Controversial Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, announced that he met privately with Academy Award Winning actor, Sean Penn, on Wednesday. THR reports that Penn may have plans to shoot a film in Venezuela adapted from Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier’s 1953 novel, “The Lost Steps,” about the journey of an American anthropologist and composer into the jungle [...]
Michael Moore’s long awaited new documentary finally has a title: “Capitalism: A Love Story.” The film will reportedly be a scathing indictment of America’s big business culture, and is set for an Oct. 2 release. The distributor, Overture Films, says “Capitalism” examines the terrible effects of corporate profiteering. “It will be the perfect date movie,” [...]
The as-yet-untitled Michael Moore documentary will explore the root causes of the global economic meltdown and take a comical look at the corporate and political shenanigans that culminated in what Moore described as “the biggest robbery in the history of this country” – the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private financial institutions. Director: [...]