The story of a failure that was, in fact, a triumph, “General Magic” recounts the short but brilliant life of an early 1990s technology company that saw the future too soon. Populated by some of the field’s brightest young minds, General Magic was driven by charismatic founder Marc Porat’s groundbreaking vision for a personal handheld smartphone, which flamed out not for lack of ingenuity but, rather, on account of poor timing. Sarah Kerruish and Matt Maude’s documentary pays tribute to his and others’ pioneering work, along the way providing a window into the revolutionary, competitive, and precarious world of Silicon Valley. As a literal origin story about how we live today, it’s a captivating history lesson with global appeal.
As Porat tells it in hindsight, the idea for his device — with phone, messaging, note-taking, and game functions — came to him in 1989, and “General Magic” bolsters his...
As Porat tells it in hindsight, the idea for his device — with phone, messaging, note-taking, and game functions — came to him in 1989, and “General Magic” bolsters his...
- 5/9/2019
- by Nick Schager
- Variety Film + TV
Jeff Daniels can sense the moments during performances of Broadway’s To Kill A Mockingbird when audiences jump aboard for the Aaron Sorkin ride, when fans of maybe The Newsroom or The West Wing recognize that Atticus or Scout or Calpurnia is about to “roll out a Sorkin,” to launch into one of those trademark ten-sentence runs. The new Atticus Finch says he feels theatergoers signing on for the rides, but acknowledges that this Mockingbird is really just beginning its flight.
The new play, directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher, was shepherded and developed by producer Scott Rudin and playwright Sorkin,...
The new play, directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher, was shepherded and developed by producer Scott Rudin and playwright Sorkin,...
- 12/7/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
We think we know Steve Jobs, the maestro behind Apple but unless you read one of his biographies or watch Jobs or Steve Jobs, you only have impressions. General audiences will recognize the man in the black turtleneck and know he gave us the iPod, iPhone, Macintosh, etc. but most will mistakenly credit him for being the builder of these gadgets.
Read Walter Isaacson’s wonderful biography or study Jobs through the myriad video interviews or articles available online and you come to understand he was a visionary who pushed, prodded, cajoled, wheedled, and demanded his workers to meet his exacting standards.
Capturing that volatile and complex man on film would be a challenge for any production crew but director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin were the kind you wanted for something challenging. Sorkin took Isaacson’s bio as a starting point but then read and read more material.
Read Walter Isaacson’s wonderful biography or study Jobs through the myriad video interviews or articles available online and you come to understand he was a visionary who pushed, prodded, cajoled, wheedled, and demanded his workers to meet his exacting standards.
Capturing that volatile and complex man on film would be a challenge for any production crew but director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin were the kind you wanted for something challenging. Sorkin took Isaacson’s bio as a starting point but then read and read more material.
- 2/15/2016
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
The Martian screenwriter Drew Goddard: "The challenge was to make the science human." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
I was taken on a Seventies musical journey to Donna Summer land, Abba’s Waterloo and the great Starman creator, David Bowie, by Drew Goddard, the screenwriter who adapted Andy Weir's book for Ridley Scott's The Martian, starring Matt Damon with Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Kate Mara, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kristen Wiig, Benedict Wong, Mackenzie Davis, Donald Glover, Sebastian Stan, and Aksel Hennie. Daniels (Nasa director Teddy Sanders) who plays Apple CEO John Sculley in Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs - starring Michael Fassbender with Kate Winslet, and written by Aaron Sorkin - is a favorite of Goddard’s since Woody Allen's The Purple Rose Of Cairo and James L. Brooks' Terms Of Endearment.
Mark Watney (Matt Damon): "You understand that he needs food and he needs water.
I was taken on a Seventies musical journey to Donna Summer land, Abba’s Waterloo and the great Starman creator, David Bowie, by Drew Goddard, the screenwriter who adapted Andy Weir's book for Ridley Scott's The Martian, starring Matt Damon with Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Kate Mara, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kristen Wiig, Benedict Wong, Mackenzie Davis, Donald Glover, Sebastian Stan, and Aksel Hennie. Daniels (Nasa director Teddy Sanders) who plays Apple CEO John Sculley in Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs - starring Michael Fassbender with Kate Winslet, and written by Aaron Sorkin - is a favorite of Goddard’s since Woody Allen's The Purple Rose Of Cairo and James L. Brooks' Terms Of Endearment.
Mark Watney (Matt Damon): "You understand that he needs food and he needs water.
- 1/12/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Danny Boyle, Jeff Daniels and Aaron Sorkin Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Jeff Daniels, in the second act of a three act Shakespearean conversation on Steve Jobs, calls his character John Sculley at the start, "an international marketing rock star." He discussed working with Michael Fassbender, knowing Aaron Sorkin scripts from Newsroom, being a shadow, and loving Woody Allen's The Purple Rose Of Cairo, opposite Mia Farrow.
