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The Sundance Film Festival is about to heat up this Friday. Not because of the sun though, but rather because of the highly anticipated jOBS film, starring Ashton Kutcher, which will hit the big screen. To get viewers pumped about the movie the production company has released a clip today, which shows Kutcher and Josh Gad as Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
The clips features the two as Jobs tries to explain to Woz the genius behind being able to make and sell computers. | Full Story
In the new biographical film, jOBS, actor Ashton Kutcher portrays the masterfully creative, Steve Jobs. The film will make its worldwide premiere on the closing night of the Sundance Film Festival, January 27, but won’t hit U.S. theaters until April.
With the newly struck deal, Open Road Films will release jOBS on behalf of producer Mark Hulme’s, Five Star Feature Films, which will put forward the marketing money. Hulme seems eager about the new partnership, stating, “We set out to find the perfect partners to present jOBS to audiences worldwide, and we feel we have found one with Open Road. | Full Story
Open Road films is negotiating to acquire the rights for the new film Jobs, from director Joshua Michael Stern, which stars Two and a Half Men’s Ashton Kutcher as the Steve Jobs. The film was made independently by Five Star Features and is slated to close the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.
Stern’s film focuses on the hardships that the co-founder of the major Apple company faced between the years of 1971-2000 to get his company off the ground. | Full Story
Aaron Sorkin, who is writing the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, spoke yesterday about how hard it will be to translate the Apple co-founder’s life onto the screen. While at the AllThingsD conference, the Oscar-winning screenwriter revealed that his goal is to paint a “heroic” picture of the late mogul.
Sorkin, who will be adapting Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography, told the audience that he has just started the writing process for the script and said, “…It’s difficult to shake the cradle-to-grave structure, so I’m probably not going to write one. | Full Story
Ashton Kutcher will star as Steve Jobs in the upcoming movie titled, Jobs. The film is a biopic being produced and financed by an independent company owned by Mark Hulme, a business man relatively new to the film world.
Joshua Michael Stern is set to direct the film in which he has slated to start in May of this year during Kutcher’s break from his CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men. | Full Story
The sudden death of Steve Jobs will surely be felt by people at Apple and around the world. A recently forgotten novel ‘Anywhere But Here’ by Mona Simpson has also felt the affects of the loss of the well-revered techie. ‘Anywhere But Here’ had received a bump in interest after it was revealed that Steve Jobs is the biological brother of Mona Simpson.
Jobs’s biological parents, Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, were unmarried when he was born in 1955. | Full Story
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