Rumors are just that, No Chapter 27 release scheduled in the US

As a quick follow-up to a recent post on Boycott Chapter 27, we have all but confirmed that Peace Arch Entertainment will NOT be releasing Chapter 27 in US theaters. Neither Lohan or Jared Leto have even mentioned this film since its' horrible reviews at The Sundance Film Festival.

Latest efforts by Peace Arch Entertainment to push forward on Chapter 27

As you will notice in the latest hyped press release by Peace Arch there is no talk of the disaster known as "Chapter 27", my friends it would appear we have won our fight. Although Peace Arch did show this Lindsey Lohan and Jared Leto film at both Sundance and limited over-seas theatres, it has become apparent that it will not be released in the United States. At the end of the day, there will be absolutely no profit for the company that attempted to give John Lennons the killer the additional fame he desires from his prison cell.

Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. (AMEX: PAE) (TSX: PAE), an integrated global entertainment company creating critically acclaimed television, film and DVD content for worldwide distribution, has announced that the Company's television lifestyle programming division, The Eyes Project Development Corp., has concluded a record setting production schedule with 47 new television episodes and three new pilots during the Company's fiscal year ending September 1, 2007. The productions will broadcast on such outlets as the National Geographic Channel, CBC, TLC and Bravo.

Peace Arch continues to execute on its high-growth business model focused on producing an increasing volume of highly commercial film and television content while mitigating risk through the utilization of certain financing strategies such Canadian tax credits and non-recourse bank financing.

"The Eyes continues to produce high-quality, low-cost content that enables Peace Arch to provide reliable cash flow and profitability," said John Flock, President of Peace Arch Entertainment. "The division's commitment to innovation, quality and production efficiency has yielded terrific results for Peace Arch. We congratulate our colleague Blair Reekie on the outstanding performance of his division and we are confident that The Eyes will continue to produce television programming at a record setting pace in fiscal 2008 which will provide the Company with attendant revenues and earnings."

The Eyes is a full service production and post production company based in Vancouver that is widely recognized for reality entertainment formats that include weight loss programs and home makeovers. The Company also produces sponsored programming and provides post production services to networks and independent producers.

In fiscal 2007, The Eyes' production schedule included episodes for the series "Makeover Wish," "Bulging Brides," "Last 10 Pounds Boot Camp" and "Air Dogs." Other original programs include "Animal Miracles" (ANIMAL PLANET), "Alien Abduction" (UPN), "Rights of Passage" (TLC), "Raven in the Sun" (CBC), "Campus Vets" (National Geographic Channel) and "Love it or Lose it!" (HGTV). The company earned a 2007 Western Regional Emmy® Award for its series "Heroines" broadcast on BRAVO.

"The Last 10 Pounds Boot Camp" is a format that propels women through an intense fitness and nutrition regimen that dramatically resizes them in record time. Motivated by a special event (an upcoming wedding, anniversary, vacation) participants strive to transform themselves physically and mentally in just four weeks. "The Last 10 Pounds Boot Camp" is already on its second season, which is due to begin broadcasting later this month.

"Bulging Brides" is a new and riveting comical format that is due to launch in January 2008 on the Slice Network. It is a brash take on weight loss, as the show depicts various scenarios on how to get a 'bride to be' into her undersized wedding dress. A 'Dream Team' of fitness trainers and nutritionists identify the bride's physical problem zones, the challenges she faces with her wedding dress and how to establish her goals by working with the bride over a six-week period in order to meet her target weight.

"Love It or Lose It" is the latest part design, part game show from Peace Arch Television. Currently airing on HGTV, Canada alongside other popular British design shows, "Love It or Lose It" is a fun-filled interior design series that gives homeowners the opportunity to offer up a room in their home for a big budget makeover. It ends with the ultimate choice -- love It and keep the new room or lose It, forcing the designer to tear down their masterpiece.

"Makeover Wish" is a feel good format that follows a $25,000 makeover dream come true for very deserving people. Nominated by friends and family for this special and once in a life time opportunity, homeowners will receive the chance to have a fantastic makeover for the whole family, for one person, or just one room.