The opening act was Aaron Sorkin, who adapted Walter Isaacson's biography, Steve Jobs, for the big screen. The third act will be director Danny Boyle on Alan Turing, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Benedict Cumberbatch, costume designer Suttirat Larlarb dressing Kate Winslet, influenced by Phil Oakey's The Human League girls, Fassbender becoming Jobs and the revenge of the calla lilies.
Jeff Daniels as John Sculley: "Aaron wrote with Sculley this Shakespearean fall …"
Jeff Daniels had two films at this year's New York...
Jeff Daniels, in the second act of a three act Shakespearean conversation on Steve Jobs, calls his character John Sculley at the start, "an international marketing rock star." He discussed working with Michael Fassbender, knowing Aaron Sorkin scripts from Newsroom, being a shadow, and loving Woody Allen's The Purple Rose Of Cairo, opposite Mia Farrow.
The opening act was Aaron Sorkin, who adapted Walter Isaacson's biography, Steve Jobs, for the big screen. The third act will be director Danny Boyle on Alan Turing, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Benedict Cumberbatch, costume designer Suttirat Larlarb dressing Kate Winslet, influenced by Phil Oakey's The Human League girls, Fassbender becoming Jobs and the revenge of the calla lilies.
Jeff Daniels as John Sculley: "Aaron wrote with Sculley this Shakespearean fall …"
Jeff Daniels had two films at this year's New York...
- 12/9/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Michael Fassbender, who gave two great performances this year for "Steve Jobs" and "Macbeth," is being honored at 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff). He will join previously announced recipients Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, Brie Larson, Tom McCarthy and Saoirse Ronan. The Awards Gala will be on Saturday, January 2, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Click here for more info on the fest. Here's the rest of the press release:
.Throughout his career Michael Fassbender has brought to life riveting performances on the screen in films such as Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave, Inglorious Basterds and Prometheus,. said Festival Chairman Harold Matzner. .In his latest film, Steve Jobs, Fassbender delivers another stunning performance of subtlety and power, presenting the Apple co-founder as both a witty and engaging person and a conflicted Machiavellian. For his masterful performance in this film, we are honored to present Michael Fassbender with the 2016 International Star Award,...
.Throughout his career Michael Fassbender has brought to life riveting performances on the screen in films such as Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave, Inglorious Basterds and Prometheus,. said Festival Chairman Harold Matzner. .In his latest film, Steve Jobs, Fassbender delivers another stunning performance of subtlety and power, presenting the Apple co-founder as both a witty and engaging person and a conflicted Machiavellian. For his masterful performance in this film, we are honored to present Michael Fassbender with the 2016 International Star Award,...
- 12/4/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
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Aaron Sorkin chats to us about penning the new Steve Jobs movie, fiction and non-fiction, and journalism.
The subject of Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs screenplay, at least in the most basic terms, is hard to miss. It’s at once the title of the movie, the marketing anchor and the lead character. But this is not a documentary, it’s a string of fictional scenes that simply never happened, and thus Sorkin’s job, responsibilities and potential for dramatic impact are different to, say, Walter Isaacson’s in writing his biography of Jobs (ostensibly the source material for this film, though the overlap is minimal).
When I sat down with Sorkin a few weeks ago, we spoke a little about the nature of storytelling about real people, and what Sorkin sees as some of its value, purpose and pitfalls.
Here’s a transcript of our conversation,...
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Aaron Sorkin chats to us about penning the new Steve Jobs movie, fiction and non-fiction, and journalism.
The subject of Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs screenplay, at least in the most basic terms, is hard to miss. It’s at once the title of the movie, the marketing anchor and the lead character. But this is not a documentary, it’s a string of fictional scenes that simply never happened, and thus Sorkin’s job, responsibilities and potential for dramatic impact are different to, say, Walter Isaacson’s in writing his biography of Jobs (ostensibly the source material for this film, though the overlap is minimal).
When I sat down with Sorkin a few weeks ago, we spoke a little about the nature of storytelling about real people, and what Sorkin sees as some of its value, purpose and pitfalls.
Here’s a transcript of our conversation,...
- 11/11/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Thanks to his Emmy-winning work on The Newsroom, Jeff Daniels already had plenty of experience delivering Aaron Sorkin’s maximalist dialogue when he took on the role of Apple CEO John Sculley in Steve Jobs. But even if he hadn’t, it’s common knowledge that Jeff Daniels can do pretty much anything—after all, his last movie before Steve Jobs, excluding The Martian, was Dumb and Dumber To, a stark departure from Sorkin’s verbal acrobatics. Vulture caught up with one of the most multifaceted actors in Hollywood to talk Sorkin, Steve Jobs’ handling of the real-life Jobs and Sculley, and the thrill of acting opposite Michael Fassbender.Why was the role of John Sculley appealing? What did you see in that guy that intrigued you?Initially, it was just the fact that Aaron wrote the script, and he asked me on the set of The Newsroom if I wanted to play Sculley.
