'Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events' Opens Nationwide on Friday, December 17

'Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events' Opens Nationwide on Friday, December 17 HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" will open nationwide in the United States and Canada in over 2,000 theatres on Friday, December 17. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991206/PARLOGO) Jim Carrey stars as Count Olaf, a wily villain with clever disguises and outrageous schemes, who is bent on swindling the Baudelaire orphans out of their family fortune. Featuring the unique blend of intelligence, irony and irreverence that readers of all ages have discovered in Lemony Snicket's best- selling books. Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures present a Parkes/MacDonald Production and a Nickelodeon Movies Production of a Brad Silberling film, "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," starring Jim Carrey, Jude Law as the voice of Lemony Snicket, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Timothy Spall, Catherine O'Hara, Billy Connolly, Cedric the Entertainer and Meryl Streep. Directed by Brad Silberling from a screenplay by Robert Gordon based on the books The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room and The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket, the film is produced by Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes and Jim Van Wyck, and executive-produced by Scott Rudin, Barry Sonnenfeld, Julia Pistor and Albie Hecht. If you know anything at all about any of these people, you know they are all suspiciously successful, successfully suspicious, or both. Paramount Pictures is part of the entertainment operations of Viacom Inc., one of the world's largest entertainment and media companies and a leader in the production, promotion and distribution of entertainment, news, sports and music. It is not associated with any secret organization of noble volunteers, and it does not employ anyone whose name is Lemony Snicket, except in certain instances. This film has been rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for thematic elements, scary situations & brief language. *Please include the rating in any film coverage For further information please contact Gregg Brilliant, Vice President, National Publicity of Paramount Pictures, +1-323-956-5872. Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991206/PARLOGO AP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org/ PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com Source: Paramount Pictures CONTACT: Gregg Brilliant, Vice President, National Publicity of Paramount Pictures, +1-323-956-5872 ------- Profile: International Entertainment