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8 July 2008 9:08 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Latest: The Exorcist director William Friedkin has been recruited to direct the forthcoming opera adaptation of global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

The production will open in Italy at Milan's famous La Scala opera house on 11 May 2011. It will be written by poet J.D. McClatchy and the score composed by Giorgio Battistelli.

Director Davis Guggenheim's film, which starred former U.S. Vice President Al Gore as narrator, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and has since taken the world by storm.

The documentary won Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and for Best Original Song at 2007's ceremony.

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29 May 2008 6:28 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore's environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth is to be adapted for the stage - as an opera.

Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been commissioned to produce an opera based on Gore's global warming film for the 2011 season at Milan, Italy's La Scala opera house.

Director Davis Guggenheim's film, which starred Gore as narrator and sage, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and has since taken the world by storm.

The documentary won Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and for Best Original Song.

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29 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The Al Gore global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth has set a new box-office record for a single theater in Japan, exhibitor Toho Cinema said Monday. In its first week at the Roppongi Hills multiplex near Tokyo, some 60,000 patrons paid an estimated 90 million yen ($850,000) to see the film. The controversial film grossed $23.8 million in the U.S.

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28 January 2008 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

U2 frontman Bono has compared environmental campaigner Al Gore to an Irish priest to whom he can confess his ecological sins. The hitmaker shared the stage with the former U.S. vice president at a conference in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday - Bono was there to promote his campaign to alleviate world poverty, while Gore was continuing his plea for the reduction of global carbon emissions. And the singer insists he can't help feeling guilty about his lavish lifestyle when around Gore. He says, "It's like being with an Irish priest. You start to confess your sins. Father Al, I am not just a noise polluter, I am a noise-polluting, diesel-soaking, gulfstream-flying rock star. I'm going to kick the habit. I'm trying father Al, but oil has been very good for me - those convoys of articulated lorries, petrochemical products, hair gel." Gore was one of the key figures behind 2007's Live Earth concerts to raise awareness about climate change. He was the subject of the Oscar-winning environment-focused documentary An Inconvenient Truth and he was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his dedication to green issues.

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