- 10/25/2015
- by Kevin Lincoln
- Vulture
Now that you've seen it, what did you think? Can a great man be a good man? Universal's opening of the Aaron Sorkin-scripted Steve Jobs movie is expanding further to wide release, so it's time to open up the discussion. Michael Fassbender stars as Steve Jobs, controversial genius and co-founder of Apple. Danny Boyle directs a cast including Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, Seth Rogen as Wozniak, Jeff Daniels as John Sculley, Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, plus Katherine Waterston. The story unfolds in three acts, taking place at the launch of three pivotal products in Jobs' life. How is it? Any good? Is Sorkin's script brilliant? Once you've seen it, leave a comment with your thoughts on Boyle's Steve Jobs. Spoiler Warning: We strongly urge everyone to actually see the film before reading ahead, as there may be spoilers below. We also encourage all commenters to keep major...
- 10/23/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
By Cate Marquis
With Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, there will now be three films on the late founder of Apple Computers, the man who put portable computers in eveyone’s hand, as this film notes at one point. A few years back, there was the biopic Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher, who has a striking resemblance to Jobs and this year, an excellent documentary by the Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, called “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine.” Steve Jobs is a man whose fans admire him with almost cult-like adoration (and just to be clear, this writer is not among them), yet none of these films have presented him in a very flattering light- least of all Boyle’s film.
Director Boyle’s Steve Jobs is not a biography, and Aaron Sorkin’s script does not even focus on Job’s two most significant contributions to the world, making...
With Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, there will now be three films on the late founder of Apple Computers, the man who put portable computers in eveyone’s hand, as this film notes at one point. A few years back, there was the biopic Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher, who has a striking resemblance to Jobs and this year, an excellent documentary by the Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, called “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine.” Steve Jobs is a man whose fans admire him with almost cult-like adoration (and just to be clear, this writer is not among them), yet none of these films have presented him in a very flattering light- least of all Boyle’s film.
Director Boyle’s Steve Jobs is not a biography, and Aaron Sorkin’s script does not even focus on Job’s two most significant contributions to the world, making...
- 10/23/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Opening on Friday is the new Steve Jobs movie starring Michael Fassbender.
Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs’ career – beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998 – Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Watch this new ‘Look Inside Steve Jobs’ featurette where the cast and filmmakers discuss the man behind the movie.
The drama is directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder.
The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin, Boyle, and Academy Award winner Christian Colson.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award®-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh.
Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs’ career – beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998 – Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Watch this new ‘Look Inside Steve Jobs’ featurette where the cast and filmmakers discuss the man behind the movie.
The drama is directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder.
The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin, Boyle, and Academy Award winner Christian Colson.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award®-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh.
- 10/22/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – You don’t need CGI, entire cities being turned to rubble, or an army of assembling Avengers to make a great movie. All you need is a good story to tell and a team of people talented enough to tell it. Writer Aaron Sorkin, and Director Danny Boyle are just the right people to make “Steve Jobs” because their finished project positively springs to life on the screen.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Sorkin looks at Jobs’ life through the prism of three different product launches, the original Macintosh, NeXt, and the iMac. At all three he is visited by key figures in the history of Apple, in the forms of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), Apple Engineer Andy (Michael Stuhlbarg) and Apple CEO John Sculley (Jeff Daniels). The ingenious structure allows for us to see the rise, the fall, and the rebirth of his career and gives it more focus than...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Sorkin looks at Jobs’ life through the prism of three different product launches, the original Macintosh, NeXt, and the iMac. At all three he is visited by key figures in the history of Apple, in the forms of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), Apple Engineer Andy (Michael Stuhlbarg) and Apple CEO John Sculley (Jeff Daniels). The ingenious structure allows for us to see the rise, the fall, and the rebirth of his career and gives it more focus than...
- 10/16/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Steve Jobs
Written by Aaron Sorkin (adapted from the novel by Walter Isaacson)
Directed by Danny Boyle
USA, 2015
Perhaps the masterstroke of Steve Jobs is that it reveals everything about its elusive subject, and yet, in the end, he remains a complete enigma. Bolstered by the best script of 2015 and masterful performances from Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet, director Danny Boyle’s propulsive character study is a fascinating glimpse at the evolution of a cult icon. Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin get a bit too theatrical at times, but this is the best film we’re likely to see about a complicated man who was equal parts narcissist, tyrant, and genius.
“I’m poorly made.”
This final self-realization from Steve Jobs (Fassbender) might also describe his early efforts as a techno-trailblazer. Brainstorming in a funky garage with equally-funky collaborator Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), Jobs envisions a computer system that is “Closed from end to end.
