Dark Horse Comics, home to off-beat characters like Concrete - a lumbering stone creature - even has its own Hollywood development deal with Largo Entertainment.

Finally, in 1996, Largo Entertainment decided to put up the money for "Affliction," and the film was shot near Montreal starting in February 1997.

The brothers then formed Largo Entertainment, which was backed by the Japanese company JVC.

Largo Entertainment snapped up the film, and 20th Century Fox plans to distribute it.

Largo Entertainment, an independent production company, recently attracted Japanese financing, permitting it to pay top dollar for actors and directors.

Television, Allied Artists International, Monogram Pictures, and Largo Entertainment.

Largo Entertainment, 1999.

"You get to read the entire screenplay," says Mr. Gordon, whose Largo Entertainment is backed by Japanese money.

Largo Entertainment approached him with a project called Vampires, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by John Steakley.

Recently, Warner acquired the home video rights to select catalog titles from Largo Entertainment, including Point Break.