BACKSTORY: Press Release: Lions Gate Films Lions Gate Films and IFC Films to Contest 'R' Rating for Controversial, Award-Winning Film 'Fahrenheit 9/11' VANCOUVER, BC, SANTA MONICA, Calif. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2004-- Academy Award Winner Michael Moore's Critically Heralded Film to Open Nationwide On June 25 Lions Gate Films, a division of Lions Gate Entertainment (AMEX and TSX: LGF - News News) and IFC Films have begun the process of contesting the R rating the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has applied to its June 25 nationwide release "Fahrenheit 9/11", it was announced today by Tom Ortenberg, President...