Written by Aaron Sorkin (adapted from the novel by Walter Isaacson)
Directed by Danny Boyle
USA, 2015
Perhaps the masterstroke of Steve Jobs is that it reveals everything about its elusive subject, and yet, in the end, he remains a complete enigma. Bolstered by the best script of 2015 and masterful performances from Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet, director Danny Boyle’s propulsive character study is a fascinating glimpse at the evolution of a cult icon. Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin get a bit too theatrical at times, but this is the best film we’re likely to see about a complicated man who was equal parts narcissist, tyrant, and genius.
“I’m poorly made.”
This final self-realization from Steve Jobs (Fassbender) might also describe his early efforts as a techno-trailblazer. Brainstorming in a funky garage with equally-funky collaborator Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), Jobs envisions a computer system that is “Closed from end to end.
- 10/16/2015
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
Back Lot Music has released the soundtrack album for Steve Jobs, the new film from Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin. The album is available now on iTunes and Amazon.
The Steve Jobs Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features new music by Award-winning composer Daniel Pemberton, as well as two iconic tracks from Bob Dylan, and songs by The Libertines and the Maccabees.
Universal Pictures’ Steve Jobs, which stars Michael Fassbender as the pioneering founder of Apple, was released in New York and Los Angeles on October 9. The film will expand to additional North American markets on October 16 and wide on October 23.
“Fassbender’s Jobs is a tornado of roaring ferocity and repressed feeling.” – RollingStone.com
Enter to win passes to the St. Louis screening Here.
Director Danny Boyle says, “The first act was influenced by the early sounds of computers. The vast majority of the...
The Steve Jobs Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features new music by Award-winning composer Daniel Pemberton, as well as two iconic tracks from Bob Dylan, and songs by The Libertines and the Maccabees.
Universal Pictures’ Steve Jobs, which stars Michael Fassbender as the pioneering founder of Apple, was released in New York and Los Angeles on October 9. The film will expand to additional North American markets on October 16 and wide on October 23.
“Fassbender’s Jobs is a tornado of roaring ferocity and repressed feeling.” – RollingStone.com
Enter to win passes to the St. Louis screening Here.
Director Danny Boyle says, “The first act was influenced by the early sounds of computers. The vast majority of the...
- 10/11/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It is hard to believe that Aaron Sorkin wrote Steve Jobs. After all, he's the writer behind such brilliantly entertaining work as The Social Network, The West Thing and (even) A Few Good Men. It's disappointing enough that Sorkin's storytelling lacks imagination and drama. What's worse, Sorkin has created an irony-free zone where the infamously vicious Jobs comes across as a Christ-like figure, aided by Michael Fassbender's almost beatifically enigmatic performance. It's not that Jobs is paranoid, crazy or even mean, it's that he's misunderstood by everyone -- except his Mary Magdalene-like long-suffering marketing director Joanna Hoffman (portrayed by Kate Winslet with an oddly appearing and disappearing European accent of unknown origin.)
The film centers on the backstage drama of three product launch events. In each of these, Jobs must weather the scorn and enmity of his small circle of friends, lovers and colleagues: Woz (Steve Wozniak) with whom...
The film centers on the backstage drama of three product launch events. In each of these, Jobs must weather the scorn and enmity of his small circle of friends, lovers and colleagues: Woz (Steve Wozniak) with whom...
- 10/11/2015
- by Jeff Cohen
- www.culturecatch.com
Genius, innovator, monster, icon, egomaniac — all these terms apply to the late Apple titan Steve Jobs, and thus it's not a surprise that depending on which version of the man one got to meet, how he's been portrayed in countless books, and now three feature length films, tends to vary. We've had 1999's "Pirates Of Silicon Valley," 2013's "Jobs," and the highest profile of all, this fall's Oscar contending, critically acclaimed "Steve Jobs." Controversy has already swirled around the movie, with reports that Jobs' widow asked Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio — actors considered early on for the lead role — not to do the movie. Meanwhile, current Apple CEO Tim Cook has not been pleased about what he described as an "opportunistic" movie. Now, two more people deeply involved with Apple have weighed in on the picture. John Sculley, who was famously at the helm of Apple when Steve Jobs resigned following a power struggle,...
- 10/10/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 30 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the highly anticipated biography “Steve Jobs” starring Michael Fassbender from Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle!
“Steve Jobs,” which opens on Oct. 23, 2015 and is rated “R,” also stars Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sarah Snook, Katherine Waterston, Perla Haney-Jardine, John Ortiz and Vanessa Ross from Danny Boyle and Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin based on the book by Walter Isaacson. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “Steve Jobs” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only...
“Steve Jobs,” which opens on Oct. 23, 2015 and is rated “R,” also stars Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sarah Snook, Katherine Waterston, Perla Haney-Jardine, John Ortiz and Vanessa Ross from Danny Boyle and Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin based on the book by Walter Isaacson. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “Steve Jobs” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only...
