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Filming Finally Gets Underway On Steve Jobs Biopic, With Full Cast Finalised


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Things are finally moving forward for Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs biopic, with the final cast being confirmed and filming getting under way this week. As expected Michael Fassbender will play the Apple founder, while Seth Rogen will play his former partner Steve Wozniak.

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The film’s full cast list was revealed today in a statement from Universal. Joining Fassbender and Rogen will be Kate Winslet as former Macintosh marketing executive Joanna Hoffman, Jeff Daniels as former Apple CEO John Sculley and Katherine Waterston as Jobs' ex-girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan.

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Sony Reportedly Pull Out Of Steve Jobs Biopic, Unviersal Show Interest


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The upcoming movie about the the co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, is expected to be one of the most anticipated biopics in recent memory, but the production's future is unknown as Sony Pictures have decided to pull out.

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Michael Fassbender is expected to play Steve Jobs in the Apple co-founder's biopic

The highly anticipated project, which was been plagued with casting and directing changes, is based on Walter Isaacson's book and adapted into a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin that follows Jobs preparing for three presentations throughout his life that were pivotal moments for himself and the technological company's success.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook, "Being Gay Is My Gift From God"


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Apple chief executive Tim Cook has publically acknowledged his sexuality, saying that he is "proud to be gay" and that being gay is "one of the greatest gifts God has given me." Mr Cook, who took over the top job at Apple shortly before the untimely death of Steve Jobs, also challenged his home state of Alabama to ensure the rights of gay and transgender people.

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Aaron Sorkin Confirms Bale For 'Jobs' Movie, "We Needed The Best Actor"


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Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has confirmed that Oscar-winner Christian Bale will play Steve Jobs in a forthcoming biopic. Sorkin is working on an adaptation of Walter Isaacson's 2011 biography of Jobs, which Danny Boyle will direct. Leonardo DiCaprio was thought to be set for the lead, before passing to take a break from acting.

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Speaking to Bloomberg Television's Emily Chang, Sorkin appeared to suggest that Bale was always the primary target, "We needed the best actor on the board in a certain age range and that's Chris Bale," he said, "He didn't have to audition. Well, there was a meeting."

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Jobs Star Ashton Kutcher Hands Out Strange Job – Fantasy Football Assistant Manager


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Having starred in Jobs – maybe starred is a strong word considering the reviews – it’s clear where Ashton Kutcher’s mind is: Fantasy Football. Perhaps we’re getting a clearer picture of why he couldn’t capture the essence of a man considered a captain of industry before he died.

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The actor admitted on Jimmy Kimmel Live that he gave one of his staff the job of looking after certain aspects of his Fantasy Football team, which, as is evidenced by Two and A Half Men, can make people do silly things. “I actually have a member of my staff who is dedicated to research and analysis in fantasy football,” the 35-year-old actor confessed to Jimmy Kimmel Thursday night.

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Ashton Kutcher And Josh Gad Protest Too Much In Wake Of 'Jobs' Criticism


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Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad have defended their latest film Jobs. The biopic has been heavily criticised in reviews. A number of critics have said the film is "excruciating and failing to entertain" (Slant) and "bland" (Variety). The latter comment is, by far, one of the most positive. 

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Ashton Kutcher at the Jobs premiere, held at Regal Cinemas in L.A.

In an interview with USA Today, the two actors attempted to defend their position and the roles they obviously felt very connected to. 

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The Critics Have Spoken: "Jobs" Is Far Less Revolutionary Than Its Title Character


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Jobs – the biopic, tracking Steve Jobs’s rise from a free-spirited college dropout, to an undisputed giant of the tech industry, has come out to surprisingly good reviews. While most critics are hesitant to heap glowing praise onto the film, it isn’t the vapid, melodramatic disaster of a biopic that some were predicting from the onset.

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Ashton Kutcher And Josh Gad On Steve Jobs Biopic 'Jobs'


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Ashton Kutcher's latest film Jobs sees the 35-year-old actor tackles the role of Apple founder Steve Jobs.

