IFC and Sundance to air F 9/11, Soliders Pay and Bush's Brain Nov. 1

[LiviaOlivia]

Posted: Wed., Oct. 27, 2004, 3:41pm PT
Sundance probing 'Bush's Brain'
Voters bombarded with pol docs

By IAN MOHR


NEW YORK -- The Sundance Channel is planning a November surprise of its own by airing the feature docu "Bush's Brain" on Monday, the night before the presidential election.

Move follows the Independent Film Channel's push to air two other political docus -- Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11: A Movement in Time" and David O. Russell's "Soldiers Pay" -- also Monday.

"Brain," by helmers Joseph Mealey and Michael Paradies Shoob, profiles Karl Rove, the powerful political adviser behind the president. Pic is based on last year's bestseller of the same name by journos James Moore and Wayne Slater.

Pic features interviews with political pundits Molly Ivins, Glen Smith, Richard Leiby, Joe C. Wilson and Max Cleland, among others, and original music by folk-rocker Michelle Shocked.

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http://www.variety.com/story.asp?l=story&a=VR1117912595&c=14
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[Quadrajet]

1. Wow!

It sounds like I might have to ask for Monday AND Tuesday night off of work.

[Shae]

2. Damn ...

Now I'm gonna have to break down and order the Showtime channels.
With Dish tv you don't get Sundance without 'em. :-(

[LiviaOlivia]

3. IFC to air F 9/11r on Friday 10/29 10pm ET

and again at 1am Saturday 10/30

link: http://www.ifctv.com/ifc/index

Also


IFC NEWS
IFC Celebrates 1st Amendment on Election Eve
with "Soldiers Pay" and "The War Room"

by Shilpa Mankikar/indieWIRE

While voters prepare to line up at nationwide voting booths, the Independent Film Channel will cast its ballot for freedom of speech and documentary film on Monday night. IFC's pre-election programming comes to a grand finale with "Soldiers Pay," the 35-minute documentary from David O. Russell ("I Heart Huckabees"). The film was originally shot as an extra for the intended DVD re-release of his Gulf War film "Three Kings" (1999). After Warner Brothers balked on the controversial election season release in August, Cinema Libre picked up the documentary in time for an October theatrical debut and now there will be a national IFC broadcast on the eve of the presidential election. Other IFC election picks include "The War Room" and "Fahrenheit 9/11: A Movement in Time."

"Soldiers Pay" was directed by David O. Russell, Tricia Regan, and Juan Carlos Zaldîvar, made for $207,000 in 6 weeks. Voices included in the doc range from Persian Gulf Veterans, Iraqis who rose up against Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War, journalists, psychologists, and a two-star general who led the Marines to victory in the Gulf. On August 16th, Russell was quoted in the New York Times, saying, "I thought I could perhaps make a difference before the election, let people see the situation, how Iraqis wanted to get rid of Saddam, but also show what war does to people." Those comments were enough to raise the hackles of studio lawyers and Warner Brothers quickly dropped both "Soldiers Pay" and the entire "Three Kings" re-release project, returning the rights to the filmmakers who pursued the deal with Cinema Libre.

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[LiviaOlivia]

4. Clarification to above post.

IFC to air "F 9/11: A Movement In Time" a 30 minute doc about the film F 9/11. But Moore did pull thru a PPV deal today.


from Variety.com
Moore gets '9/11' on PPV before election
Thurs., Oct. 28, 2004, 5:46pm PT

By JOHN DEMPSEY, GABRIEL SNYDER


Michael Moore had to undertake an odyssey to get there, but his "Fahrenheit 9/11" will be available to at least a million homes on pay-per-view Monday, the night before Election Day.

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With In Demand out of the picture, the owner of "Fahrenheit," Bob and Harvey Weinstein's Fellowship Adventure Group, has engineered a deal with Los Angeles-based TVN Entertainment to carry "Fahrenheit 9/11," with no extras, for two runs Monday at 8 and 11 p.m. ET (5 and 8 p.m. PT). TVN is in the business of delivering PPV movies and events to cable systems owned by a number of operators in the U.S., including Comcast and Charter.

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EchoStar is leaning strongly toward carrying the movie, although a company spokesman would say only that it has an affinity for pics that gross more than $100 million in U.S. multiplexes.

DirecTV also loves big-grossing theatricals, but a spokesman for the company said that it has passed on "Fahrenheit," adding that political considerations had nothing to do with the decision. (Rupert Murdoch, an outspoken conservative, runs DirecTV.)

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Look for a $9.95 PPV fee