- 10/10/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
"I didn't really know much about him," admits Michael Fassbender when asked about playing the title character in "Steve Jobs" (watch below). "I suppose the thing that really stuck with me was meeting people who knew him -- John Sculley, Joanna Hoffman, Steve Wozniak, Andy Hertzfeld … You could see he was still very much present in their lives. Even if their relationships were difficult, there was a sadness and a love there for him." -Break- Oscar mystery: Will 'Steve Jobs' surpass 'The Social Network'? The film by Oscar champ Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire") paints a complex portrait of the man as a brutal taskmaster with conflicting emotions about his family and his legacy. The actors credit the screenplay by Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin ("The Social Network") as an essential but demanding part of the process. Recalls Kate Winslet, who plays J...'...
- 10/9/2015
- Gold Derby
Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs’ career—beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998—Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin, Boyle, and Academy Award winner Christian Colson.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley.
The film also stars Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan,...
Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin, Boyle, and Academy Award winner Christian Colson.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley.
The film also stars Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan,...
- 10/9/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
John Sculley, played by Jeff Daniels in Danny Boyle’s awards-tipped drama, refers to the film as ‘a perfectionist product’ but says it doesn’t show ‘the complete’ picture
Former Apple CEO John Sculley has revealed that he thinks Steve Jobs would have been mostly impressed with Danny Boyle’s Oscar-tipped new biopic.
Related: iSorry: Aaron Sorkin apologises to Apple's Tim Cook over Steve Jobs biopic
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Former Apple CEO John Sculley has revealed that he thinks Steve Jobs would have been mostly impressed with Danny Boyle’s Oscar-tipped new biopic.
Related: iSorry: Aaron Sorkin apologises to Apple's Tim Cook over Steve Jobs biopic
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- 10/9/2015
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
“Steve Jobs is a dazzling artistic interpretation of one of the modern techno-giants and a terrific piece of filmmaking, led by a never-better Michael Fassbender in the lead role. It’s The Social Network 2.0 and one of the year’s best films.” – IGN
Universal Pictures has released a new clip, plus new featurette, for director Danny Boyle’s highly anticipated Steve Jobs.
Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs’ career—beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998—Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin,...
Universal Pictures has released a new clip, plus new featurette, for director Danny Boyle’s highly anticipated Steve Jobs.
Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs’ career—beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998—Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin,...
- 10/8/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Jeff Daniels is here to tell you that reciting Aaron Sorkin dialogue -- which often requires rancor, spitfire quickness, and a lot of physical exertion to handle properly -- is as exhausting as it looks. "I remember after any of the seasons of 'The Newsroom,' particularly the first season, it took a month -- three weeks -- where you just answered in one-word sentences. You're just done," Daniels says, reflecting on his Emmy-winning work on the HBO series. "Your brain was going, 'We're going to check out for three weeks.' And it did." Now Daniels is costarring in another Sorkin-written jam, "Steve Jobs." In the new biopic starring Michael Fassbender, Daniels plays John Sculley, Apple's CEO from 1983 to 1993. Sculley's paternal yet critical energy ends up revealing a lot about Jobs, whose angst can often seem monstrous. In our interview, Daniels discusses his favorite and least favorite kinds of dialogue,...
- 10/8/2015
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
If I hadn’t seen Alex Gibney’s documentary Steve Jobs: The Man Inside The Machine earlier this year, I’d probably be a little more enchanted by Danny Boyle’s Hollywoodized dramatization, Steve Jobs. Written by the quick-witted Aaron Sorkin, this take on Apple’s infamous mogul is a surprisingly brief glimpse into three major turning points in Jobs’ career, focusing on the strained relationship between a man and the child he refused to acknowledge as his own daughter. Where Gibney made us question Jobs’ ethics, and where filmmaker Joshua Michael Stern sought out to chronicle Steve’s rise to power in Jobs, Sorkin fixates on the titular character’s capacity for human emotion, boiling a jagged persona down to what should be a meaningful parental bond. This is the human side of Jobs we finally get to explore – albeit a more glitzy, crowd-pleasing take.
Steve Jobs strikes...
Steve Jobs strikes...
- 10/8/2015
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
'Steve Jobs' movie poster. 'Steve Jobs' movie: 'Riveting, high speed' biopic starring Michael Fassbender at his best On the outside, computers are clean, symmetrical slabs of molded polycarbonate; pleasant, or at least inoffensive, to look at. On the inside, however, the part most consumers don't see, is a bento box of circuit boards, memory chips, wires, graphics cards, and cooling systems, busily processing and moving the innumerable pieces of information that make the unit work flawlessly or, occasionally, crash. What director Danny Boyle's ferocious three-act rocket ride, Steve Jobs, teaches us about its eponymous tech icon, is that he was much like a computer: on the outside, clad in his signature black turtleneck and jeans, he was trim, bespectacled and flawlessly functioning. On the inside, he was on the brink of crashing, his internal Os in constant operation, avoiding, justifying, and occasionally acknowledging his poor treatment of...
