It came out on DVD six months later.
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--- Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> "
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>
<http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1492074/10082004/story.jhtml>
>
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1492074/10082004/story.jhtml
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> Filmmaker David O. Russell was set for a fall
> release of a special-edition DVD pairing his 1999
> Gulf War film, "Three Kings," with
> an anti-war documentary he directed called "Soldiers
> Pay." Instead, he received a surprising bit of news
> from Warner Bros., the
> studio behind "Three Kings."
>
> "Once I said in The New York Times that I hoped it
> would be released before the election, Warner Bros.
> said, 'Not from Warner Bros.
> - it won't be released at all by Warner Bros.,' "
> recalled the director, who is currently in theaters
> with "I Heart Huckabees" (see
> "Huckabees: How A Very Strange Film Got Its A-List
> Cast"). "They canceled their plans to release 'Three
> Kings' before the election,
> so now 'Soldiers Pay' is being released by Cinema
> Libre."
>
> The 35-minute anti-war documentary features
> interviews with veterans fresh from Iraq as well as
> refugees, human-rights workers and
> even military brass. "I interviewed a two-star
> Republican general who has a lot of questions about
> this war and doesn't like it,"
> Russell said. The documentary is currently in
> limited release on a double bill with "Uncovered:
> The War on Iraq." Both will hit
> stores on DVD on October 19.
>
> But even without "Soldiers Pay" attached to it,
> Russell isn't optimistic that a new DVD edition of
> "Three Kings" - starring George
> Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube - will ever see
> the light of day. "They say they'll re-release
> 'Three Kings' after the election
> - they say. I don't know that they'd make 'Three
> Kings' today. They weren't owned by AOL five years
> ago, and they were more
> independent. I went to them and said, 'Are we really
> going to make this movie?' And they said, 'We make
> Oliver Stone movies; we're
> not afraid of this.' I haven't seen too many of
> those movies coming out of Warner Bros. lately."
>
> - Tanya L. Edwards "
>
> -Gel
>
>
>
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