Major theaters shun "Death of a President" film
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Two major U.S. theater chains say they will not show a controversial new movie that depicts the assassination of President George W. Bush, while the film's distributor defended it as a thoughtful political thriller.
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Mexican-born director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde's feature film debut, the unheralded "Bella," took the top audience prize at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival. International critics gave an award to the controversial British TV movie "Death of a President," which centers on a fictionalized assassination of President Bush.
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Two of the most talked about films of they year, Mel Gibson&#39;s, &#39;The Passion of the Christ&#39; and Michael Moore&#39;s &#39;Fahrenheit 9/11&#39; have both been declared ineligible for the Best Picture award by the Foreign Hollywood Press Association which gives out the
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Death Of A President is one of the most controversial political movies made.
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The San Diego Public Library canceled a free public showing of the film &quot;Fahrenheit 9/11&quot; two days before the election after numerous complaints about fairness.
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IFC Entertainment and  Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment have nabbed all North  American rights to the Oscar-shortlisted documentary "An  Unreasonable Man," which follows controversial presidential  candidate Ralph Nader.
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Makers of a movie about a failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler will not be allowed to use a German memorial site but this is unrelated to the fact that star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, the Finance Ministry said on Monday.
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The Bush administration said on Friday it turned down a request from the Screen Actors Guild and other film industry groups to file a complaint against Canadian film subsidies at the World Trade Organization.
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Warner Brothers has decided not to distribute an antiwar documentary by David O. Russell that was supposed to be an add-on to a new DVD of "Three Kings."
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But the film will not draw in the audiences.
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Two Hollywood films that take up the politics of the Iraq war grew out of the conviction that the American public was not getting the full picture of the violence.
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Last-minute cancellations left  the European premiere of Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows  You're Dead" without most of its star power Monday.
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Magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi is shutting down the U.S. edition of its movie magazine Premiere.
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After you kill off President George W.   Bush in a fictional film, what do you do? How about make a   deal.
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La Scala opera house has lifted its cancellation of a production of 'Candide' that included a scene in which actors depicting President Bush and other world leaders danced in their underwear.Director Robert Carsen said there would be some modifications to the production, which was to open Wednesday night, but that the underwear scene would remain. He denied that censorship or political pressure played any role in the changes.'I wouldn't be here now if there had been any pressure because that would be against the spirit of freedom in this opera,' Carsen said, according to the news agency ANSA. Read more
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For 50 years, Germany has shied away from presenting Adolf Hitler as the main character in a movie.
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The last movie theater standing in Dupont Circle, a neighborhood once known for its small, funky, foreign and art-house film offerings, will close in January after struggling to compete with the area's bigger and newer multiplexes.