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HBO’s The Newsroom’ Back In July For Season 2

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday April 12, 2013 @ 11:10am PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, HBO, The Newsroom

HBO confirmed today that the second season of The Newsroom will debut on July 14. The Aaron Sorkin created TV journalism series first premiered on HBO on June 24, 2012. HBO announced a second season pickup for The Newsroom on July 2, 2012. The show stars Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Olivia Munn, and Sam Waterston. Terry Crews and Jane Fonda also had regular recurring roles in Season 1. The Newsroom drew in 2.3 million viewers for its August 26 Season 1 finale. That was a season high for The Newsroom. Sorkin executive produces the show along with Scott Rudin and Alan Poul.

Related: Season 2 Spoilers For ‘The Newsroom’: PaleyFest 2013

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Season 2 Spoilers For Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Newsroom’: PaleyFest 2013

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday March 3, 2013 @ 10:19pm PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Alan Poul, PaleyFest 2013, The Newsroom

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Creator and exec producer Aaron Sorkin gave a rough layout of how the forthcoming second season of his polarizing HBO cable news drama The Newsroom will play out in terms of covering … Read More »

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Constance Zimmer To Recur On Aaron Sorkin’s HBO Series ‘The Newsroom’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 21, 2013 @ 8:21am PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Constance Zimmer, HBO, The Newsroom
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EXCLUSIVE: Constance Zimmer, who was a major presence on Entourage for most of its run, will recur on another HBO series, Aaron Sorkin’s drama The Newsroom. On the upcoming Season 2, which reflects on the … Read More »

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Aaron Sorkin Disappears From Hugh Jackman Broadway Musical ‘Houdini’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 4:15pm PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Hugh Jackman, Steve Jobs
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EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Sorkin has dropped out of the Broadway production of Houdini, on which he was to make his librettist debut for a musical slated to star Hugh Jackman as the famous magician. Sorkin has put a … Read More »

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Aaron Sorkin On Steve Jobs Biopic: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday November 15, 2012 @ 7:00pm PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs

Aaron Sorkin has provided a glimpse of his plans for the Steve Jobs biopic he’s adapting for the big screen based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of the legendary Apple co-founder. He told Tina Brown today during the Newsweek/Daily Beast Hero Summit in Washington, D.C. that the movie will … Read More »

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UPDATE: Obama Praises Anne Hathaway As “Best Thing” In ‘Dark Knight Rises’; Harvey Weinstein Praises Obama As “The Paul Newman Of Presidents” At Campaign Fundraiser

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday August 6, 2012 @ 6:00pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Anne Hathaway, Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood fundraisers, President Barack Obama 2012 Campaign

3RD UPDATE, 5:54 PM: President Barack Obama at a Hollywood-studded fundraiser tonight reviewed The Dark Knight Rises and Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman performance. “She’s spectacular. I got a chance to see Batman, and she was the best thing in it. That’s … Read More »

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Aaron Sorkin Denies Firing ‘Newsroom’ Writing Staff And Other Rumors

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 4:32pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, HBO, TCA, TCA Wrap-Up, The Newsroom

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2ND UPDATE: Deadline never picked up these media rumors. Today Aaron Sorkin characterized them as “unsourced and untrue” that he had fired nearly all of the writers on The Newsroom. The Newsroom FiringSorkin brought up the matter during HBO‘s presentation before anybody asked. Sorkin also said there is no truth to the second part of the rumor: That one of the writers, Corinne Kingsbury, is the only writer who was spared because she is Sorkin’s ex-girlfriend. The Daily repeated the rumors first, followed by The Hollywood Reporter. (No wonder The Daily is firing nearly 30% of its staff…) The stuff “got repeated all over the place,” Sorkin said.

“The writing staff was not fired, OK? Just seeing that in print is scaring the hell out of the writing staff. They are acting very strangely, they are coming to work very early … I want the old gang back. It is a fantastic group of men and women to come to work with.” Sorkin did cop to a couple of staffing changes he said were made at the end of the season but said that they were mostly promotions of two writers assistants to staff writers. (While he did not address that, there are reportedly 2 writers from Season 1 of Newsroom who are not coming back.) Sorkin also stressed that Kingsbury is not neither an ex- or current girlfriend: “She is on the staff for the same reason everyone else is on the staff.” He added: “I think she is at the beginning of a very exciting career and I would hate for this rumor impact her career or follow her around for the rest of her life,” Sorkin said of Kingsbury, adding jokingly: “That’s Kingsbury with a ‘g’.”

He added that he had no girlfriends, either previous or current, on the writing staff.

HBO at first canceled Sorkin’s TCA appearance. But Sorkin stressed afterward in the huddle that he would have none of that running and hiding from his critics. “I said, ‘No, reinstate it’,” Sorkin confirmed afterward.
“I wanted to talk to the press.”

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Aaron Sorkin On `The Newsroom’: NPR

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 17, 2012 @ 5:02pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom

Aaron Sorkin provided a glimpse into his thinking behind The Newsroom in a recent interview with NPR. Reaction to the show, starring Jeff Daniels as anchorman Will McAvoy, has been polarized, earning criticism of … Read More »

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HBO Renews Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’ And ‘True Blood’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday July 2, 2012 @ 12:39pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, HBO, The Newsroom, True Blood

Newsroom HBO RenewedHBO has ordered a second season of its Aaron Sorkin drama The Newsroom and a sixth season of its vampire drama True Blood. The renewal of Newsroom comes just over a week after … Read More »

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Sorkinisms (Aka Self-Plagiarizing): Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday June 26, 2012 @ 11:37am PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom

