What 2000 movie starring a veteran of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" was promoted using fictionalized reviews attributed to "David Manning"?
David Manning (fictitious writer) David Manning (sometimes "Dave") was a pseudonym used by a marketing executive working for Sony Corporation around July 2000 to give consistently good reviews for releases from Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures. Several fictional review quotes attributed to "David Manning" were used in the promotion of medieval action/drama "A Knight's Tale" (describing Heath Ledger as "this year's hottest new star!") and Rob Schneider's comedy "The Animal" ("Another winner!"), the latter of which generally received mixed to poor reviews by real critics.
David (1997 film) David is a 1997 television film by Five Mile River Films, starring Nathaniel Parker as King David. It was written by Larry Gross and directed by Robert Markowitz. The film was entirely shot on Morocco and was originally aired at TNT on March 23, 1997 as part of its Bible Collection.