SeaWorld's New Film "Turtle: The Incredible Journey" Debuts in U.S. Theaters Starting This Weekend
June 24 2011 - 5:29PM
Marketwired
This weekend, SeaWorld Pictures and Hannover House launch "Turtle:
The Incredible Journey," a critically praised, award-winning film
that follows the life and migration of a loggerhead turtle from
hatching to maturity. The movie opens today in New York, Los
Angeles and cities with SeaWorld parks (Orlando, San Diego and San
Antonio), and is expected to expand to 50 markets and 300 to 400
theaters over the next two months. Hannover House is the
entertainment division of Target Development Group, Inc.
(PINKSHEETS: TDGI).
Festivities to celebrate the launch included a star-studded
"blue carpet" premiere and gala at SeaWorld San Diego for 700 VIP
guests including 42 celebrities and professional athletes as well
as SeaWorld's feathered, furry and finned friends. Bringing to life
the film's mission of sea turtle conservation awareness, narrator
Miranda Richardson and director Nick Stringer also assisted
SeaWorld in returning to the ocean a rescued sea turtle that had
undergone a 16-month rehabilitation at SeaWorld's rescue
facility.
To create "Turtle: The Incredible
Journey," Stringer's documentary team follows the loggerhead
turtle on an adventure of more than 9,000 miles guided only by
instinct. The loggerhead turtle, a threatened species, has one of
the longest and most difficult migratory patterns of any marine
animal: Sea turtles newly hatched on the East Coast of the United
States (usually in Florida) make their way from the sand into the
ocean, and then begin a voyage that can span the entire Atlantic
Ocean, only to return decades later to that same beach. Stringer
and his camera crew spent two years following loggerhead turtles on
their trips across the ocean, and have captured on film the
remarkable life cycle of a beautiful creature that struggles to
survive in an increasingly unforgiving environment. The film is
narrated by Academy Award nominee Miranda Richardson, and will be
released to theaters in both standard theatrical formats as well as
3D in selected locations.
"Turtle: The Incredible Journey" opened the same week as
SeaWorld San Diego's Turtle Reef, a new attraction that showcases
this extraordinary species through a 300,000-gallon aquarium with a
massive underwater viewing gallery, a touch-screen interactive
tracking map and a new ride.
A complete listing of theatres, and the film's trailer, can be
viewed on the film's official website: www.Turtle-Film.com
HANNOVER HOUSE Hannover House was founded
in 1993 and has been active in DVD distribution since 2002. The
company added theatrical distribution operations last year with the
release of the documentary "Racing Dreams" and the thriller
"Twelve" to theaters nationwide. During 2011, Hannover House is
scheduled to release eight films to theaters in America, with 36
titles slated for home video release.
SEAWORLD PICTURES SeaWorld Pictures was
formed in April 2011 to create and distribute original and
partner-produced film content that advances the company's mission
to "celebrate, connect and care for the natural world we share
through the power of entertainment." SeaWorld Parks &
Entertainment, a portfolio company of The Blackstone Group, owns
and operates 10 parks that play host to 23 million guests each year
and employs 20,000 people nationwide. A global leader in animal
care and conservation, the company cares for more than 60,000
animals including 200 endangered or threatened species. They have
rescued more than 18,000 orphaned, injured or ill animals over the
past four decades and contributed more than $50 million to
conservation, wildlife rescue and environmental stewardship
programs worldwide. The company operates three SeaWorld parks;
Busch Gardens Tampa, Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Va., Discovery
Cove and Aquatica in Orlando, Adventure Island in Tampa, Water
Country USA in Williamsburg and Sesame Place in Langhorne, Pa. near
Philadelphia.
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For more information contact: LAUREN STERLING Hannover
House 479-751-4500 Lauren@HannoverHouse.com Or GUIDO GOTZ MPRM
Public Relations 323-933-3399 GGotz@MPRM.com
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