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Thompson On Hollywood: Soderbergh and Mann: Too Smart for the Room?
/Film: Maybe The Last Moneyball Update For A While: Soderbergh Is Off The Project, MLB Approval Still Pending
Sony's Amy Pascal Finally Addresses 'Moneyball' Fiasco; Soderbergh Seems Officially Off The Project
:: The Playlist :: —
... Pascal has finally spoken out to the L.A. Times, and she's sticking to the story originally given out in Variety when the film was production was first canceled. ...
Soderbergh and Mann: Too Smart for the Room?
Thompson On Hollywood —
... Sony chief Amy Pascal (who explains herself to the LAT's Patrick Goldstein) has every right to pull the plug on a movie that started to look too risky for a $57 million starter budget. Add marketing costs and the movie would have to score at least $100 million theatrically, and the DVD cushion isn't there any more. (The NYT reports its ...
Maybe The Last Moneyball Update For A While: Soderbergh Is Off The Project, MLB Approval Still Pending
/Film —
... wasn’t that it was more crazy, but that it was too restrained. Zaillian’s draft had been more dramatic, more movie-like, and Soderbergh’s brought it back to reality. Perhaps too close to reality, as that’s what Pascal responded to. (What are the chances that Soderbergh’s draft went back to realism and the truth in order to ensure that MLB played along? Pretty good, though that might not be the only reason.)
As Patrick Goldstein said today in the LA Times:
The script, written by Oscar winner Steve Zaillian, was a baseball ...
One Final Update on Steven Soderbergh's Moneyball Fiasco
FirstShowing.net —
... had decided to pick up where Sony left off on Moneyball, meaning it would be shelved for now, I thought it would be appropriate to provide one more final update. The LA Times finally talked with Sony Pictures' exec Amy Pascal, the very same person who developed the project from the start and ...
Update on the Sony/Soderbergh/Pitt ‘Moneyball’ Fiasco
Screen Rant —
... not that Pitt will remain attached to the project. Could happen though. Sony would also need to find another director that could bring Zaillian’s ‘funny engergetic’ script to life, and considering the disaster with the last director and the $10 mil already wasted spent on the project, it’s unclear at this point whether or not Sony will take another swing at Moneyball.
We’ll keep you updated.
Source: L.A. Times
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The Hot Blog —
... Personally, I am a little miffed, as I asked about whether Soderbergh’s draft was a reflection of inaccuracies in the Zaillian draft and was told, “no.” A couple of days later, Patrick Goldstein became the only person to get an on-the-record conversation with Amy Pascal. And for good reason. He was so busy polishing Zaillian’s Oscar, he didn’t bother to ask any serious questions, freeing Sony from answering them. ...
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Mystery Man on Film —
... Ball on True Blood What genre of television would you say True Blood is, if you had to pick just one? Drama. We don’t have an actual sign in the writers room that reads, “It’s the emotions, stupid,” but we might as well. We feel like we have to keep these characters rooted in some sort of emotional reality because otherwise, it’s a parade of special effects and set pieces. On the implosion of the Moneyball project The movie, based on the bestselling ...
