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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #63 Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

Published on January 29, 2008

#63. Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

Director: Morgan Spurlock
Writers: Jeremy Chilnick and Spurlock
Producers: Stacey Offman (What Would Jesus Buy?) and Morgan Spurlock
Distributor: The Weinstein Company

The Gist: With a baby on the way, and a need to make
the world safe for infant-kind, an unassuming guy from West Virginia
takes on what no special ops team could do: he puts to use his complete
lack of experience, knowledge, and expertise to find the most wanted
man on earth.

Fact: Spurlock is next working on this excellent documentary project: Freakonomics

See It: Playful documentary The rumor is that Morgan found Osama

Release Date/Status?: Weinsteins will make this a tentpole docu release – most likely somewhere between the Spring and Summer.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).