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ADVISORY/The World Premiere of Columbia Pictures & Square Pictures' ``Final Fantasy''.


Entertainment Editors

ADVISORY...for Monday (July 2)

--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)


WHAT:    The world premiere of Columbia Pictures & Square Pictures'
         ``Final Fantasy''

WHEN:    Monday, July 2
         7 p.m.

WHERE:   Mann Bruin
         948 Broxton Avenue, Westwood

WHO:     Ming-Na                     Dean Devlin
         Ving Rhames                 John Woo
         Donald Sutherland           LeAnn Rimes
         James Woods                 China Chow
         Peri Gilpin                 Aisha Tyler
         Chris Lee                   Andrew Keegan
         Hironobu Sakaguchi          Lara Fabian
                                     Jonathan Jackson


"Final Fantasy This article is about the Final Fantasy franchise. For the video game, see Final Fantasy (video game). For other uses, see Final Fantasy (disambiguation).
Final Fantasy (
: The Spirits Within" emerges from its successful interactive game roots to deliver an exciting new breed of motion picture adventure. A fresh, provocative take on the sci-fi genre, the film blends spiritual underpinnings and the universal concerns of man vs. nature with the energy of the digital gaming medium and the scope of the motion picture environment.

"Final Fantasy" game creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's vision to take the latest in computer graphic technology and the best artists in the world to create a brand new form of entertainment now comes to the big screen -- a visual feast of concept, motion, design and imagination with all-new, hyperReal Hyperreal may refer to:
  • Hyperreality, a term used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy
  • Hyperrealism, a school of painting
  • Hyperreal numbers, an extension of the real numbers in mathematics that are used in non-standard analysis
 characters embarking on an all-new adventure.

Columbia Pictures and Square Pictures present "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within." Hironobu Sakaguchi Hironobu Sakaguchi (坂口 博信 Sakaguchi Hironobu  directs from an original screenplay written by Al Reinert and Jeff Vintar. Story by Sakaguchi. Motonori Sakakibara co-directs. The film features the voices of actors Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin Peri Gilpin (born Periwinkle Kay O'Brien on May 27 1961, in Waco, Texas) is an American actress best known for the role of Roz Doyle on the successful U.S. television series Frasier, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series. , Ming-Na, Ving Rhames Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames (born May 12 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor. Biography
Early life
Rhames was born in New York City, New York to African-American parents Reatha, a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic.
, Donald Sutherland and James Woods, among others. Sakaguchi, Jun Aida and Chris Lee are producers.

The film's creative team includes director of photography Motonori Sakakibara, animation director Andy Jones, conceptual director Tani Kunitake, character technical director Kevin Ochs, senior animator Roy Sato, VFX VFX Visual Effects
VFX Visual Fixation
VFX Virtual Effects
 supervisor Remo Balcells and composer Elliot Goldenthal.

"Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA MPAA
abbr.
Motion Picture Association of America
 for sci-fi action violence.

FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN

In Theatres Wednesday, July 11
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