"My Dog Skip"."My Dog Skip" is one of those quirky films that naysayers predicted couldn't be made and if it were, it would go straight to video. Director Jay Russell said they were wrong, and spent nearly three years getting this film about a boy and his precocious dog in a small Mississippi town into America's movie houses. The tale is based on a memoir of the late writer and editor Willie Morris William Weaks "Willie" Morris (November 29, 1934 — August 2, 1999), was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi, though his family later moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, which he immortalized in his works of prose. . The movie opened in just five theaters -- two in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and three in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- and despite mixed reviews had taken in nearly $750,000 as of last week. This weekend it opened in 2,400 theaters nationally. "We felt there is room for a movie like this and whenever there is a gap to fill in, it surprises people," said Russell, who is also the film's executive producer. "We stuck to our guns." The $5 million film was financed by Alcon Entertainment, and Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . agreed to distribute it. What also helped the film go wide nationally may have been the success of "Skip's" star, Frankie Muniz, who is the star of the Fox TV network's smash sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle Malcolm in the Middle is a seven-time Emmy-winning,[1] one-time Grammy-winning[1] and seven-time Golden Globe-nominated[1] American sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. ." "It sure didn't hurt," Russell said. |
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