11/9/2000 Newcastle Herald
THE movie Bootmen has its hometown premiere on Sunday 17th September at Newcastle's Showcase City Cinemas. Distributor 20th Century Fox will show the film on two screens. The audience will be made up of invited guests (including director Dein Perry's family and friends) but that doesn't mean all you tap dancing fans out there can't gather outside the Wolfe St cinemas from 7pm for some Hollywood-style star-spotting as rising spunk Adam Garcia and glamorous Sophie Lee, among others, walk up the red carpet.

THE Dein Perry movie Bootmen will carry an `R' censorship classification when it opens next month in the US. The gritty romance drama stars rising Hollywood heart-throb Adam Garcia and Sam Worthington as tap-dancing steelworker brothers from Newcastle who fall in love with the same girl (a girl-next-door type played by Sophie Lee) while battling violent thugs and rehearsing their industrial-strength tap dance `rock concert'.

Shot last year in Newcastle, Bootmen opens October 5 on 150 Australian screens. It opens the next day in L.A. and New York, with Rupert Murdoch's arthouse movie studio, Fox Searchlight, modelling Bootmen's US marketing on Brit hit The Full Monty. The Word was recently granted a sneak peek at Bootmen at Fox Studios and is delighted to report that Newcastle's majestic coastline and grimy industrial landscape make a spectacular backdrop. But the `medium level coarse language' and `medium level violence' has earned an `M' rating here and an `R' in the States. `Dein always wanted it to be a tough film because he wanted it to be true to his experience,' producer Hilary Linstead explained. (Jules)

11/9/2000 MSNBC
Two theater directors dance to the screen - to decidedly different drummers - this fall: Dein Perry, who started "Tap Dogs" (the Australian version of "Stomp"), works the same clang-ban wonders for Adam Garcia in "Bootmen" (Oct. 6). Garcia has already proven he has charisma to burn in "Coyote Ugly" and is well on his way to the big leagues. (Colette)

31/8/2000
An import of the Bootmen soundtrack is now available to buy from amazon.com

16/8/2000
First Bootmen Review added.

10/8/2000
Bootmen is to be the shown as the closing movie at the prestigous Montreal Film Festival which starts on 25 August and runs through to 4th September.

9/8/2000
Bootmen has been entered into the 2000 Australian Film Institute Awards.
If you are a member of the AFI you will have been lucky enough to be invited to attend a number of screenings across Australia which are currently taking place. Tonight the lucky city was Adelaide. AFI members then complete their nomination ballots.
Nominations will be announced on 18 October with the Awards Ceremony being on 18 November.
Fingers crossed Adam were rooting for you mate!!!!

21/7/2000
Speculation about Adam's potential part in the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics on 15th September prompted by Dein Perry being appointed as main choreographer was tonight confirmed as true when a fan asked a direct question of one of Adam's Coyote co-stars in the Touchstone Chatroom . It seems that Mr Garcia will be tapping his way into Olympic history in Sydney and promoting Bootmen to a worldwide audience at the same time.

Newcastle Herald 6/4/2000
"On 31st of March the final frame of film for Dein Perry's Bootmen was shot in Newcastle. The image, a scene-setting shot lasting a mere 2 seconds, focused on Nobbys. `We just needed an introduction to the scene of a car with Sophie Lee in it driving in along the beach road,' Boot Men co-producer Antonia Barnard said this week. `That's all it was, with the camera on top of the car, but we got it and it was well worth waiting for!' Toronto-based cameraman David Williamson had been on `weather watch' for two weeks waiting for the sun to shine. Bootmen is expected to be in the can, as they say, in two weeks. Next step is developing the all-important marketing strategy, including poster design and record deals. "

Snippet from DANCE AUSTRALIA Thanks Yvonne for this.
"For those of you desperately awaiting the release of Dein Perry's movie, Bootmen, the news is that it is not due for release until some time later in the year - September or October. Perry, the director, co-writer and choreographer of the movie, is currently engrossed in the post-production process of editing. When that is completed the movie's sound track is to be compiled. So there are still months of work ahead. But let me assure you, if the trailer that I recently viewed at the Fox Studios opening is any indication, this movie is going to be well worth the wait. And I'm sure we will all be marvelling yet again at just how talented Dein Perry is." "Adam Garcia, whose appearance we eagerly await in Bootmen, has most recently been working in New York on a movie called Coyote Ugly, which stars Christian Slater. So it would seem that Dein Perry isn't the only director to appreciate the potential of this talented young man."
PS Christian isn't in Coyote as far as I know.