Aaron Sorkin says he's "strongly considering" making a Steve Jobs movie. Remember how the screenwriter transformed robotic computer geek Mark Zuckerberg into a villainous sex symbol? Just think what he could do to Jobs, an actually interesting person!
Tech journalist Robert X. Cringely's new Steve Jobs documentary, based on a recently found videotape, was hyped extensively. But the pre-release coverage didn't capture Jobs' blunt talk on why he lambasted the Mac team ("your work is shit"), or his most blistering attack ever on the man who ousted him. That would have…
Movie theater owners have been caught routinely running 2D movies through dark 3D lenses, ruining the quality. And they refuse to talk about the apparently widespread problem. As if you needed another reason to skip the overpriced, advertising laden cinema.
The Social Network depicts Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as an antihero who ends up chastened, awkward and lonely. But now that the movie has gleaned $200 million and four Golden Globes, its makers are proclaiming Zuckerberg a valorous rock star.
CBS picked up mommy blogger Kelly Oxford's sitcom in at least the third Twitter-to-TV deal at the network in the last year. Microblogging may feed on life's most banal moments, but that only makes TV executives love it more.
Friday is here once again, which means movies are opening! Let's see what's debuting in theaters today. We've got boxers and monologers, Dawn Treaders and tourists, and the triumphant return of Mena Suvari and Matthew Modine!
Remember Avatar, the giant space adventure about how to hair-rape wild animals? Well, hopefully you want more of it, because that's what James Cameron has just agreed to direct, Avatars 2 & 3. Sadly, this means no Cameron-directed Cleopatra.
"Patient Zero," the Los Angeles porn star whose positive HIV test shut down four studios, apparently did not affect any of his or her partners. The first round of tests, at least, indicates as much.
The Social Network, still number one at the box office, tells a tale of Facebook's founding that's slanted against the company's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. But even so, the movie is missing at least one minor scandal.
The Social Network juggernaut proved itself at the box office, taking the top spot and generating $23 million its opening weekend. With wider exposure, though, came a mushrooming backlash for the Facebook movie, led by two of its journalist friends.
Facebook's first venture investor says The Social Network could encourage college students into a life of dropout web hacking much as the 1987 picture Wall Street encouraged them into investment banking.
CBS just signed its second TV deal based on a Twitter account, and inked Ashton Kutcher to produce. Hollywood now officially has a monster crush on movies and TV serials about websites.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the devastatingly handsome twins who claim Facebook was their idea, lapse all too easily into self-caricature. Consider their outfits for a screening of The Social Network, which included, says an accompanying journalist, matching man purses.
Facebook has slammed The Social Network as a work of "fiction" that lies to be entertaining. Yet a company spokesman ended up inadvertently writing a climactic line of dialog that ties the Facebook movie together. Whoops.
Mark Zuckerberg attended a screening of The Social Network near Seattle, a film critic and another person who was at the Facebook movie preview are claiming on Twitter. Facebook does have a new office in the city.
The forthcoming Facebook movie exists thanks to an embittered co-founder who blabbed about the company's origins. Instant messages from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, below, describe the "dirty tricks" that made the co-founder so angry—and so indiscreet.
Who would have thought the Facebook movie's breakout star would be Justin Timberlake? Apparently the singing, dancing, tequila-brewing genius put out a surprisingly strong performance in The Social Network. Well enough, maybe, to take an obscure nerd international.
Peter Kafka saw The Social Network and said the film depicts Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg as "an insecure jerk who screws over people." More worrisome: The coke-and-tits scene that made Zuckerberg seem vaguely cool now lacks tits. Damage control time.
Justin Timberlake needed some help preparing for his starring role in the forthcoming Facebook movie The Social Network. But when the young singer approached Facebook co-founder Sean Parker in a nightclub, seeking acting help, he got shot down.
An early review of Robert Rodriguez's Mexploitation flick Machete indicates that the movie is both silly and heavy-handed: "it feigns outrageousness while too often opting to earnestly indulge in ... sincere political sermonizing." But, yeah, Lohan's naked, so. [Slant, via]
