Three movies -DNA's British comedy The Final Curtain, Nu-Image/Millenium Films' romantic comedy AllI Want aka Try 17 and StudioCanal's Gaughin biopic ParadiseFound - will go straight topay-TV on the US through Starz Encore Group's STARZ! Cinema multiplexchannel.

In The FinalCurtain, which premiereson STARZ! Cinema in June, Peter O'Toole plays a leading game show host whosepopularity is threatened by a young rival (Aidan Gillen). John Hodge (TheBeach) wrote thescreenplay and Patrick Harkins marked his directorial debut. The film wasproduced by UK lottery franchise DNA.

ParadiseFound stars KieferSutherland as the impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, who plunges his familyinto financial turmoil when he leaves his job as a stock trade to become afull-time painter.

Nastassja Kinskico-stars as Gauguin's wife and the film was directed by Mario Andreacchio(The New Adventures of Black Beauty). Paradise Found will be broadcast in July. It was financed by Le Sabre (France),Apollo Media (Germany) and Grosvenor Park Productions (UK) and sold byStudioCanal.

The romanticcomedy All I Want,formerly known as Try 17, stars Elijah Wood as a college student who learns more from hisapartment neighbours than he does in class. Many Moore, Franke Potente andDebbie Harry co-star and the film will go out in August.

In addition,Starz Encore Group has acquired three international titles for exclusivetelevision premieres on STARZ! Cinema, which will be telecast later this year:the action-drama Wasabi,starring Jean Reno as a French policeman in Japan; the Iranian comedy SecretBallot, about a soldierwho wakes up on a deserted beach; and the Chinese biopic Quitting, about the B-movie actor Jia Hongsheng.

STARZ! Cinemalaunched in May 1998. Starz Encore has exclusive film output deals with MiramaxFilms, Sony Pictures Classics, Fine Line Features, Focus Features, and SamuelGoldwyn Films among others.