- 10/8/2015
- by Mark Keizer
- Alt Film Guide
David Fincher seemed an odd, but intriguing, choice to helm an Aaron Sorkin script in 2010. In 2015, Danny Boyle seemed like the studio just grabbed the first high-profile guy they found on the street. The behind-the-scenes turmoil that lead to Steve Jobs finally making it to theaters is well chronicled, but suffice to say, the project, which began at the executive level, went through innumerable variations of director, cast, and eventually studio. What amazes is how ideal the end result feels. Steve Jobs has tremendous clarity of purpose, an out-and-out entertainment machine with a sextet of searing performances that is intelligent about how emotional it is, and firmly cemented in its sense of theatricality. This is drama, first and foremost. It’s also, quite remarkably and fully, a Danny Boyle Picture.
The film is structured around three product launches – the Macintosh computer in 1984, the ill-fated NeXT in 1988, and the iMac in...
The film is structured around three product launches – the Macintosh computer in 1984, the ill-fated NeXT in 1988, and the iMac in...
- 10/7/2015
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
All About Steve: Boyle and Sorkin’s Backstage Swipe at the Tech Magnate
Though it successfully usurps the ungainly 2013 film starring a miscast Ashton Kutcher as the eponymous technological entrepreneur, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s up-do hardly grazes the superficial surface of the man known as Steve Jobs, especially considering his name serves as the title. An astutely written and hyper-intelligent (not to mention overly loquacious) chamber piece, the type we’ve come to expect from the likes of Sorkin following his tackling of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in Fincher’s 2010 The Social Network, this treatment spans a fourteen year period and covers the backstage scenes behind three notable product launches in Jobs’ career (1984-1998). The result is an exaggerated triptych of moments formulated as a bluntly theatrical stage play. Agonized modern figures now historically mythologized for the roles they’ve played in the technological advances...
Though it successfully usurps the ungainly 2013 film starring a miscast Ashton Kutcher as the eponymous technological entrepreneur, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s up-do hardly grazes the superficial surface of the man known as Steve Jobs, especially considering his name serves as the title. An astutely written and hyper-intelligent (not to mention overly loquacious) chamber piece, the type we’ve come to expect from the likes of Sorkin following his tackling of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in Fincher’s 2010 The Social Network, this treatment spans a fourteen year period and covers the backstage scenes behind three notable product launches in Jobs’ career (1984-1998). The result is an exaggerated triptych of moments formulated as a bluntly theatrical stage play. Agonized modern figures now historically mythologized for the roles they’ve played in the technological advances...
- 10/7/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Aaron Sorkin thrives on the drama of those waiting in the wings. The trademark high-pressure patter of his dialogue is best spoken by backstage characters working down to the wire on something vital, whether it be broadcast news, the American government, or a tech revolution. That his rhythms are a natural fit for the story of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is no surprise, because a major part of Jobs's legacy is transforming Apple's product launches into the kind of high-stakes event worthy of the Sorkin treatment.
Set behind-the-scenes at three different product launches over a 15 year span, Steve Jobs employs a rigid three-act structure for a skilful character study that's closer to Shakespearean melodrama than traditional biopic, directed with smart gusto by Danny Boyle.
We first meet Jobs (Michael Fassbender) moments before the 1984 launch of the Apple Macintosh, in meltdown and abusing an underling (Michael Stuhlbarg) over a technical hitch.
Set behind-the-scenes at three different product launches over a 15 year span, Steve Jobs employs a rigid three-act structure for a skilful character study that's closer to Shakespearean melodrama than traditional biopic, directed with smart gusto by Danny Boyle.
We first meet Jobs (Michael Fassbender) moments before the 1984 launch of the Apple Macintosh, in meltdown and abusing an underling (Michael Stuhlbarg) over a technical hitch.
