Sicko released a week early
p2pnet.net news:- Michael Moore’s Sicko, already unofficially online, is slated for official release in the US a week ahead of schedule.
“Hyped in Cuba, unveiled in Cannes, pirated on YouTube, and rallied around last week in Sacramento, Calif., by nurses chanting for the health insurance system’s demise,” it’ll open Friday at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square theater in New York, says the New York Times.
Lionsgate, its distributor, “will otherwise proceed with a planned opening in about 250 theaters around the country the following Friday,” says the story. It’ll also be showing sneak preview in 27 markets, “where Mr. Moore’s politically tinged documentaries have played well in the past, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and Philadelphia”.
A quick check on mininova and Tribler shows it’s doing well with Net audiencesand cries of anguish from Sicko’s distributors notwithstanding, it’ll no doubt do just as well as F/911, which similarly showed up online well in advance of the official release.
Also See:
unofficially online – Sicko shows up on YouTube, June 18, 2007
New York Times – Moore’s ‘Sicko’ Will Be Released Ahead of Schedule, June 19, 2007
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