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more about #moneyball more comments → 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 » Aaron Altman: I'll make the call: Moneyball will be the next Titanic. Oh wait, did you think I meant Titanic, as in the embattled James Cameron feature that went... more » Mo MoDo: Nothing screams pompous flop like a Sorkin polish on Soderbergh's sloppy seconds. more » LucilleMcGillicuddy: cajun boy, what are you doing up at this hour? more » Foster Kamer: Yes, but did they get Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh on tape? Questions worth asking. more » Spaceman Bill Leah: Ahhh, so Sony was just protecting us all from the horrors of seeing a 20 ft. Kevin Youkilis Shrek head. more » skahammer: This project was always a bad fit for Sony anyway. Am I the only one who hears the lumbering steps of the Beast From Buffalo moving in to snatch anoth... more » Kid Twist: Billy Beane's major league career wasn't worth recreating on the big screen. more » RaleighSthenelus: The film was axed because Sony has had one bomb after another this summer and they couldn't justify spending $50 million on a risky film. If Year One... more » phlox✔: Here's a quick fix: substitute Billy Bean for Billy Beane.Brad Pitt should have no trouble playing a gay MLB player and Bean was pretty ripped back in... more » Flippyjack: I hope they find financing and make that damn movie. Do you realize? Billy Beane (the Pitt character) is gay. Some of y'all care about that. Steven ... more » raincoaster: Looks like The Making of Moneyball is the kind of story you'd put Michael Lewis on...hmmm, is it a plot to keep him employed or something? more » -
#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 » -
#traderoundup
Everything Un-Ravaged, Everthing Un-Burned in Hollywood
Three picture deals, reunions, prequels, and the secret ingredient to box office success have all been revealed! Like a fresh patch of skin that emerges after a viscous sunburn, this last week of July has some rejuvenating news from Hollywood. More » -
#hollywood
Aaron Sorkin Rides in on a White Horse to Save Moneyball
Aaron Sorkin, noted scribe, addict and boner of Maureen Dowd and Kristen Chenoweth, has been hired to write a new draft of Moneyball, the film based on Michael Lewis' bestselling book. But are Steven Soderbergh and Brad Pitt still involved? More » -
#kreepiekats
Kreepie Kats Klassik: The Roman Kandle Stuffed Up Your Pee-Hole Is Kompliments of Your Friendly Neighborhood Kreepie Kats"
[Join Jim Behrle's Kreepie Kats as they inquire as to how much less diabolikal America is now compared to last year, why Moneyball matters (or doesn't), and why Nick Denton isn't working on July 4th. Questions! Answers! Kreepie Cats!] -
#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 » -
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#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 » -
#moneyball
Soderbergh's insane Cleo delayed. Damn you, Brad Pitt. [Variety]