- 10/4/2015
- Digital Spy
"Steve Jobs, Danny Boyle’s scathing, scary, biographical portrait starring Michael Fassbender, may leave you with the creepy sensation that its subject has crawled inside your head and hijacked your mind," writes Stephen Holden in the New York Times. The film "has a voluble, fast-talking screenplay by Aaron Sorkin (working from Walter Isaacson’s 2011 biography), and focuses on three moments in Jobs’s life, each constructed around the rollout of different products: the Macintosh, in 1984; the NeXT cube, in 1988; and the iMac, in 1998. Kate Winslet plays Joanna Hoffman, his marketing guru; Seth Rogen his early partner, Steve Wozniak; and Jeff Daniels the Apple chief executive John Sculley, with whom Jobs had a stormy relationship." We've got more reviews, interviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 10/3/2015
- Keyframe
"Steve Jobs, Danny Boyle’s scathing, scary, biographical portrait starring Michael Fassbender, may leave you with the creepy sensation that its subject has crawled inside your head and hijacked your mind," writes Stephen Holden in the New York Times. The film "has a voluble, fast-talking screenplay by Aaron Sorkin (working from Walter Isaacson’s 2011 biography), and focuses on three moments in Jobs’s life, each constructed around the rollout of different products: the Macintosh, in 1984; the NeXT cube, in 1988; and the iMac, in 1998. Kate Winslet plays Joanna Hoffman, his marketing guru; Seth Rogen his early partner, Steve Wozniak; and Jeff Daniels the Apple chief executive John Sculley, with whom Jobs had a stormy relationship." We've got more reviews, interviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 10/3/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
It was such an honor to meet Jeff Daniels, and this awards season, he.s in both .The Martian. and .Steve Jobs.. In the biopic about the Apple genius, Daniels plays the role of John Sculley, a former CEO of Apple and infamously known as the man who fired Steve Jobs. There.s a lot of layers in the relationship between Jobs and Sculley that the movie revealed.
In this interview, Daniels talked about his attraction to making the movie, working with Aaron Sorkin again after their fantastic .The Newsroom,. the actors chose not to impersonate the real-life characters, meeting the real-life Sculley, his takeaway of Steve Jobs the human being, his new album .Days Like These,. and his favorite Apple product!
In this interview, Daniels talked about his attraction to making the movie, working with Aaron Sorkin again after their fantastic .The Newsroom,. the actors chose not to impersonate the real-life characters, meeting the real-life Sculley, his takeaway of Steve Jobs the human being, his new album .Days Like These,. and his favorite Apple product!
- 10/2/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
It’s almost October 9th, which is when we find out if you can throw everything into a film and get people to show up who don’t particularly care about the subject of a biopic.
Steve Jobs has an amazing cast, and brings together Danny Boyle as director and a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin. With Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, and more, the film is a somewhat unique effort at combining demographics. Steve Jobs, and Apple, have fans enough to hopefully sell a decent amount of tickets, and for those who aren’t overly impressed in watching the company get off the ground, Boyle has fans as well, and etc.
If all of that isn’t enough, the story is a somewhat odd view of a life, which might intrigue a number of cinephiles looking to take in a different way of getting a story on film.
The movie gives...
Steve Jobs has an amazing cast, and brings together Danny Boyle as director and a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin. With Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, and more, the film is a somewhat unique effort at combining demographics. Steve Jobs, and Apple, have fans enough to hopefully sell a decent amount of tickets, and for those who aren’t overly impressed in watching the company get off the ground, Boyle has fans as well, and etc.
If all of that isn’t enough, the story is a somewhat odd view of a life, which might intrigue a number of cinephiles looking to take in a different way of getting a story on film.
The movie gives...
- 9/28/2015
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
We. Can't. Wait. Universal just dropped a second, two-minute trailer for "Steve Jobs." In the dramatic clip, Jobs (played by Michael Fassbender) gives us a glimpse of what really went down behind-the-scenes during three of Apple's biggest product launches to-date. Many remember Steve for the pivotal part he played in the so-called "digital revolution," which sought to not only transform modern technology as we know it, but to bring the already-established computer into the homes of people everywhere. Check out the clip above to see Fassbender's intense performance! The biopic -- directed by "Slumdog Millionaire's" Danny Boyle -- debuted at the Telluride Film Festival last week and was met with rave reviews. A-listers Seth Rogen (Steve Wozniak), Kate Winslet (Joanna Hoffman) and Jeff Daniels (John Sculley) fill out the impressive cast. Are you excited to see "Steve Jobs" when it hits theaters nationwide October 23? Sound off below and check...
- 9/17/2015
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
“Fassbender spits out Sorkin’s dialogue like an ice cube maker — each withering insult sticking its landing.” – Sasha Stone (Awards Daily), Telluride review.
Watch the latest trailer for Universal Pictures’ Steve Jobs.
Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs’ career—beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998—Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin, Boyle, and Academy Award winner Christian Colson.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh.
Watch the latest trailer for Universal Pictures’ Steve Jobs.
Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs’ career—beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998—Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin, Boyle, and Academy Award winner Christian Colson.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh.
- 9/17/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A couple of months on from the first Steve Jobs trailer, Universal have just uploaded a second for Mac users worldwide. And we guess you can watch it on a PC too. Danny Boyle is the director, Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay, and Michael Fassbender is Jobs, juggling his life as a tech visionary with that of a family man: not always successfully it seems.There's slightly less of the supporting cast in trailer 2, and a more specific focus on Jobs himself. But there are still glimpses of Seth Rogen’s Steve Wozniak, Kate Winslet's marketing chief Joanna Hoffman, and Katherine Waterston's Chrisann Brennan, who confronts Jobs over his negligent parenting of daughter Lisa (Perla Haney-Jardine). Jeff Daniels is Apple executive John Sculley, who frequently clashed with Jobs. Based on Walter Isaacson’s biography, the film focuses on three big moments in Jobs' corporate life: the launch of...
