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"Fahrenheit 9/11" still does not have a distrib
Sun May 16, 2004 21:26
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Fahrenheit 9/11' Flap: Censorship or Just PR?

"Fahrenheit 9/11" still does not have a distrib

Michael Moore admits he was pressured Not to make his film

Michael Moore (news) admitted Sunday that his "Fahrenheit 9/11" still
does not have a distrib -- "Maybe some distributors are afraid of the
film" -- but vowed the film must open in the U.S. before the election.
"George W. Bush has to be removed from office," he declared.

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In his first public interview here, Moore did a one-on-one with
Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart as part of the Variety Conference
Series.
Referring to the pic, which bows tonight in competition, he said, "From
the beginning, there was pressure to try to stop it." Though Icon had
originally agreed to finance the docu, Moore was told that Icon topper
Mel Gibson (news) got a call from a honcho in the Republican Party who
said, "Don't expect any more invitations to the White House if you fund
this movie."
Harvey Weinstein and Miramax agreed to distribute the film ("Same deal,
same money, same everything"). But Moore said that on April 23, Disney
senior veepee of production Brad Epstein viewed the pic and reported
back to Eisner: "One viewing from a low-level production exec" was
enough to end a firm deal for distribution, he said, apparently because
"the potential of this film to have an impact on the election is greater
than they thought."
Disney's official explanation is that it doesn't want to do political
entertainment in an election year, though Moore pointed out that Disney
and its various channels and programs air Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh
and Pat Robertson.
The distribution problem "is intended to stop this film and make sure
Americans don't see it," helmer said.
Taiwan and Hong Kong have no deals for the pic, but otherwise it has a
distrib everywhere in the world except the U.S.
One of the sticking points with a distrib is the insistence on opening
the July 4 weekend: "We won't accept a release date that conveniently
pushes the film past the election."
Distribs have been mum on whether they're in talks to handle the pic.
Referring to Bush as "the dumbest man who ever ran for the presidency,"
Moore said Al Gore (news - web sites) and the Democrats were unable to
inspire voters to turn out for the 2000 election. So the film is
important: "We decided we were not going to leave it up to the Democrats
to fuck it up again and lose it."
Promising "you will see things you have not seen before and learn things
you have not learned before," Moore said the film evolved during its
making and now is half about Iraq (news - web sites). He had crews
working on the docu who were embedded in Iraq who uncovered great stuff.
Talking of the forces behind the war, he exclaimed, "They are totally
fucked! And that's all I want to say."
The DVD release is targeted for October, and Moore said he plans to
include commentary and include info on the problems of distribution.
Asked by Bart if people will view his attacks on the administration as
unpatriotic, he said, "I'm the most patriotic American who believes the
principles of his country." Saying America had created a lot of global
havoc, he added, "My job is to be an American and try to turn things
around."
On a lighter note, Moore said he has ideas for both fiction and
nonfiction films. "I'm already down the road on a few of those." Among
his potential docu targets: U.S. health care, Israeli-Palestinian
relations and an impending oil crisis.
Moore and Bart got big laughs when they agreed that the audible booing
at Moore's 2003 Oscar speech was disproportionately loud; no one in the
audience was seen heckling, so they wondered where that sound came from.
Moore also had the audience whooping with laughter as he did a Gollum
impression debating whether to make his acceptance speech benign or
incendiary.
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Michael Moore pressured not to make 9/11 film
Sun 16 May, 2004 20:20

By Paul Majendie
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=511705§ion=news

CANNES, France (Reuters) - U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore says there had been pressure from the beginning to stop him making his controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."

The film focuses on how Americans and the White House responded to the September 11 attacks and traces links between the Bush family and prominent Saudis, including the family of Osama bin Laden.

The documentary, being screened at the Cannes film festival on Monday, has also sparked a war of words over the decision by the Walt Disney to bar its Miramax film unit from releasing it.

Moore said: "From the beginning, this movie -- there's been this pressure -- to try to stop it so it doesn't get made. Now that it's made, to stop it so it doesn't get distributed."

"You will see things in this film that you haven't seen before," Moore promised at a press conference on Sunday hosted by the trade paper Variety.

"You will learn things you have not learned before," he said. "Half of this movie is about Iraq. We have footage because I have been able to sneak crews into Iraq. I was able to get crew embedded with the U.S. military without them knowing it is Michael Moore shooting."

Moore said that after the September 11 attacks the Bush administration "approved private charter flights to fly around the country to pick up the bin Ladens" -- who he said were then allowed to fly to Paris without serious interrogation.

This is Moore's second appearance at the Cannes film festival.

"Bowling for Columbine," his tirade against the gun lobby in the United States, sparked controversy but then won a special prize from the jury. It went on to gross $120 million (68 million pounds) worldwide and was awarded a Hollywood Oscar.

The wrangling over his latest documentary and the allegations he makes in it have already given the film hefty pre-release publicity.

The film's title is a play on words about the September 11 attacks and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel about censorship.

Moore said: "I have a horrible feeling this is the last day of the rest of my life just because I screened it a couple of times in the Midwest because I wanted to see how it would play out where I come from.

"The reaction was overwhelming in a way that I didn't ever expect and the people that were on the fence --- independents, undecided voters suddenly weren't on the fence."

"George W. Bush has to be removed from office," he said.


 

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