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Aaron Sorkin took home his second Golden Globe statuette yesterday evening, this time for his detailed, impressionistic portrait of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The movie itself took a hit from Sony when it was withdrawn from more than 2,000 theatres shortly after its release, but it looks as though the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was...

Universal Pictures has today made the entire 190-page screenplay of Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle’s recently released 'Steve Jobs’ movie, available to read for free online. The late Apple co-founder's biopic based on Walter Isaacson’s best-selling 2011 biography, is believed to be the favorite for “Best Adapted Screenplay” at the upcoming Oscars. If Sorkin wins the Academy Award, it will be his...

While speaking at the European premiere of Danny Boyle’s "Steve Jobs” movie at the London film festival last night, the biopic's screenwriter Aaron Sorkin said that his “conscience is clear” over the portrayal of Steve Jobs, while admitting that a certain level of manipulation was necessary in order to make the film, The Guardian reports. The new Oscar-tipped drama faced criticism at...

Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter for the ‘Steve Jobs’ movie debuting today, addressed the so-called controversy with Apple CEO Tim Cook last night on Conan O’Brien. When Cook was on Stephen Colbert last month, he called the ‘Steve Jobs’ movie “opportunistic”, which Sorkin took offence to. The screenwriter angrily responded over Apple’s alleged supply chain factory...

The Verge has released a video of an interview conducted by the site’s own Nilay Patel with Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle, the creators of the new Steve Jobs movie. Sorkin and Boyle said that the movie is a retelling of a myth. The creators of the movie said that the point was to explore...

In an interview with BusinessInsider, hours before the 'Steve Jobs' premiere at the New York Film Festival, the film's screenwriter Aaron Sorkin revealed that his meeting with Jobs’ daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs before writing the movie's script proved to be invaluable. In the new Steve Jobs movie, one of the major themes is Apple cofounder Steve Jobs' relationship with his daughter. "At first I didn't...

The latest movie about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is staged as three distinct acts, each taking us backstage to a major product launch. Now that the movie will hit theatres on October 9, Wired sat down with Aaron Sorkin to take us "backstage" and learn how the Oscar-winning playwright (Sorkin says he is a playwright who...

Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down with Stephen Colbert for an interview and called movies made about Steve Jobs “opportunistic.” During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Friday, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin responded to Cook saying "if you've got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an...

While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about Universal’s ‘Steve Jobs’ movie in London, writer Aaron Sorkin slammed Apple CEO Tim Cook over his recent criticism that filmmakers were being "opportunistic" in making films about the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. "Nobody did this movie to get rich," he said. "Secondly, Tim Cook should really see the movie before he decides...

Apparently, it will be worth waiting until October 9 when Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs biopic premieres in theatres. While the top-tier critics are keeping their opinions under wraps until the official premiere, bloggers who had the chance to see the movie screened this weekend at the 42nd Telluride Film Festival have published their reviews and...

The Apple community was not expecting the next Steve Jobs biopic to premiere until October 9 – as suggested by the date revealed in the official trailer – but it turns out the anticipated movie will debut this weekend at the 42nd Telluride Film Festival, as reported by Entertainment Weekly (via MacRumors). There is no...

Michael Stuhlbarg, who co-stars in the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic as Andy Hertzfeldt, has sat down with Collider (via LoopInsight) to talk about the rehearsal and shooting processes of the movie that will premiere this fall. We've already heard screenwriter Aaron Sorkin talking about the movie's three-act structure. As it turns out, this structure lead...