September 22, 2008 | HBO Films wins 16 Emmy® Awards; 'John Adams' leads all programming with 13 Emmy's®

LOS ANGELES -- HBO received 26 Primetime Emmy® Awards, the most of any network, in the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy® Awards competition. The awards received by the network this year reflect the diversity of HBO's original programming, ranging from series to original movies to documentaries. "John Adams" led all winners with 13 awards.
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July 17, 2008 | "Wired For War"

LA Weekly
Robert Abele
"Over There" failed to spark the populace's desire to see the Iraq war and its attendant controversies turned into three-act fodder or episodic drama. HBO's seven-part miniseries Generation Kill, however, is a different animal, the true story of the first ground troops into Iraq, based on the award-winning book of war reportage by journalist Evan Wright.
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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.

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 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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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

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.