Marshall Mathers aka Eminem is back. His album has been “leaked” a few days early before its release next Tuesday. Lots of four letter words, provocative lyrics designed to make someone unhappy. And lots of samples like a big one of “Time of the Season” by the Zombies. Let’s hope they got a nice piece of change from Em. He’s never boring.

These might be my favorite lyrics. It’s kind of Eminem’s “You’ve Got a Friend”:
And if there should ever come a time where my life’s in a rut
And I look like I might just give up, eh might’ve mistook
Me for bowing out I ain’t taking a bow, I’m stabbing myself
With a fucking knife in the gut, while I’m wiping my butt!
Cause I just shitted on the mic, and I like getting cut
I get excited at the sight of my blood, you’re in a fight with a nut
Cause I’mma fight ’til I die or win

Listen:

Frank Marshall is one of the smartest and successful producers in Hollywood. From all of the “Indiana Jones” movies to “Back to the Future” and dozens more titles, Marshall is at the top of Hollywood’s hierarchy–and is a great guy. He was a big fan of Lance Armstrong, too, so he decided to produce Alex Gibney’s documentary about Armstrong’s 2009 comeback race for the Tour de France.

But as revelations about Armstrong started to escalate, Marshall and Gibney had to deal with reality. They wound up making “The Armstrong Lie” twice so it included the unrepentant liar’s admission on “Oprah” and all the other mishegos that led to Armstrong’s unraveling and downfall.

Last night we saw “The Armstrong Lie” at a special screening hosted by Sports Illustrated’s former chief Terry McDonell, as well Sony Pictures Classics’ Michael Barker and Tom Bernard. Among the guests were David Chase (The Sopranos, Not Fade Away) with his wife, as well as Gibney, co-producer Matthew Tolmach, and cycling whistle blower Betsy Andreu.

You think you know all about Lance Armstrong. But you don’t until you see this movie. And even there are questions. We talked a lot about whether he is a sociopath without a conscience. The three men agreed: labeling him with a mental disease lets him off the hook. He’s just a liar who thinks he did nothing wrong.

Marshall: “I drank the Kool Aid. We all went to Mont Ventoux in France in 2009.” That’s where Armstrong staged a miraculous comeback after a terrible race. It turned out later he was doping so he’d make at least third place. “I haven’t talked to him,” said Marshall, “but I’m sure he thinks we’re still friends.”

The whole Marshall-Gibney team started the project as fans. That they had to re-evaluate everything about their film is mind-blowing. But then it became a search for the truth.

Meantime, Armstrong has not seen the film, which opens Friday November 8th. “We’ve offered,” said Tolmach.

Harvey Weinstein hopes so.  At the Los Angeles DGA premiere of the “12-12-12,” Amir Bar-Lev and Charlie Lightening’s terrific insider look at the concert that was held to benefit Hurricane Sandy, also has none other than Sir Paul McCartney as an Executive Producer.  The film features music’s finest, including: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Dave Grohl, Roger Waters, Eddie Vedder, Chris Martin, Michael Stipe, Adam Sandler, Eric Clapton, Jon Bon Jovi, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Kanye West and more.

Sir Paul ends the show and is shown throughout the film.  In fact his team was filming their own version until Amir and Paul’s team got together at the last minute and joined forces. Harvey told the crowd that, “Paul, whom I spoke to today, is involved in every detail of this movie.  If God willing we ever got an award, Paul and Amir would be up there.”

Harvey then went on to thank Irving Azoff and native New Yorkers MSG’s James Dolan, Clear Channel’s John Sykes, Weinstein’s Victoria Parker and Sir Paul’s longtime manager Scott Roger, all who helped to make the concert  and the film happen.

“I grew up going to Rockaway,” Harvey explained.  “This was so important for all of us to do.  People were in need.”

Harvey then told the story of how Kristen Stewart agreed to meet a Middle Eastern Sheik for a half hour for $500.000. Harvey quipped, “I don’t know if we reported it to the IRS, but who gives a shit.”

I then spoke with the Amir Bar-Lev who told me that, “The film was an editing challenge.  It could have been a nine-hour movie; there was that much happening.  We wanted to keep the cameras moving so that the audience can experience the night in all of its honeycomb splendor.  We wanted it to be a democratic film.  It was New York taking care of itself, so if we didn’t move the camera around and meet roadies, fireman, fans, the people outside, as well as staying onstage, it all came together because of that. ”

How did he wind up making this film?  Amir answers, “I ran into Harvey at a ‘Django Unchained’ event, I had done the ‘The Tillman Story,’ for him.  He told me. ‘You gotta make this movie for me, you gotta be ready in a week!’  Paul McCartney also had the idea to immortalize the event in a film, and to the run up to the concert there were two different films being made. It culminated in a stand off between their crew and our crew and was very acrimonious. At a certain point in this argument, I said, why are we making two films? Why don’t we make one film?  This is crazy, it’s a charity event, and we shouldn’t be fighting over this.  Besides it’s a Beatle.  The guy I was fighting with and I hugged, we then had a production meeting right before the concert and joined forces.  The finished film is a combination of both of our footages.  So all is well.”

“12-12-12” opens in New York and Los Angeles on November 15th.