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August 2, 2007

Overwhelming interest in Underdog's early showing

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Underdog poses on the steps of the State House, in this publicity photo for the movie.


Underdog gets an early Rhode Island premiere tonight, but unless you've already gotten tickets, you'll have to wait for tomorrow night's general release in local theaters.

The supply of free tickets "has been exhausted" for the showing at the Providence Performing Arts Center tonight "due to overwhelming response," according to the hotline at Rhode Island Film and Television.

The movie was filmed in Providence. Some passersby may remember trucks and crews and areas cordoned off last summer at the State House for some of the filming. No doubt some viewers will see the movie to catch glimpses of Providence buildings as well as the pooch with the cape.

Tomorrow, The Journal's Michael Janusonis will review the film, based on a popular cartoon about a superhero dog.

Can't make either premiere? There's no need to fear! Underdog is here -- in a collection of trailers from the movie. Just click on the Bloopers link.


-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 12:11 PM | Permalink

Comments

IF you waste your time seeing this movie hoping to see Providence, you'll be disappointed. The whole movie is shot such that the backgrounds are either VERY vanilla (alleys and plain streets) or the backgrounds zip by so fast that unless you REALLY know what you're looking at you won't recognize anything.

If anyone thought "This movie will showcase Providence", you thought wrong.

Greg | August 2, 2007 12:48 PM link

I'm just curious how many tickets were actually made available to the general public and how many are being used by the legistlators and other government and state officials?

Martha Hunt | August 2, 2007 3:55 PM link

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