Sundance 2011: First Look at THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD, a new documentary from Morgan Spurlock

Here's our first look at the new Morgan Spurlock documentary, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film festival. Spurlock got his big break with the 2004 documentary Super Size Me, then went on to make Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden, which wasn't really all that good. What can ya say tough, the guy is good at coming up with a gimmick to get people to see him movies.

His new doc takes aim at branding, advertising and product placement in film and television. Here's the humorous official announcement description for the movie, “A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement is financed and made possible by branding, advertising and product placement.” In a previous statement from Spurlock on the film he said that he "funded this entire film with money from some pretty straight-laced companies, and the end result will surely make you laugh all the way to therapy.” 

I guess we'll find out soon enough if this statement end up being true. It's been a long time since I've been to therapy. One thing is for sure, I hate blatant in your face product placement in films and TV shows. 

Here's the description of the film from Sundance:

Acclaimed filmmaker and master provocateur Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) returns to the Sundance Film Festival with tongue-in-cheek perfection as he examines the world of product placement, marketing, and advertising by making a film financed entirely by product placement, marketing, and advertising.

We live in an age where it’s tough even to walk down the street without someone trying to sell you something. It’s at the point where practically the entire American experience is brought to us by some corporation. Utilizing cutting-edge tools of comic exploration and total self-exploitation, Spurlock dissects the world of advertising and marketing by using his personal integrity as currency to sell out to the highest bidder. Scathingly funny, subversive, and deceptively smart, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold shines the definitive light on our branded future as Spurlock attempts to create the “Iron Man of documentaries,” the first ever “docbuster”! He may very well have succeeded