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Check this out: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22115291/ This is the guy who made Super-Size Me. I would say that the proof lies in the bidding war for rights to the movie from the potential buyers, but they're not even publishing that. It makes you wonder, though. |
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« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2007, 05:02:49 PM » |
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No way
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« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2007, 10:48:45 PM » |
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Yeah, he found something because he's been offered millions upon millions of dollars based on that 15 minutes of footage. It's not in the article, though.
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« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2007, 12:36:17 AM » |
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I will be meeting a finance analyst from Wienstein this week (the Co. that bought the rights already)...I'll ask him about it  |
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« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2007, 05:58:44 AM » |
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I knew it was a Weinstein, but I wasn't sure about the first name. I doubt they'll say anything that will ruin their finished product, though.  |
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« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2007, 12:13:37 PM » |
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We'll see....You are prolly right, but its worth a stab.
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« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2007, 05:14:15 PM » |
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If it was legit how would the gov not be trying to jump all over it?
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« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2007, 06:11:24 PM » |
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Its not legit...its sensational.
and its going to sell!
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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2007, 06:20:55 PM » |
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Sensational fiction or sensational marketing?  |
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« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2007, 05:45:36 AM » |
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Morgan Spurlock was doing that show about being something he's not for 30 days, and one show was about being Muslim, so it must have come from that when he decided to make a movie about finding Osama. It could be that Osama found him and had him blindfolded and taken for a meeting, or it could just be some grainy footage of him and his entourage in the mountains. But either way, it has to be something or the bidding war wouldn't have ended with the highest bid being the Weinstein company for what we can only guess is 100 million or so... I'm looking for more information on the bidding war, it's not easy to find.
And Totino, what exactly do you expect the government to do? Kidnap Spurlock and hold him for interrogation at Guantanamo?
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« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2007, 05:56:24 AM » |
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Variety at BerlinThe Weinstein Company has picked up North American rights to Morgan Spurlock's top-secret new project.
Spurlock, the filmmaker who fed the world "Super Size Me," is making a movie about the hunt for Osama bin-Laden. Little is known about the pic, though insiders say it's apparently comic in tone.
No acquisition price was disclosed for the Weinstein Company deal.
Cinetic's John Sloss and Wild Bunch, who are peddling the pic in Berlin, held a screening Friday evening of footage from the doc.
About 50 acquisitions execs queued up to enter the theater, and were presented with a draconian nondisclosure agreement to sign before they were allowed to set foot inside.
"Basically, it said they are going to kill me, my company and my family if I say anything at all about this," said one usually forthcoming U.S. buyer with a shiver that wasn't due to the icy Berlin wind.
"It was shocking -- the agreement, not the footage," one Brit said.
Only one suggested the obvious caveat: Were the Americans to actually capture bin Laden, the doc's tone might sound a bit off.
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« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2007, 08:45:16 PM » |
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And Totino, what exactly do you expect the government to do? Kidnap Spurlock and hold him for interrogation at Guantanamo?
Eh, no. But I wouldn't be surprised if they just went in and tried to take his movie saying it "pertains to national security". But eh, who knows. Maybe the government would do some sort of black ops on him  . |
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