Unbelievable Trailer for Steven Soderbergh's The Informant
Don't worry, this isn't truly "unbelievable," I just love this promo photo that Apple used . Warner Brothers has debuted the trailer for Steven Soderbergh's The Informant starring Matt Damon as FBI informant Mark Whitacre. Okay, this actually looks funnier than the Couples Retreat trailer that just debuted earlier today. I didn't know what to even expect, but damn, this looks great! I frickin' love Steven Soderbergh so damn much. He's unbelievably versatile and can direct almost anything,...

TNT, TBS pick up WB film package
The deal also includes recent openers "Watchmen" and "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past," Clint Eastwood's sleeper hit "Gran Torino" and three upcoming releases: Todd Phillips' "The Hangover"; the Steven Soderbergh/Matt Damon collaboration "The Informant"; and the Guy Ritchie-directed holiday release "Sherlock Holmes," starring Robert Downey Jr.

'Moneyball' can't find a place in Hollywood's lineup
At a time when expensive adult dramas keep striking out at the box office, it appears not even Brad Pitt and director Steven Soderbergh can entice a Hollywood studio to spend about $57 million on a baseball movie. Pitt and Soderbergh, who were given a short window to set up their adaptation of the 2003 bestselling book "Moneyball" at a rival studio after Sony Pictures unexpectedly killed the project just three days before production was to begin today, have been turned down by Warner...

Michael Douglas cast in ‘Solitary’
This movie ‘Solitary’ that is being set up at Millennium Films is shaping up to get some pretty amazing talent. Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, and Jenna Fischer are in talks to join Michael Douglas in the production. As you know this reunites Danny DeVito with Douglas again they also starred in ‘Romancing the Stone’ and ‘War of the Roses’ together. Variety Reports: Brian Koppelman and David Levien are directing a script written by Koppelman. Production begins in November

Why Did Sony Kill the Pitt/Soderbergh Film Adaptation of Michael Lewis' Moneyball? [Hollywood]
Last week Sony killed Moneyball, the Steven Soderbergh-directed $58-million baseball film starring Brad Pitt based on Michael Lewis' book about former Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, just five days before filming was set to start. So what the hell happened?

Why Did Brad Pitt, Steven Soderbergh, and Moneyball Strike Out? | Movieline
Speculation surges this morning as to why Sony would pull the plug on Moneyball, Steven Soderbergh and Brad Pitt's adaptation of the best-selling baseball tome, mere days before it was scheduled to begin principal photography. One theory suggests studio boss...

Angelina’s Tears. SpoutBlog Week in Review.
INTERVIEWS Paul Rudd and David Wain Interview, Role Models, Fantastic Fest 2008 Ronnie Bronstein: The Media Diet Watchmen director Zack Snyder on Hollywood and Video Games REVIEWS Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Rachel Getting Married The Pleasure of Being Robbed Che Review and Steven Soderbergh Press Conference, NYFF 2008 Changeling Review, NYFF 2008 I’m Gonna Explode Religulous Ballast Irina Palm: Hooker With A Heart (and [...]

New The Informant Trailer Hits!
Apple has just released a brand new trailer for Steven Soderbergh's new film, The Informant , which is set for release on October 9. Click below to take a look at this thrilling new trailer for yourself.

The week on IFC.com: Mickey Rourke, soundtracks and post-Iraq road movies.
This blog should be back to its regular self next week or so. In the meantime, a round-up of what's been happening on the rest of IFC.com:       + Review: "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" - Matt Singer wonder why, for a movie that supposedly revolves around music, no one in this teen rom-com seems to like it all that much.       + Video: "The Wrestler" at the New York Film Festival - Mickey Rourke, Darren Aronofsky and Marisa Tomei face the

Brad Pitt - Pitts Moneyball Not Rolling
Brad Pitt has landed himself a longer summer vacation - his new movie has reportedly been shelved. Sports film Moneyball was scheduled to go before the cameras on Monday (22Jun09) but studio executives at Columbia Pictures were unhappy with director Steven Soderbergh's final script adaptation of Michael Lewis bestselling book, according to trade publication Daily Variety. According to the magazine, Columbia Pictures president Amy Pascal made the decision to halt the movie late last week...

Leonardo DiCaprio - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com
From All Movie Guide: As the blond, blue-eyed icon for millions of teenage girls and more than a few boys everywhere, Leonardo DiCaprio emerged from relative television obscurity to become perhaps the hottest under-30 actor of the 1990s. After leading roles in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and James Cameron 's Titanic , the actor became a phenomenon, spawning legions of websites and an entire industry built around his name.

Tony Scott's 'Unstoppable' Derailed?
A mere week after Sony canned Steven Soderbergh's Moneyball , another big-budget film may have bitten the dust. Fox is putting the breaks on Tony Scott's next project, Unstoppable, over budget concerns, and may can the project altogether. According to The Hollywood Reporter , the film was set to begin shooting in fall, and Denzel Washington and Chris Pine were attached to play the leads. But none of the acting deals have been officially closed, and not even Scott is definitively signed to the...

iW ROUND UP | Wednesday, October 1st
indieWIRE's snapshot of news and views from around the web on Tuesday. Ultra-realist Indie FilmAndrew O'Hehir takes a very close look at Lance Hammer's "Ballast" and comes up with a study of "a certain neorealist and/or quasi-documentary trend in American independent movies." [SALON] MPAA Sues RealNetworksNew RealDVD ripping software called a violation of DVD copyrights. [HR] Jamie Stuart: Take 2His latest short film from the New York Film Fest features Steven Soderbergh. [FILMMAKER] NYFF: The Film Crit

Traffic: Trailer
A contemporary thriller set in the world of drug trafficking, Traffic is from director Steven Soderbergh. The ensemble cast is headed by Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Luis Guzman, Dennis Quaid, and Catherine Zeta Jones. Traffic evokes the high stakes and high risks of the drug trade, as seen through a series of interrelated stories, some of which are highly personal and some of which are filled with intrigue and danger. Mexican policeman Javier Rodriguez (Benicio...

