Michael Moore’s untitled (but possibly titled “Bailout”) Wall Street/economic crisis documentary is now set for an October 2nd release. The film is described as “a comical look at the corporate and political shenanigans” that culminated in what Moore has described as “the biggest robbery in the history of this country.”
Overture Films and Paramount Vantage, the co-financiers and distributors are releasing the picture on a date that goes head to head with Scorsese’s “Shutter Island,” and the Coen Brothers’ “A Serious Man.”
“The wealthy, at some point, decided they didn’t have enough wealth,” Moore said in a statement Thursday. “They wanted more — a lot more. So they systematically set about to fleece the American people out of their hard-earned money. Now, why would they do this? That is what I seek to discover in this movie.”
The untitled doc will be Moore’s first film in theaters since the vastly underrated “Sicko” in 2007 (fuck with their health-care and most short-term thinking Americans won’t give a shit, fuck with their real-time dollars, well, that’s another story). One would assume, American people will give a shit here, but then again, Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” might still be in theaters by then and hey, you might need to see it for a third time, possibly in not-real IMAX, right? [Variety]
