Partyers play 'Game'

By VARIETY STAFF

As an example of the strong paranoid flush inspired by the film, the Hollywood premiere of Polygram Films' maiden U.S. distribution effort, David Fincher's "The Game," made one constantly monitor one's immediate surroundings, looking for practical jokers or actual evildoers. (Both screening and party took place on Hollywood Boulevard, after all, and both do figure in the film.)

Thankfully, the evildoers and the pranksters were at a minimum at the Colonnade, where Polygram Filmed Entertainment chieftain Michael Kuhn held forth, and swing bands played, champagne flowed (even if the teeming crowds didn't) and interactive 3-D video games were sampled. It was the new distrib entity's first preem, and all available stops were pulled out.

Among those on hand to help Kuhn spend the company's money (as he told the aud it should do) were the film's stars Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Carroll Baker and Sean Penn, along with director Fincher, PFE Distribution prez Andy Fogelson, Michael Keaton, Anthony Edwards, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Dolgen, Lindsay Doran, Christine Baranski, Barry Levinson, Joel Silver, CAA agents Richard Lovett and Fred Specktor, John Singleton and Renny Harlin.

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