Warner Bros. Pictures Goes Digital With Special Engagement For “The Perfect Storm”

(December 6, 2000 – Burbank, CA) - Warner Bros. Pictures’ highly acclaimed drama “The Perfect Storm,” which launched on July 4th weekend to the largest three-day box office opening in Warner Bros. history, will open in an all-digital projected format in New York and Los Angeles on December 8. Director Wolfgang Petersen will participate in Q&A sessions in New York at the AMC Empire 25 (Dec. 7) and in Los Angeles at the Burbank AMC Media Center 6 (Dec. 8.) The announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President, Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures. “‘The Perfect Storm’ is an ideal film to showcase digitally and we are delighted by the opportunity to bring it back to theatres in this way,” Fellman said. “We are enormously proud of ‘The Perfect Storm’ and thrilled that technological advances enable us to show it to audiences in this spectacular new format.” The epic drama from Warner Bros. Pictures and Baltimore Spring Creek Productions, in association with Radiant Productions, starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg and based on a true story, opened on July 4th weekend to the most successful three-day opening in Warner Bros. Pictures Pictures history. It was the second most successful debut this summer and the third highest box office gross for any July 4th weekend opening ever. One of the best reviewed films of the year, “The Perfect Storm” has grossed $182,597,218 to date. George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg star in “The Perfect Storm” as Warner Bros. Pictures Pictures presents a Baltimore Spring Creek Pictures production in association with Radiant Productions, a Wolfgang Petersen Film. The film also stars Diane Lane, William Fichtner, Karen Allen, Allen Payne, Bob Gunton, with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and John C. Reilly. Music is by James Horner. The film is edited by Richard Francis-Bruce, A.C.E. William Sandell is the Production Designer. John Seale, ACS, ASC, is the Director of Photography. The Executive Producers are Barry Levinson and Duncan Henderson. Based on the book by Sebastian Junger, the screenplay is by Bill Wittliff. Paula Weinstein, Wolfgang Petersen and Gail Katz produced “The Perfect Storm,” which is directed by Wolfgang Petersen. www.perfectstorm.com# # #

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