Pitt and Soderbergh’s ‘Moneyball’ tipped foul – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: Columbia abruptly pulled the plug on Steven Soderbergh’s baseball drama Moneyball. The film was scheduled to begin shooting this week with Brad Pitt in the lead. Studio co-chair Amy Pascal apparently wasn’t happy with the shooting script. THR is reporting that “Pascal was leery, the sources said, fearing the film lacked emotion.” Hmm. I wonder if Pascal ever even saw a Soderbergh film before giving him the job? (THR) In Other News: The Proposal topped the domestic box office this weekend, taking in an estimated $34 million. While many outlets are reporting this as a win for Sandra Bullock (this being her biggest opening ever), I’m one to believe that this is more of a Ryan Reynolds story than a Bullock story. (erc BoxOffice) Overseas, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took No. 1 with an estimated $20...
Read MoreThe (Streaming) Girlfriend Experience
I’ve been meaning to write about Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, The Girlfriend Experience, for days now after watching the indie on Amazon.com. That’s right, Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh’s latest film hasn’t been released in theaters, but it’s already streaming online for a small rental fee. Okay, a big rental fee. More than the price of a movie ticket in your average market. When it comes right down to it, not many people are going to pay $9.99 for a three-day movie rental. But what irks me most about watching Soderbergh’s tale of a high-priced call girl trying to make a living in the middle of the current economic meltdown isn’t just its equally high-priced delivery. It’s the film’s low-end storytelling. The Girlfriend Experience just isn’t that good. At best it’s a heavy-handed metaphor for losing your home on...
Read MoreThe Girlfriend Experience Trailer
No surprise, this trailer for Soderbergh’s high-priced escort picture already makes the movie look better than Showtime’s boring Secret Diaries of a Call Girl. Seriously, Showtime, how can you excessively glamorize prostitution and still produce a show so dull that even Eliot Spitzer would change the channel? Thank God there’s Soderbergh to save the day. Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience opens in select cities on May...
Read MoreTFC Morning Report – Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 – Coming soon: Sex and the City 2
Top Story: From Variety, the ladies from Sex and the City have all signed on for a sequel, which is set for a summer 2010 release. Now can we get an actual film director to helm the movie? In Other News: Ocean’s Eleven helmer Steven Soderbergh and one of those eleven, Brad Pitt, are “circling” an Steven Zaillian adaptation of Moneyball: The Art to Winning an Unfair Game, so say Variety. HR reports that Jennifer Aniston is still trying to be a movie star. She’ll join Jason Bateman in the Mandate Pictures rom-com The Baster. Due to the overwhelming success of The Nativity, another movie about Jesus’ mom is in the works. Camille Bell is set to star in Mary, Mother of Christ, along with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Al Pacino, and Jessica Lange. Opening Today: He’s Just Not That Into...
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