- LOS ANGELES (Reuters)
-- Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary linking President
Bush with powerful Saudi families, including that of Osama bin Laden, is
stirring up controversy even before its release.
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- That's if it even gets released.
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- Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety said in its Wednesday
edition that Walt Disney Co. has moved to prevent its Miramax Films unit
from distributing "Fahrenheit 911."
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- The Disney edict could herald the bloodiest political
battle yet between Miramax's feisty co-chairman Harvey Weinstein and Disney
CEO Michael Eisner, who oversaw the purchase of Miramax a decade ago, Daily
Variety said.
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- "Fahrenheit 911," Moore's follow-up to his
Academy Award-winning film "Bowling for Columbine, will still premiere
in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in France later this month.
Rumors had been circulating of a July release date in North America, but
the film does not appear on Miramax's summer schedule, the paper said.
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- It quoted a Miramax spokesman as saying that the company
was "looking forward to resolving this amicably."
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- Officials from Miramax and Disney were not immediately
available for comment on the report.
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