PRESENTS 

Los Angeles, CA (June 30, 2014) — Millennium Entertainment is proud to announce that the hilarious and touching FADING GIGOLO, will be available on DVD and Blu-ray™ on August 19, 2014. Writer, director and star John Turturro (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Transformers) leads an all-star cast including Academy Award® winner Woody Allen (Annie Hall, To Rome With Love), Academy Award® nominee Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct, Casino), Golden Globe® nominee Sofía Vergara (New Year’s Eve, ABC’s “Modern Family”), Golden Globe® nominee Liev Schreiber (Lee Daniel’sThe Butler,Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”) and Vanessa Paradis (Café de Flore, Heartbreaker).

In FADING GIGOLO, Murray (Allen) talks his friend Fioravante (Turturro) into becoming a gigolo as a way of making some much needed cash after an out-of-the-blue request from his dermatologist (Stone). With Murray acting as Fioravante’s “manager,” the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.

Millennium Entertainment released the romantic comedy theatrically on April 18, 2014. A box office success, FADING GIGOLO amassed over $3.6 million, making it one of the top ten highest grossing independent films of the year. In his review for the New York Daily News, Joe Neumaier declares this is “Woody Allen in his funniest role in two decades.” Marshall Fine of HollywoodAndFine.com agrees, “Woody Allen gets to spritz the kind of one-liners that earned him his reputation as a comedian.”FADING GIGOLO is a “fairy tale for adults and ode to the magic of New York City” hails James Verniere of The Boston Herald.

The film has a run time of 90 minutes and is rated R. For more information, please visit http://fadinggigolo-movie.com/

ABOUT MILLENNIUM ENTERTAINMENT
Formed in 2010 and led by CEO Bill Lee, Millennium Entertainment is a leading independent supplier that acquires and distributes feature films. The company most recently released John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo, which he wrote, stars and directs. The romantic comedy also stars Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara. Other releases include Ariel Vromen’s The Iceman, starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder and Chris Evans, What Maisie Knew from directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, starring Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgard, Steve Coogan and Onata Aprile as Maisie; Academy Award-nominated director Lee Daniel’s The Paperboy starring Nicole Kidman (who garnered both a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her role as a sultry, death-row groupie), Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack and Macy Gray and Richard Linklater’s critically acclaimed Bernie, starring Jack Black (for which he earned Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award nominations), Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey.