Death of a President (D.O.A.P.), the UK TV movie that became one of the most controversial and buzzed-about films at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, has been snapped up by Newmarket Films for release in the US. The mockumentary, which spawned hundreds of headlines even before its screening (like Snakes On A Plane, or S.O.A.P, oddly enough), recreates and reexamines the assassination of current President George W. Bush by a Syrian sniper in Chicago. Newmarket, amongst whose other releases are Lukas Moodysson'sLilya 4Eva, Whale Rider, and Christopher Nolan'sMemento and upcoming The Prestige, is evidently not worried about the impending foot-stomping, boycotting, and loud voices that Conservative America will no doubt expound at selected theatres when this film is actually released.
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