mcnblogs.com - 6/22/2009
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As eluded to, but perhaps not with direct intent, the new spin out of the Sony camp on Moneyball is that Brad Pitt disliked the new script as much as Amy Pascal and that he is the one who secretly sunk the ship, though he didn't want to be seen as doing it.
This is, actually, a more ...
variety.com - 6/21/2009
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Front Page: Columbia Pictures drops ball on Brad
Pitt pic -- Columbia Pictures has dropped the ball...
on “Moneyball,” the Steven Soderbergh-directed Brad Pitt-starrer that was supposed to begin production Monday in Phoenix.
Sony scraps Soderbergh's 'Moneyball'
variety.com - 6/21/2009
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Columbia Pictures drops ball on Brad Pitt pic
Columbia Pictures has dropped the ball on Moneyball, the...
Steven Soderbergh-directed Brad Pitt starrer that was supposed to begin production on Monday in Phoenix. On Friday, Columbia Pictures topper Amy ...
Sony scraps Soderbergh's 'Moneyball' - Entertainment ...
variety.com - 6/21/2009
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variety.com —
Columbia Pictures drops ball on Brad Pitt pic
Columbia Pictures has dropped the ball on Moneyball, the...
Steven Soderbergh-directed Brad Pitt starrer that was supposed to begin production on Monday in Phoenix. On Friday, Columbia Pictures topper Amy ...
Sony scraps Soderbergh's 'Moneyball' - Entertainment ...
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'Moneyball' Update: Was It Brad Pitt's Classic Cold Feet That Killed Soderbergh's Project?
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... asked, "what's the real story here?," but admittedly didn't have the answer. Now, he says he does. Sorta. According to his new report (no, sources though and all he credits is the "spin out of Sony"), Pascal took the fall so Pitt wouldn't look bad backing out of the project. According to Poland, it was Pitt who didn't like Soderbergh's revisions. Read any message board or comment sections on the web today and you'll have already read plenty of this kind of conjecture. Many people assumed as much. ...
Warner Bros. & Paramount Pass On 'Moneyball'; Project Officially Dead?
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So "Moneyball," Steven Soderbergh's baseball metrics drama starring Brad Pitt and Demetri Martin was killed last minute by Sony chief Amy Pascal. Apparently she didn't like Soderbergh's rewrite draft and pulled the plug (some have suggested that Pitt is the culprit, and she was simply the beard, though David Poland seemed to back away from that assertion late last night). The film was thrown into "limited turnaround" to potentially ...
Warner Brothers, Paramount Pass On Soderbergh’s Moneyball
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... Word remains that Pascal killed the movie after a late rewrite by Soderbergh pushed the film in a direction she wasn’t comfortable with. But there have been musings about all sorts of truths behind the scenes — was Pitt, notoriously willing to pull out of films at the last minute, unhappy with the script? Or did Pascal just realize that greenlighting a seriously niche film at this budget, even with Pitt, wasn’t the best move? ...
STUDIOS PASS ON BRAD PITT’S MONEYBALL
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... Meanwhile, some people are saying it was actually Pitt who didn’t like the script and Pascal just covered for him. ...
'Moneyball': The Original Script & More Conspiracy Theories
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... As David Poland also said a few days ago. "All the chatter about all the things that are wrong about the film... all were in the script delivered long before last week." Still, we're dying to read Soderbergh's draft to find out just how dramatically different it supposedly is. Our hunch is not as radical as some would say, but will we ever find out? It probably should have leaked by now, no? ...
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Soderbergh's 'Moneyball' Strikes Out
getthebigpicture.net 6/21/2009 — Steven Soderbergh 's highly anticipated next film, the baseball bio-pic, Moneyball , has been put into "limited turnaround" by Columbia, days before shooting was set to begin in Phoenix.
At issue is the script as revised by Steve Zallian and Soderbergh that troubled Columbia's Amy ...
Brad Pitt-Starring 'Moneyball' Benched
aceshowbiz.com 6/22/2009 — Amy Pascal from Sony Pictures Entertainment has placed 'Moneyball' into 'limited turnaround' because she found the re-written script by Steven Soderbergh was totally different from earlier scripts.
No Moneyball for Sony, Studio Wants Gritty Gamers and Clutch At Bats Instead
unrealitymag.com 6/22/2009 —
Columbia pictures decided that, like Joe Morgan , it doesn’t want anything to do with Moneyball. From Variety :
Columbia Pictures has dropped the ball on “Moneyball,” the Steven Soderbergh-directed Brad Pitt starrer that was supposed to begin production on Monday in Phoenix.
On ...
Studios Gets Tough; Sony Puts Moneyball in Play
weblogs.variety.com 6/22/2009 — In the overall scheme of things, a $57-million budget is pocket change to a studio, especially a big-spender like Sony. So why would Sony chairman Amy Pascal risk alienating a star like Brad Pitt and a director like Steven Soderbergh by pulling the ...
Brad Pitt’s new baseball movie pulled —
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A baseball movie that was to star Brad Pitt and start filming in Phoenix this week has been put on hold.
Sources in Hollywood reportedly say that a dispute over the script is at the bottom of the “extremely rare” fate of Moneyball.
Moneyball tells the story of the Oakland ...
Moneyball Update —
Thompson On Hollywood
It was a bad week for Steven Soderbergh and his $57 million screen version of Michael Lewis's baseball book Moneyball , which Sony shut down as of Friday --with a Monday start-of-production date. (How odd that "producer" Michael DeLuca was on his honeymoon last week and still has not ...
'Moneyball' For 'Moneyball' —
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Steven Soderbergh 's " Moneyball " getting benched is still the story of the day as far as we're concerned and if you look around the web that still seems to be the case. There's a lot of shock out there that a relatively cheap picture ($57 million) with Brad Pitt can get shitcanned at the ...
Brad Pitt Now Has Some Time Off - Bye Bye Moneyball —
Crazy Days and Nights
This morning, shooting was set to start on the movie Moneyball starring Brad Pitt and being directed by his good friend Steven Soderbergh. Well that isn't going to happen now. Despite the fact that three months of camera interviews and all the pre-production had been completed, Columbia ...
Pitt's Moneyball scrapped —
Filmstalker
It was the end of last year, when Brad Pitt agreed to star in Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. A baseball film which was to be directed by Stephen Soderbergh. It has all gone a bit pear shaped though, the studio involved has pulled the plug. And with filming due to start ...
Columbia abandons Soderbergh's 'Moneyball'? —
The Screening Log
Some of Steven Soderbergh's movies have made a lot of money and received great critical praise, but that's not enough for Columbia Pictures to fully trust him with some of his projects.
Indeed, Columbia has pulled the plug on Soderbergh's upcoming sports drama "Moneyball," the big-screen ...
Sony Columbia Trashcan Moneyball Three Days Before Filming —
/Film
Steven Soderbegh has been given the weekend to find a new home for his Brad Pitt baseball picture Moneyball . If another studio doesn’t step up by Monday, Columbia have the option to either fire Soderbergh and replace him or to stall the project indefinitely. The problem, according to ...
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