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Sony Pictures to Acquire Rights to Steve Jobs Movie

Posted October 7, 2011 at 11:44pm by iClarified · 11914 views
Sony Pictures is in the process of acquiring the rights to produce a Steve Jobs movie based on the biography written by Walter Isaacson, reports Deadline.

I've just learned that Sony Pictures is making a hefty deal to acquire feature rights to Steve Jobs, the upcoming authorized biography by former CNN chairman and Time Magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson. I'm hearing the deal is $1 million against $3 million and that Mark Gordon will be the biopic's producer. But this will be an MG360 project, which is the movie production partnership between Gordon and Management 360. ICM reps both Isaacson and Gordon.

The studio has already produced the Oscar-nominated Moneyball and The Social Network which are also based on business related books.

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