Special Screening of Columbia Pictures & Revolution Studios' TEARS OF THE SUN

PRNewswire
02/26/2003

                          Monday, March 3, 2003
                          Mann Village, Westwood

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                    YOU MUST RSVP TO COVER THIS EVENT


           TEARS OF THE SUN Opens Nation-Wide on March 7, 2003

   WHAT:     SPECIAL SCREENING OF COLUMBIA PICTURES & REVOLUTION STUDIOS'
             TEARS OF THE SUN

             In director Antoine Fuqua's (Training Day) new action-adventure
             film, Bruce Willis stars as Lt. A.K. Waters, the loyal veteran
             officer of a Navy SEAL unit.  When he's sent into the heart of
             Africa, the usually hard-bitten Waters finds himself deeply
             conflicted at having to choose between following orders and the
             dictates of his own conscience.

             Though a fictionalization, Tears of the Sun deals with the
             gritty realism of human conflict as Lt. Waters travels to
             war-torn central Africa to rescue Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica
             Bellucci), a U.S. citizen who runs a mission in the
             countryside.  But when Lt. Waters arrives, Dr. Kendricks
             refuses to abandon the refugees under her care.  She implores
             Waters to escort them on a dangerous trek through the dense
             jungle to the nearby border.  During the journey, the SEALs
             find themselves the unwitting guardians of a man sought by the
             rebel militia.  This further endangers their already hazardous
             mission, but all the while strengthening Waters' resolve to
             protect Lena and the refugees, and to deliver them safely
             across the border.

   WHO:      FROM THE FILM:  Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser,
             Tom Skerritt, Eamonn Walker, Akosua Busia, Nick Chinlund,
             Chad Smith, Paul Francis, Charles Ingram, Fionnula Flanagan,
             executive producer Joe Roth, producers Michael Lobell,
             Arnold Rifkin, and Ian Bryce, director Antoine Fuqua, composer
             Hans Zimmer, screenwriters Alex Lasker & Patrick Cirillo
             GUESTS:  Matthew McConaughey, Vince Vaughn, Jamie Foxx,
             Forest Whitaker, Matt Davis, Holly Robinson Peete,
             John C. McGinley

   WHEN:     Monday, March 3, 2003
             Press Call Time @ 5:30pm; Arrivals @ 6:30pm; Screening @ 7:30pm

   WHERE:    Mann Village -- 961 Broxton Avenue in Westwood

   CONTACT:  TV/Print, Sara Reich, +1-310-244-5649,
             International requests, Jasmin Chavez, fax to, +1-310-244-1421,
             Photographers, Denise Balbier, +1-310-244-4606, all of Columbia
             Pictures

PRNewswire -- Feb. 26

SOURCE: Columbia Pictures