Fans petition to get Elijah Wood film released in the US by David Haber, Wizard News Wizard As you may already know if you're a regular Wizard News reader, Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood has starred in a film about football hooliganism in the UK called Hooligans. Hooligans is set to premiere in London on August 26, 2005. Despite the fact that it won awards at two American film festivals, the South by Southwest Film Festival last March and the Malibu International Film Festival last April, Hooligans still lacks a distribution deal for the US. According to director Lexi Alexander, her co-author Dougie Brimson, and Elijah, the film faces an uphill battle. It seems American Distributors think it would be too difficult to market, and would have limited appeal to American audiences. This has so disappointed Elijah's American fans, who are anxious to see Elijah in this movie, that they've started an internet petition which besieges American film distributors to give Hooligans a chance here in the US. Even though the petition has only been up since last Friday, it already has almost 400 hundred signatures. Pamela Farmer, organizer of the petition, tells Wizard News that in a few weeks the petition will be sent to various film-distribution houses, in the hope that the fans' enthusiasm to see this film will inspire distributors to take a chance on it. It is interesting to note that an Orlando Bloom film from last year, The Calcium Kid, released in April 2004 in the UK, also still has not been shown yet in the US. More information: • Petition: Bring the Film "Hooligans" to American Movie Screens Published May 17, 2005 This article is Copyright © 2005, David Haber, and may not be reproduced on other web sites or in print, in whole or in part, without expressed permission
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