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Steve Jobs Biopic Set For Aug. 16 Release

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 11, 2013 @ 7:17pm PDTTags: Ashton Kutcher, Jobs, Open Road Films, Steve Jobs
Mike Fleming

Open Road, which made a pre-Sundance service deal with Five Star Films to release JOBS in April before pulling the film back because of insufficient time to market it right by rushing, now has set the release for August 16. Ashton Kutcher stars as the Apple visionary Steve Jobs. Here’s the official word:

Open Road Films will release JOBS – the highly anticipated film chronicling the story of Steve Jobs’ ascension from college dropout to one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century – nationwide on August 16, 2013. JOBS details the major moments and defining characters that influenced Steve Jobs on a daily basis from 1971 through 2001. The film plunges into the depths of his character, creating an intense dialogue-driven story that is as much a sweeping epic as it is an immensely personal portrait of Steve Jobs’ life. Directed by Joshua Michael Stern, written by Matthew Whiteley, JOBS was shot by Oscar-winning cinematographer Russell Carpenter and produced by Mark Hulme. JOBS stars Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, J.K. Simmons and Matthew Modine.

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Steve Jobs Film With Ashton Kutcher Moving Off April 19 Release Date

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 15, 2013 @ 3:26pm PDTTags: Ashton Kutcher, Jobs, Open Road, Steve Jobs
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: The release date of the Steve Jobs biopic that stars Ashton Kutcher has quietly been postponed. jOBS, which closed the Sundance Film Festival this year, had been set by Five Star Films and its distributor … 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
Mike Fleming

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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Hot Clip: Ashton Kutcher In ‘jOBS’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 24, 2013 @ 3:17pm PSTTags: Ashton Kutcher, Jobs, Steve Jobs

Ashton Kutcher stars as Apple visionary Steve Jobs in the Joshua Michael Stern-directed jOBS, which premieres Friday as the closing film at Sundance. In this first-look clip, Kutcher walks and talks through the parking garage of Hewlett-Packard trying to convince future Apple co-founder … 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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Apple Software Chief Scott Forstall And Retail Head John Browett Exiting Company

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Tuesday October 30, 2012 @ 2:25am PDTTags: Apple, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook

Apple reported disappointing Q4 results last week and shares were down about 9.5% over the last month as investors wondered whether the company can continue to fly high. On Monday, in its biggest management shake-up in … Read More »

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Movie Casting Round-Up: ‘JOBS’ Adds Actors, Lorraine Nicholson on ‘Attachment,’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday July 13, 2012 @ 6:35am PDTTags: Movie Casting, Sharon Stone, Steve Jobs

Lorraine Nicholson has signed on to Attachment. The daughter of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Lorraine will play Sharon Stone’s daughter onscreen in the Tony Kaye-directed film. Attachment tells the tale of a good girl gone bad after be set up by her mother’s rotten lover. Christopher Denham wrote the script for Attachment. Panther Films’ Brad Epstein is producing. Adam Krentzman and W2 Media will executive produce.  Nicholson, who recently starred in Soul Surfer, is repped by ICM Partners and managed by Trilogy Talent. 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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Apple Has Big Secret Surprises Coming Next Week – But CEO Tim Cook Won’t Detail

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday May 29, 2012 @ 7:48pm PDTTags: AllThingsD, Apple, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook

Tim Cook Apple All Things DProblem is, Apple CEO Tim Cook won’t say what they are. He told the AllThingD conference tonight that he has never been so amazed as he is by “all the things I cannot talk about today.” In fact, Cook said the notoriously tight-lipped Apple would “double down on secrecy on products”. On the TV front, however, Cook made no secret of his enthusiasm for Steve Jobs’ pledge to change television with Apple TV like iTunes changed music. “We have a good relationship with the content owners,” Cook replied when asked about Apple and the Hollywood studios. “I’ve met with several of them recently; they were talking about what more we could do with them.” (Cook made a point of noting his respect for what Apple board member Bob Iger has accomplished at Disney.) Cook wouldn’t disclose what those discussions with Hollywood were about, except to say, “most people would say that TV is not an area of their life they are completely pleased with.” 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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Steve Jobs Biopic Starring Ashton Kutcher To Cannes: Inferno To Make Offshore Deals

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 12:33pm PDTTags: Ashton Kutcher, Cannes Film Festival, Inferno, Jobs, Steve Jobs
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: JOBS, the film that will star Ashton Kutcher as Apple genius Steve Jobs, will be sold at the Cannes Film Festival by Inferno. The film will be directed by Joshua Michael Stern based on a Matt Whiteley script. Production … Read More »

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Bloomberg: No Time Like Present For Jobs Heirs To Sell Apple, Disney Stock

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 22, 2011 @ 2:50pm PSTTags: Apple, Disney, Pixar, Steve Jobs

