Fahrenheit
9/11
Directed by: Michael Moore
Release
Date: June 25, 2004
Rated: R
Lions Gate Entertainment
7/14/04
Michael
Moore Still Fighting A Columbine Lawsuit - Sued For Libel
And Defaming The Good Nichols Name
7/8/04
The
Complete F9/11 Polling Memo From MoveOn.Org - The
Missing Poll Question... "Have Bush Voters Or Undecideds
Had Their Minds Changed?"
Yesterday
- New
Poll Indicates That Over 2 Million Bush Voters Have Seen Fahrenheit
9/11
7/7/04
In
An Elevator With Michael Moore, Guy Pearce... And Spider-Man?
Moore
Speaks Korean
New
Poll Indicates That Over 2 Million Bush Voters Have Seen Fahrenheit
9/11 - Inaccurate Report That Two Theater Chains
Are Refusing To Play The Film... GKC's
Traverse City, Michigan Theater Is Playing F9/11... Lone
Holdout Is 34 Screen Fridley Chain
The
Fridley Theaters Press Release
Also - Variety
On GKC & More
Lions
Gate Responds To Counterpunch.org Commentary
Earlier
- Oops,
We Missed It... Fahrenheit 9/11 Is Too Conservative
For Some
Lions
Gate Responds To CNN's Reliable Sources Show On F9/11
Earlier
- Michael
Moore Supporter Bill Press Calls Moore, "The Rush Limbaugh
Of The Left" (Moore Non-Supporters Isikoff & Hitchens
Are Less Kind In This CNN Transcript)
As
Reported On MCN In May, Sony To Take Home Ent. On F9/11
7/6/04
Film
Comment's Michael Moore Outtakes
7/4/04
Some
Need A Clue... Others Need An Acronym... Some Need Both
PABAAH
Is Petitioning To Have Michael Moore Charged With Treason
The Owner
Of Fridley
Theaters, A Chain Of 34 Theaters In Iowa & Nebraska,
Refuses To Show F9/11, Saying "I
Believe This Film Emboldens (Our Enemies) And Divides Our
Country Even More."
St.
Louis Post Dispatch Continues "Republicans Don't Want
You To See F9/11" Propaganda In A Story That Offers Only
Move America Forward As People Who Say "Don't See It"
Michael
Moore... Just As Happy If Bush Wins?
7/2/04
Orwall
Finally Puts Real Numbers To NYT's Waxman's Heretofore Unfollowed
Up On Assertion That A Significant Percentage Of F9/11 Profits
Will Go To Charity, Not Into The Weinstein's Pocket... Weinstein's
Get 40% Of Net (After Distribution Costs, None Of Which Can
Be Charged Back To Miramax), 60% To Charity
Team
9/11 Updates Fahrenheit 9/11 List Of Broken Records
7/1/04
The
F9/11 Piracy Leak & The "Story Of The Day" Mktg
Of The Film
Yesterday On 
-
Anti-Moore
Site Publishes Access To F9/11 Download While Claiming Moore
Approves
Shouldn't
It Be 9 or 11?
Marty
Grove On Fahrenheit's Top Ten Marketing Lessons
6/30/04
A
Little Critical Satire To Lighten The Day
On
The Monday & Night Of F9/11
6/29/04
Guardian
Reports The Michael Moore Will Next Go After HMOs, Though
No Source Of Report Indicated, Meaning It Might Be Another
Blair-esque
Misread
Earlier -
The Month Old Source Of This Story?
MoveOn.Org's
"Turn Up The Heat" F9/11 Town Meeting Audio From
Monday Night
6/28/04
Michael
Moore Responds To Move Forward America's Overreach As Expected
"Disney joining forces with the right wing kooks who
have come together to attempt to censor Fahrenheit 9/11..."
Salon
Also Takes The Low Road
Headlining Disney Joins Anti-Moore Campaign" And
Using Buzz Words Like "Collaborating" In Their Story,
Although Theyt Apparently Didn't Bother To Call Disney
Earlier
-
Disney
Flirts With Serious Media Backlash By Getting Political After
Dumping Fahrenheit 9/11 A
Year Ago
Right-Wing
Group Move Forward America, To Date Known Only For
Attacking F9/11, Aligns Itself With Disney Release, America's
Heart & Soul...
