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| Disney reportedly drops Moore’s anti-Bush project |
| 2003-05-15 |
| John Alvarez of Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood (PABAAH), has reported to Hollywood Halfwits that Disney has seemingly come to its senses regarding the Michael Moore project titled, Fahrenheit 911. According to Alvarez, he had a conversation with Disney CEO Michael Eisner's secretary, who was very familiar with the Moore controversy, and she told him that Mr. Eisner has decided that while they and Miramax were considering a movie project, they have decided that it is not something they would want to be associated with. No doubt Michael Eisener will now be accused of supressing dissent and violating Moore's freedom of speech. Disney, via subsidiary Miramax, had recently agreed to cover the production costs of Moore's "documentary" which claims bin Laden was greatly enriched by the Bush family. "The primary thrust of the new film is what has happened to the country since Sept. 11, and how the Bush administration used this tragic event to push its agenda," Moore explained. It's only a matter of time before he's dragged off to one of those prison camps John Ashcroft set up in Idaho. The film proved too controversial for Mel Gibson's Icon Productions, which earlier this week dropped their plans to finance it. "Hot potato!" |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #10 Bowling for Columbine grossed $21 million in the US. Peanuts. Especially for a movie that's been in theatres for 32 weeks. Last week, 76 theatres were stupid enough to run it...they made a total of 800 bucks each. Columbine was seen by a very small group of people, mostly college kids. Another "art" film (which is what Hollywood calls oddball movies including foreign films, documentaries, etc), The Pianist, made 32 million. |
| Posted by: R. McLeod 2003-05-16 05:13:00 |
| #9 Mel Gibson may not be a rabid Lefty, but he is NOT on the right, either, witness his blatant anti-NRA stance, even after saying he would defend his children with a firearm. Duplicitous sounds more correct. |
| Posted by: MommaBear 2003-05-15 17:00:27 |
| #8 From another board Moore Autobiography = Kilograms 411 |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-05-15 11:14:21 |
| #7 In other Hollywood news, Mickey Moore is looking for backers for production of yet another documentary, this one entitled Centrigrade 911 - Feel the Heat. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-05-15 10:55:55 |
| #6 FINALLY! Somebody has figured out that Mickey Moore's product aint worth a damn. Show of hands here: How many of you actually saw Bowling for Columbine? Aside from the fruit-looped left, I can't find anyone who would pay money to see it. Why doesn't Susan Saddam, Rim Robbins, and Mickey Moore pool their own money and get this project off the ground? That way it would be FREE of all the corporate strings that they so hate. I am sure that they could recoup their money when they export it to France where they thrive on this type of 'Entertainment'? |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2003-05-15 10:36:10 |
| #5 censorship,it's censorship I tell ya!(SNORT) |
| Posted by: w_r_manues@yahoo.com 2003-05-15 10:19:11 |
| #4 Maybe if he just gave up lunch, he could finance it himself! Hey Michael, you puttin on some weight or did you just swallow a phonebooth? |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2003-05-15 10:18:48 |
| #3 I guess it would be too much to expect for Moore to put his own millions where his mouth is. C'mon, Michael! Sell your house and make your documentary the good, old-fashioned way. |
| Posted by: FormerLiberal 2003-05-15 10:05:01 |
| #2 I can't figure out how Mel Gibson could be involved in this. The Hollywood left he ain't. As Ptah stated, we can now expect the inevitable lamentations of McCarthyism from Moore and the liberals that parrot each other. However, paraphrasing Sen. Alan Simpson, impugning one of using McCarthy-like tactics is itself McCarthyism. |
| Posted by: ColoradoConservative 2003-05-15 10:01:06 |
| #1 The Clue Bird of Sanity briefly shat on somebody's head over at Disney. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-05-15 09:51:53 |