Hollywood has never concerned itself with self-plagiarizing. Ergo this video, which calls itself a “tribute to the work of Aaron Sorkin: the recycled dialogue, recurring phrases, and familiar plot lines. This is not intended as a critique but rather a playful excursion through Sorkin’s wonderful world of words…” (And … Read More »

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Aaron Sorkin Says Writing About Steve Jobs Like Writing About Beatles

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday May 30, 2012 @ 12:44pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, AllThingsD, Big Deals Film, Big Deals TV, Steve Jobs

Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs MovieAaron Sorkin said today that he had a lot of hesitation about tackling a movie about Steve Jobs. “It is a little like writing about The Beatles,” Sorkin said at the AllThingsD conference this morning. Sorkin said he “saw a minefield of disappointment” from Jobs aficionados in taking on the script for the recently announced film based on Walter Isaacson’s bestselling biography. While the Oscar winner says it’s difficult “to shake the cradle to grave” approach of a book like Isaacson’s when adapting it for the screen, Sorkin says his approach is “going to identify the point of friction that appeals to me.” Sorkin, who received blowback for liberties he took with the actual life of Mark Zuckerberg in 2010’s The Social Network, told the conference crowd that they should think of biopics as “a painting, not a photograph.” Read More »

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Aaron Sorkin To Script ‘Steve Jobs,’ Based On Walter Isaacson Book For Sony

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 5:54pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Big Deals Film, Sony Pictures, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
Mike Fleming

CULVER CITY, Calif., May 15, 2012 – Academy Award® winning screenwriter Aaron
Sorkin will adapt Steve Jobs, a motion picture based on the best-selling
biography of the legendary Apple co-founder by award-winning journalist Walter
Isaacson, it was announced today by Amy Pascal,

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TV Teaser: Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday April 29, 2012 @ 9:26pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, HBO, The Newsroom

HBO has released another trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s new series The Newsroom. Multigenerational cast includes Jane Fonda, Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston, Emily Mortimer, Dev Patel, Chris Chalk, Adina Porter and many others. Debuts June 24:

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TV Trailers: HBO’s ‘Newsroom’, ‘True Blood’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday April 1, 2012 @ 8:26pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Alan Ball, The Newsroom, True Blood
Nellie Andreeva

HBO has received first trailers for Aaron Sorkin’s new drama series The Newsroom and for the upcoming fifth season of Alan Ball’s True Blood. The Newsroom stars Jeff Daniels as the anchor of a primetime program on a cable news network whom the trailer portrays as outspoken, controversial and volatile. Great timing on the heels of the public firing by Current TV of Keith Olbermann who reportedly was one of the anchors Sorkin shadowed in his research for the show. The trailer also gives a glimpse at Newsroom‘s supporting cast, Emily Mortimer, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel and Thomas Sadoski, as well as Sam Waterston as the network’s president and Jane Fonda in the guest-starring role of the CEO of the network’s parent company. As for True Blood, this is a first look at what will be the last season of the vampire drama shepherded by its creator Ball who is stepping down as showrunner.

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Hugh Jackman Conjures Up Broadway Return In Aaron Sorkin-Penned Musical ‘Houdini’ For 2013-14 Season

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 4, 2012 @ 7:41am PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Hugh Jackman
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Hugh Jackman has sealed his return to Broadway for the 2013-2014 season in Houdini, which marks the librettist debut of Aaron Sorkin, with music by Stephen Schwartz. Jack O’Brien has been set to direct the production, which will be presented by producer Scott Sanders and David Rockwell, the latter of whom will design the sets. The musical has been long in the works — at one time Danny Elfman was working on the music — and the creatives say they’ve now got a version that will bring an original and contemporary feel to the life and death of America’s first superstar.

Jackman, whose Broadway turns include the musical The Boy From Oz and a run of the Keith Huff play A Steady Rain with Daniel Craig, most recently finished a sold-out run of Hugh Jackman: Back On Broadway. Jackman’s about to start the movie musical Les Miserables, directed by The King’s Speech helmer Tom Hooper for for holiday 2012 release by Universal Pictures.

Said Jackman: “I have been deeply fascinated by the life of Harry Houdini since I was young, and in many ways I’ve been preparing for this role my whole life. I am thrilled to be collaborating with this collection of artists who are all at the top of their game.” Read More »

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Aaron Sorkin’s New HBO Series Gets Title: ‘The Newsroom’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 21, 2011 @ 4:00pm PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, HBO, The Newsroom
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Aaron Sorkin’s HBO Series Gets New Title?

The Newsroom. That is the official title of Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO drama series, once known as More As This Story Develops. The new title … Read More »

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Jane Fonda To Recur On Aaron Sorkin’s HBO Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 14, 2011 @ 3:20pm PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, HBO, Jane Fonda
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In her first major TV series gig, Oscar winner Jane Fonda is joining Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO drama series in a recurring role. The series, set behind the scenes at a fictional cable news network, stars Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, … Read More »

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Aaron Sorkin’s HBO Series Gets New Title?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 5, 2011 @ 12:01pm PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, HBO, Jeff Daniels, Keith Olbermann
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Has Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO drama series, known as More As This Story Develops gotten an official title? That’s according to TV Newser, which says the show will be titled Newsroom. That indeed is the top choice for … Read More »

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UPDATE: ‘The Artist’ Is NY Film Critics Circle Best Picture; Meryl Streep Best Actress For ‘Iron Lady’, Brad Pitt Best Actor

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 10:17am PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Albert Brooks, Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Michel Hazanavicius, Steven Zaillian, The Artist, The Tree of Life

New York Film Critics Jump The Gun, Unveil New November Awards Voting Date

The NY Film Critics Circle has just bestowed its Best Picture award for 2011 to Michel Hazanavicius’ black-and-white silent film The Artist, putting the Weinstein Co drama … Read More »

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