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Ashton Kutcher at the L.A. premiere of New Year's Eve in 2011.

According to IMDb, Jobs tells "the story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century."

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Kanye West's Father's Day Present: North West Shows Very Early Good Taste


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Kanye West, via Twitter, showed the world North West is already a shopaholic despite being 3 weeks old. North (probably with some help from Kim Kardashian) gave Kanye a Father's Day gift.

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Kanye West at a New Years Eve Party, The Mirage Resort, Las Vegas.

The rapper tweeted a picture of two Apple computer mice signed by the late Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak were the original co-founds of Apple. Along with the picture he said "one of the other gifts my girl gave me for father's day".

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Ashton Kutcher Gets His Geek On In The New Trailer For 'Jobs' [Trailer]


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Ashton Kutcher's long-anticipated turn as Apple co-founder and mastermind Steve Jobs is nearing the big screen and as the release date draws ever-nearer we've gotten our latest taste of the movie with a new trailer. The alternative trailer was uploaded to YouTube yesterday (June 21) and gives the most in-depth look at Kutcher's version of Jobs to date, and it looks as though he's managed give an impressive turn as the computer pioneer.

The long-awaited biopic will soon be released following a lengthy wait since production began way back in June 2012; just eight months after Jobs' untimely death aged just 56. The biopic has been directed by Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote, Neverwas), produced by Mark Hulme and written by Matt Whiteley in his screenwriting debut. Much of the filming even took place at Jobs' actual childhood home in Los Altos, California and the independent film was chosen to close the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in January 2013, where it received lukewarm reviews.

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Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs Biopic Set For An August Release Date


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Ashton Kutcher's portrayal of Steve Jobs in the imaginatively titled Jobs will be released in theatres this summer, with the biopic hitting cinemas across America on August 16. The film was originally slated for an April release date, but the film's producers at Open Road Films have decided on a summer release in the hopes of better ticket sales.

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Jobs was shopped around at the beginning of 2013 at the Sundance Film Festival and a few other film soirées, where the biopic was given a lukewarm reception by most critics. Some critics did commend the film though, with some remarking on the impressive performances from most of the cast.

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Ashton Kutcher Stuns Twitter With 'Half And Half' Steve Jobs Photo


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Ashton Kutcher cleverly promoted his forthcoming Steve Jobs biopic on Twitter this week, posting a photo of himself dressed as the late Apple co-founder. With Jobs' signature beard and mock turtleneck, Kutcher's resemblance was uncanny and he superimposed the tech giant's head onto his, highlighting the similarity.

"Thank you Sundance for your support of 'Jobs,'" Kutcher added on Twitter. In reality, the movie earned mixed reviews, with many critic questioning how capably the actor embodied Jobs' spirit. Justin Chang of Variety said, "Avoids outright hagiography, but more or less embodies the sort of bland, go-with-the-flow creative thinking Jobs himself would have scorned." Ed Gibbs, writing for The Guardian, said, "This is far from the bomb some would have envisaged, but neither is it the character illumination one would wish for." Sebastian Doggart of The Daily Telegraph was equally impressed, suggesting, "The poverty of [Kutcher's] skills as a serious actor is on full display."

Though nobody can deny Kutcher's likeness to the Apple founder, it seems audiences waiting for a comprehensive big-screen biopic of Jobs will have to wait for Aaron Sorkin's project, currently in development. The movie will play out in just three scenes, the first being the launch of the Mac, the second being NeXT after he had left Apple and the last being the iPod. "There will be no time cuts and each will take place before a product launch. Backstage before a product launch," Sorkin told the Daily Beast. 

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"Very Wrong" - Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Unimpressed By Ashton Kutcher JOBS Clip


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Attention, movie fans. The inevitable has happened. We were all remaining politely tight-lipped over the whole ‘Ashton Kutcher playing Steve Jobs in jOBS’ thing. We were being polite about it all, even though we knew it seemed like a terrible idea. It seemed as though the movie was being rushed out, ahead of Aaron Sorkin’s own effort on the same subject matter. And frankly, we weren’t convinced by the casting of Kutcher in the lead role. We may have been politely keeping our opinions to ourself, but Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak certainly hasn’t.

