A Steady Diet of Film

Robert Greenwald's new film has Wal-Mart very scared:

"We've got a lot of things planned," said Bob McAdam, vice president of corporate affairs. "Anything is possible."

Five days before the movie's scheduled premiere in New York on Tuesday, Wal-Mart released a 10-page press release criticizing it as "propaganda video." The missive dusted off three pages of negative reviews of Greenwald's nonpolitical films, including a 25-year-old Newsweek thumbs-down for the Newton-John dud "Xanadu," which said, "Robert Greenwald, the director, should look into another line of work."

"When you look at who is funding this (campaign), it's no great surprise," McAdam said. "That coalition (of labor unions and environmentalists) has worked together in the past."

M. Night Shyamalan predicts the end of moviehouses, and lovingly lays blame on Steven Soderbergh and cryptically threatens to quit directing all together if Hollywood Reporter "has their way". Yanno M., we've heard this promise bfore from Vincent Gallo. And yet Brown Bunny continues.

posted by Erin @ Sunday, October 30, 2005