Controversial director Michael Moore is considering legal action against a cable TV company that dropped plans to screen a three hour special of his movie Fahrenheit 9/11 on the eve of the US election.
Moore earlier this week accused the station of bowing to Republican pressure by reneging on an agreement to show the film, which is sharply critical of incumbent US President George W. Bush. The company said it dropped plans for the screening because of "legitimate business and legal concerns."
But Moore told US journalists that the company's decision was unjustified.
"We've informed iN DEMAND [the cable station] of its legal responsibility and we informed it that every corporate executive that has attempted to prohibit Americans from seeing this film has failed," he said.
"Apparently people have put pressure on them and they've broken a contract."
The documentary earned over US$100 million at the box office, and is also selling well on DVD.
The pay-per-view channel had planned to charge users US$9.95 to watch the three-hour special that was to include interviews with celebrities with strong political opinions, as well as Moore's movie.
Fahrenheit 9/11 opens on general release in Taiwan today. The Taipei Times review we
previously ran can be accessed on http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2004/09/10/2003202407.
Shrek heads to Broadway
Broadway beware. That terrifying monster Shrek has his eyes on New York's theater district for a new musical that will be overseen by Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of American Beauty, according to Dreamworks, which produced both Shrek movies.
The play is set to bow in 2006 and will incorporate both the original film and its sequel, Shrek 2.
The films, which tell the story of an ogre falling in love with a princess, have taken in over US$1.4 billion worldwide.
Dali's Disney film
Some 58 years after it was started, the animated film made by artist Salvador Dali for Walt Disney has finally made its debut.
The six minute short Destino made its debut Saturday in New York, after the unfinished work was completed last year by Roy Disney, the nephew of the legendary animator. The completed
version marries Dali's unique surrealist vision and his own storyboards with modern movie techniques, and was nominated for an Oscar last year.
More `Miami Vice'
Actors Colin Farrell and Jamie Fox are in negotiations to star in the film version of the hit 1980s TV show Miami Vice, according to US press reports.
The series, which ran from 1984 to 1989, centered on two fashion- conscious cops played by Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas who took on Florida's drug kingpins.
Spears wants a break
Newly-married pop star Britney Spears is taking a break from her career to spend time with her husband and perhaps start her family, according to her Web site .
Spear's marital bliss seems to have changed her priorities, and she accused her past advisers of taking advantage of her.
"It's amazing what advisers will push you to do, even if it means taking a naive, young, blonde girl and putting her on the cover of every magazine," the site said. "My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all of the other overexposed blondes on the cover of US Weekly be your entertainment ... good luck girls!" the Web site says.
Spears, 22, married Kevin Federline, 26, on Sept. 18. In January she married childhood friend Jason Alexander in a surprise wedding in Las Vegas but annulled the union 55 hours later.
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