Posted on 06/01/2004 6:40:55 PM PDT by Petronski
''Fahrenheit 9/11'' finds domestic distributor
GARY GENTILE, AP Business Writer Tuesday, June 1, 2004
(06-01) 17:30 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) --
Michael Moore's award-winning documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" has picked up a U.S. distributor and will hit theaters June 25.
The film will be released by a partnership of Lions Gate Films, IFC Films and the Fellowship Adventure Group, which was formed by Harvey and Bob Weinstein specifically to market Moore's film.
The Weinsteins, who run Miramax Films, bought the rights to the movie from The Walt Disney Co., which owns Miramax and refused to distribute Moore's film.
The Weinstein brothers will personally finance and control distribution and marketing, they said Tuesday.
"I am grateful to them now that everyone who wants to see it will now have the chance to do so," Moore said in a statement.
"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's film, which recently won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, attacks President Bush's handling of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and connects the Bush family with Osama bin Laden's.
Disney chief executive Michael Eisner said the company "did not want a film in the middle of the political process" because he believed that theme park and entertainment consumers "do not look for us to take sides."
In a settlement reached last week, the Weinsteins repaid their parent company for all costs of the film to date, estimated at around $6 million. Any profits from the film's distribution that go to Miramax or Disney will be donated to charity.
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Thank you very much.
As for the Weinsteins and their new FAG, you are probably right. I'm not going to poke any fun at them.
As for the Weinsteins and their new FAG, you are probably right. I'm not going to poke any fun at them.
It might be useful to include a complete list of errors in all of Michael Moore's twaddle to demonstrate to them that they have sunk their money into a mockumentary and not a serious documentary. On the other hand, they may just dismiss you as a "right wing kook" and then launch into verbal abuse. Since they are likely to be lefties, my wager is on the latter.
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Michael Moore's writings and speeches may be more along the lines of Axis Sally (who was arrested when she returned to the US, was convicted of treason, and jailed). She interviewed soldiers under false pretense and used it for propaganda. Michael Moore may have done this with his latest movie.
More 'love' from Mildred Gillars (aka Axis Sally). Who does this sound like???
"Damn all Jews who made this war possible. I love America, but I do not love Roosevelt and all his kike boyfriends.""It's a disgrace to the American public that they don't wake to the fact of what Franklin D. Roosevelt is doing to the Gentiles of your country and my country."
Do the Europeans refer to 9/11 as 11/09?
In almost all of Europe, yes, it would be 11.9.01
this is from an older post
Credit for the Lumpy Riefenstahl line must go to Freeper dead, the wag who apparently coined it first. posted on 05/19/2004 10:40:13 AM PDT by Argus
I hope it catches on, though I meant no disrespect to Wallys friend Lumpy Rutherford, who was an almost likeable schlub.
In almost all of Europe, yes, it would be 11.9.01
How ironic and appropriate that a tunnel-visioned propagandist like Michael Moore forces the Europeans to temporarily use the American methods of recording dates and temperatures!
Sources: Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel "Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit born May 24, 1686, Gdansk, Pol. died Sept. 16, 1736, The Hague, Dutch Republic [now in The Netherlands]" German physicist and maker of scientific instruments. He is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer (1709) and mercury thermometer (1714) and for developing the Fahrenheit temperature scale; this scale is still commonly used in the United States
. "C'est avec émotion que Michael Moore, la Palme d'or entre les mains, a effectué cette dernière montée des marches de la 57ème édition du Festival de Cannes pour la projection du film primé Fahrenheit 9/11."
If "The Passion" wasn't a documentary, what was it?
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