| Subject: "Creation" movie finds a distributor |
| From: Robert Luhn <luhn@ncseweb.org> |
| Date: 9/24/09, 16:39 |
| To: undisclosed-recipients:; |
Just got the news.."Creation", the new (and well received) biopic about
Darwin has found an American distributor.
Our story, in sum (at:
http://ncseweb.org/news/2009/09/creation-finds-distributor-005069):
Creation finds distributor
September 24th, 2009
The new film about Darwin, Creation, will be distributed in the United
States after all, according to a story in the Hollywood Reporter
(September 24, 2009). The film is expected to be released by Newmarket
Films in December 2009. Earlier the producer of the film, Jeremy Thomas,
lamented to the Telegraph (September 11, 2009), "It has got a deal
everywhere else in the world but in the US, and it's because of what the
film is about. ... It is unbelievable to us that this is still a really
hot potato in America." A few days later, however, NBC Bay Area
(September 15, 2009) reported that a distribution deal was imminent.
In her review of Creation at The Panda's Thumb blog, NCSE's executive
director Eugenie C. Scott described it as "a thoughtful, well-made film
that will change many views of Darwin held by the public for the
good." It also received praise from Steve Jones in Time Out London
(September 22, 2009), who called it "a great film about a great man and
a greater theory" and by Adam Rutherford in his Guardian blog (September
23, 2009), where he wrote, "we should ... be grateful that this film is
moving and beautiful, just like the creation Darwin so luminously
untangled," adding, "Creationists the world over deserve to see it."
Links:
Movie site
http://creationthemovie.com/
Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3icbd5f8a8048766fc75dfd9b5e88dfce1
Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6173399/Charles-Darwin-film-too-controversial-for-religious-America.html
Dr. Eugenie Scott's review at Panda's Thumb
http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2009/09/eugenie-scott-r.html
Adam Rutherford in the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/sep/23/darwin-creation-film
Full press release
http://www.screendaily.com/news/distribution/newmarket-takes-us-rights-to-toronto-opener-creation/5006096.article?referrer=RSS
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