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Cinépolis, a leading movie Costa Rica movie theater chain with locations in Desamparados, Cartago, Heredia, Lindora, Moravia, and Tres Ríos, has started screenings of War Dogs, a film directed by Todd Phillips. In Costa Rica, the title has been translated into “Amigos de Armas” – a play on the expression “brothers in arms.”
According to the official synopsis by film studio Warner Brothers, War Dogs is the story of two friends in their early 20s (Hill and Teller) living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War, who manage to exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. military contracts.
Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in over their heads when they land a 300 million dollar deal to arm the Afghan military – a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, not the least of which turns out to be the U.S. Government. Based on true events.
In Costa Rica , War Dogs is being released just days after an announcement by President Luis Guillermo Solis and United States President Barack Obama about military equipment –both surplus as well as shiny and new- being donated to our country. The deal puts Costa Rica on the hook for tens of millions of dollars, which is still a fraction of the cost of the surveillance aircraft, patrol boats and other tactical equipment that will be transferred.
The military equipment tendered comes with a recommendation as to how it should be used: to keep fighting the U.S. War on Drugs and to prevent more migrants using Costa Rica as a bridge to reach the U.S. on foot.
According to a recent article in The Hollywood Reporter, War Dogs has already stirred up controversy:

Warner Bros. is firing back at a lawsuit alleging it misappropriated a former gunrunner’s life story to make War Dogs.
Instead of following the often-traveled but rarely successful path of suing a studio for copyright infringement, ex-arms dealer Efraim Diveroli is suing for breach of an NDA, misappropriation of his likeness rights and conversion of confidential and proprietary information.

 
Suing through his company Incarcerated Entertainment, Diveroli claims he had teamed up with Hollywood producer Elliott Kahn to sell the film rights to his manuscript “Once a Gun Runner.” But while he was in prison for violating arms embargoes, his manuscript and information given to a Rolling Stone reporter were used to write an unauthorized book that tells his story. That book, Arms and the Dudes by Guy Lawson, is the basis of Warners’ War Dogs.