mcnblogs.com - 7/3/2009
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This has been one of those stories that just keeps sliding and sliding and sliding. And I don’t think we are still quite at the truth.
When it started, the central spin, launched via Variety , was that Soderbergh delivered a late draft that so differed from the Steve Zaillian version, which ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 7/1/2009
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It's never an easy decision when a studio
head has to pull the plug on a big...
movie, as Amy Pascal did last week when she shut down "Moneyball," a $58-million Steven Soderbergh film that was set to star Brad...
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Sony's Amy Pascal speaks out about 'Moneyball'
hollywoodreporter.com - 7/9/2009
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hollywoodreporter.com —
Columbia is sending Aaron Sorkin to the plate
to take a new cut at "Moneyball." The writer...
has been brought on to do a draft of the baseball drama, drawing on Steve Zaillian's earlier take. The studio wants to move forward quickly with the new ...
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Aaron Sorkin game for 'Moneyball'
variety.com - 7/9/2009
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Soderbergh out as director; Pitt still attached Sony
is still game on making the baseball pic "Moneyball,"...
tapping Aaron Sorkin to polish an early script by Steve Zaillian. Brad Pitt is still attached to star in Columbia Pictures' adaptation of ...
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Sony still game for 'Moneyball' - Entertainment News, ...
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... that the letter had to be removed because it was extremely actionable. I didn't see how or why, but I took it down anyway after talking it over with friends. I never got into what was said in the letter, but MCN's David Poland has posted an intelligent inquiry piece that addresses asome of the issues rasied by iut, and in so doing he takes a swipe at sites whose reportings about the episode have more or less given Soderbergh the back of their hands. "Movies die every day," Poland writes . "Feelings and careers are hurt. (Over 200 people were put out of work unexpectedly by ...
Moneyball Redux
Thompson On Hollywood —
... , David Poland asks more questions about Sony pulling the plug on Moneyball and what it means. So does ...
'Moneyball'; The Backspin Continues; Plus a Look Back At Old Soderbergh Projects
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... But David Poland, who wrote a great little, "closing the door on..." late last week that we were too busy to blog about over the Independence day weekend, addressed some of the issues in that email, whether consciously or not (though he surely had it fwd'd to him, no?) ...
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