{"id":1697,"date":"2008-05-13T22:53:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T21:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2008-05-17T03:53:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T02:53:46","slug":"michael-moore-set-for-fahrenheit-911-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/05\/13\/michael-moore-set-for-fahrenheit-911-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moore set for Fahrenheit 9\/11 sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Moore<\/strong><\/a> is set to make a follow up film to his 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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indieWire report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Paramount Vantage and Overture Films have announced that they will team to co-finance and distribute Michael Moore’s next film, an as-yet-untitled follow-up to “Fahrenheit 9\/11.”<\/p>\n

Vantage will handle international distribution in all media and Overture will handle domestic distribution in all media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It will get an official launch at the international marketplace this week in Cannes.<\/p>\n

Moore released a statement that said:<\/p>\n

It’s great to be working again with [Overture CEO] Chris McGurk and [Paramount Film Group President] John Lesher.<\/p>\n

Both of them have been exceptional to work with in the past and I look forward to their assistance in this new project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John Lesher<\/a> used to be Moore’s agent when he was at Endeavor<\/a> back when Fahrenheit 9\/11 was released in 2004.<\/p>\n

Chris McGurk<\/a> was at MGM when they released Bowling For Columbine<\/a> in 2002.<\/p>\n

Paramount Vantage<\/a> and Overture<\/a> made an international distribution deal at Cannes last year which allows Overture to tap in to Vantage’s international sales division as well as the international distribution of Paramount Pictures.<\/p>\n

Variety report<\/a> why it won’t be released by The Weinstein Company<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Fahrenheit is the highest grossing docu ever domestically, earning $119.1 million. It grossed another $100 million at the international box office.<\/p>\n

Moore’s decision not to make his next film with the Weinstein Co. comes after “Sicko” failed to ignite the box office.<\/p>\n

Film, which took on the U.S. health care system, grossed $24.5 million domestically and $11.2 million internationally. Topically, the film didn’t resonate with overseas auds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The new Moore film should be released sometime in 2009.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 17\/05\/08: Anne Thompson of Variety<\/a> speaks here with Moore about the film:<\/p>\n

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> IndieWire report in full<\/a>
\n> Michael Moore<\/a> at the IMDb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Moore is set to make a follow up film to his 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9\/11. indieWire report: Paramount Vantage and Overture Films have announced that they will team to co-finance and distribute Michael Moore’s next film, an as-yet-untitled follow-up to “Fahrenheit 9\/11.” Vantage will handle international distribution in all media and Overture will handle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[152,153,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}