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more about #michaellewis more comments → MisterHippity: You could have just ended that headline after the word "Sucks." more » Spirit Fingers: This heinous vampire soul-suck rated 29% on Rotten Tomatoes. Which must be the equivalent of watching dust collect in an empty room...sober. more » Balsa Wood: 1% gays? Lowballing. more » CumaeanSibyl: Bullock's movie should do better in the next week. She pulls female audiences, but they were all busy. You forgot "werewolf fetishists" in your list ... more » Lysergic Asset: Tangentially on topic: would someone please explain to me how Mormons think vampires are acceptable subject matter? The Catholics are predictably (if... more » DahlELama: At the risk of being annoying, I think that makes it BatsSpidersSparkly Vampires. The fact that The Dark Knight is still on top is the only thing stop... more » D2theMatthews: In honor of Twillight's success, I'm going to drink and watch Near Dark, just like God intended. more » skahammer: Well, would it? Would Liar's Poker make a good movie? I ask people this all the time (if they've read the book, of course), and I think it's a close ... more » pollyannacowgirl: I have to agree. There is so much bullshit coming out of Hollywood; especially those goddamn re-makes or cartoons turned into live-action. It's a jo... more » MrInBetween: Must be nice to scoff at the illogical money machine that can't stop showering you with all that inexplicable cash. more » Swifter: Sandra Bullock is a lovely woman who has donated millions of dollars to charity and I will happily see her movies even when they suck. Michael Lewis ... more » Mo MoDo: Blind Side has some subtle points about the self-serving noblesse oblige of a rich alumni family adopting a future All-American defensive player that ... more » WackoJacko: I think we should be counting our lucky stars! it could've been produced by and starring Renee Zellwegger, Jennifer Aniston, or shudder-shudder Kather... more » Hockeymom: I loved this story. I read it and re-read it and then forced my husband to read it. The trailer does look like an after-school special. That said, I... more » MrInBetween: Forget straight to video. This should go straight to Lifetime. more » -
#vampires
Vampire Weekend! Twlight: New Moon Sucks Big Money from Wallets Worldwide
Behold the power of the sparkly vampire. How much money do you think Robert Pattinson's dead-eyed stare brought into the people who birthed Twlight: New Moon into this world? Well, you're probably short a few million. More » -
#pullquote
Michael Lewis —
expressing disbelief at the studio system that rushes to turn The Blind Side into a schmaltzy Sandra Bullock vehicle but will never, ever make a movie of his seminal Wall St. book Liar's Poker, to New York's Vulture. -
#adaptation
Sandra Bullock Adaptation Of Michael Lewis' Blind Side Looks Heartwarmingly Awful
The trailer's up for Michael Lewis' first book to be made into a movie, The Blind Side. After the embarassing Moneyball breakdown, it must be relieving for Lewis to finally have something hit the screen. Too bad it looks terrible. More » -
#insidebaseball
Sony Knew What Soderbergh Was Up to on Moneyball Script
Yesterday we posted Sony's take on why Moneyball, the Soderbergh/Pitt film based on Michael Lewis' book, died five days before shooting was to start. Now someone close to the project has provided us with a different version of events.
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#moneyball
Soderbergh's Moneyball Script Too Real To Get Made
The Sony Pictures executive who pulled the plug on Moneyball says that Steven Soderbergh changed the original script because he didn't want anything in the movie that didn't actually happen. So Billy Beane isn't a sweaty, foul-mouthed, Hooters waitress slayer? [Deadspin] -
#hollywood
Why Did Sony Kill the Pitt/Soderbergh Film Adaptation of Michael Lewis' Moneyball?
Last week Sony killed Moneyball, the Steven Soderbergh-directed $58-million baseball film starring Brad Pitt based on Michael Lewis' book about former Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, just five days before filming was set to start. So what the hell happened? More » -
#shutdown
Brad Pitt's Steven Soderbergh-Directed Adaptation Of 'Moneyball' Strikes Out
Columbia Pictures was aghast when the latest script for the adaptation of Michael Lewis' Moneyball arrived. So much so that they've put the project in turnaround. Oh, and: production was supposed to start next week. More » -
#thecinema
Brad Pitt To Grow Michael Lewis' Fat Bankroll
He must have learned it on Wall Street. Michael Lewis, the Salomon Brothers trader turned journalist, is, by the standards of newspaper hacks, a financial genius. And now he's got a movie deal. More » -
