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Blake Lively, Channing Tatum, and Jude Law to Star in Steven Soderbergh’s...
This month’s Haywire marks the first of two collaborations between Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum we’ll be seeing this year, the other one being this summer’s Magic Mike, and it seems we’ll have...
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Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Side Effects’ Gains Catherine Zeta-Jones, Loses...
There are some changes going on with Steven Soderbergh‘s planned film Side Effects. The past couple months have seen reports of Soderbergh ditching The Man From UNCLE and taking up the Side Effects...
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Casting Bits: Vinessa Shaw in ‘The Bitter Pill;’ Ray Liotta in ‘Better Living...
One of the last two films Steven Soderbergh plans to shoot before retiring from directing is The Bitter Pill, a thriller scripted by Scott Z. Burns (The Informant!, Contagion) that follows a troubled...
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‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Sequel Gets A New Writer
Rise of the Planet of the Apes was one of the biggest surprises of 2011. Directed by relative newcomer Rupert Wyatt and delving back into a franchise that most people felt had long since died, the...
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Sequel Bits: ‘Contagion 2’, ‘Black Dynamite 2’, ‘The Hobbit’, ‘The Hunger...
We’ve got some odds and ends from Sequel-Land after the jump: Warner Bros. is seeking writers for Contagion 2 Will Black Dynamite 2 be like Blazing Saddles? Ian McKellan almost declined to do The...
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New ‘Side Effects’ Trailer is Fraught With Prescription Drug Paranoia
Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns have spent the last couple years making genre films with prestige casts to explore modern anxieties in a unique manner. The Informant!...
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Sequel Bits: ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’, ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’, ‘The...
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner now, and you know what that means: Fox is ramping up their marketing efforts for their big romantic holiday release, A Good Day to Die Hard. Also after the...
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Could the ‘Contagion’ Sequel Mutate into a Television Series?
Steven Soderbergh‘s 2011 disease thriller Contagion wasn’t exactly crying out for a sequel, but in the light of its strong box office performance of course more than a few execs’ minds went there....
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‘Side Effects’ Review: Steven Soderbergh Diagnoses Paranoid Fears in His...
Steven Soderbergh, so often adventurous over the course of his career, closes out his theatrical run with the relatively conventional thriller Side Effects. Though the ideas within are familiar, a...
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Jay Roach to Direct Competing Lance Armstrong Scandal Movie for WB
The story of Lance Armstrong‘s precipitous fall from grace seems tailor made for the movies, and indeed it’s about to get two of them. Back in January, Paramount teamed up with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot...
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Armie Hammer Joins Tom Cruise in ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’
Briefly: Armie Hammer worked with one of the world’s biggest movie stars in The Lone Ranger, and now he’s set to partner up with another in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., for which James Bond creator Ian...
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Bradley Cooper to Produce Lance Armstrong Biopic, May Star
The intensified scandal over the doping actions of Lance Armstrong have irrevocably tainted his participation in cycling. As you might expect, however, the controversy has only increased the speed at...
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Steven Soderbergh Heads Off-Broadway With Scott Z. Burns and Chloe Moretz
True to his word, Steven Soderbergh has retired from the movies for now. But it’s the last part of that phrase — “from the movies” — that’s important, because outside of the movies he’s remained as...
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Scott Z. Burns Attached to Direct ‘The Professor and the Bikini Model’
Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns is responsible for scripts such as Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and The Bourne Ultimatum, but it may be his “trilogy” of films with Steven Soderbergh that really stand...
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‘The Report’ Review: Adam Driver Impresses in a Quiet, Boiling Political...
Scott Z. Burns has plenty of Hollywood experience as the writer of The Bourne Ultimatum, Side Effects, Contagion and The Informant. With his feature directorial debut The Report, one of our most...
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American Psychos: How ‘The Report’ and ‘Vice’ Investigate the Horrors of the...
(Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: Vice and The Report are among the first films to truly look...
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Marvel’s ‘Black Widow’ Movie and James Bond 25 Hire New Writers
Marvel’s forthcoming Black Widow movie and MGM’s 25th installment in the long-running James Bond franchise are both moving towards production this year. While Marvel’s spy thriller starring Scarlett...
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‘Contagion’ Writer Scott Z. Burns Talks Coronavirus Comparisons: “We Can Be...
Steven Soderbergh‘s 2011 movie Contagion shot back up the iTunes charts in January of this year, long before the coronavirus (aka COVID-19) was officially declared a worldwide pandemic. We wrote about...
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‘Fake!’: Kate Winslet to Star in Cryptocurrency Scheme Movie From ‘The...
Kate Winslet is heading back into the tech world for her newest movie. After playing Apple executive Joanna Hoffman in 2015’s Steve Jobs, Winslet will be portraying a woman who was scammed by a...
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‘Contagion’ Team Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns Developing...
When the coronavirus pandemic started to make headlines earlier this year, many people returned to Contagion, Steven Soderbergh‘s excellent, and oddly prophetic 2011 movie about a deadly virus that...
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