posted September 12, 2006 04:50 PM            

While purely coincidental -- negotiations started latenight after the pic preemed Sunday at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival -- deal was struck as the real Bush observed a moment of silence in Gotham to mourn the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

No one involved in the deals would discuss price, but the total value of the three pacts is said to be close to $3 million.

While no U.S. release date has been set, Newmarket is said to be mulling a fall release to take advantage of the controversy surrounding its Toronto preem.

Helmed by Gabriel Range, "Death" is a British production lensed mostly in Chicago. Blighty broadcaster Channel 4 financed the pic's budget of around $4 million and its Film 4 unit is repping worldwide rights. Pic is slated to air on its More 4 satcaster on Oct. 9 and then be broadcast on Channel 4 on Oct. 17.

The most successful pic Newmarket has distribbed is Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," which grossed $370 million. Most of its ticket buyers were evangelical Christians, many of whom are the political conservatives who have objected vociferously to the fictional depiction of Bush's murder.

"I, like everyone else, came with a preconceived notion of what this film would be about and was shocked to discover that 'Death of a President' is first and foremost a riveting and commercial political thriller that in no way sensationalizes anything or advocates violence," said Newmarket co-founder Chris Ball.

Indie Circle is a consortium of theatrical distribs Haut et Court in France, Lucky Red in Italy, A-Film in Holland, Cineart in Belgium and Frenetic Switzerland.

Andrea Occhipinti, owner of Lucky Red, which will release the pic in Italy, said, "It's very today. It's very provocative and controversial, and we like those kind of films." He added, though, that "Death" does not advocate assassination. "It's not a film suggesting this should happen."

Styled as a look back at Bush's murder on Oct. 19, 2007, pic is similar in style to that of the many docs aired on cable in recent weeks examining the Sept. 11 attacks, with actors posing as interview subjects narrating over archival news footage, some doctored, such as the swearing in of Dick Cheney as the 44th president of the United States.

Pic traces the hunt for the assassin and explains how the fictional President Cheney attempts to use the murder to invade Syria, ultimately settling for an expansion of law enforcement powers under the Patriot Act.........
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117949901?categoryid=1236&cs=1&s=h&p=0

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I wonder what sick bas*tards will be lining up to watch this sh1t. No doubt there will be a few 'foam at the mouth" lefties from here that are dying to see it....

posted September 12, 2006 11:40 PM            

But yeah, I'm sure there are some that are just gonna be lapping it up. :\

posted September 13, 2006 12:19 PM            

Lapping it up is exactly right. Just like the A-holes that used the 9-11 thread in order to once again, slam on the US and promote their anti-war agenda.

posted September 13, 2006 01:07 PM            

Kill-Bush mania
Posted: September 13, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Let me sum up in two words how the unhinged left copes with the threat of global jihad: "Kill Bush!"

On the fifth anniversary week of the Sept. 11 attacks, the anger of entertainment industry liberals and anti-war zealots is directed not at Islamic terrorists telling us to convert or die. Not at American al-Qaida operative Adam Gadahn smirking at our country's pain and praising the throat-slitting, children-incinerating hijackers as "strong-willed men."

No, their thoughts are not focused on killing jihadists. Their dreams lie with killing George W. Bush. The mainstreaming of presidential assassination chic is on.

In her new book, "Peace Mom," Cindy Sheehan confesses on page 29 that she has imagined going back in time and killing the infant George W. Bush to prevent the Iraq war. It's the moonbat version of pre-emption. Sheehan admits she has entertained this infanticidal fantasy "often." That ice-cream-and-coffee hunger strike is getting to her head.

Meanwhile, our friends in Canada celebrated the screening of a new kill-Bush fictional documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival. "Death of a President," a British mockudrama, is set in the fall of 2007 and looks back at the impact on America after President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago. The 90-minute feature explores who could have planned the murder, with a Syrian-born man wrongly accused of the crime.

The movie director, Gabriel Range, produced a similar tinfoil-hat retrospective fake documentary about a terrorist strike that turns out to be an inside job wrongly blamed on a Saudi trader.

Range stalked the president to gather footage for the movie, according to the Los Angeles Times, and gained access to film Bush's arrival in Chicago earlier this year for a speech at the Economic Club of Chicago. He also filmed anti-war rallies, faked others and staged a 14-car presidential motorcade sequence with hundreds of extras posing as protesters shouting anti-war slogans. The film crew hid behind the acronym "DOAP," Range explained. "We called the film 'DOAP' and very few people ever asked us what it stood for. To those who did ask, we said it stood for 'Death of a President' and it was a fictional film, the small distinction being that the president wasn't exactly fictional."

Right. What are a few white lies when you are creating a murder-Bush masterpiece? Tastefully done, of course.

While blame-America Brits and Canadians munch their popcorn and soak in President Bush's fake blood on the silver screen, no one can top our own homegrown moonbats in their hatred of George W. Bush. Malachy McCourt – Green Party candidate for the New York governorship and brother of author Frank McCourt – earned "Hardball" loon Chris Matthews' praise for voicing his anti-Bush assassination fascination on national TV (thanks to NewsBusters.org for the tip-off):

Matthews: "Look, let me ask you this. Where are you on capital punishment?"
Malachy McCourt: "Capital punishment? I think that if, if I've got to find that guy in Spain who indicted Pinochet and get him for war crimes, and I get him to do the same thing for Bush. And in that case, I would be for capital punishment. Otherwise, I am against it."

Matthews, at the close of the interview, guffawed: "Well, I had to tell you, I hereby make my stand, I like you already. Malachy McCourt, Green Party candidate."

