July 14, 2008 | "HBO's Terrific Summer Buzz Kill"

New York Magazine
John Leonard
During the second episode of "Generation Kill," to a tenative wave of welcome from Iraqi civilians on the rubbed road to Baghdad, one Marine in the Bravo 2 platoon of the First Recon Battalion waves right back from his Humvee.
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July 8, 2008 | "Hardball With Chris Matthews - "Generation Kill""

MSNBC
Chris Matthews interviews David Simon, Evan Wright and Marine Staff Sergeant Eric Kucher about HBO's upcoming mini-series, "Generation Kill."

July 8, 2008 | "Generation Kill" tests appetite for war on TV

Reuters
Alex Dobuzinskis
The team behind critical hit television drama "The Wire" brings the Iraq War into U.S. living rooms this Sunday in HBO's "Generation Kill," taking on what has proven to be a dangerous minefield for Hollywood.
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July 7, 2008 | "Good Men, Bad War"

Salon.com
Heather Havrilesky
"The Wire" co-creator Ed Burns expresses his admiration for the 1st Recon Marines depicted in his and David Simon's upcoming HBO miniseries, "Generation Kill."
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July 1, 2008 | "The Addictive Cable Series"

Elle
Candice Rainey
Elle gave Generation Kill the highest rating for addictability this summer! HBO gives its expert miniseries treatment to Generation Kill, a nonfiction book by Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright, who was embedded with a Marine Corps unit fighting in Baghdad in 2003.

July 1, 2008 | "Shock and Awe: HBO's Generation Kill embeds viewers in the chaotic invasion of Iraq"

Maxim
Jesse Brukman
Maxim named Generation Kill a relief to the " reality TVideocy" present in television.

July 2008 | "2008 Summer Arts Preview: Generation Kill"

TIME
Here Simon turns his critical eye to a seven-part miniseries adaptation of Evan Wright's chronicle of life with the Marines during the 2003 invasion. It could just conquer new ground for TV treatments of ongoing wars.
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June 26, 2008 | "The Reliable Source"

Washington Post
Washington, DC
Amy Argetsinger, Roxanne Roberts
Entertainment briefs are given. Former Marine sergeant Eric Kocher was a consultant for the HBO series "Generation Kill." Ed Burns, co-creator of "The Wire" consulted on the series.

June 26, 2008 | "Iraq Is More Dangerous Than Even Baltimore"

WASHINGTON EXAMINER (DISTRICT EDITION)
Brookings Institute and HBO showed the second episode of "Generation Kill." David Simon, creator of "The Wire".
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June 26, 2008 | "Fleiss Can Still Ruffle Feathers"

Los Angeles Times
Paul Brownfield
Heidi Fleiss has 20 birds. The bird motif is heavy in "Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal," an HBO documentary on the former Hollywood madam that premieres tonight at the L.A. Film Festival and will air this summer on the pay-cable channel starting July 21.

June 25, 2008 | "Soldier Rey"

The New York Post
Lewis Beale
Valentin, co-star of “Generation Kill,” a seven-part HBO miniseries about the Iraq war that debuts July 13, was a 14-year-old kid playing hoops in his hardscrabble hometown of Bridgeport, Conn., when a woman wandered onto the court with some girls in tow. "

June 24, 2008 | "Talk of the Nation- Generation Kill"

National Public Radio
NEAL CONAN, anchor: "Generation Kill," a new mini-series by David Simon and Ed Burns, tells the story of the invasion of Iraq through the eyes of the men of the 1st Marine Reconnaissance Battalion, led by an officer everybody calls "the Godfather."

June 22, 2008 | "Sometimes NYC is Really No Fare"

New York Daily News
Amy Eisinger
The HBO Bryant Park summer film festival: Watch your favorite golden oldies under the stars in Bryant Park

June 18, 2008 | "Wire Creator Examines Iraq War With Generation Kill"

Paste
Henry Freedland
And one character, Sgt. Rudy Reyes, will be played by himself in the series. "They don't need to dramatize nothing," Reyes insists. "There's nothing more dramatic going on than a unit of recon Marines with no close air support or armor running and gunning into insurgents that are holed up in towns and fighting to the death."
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June 5, 2008 | 'John Adams' Nabs 2 TCA Noms

HBO Films' epic seven-part miniseries 'John Adams' received 2 nominations from the Television Critics Association for Outstanding Achievement Movies, Mini-Series and Specials, and Individual Achievement in Drama for Paul Giamatti as John Adams.

June 5, 2008 | "'Rey' of Light"

New York Post
Sandra Guzman
Valentin portrays Corporal Gabriel Garza in the seven-hour miniseries, which explores true stories of Marines fighting in the early days of the Iraq War.
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June 4, 2008 | "First Look: Generation Kill on HBO"

Knoxville Films
Michael Samstag
Right away, "Generation Kill" is different than any other show attempting to convey what it's like to be at war. The series has more of a documentary feel--relying on the sounds of battle to heighten the tension rather than the use of traditional musical scores.
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January 14, 2008 | HBO Films Wins 4 Golden Globe® Awards

HBO Films congratulates all of our 2008 Golden Globe® Award-winners! The full list includes:
Longford: Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Jim Broadbent
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Samantha Morton
Life Support
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Queen Latifah

Septmber 17, 2007 | 'Wounded Knee' Wins Six Emmys®

HBO Films' 'Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee' won six Emmys® at the 59th Annual Emmy Awards including Outstanding Made For Television Movie. The full list of awards includes:

Outstanding Made For Television Movie

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries Or A Movie Ornstein, Michael Brown

Outstanding Cinematography For A Miniseries Or Movie David Franco

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special Avram Gold, Steffan Falesitch, Eric Hertsgaard, Patricia Liebenson, Denise Horta, Adam Johnston, Paul Berolzheimer, Dean Beville, Jeff Sawyer, Ken Young, Mike Flicker, David Fine, Hilda Hodges

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Miniseries Or A Movie George Tarrant, Rick Ash, Edward C. Carr, III

Outstanding Makeup For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Non-Prosthetic) Gail Kennedy, Rochelle Pomerleau, Joanne Preece

August 16, 2007 | Production Begins on 'The Pacific'

Production has begun in Australia on THE PACIFIC. Shooting through mid-2008, the epic ten-hour miniseries is executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the creative team behind the Emmy®-winning 2001 HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers."