According
To Press Release, Disney Is Giving This Fringe Group A Private
Screening To Draw Press Coverage... An Interesting Marketing
Strategy, Offering A Political Alternative To F9/11 (Even
Though It Is Not Actually Representative Of The Film Itself)
But Potentially The Kind Of Smoking Gun That The Weinsteins,
Moore & The Media Will Use Against Eisner
Even Earlier
John
Horn's June 12 LAT Piece On The Marketing Of This Film
Review
Of America's Heart & Soul From The Maui Film Fest
Heart
& Soul Trailer
6/27/04
Last
Year, The MPAA Kept Newmarket From Quoting Roger Ebert's Suggestion
That Folks "Take The Kids" To The PG-13 Rated Whale
Rider...
This Year, Roeper's
"Everyone Should See This Film" For R-rated F9/11
Is Disapproved For Use In Ads
(see
bottom)
The Fahrenheit
"Facts" -
What
Moore Said | Another Spin
WSJ
Editorial On McCain/Feingold Rules That May Cause F9/11 Some
Ad Trouble
"Much
as we think this is ludicrous and that Mr. Moore should be
able to advertise to his heart's content, it's hard to get
around the uncompromising realities of McCain-Feingold."
Film
Critic Jack Mathews Goes Toe-To-Toe With Bill O'Reilly
Variety's
F9/11 Package
Peter
Bart On Letting Your Enemies
Sell Your Film
Following
The F9/11 Money... Miramax Layoffs Predicted To Occur This
Week
F9/11
To Be U.K. Distribs 1st Big Hit
Every
Good Turnout Deserves A New Spin
"The
biggest news to me this morning is this is a red-state movie.
Republican states are embracing the movie."
F9/11's
Broken Records
Highest opening
weekend ever for a
documentary of any type
Highest opening ever for a wide release under 1000 screens
(beating previous record holder “Rocky III” in 1982)
Highest opening ever for a Palm d’Or winner
Opening weekend numbers have already outgrossed Bowling
for Columbine
Achieved 3rd highest wide per screen average opening for
the year to date
6/26/04
The
Fight Over Whether F9/11 Ads Are Pro-Kerry Ads Continues
6/25/04
Fahrenheit
9/11 On Fire In Theaters... Early Numbers On Friday Projecting
To A $10m - $12m Day... Sell Outs In Most Major Markets...
8
Manhattan Screens At Two Theaters Playing Fahrenheit 9/11
Deliver A Strong $10,500 Per Screen On Wednesday
Right
Wing Anti-Moore Film Fest To Hit Dallas On 9/11
Moore
AccusesNewsweek
Of Deceiving The Public | The
Newsweek Article
6/24/04
F9/11
Goes Without Restrictive 18 In U.K.
Michael
Moore Started Saying That F9/11 Is Not Pro-Kerry A Few Weeks
Ago, But Can't Stop Calling For GWB's Removal From Office...
And Now, The Federal Election Commission Will Take A Long,
Hard Look
Miramax
Publicist Roger Friedman On First Day NY Grosses On F9/11
6/23/04
Cuomo
On Moore On R-Rating Fight
"This
(isn't) entertainment but an advocacy film in which every
piece had significance."
The
Principal Whose School Bush Was At On 9/11 Tries To Reduce
The Heat
A.O. Scott
Feels Compelled To Review F9/11 A Second Time
This
Review - While
Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" will be properly
debated on the basis of its factual claims and cinematic techniques,
it should first of all be appreciated as a high-spirited and
unruly exercise in democratic self-expression.
The
First Review (Which Now Costs $s) - "Fahrenheit
9/11," Michael Moore's most disciplined and powerful
movie to date, suggests that he is also, arguably, a great
filmmaker.
6/22/04
The
Cycle Of Rage Continues As Hollywood Bitchslap's Chris Parry
"Fisks" Christopher Hitchens' "Fisking"
Of F9/11
Earlier
- Slate's Christopher Hitchens Doesn't Like Fahrenheit
9/11 Very Much
"Fahrenheit
9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised
as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject
political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting"
bravery." (This is the nicer stuff.)
Patrick
Goldstein's 2 Hour Lunch With Michael Moore Results In 5 Questions
That Moore Can't Quite Answer
Conservative
Exhibitor Who Will Show F9/11 This Friday Inundated With E-Mails
Accusing Him Of Trying To Bury The Movie
J.
