An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary about Al Gore’s quest to raise the alarm about global warming (covered in Grist here), has been picked up by Paramount and will be distributed worldwide — it opens in the U.S. on May 26.

Gore and Powerpoint? I smell March of the Penguins numbers here people! (Amusingly, the movie poster actually features penguins — as opposed to, you know, Al Gore.)