Bush assassination movie Coming to America

by Josh Grossberg Sep 12, 2006, 11:15 AM PT
All kinds of controversy is coming soon to a theater near you.

Newmarket Films, the indie distribution company that brought us Mel Gibson's polarizing The Passion of the Christ, has paid a reported $1 million to secure U.S. distribution rights to Death of a President, a movie that has sparked an uproar for dramatizing the assassination of President George W.
Bush.
The deal was announced on Monday, the five-year anniversary of 9/11. But a source claimed the date was purely coincidental and that negotiations simply had begun after the film had its world premiere screening at the Toronto International Film Festival Sunday night.
The brainchild of British producer-director Gabriel Range, Death of a President will air initially on Britain's Channel 4 on Oct. 9 and will be rolled out to theaters across the U.S. in the following months. Newmarket would not confirm whether it would time the film's release to Election Day.
Shot like a typical television documentary, the 93-minute film uses computer wizardry to combine archival footage of President Bush with staged scenes to depict the murder and its aftermath. The trades estimate the film's budget between $2 million and $4 million.
The film opens in October 2007, with the President visiting Chicago amid demonstrations over his newly expanded powers via the so-called Patriot Act 3. After giving a speech, he exits a hotel to his motorcade when he is gunned down by an assassin hiding in a nearby building. FULL STORY