Where's Chapter 27 is this press release!!!!!! Leto and Lohan your fame wasn't worth crap in selling this disaster against humanity!!!!

About Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc.

Peace Arch Entertainment produces and acquires feature films, television and home entertainment content for distribution to worldwide markets. Peace Arch owns one of the largest libraries of top quality independent feature films in the world, featuring more than 500 classic and contemporary titles. Through its subsidiary, Peace Arch Home Entertainment, Peace Arch is also one of the leading distributors of DVDs and related products in Canada. Peace Arch recently acquired Dufferin Gate Productions, one of Toronto's foremost providers of production services and facilities, and Trinity Home Entertainment, a leading distributor of independent features films in the United States.

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NAMESAKEDOMAINS.COM

Besides leaving the hospital with a birth certificate and a clean bill of health, baby Mila Belle Howells got something she won't likely use herself for several years: her very own Internet domain name.

Likewise, newborn Bennett Pankow joined his four older siblings in getting his own Internet moniker. Before naming his child, Mark Pankow checked to make sure "BennettPankow.com" hadn't already been claimed.

"One of the criteria was, if we liked the name, the domain had to be available," Pankow said. It was, and Pankow quickly grabbed Bennett's online identity.A small but growing number of parents are getting domain names for their young kids, long before they can even peck at a keyboard.

The practice is no longer limited to parents in Web design or information technology.

They worry that the name of choice might not be available when their babies get older, just as someone claimed the ".com" for Britney Spears' 11-month-old son before she could.

The trend hints at the potential importance of domain names in establishing one's future digital identity.

Think of how much a typical teen's online life now revolves around Facebook or News Corp.'s MySpace. Imagine if one day the domain could take you directly to those social-networking profiles, blogs, photo albums and more.

"It is the starting point for your online identity," said Warren Adelman, president of registration company Go Daddy.com, which sells basic domain-name packages for about $9 a year. "We do believe the domain name is the foundation upon which all the other Internet services are based."

Hundreds of companies sell domain names with suffixes such as ".com," ".org" and ".info," which individuals can then link to personal Web sites and e-mail accounts. Parents visit one of those companies' Web sites, search for the name they want and, if it is unclaimed, buy it with a credit card.

There is no guarantee domain names will have as central a role in online identity. After all, with search engines getting smarter, Internet users can simply type the name of a person into Google.

"Given the pace of change on the Internet, it strikes me as a pretty impressive leap of faith that we're going to use exactly the same system and the same tools . . . 15 to 20 years from today," said Peter Grunwald of Grunwald Associates, which researches kids and technology.

Still, even if the effort is for naught, $9 a year is cheap compared with the cost of diapers and college tuition.

Besides providing an easily remembered Web address, the domain name makes possible e-mail addresses without awkward numbers -- as in "JohnSmith24," because 23 other John Smiths had beaten your child to Google's Gmail service.

Parents not ready to commit or knowledgeable enough on how to buy a domain, though, are at least trying their luck with Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail or Gmail.

Melissa Coleman of Springfield, Mass., grabbed Hotmail addresses for her two kids. She said the kids' grandparents occasionally send e-greeting cards to those accounts, and she sends thank-you notes for gifts in her child's voice.

"I think it's great that it's so loud and that it came with an actual WORKING MICROPHONE . . . and I'm not sure what 'annoying' means, but I'm sure it means that Mommy loves it too!!!!" read one message to Grandpa.

She said she logs in at least once every month to keep the accounts active.

Tony Howells, a business consultant in Salt Lake City, got a Gmail address along with the domain name for his daughter, thinking people would enjoy seeing "an e-mail address pop up for an 8-month-old who is obviously not equipped to use it."

Although some parents have yet to use the domain names they have bought, others send visitors to baby photos, blogs and other sites. Domain name owners have a variety of options to have their personal sites hosted, typically for free or less than $10 a month. They include baby-geared services such as TotSites.com and Baby HomePages.net.

