EXPELLED Producers Reject Yoko Ono's Lawsuit for Use of John Lennon's 'Imagine' in Film |
EXPELLED EMBRACED BY FANS
HITS TOP 10 DURING MOVIE'S OPENING WEEKEND
EXPELLED Producers Available for Interviews
LOS ANGELES, April 24 /PRNewswire/ --
WHAT: Yoko Ono and others have filed lawsuits against Ben Stein's
EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed, challenging the film's use
and critique of John Lennon's song "Imagine." One of the suits
seeks to ban free speech through preliminary injunctive relief
which essentially means that they are trying to expel EXPELLED
as it is now being shown in theaters.
Producers of EXPELLED reject the lawsuits and state that
Premise Media did not pursue a license for the song and had no
obligation to do so. Unbiased viewers of the film will see that
the "Imagine" clip was used as part of a social commentary in
the exercise of free speech. The brief clip -- consisting of a
mere 10 words -- was used to contrast the messages in the
documentary and was not used as an endorsement of EXPELLED.
EXPELLED has been embraced by fans and stunned its detractors by
opening as one the nation's Top 10 films last weekend. It has
received more than 2,000,000 visitors to its website and was #2
on Fandango.com's "hottest tickets" chart on Opening Day, April
18. Out for less than one week, it opened as one of the most
commercially successful releases for any documentary film and
already become one of the top 25 documentaries of all time.
WHO: EXPELLED Executive Producers Logan Craft and Walt Ruloff are
available for interviews by the media.
WHEN: Interviews Available Currently
CONTACT: Media contact:
Diane Shader Smith
Rogers& Cowan
310-386-6803
dianeshadersmith@gmail.com
SOURCE Premise Media
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Diane Shader Smith of Rogers & Cowan,
+1-310-386-6803, dianeshadersmith@gmail.com, for Premise Media