Hoberman On Other Election Year Movies Looking To Hold Sway
GreenCine
Daily Leans Hard, But Staying On Point As It Does A Great
Job Gathering F9/11 Opinions
It's
The R For Fahrenheit 9/11
Two F9/11
Views
From
Perceived Nemesis Lou Lumenick
From
Perceived Supporter B. Ruby Rich
6/21/04
Cuomo
Appearance Rejected By MPAA For Fahrenheit 9/11 Appeal
Argument... For Some Reason, A Quieter Than Expected Story
Bain,
Spectrum & The Carlyle Group (A Business That Is Focused
On In Fahrenheit 9/11 For Bush & Bin Laden Ties)
Buy Loews Cineplex Odeon For $1.5 Billion
Variety
On Last Round Of Ratings Fight In Fahrenheit 9/11 |
The
Rest Of The Variety Story, Left Off Of Yahoo!
A
Note From The Editor Regarding The Headline Below
Earlier
- Whose
Pressure Is It Anyway?
MoveOn.Org
Organizes To Pressure People To See Fahrenheit 9/11 Early
And Often Yet “Organized
Republican attempts to pressure theaters not to show the film
are intimidation and censorship, pure and simple.
6/20/04
Michael
Moore Sits With Perceived Nemesis Lou Lumenick
France,
Germany And A
Fascination With Michael Moore
Fact
Or Fiction In 500 Words Or Less
6/19/04
Moore
& A More Sympathetic Lael Loewenstein
Roger
Ebert Weighs In On The F9/11
Fact And Fiction
6/18/04
Washington
Post Joins Debate On F9/11 Image Of Inactive Bush In The Seven
Minutes After Planes Hit The World Trade Center
NYT
Hearts Michael Moore
6/14/04
What
Does Michael Moore Want You To Know And When Does He Want
You To Know It? Or How
Many Iraqi Prisoners Were Abused Before Someone Else Broke
The News?
"I had it months before the story broke on '60 Minutes,'
and I really struggled with what to do with it. I wanted to
come out with it sooner, but I thought I'd be accused of just
putting this out for publicity for my movie. That prevented
me from making maybe the right decision.''
Lie
Or Laugher?
"Sorry
to scare you, Tony: Michael Moore was just kidding."
| The
MM.Com Note
6/13/04
Fahrenheit
9/11 To Appeal "R" Rating Based On Foul Language
& Graphic Footage Of War Casualties, Dead & Alive
And
In His Spare Time, Michael Moore Will Go After Tony Blair
Too - In The Meantime He's Hiring His Own Political Consultants
6/12/04
Fahrenheit
9/11 Isn't For Kerry... Just Against Bush... And It Is
A Campaign... But Not For Kerry...Right?
6/10/04
It's
A 9/11 Poster Parade
Jon
Stewart's Fahrenheit 6/25
The
Hot Button: Fahrenheit
9/11 is the vast right wing conspiracy and Clinton shaking
his finger at America when he did not have sexual relations
with that woman and the ad with the little girl and the flower
before the a-bomb explodes and America's Funniest Home Videos
and Robert Smigel's Saturday TV Funhouse and the terrorist
montage & speech that accompanied Daniel Pearl's beheading
all on one overlong package.
6/9/04
Fahrenheit
9/11 Industry Screening....
At The Academy...
There's
A New Michael Moore Documentary Trailer In Town... But This
One Is For A Movie Called Michael Moore Hates America
6/6/04
Searchlight
Corrects Earlier MCN Report, The Clearing Will Remain
In Its July 2 Slot
Earlier - Fox
Searchlight's The Clearing Moves, Joining Focus Features'
The Door In The Floor, Miramax's Zatoichi (Japan)
& The Best Of Youth (Italy) By Moving Out Of F9/11's
Way
Fahrenheit
9/11
Home Ent Rights Finally Go To Sony
- Alliance Atlantis Takes Canada
Will
Michael Moore Accuse Republicans & Shaq Of Trying To Silence
His Movie With The Death & Playoff Combo?
Ebert
& Roeper's Fahrenheit 9/11 Review Preempted In
L.A. By Reagan Coverage On Sat., Lakers On Sun.