Theresa Pinder, a physician's assistant in Phoenix, received a domain name as a Christmas gift from her son's godparents and gives it out to friends and family.

There are downsides to all this, though: An easy-to-remember domain also makes a child easier for strangers to find. Chances are one only needs to know a child's name and add ".com."

Pankow, a database administrator in Phoenix, said that was one concern keeping him from using the domains he bought for his kids.

"I'd want to research and try to figure out how easy it is to find out what school she goes to and where she lives" based on the Web site and domain name, Pankow said.

GoDaddy and many other registration companies offer proxy services that let domain-name buyers register anonymously. Otherwise, the person's name, address and other contact information are publicly searchable.

Our thought on you Ms. Lindsay Lohan, Hope you enjoyed Chapter 27

Multifarious avenues of approach vie for attention as potential retorts to Ms. Lindsay Lohan's hypocritical belief systems. The following text regards my complaints of recent days against Ms. Lohan and her subtle but paltry attempts to incite an atmosphere of violence and endangerment toward the good men, women, and children of this state. She has been trying for some time to sell the public on a nativism-based government. Ms. Lohan's sales pitch proceeds both pragmatically and emotionally. The pragmatic argument: No one is smart enough to see through her transparent lies. The emotional argument: It is better that a hundred thousand people should perish than that Ms. Lohan should be even slightly inconvenienced. As you can see, neither argument is valid, which should indicate to you that she claims to be fighting for equality. What Ms. Lohan's really fighting for, however, is equality in degradation, by which I mean that Ms. Lohan says that unfounded attacks on character, loads of hyperbole, and fallacious information are the best way to make a point. What balderdash! What impudence! What treachery!

Will Ms. Lohan's splenetic supporters let us know exactly what our attitudes should be towards various types of people and behavior? Only time will tell. I'm not saying this to be impractical, but rather to explain that Ms. Lohan seems to have recently added the word "counterdisengagement" to her otherwise simplistic vocabulary. I suppose she intends to use big words like that to obscure the fact that all she really wants is to hang onto the perks she's getting from the system. That's all she really cares about. She is really failing in her legal and moral responsibility not to turn me, a typically mild-mannered person, into a birdbrained, confused vat of Stalinism. Period, finis, and Q.E.D.

We must remove our chains and move towards the light. (In case you didn't understand that analogy, the chains symbolize Ms. Lohan's unconscionable calumnies, and the light represents the goal of getting all of us to present another paradigm in opposition to her crass, superstitious bruta fulmina.) As I've said before, Ms. Lohan says she's going to herald the death of intelligent discourse on college campuses quicker than you can double-check the spelling of "disdenominationalize". Good old Ms. Lohan. She just loves to open her mouth and let all kinds of things come out without listening to how abusive they sound. She claims that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding. Sound suspicious? Baleful is a better word. Set the wolf to mind the sheep if you like, Ms. Lohan, because I simply don't care.

I cannot emphasize enough how much I resent Ms. Lohan's crusades. I sometimes ask myself whether the struggle to express my views is worth all of the potential consequences. And I consistently answer by saying that Ms. Lohan is still going around insisting that embracing a system of Bonapartism will make everything right with the world. Jeez, I thought I had made it perfectly clear to her that she is like a magician who produces a dove in one hand, while the other hand is busy trying to bad-mouth worthy causes. Just because pigheaded charlatanism exists and has for a long time, there is no reason for us to accept it from Ms. Lohan. Someone has to be willing to address the real issues faced by mankind. Even if it's not polite to do so. Even if it hurts a lot of people's feelings. Even if everyone else is pretending that her histrionics are not worth getting outraged about.

