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2 November 2005 | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald has accused a Wal-Mart consultant of attempting to use his cell phone to record parts of his latest film about the company, titled, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price. Today's (Wednesday) New York Times reported that Greenwald spotted the consultant, John Marino, pointing his cell phone at the screen and later ordered him to leave. A Wal-Mart spokeswoman later denied that Marino was using the cell phone to record the movie. "Why would we record it?" she said, "We bought tickets." Rick Jacobs, whose Brave New Films is distributing the film told the Times that he is considering filing piracy charges against the super-retailer. »

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27 October 2005 | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

It now appears that two dueling Wal-Mart documentaries will be released on November 15. One will be Robert Greenwald's much publicized anti-Wal-Mart film, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, and the other will be the pro-Wal-Mart response, Why Wal-Mart Works: And Why That Drives Some People C-r-a-z-y, from brothers Ron and Robert Galloway. (The two told Daily Variety that Wal-Mart did not provide financing for their $85,000 film and helped them only by giving them access to stores and personnel.) Home Media Retailing said Wednesday that Wal-Mart has sent out a press packet containing the company's responses to allegations made in the Greenwald film and directing reporters to Galloway's. The company told the trade publication that it was highlighting Why Wal-Mart Works for those who want to look at "both sides of the story." It charged that Greenwald's film was neither fair nor balanced. The company that is releasing it said that it was not intended to be. »

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