THE PACIFIC is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television. The production is based at Melbourne Central City Studios in Melbourne, Victoria, with filming taking place in and around Melbourne, where U.S. troops camped in 1943, and multiple locations in Far North Queensland. Kary Antholis, senior vice president, HBO Films, is the executive in charge of the project. THE PACIFIC is scheduled to debut on HBO in 2009.

The miniseries tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda) - across the vast canvas of the Pacific. The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

Carl Franklin (HBO's "Rome"), Jeremy Podeswa (HBO's "Six Feet Under"), Tony To (HBO's "Band of Brothers"), Tim Van Patten (HBO's "The Sopranos") and Graham Yost (HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon") will direct episodes. Writers and additional directors will be announced as they are confirmed.

In addition to James Badge Dale ("The Departed"), Joe Mazzello ("Without a Trace") and Jon Seda ("Kevin Hill"), actors featured in THE PACIFIC include (in alphabetical order) Akos Armont, Jon Bernthal ("The Office"), Joshua Biton ("National Treasure"), Adam Booth ("Doctors"), Simon Bossell ("Hotel de Love"), Laurence Breuls ("Ghost Rider"), Tom Budge ("Last Train to Freo"), Linda Cropper ("McLeod's Daughters"), Brendan Fletcher ("Tideland"), Eamon Farren ("The Outsider"), Leon Ford (HBO's "Tsunami: The Aftermath"), Daniel Frederiksen ("Stingers"), Scott Gibson ("Lucky Number Slevin"), Joshua Helman, Ashton Holmes ("A History of Violence"), Andrew Lees, Rami Malek ("The War at Home"), Martin McCann ("Closing the Ring"), Ian Meadows ("Home and Away"), Toby Moore ("Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback"), Rohan Nichol ("All Saints"), Henry Nixon ("Happy Feet"), Keith Nobbs ("The Black Donnellys"), Annie Parisse ("Law & Order"), Sam Parsonson ("Love My Way"), Jacob Pitts ("The Novice"), Rupert Reid ("The Matrix Reloaded"), Mitch Ryan, William Sadler ("The Shawshank Redemption"), Gary Sweet ("Down in Splendor"), Anna Torv ("Young Lions"), Sandy Winton ("Two Twisted"), Dylan Young and Ashley Zukerman. Additional actors will be announced as they are confirmed.

THE PACIFIC is based on the books "With the Old Breed," by Eugene Sledge, which was hailed by historian Paul Fussell as "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war," and "Helmet for My Pillow," by Robert Leckie (recipient of the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Annual Award), as well as original interviews conducted by the filmmakers. Continuing the World War II oral history work begun by his father Stephen E. Ambrose (author of the book "Band of Brothers"), Hugh Ambrose serves as a consultant on the miniseries.

THE PACIFIC is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television; executive producers, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Gary Goetzman; co-executive producers, Tony To, Graham Yost; supervising producer, Bruce McKenna; producer, Gene Kelly; co-producers, Robert Schenkkan, George P. Pelecanos, Michelle Ashford.

June 1, 2007 | HBO drafts cast for 'Kill' mini

By Nellie Andreeva (Hollywood Reporter)

HBO Films has assembled the principal cast of its ambitious seven-part miniseries "Generation Kill," from "The Wire" creators David Simon and Ed Burns.

Alexander Skarsgard, James Ransone, Stark Sands, Jon Huertas and Lee Tergesen lead the ensemble cast of the mini, which chronicles the first month of the American-led 2003 Iraq invasion through the eyes of young Marine whose unit was part of the first wave of the U.S. military assault on Baghdad.

Susanna White and Simon Cellan Jones have been tapped to direct "Kill," which is based on Evan Wright's award-winning nonfiction book.

Also co-starring in the mini are David Barrera ("Evan Almighty"), newcomer Josh Barrett, newcomer Wilson Bethel, Nabil Elouahabi ("The Path to 9/11"), Neal Jones ("Rescue Me"), Chance Kelly ("The Departed"), Michael Kelly ("The Sopranos"), Eric Ladin ("Surface"), Jonah Lotan ("24"), Billy Lush ("The Black Donnellys"), Kellan Lutz ("Accepted"), newcomer J. Salome Martinez Jr., Marc Menchaca ("The Alamo"), Eric Nenninger ("Malcolm in the Middle"), Pawel Szajda ("Under the Tuscan Sun"), Rey Valentin ("One Tree Hill"), Brian Patrick Wade ("The Guardian") and Owain Yeoman ("The Nine" ).

Also a key member of the ensemble cast is former Marine and Iraq War veteran Rudy Reyes, who will play himself.

"Kill," produced for HBO Films by Company Pictures, will be filmed through year's end in South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia for a 2008 premiere on HBO.

White ("Bleak House") and Jones ("The Trial of Tony Blair") will direct from scripts by Simon, Burns and Evan Wright.

Simon, Burns, George Faber, Charles Pattinson and Anne Thomopoulos will executive produce. Nina Noble serves as co- executive producer and Andrea Calderwood as producer.