Soderbergh believes in 'Che' brand
Weekly: Director discusses resonance of Korda image -- In stalls on the streets of Mexico, as on many around the world, the silk-screened image of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is ubiquitous -- a fact on which director Steven Soderbergh is banking.

Sony scraps Soderbergh's 'Moneyball'
Columbia Pictures has dropped the ball on “Moneyball,” the Steven Soderbergh-directed Brad Pitt-starrer that was supposed to begin production Monday in Phoenix. On Friday, Columbia Pictures topper Amy Pascal placed the picture into “limited turnaround,” giving the filmmaker the chance to set it up at another studio, with Warner Bros. and Paramount the prime targets. The move came after Pascal read the final draft delivered last week by Steve Zaillian and Steven Soderbergh and found

Soderbergh to make 3-D 'Cleopatra'
For his next directing effort, Steven Soderbergh is plotting a 3-D live-action rock ’n’ roll musical about Cleopatra. He is courting Catherine Zeta-Jones to play the Egyptian queen and Hugh Jackman to play her lover, Marc Antony. The $30 million "Cleo" will be shopped for financing and distribution within the next two weeks. Greg Jacobs is producing with Casey Silver. The music has been written by the indie rock band Guided by Voices, and the script is by James Greer, a former bass player for..

King of Candelabra - FilmStew.com
A colleague of mine once journeyed to the Hollywood hilltop home of the one and only Liberace to discuss a possible business project. After complimenting the entertainer on his spectacular view of the twinkling L.A. lights below, the latter deadpanned, ‘Yes… I’m thinking of having it all redone.’ Now, imagine a perfectly coiffed and made up Michael Douglas uttering that line, against the backdrop of a suitably jaw dropping location and bathed in the polished light of a Steven Soderbergh enterprise.

Anne V. Coates solicitation at the Edit Festival
Editor Anne V.Coates received Festival honors; the highest honor awarded at the Edit Filmmakers Festival. The event was held last night at the opening gala at the Cinestar Metropolis theatre in Frankfurt. A capacity crowd of 650 walked the red carpet and filled the theatre to honor Coates, who is best known for her exemplary work in Lawrence of Arabia. In the evenings other highlight, cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, a longtime collaborator with Federico Fellini, was honored with the first tribute Award

Michael Douglas to become 'Solitary Man'
Michael Douglas is set to topline Millennium Films' "Solitary Man," a film directed by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, according to Variety. The trade says Douglas plays a former owner of a car dealership chain whose career and marriage were destroyed by his business and romantic indiscretions. Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito and Jenna Fischer are in negotiations to co-star in the project, which heads into production later this year. Koppelman and Levien previously wrote and directed "Knockaround Guys." Th

Fox dealing with 'Unstoppable' budget
Columbia, which is still trying to make "Moneyball" work with Brad Pitt and Steven Soderbergh, is hardly the only studio grappling with the budgets of star-driven films in the new economic realities for Hollywood. Fox is going through the same budget-scrutinizing process on "Unstoppable," the Tony Scott-directed drama to which Denzel Washington and Chris Pine are attached. The picture, in which a young conductor and a veteran engineer chase a runaway train filled with toxic chemicals, had...

Brad Pitt's -Moneyball' isn't getting made because it's too artsy-fartsy
Brad Pitt was supposed to be working this summer. Months ago he signed on to star in Moneyball , directed by Steven Soderbergh, but then five days before the production officially started Sony Pictures pulled more than $50 million in financing and told Soderbergh and Pitt that they were free to take the project to other studios to see if they wanted to finance the disaster. No studio did. So now Brad is totally unemployed this summer, and the tabloids are in mourning. This was the summer Brad...

Amy Pascal talks 'Moneyball'
It's never an easy decision when a studio head has to pull the plug on a big movie, as Amy Pascal did last week when she shut down "Moneyball," a $58-million Steven Soderbergh film that was set to star Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the maverick general manager of the Oakland A's who almost single-handedly reinvented the way baseball scouts and develops young talent.

Fox dealing with 'Unstoppable' budget
Columbia, which is still trying to make "Moneyball" work with Brad Pitt and Steven Soderbergh, is hardly the only studio grappling with the budgets of star-driven films in the new economic realities for Hollywood. Fox is going through the same budget-scrutinizing process on "Unstoppable," the Tony Scott-directed drama to which Denzel Washington and Chris Pine are attached. The picture, in which a young conductor and a veteran engineer chase a runaway train filled with toxic chemicals, had...

Sony scraps Soderbergh's 'Moneyball'
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 Pascal placed the picture into "limited turnaround," giving the filmmaker the chance to set it up at another studio, with Warner Bros. and Paramount the prime targets. The move came after Pascal read a rewrite that Soderbergh did to Steven Zaillian's script and found it very different from the...