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"Death of a President," the inappropriate mockumentary that was shown with much controversy at the Toronto Film Festival, is dead after a month in release. The Gabriel Range-directed feature — which showed the simulated assassination of President George W. Bush — was released on Oct. 27 by Newmarket Films, the same company that gave us "The Passion of the Christ." Newmarket opened the film on 143 screens. Thirty three days later it's playing on three screens — one very small one in New York City, one in Madison, Wis., and another in Norfolk, Va. So far the pitiful total take...

The shocking pseudo-documentary, "Death of a President," that uses archival news footage to simulate the assassination of President George W. Bush, has been criticized by politicians on both sides of the aisle for depicting the killing of a sitting president. But at one movie theater just seven blocks from the White House, some members of a matinee audience were less interested in the question the filmmakers claim they were asking - "what if?" - than in indulging the sick fantasy, "if only." Reuters quotes one moviegoer, a Susan Wallick, 53, as saying, "I think it's sad that he's such a...

The much-hyped "Death of a President" isn't worthy of its press. It's a boring, silly movie that's hardly plausible. Unless you're a shrieking leftist who believes in all the BS about Muslims not being terrorists, but being loyal Americans who are wrongly maligned. Then, this is your movie. If you want to see this movie and don't want to find out who really killed President Bush, stop reading here. For everyone else, guess what? The assassin is not the Syrian Muslim, who trained in an Al-Qaeda terrorist training camp in Afghanistan, found with gun powder on his clothing. Nope, the...

For my money, the single most over-hyped bit of entertainment this year is the British What-if-umentary Death of a President. Already defamed as a shocking, hateful film by right wing blogs and celebrities alike, this is rapidly becoming one of those buzz films it’s hard to not to hear about. And being a political junkie myself, when I heard it was getting its US premier here in Austin, I knew that I just had to see it right then and there. Now as I waited in line for the film, the crowd was buzzing about it. Normally I try to...

A new movie that depicts the death of President George W. Bush looks likely to flop at the box office after being snubbed by America's biggest cinema chain. Distribution firm Newmarket Films snapped up the rights to controversial faux documentary Death Of A President after it was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and has moved quickly to ensure it is released at the end of October - ahead of the November 7th elections. But bosses at Regal Entertainment Group are refusing to show the film. CEO Mike Campbell explains, "We feel it is inappropriate to portray...

Toronto – For the 15th consecutive year, the Toronto International Film Festival welcomed an international FIPRESCI jury. FIPRESCI is the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique (the International Federation of Film Critics). The Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) goes to DEATH OF A PRESIDENT from the United Kingdom directed by Gabriel Range, “for the audacity with which it distorts reality, to reveal a larger truth.” DEATH OF A PRESIDENT is a fictional drama with a unique premise, told in the style of a retrospective documentary, which offers a critique of the contemporary US political landscape. The FIPRESCI Jury...

Kevin Costner has waded into the debate about controversial new movie Death Of A President, insisting director Gabriel Range failed to consider how George W Bush's family would react to scenes of the US President being assassinated. The Dances With Wolves star was caught up in the controversy at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada at the weekend, where he premiered his new film, The Guardian, alongside the screening of Death of A President. Movie fans reportedly sat in stunned silence at the end of Range's screening, which featured doctored images of Bush getting shot, and Costner, who wasn't in...

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SIX YEARS into the Bush administration, are there any new lows to which the Bush-haters can sink? George W. Bush has been smeared by the left with every insult imaginable. He has been called a segregationist who yearns to revive Jim Crow and compared ad nauseam to Adolf Hitler. His detractors have accused him of being financially entwined with Osama bin Laden. Of presiding over an American gulag. Of being a latter-day Mussolini. Howard Dean has proffered the ``interesting theory" that the Saudis tipped off Bush in advance about 9/11. One US senator (Ted Kennedy) has called the war in...

The Toronto International Film Festival released new details today regarding a film in their line-up. Previously referred to as D.O.A.P., the film's actual title is DEATH OF A PRESIDENT. This fictional drama, which mixes archival footage with narrative elements, focuses on the assassination of President George W. Bush in the style of a retrospective documentary. DEATH OF A PRESIDENT makes its world premiere in the festival's Visions section on September 10th at 8:30 p.m. at the Paramount 3 Theatre in Toronto. "We’re thrilled to be screening the film at Toronto," said writer/director Gabriel Range. “It’s a striking premise which may...

More4 risks US ire with Bush assassination film Jason Deans, broadcast editor Thursday August 31, 2006 MediaGuardian.co.uk Digital channel More4 will court controversy once again this autumn with a fictional piece, shot as a documentary, about the assassination of the US president, George Bush. Death of a President seems certain to cause a furore on the other side of the Atlantic when it is premiered at the Toronto film festival next month. In the UK the 90-minute film will be broadcast first on Channel 4's digital service in October. The drama takes the form of a fictional documentary looking back...