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Politics : Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Idiot -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (444)	6/16/2004 6:49:37 AM
From: Brasco One	Respond to of 1409

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To: redfish who wrote (444)	6/16/2004 6:53:10 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1409

'Fahrenheit' marketing will crank up the heat By Gary Strauss, USA TODAY NEW YORK — Fahrenheit 9/11, the controversial new film by Michael Moore, is being backed by a marketing campaign unprecedented for a documentary. The film, which examines the Bush family's ties to Osama bin Laden and the war in Iraq, will be released nationally in more than 500 theaters June 25, more than double the 248 mostly art-house screens that showed Moore's Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine. By mid-July, Fahrenheit is expected to expand to 500 more screens. Distributors Lions Gate Films, IFC and Fellowship Adventure Group plan to spend up to $10 million on marketing. That's peanuts compared with the $40 million marketing budgets of Hollywood blockbusters, but a record for a documentary and nearly double Fahrenheit's $6 million cost. Fahrenheit 9/11 has its own Web site, F911tix.com, to bolster group ticket sales. And distributors hope to drum up additional word-of-mouth by holding 10 to 12 pre-release screenings beyond Los Angeles and New York. Friday, Moore will be on CBS' The Late Show with David Letterman and NBC's Dateline. Monday, he'll be on Today. The film — expected to easily surpass the $21.6 million record take of Columbine— is getting a boost from the controversy over it. The Bush administration has denounced the movie as outrageously false and Move America Forward, a conservative group formed last month, is trying to block the film's release. "Michael Moore has the right to free speech," MAF chairman Howard Kaloogian told Daily Variety. "But so do millions of Americans who find his anti-military propaganda and attacks on our troops offensive." Moore has enlisted former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo to help fight the movie's R-rating. A PG-13 rating could boost Fahrenheit's receipts 20%, IFC president Jonathan Sehring says. Moore's wife, producer Kathleen Glynn, says there are no plans to cut scenes from the movie, including a beheading and gruesome shots of dead Iraqis. usatoday.com [I don't think a movie with a beheading qualifies for pg-13]