Speaking about a clip from the movie, which surfaced online ahead of the movie’s Sundance Festival premiere, Wozniak has declared that the film has got their characters all wrong, as well as the gestation of their professional working relationships. “We never had such interaction and roles,” Wozniak told Tony Hicks, for Digital First Media. “I’m not even sure what it’s getting at. Personalities are very wrong, although mine is closer.” The 62 year-old went on to say, in an email, that the scene shown online has turned the real story of Apple’s inception on its head. “The ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs. They inspired me and were widely spoken at the Homebrew Computer Club (of which he was a member). Steve came back from Oregon and came to a club meeting and didn’t start talking about this great social impact.”

Wozniak hasn’t dismissed the movie outright, but this crucial scene certainly hasn’t hit the mark for him. “I never looked like a professional. We were both kids. Our relationship was so different from what was portrayed. I’m embarrassed, but if the movie is fun and entertaining, all the better.” Wozniak is played by Josh Gad in the movie, which gets a wider release in April 2013. 

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Ashton Kutcher's JOBS Receives Scathing Reviews At Sundance Premier


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The Steve Jobs biopic, titled jOBS has had its premier at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. A clip released last week raised hopes about the film, which saw Ashton Kutcher do what seemed to be a surprisingly good jobs as Jobs, as reviews roll in it appears that those hopes were entirely unfounded.

"Casting a figure of such immense social and cultural import was never going to be easy. Kudos, then, to Ashton Kutcher who, while hardly topping film-makers's wish lists, delivers a surprisingly effective turn as the man," writes the Guardian. "The problem with Stern's film isn't his leading man, then, as many would have expected, but rather everything around him." 

The Telegraph gives jOBS just one star out of five and is no where near as sold on Kutcher as the Guardian "Matthew Whiteley's episodic, superficial script makes an almighty mess of it," writes their reviewer Sebastian Doggart. "[W]here the film completely falls down is in director Joshua Michael Stern's disastrous decision to cast Ashton Kutcher in the central role... The poverty of his skills as a serious actor is on full display." 

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Release Date Set For JOBS: Will Ashton Kutcher Impress Us In Steve Jobs Biopic?


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A release date for the Steve Jobs biopic jOBS, starring Ashton Kutcher, has finally been set, ahead of its debut on Friday (January 25, 2013) at the Sundance Film Festival.

CNet.com have reported that the story of the late Apple co-founder will hit movie theatres on April 19, 2013. The film’s distributor made the announcement yesterday (January 23, 2013), ahead of the movie’s highly anticipated showing at the Utah film extravaganza.

This isn’t the only Steve Jobs biopic in the pipeline, though. Aaron Sorkin (the man behind The Social Network) is also working on his own biopic, based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs. jOBS, on the other hand is said to be based on information about the technology pioneer that is more widely available. jOBS also stars Matthew Modine, Josh Gad and Ahna Reilly.

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Ashton Kutcher: A Young Steve Jobs Doppelganger?


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The upcoming Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher is set to be the closing night movie of Utah's Sundance Film Festival 2013.

'Jobs' (stylized 'jObs' in classic Apple style) is the story of the late Apple Inc. founder and his transformation from a college drop-out into one of the richest and most influential technology entrepreneurs of our time. The visionary iPhone creator passed away on October 5th 2011 after a respiratory arrest following an eight year battle with pancreatic cancer. Kutcher will star as the pioneer after a prolific career in comedy, most recently when he replaced Charlie Sheen on the hit TV show 'Two and a Half Men'. The Sundance festival's director John Cooper explains that actors often appear in roles unusual for them at the festival. 'A lot of these actors are looking to spread out of their comfort zones', he said. 'It's about doing something different for them.'

