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		<title>Mike has met with THE INFORMANT!, and here&#8217;s the intel&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Soderbergh, ever the unpredictable filmmaker, has this time drafted in Matt Damon for a bizarre comedic take on corporate whistleblower Mark Whitacre's take-down of agri-industry conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) over its international price-fixing of lysine (an essential amino acid synthesised from grain).

From The Informant's opening credits, Soderbergh sets out to play off the espionage thriller element against its comically ill-suited participants in the lysine business. Opening shots of surveillance equipment form montage shots reminiscent of Coppola classic The Converstion, as we are instantly primed for crime capering.


The Informant bucks the trend by being a good movie
with an exclamation mark in it's title!

Then, suddenly, in pops Matt Damon's voice rambling about all sorts of inconsequential, corn-related musings before we're thrown into the ultra-90s world of big round hair cuts, bright ties and facial hair. This comic incongruity provides the groundwork on which most of the amiable elements of this film are based.

But the premise is pushed much deeper, and when the FBI are called to ADM, ostensibly to investigate blackmail threats from a Japanese competitor, Whitacre reveals the company's price fixing activities and officially turns whilstleblower. From here on in, we are treated to a first class examination of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Soderbergh&#8217;s THE INFORMANT is actually a comedy? Trailer here&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I didn't expect the adaptation of Kurt Eichenwald's nonfiction bestseller about a guy who spilled the beans on a price-fixing scandal at a grain processing conglomerate to actually be a comedy - but that's exactly what Steven Soderbergh has cooked up right here by the looks of this trailer for The Informant, opening in October (Nov U.K.), but everyone expects it to play at the Toronto Film Festival. 



Mind you, that's the "Ocean's" Steven Soderbergh as referenced by the Warner Bros. marketing team, which immeaditely sours my interest because I'm much more of a fan of the Traffic/Che/The Girlfriend Experience variety of Soderbergh. Speaking of which can any director seriously make as many movies as he; this will technically be his fourth movie in 12 months.

A fatter, aging, kind of Russell Crowe in The Insider version of Matt Damon, in his first movie since summer 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum stars as the whistle blower Mark Whitacre, with a very welcomed return to the big screen from Scott Bakula who supports. 

Looks kind of Burn After Reading-esque, and any trailer ballsy enough to use The Eurythmics "Would I Lie To You" in it's trailer, deserves at least a mention.  ]]></description>
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		<title>First look at Matt Damon as THE INFORMANT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 07:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filming right now out in Illnois is Matt Damon, where he is re-teaming with his Ocean's director Stephen Soderbergh for the C.I.A. thriller The Informant and today TheBadandUgly.com provide us our first set look...

The movie is based on the true story of the mid-90's lysine price-fixing scam that see's Damon lead as business insider Mark Whitacre who along with two F.B.I. agents played by Scott Bakula and Josh McHale are dangerously working under-cover.

Supporting cast includes mostly unknown character actors and comedians which include Melanie Lynskey, Tom Wilson, Tony Hale, Eddie Jemison and Mike O'Malley.

The Informant will be out March 2009.

source - coming soon ]]></description>
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		<title>No April Fool&#8217;s! Scott Bakula finds a good role.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Bakula, who I dearly wish was a Captain on a Star Trek series worthy of his talent has lingered in the abyss for far too long. Since Enterprise ended three years ago he has barely done anything of note but all that is set to change thanks to Stephen Soderbergh.

The Ocean's director has hired Bakula for a supporting role in The Informant, a movie that will begin production next month with the always in demand Matt Damon toplining. Also on board if talks go well will be "The Soup" host Josh McHale says The Hollywood Reporter.


Bakula and McHale, who is in final negotiations, will play FBI agents working with agri-business insider Mark Whitacre (Damon) to stop a price-fixing scam. The film is based on Kurt Eichenwald's 2000 best-seller "The Informant: A True Story."

Other new cast members known for their comedic turns are Mike O'Malley (CBS' "Yes, Dear"), Andrew Daly (Semi-Pro), Adam Paul (Starz's "Hollywood Residential") and Melanie Lynskey (CBS' "Two and a Half Men"). Comedian-actors Tom Wilson, Rick Overton and Tom Papa will round out the cast.
Later this year Soderbergh should release his two Che Guevara epic films that he has made with Benicio del Toro.

The Informant does sound ...]]></description>
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