{"id":1615,"date":"2010-02-01T00:12:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T06:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:56:28","slug":"informant-vids-out-feb-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"INFORMANT! vids out Feb. 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another subject we inadvertently dropped a little while back<\/a> is THE INFORMANT!<\/strong> After its quick slide down the domestic box-office charts and relative non-performance in the international market, Warner Bros.<\/strong> announced after the New Year that the otherwise well-received Matt Damon<\/strong> drama would debut on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on Tuesday, February 23<\/strong>. It\u2019s no secret the studio has been hoping Damon will nab a Best Actor nod or win from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/strong>, which announces all the Oscar <\/strong>nominees at 7:30 a.m. CST<\/strong> tomorrow, Tuesday, February 2<\/strong>, so they\u2019re surely banking on prestige begetting extra INFORMANT!<\/strong> revenue between now and the Academy Awards ceremony on March 7<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to the key box artwork floating in cyberspace \u2013 we\u2019ve been unable to locate a formal press release, for whatever reason \u2013 the DVD will feature THE INFORMANT!<\/strong> in all its widescreen glory but the only extras will be a trailer and a selection of deleted scenes. The Blu-ray will also offer a commentary track featuring director Steven Soderbergh<\/strong> and scriptwriter Scott Z. Burns<\/strong>, along with the trailer, deletions, and a 16×9 enhanced 1080p transfer. Apparently, that\u2019s all<\/em>, folks. Our cynical side smells a double-dip in the near future, but if it comes in the form of a Criterion Collection<\/strong> edition to stick on the shelf alongside Soderbergh\u2019s CHE<\/strong>, TRAFFIC<\/strong>, and SCHIZOPOLIS<\/strong>, we\u2019ll politely wait it out.<\/p>\n

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For now, once you\u2019re done marveling at C-U Blogfidential<\/strong>\u2019s favorite orange sherbet <\/em>artwork design of 2009, surf over to this \u201cFor Your Consideration\u201d Web site<\/a> set up by the WB to pitch its Oscar contenders. After your snickering at the inclusion of THE BLIND SIDE<\/strong> subsides, take a look at the primary INFORMANT!<\/strong> item unique to this page<\/a> \u2013 a PDF download of the script, although this version is a transcription of the final release version of the movie and not <\/em>what Soderbergh used on set. It might still be valuable for students of film to see how this particular story looks on paper in the proper format.<\/p>\n

We plan to inform you a few more times about THE INFORMANT!<\/strong> before moving on to less corn-fed pastures, so all you budding CUBlog<\/strong> agents should keep your spying eyes right here!<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s almost time to relive the conspiracy again and again in the comfort of your own home, as Warner Home Video plans to release THE INFORMANT! on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376,228],"tags":[365,287,134,289],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gone-hollywood","category-home-videos-du-c-u","tag-scott-z-burns","tag-steven-soderbergh","tag-the-informant","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","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=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}