BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Mar 31, 2005--The new motion picture FEVER PITCH began production last year. But many Red Sox fans feel like it`s been 85 years in the making, since the romantic comedy starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon could have helped break the infamous Curse of the Bambino.
So it seems only natural that the ''curse-lifting'' film has its gala premiere at Boston`s fabled Fenway Park, on April 6, in front of thousands of cheering Red Sox and movie fans.
At the event -- the first of its kind ever held at Fenway -- Barrymore and Fallon, plus Red Sox luminaries Johnny Damon, Jason Varitek, Tim Wakefield, David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Trot Nixon, Doug Mirabelli, and Kevin Millar, will emerge from the Red Sox dugout (with the Red Sox P.A. voice Carl Bean announcing each arrival), then walk the red carpet draped across the diamond.
Other notables expected to attend the event are Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino, Boston natives Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, players from the New England Patriots and Boston Celtics, plus Bill Murray, Johnny Knoxville and Aerosmith. ESPN`s Steve Levy will emcee.
FEVER PITCH didn`t start out as Bambino curse-buster. In fact, the script`s shooting draft embraced the Curse: Drew Barrymore falls for the ultimate obsessed Sox fan, Jimmy Fallon; she gets the guy, but of course, as they had for decades, the Sox lost in the end. Then a miracle occurred -- a ''Hollywood'' ending that even Hollywood didn`t dare to dream of. The Red Sox began their incredible streak to the World Series...and FEVER PITCH went into emergency script rewrites. Was it the film that finally exorcized the ghosts and let Bill Buckner sleep soundly? Who knows? But Twentieth Century Fox is thrilled to join forces with Fenway Park and the Red Sox to celebrate the film`s opening, the Red Sox` incredible World Series triumph -- and the beginning of another miraculous season.
FEVER PITCH opens nationwide April 8th.
Twentieth Century Fox is a unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, a News Corporation Company.
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