From variety.com, Nov 09, 2003

By Dana Harris

RAINSTORM SWEAR BY DOC

HOLLYWOOD -- Rainstorm Entertainment will finance and produce a doc about the word "fuck," one that will focus on how it originated and on its comedic but sometimes shocking cultural context.

Steve Anderson, who made his feature bow with Rainstorm's "The Big Empty," starring Jon Favreau, will direct. Production is scheduled to start in January. Artisan Entertainment will release "The Big Empty," which co-stars Rachael Leigh Cook, Kelsey Grammer, Daryl Hannah, Sean Bean, Jon Gries, Adam Beach, Joey Lauren Adams and Bud Cort.

The film was to world preem at the AFI Fest on Sunday as part of the American Directions section. Artisan will release the film in select cities Nov. 21.

Anderson, who won a Peabody as a cameraman, has shot seven docs for PBS.

Rainstorm is a privately financed development and production company launched last year by Steven Kaplan, Gregg Daniel and Richard Katz.