Making its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend, the Joseph Gordon-Levitt-directed film Don John’s Addiction has been purchased by Relativity Media for $4 million to distribute in the United States.
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First and foremost, Act of Valor fails on a conceptual level. I’m not specifically speaking about the by now well-advertised fact that the film features eight “active duty Navy SEALs,” which is problematic in it’s own right, and I’m not even accusing the film of being inauthentic in its depictions of the heroics and skill of these Navy SEALs, the issue is in its agenda. It’s been well publicized that this project began as an Army recruitment video, and the obvious biases the film has makes it, all acting, technical and storytelling aside, the anti-Hurt Locker.
For the second time, Twilight star Taylor Lautner has departed from a super hero-type film. We learned several months ago he was leaving Max Steel due to scheduling conflicts, and now he’s out of Stretch Armstrong too.