The foregoing greatly simplifies the real situation, but it does indicate in a rough, general way that Ms. Lohan's ideologies are geared toward the continuation of social stratification under the rubric of "tradition". Funny, that was the same term that her habitués once used to put the prisoners in charge of running the prison. Ms. Lohan practically breaks her arm patting herself on the back when she says, "It takes courage to go down into the muddy trenches and make bargains with the devil." As if that were something to be proud of. I have reason to believe that she is about to irrationalize thinking on every issue. I pray that I'm wrong, of course, because the outcome could be devastating. Nevertheless, the indications are there that "Ms. Lohan" has now become part of my vocabulary. Whenever I see someone give expression to that which is most destructive and most harmful to society, I tell him or her to stop "Ms. Lohan-ing". Frotteurism is the answer, but only if the question was, "What's the moral equivalent of letting Ms. Lohan canonize censorious, loud brainless-types as nomological emblems of propriety?" It is probably unwise to say this loudly, but she has for a long time been arguing that the ancient Egyptians used psychic powers to build the pyramids. Had she instead been arguing that most law-abiding citizens disapprove of her methods, I might cede her her point. As it stands, the leap of faith required to bridge the logical gap in Ms. Lohan's arguments is simply too terrifying for me to contemplate. What I do often contemplate, however, is how many people have witnessed her inject her lethal poison into our children's minds and souls. Ms. Lohan generally insists that her witnesses are mistaken and blames her unrestrained circulars on spleeny voluptuaries. It's like she has no-fault insurance against personal responsibility. What's more, there are three fairly obvious problems with Ms. Lohan's apologues, each of which needs to be addressed by any letter that attempts to demand a thoughtful analysis and resolution of our problems with Ms. Lohan. First, Ms. Lohan certainly isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. Second, I have resisted taking legal action against Ms. Lohan, as others have advised me to do. And third, Ms. Lohan is an opportunist. That is, she is an ideological chameleon, without any real morality, without a soul. I challenge you to ponder this subject with the broadest vision possible.

Review of Chapter 27, just after Sundance

Rav starts talking about his love, Lindsay Lohan and CHAPTER 27 in Sundance!

Heya Guys,

So last night I watched one of the most buzzed about films here at Sundance, Chapter 27, it wasn’t buzzed because anyone had seen it, all the jibber-jabber was focused on Jared Leto/Lindsay Lohan starfucking and/or the move by a group of beatles fans to picket and boycott the film because it brings a sympathetic eye to MDC, the man who killed John Lennon.

Chapter 27 – Written and Directed by JP Schaffer

I originally took a stab at writing a review of this last night, but I trashed that after two tries, because very little happens for most of this movie in those reviews I merely tried giving a full-on scene-by-scene description of the entire movie. You can’t spoil a movie where nothing happens for 2 hours culminating with a forty-second assassination scene. But that was a big mistake, because every scene of the film of the film is so mundane that reading a list of them is about as interesting as reading a stranger’s grocery list. If anyone is still interested in knowing more about the movie after reading this review, I can email you one of those other too detailed reviews by request.

Except for about a minute of documentary footage the entire film follows around MDC (Jared Leto) through his days in New York prior to assassinating Lennon. Unfortunately these days are mostly spent asking people in front of the Dakota building if Lennon is coming back anytime soon or standing at the corner of the building holding a record of Lennon’s that he tells people he is trying to get autographed. To try to make things more interesting the entire film is full of MDC internal monologue via spastic voice-over, unfortunately he never says anything quite interesting.

I don’t know why anyone would make this film, it doesn’t get in the mind of Chapman at all or tell anything interesting whatsoever. For the few minutes of the film that Chapman actually interacts with people rather than staring around and contemplating his repetitive voice-over thought nothing interesting happens. Lindsay Lohan plays a Beatles fan that occasionally spends time at the Dakota hoping to get a glimpse of Lennon. Unfortunately her character only has about five to ten minutes of screen-time and like most of the film very little happens in her presence except for a very awkward scene where she introduces MDC to toddler Sean Lennon. If you go in expecting Lohan to be a co-star in the film you are going to be quite disappointed, nonetheless she does a wonderful job in the little bit that she appears in the film.

