SOLDIERS PAY / UNCOVERED: THE WAR ON IRAQ Double Bill

E! reports that David O. Russell’s anti-war documentary Soldiers Pay has been picked up by the independent distributor Cinema Libre Studio. O’Russell, the director of the critically acclaimed Three Kings (1999) and of the upcoming I Heart Huckabees, had wanted Warner Bros. to distribute his 35-minute film in conjunction with the studio’s rerelease of Three Kings.
But Warners, like Disney earlier this year, balked at the idea of releasing a vociferous political commentary on the Iraq war during an election year. In fact, a Warners representative referred to the project as a "personal political statement" that might, if distributed by the studio, violate U.S. election laws. (Russell’s documentary will not be found on the Three Kings Special Edition DVD, either, for [...]