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usatoday.com - 11/30/2008

Curious case of friendship for 'Button' star Pitt, director Fincher

— usatoday.com — In the first of USA TODAY's big-picture pairings the season's most interesting star/director pairings we look at Brad Pitt ... Curious case of friendship for 'Button' star Pitt, ...

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Brad Pitt

David Fincher

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cesarkuriyama.com - 12/7/2008

Director

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slashfilm.com - 11/24/2008

Listen to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Score

— slashfilm.com — Dreamworks has put Alexandre Desplat ’s entire score for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button online on their For Your Consideration Awards site . Here is the complete tracklisting: 1. Postcards 2. Mr. Gateau 3. ... Listen to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Score

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher

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The First Rule of David Fincher is You Do Not Talk to David Fincher
Jossip — ... Fincher's personal fight club includes a recent chest-punch to John Goldwyn, the guy who ran Paramount 15 years ago when Fincher originally wanted to make this movie and was turned down by the studio. The beatdown also came with a warning for future naysayers of Fincher's work, "That's for you, for not greenlighting the movie when you had a chance." Well, at least the man directs what he knows about with his random acts of violence. ...

David Fincher Just Going Around Smacking People
Vulture — ... "We are working our asses off trying to get Oscar nominations, and he is so abusive that it's crushing," says a Paramount "insider." After a screening of David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the director "hit [former Paramount chief John] Goldwyn in the chest with his hand and hurt him and said, 'That's for you, for not greenlighting the movie when you had a chance … If we never hear the name David Fincher again, it will be too soon." [NYP] ...

David Fincher Tries Unique 'Brutality Method' of Oscar Campaigning [Tyrants]
Gawker: defamer — ... of that first Benjamin Button screening has worn off for director David Fincher, who is said to be tormenting Paramount underlings just in time for the film's Oscar push. Studio staffers were encouraged enough in recent days to even sell the notorious taskmaster out to Page Six, which reports today that Fincher has brought his shouty perfectionist passion to Button's marketing campaign. ...

David Fincher in Page Six
/Film — ... The New York Post’s Page Six today has an item on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button director David Fincher that claims that his “imperious ways”are getting on the nerves of Paramount employees: ...

Tongue-Wagging Insiders Call Fincher "Abusive"
Get The Big Picture — ... coming in longer than the studio wanted, and because Fincher was resistant to change it, he took his upcoming Heavy Metal project to another studio. The word is that both sides have kind of patched things up and will work together again soon, although if this were Rock of Love, I would still have my doubts about Fincher getting a rose from Paramount at the end of the first episode. And now to the juicy gossip from Page Six (via The Playlist). Whether the specific incident in question ...

Is Paramount Balking on Fincher's Elliot Ness Flick Due to a Dislike of the Director?
RopeofSilicon.com — ... Even more recently the New York Post ran a piece detailing the following incident between Fincher and one-time Paramount exec John Goldwyn: ...