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Cinedigm Digital Cinema, Lionsgate and Exclusive Media Present a One-Night Special Screening of Memento

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Cinedigm Digital Cinema, Lionsgate and Exclusive Media Present a One-Night Special Screening of the Academy Award(R) Nominated Film Memento on February 17th in Select Theatres Across North America

LOS ANGELES, CA — 02/09/11 — Ten years after its powerful theatrical debut, the classic thriller Memento, released by Exclusive Media Group’s Newmarket Films, celebrates its anniversary with ONE NIGHT ONLY screenings on February 17th, 2011, in 11 select digital cinemas across North America via Cinedigm Digital Cinema. These screenings will feature never-before-seen question and answer footage with award-winning writer and director, Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight), speaking with acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro. The film will be screened from an all-new, director-approved, high definition digital print. Suspenseful and unique, this daring and challenging Academy Award® nominated, movie launched Nolan’s career.

Memento will also be released as a 10th Anniversary Special Edition Blu-ray, available from Lionsgate Home Entertainment on February 22nd. The Blu-ray comes packed with special features including a brand new featurette with the director discussing the legacy of the film, plus the director’s script, audio commentary with Christopher Nolan, the original short story, “Anatomy of a Scene” and more!

The exclusive Q&A footage can be seen ONLY IN THEATRES and features a conversation between Nolan and Del Toro which was recorded during a sold out Memento screening on February 4th, 2011 at The American Cinematheque Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. Nolan shares his insights and opinions on the impact Memento had on his life and his overall body of work.

Demonstrating one of the many benefits of digital cinema, Cinedigm is holding a DIGITAL MOVIE POSTER contest. Fans will be provided with the art assets to create a unique poster forMemento, with the winners’ art to be included on the big screen during the event on the 17th.

CONFIRMED THEATRES HOSTING SPECIAL MEMENTO EVENT:

USA            Theatre              Address              City        St
New York, NY    City Cinemas         181 Second Avenue    New York    NY
                City Cinemas Village
                East 7
Atlanta, GA     Studio Movie Grill   2880 Holcomb Bridge  Alpharetta  GA
                Holcomb Bridge 9     Road
Boston, MA      Nat'l Amusements     670 Legacy Place     Dedham      MA
                Legacy Place 15
Dallas, TX      Studio Movie Grill   225 Merchants Row    Arlington   TX
                9-Arlington
Houston, TX     Studio Movie Grill   805 Town & Country   Houston     TX
                City Center 8        Way Bldg
Los Angeles, CA Rave The Bridge 19   The Promenade at     Los Angeles CA
                                     Howard Hughes Center
                                     6081 Center Dr
San Diego, CA   UltraStar Mission    7510 Hazard Center   San Diego   CA
                Valley 7             Dr., #104
Washington DC   Rave Fairfax Corner  11900 Palace Way     Fairfax     VA
                14
Toronto, ON     Cineplex Varsity 12  55 Bloor Street West Toronto     ON
Vancouver, BC   Cineplex Scotiabank  900 Burrard Street   Vancouver   BC
                9-Vancouver

CONFIRMED MARKETS (THEATRES ARE TO BE DETERMINED) HOSTING SPECIAL MEMENTO EVENT (check here for updated information):

USA DMA’s
Seattle, WA

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

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