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Sony Pictures already acquiring rights for Steve Jobs film

article published on 8 October, 2011

Sony Pictures is preparing a very large bid to acquire the feature rights to the upcoming "Steve Jobs" biography written by CNN chairman and Time Magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson. The deal is expected to be at least "$1 million against $3 million" for the rights and Mark Gordon seems to be signed up to produce. Gordon is best known for Saving Private Ryan. Sony Pictures recently ... [ read the full article ]

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KillerBug
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_ 		9. October 2011 @ 02:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
There is already a movie about him...it is called, "Pirates of Silicon Valley".
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xtago
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_ 		9. October 2011 @ 06:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I don't think this will work well
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DDR4life
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_ 		9. October 2011 @ 15:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by KillerBug:
 There is already a movie about him...it is called, "Pirates of Silicon Valley".
I actually enjoyed that one. Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates (can you say typecasting?).
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six60six
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_ 		9. October 2011 @ 20:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
since when do you need rights to make films based on public figures? just wondering, as "unauthorized biographies" are written/published all the time.

nm. i re-read and its based on a book, /slaps self
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Seriously? Who friggin cares. He was an edited by ddp. A visionary edited by ddp true but that doesn't change the fact that he was an edited by ddp.
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_ 		10. October 2011 @ 12:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by six60six:
 since when do you need rights to make films based on public figures? just wondering, as "unauthorized biographies" are written/published all the time.

nm. i re-read and its based on a book, /slaps self
Didn't the courts say that it was legal to use someone's name and likeness without permission after EA refused to pay royalties to that NBA player that was on the cover of one of their games?
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six60six
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
Originally posted by six60six:
 since when do you need rights to make films based on public figures? just wondering, as "unauthorized biographies" are written/published all the time.

nm. i re-read and its based on a book, /slaps self
Didn't the courts say that it was legal to use someone's name and likeness without permission after EA refused to pay royalties to that NBA player that was on the cover of one of their games?
never heard about that, but i know likeness rights are a completely different can of worms (i.e. the governator action figures and such)
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