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War Dogs is a 2016 American black comedy crime film directed by Todd Phillips, and written by Phillips, Jason Smilovic and Stephen Chin, based on the 2011 Rolling Stone article, "Arms and the Dudes", by Guy Lawson (which was later expanded upon in a novel, also titled Arms and the Dudes.) [6] [7] The film follows two arms dealers, Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz, who receive a U.S. Army ...
War Dogs (2016) – biographical black comedy crime drama film about two arms dealers, Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz, who receive a U.S. Army contract to supply ammunitions for the Afghan National Army worth approximately $300 million [185]
Efraim Diveroli (born December 20, 1985) [3] is a former American arms dealer and author. [4] Notably, he operated under the banner of AEY, Inc., a company that secured significant contracts as a major weapons contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense .
The film premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2019, was set for American premiere at Los Angeles Pride on June 7, 2019, and released nationwide on June 14, 2019, in select theaters. At the Cannes Lions awards in 2019, it won a Grand Prix Award in Entertainment, with Jury President Scott Donaton quoting: “ 5B is a brave idea ...
Packouz joined Efraim Diveroli on the 17th of September 2005, in Diveroli's arms company AEY Inc. By the end of 2006, the company had won 149 contracts worth around $10.5 million. [ 1 ] In early 2007, AEY secured a nearly $300 million U.S. government contract to supply the Afghan Army with 100 million rounds of AK-47 ammunition, aviation ...
After getting stuck with a large inventory of excess video movies in the late 1970s, Charles got the idea of creating the Video Movie Club in Springfield, Illinois in 1978. The club originally charged a $25 membership fee and $5 rental fee. [3] The chain was later renamed Video Movies Inc. by the 1980s before becoming Family Video. [4]
As heroin use rose, so did overdose deaths. The statistics are overwhelming. In a study released this past fall examining 28 states, the CDC found that heroin deaths doubled between 2010 and 2012. The CDC reported recently that heroin-related overdose deaths jumped 39 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2013, surging to 8,257.
In addition, one of his later works, Arms and the Dudes about the life and crimes of Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz, was adapted into the 2016 film War Dogs, which starred actors Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Ana de Armas, and Bradley Cooper (who also executive produced the film).