Posted on 08/10/2011 9:27:20 PM PDT by MissesBush
There may be an overtly political reason that moviegoers will be seeing the story of the Osama bin Laden raid just before they vote for president. Sony Pictures, the company distributing next year's film, hosted a fundraiser for Barack Obama on their studio's premises in California last April. So far, Sony is the only major studio to hold a political fundraiser this cycle. According to Deadline Hollywood, Sony will release the bin Laden movie, directed by Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, on October 12, 2012--less than a month before the presidential election.
"The eyebrow does go up when you see the release date," says Douglas Urbanski, a Hollywood producer and conservative radio talk show host. Urbanski said he believes Bigelow's movie will be straightforward and apolitical, much like her 2009 war film The Hurt Locker (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture). But Sony's decision to release the bin Laden movie just weeks before the election, he says, is most likely "very, very deliberate."
Urbanski was a producer for The Contender, a 2000 political thriller with a plot that sympathized with a sex scandal-plagued Democrat and demonized a conservative Republican member of Congress. The movie was released on October 13, 2000. "It was without a doubt a deliberate attempt to influence the election," says Urbanski.
Sony Pictures could not immediately be reached for comment.
Just wrote Sony an e-mail-—as I understand it, they are “underwriting” Barry’s re-election movie. Here’s their “comment card” website, if you’d like to ....”communicate” with them.
http://sonystyle.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/sonystyle.cfg/php/xml_api/cci/feedback.php?source=Sony%20Store
“Underwriting the Bin Laden Death movie for Stevie Dunham’s re-election?.....”
Overseas loot? Kinda sounds illegal to me.
Republican Peter King, who heads the Homeland Security Committee,asked the inspectors general of the CIA and Defense Department to determine what consultations occurred in the Obama administration about providing Hollywood with access to covert military operators and clandestine CIA officers.
They should get Shirley Q. Liquor. That would be perfect.
“This president, by all appearances, makes Richard Nixon look like an Eagle Scout.”
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Richard Nixon? Please.
Nixon was an Eagle scout compared to ANY of the Democrat presidents of the past 50 years.
The LeftMedia has distorted history to the point that the jaywalking crime of Watergate is now the benchmark for all political corruption.
Utter ridiculous.
“I wonder who will play the part of Obama???”
Is Phyllis Diller still alive?
The New Yorker Under the Microscope
By Zeke Turner
The New Yorker ran a play-by-play about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It was quickly accepted as one of the most impressive pieces of magazine journalism so far this year — ASME bait and bound to be a major motion picture screenplay.
Schmidle’s age, 32, and his family — his father is Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Robert E. Schmidle Jr., the deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command.
....no SEALs were interviewed “is critical to allowing readers to determine how much credibility they should put into this account.” Paul Craig Roberts, a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury and former editor at The Wall Street Journal called it “a story planted on Nicholas Schmidle.” “The White House clearly blessed the dramatic reconstruction of the mission,” Maureen Dowd wrote Sunday in the Times.
Let’s hope. I have little faith it will happen with the right results.
The movie will be a non-event. Other than the Sony people, Obama’s Hollywood pals and the liberals who will vote for him anyway- who else will watch and be swayed by it?
I think they are busy right now with:
Sony suffers yet another setback in 2011..they were torched in London...and
PlayStation franchise was hit by a massive hack.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/08/09/sony.suffers.yet.another.setback.in.2011/
http://mesalliance.org/blog/2011/08/09/fire-reportedly-destroys-dadcs-london-area-warehouse/
Too bad Bob Denver's not around still - as Barack O. Krebs.
“”WORK??!!”
When one of them comes out with a book no one in his right mind would waste the time to read or money to buy, rich benefactors and corporate toadies buy millions of copies that go into storage somewhere, in return for fat government contracts.
They could buy millions of tickets, but folks are bound to notice that no one is actually sitting in the theaters, so they’ll probably hire drunks and bums to fill the seats, and one way or another, taxes will pay for it.
This could get expensive.
Obama is using the military as a prop to promote his damned election. He is putting our fighters in danger for political gain.
Now I don’t feel so sorry for the Sony warehouse that the communists, anarchists, criminals and jihadists burnt to the ground in England.
Too obvious....;D
Gee...I could come up with a lot of “empty gun/one bullet” jokes for *that*....:)
I would bet you money that *if* the Maggot In Chief ever gets a bio-pic made, Will Smith will be all over it like....well, you know.
;]
Charles Nelson Reilly?
[wish Richard Pryor was still here...that would be hilarious]
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