Michael Moore's "Sicko" will be released on June 29th

Weinsteins set 'Sicko' release date

Moore film to rollout June 29
By IAN MOHR

The Weinstein Co. has pegged a June 29 rollout for Michael Moore's Cannes-bound docu "Sicko" and brought in Lionsgate to partner on releasing the documaker's first pic since "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Division of labor will see Lionsgate booking theaters on "Sicko" in the U.S. while TWC handles all marketing and publicity duties and puts up all P&A costs.

TWC is also handling international rights and is offering the doc -- a critical look at the U.S. health care system -- in Cannes after its world preem.

People close to the pic's domestic partnership said that TWC was attracted to Lionsgate because of Lionsgate's exclusive pay TV pact with Showtime for docus.

Pact reteams Bob and Harvey Weinstein with Lionsgate three years after the movie-mogul sibs picked the indie studio to help roll out "Fahrenheit 9/11."

"Lionsgate was very helpful the last time, and this time we're happy to have them involved again," Harvey Weinstein said. He added that he sees "Sicko" as a less controversial film than "Fahrenheit."

"I've seen this movie with Republicans and Democrats, and this is one time Michael has sort of unified everyone," he said. "The health care industry might not have a very good July Fourth."

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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117964520.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

"Plot Outline:A comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on earth."

Then I have been told that I spent most of my life in the Far Side. My whole family have always got a kick out of the really odd things in life.

Ouch!

YIKES!

Michael Moore is a hero.

yup, he's a hero of mine. To have released Fahrenheit 911 in the times that he did was courageous. The points of that movie get even more relevant with the passage of time, as all the skeletons of this traitorous administration poke through the soil of each new spring. All the stuff most of us DU'ers have known for years is just starting to seep into the awareness of the general publics. If they just watched F911 when it was in theatrical release, they would have known, too. But thats what video rental stores are for.

Although, I wish he'd get back to his Canadian Bacon roots again.............

-85% Jimmy