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more about #stevensoderbergh more comments → 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 » graceless: Brad Pitt doesn't work much anymore... guess he doesn't have to. more » skahammer: A rare problem in the movie business, but a problem unique to it all the same: Both Zaillian and Soderbergh are accomplished craftsmen who have earned... more » raincoaster: I'm with Michael Lewis on this. I loved Moneyball, but cannot imagine turning it into a movie. His football book, Blind Side, has waaaaaaaaaaay more p... more » snugbug: à propos of this entry, and at the same time, of nothing: Sweet and merciful Lord, how I dislike this Foster Kamer character! He's the weekend on-dut... more » MrInBetween: This project was doomed from the beginning. Moneyball, a great book, doesn't translate to film. It would be easier to adapt the last episode of Ulysses. 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 » -
#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 » -
#intimateencounters
The Girlfriend Experience Blurs The Line Between Fantasy, Reality
Steven Soderburgh's new film The Girlfriend Experience, which stars adult film actress Sasha Grey, explores how its characters confuse fantasy and reality, and attempts to do the same for its pornography-literate audience members. [Jezebel] -
#fromthefront
Tribeca, Twittered: Hookers and Manholes
Our devoted team of Tribeca Film Festival Twitterers continue their 140 character reports from the front. Today it's all about The Girlfriend Experience, that Soderbergh movie about high-class callgirling. More » -
#moneyball
Soderbergh's insane Cleo delayed. Damn you, Brad Pitt. [Variety]
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#sundance
Steven Soderbergh Previews That New One With The Porn Star
It had been rumored here since at least Sunday, but that hardly made Steven Soderbergh's work-in-progress screening of his upcoming The Girlfriend Experience any less of a Sundance surprise Tuesday night. More » -
#sundance
'Sex, Lies And Videotape' Celebrates 20-Year High School Reunion
Twenty years after barging into Sundance with low expectations and leaving with a robust stake in festival mythology, Steven Soderbergh joined three-quarters of his sex, lies, and videotape cast for a rollicking anniversary screening. More » -
#hollywoodprivacywatch
Park City PrivacyWatch: Steven Soderbergh & Jules Asner and Kristen Stewart
1/18 — Flying into Salt Lake outta LAX: Mr. Sundance himself STEVEN SODERBERGH and wife JULES ASNER (ahh the pre-Seacrest, E! glory years), and tokin', smokin', vampin', Joan Jettin' Twilight star KRISTEN STEWART. More » -
#sundance
Today in Sundance Hell: Remembering 'Sex,' And Philip Seymour Hoffman Phones It In
Greetings from Park City, where Defamer today launches its journey into the heart of hype, underdogs and testicle-shrinking cold. More on that a little later, but for now, we're thawing out with the latest headlines: More » -
#che
Four-Hour Blockbuster 'Che' Coming to a Theater Within 500 Miles of You
Che is a hit! Kind of! After grossing nearly $250,000 in three weeks — in only two theaters, screening twice a day — IFC Films is literally, unexpectedly taking its "roadshow" version on the road. More » -
#cleo
Who Dares Replace Hugh Jackman In Steven Soderbergh's Insane, 3-D Cleopatra Musical?
Apparently, Hugh Jackman would prefer his career uncapsized, as Variety notes he has pulled out of Steven Soderbergh's upcoming 3-D musical, Cleo (citing scoffed-at "scheduling conflicts"). So who in Hollywood can replace him? -
#cleopatra
How Steven Soderbergh Intends to Capsize the Careers of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Hugh Jackman
We'd be lying if we said we weren't excited for Cleo, Steven Soderbergh's upcoming 3-D Cleopatra musical/possible practical joke starring Hugh Jackman and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Now, Soderbergh has revealed insane new details. -
#feuds
Friendly Crowd Reminds Steven Soderbergh That Che Guevara Killed Some Folks
Che's "roadshow" engagement attracted capacity crowds in L.A. and New York over the weekend, with director Steven Soderbergh even making a special NYC appearance to take his audience's thoughtful questions and verbal abuse. -
#history
Che Guevara: Big Masturbator?
Sure, Che Guevara was a Hero of the Revolution. But did he like to jack off a lot? Director Steven Soderbergh has done a lot of research on this issue: More »
