Motion Pictures
March 8, 2004
First Nine-Plus Minutes Of New Film Thriller “Taking Lives” To Debut Exclusively On The Web March 12
(March 8, 2004 – Burbank, CA) – Movie fans can watch the first nine minutes and eight seconds of Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ upcoming thriller “Taking Lives,” starring Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke, exclusively online at Yahoo! (yahoo.com) for a limited time beginning Friday, March 12th.
The selected sequence sets the story in motion by recounting details of a serial killer’s first crime, an impulsive act that becomes the origin of a bizarre 20-year spree of murder and stolen identities that will ultimately require the skill and unique perspective of one of the country’s best FBI profilers (played by Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie) to unravel.
“This opening sequence is strong and lays the groundwork for the thrills that are to come,” says Mark Canton, one of the “Taking Lives” producers. “By sharing it with fans directly via the Internet, we’re able to show the scene in its entirety, unedited and uninterrupted, which offers a real sense of the mood and complexity of the film.”
The full nine minute and eight second excerpt will be available online exclusively at yahoo.com only from March 12th through the 18th, disappearing permanently from the internet one day before “Taking Lives’” March 19th North American release.
A taut psychological thriller, “Taking Lives” is the story of an FBI agent who becomes involved with her key witness while tracking a serial killer who assumes the lives and identities of the people he kills. She finds herself surrounded by numerous suspects and no one to trust.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, a Mark Canton Production: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke in “Taking Lives,” starring Kiefer Sutherland, Olivier Martinez, Tcheky Karyo, Jean-Hugues Anglade and Gena Rowlands. Directed by D.J. Caruso and produced by Mark Canton and Bernie Goldmann, “Taking Lives” is a screen story and screenplay by Jon Bokenkamp, based on the novel by Michael Pye. Bruce Berman, Dana Goldberg and David Heyman are the executive producers; Alan C. Blomquist is co-producer. Amir Mokri is the director of photography; Tom Southwell, the production designer; and Anne V. Coates, A.C.E., editor. Music by Philip Glass. “Taking Lives” will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures. This film is rated R by the MPAA for “strong violence, including disturbing images, language and some sexuality.”
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