{"id":1040,"date":"2009-09-18T08:52:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T14:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:57:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:57:05","slug":"wb-wets-whitacres-whistle-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Whitacre&#8221; blows whistle today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At long last, we can see for ourselves what a local news story looks like filtered through the <strong>Hollywood <\/strong>lens and magnified on the big screen starting today, <strong>September 18<\/strong>, when <strong>THE INFORMANT!<\/strong> attempts to bring down The Man in theaters everywhere. In fact, it\u2019ll be multi-tasking in the quest to also one-up the other new wide releases \u2013 <strong>JENNIFER\u2019S BODY, LOVE HAPPENS, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS<\/strong> \u2013 and last week\u2019s winner, <strong>I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF<\/strong>. Can this bouncy little spiritual brother to <strong>Steven Soderbergh<\/strong>\u2019s own <strong>ERIN BROKOVICH <\/strong>pull it off, on all levels? If you\u2019re still unsure about shelling out your properly-earned dough for this corporate thriller that doesn\u2019t seem to act like one, then dig on the official <strong>Warner Bros. <\/strong>trailer below for a sarcastic sampling:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><object width=\"450\" height=\"273\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/com3dXUpTdI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/com3dXUpTdI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Honestly, we don\u2019t really care that much about where <strong>THE INFORMANT!<\/strong> lands on the box office charts. We just hope that Soderbergh&#8217;s take on the <strong>Mark Whitacre <\/strong>whistle-blowing saga makes for pleasant viewing and digestible food for thought, as well as helping <strong>Decatur <\/strong>and the rest of central <strong>Illinois <\/strong>set its best foot forward in the eyes of the entertainment business (if not the public consciousness) since the Soy Capital essentially plays itself in the movie. <a title=\"Write to C-U Blogfidential about THE INFORMANT!\" href=\"mailto:cuconfidential@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Please let us know what you think about <strong>THE INFORMANT!<\/strong><\/a> We may post readers\u2019 reactions as part of our continuing coverage, so put on your writers\u2019 cap and sharpen that wit, citizen film critic!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE INFORMANT! is now playing in a theater near you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376,13,20],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gone-hollywood","category-public-events","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-the-informant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}