- PHILADELPHIA -- Michael
Moore's controversial new movie Fahrenheit 9-11 was completely blacked
out in densely Republican vote-heavy Delaware county and faced near total
censorship in the fifth largest U.S. market--Philadelphia and its Delaware
Valley suburbs--as the film opened yesterday on just 12 screens out of
377 total ( 3 % ) in 43 Philadelphia area theaters. Moore wrote, produced
and directed the movie documentary critical of President Bush's war policy
and actions during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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- The film is appearing on only 4 screens out of 197 (
2 % ) in the heavily Republican voter strongholds of suburban Delaware
( 0 screens ), Bucks ( 3 ) and Chester ( 1 ) counties. This, as political
cognoscenti in the Keystone State are fully aware that sell-outs and public
awareness of the explosive picture could ultimately affect the size of
the suburban GOP voter turnout this Fall in southeastern Pennsylvania--and
ultimately the electoral college.
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- The Regal Entertainment Group maintains a strong movie
theater presence in the suburban marketplace surrounding Philadelphia;
but it also keeps close financial ties to President Bush. This, as Regal
is showing Moore's Fahrenheit on just 4 of its 108 movie screens in Philadelphia
and its suburbs.
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