The other character (other than Dakota doormen, taxi drivers, and a silent hooker) that MDC encounters is a paparazzi’sh photographer played by Judah Friedlander. Judah has about five more minutes than Lohan does in the movie, but it’s still stretching to even call it a supporting role. Judah’s major moment is toward the end of the movie he takes a photo of MDC getting an autograph from Lennon and agrees to sell the photo to MDC the next day for fifty dollars. Judah is also pretty good the little he is in the movie.

Jared Leto gives what could be an academy award winning performance in this boring shitty movie. He’s gained a lot of weight for his role in the film, unfortunately the director wants to ingrain this fact into your mind by obsessively photographing his naked belly for five or more minutes in his crappy motel room. Leto also has mastered the voice of MDC, but too bad he spends most of the movie repeating the same spastic voice-over thoughts.

Tom Richmond was working on overdrive when he shot this movie, every scene is wonderfully photographed very dark and murkily. It very much suits the insanity of Chapman, but a well-photographed image can only go so far. The best thing about the movie actually is Anthony Marinelli. Just like Leto, Marinelli has delivered an award-winning score for what is a very crappy movie. At times the score nearly convinces you that you are watching tense and emotional sequences as you watch Chapman just standing around or bundling up in the cold.

After watching the movie I still have no idea why MDC killed John Lennon, the only thing I know is that he’s crazy and in the last bit of text apparently he’s a born-again Christian now. See this movie only if you are interested in watching shots of Jared Leto standing in the cold or crossing streets while thinking “maybe I shouldn’t kill him
nah I gotta kill him” for a hundred or so minutes.

It’s kind of a depressing thought that this will probably get picked up this weekend for a ton of money. Between the photography, the cast, and the score one could cut a very good trailer for the movie and fool people into watching it. I feel for all the people at boycottchapter27.org now, I thought they were kind of wacky at first, but to be honest this is a very shitty movie that was made in the worst of taste, so it probably should be boycotted as it’s basically just exploiting the death of john lennon and seems to glorify MDC's insanity.

Popcorn offers a quick update on Chapter 27

Good little recap surrounding the current attempts by Peace Arch Entertainment to achieve a distribution deal for Chapter 27. Be sure to keep the press on, in earlier posts we have most of the corporate addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses for the Peace Arch executives. Let them know how you feel about Chapter 27 and the fact that they are spitting on John Lennons grave.

“Chapter 27,” the controversial film starring Lindsey Lohan and Jared Leto as MDC, the man who gunned down former Beatle John Lennon in front of his New York home in 1980, joins “Hound Dog” as a Sundance Film Festival flick that has yet to snag studio distribution willing to put the film in theaters..

“Chapter,” has reportedly ended the friendship between star Lindsey Lohan and J.L’s son Sean Lennon:

“Lindsay was my friend. I don’t want to hurt her feelings by talking about it in public, but I think it’s a bit of a tacky idea,” the younger Lennon told “The Insider.”

The film is being threatened with a boycott if it ever does reach theaters.

An online petition has more than two thousand signatures (up over 2300!!!) from John Lennon fans pledging not to see the film:

“It fulfills Chapman’s own prophecy of becoming famous through murdering Lennon,” the petition says.

“I think it’s nonsense,” executive producer John Flock told New York City gossip mongers Rush and Molloy of the boycott. “The people who are calling for a boycott more likely than not haven’t seen it. It’s not a sympathetic portrayal (we are about to post some clips of Chapter 27 and clearly it humanizes the killer with a very sympathetic portrayal) . He comes off as a monster in the end.

“And I think it was the single best individual performance at Sundance. I think he’s going to be nominated for an Academy Award.”

He also claims that distributors are “swarming.” (yeah, i bet..FLIES ON SHIT!!!)

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F....Jackie and Stuttering John
Hiiii FRED

Love-making gets green light from adult stores

Misty Harris, CanWest News Service

Published: Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Pleasure the planet ... but please don't smoke after

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Planet-friendly love-making will make others green with envy

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You've heard of green cars, green tourism and green weddings. Now Canadians should ready themselves for green sex.

