SHARK TALE PREPS
FOR VENICE PREMIERE
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[ September 9th 2004 ]
The giant
screen has been inflated and more than 5,000 chairs
have been put in place as preparations are nearly
completed for the world premiere of DreamWorks
Animation's new computer-animated comedy Shark
Tale on September 10. The film's stars Will Smith,
Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie and Michael Imperioli
will be among the estimated 5,000 people expected
to attend the premiere, which sold out in a matter
of hours.
The premiere
is being held outdoors in the city's historic
Piazza San Marco. The Piazza, which had never
before been closed for a major movie premiere,
has been transformed into an outdoor theatre for
the event. The movie will be shown on the largest
inflatable screen in the world, measuring more
than six stories tall and over 3,900 square feet.
Inflating the screen required approximately 20,000
cubic feet of air, and the screen is being stabilized
with a ballast of more than 50 tons of water.
The approximately 190 tons of equipment was brought
to the site on barges, and barges are also holding
the three generators that will provide the more
than one million watts of electricity needed to
power the event.
Opening
nationwide on October 1, 2004, "Shark Tale" stars
the voices of Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renee
Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black, Martin
Scorsese, Doug E. Doug, Ziggy Marley, Michael
Imperioli, Vincent Pastore, Peter Falk and Katie
Couric. The film was directed by Vicky Jenson,
Bibo Bergeron and Rob Letterman from a screenplay
by Michael J. Wilson and Rob Letterman. The producers
are Bill Damaschke, Janet Healy and Allison Lyon
Segan, with Jeffrey Katzenberg serving as executive
producer. The Shark Tale Soundtrack, featuring
such artists as Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliott,
Mary J. Blige, Will Smith, Justin Timberlake,
Ziggy Marley, Sean Paul, JoJo, D12, Ludacris,
India.Arie, and others, will be released on September
21 on DreamWorks/Geffen Records.
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