Laurene Powell Jobs might never find a better time to sell her late husband Steve’s $6.78 billion stake in Apple and Walt Disney Co., according to wealth management experts who talked to Bloomberg News. Jobs’ heirs could sell all their shares now and avoid $867 million in capital gains taxes. If Steve Jobs left everything to his wife, the family wouldn’t be liable for the 35% estate tax until she dies or gives money to others. “I can’t see any reason not to sell all of it,” said Kacy Gott of wealth-management firm Aspiriant. Another reason advisers said Jobs’ heirs should sell some stock to reduce the estate’s risks is that the capital gains tax is set to rise to 20% percent in 2013 from 15%. High-income Americans will also be subject to a 3.8% levy on unearned gains. Read More »

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Adobe Prepares To Pull The Plug On Controversial Flash Player Plug-In

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday November 9, 2011 @ 11:27am PSTTags: Apple, Google, microsoft, Steve Jobs

Adobe says it will “no longer adapt” the once-dominant program for handling multimedia and animation on computers and mobile devices — and that Steve Jobs once famously banned from Apple products. In an email to developers initially obtained by … Read More »

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Bloomberg: iTunes Guru Prepping Apple TV Set For Late 2012

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ 12:43pm PDTTags: Apple, Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs authorized biography, Walter Isaacson

Will an Apple TV set change television as much as other Apple devices have changed music, computing, and publishing? Steve Jobs seemed to think so when he confirmed the Apple TV project to Walter Isaacson for his newly released … Read More »

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Apple Stock Takes Hit As 4Q Misses Targets

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 2:16pm PDTTags: Apple, iPhone, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook

Sluggish sales of iPhones during Apple’s fourth quarter contributed to revenue that was up more than 39% year-over-year at $28.27 billion but missed analysts’ estimates. Earnings per share were $7.05, less than the street’s $7.39 target — the first time … Read More »

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Actor Noah Wyle On Portraying Steve Jobs

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday October 9, 2011 @ 6:28pm PDTTags: Noah Wyle, Pirates Of Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, TNT

Now that Sony Pictures is planning a movie based on the new authorized biography of Steve Jobs, attention has focused anew on the last film about the Apple icon. Actor Noah Wyle talks about playing Jobs in TNT’s 1999 made-for-TV movie Pirates of Silicon Valley that the cable channel is re-scheduling. … Read More »

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Sony Pictures Acquiring New Steve Jobs Biography For Major Feature Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 7, 2011 @ 2:48pm PDTTags: Apple, Mark Gordon, Sony Pictures, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
Mike Fleming

Steve Jobs Biography MovieEXCLUSIVE: I’ve just learned that Sony Pictures is making a hefty deal to acquire feature rights to Steve Jobs, the upcoming authorized biography by former CNN chairman and Time Magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson. I’m hearing the deal is $1 million against $3 million and that Mark Gordon will be the biopic’s producer. But this will be an MG360 project, which is the movie production partnership between Gordon and Management 360. ICM reps both Isaacson and Gordon. Sony Pictures would not comment. The studio seems a good fit for the book, having boiled business books into compelling dramas with both the Oscar-nominated The Social Network and Moneyball. The Isaacson book was supposed to be published on November 21st by Simon & Schuster, but now the release date has moved up to October 24th, according to a spokeswoman for the publisher. This was the hottest about-to-be biopic in Hollywood. [Will Hollywood Book Biopic Of Steve Jobs?] The 448-page profile is based on over 40 interviews with the Apple co-founder and over 100 conversations with friends, family members, colleagues and competitors. And it’s a compelling story: the building of the world’s most valuable technology company by creating the devices that changed how people use electronics and revolutionized the computer, music, and mobile phone industries. Jobs gave his full cooperation but had not read it as of mid-August. At first titled iSteve: the Book Of Jobs, Isaacson had second thoughts about what was appropriate for the first biography to get Jobs’ blessing and cooperation. Even when it wasn’t even finished, it made it (briefly) into the top 50 on Amazon’s bestseller list. Isaacson eventually persuaded his publisher Simon & Schuster to go with the simple title of Steve Jobs. First planned for 2012, the book’s release date was moved up. Read More »

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TNT To Re-Air ‘Pirates Of Silicon Valley’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 6, 2011 @ 9:37am PDTTags: Bill Gates, Noah Wyle, Pirates Of Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, TNT
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Will Hollywood Book Biopic Of Steve Jobs?

As a tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died yesterday, TNT will preempt its primetime lineup for two back-to-back airings at 8 PM and 10 PM of its 1999 original movie … Read More »

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R.I.P. Steve Jobs

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday October 5, 2011 @ 4:45pm PDTTags: Apple, Steve Jobs

UPDATED WITH HOLLYWOOD TRIBUTES: Apple just issued this statement about the death of its co-founder after his long battle with cancer: “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion … Read More »

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