For those who like to make love to the soundtrack of the global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Greenpeace has released a list of strategies for "getting it on for the good of the planet," suggesting "you can be a bomb in bed without nuking the planet." TreeHugger, an online magazine edited by Ontario's Michael Graham Richard, has just published a guide on "how to green your sex life." The famed adult store Good Vibrations announced last week they would no longer sell sex toys containing phthalates, controversial chemical plasticizers believed by some to be hazardous to humans and the environment alike.

And throughout Canada and the U.S., people who want to pleasure the planet can now buy everything from bamboo bed sheets to organic lubricant and "eco-undies."

"Green living is getting sexy," says Jacob Gordon, author of TreeHugger.com's recent green guide for the bedroom.

"Even a year ago, people wouldn't have been nearly as receptive to this kind of thing. ... But, as the importance of living green gains traction in our culture, people are willing to take things like that a lot more seriously."

Most environmentalists will agree the mainstream success of the Al Gore vehicle An Inconvenient Truth has helped give climate change the pop-culture sheen it's currently enjoying. Indeed, global warming is a cause to which everyone from Diesel apparel to Vanity Fair magazine and Starbucks are pinning their marketing efforts.

And if shopping to save the planet is trendy, having sex to clear your conscience is at the cutting edge.

"It feels like people are just waking up to the fact the planet is suffering under our uses of it," says Rebecca Denk, business manager for the adult toy store Babeland. The U.S. company, which sells to Canadians via Babeland.com, just introduced an "Eco-Sexy Kit" featuring a phthalate-free vibrator, soy massage candle, a natural lubricant with no animal-testing or derivatives, and condoms.

"We have to look at every piece of our lives, including our sexuality, and ask: How is this healthy for me, and how is this healthy for the planet?" says Denk. "Hopefully, we're all becoming better global citizens."

Other ways of "greenwashing" the bedroom, as outlined by TreeHugger and Greenpeace, include turning out the lights, not buying PVC or vinyl accoutrements, ensuring S&M paddles are made from sustainably harvested timber, using organic massage oils, showering together, using bamboo bed sheets (they come from a rapidly renewable resource and are said to be "super sexy"), and wearing lingerie made with renewable fibres such as hemp (Enamore), bamboo (Butta) and other organic goodness (GreenKnickers, Buenostyle, Peau Ethique).

Gordon notes there's even an eco-friendly adult website dedicated to naked vegetarians, appropriately called Veg Porn.

Camille Labchuk, speaking on behalf of the Green Party of Canada, gives the movement two green thumbs-up.

"The general concern for trying to live lightly on our planet has transferred into all areas of people's lives," says Labchuk, the Green party's press secretary. "So, even though what goes on in our bedrooms as a nation is somewhat hidden, we know that's somewhere people want to green-up."

This Just In From MTV.com

I have another latest bit about Chapter 27 from MTV.com. It is courtesy of Josh Horowitz who is at the moment at Sundance and this is another of the latest regarding that film. Of course,it's really not a full review. It's just a few words by Mr. Horowitz and a bit about the audience reaction.Below is where you can find it:

10:34p.m.

"It's a Sundance miracle.I have found the theatre(with some help from a gas station attendant) showing "Chapter 27",and what's more,I haven't even missed a frame of it. This is the very first screening of "Chapter 27", a much hyped about John Lennon's assassin NHJKGBTYRZUI (Jared Leto) in the days leading up to the Beatle's murder. Lindsay Lohan in a supporting role does not hurt the curiosity factor. After seeing a couple of movies at Sundance you learn the protocol awfully quick. The credits come up as the film concludes and the audience pays their respects, often with raucous applause. This is not a review of "Chapter 27", so I'll out my many thoughts on the flick, but suffice it to say, ''only a FEW people applauded at the end and I wasn't one of them.'' This can't be the last flick I see here. It can't end like this."

There you go. Yet another bit about this poor excuse of a film that is not even getting any favorable reviews at the festival. It's a wonder that Mr. Schaeffer even made the film in the first place and it's also another wonder why those behind the scenes at the Sundance Film Festival gave this film and it's maker the green light to premiere at the festival in the first place when we are seeing that NOBODY is interested in this film or why Lennon's murderer even murdered Lennon in the first place.

