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Review: Black Gold
"In theory, profit sharing is a beautiful notion – of course that all depends on who you ask. Black Gold takes a critical, yet more humane look into where the bucks stops and while its not as unflattering as Darwin’s Nightmare, coffee lovers will either want to stay away from these truths or at least ask themselves – where does my four dollar cup of coffee come from and has the lady in the green cap with the phony smile asked herself that same question?"
Nussbaum, Lindsay Give ‘Cougars’ Comedic Bite
Focus Features, the specialty films division of Universal Pictures, has snapped up Erik Lindsay’s romantic comedy Cougars and paired him up once again with Joe Nussbaum to helm the project. The duo previously teamed up for the upcoming “American Pie 5:The Naked Mile”, set to release in 2007, as writer and director respectively.
A Major ‘Coup’ for Miramax
In a world where oil is nearly as valuable as gold, it is not unheard of for powerful governments to take greed to flight and attempt control. Such was the case in Equatorial Guinea, a small country in Africa whose rich oil fields proved too tempting for the British neocolonialist establishment to resist. This true story of a failed coup was chronicled in Adam Roberts’ book The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa just released in August of this year, and already picked up by Miramax Films.
