Using multiple advanced dynamic display block slideshows

Situation:

I have a video game news site that uses DDB on it's home page. I would like to make a second DDB that looks / works exactly the same. The only difference I want is that the view filter only pulls in content tagged with a certain site tag.

Example:

DDB1 Shows nodes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I want DDB2 to show nodes: 3 5 8 10 (assuming these nodes were tagged with the taxonomy term I want to filter by)

What I've done so far:

Created a new DDB instance (we'll call this "Featured News 2") and I configured it to look and act identical to my existing DDB which pulls in the top 5 most recent news (we'll call this "Featured News 1")

Cloned the existing (working) view that "Featured News 1" pulls from and added in the additional taxonomy filter I need. When I preview the view I can see the data I'm intending to display. Looks great. There are several pieces of content ready to be displayed.

I placed the new block into a specific page, and it displays but it's empty and I get the following warning.

warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /sites/all/themes/theme_name/custom/modules/ddblock/ddblock-cycle-block-content-upright40.tpl.php on line 47.

I went and checked out this line of code and it reads:

      <?php foreach ($slider_items as $slider_item): ?>
       <div class="slide clear-block border">
        <div class="slide-inner clear-block border">
         <?php print $slider_item['slide_image']; ?>
         <div class="slide-text slide-text-<?php print $slide_direction ?> slide-text-<?php print $slide_text_position ?> clear-block border">
          <div class="slide-text-inner clear-block border">
           <div class="slide-title slide-title-<?php print $slide_direction ?> clear-block border">
            <div class="slide-title-inner clear-block border">
             <h2><?php print $slider_item['slide_title'] ?></h2>
            </div> <!-- slide-title-inner-->
           </div>  <!-- slide-title-->
           <div class="slide-body-<?php print $slide_direction ?> clear-block border">
            <div class="slide-body-inner clear-block border">
             <p><?php print $slider_item['slide_text'] ?></p>
            </div> <!-- slide-body-inner-->
           </div>  <!-- slide-body-->
           <div class="slide-read-more slide-read-more-<?php print $slide_direction ?> clear-block border">
			      <p><?php print $slider_item['slide_read_more'] ?></p>
           </div><!-- slide-read-more-->
          </div> <!-- slide-text-inner-->
         </div>  <!-- slide-text-->
        </div> <!-- slide-inner-->
       </div>  <!-- slide-->
      <?php endforeach; ?>

I'm pretty novice when it comes to PHP still, but I don't think this needs to be edited, but rather I've over looked something when trying to set this up.