Chapter 27's days are numbered as we speak. It should not be long when the festival is over and this film does not get any takers in the distribution arena, which we all hope on this board does not happen at all. If it does not have any takers that would release it to theatres, we can declare victory and let the celebrations begin. If it does, which, again, we hope does not happen, we can hope that this movie BOMBS and disappears soonafter it reaches theatres. We can still win it either way.

Let's hope for the best. It looks like we're winning, so far. Let's keep it up.

AND MORE:

SEAN LENNON and LINDSAY LOHAN's friendship is at risk after the musician's decision to go public with his feelings about her "tacky" new film.
The son of late BEATLE JOHN LENNON hates the idea of Lohan's new movie CHAPTER 27, in which she plays a friend of his father's killer MARK DAVID CHAPMAN, played by JARED LETO.
In one scene the young Sean meets Chapman in Central Park, New York - less than a mile from where the deranged fan shot his father dead outside the Dakota Building.
And Lennon is far from impressed with the film's premise, stating, "It's a tacky thing to make a film about.
"Lindsay was my friend, so I don't want to hurt her feelings... I think she felt that she understood but she'd already agreed to do it." And speaking to US TV news show THE INSIDER before checking into rehab, Lohan revealed she knew all about her friend's distaste for Chapter 27.
She said, "He's my friend but he's not supporting what went on (on the set).
We respect each other... and I don't support what happened to John Lennon."

What's even more ironic is that the man who took the life of John Lennon actually had the nerve to pat Sean Lennon on the head when his nanny took him for a walk. Little did Sean Lennon, who was 5 years of age at the time, realize that this same man would murder his father in cold blood hours later. Pretty scary, huh?

Yet another winning review for Chapter 27 and Peace Arch Entertainment:

"Chapter 27" relies on the concept that following an insane person around for three days will provide you with great insight into his character. But if all the character in question does is make "Catcher in the Rye" references and speak in an annoying whisper that's supposed to be sinister, it doesn't really offer any insight into why he killed John Lennon.
Jared Leto stars as Mark Chapman, who shot John Lennon outside the Dakota apartment building on Dec. 8, 1980. With the weight gain, makeup and glasses, Leto does actually look quite a bit like Chapman, but that means little in terms of the actual performance, which is limited to the script's depth and scope.

As Leto's voiceover—a southern-tinged, raspy whisper that blathers nonstop throughout the film—tells us, "Chapter 27" isn't about Chapman's childhood or any of that, just three days 'round about Christmas when something happened to him. The time frame is clearly a reference to the J.D. Sallinger (26-chapter) novel that writer/director J.P. Schaefer mirrors his film after in the same way that Chapman modeled his personality. But the film lacks the thrust and scope of "Catcher in the Rye." Chapman finds New York City to be dirty and sin-filled, moves to a new hotel, stands outside Dakota again, eats some food, goes to the Dakota again, etc.

From what I can tell, the film is generally accurate regarding the events of Dec. 8. But I got as much out of it as I did by looking up Chapman on Wikipedia. Chapman's earlier encounters on the day of the shooting, first with young Sean Lennon and his nanny, later with John himself, are there simply because they're expected to be. Oh, and he liked "The Wizard of Oz."

Lindsay Lohan plays a Lennon obsessive who befriends Chapman while loitering outside the Dakota. She elects to spend much more time with him than any reasonable person would. It's not fun to listen to some guy with a poor grasp on "The Catcher in the Rye" imitate Holden Caulfield and talk about his dislike of phonies all day, and a good-looking woman-about-town would have no need to put up with it.

The film suggests that if any of the people who spend hours letting Chapman annoy them endlessly would have kept letting him annoy them, the murder might not have been committed. Even for an obsessive fan, the guy is a bad conversationalist, unpredictable and rude. That anyone would allow this new guy into their lives is a complete stretch. And if there's a reason to make a film about him, "Chapter 27" doesn't reveal it.