In 1978, on graduating from the University of Paris, Samuel Hadida
founded Metropolitan Filmexport through which he has distributed over
100 films in France and French-speaking territories including David
Fincher's Sieben (1995), the number one box-office hit in France in 1996. In
1990, Hadida set up Davis Films to produce genuinely international
projects such as Tony Scott's True Romance (1993), written by Quentin Tarantino
(whose debut feature Reservoir Dogs he had distributed in France), and
Roger Avary's Killing Zoe (1993).
Other films produced by Hadida include Sheldon Lettich's Only the Strong (1993), Christophe Gans'
Crying Freeman - Der Sohn des Drachen (1995) and the co-directed H. P. Lovecraft's _Necronomicon (1994)_, Steve Barron's
Die Legende von Pinocchio (1996), Matthew Bright's Freeway (1996), Gabriele Salvatores' Nirvana - Jagd im Cyberspace (1997) and
Michael Haussman's _Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest (1996)_. Hadida recently produced the epic fantasy
blockbuster _Pacte des Loups, Le (2001)_ (Brotherhood of the Wolf), directed by Christophe
Gans, a box-office hit in France, and Resident Evil (2002).
