Archer Daniels Midland

...with "The Informant!" Matt Damon stars in the true story of Mark Whitacre, an executive at the food-products giant Archer Daniels Midland who uncovered a massive fraud at the company but suffered punishment of his own. We spoke with the...

In this article: Steven Soderbergh, Mark Whitacre, Erin Brockovich, The Girlfriend Experience, Che, The Informant, and Matt Damon

...side. The film wanted to poke fun at the Archer Daniels Midland situation as well as at Whitacre's mannerisms and interactions (and his mustache) while still trying to hold onto a story about a man who loses control of himself. At times,...

In this article: Steven Soderbergh, The Informant, Mark Whitacre, Matt Damon, George Clooney, The Informant, FBI, Julia Roberts, and Las Vegas

The Informant: 'I thought I was bulletproof' Former ADM exec and whistleblower Mark Whitacre talks about watching his life on screen in Steven Soderbergh's dark comedy, 'The Informant!' Paste this link into your favorite RSS desktop...

In this article: Mark Whitacre, The Informant, Fortune, Suicide, Steven Soderbergh, FBI, Selenium, and Matt Damon

...Soderbergh. Matt Damon plays my former client, Mark Whitacre, an executive at Archer Daniels Midland Co. who helped the FBI by taping ADM's international price-fixing activities but who also stole $9 million from the company. The film is...

In this article: Mark Whitacre, Matt Damon, Kurt Eichenwald, Steven Soderbergh, The Informant, Archer Daniels Midland Co., and The Informant

...their punishment, and the company moved on and is doing very well now. Certainly this film doesn't point any fingers at ADM today, or even discuss ADM today. The greatest thing that happened to them was Whitacre turning out to be a...

In this article: The Informant, Matt Damon, Mark Whitacre, Steven Soderbergh, Morgan Freeman, Nelson Mandela, FBI, and Kurt Eichenwald

...and director Steven Soderbergh teamed up together again on the new film The Informant!, a dark comedy about a rising corporate executive at Archer Daniels Midland who blows the whistle on price fixing. Damon stars as Mark Whitacre, a...

In this article: Matt Damon, Steven Soderbergh, Mark Whitacre, The Informant, Bourne, Erin Brockovich, The Informant, and Michael Mann

...- Steven Soderbergh's adaptation is going to come as quite a shock. With Matt Damon as the real-life Archer Daniels Midland spy guy Mark Whitacre, The Informant! (yes, that exclamation point is a tip-off) turns the Grisham-esque read...

In this article: Matt Damon, Bourne, Steven Soderbergh, Mark Whitacre, George Nolfi, The Informant, John Grisham, Toronto, Philip K. Dick, and Paul Greengrass

Based on the true story of a whistle-blower at mega-food purveyor Archer Daniels Midland, told by business reporter Kurt Eichenwald in his 2000 book of the same name, "The Informant!" adds a crucial piece of punctuation to the title. With...

In this article: Steven Soderbergh, Mark Whitacre, The Informant, Matt Damon, FBI, Marvin Hamlisch, Scott Bakula, and Orchestration

...it. Matt Damon plays Mark Whitacre, a rising star at agriculture-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland who suddenly turns whistle-blower, exposing his organization's participation in a multinational price-fixing conspiracy. Why?

In this article: Mark Whitacre, Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, The Informant, The Girlfriend Experience, The Informant, Bourne, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, and Kurt Eichenwald