tells the story of the romantic and troubled life story of singer
Celine Dion, who was discovered at age 12 by her manager and future husband,
Rene Angelil.
The Canadian singer catapulted onto the U.S. stage by recording the
award-winning theme song for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and went on to
record My Heart Will Go On, from the blockbuster hit Titanic, whose title
track won nearly every major award the year of its release. Throughout her
career, Dion has won more than 50 awards, including Grammys, Academy Awards,
Billboard Music Awards and World Music Awards, among others.

“Celine Dion is just wrapping up her five-year stint in Vegas
and is about to embark on a massive world tour starting in January 2008,” noted
Prentiss Holman, the director of sales for Oasis International. “The timing for
the international release of this film couldn’t have come at a more opportune
time.”

Celine adds to Oasis’s
catalogue of other unauthorized biographies that have concluded recent sales.
For example, the 90-minute TV movie Man in the Mirror: The Michael
Jackson Story, produced by Blueprint
Entertainment for VH1, was acquired by broadcasters in Australia, New Zealand,
Eastern Europe, Latin America and Russia, while Shania, produced by Barna-Alper Productions in association
with W Network and the CBC, secured deals in Australia, New Zealand, Canada,
Eastern Europe and Latin America.

—By Kristin Brzoznowski