'Stealth' crashes on takeoff at U.S. box office

'Stealth' crashes on takeoff at U.S. box office

Sun Jul 31, 2005 02:23 PM ET

By Dean Goodman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Moviegoers shot down a costly action movie for the second consecutive weekend as the $100 million military film "Stealth" opened at No. 4 with sales of just $13.5 million, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.

SOURCE - http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=9223939



WSWS : Book Review

Military interference in American film production

Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies
by David L. Robb

By Mile Klindo and Richard Phillips
14 March 2005

Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies by David L. Robb, a former journalist for Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, is a timely work. Published in 2004, a year after the US-led occupation of Iraq, it exposes one of the dark secrets of American movies—military interference in film production and Hollywood’s acquiescence to it.

While collaboration between the US military and Hollywood, of course, is not a new phenomenon, few moviegoers realise how much control the Pentagon has over the American film industry. Citing letters, internal memos and interviews with producers, writers and directors, Robb’s book contains valuable information about its insidious and destructive influence on American cinema.

SOURCE - http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/mar2005/holl-m14.shtml