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Aaron Sorkin Courted to Write Steve Jobs Screenplay

The L.A. times is reporting that the Academy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is being courted to write the script for the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic. Earlier we reported on the fact that Sony Pictures had acquired the rights to the project, and now it seems it's coming together quickly.   read more

Sorkin and HBO Reach Deal Over Cable News Drama

Aaron Sorkin’s HBO project seems to have been in the works for almost a year. Updates about the drama came and went with very little progress. However, the show officially closed a deal with the network and production should start soon.  read more

The Social Network Review

Director: David Fincher Writer: Aaron Sorkin Cinematographer: Jeff Cronenweth Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer Studio/Running Time: Columbia Pictures, 121 min. Beware: Nerds rising! This year’s true sequel to 1987’s Wall Street is a smart and engrossing film, a befitting look at the evolution of one of the most financially successful institutions of the 21st century. The movie, however, comes not from Oliver Stone, nor does it feature that fictional, greed-is-good evil-doer Gordon Gekko. In The Social Network, the truth is surprisingly stranger—and wildly more interesting—than the fictional and flat Stone sequel Wall Street:...  read more

Trent Reznor to Score David Fincher's Facebook Movie, The Social Network

Trent Reznor became a fan of David Fincher. Trent Reznor is now scoring David Fincher’s The Social Network. Paste likes this....  read more

Brad Pitt Snaps Up Movie Rights to Blind Side Author's Housing Bubble Book

The film adaptation of Michael Lewis’ The Blind Side was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar yesterday morning, and now it seems everyone wants a piece of him. Vulture reports that Brad Pitt has snagged the rights to Lewis’ yet-to-be-released examination of the housing bubble The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine....  read more

Aaron Sorkin Returns to TV, But Will He Triumph Again?

Aaron Sorkin, famed writer and creator of The West Wing, is returning to television with a new series....  read more

The 20 Best TV Shows of the Decade (2000-2009)

This list of 20 phenomenal TV shows from 2000-2009 reinforces our belief that the young millennium has launched a new Golden Age of Television.  read more

The 10 Best Internet Memes of the Decade (2000-2009)

Richard Dawkins minted the term "meme" to explain the movement of information...  read more

Justin Timberlake Friends David Fincher for Facebook Movie

Fresh off his Emmy win as a Single Ladies troupe member, among other Saturday Night Live gags, Justin Timberlake may soon tackle cultural commentary in a new realm: social networking. In fact, after more than a year's worth of rumors, Variety reports that Columbia Pictures signed Timberlake in its upcoming Facebook movie The Social Network....  read more

David Fincher to Direct Aaron Sorkin's Facebook Movie?

Given how much hostility the Facebook movie, The Social Network, has faced before it even heads into production, there sure are some huge names at its helm. Aaron Sorkin was hired to write the screenplay, Scott Rudin is producing, and now Variety reports that David Fincher is in “advanced talks” to direct. ...  read more