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Full article from E! Online is here.
Excerpting:
Michael Moore's ready to launch some serious fireworks just in time for the Fourth of July.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker's latest lightning rod of a documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, has finally secured a U.S. release date. A consortium of indie studios will release the flick on June 25.
Then, fresh off its Palme d'Or at last month's Cannes Film Festival, Miramax co-chiefs Harvey and Bob Weinstein bought back the rights to Fahrenheit 9/11 from Disney for $6 million, essentially what it cost the Mouse House to finance the film.
The brothers Weinstein formed their own company, named the Fellowship Adventure Group, to release the film.
All the principals are now ramping up their resources to get the film in theaters in just three weeks. The distributors are frantically buying TV ads, cutting trailers, locking down screens and getting the necessary prints in order.
The rush to theaters is an attempt to capitalize on all the ink Fahrenheit 9/11 has generated. With Disney's dumping of the film, Moore's big mouth, the Cannes win and former President George H. W. Bush calling the director "a slimeball," the documentary is generating buzz akin to Mel Gibson's The Passion.
The release date is also very significant because it gives the Weinsteins the Fourth of July holiday weekend, when moviegoers jam the multiplexes. Once the film plays out in theaters, it will be released on home video in the fall, just as the presidential race reaches its fever pitch.
"On behalf of my stellar cast--GW, Dick, Rummy, Condi and Wolfie--we thank this incredible coalition of the willing for bringing Fahrenheit 9/11 to the people," Moore said in a statement.
Excerpting:
Michael Moore's ready to launch some serious fireworks just in time for the Fourth of July.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker's latest lightning rod of a documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, has finally secured a U.S. release date. A consortium of indie studios will release the flick on June 25.
Then, fresh off its Palme d'Or at last month's Cannes Film Festival, Miramax co-chiefs Harvey and Bob Weinstein bought back the rights to Fahrenheit 9/11 from Disney for $6 million, essentially what it cost the Mouse House to finance the film.
The brothers Weinstein formed their own company, named the Fellowship Adventure Group, to release the film.
All the principals are now ramping up their resources to get the film in theaters in just three weeks. The distributors are frantically buying TV ads, cutting trailers, locking down screens and getting the necessary prints in order.
The rush to theaters is an attempt to capitalize on all the ink Fahrenheit 9/11 has generated. With Disney's dumping of the film, Moore's big mouth, the Cannes win and former President George H. W. Bush calling the director "a slimeball," the documentary is generating buzz akin to Mel Gibson's The Passion.
The release date is also very significant because it gives the Weinsteins the Fourth of July holiday weekend, when moviegoers jam the multiplexes. Once the film plays out in theaters, it will be released on home video in the fall, just as the presidential race reaches its fever pitch.
"On behalf of my stellar cast--GW, Dick, Rummy, Condi and Wolfie--we thank this incredible coalition of the willing for bringing Fahrenheit 9/11 to the people," Moore said in a statement.
