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THE HIGHLY
ANTICIPATED FILM FANBOYS TO HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE SCREENING ON JULY 24TH
DURING COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL 2008
{sidebar id=1}Tickets to be Given Away to the First 300 People in Line at the
Lucasfilm 7th Annual Star Wars Movie Challenge Awards held in San
Diego.
Trigger Street Productions and The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that
the highly anticipated film Fanboys will have an exclusive screening of the
film during this years Comic-Con International Convention. Tickets will
be given away to the first 300 people in line at the Lucasfilms 7th Annual Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Awards, held on July 24th at 8:30pm in
Ballroom 20 at the San Diego Convention Center. During the Awards Ceremony
director Kyle Newman will introduce select footage from the film, providing fans
a sneak peak of the full-length feature to be shown at 10:30pm that same
evening.
In the preceding months, Star Wars fans across the
globe had generated a remarkable grassroots campaign, demonstrating unanimous
support for the main characters battle with cancer to remain in the storyline
of the film. In response to this widespread zeal, the filmmakers incorporated
extensive feedback into the final cut.
I could not be more excited that
Fanboys is being released this September and is the version of the film that
the fans want, said Fanboys producer Kevin Spacey. I am enormously
grateful to Jedi Knight Harvey Weinstein for having allowed Trigger Street to
restore Fanboys to its original story and am thrilled that it will first
screen during Comic-Con. We believe in this film and are honored that George
Lucas and all his team gave us permission to film Skywalker Ranch and let us
have so much fun with Star Wars. We also have a couple of surprises in
the film that I think will bring added enjoyment to all the fans of Lucas' great
and epic movies and Trigger Street is proud to have produced this film and to
have kept the dark side at bay.
Speaking for everyone involved in
the project, we are truly grateful for all the passion the fans have shown the
film, stated director Kyle Newman. Their support has been nothing short
of phenomenal and I couldn't think of a better place in the world than San Diego
during Comic-Con to unveil the final cut of Fanboys.
If this movie
doesnt show that Lucasfilm has a sense of humor, nothing will! said Howard
Roffman, President of Lucas Licensing. We were happy to give them
permission to have some fun with Star Wars and salute our incredible fans
at the same time.
Set in 1998 the film, starring Jay Baruchel (Knocked
Up, Million Dollar Baby), Tony Award Winner Dan Fogler (Kung Fu
Panda, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Sam Huntington (Superman
Returns, Not Another Teen Movie), Chris Marquette (The Girl Next Door,
Another World), and Kristen Bell (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pulse) is a
heart-warming comedy that follows a group of young, passionate Star Wars fans on a cross-country quest to break into George Lucas Skywalker Ranch and
watch Star Wars: Episode 1- The Phantom Menace, before its
released.
Fanboys is a production of Trigger Street Productions and
Picture Machine. The film is directed by Kyle Newman and produced by Kevin
Spacey, Dana Brunetti, Evan Astrowsky and Matthew Perniciaro. The script was
written by Kyle Newman, Adam Goldberg and Ernest Cline and Kevin Mann serve as
executive producer.
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