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4th January 2009 Che photos & interviews
More film stills, production images and posters from Che have been added to the photo gallery and there are interviews with Steven online: • Steven Soderbergh Wants a Revolution (BlackBook) • Rebel without a pause (Guardian) • Steven Soderbergh Talks (A Lot!) about Che (ComingSoon) • Soderbergh: Cleo will be like an Elvis musical (InTheNews) The Informant The first film still from The Informant (due to be released on September 18th) has been added to the photo gallery. Hugh Jackman off 'Cleo' wishlist From Variety: Hugh Jackman has removed himself from discussions to star with Catherine Zeta-Jones in "Cleo," a 3-D live action musical which Steven Soderbergh will direct as his next project. No deal had been signed as the ambitious $30 million project is completing its financing, but Soderbergh asked his "Traffic" star Zeta-Jones to play Cleopatra and wanted new Oscar host Jackman to play her lover, the Roman general Marc Antony (Daily Variety, October 24, 2008). Discussions are reportedly in the works for the role of Julius Caesar to be played by Ray Winstone, the "Beowulf" star who just completed shooting the Martin Campbell-directed "Edge of Darkness" with Mel Gibson. Soderbergh has said he wants to inject the famous historical love story with rock n' roll songs and a style akin to an Elvis musical. The music was written by the indie rock band Guided by Voices, and the script is by the group's former bass player, James Greer, who is also an author. Jackman's exit is attributed by insiders to scheduling conflicts, though it is not clear what other project is on his plate. Soderbergh gets Horton Foote Award From Variety: Steven Soderbergh has been tapped to receive the Horton Foote Award for screenplay writing. Soderbergh will be feted during the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration in Natchez, Miss., on Feb 21. Past honorees have included Billy Bob Thornton, Charles Burnett and Callie Khouri. Author Carolyn Haines will also be feted with the Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award during the event. Posted on 4th January 2009
13th September 2008 Soderbergh tunes up Liberace film
From Variety: Steven Soderbergh is in the early stages of developing a biopic about Liberace for Warner Bros., which he will direct. The filmmaker said he has drafted his "Traffic" star Michael Douglas to play the flamboyant pianist. Richard LaGravanese is writing the script, and Jerry Weintraub will produce. Soderbergh is in discussions with Matt Damon to play Scott Thorson, who sued Liberace in 1982 for $113 million in palimony, claiming he was the entertainer’s companion for five years. Even though Liberace never wavered from career-long denials that he was gay, Thorson reportedly settled for $95,000 in 1986. Liberace died in 1987 of complications from AIDS at age 67. According to sources, Soderbergh won’t make the Liberace film his next project, or even the one after that. Soderbergh will next direct "The Girlfriend Experience," about a call girl, for 2929 Entertainment partners Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner and their HDNet label. That is the second of the six-picture deal Soderbergh made to direct low-budget films that are distributed simultaneously in theatrical, on cable and DVD. The first was "Bubble." Aside from starring in the Soderbergh-directed and Weintraub-produced "Ocean’s Eleven" film series, Damon just starred for Soderbergh in "The Informant." Soderbergh's epic `Che' lands US distributor From Yahoo! News: Steven Soderbergh's Che Guevara film biography "Che" has found a U.S. distributor that will release it in theaters this December to qualify for the Academy Awards. IFC Films announced Wednesday it acquired domestic rights to the two-part, 4 1/2-hour saga, which stars Benicio Del Toro as the Argentine doctor who became one of the heroes of Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution. The film will play a one-week qualifying run in Los Angeles and New York in December for Oscar consideration. It will reopen in theaters in January and be available to cable and satellite subscribers through IFC's movies-on-demand service. "Che" earned Del Toro the best-actor prize in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where the film premiered. The acquisition was announced at the Toronto International Film Festival, where "Che" also screened. "`Che' is nothing less than the film event of the year," said Jonathan Sehring, IFC Films president. "By giving us the rise and fall of one of the great icons of history, Steven Soderbergh and Benicio Del Toro, who gives an incredible soulful performance, have humanized him and given audiences around the world something that will be discussed for years to come." Posted on 13th September 2008
17th May 2008 The Argentine & Guerrilla stills, press kit & video clip
Two new production photos from The Argentine / Guerrilla have been added to the photo gallery.
The press kit / production notes for The Argentine & Guerrilla can be viewed here at the Che page on the Cannes Film Festival website. There's a video clip of Steven talking about using the RED One camera to shoot The Argentine & Guerrilla here at YouTube. Posted on 17th May 2008
12th May 2008 The Argentine / Guerrilla stills
The first stills from The Argentine / Guerrilla have been released! The photos have been added to the photo gallery.
The Informant set photos Photos of Matt Damon filming The Informant are online at the Herald & Review. Posted on 12th May 2008
29th April 2008 New Steven Soderbergh project - The Girlfriend Experience
From Variety: Steven Soderbergh will direct "The Girlfriend Experience," a feature that focuses on the world of prostitution from the vantage point of a $10,000-a-night call girl. Brian Koppelman and David Levien will write; the pair hatched the project when they and Soderbergh were working on "Ocean's Thirteen." Pic will be financed by 2929 Entertainment partners Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner through their HDNet label. It will become the second film -- after "Bubble" -- in the six-picture pact they made for Soderbergh to direct low-budget films that get distributed simultaneously in theatrical, on cable TV and on DVD. Greg Jacobs ("The Good German") will produce. Rather than go for star power, Soderbergh may set an adult film actress to play the lead role. Soderbergh shot "Bubble" using mostly non-pros. Project marks the director's first exploration of sexual relationships since his breakthrough film, "sex, lies & videotape." Much the way that Coleman Hough and Soderbergh wrote a detailed outline for "Bubble" that was used as the basis for a partly improvisational shoot, Koppelman and Levien worked out the beats of the call- girl film with Soderbergh. The director waited until he shot two installments of his Spanish-language Che Guevara biopic before turning his attention to "The Girlfriend Experience." Soderbergh will lense "The Informant" with Matt Damon for Warner Bros. as his next film. Then he'll turn to "The Girlfriend Experience," which will be shot over 14 days this fall. The title refers to a phenomenon in which wealthy men pay not just for the quality of a sexual encounter but also for a woman who will play the role of a perfect girlfriend. The arrangement apparently involves more intimacy than the usual prostitution relationship. Soderbergh, Koppelman and Levien interviewed numerous women and fixed on an interior look at a woman who makes $1 million a year in the business. Posted on 29th April 2008
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