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.
The 6th Day The 6th Day is a 2000 American science fiction action film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rapaport and Robert Duvall. In the film, a family man of the future is illegally cloned by accident as part of a vast conspiracy involving a shady billionaire businessman, and is thrust into a struggle to clear his name and protect his family from the conspirators who seek to keep the cloning a secret. The title refers to the Judeo-Christian Genesis creation narrative, where God created mankind on the sixth day.