THEATRICAL ROLLOUT FOR 'PRECIOUS' CONTINUES: Film opens this weekend in more cities.

     *As noted in another article, the film 'Precious' is drawing scrutiny for it's unvarnished look at child abuse, sexual and otherwise. But it's also the film that's got the buzz of a smash hit, with demand to see it building up all around the country.

     Nationally, a lot of folks thought they were going to be among the first to see it in it's opening weekend, only to get to find out that it only opened in NY, LA, Chicago and Atlanta.

     Now comes word that this weekend, Nov. 13, Lionsgate, the film's distributor, is expanding the list of markets exhibiting 'Precious' to San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, and Washington, DC.

     OK, great for folks in those cities, but you're still hurting because you don't live there. Well, it's about to get a lot better. But you'll have to wait ONE more week, November 20. Those cites are listed below

     'Precious,' direxcted by Lee Daniels, stars Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz and introducing Gabourey Sidibe

November 13 - playing in five new cities:
 
Dallas
Houston
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Washington DC
 
NY expansion
LA expansion
Chicago expansion
Atlanta expansion
 
 
November 20 - playing in these additional cities:
 
 
Albany, GA  Hattiesburg, MS  Richmond 
Albany, NY  Honolulu  Roanoke 
Alexandria, LA  Huntsville, AL  Rochester 
Augusta, GA  Indianapolis  Sacramento 
Austin  Jackson, MS  Salt Lake City 
Baltimore  Jackson, TN  San Antonio 
Baton Rouge  Jacksonville  San Diego 
Biloxi  Jonesboro  Santa Barbara 
Birmingham  Kansas City  Savannah 
Boston  Knoxville  Seattle 
Buffalo  Lafayette, LA  Shreveport, LA 
Charleston, SC  Lake Charles  St. Louis 
Charlotte  Lansing  Syracuse 
Charlottesville  Las Vegas  Tallahassee 
Chattanooga  Little Rock  Tampa/St. Petersburg 
Cincinnati  Louisville  Toledo 
Cleveland  Lubbock, TX  Tucson 
Columbia, SC  Macon, GA  Tulsa 
Columbus, GA  Memphis  Waco 
Columbus, MS  Meridian, MS  W. Palm Beach 
Columbus, OH  Miami/Fort Lauderdale  Wichita 
Dayton  Milwaukee  Wilmington, NC 
Denver  Minneapolis/St. Paul 
Detroit  Monroe, LA  
Dothan  Montgomery, AL  
Flint  Nashville  
Florence, SC  New Orleans  
Fresno  Norfolk  
Ft. Myers  Oklahoma City  
Ft. Wayne  Omaha  
Gainesville  Orlando  
Grand Rapids  Palm Springs  
Greensboro, NC  Pensacola-Mobile  
Greenville, NC  Phoenix  
Greenville, SC  Pittsburgh  
Greenwood-Greenville  Portland, OR  
Harrisburg  Providence  
Hartford/New Haven  Raleigh  
 
 
SYNOPSIS:
Lee Daniels' PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome. 
 
Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want.  She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo'Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically.  School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write.
 
Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out.  Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her.  Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One.  Precious doesn't know the meaning of "alternative," but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.
 
Honored with the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival's Cadillac People's Choice Award,  an Official Selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard, and winner of three awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, PRECIOUS:  BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE stars Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz and introducing Gabourey Sidibe. 
 
Lionsgate in association with Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry present A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Group Production of PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE, directed by Lee Daniels from a screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher based on the novel Push by Sapphire.  The film is produced by Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, and Gary Magness. Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Lisa Cortés, and Tom Heller are Executive Producers; Simone Sheffield serves as Co-Executive Producer; Mark G. Mathis is Co-Producer; and Asger Hussain serves as Associate Producer.
 
For more information, visit: www.weareallprecious.com <http://www.weareallprecious.com> and download other publicity materials at:  http://www.lionsgatepublicity.com/epk/precious/
 
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