Not everyone agreed with the recent profile on Succession's Jeremy Strong -- just ask Aaron Sorkin and Jessica Chastain.
After the Being the Ricardos casting controversy. Aaron Sorkin decided to defend Nicole Kidman for playing Lucille Ball over Debra Messing.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 emerged victorious over Mank in one of the Golden Globes categories, and David Fincher handled it quite well.
Let’s get this out of the way first: Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 is one of my favorite films of 2020. Not only is it loaded with incredible performances, and features a brilliant script by Sorkin, the movie is perfectly timed and speaks to what is going on in America today. As most of you know from the trailers, The Trial of the Chicago 7 dramatizes the events around the Chicago Seven, a group of activists who faced a multitude of federal charges in the wake of protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Unfortunately, …
Cinematographer Phedon Papamichael has had a very diverse career thus far. He’s worked with filmmakers ranging from Gore Verbinski to Oliver Stone to Judd Apatow, all of whom have incredibly different styles and methods of working. Even Papamichael’s two closest collaborators, Alexander Payne and James Mangold, approach the art of making movies in very different ways. But Papamichael says that’s exactly what makes his job so fun. It’s fresh each time. That was certainly the case with The Trial of the Chicago 7, Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin’s second directorial effort. It’s a rousing …
The Cambridge Analytica scandal could be a movie on its own
Here’s the thing: Aaron Sorkin is one of the greatest writers who’s ever lived. That’s not hyperbole. From TV to film to the stage, Sorkin has crafted some of the most eloquent, most charged, and most memorable lines spoken by a cadre of Hollywood’s greatest performers. He’s also prolific, but not to the point of anonymity. You know a Sorkin-written movie when you see one, and out of nine produced feature films he’s written, only one of them is less than “good.” That’s one hell of a batting average. Sorkin’s latest …
An all-time great screenwriter joins the show!
The Social Network, that insatiably entertaining indictment of the very device you're reading this on, ends on a beautifully ambiguous image: Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), the founder of Facebook who seems to have won everything, endlessly refreshing the unanswered friend request of the woman (Rooney Mara) who inspired his ascent/descent. Do we need another take on Zuckerberg's generation-shifting, conscience-destroying social network? Well... maybe. Because, per the Happy.Sad.Confused podcast, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has an idea he's jazzed about — under one condition. [caption id="attachment_843134" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via …
Aaron Sorkin is not the name I think of when I think of political unrest, the counterculture, and protest movements. Sorkin, for the majority of his career, has been largely Capra-esque in his assessments of America, seeing the struggles but ultimately upholding institutions as good and just. Movies like A Few Good Men and The American President reaffirm a belief in our institutions, and The West Wing is essentially a fairy tale of good-hearted people committed to good governance. Sorkin does not seem like the obvious choice for telling the story of the Chicago 7, but his new …
Netflix has released the official trailer for The Trial of the Chicago 7, which is set to premiere on the streamer in mid-October. Trial of the Chicago 7 is the sophomore feature directorial effort from Aaron Sorkin, who, as one might suspect, also wrote the script. Netflix acquired Sorkin's latest from Paramount over the summer and marks one of the buzziest releases for the streaming giant in 2020. Any questions around whether or not Netflix is strategizing to put The Trial of the Chicago 7 in this year's Oscars race are answered with the newest trailer. The …
Aaron Sorkin is heading to streaming.
Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7. The teaser arrives just two months after the first images from the A-list political drama made their way to the internet. Now, we not only get to see more of Sorkin's sophomore outing as a feature film director, but we get to hear it, too. [caption id="attachment_913786" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Netflix[/caption] And boy, oh boy, does this movie have a lot to say in its teaser. The Trial of the Chicago 7 focuses on the trial …
They're coming back when we needed them the most. For the first time in 17 years, The West Wing cast is reuniting — and it's for a great cause. We reported on reunion rumblings via West Wing alum Richard Schiff back in June but had no idea what the reunion would entail. Considering Schiff made the announcement at the same time tons of casts were reuniting on Zoom calls for our amusement, should we have prepared for more of that but with 100% more President Bartlet and Co.? [caption id="attachment_753039" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via NBC[/caption] …
Netflix has released the first images from Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7. The new images arrive just a few weeks after Sorkin's sophomore directorial effort (following 2017's Molly's Game) was bought by the streaming giant from Paramount Pictures. With the Netflix purchase also came word a late 2020 release was possibly in the works, hinting at awards season ambitions for the star-studded historical drama. [caption id="attachment_913430" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Netflix[/caption] Before we can watch The Trial of the Chicago 7 (hopefully later this year), we should probably …
Netflix has officially acquired Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7, taking it off Paramount Pictures' hands for good. Sorkin's sophomore directorial effort, following 2017's Molly's Game, includes a wildly stacked cast with Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II leading the way. [caption id="attachment_519228" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Universal Pictures[/caption] We learned of Netflix's interest in the high-profile political drama back in June, although the deal hadn't yet been finalized. Variety confirmed Netflix's acquisition of the former Paramount pic on Wednesday. …
Netflix seems to be in the market for another future Oscar contender. The streaming giant is reportedly looking to acquire Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 from Paramount Pictures. On Saturday morning, Variety reported Netflix is circling a purchase deal with Paramount for the Sorkin historical drama. No specifics on the deal were revealed at time of reporting. As such, it's hard to tell whether this deal is in the early stages of negotiation or is nearly closed. News of Netflix's interest in Trial of the Chicago 7 arrive just one month after we learned …
Aaron Sorkin wrote one of the best movies of the decade with the scathing The Social Network. Although Mark Zuckerberg would like us to believe that the genesis of Facebook came about because he was just so gosh-darned concerned about the Iraq War and not a spiteful little dweeb who made a hot-or-not clone called Facemash, the events that led to Facebook’s creation were successfully chronicled in Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires and then adapted by Sorkin and David Fincher to provide a bit of sympathy to Zuckerberg but not so much that the …
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