Bloody Bush Derangement Syndrome isn't new. But Sept. 11 and the campaign season do seem to have exacerbated the symptoms. And the commercial success and social acceptability of "Kill Bush" literature, talk radio rhetoric and art on the left is on the rise. From Sarah Vowell's best-selling murder travelogue of assassinated Republican presidents, "Assassination Vacation," to Nicholson Baker's "Checkpoint," a novella conversation between two people about the advisability of assassinating Bush, to mock stamp art exhibits depicting Bush with a gun to his head, to anti-war placards featuring a decapitated Bush with blood dripping from his neck, acute BDS underscores the complete intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the left in America and around the globe.

Jihadists are gunning for Bush, our troops and innocent civilians at home and abroad. But when it comes to how they would combat the true menaces to the West, all the kill-Bush crowd can shoot are blanks.

posted September 14, 2006 03:52 PM              

Some people just aren't very good at figuring out who their enemies really are. Some are just so afraid of the real enemy, that they redirect their rage toward a "safer" target. They talk so tough, but really they're the biggest cowards of all, because they can't bare to face up to the realities that are confronting their nation and her allies. And they're mad as he!! at anyone who dares not only to acknowledge the cretans, but confront them too. That makes it really hard to remain in denial and oblivious to the thing that make them p!ss theirselves with fear the most.

Damn, that Bush. Things were so much easier when everyone was happily oblivious, and the only real "bad guys" were all in the White House. Some are still clinging tenaciously to that dellusion, so see? It's not impossible to do.

Don't worry, be happy. There's no such things as a big bad jihad. There only a crappy president, and everything else in the world is fine. GET RID OF HIM, AND THEY'LL JUST GO AWAY QUIETLY. He's the reason they hate us, afterall.

posted September 14, 2006 05:01 PM            

But everyone knows the world was one big happy family...before Bush.

The US was universally loved and respected...before Bush.

Terrorist and terrorism weren't even words...before Bush.

All those incidents...before Bush...were just isolated events.

Kidnap and murder of Israel Olympic athletes

Storming of the US embassy and kidnap of embassy personnel in Iran

Bombing of a civilian airliner over Scotland

Bombing of Marine barracks

Bombing of the WTC in 1993

Bombing of 2 US embassies in Africa

Murder and torture of US military personnel in Somalia

Bombing of the USS Cole

All isolated events and certainly not the work of.....gee, I can't think of that word...which didn't exist...before Bush.

And then came...Bush...to steal Arab Oil, force western culture on Islamic nations...McDonalds, Coke, America movies, American music, American fashion, American slang, capitalism...you know, American Imperialism with Bush ruling the world

And on January 20, 2009...Bush will be gone...and the world will be just one big happy family again.

posted September 17, 2006 11:12 AM            

"Gabriel Range's "Death of a President" was criticized for a dramatic collapse after the president is killed."

"'Death of a President' does not have the requisite brains to take on its conservative targets, much less exploit the potential or implications of its own gimmick," wrote New York Times critic Manohla Dargis.

posted November 02, 2006 12:52 AM            

The pseudo-documentary played at 91 U.S. theaters and 52 Canadian cinemas during its first three days of release, averaging an estimated $1,970 per screen, according to distributor Newmarket Films, which reportedly paid $1 million for U.S. rights to the picture.

"That's a very poor opening," said Brandon Gray, an analyst at industry watcher Web site boxofficemojo.com. (Watch why the director wanted to show the current president dying -- 3:30)

The per-screen average is considered the best initial barometer of box-office success for a limited-release film, as it offers an apples-to-apples comparison with movies of widely divergent distribution patterns.

Elsewhere on the art-house circuit this weekend, "The Queen," starring Helen Mirren as British monarch Elizabeth II, grossed $1.9 million from 152 theaters for a per-screen average of $12,500 in its fifth outing -- about the same as the Dixie Chicks' documentary "Shut Up & Sing," which opened last Friday in just four theaters with total ticket sales of $50,000. "Saw III" led the box office overall.

Newmarket distribution chief Richard Abramowitz called the opening tally for "Death of a President" "a little disappointing" in light of the "enormous awareness" generated by the film since its premiere last month at the Toronto Film Festival.

At least two national theater chains boycotted the film and some television networks refused to accept paid ads for the movie. Politicians across the spectrum, from the Republican Party of Texas, Bush's home state, to New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized the film for portraying the murder of a sitting president.

Abramowitz, whose company also released Mel Gibson's highly controversial blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ," acknowledged that the subject matter of "Death of a President" might have proved to be a turnoff for American audiences.

"The very thing that drew all the attention to the film became at a certain point difficult to overcome," he told Reuters. "The controversy ... made the film very visible but not necessarily for reasons that would compel potential moviegoers to go to the theater."

Studios typically aim to widen the distribution of limited-release films once they open but Abramowitz said he expected "Death of a President" would end up on fewer screens next weekend.

Still, with future distribution on DVD and television, "I think this is going to turn out to be a nicely profitable film for Newmarket," he said.

British director Gabriel Range's $2 million picture centers on the hypothetical ramifications of Bush's assassination and its impact on U.S. civil liberties. The film mixes real footage of Bush with digital effects to depict the president being gunned down by a sniper as he leaves a hotel in Chicago.

posted November 02, 2006 12:59 AM              

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"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"-Khalil Gibran

posted November 02, 2006 07:54 PM              

Death of a President

06/10/18
Death of a President is a controversial new film by director Gabriel Strange. George talks to the UK director about what it's like to make a film about such an inflammatory subject.