'SAW' Has Genre Fans in a Frenzy as the Must-See Fright Fest of Halloween
2004!!!
WHO: Lions Gate Films
WHAT: The release of SAW, The Ultimate Halloween event movie
WHEN: Opens Nationwide on Friday, October 29, 2004
* "SAW" the terrifying new film starring Cary Elwes, Danny Glover and
Monica Potter, is set to open on Friday, Oct. 29th, nationwide on over
2,500 screens, and fans everywhere are eagerly awaiting the debut of
the Ultimate Halloween Event.
* SAW is a psychological thriller focusing on two men who wake up in a
secure lair of a serial killer, with a dead body lying between them.
The killer -- nicknamed "Jigsaw," leaves them tape recorded messages
with details of how to make it out alive ... the only way for one man
to make it out alive is to do the unthinkable ... The two men
desperately try to find a way out, while also trying to figure out
who's behind their kidnapping.
* Directed by 27-year-old James Wan and written by 27-year-old co-star
Leigh Whannell, "SAW" has already proven itself at the UK box-office,
where it opened as the #2 film earlier this month, and had the highest
per-screen average of any film in the top ten for two weeks in a row.
SAW has already out grossed "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Dawn of the
Dead" with a cumulative box office gross to date of over
10 Million US Dollars.
Lions Gate Entertainment is the premier independent producer and distributor of motion pictures, television programming, home entertainment, family entertainment and video-on-demand content. Its prestigious and prolific library of approximately 8000 titles is one of the largest in the entertainment industry. The Lions Gate brand name is synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the globe.
www.lionsgatefilms.com
CONTACTS:
Sarah Greenberg, EVP, Publicity, Lions Gate Entertainment: 310-255-3856 /
[email protected]
Russell Nelson, VP Regional Publicity & Corporate Comm, Lions Gate
Entertainment, 310-255-3858 / [email protected]
PRNewswire -- Oct. 25
SOURCE: Lions Gate Films