We are sure that Kutcher's transition from comedy flicks to true story dramas will be a smooth one; after all, he certainly looks the part as the first official photo released showing the actor with long floppy hair and facial hair bears remarkable similarities to the black and white photos of Jobs in the early years of his Apple career.

Alan Sorkin Reveals Plot Behind Steve Jobs Biopic


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Steve Jobs may have passed away over a year ago, but his name is rarely off peoples lips still, with two biopics set to be released about the computer pioneer's life in the near future.

Alan Sorkin, the Oscar-winning screen writer behind The Social Network and The West Wing, has revealed the plot behind his own take on Jobs' life, giving word that he will be taking a rather unconventional approach to the portrayal of his life by filming it in only three scenes. In a video posted on The Daily Beast, Sorkin explains that the biopic will focus on Jobs just prior to the launch of a new product and will run in 'real-time' - meaning that each half hour on screen will replicate thirty minutes in real time. Although he was unspecific on which of the products he will be concentrating on, it is thought that they will be a MacIntosh computer, a product from his time with Next Computers and the iPod.

Whilst Sorkin's work on The Social Network was based on an unauthorised account of the life of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, this new biopic will be entirely original material. Sony Pictures bought the rights to Jobs' authorised biography last year following the death of the iconic Apple man, with Ashton Kutcher said to be portraying Jobs in their take on his life. Futher details on the Kutcher film have not been revealed, however it is expected to follow the more conventional biopic structure

Aaron Sorkin Reveals Plans To Write Steve Jobs Biopic For Just Three Scenes


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Aaron Sorkin has revealed plans to write the Steve Jobs biopic for just three scenes, revealing the idea to the Daily Beast in an interview.

Sorking, who won plaudits as the writer of The Social Network, said that he’s never been a fan of traditional birth-to-the-grave biopics, especially when they’re about people like Jobs, who are so popular and known by many. So his answer? "This entire movie is going to be three scenes and three scenes only. That all take place in real time," he said. "There will be no time cuts and each will take place before a product launch. Backstage before a product launch. The first one being the Mac, the second one being NeXT, after he had left Apple. And the third one being the iPod."

Explaining about where the idea had come from, Sorkin explained "I don't know if you remember the ad campaign [Jobs] did. It was the 'Think Different' campaign. 'Here's to the crazy ones.' That's how it began. If I can end the movie with that text and that voiceover ... If I can earn that ending, then I will have written the movie that I wanted to write."

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Steve Jobs Film To Have Only Three Scenes, Says Writer Aaron Sorkin


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The much anticipated Steve Jobs biopic, which will tell the story of the late Apple co-founder, will comprise of just three scenes, writer Aaron Sorkin has confirmed. 

"I'm meeting with all the people in Steve's life now, from [Apple co-founder] Wozniak to all the people who were around for the Macintosh," Mr Sorkin said in a video posted online by The Daily Beast news site. "So I've been able to meet these people who revere him in spite of the fact he made all of them cry at one point or another, but he made all of them better at what they were doing." The three scenes for the movie will each set backstage immediately before a product launch. He said that every half hour that passed in the on-screen characters' lives would last 30 minutes of the audience's time. He also signalled that there would be one further element at the end of the film: a version of Apple's first Think Different television advert. "If I can end the movie with that text, with that voiceover - 'here's to the crazy ones' - if I can earn that ending then I'll have written the movie I want to write," Mr Sorkin said.

If that sounds a bit wacky for you, don't worry. Sorkin was the talent behind the Social Network film, which saw the rise, fall and rise again of Facebook and its creator, Mark Zuckerberg.

Video - Steve Jobs' Biological Father Heading Into Work


Successful businessman Steve Jobs' biological father, Abdulfattah 'John' Jandali, is seen arriving at Boomtown Hotel and Casino, where he works as VP/General Manager.

Steve Jobs is widely known for being the co-creator, chairman and, as of August 2011, CEO of Apple, Inc. He resigned as CEO citing health problems and the position was taken over by the company's Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook. Steve is also credited as an executive producer of the groundbreaking 1995 Pixar movie Toy Story
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