6/4/04
The
Quicktime Trailer
6/3/04
As
Projected By MCN Last Month, Zatoichi Has Been Moved
By Miramax Again (To July 23) To Throw Screens To
Fahrenheit 9/11
6/1/04
Variety Gets The Expected Scoop
Fahrenheit
911 To Lions Gate & IFC Team-Up
Note - There Is
Still No Major Studio Involved, Though Home Ent. Rights Will
Likely End Up With A Major. Also, Miramax Staff Shockingly
& Inexplicably Warned Off Of Any Mktg. Involvement
5/27/04
Michael
Moore Has 20 Minutes Of Interview Footage With Nicholas Berg
Len
Klady Reports That Michael Eisner Is Trying To Leverage Fahrenheit
911 Deal To Put New Rules In Weinstein Personal Services
Contracts, Which Are Also Up For Renewal Next Year
5/25/04
Anthony
Andrews Looks At Both Sides Of Michael Moore
5/24/04
"To
call Michael Moore a pathological liar is just too
easy…"
5/23/04
Tony
Scott Continues
The Michael Moore Love Affair
Palme
d'Or Goes To Fahrenheit 911
5/20/04
Jean-Luc
Godard Is A Moore Mocker
How
Michael Moore Gets Away With It And Then Some
5/19/04
Miramax
Hires Political Flacks To "Protect" Michael Moore
As Reported
On MCN Over The Weekend, Rights Expects To Be Split Between
Multiple Companies
Players
Gonna Play .. Moore Dealing For 911 - Moore
Wants It In Theatres By July
And DVD By Election Day
Also -
Jeff
Wells Reports Today In MoviePoopShoot That Miramax Is Trying
To Squeeze New Distrib Under 10% Return Newmaket Got For Distributing
On The Passion
5/17/04
Dave
Germain & The Shy,
Retiring Michael Moore
Michael
Moore Continues The Spin The Truth Into Untrue Promotional
Sound Bites
Wave Of Reviews Expected
To Follow Press Screening
With
Peter Bart
With
Gregg Kilday
With
Wash Post's Desson Thomson
Just For The Record - Miramax
Never Annonced A Release Date For Fahreheit 911 &
Moore's Alleged July 4 Scheduled Release Date Is A Sunday
5/15/04
Moore
From Moore On Moore
Earlier - This Usually Means He's Gonna Make Up Some
Really Good Stuff...
"I
have a lot to say about Disney, and a lot that hasn't been
reported," Says Moore
The
NYT/Eisner Vendetta - Why
Does Tony Scott's Story On Michael Moore's Influence On Morgan
Spurlock Lead With Childish "Us First-ing" And Punishment
For Eisner's Op-Ed Letter?
5/9/04
Could
Moore Controversy Be First Strike In Miramax Exit Strategy?
NY
Post - Might Michael Be Willing To Sell Miramax Back To Harvey?
5/6/04
Michael
Moore Admits On CCN That He Knew A Year Ago That Disney Had
Ho Intention Of Distributing His Film
BBC
Asks Its Listeners/Readers For Moore/Disney Feedback and Gets
It
Balanced,
Fully Reported Story On Moore/Disney by Reuters
Now
They Are Editorializing About Disney/Moore
Them
Too!
Orwall
Adds Discussion Of Issue With Dinsey Board To Moore Story
Brownfield
& Dutka Add More on Moore & Disney
5/5/04
Senator
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) Gets Sucked Into Michael Moore's Con
Job...Embarrasses Self
Earlier - Reuters
"Corrects" Story To Include Eisner & Studio
Quotes
Earlier - Disney Responds Concisely To Michael Moore's
Attack: "In
May 2003, The Walt Disney Company communicated to Miramax
and Mr. Moore’s representatives that Miramax would not
be the distributor of his film. Contrary to his assertions,
Mr. Moore has had and continues to have every opportunity
to either find another distributor or distribute the film
himself. "
Earlier
- Michael
Moore Blogs An Answer
Even
Earlier -
Disney
Blocks Miramax Distribution Of Bush-Bashing Moore Doc Fahrenheit
911
The
Two Big Stories Of The Day: Michael Moore v. Disney And Spider-Man
Steals Second
4/15/04
Seitz
On Hollywood's Fascination With Revenge, Religion And Post-9/11
4/11/04
IndieWire
On The Full Frame Doc Fest, Including Some Thoughts From The
Full Framed Michael Moore
2/2/04
The
Unapologetic And Ordinary Guy Michael Moore Is Coming Back
5/12/04
Drudge
Reports - Moore Doc Now Being Backed By Miramax?
4/16/03
Moore
Burns Bush In Texas
** Moore
About His Oscar "Backlash"
3/31/03
Michael
Moore Targets Next Subject - Surprise! - Bush And Bin Laden
