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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...

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...