Buddy, can you spare a camcorder?

It seems that Circuit City copped on to the fact that it had been serving as an unwitting executive producer for low-budget filmmakers, with its once-generous return policy on consumer electronics. Most famously, perhaps, the makers of The Blair Witch Project shot their film on a camera purchased from Circuit City and then repacked and returned to the store after shooting wrapped.

Circuit City is no longer so beneficient, but what may be the last film made with the corp as a secret partner will be released theatrically in August. It’s a humorous documentary called My Date with Drew, and it’s all about the geeky, videocamera-flipping director’s quest to meet the actress Drew Barrymore and ask her out.

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