- 9/17/2015
- EmpireOnline
It took celebrated author Walter Isaacson over 600 pages to surmise the life and times of the late, great Steve Jobs – Danny Boyle has just shy of two hours.
For the director’s latest, much-hyped venture behind the lens, Boyle will be placing the visionary’s time at Apple under the microscope as he charts three of the most crucial product launches of Jobs’ career: the Macintosh in 1984, the NeXT in 1988, and the iMac in 1998.
Based on a script by The Social Network‘s Aaron Sorkin, Boyle’s biopic has muscled its way into the Oscar race really rather early, and today’s trailer effectively validates its status as one of the dark horses entering the awards race. Starring Michael Fassbender in the title role as the flawed genius, Steve Jobs will explore his troubles both on and off stage, dealing with a turbulent personal life and estranged daughter.
Indeed, Universal...
For the director’s latest, much-hyped venture behind the lens, Boyle will be placing the visionary’s time at Apple under the microscope as he charts three of the most crucial product launches of Jobs’ career: the Macintosh in 1984, the NeXT in 1988, and the iMac in 1998.
Based on a script by The Social Network‘s Aaron Sorkin, Boyle’s biopic has muscled its way into the Oscar race really rather early, and today’s trailer effectively validates its status as one of the dark horses entering the awards race. Starring Michael Fassbender in the title role as the flawed genius, Steve Jobs will explore his troubles both on and off stage, dealing with a turbulent personal life and estranged daughter.
Indeed, Universal...
- 9/17/2015
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Today brings some good news and some bad news when it comes to the forthcoming Apple pioneer biopic. First up, we’ll deliver the latter: most audiences won’t get to see Danny Boyle‘s Steve Jobs as early as expected. Instead of a wide release on October 9th, Universal Pictures will now release the Aaron Sorkin-scripted film only in New York and Los Angeles on that date, before expanding the following weekend and going wide on October 23rd. As for the good news, we’ve now got another look at the film thanks to a new trailer.
“For the most part, this is the filmmaker’s most reined-in picture in some time, as if a too-kinetic approach would interfere with the verbal energy of Sorkin’s script.” Variety said in their review. “Besides Guy Hendrix Dyas’ unobtrusively excellent production design, the picture’s major visual coup is the...
“For the most part, this is the filmmaker’s most reined-in picture in some time, as if a too-kinetic approach would interfere with the verbal energy of Sorkin’s script.” Variety said in their review. “Besides Guy Hendrix Dyas’ unobtrusively excellent production design, the picture’s major visual coup is the...
- 9/17/2015
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Telluride – Steve Jobs became one of the most iconic men of the millennium. He was a phoenix like figure that brought the company he founded back from the brink and transformed it into the most valuable corporation in the world. Jobs was also a difficult man to work with who many people admired and just as many considered an a-hole. Almost four years after his passing, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin have collaborated on “Steve Jobs,” an ambitious new drama that culls material from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the legendary Apple CEO. The movie takes place during three different product launches that also happened to be signature moments in Jobs’ life. The first act occurs before the launch of the Macintosh computer in 1984. The second act takes place in 1988 before Jobs’ introduces his Next computer, years after his dismissal from Apple. The final act occurs in...
- 9/6/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
As the days get darker and the cold winds of Autumn approach, it’s time to look ahead at the upcoming movies set to hit cinemas this Fall.
The huge slate includes the return of the Jedis, the rebirth of Frankenstein and a new age of Good Dinosaurs. These movies will take audiences to a Galaxy Far, Far Away, on a voyage to Mars and to the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest.
Here’s our list of the 2015 Fall movies that we can’t wait to see!
September
The Visit (Sept 11)
Writer/director/producer M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable) and producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious series) welcome you to Universal Pictures’ The Visit. Shyamalan returns to his roots with the terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip.
The huge slate includes the return of the Jedis, the rebirth of Frankenstein and a new age of Good Dinosaurs. These movies will take audiences to a Galaxy Far, Far Away, on a voyage to Mars and to the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest.
Here’s our list of the 2015 Fall movies that we can’t wait to see!
September
The Visit (Sept 11)
Writer/director/producer M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable) and producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious series) welcome you to Universal Pictures’ The Visit. Shyamalan returns to his roots with the terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip.
- 9/3/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks, will make its World Premiere at the 53rd New York International Film Festival, running from September 25 to October 11. The film was one of 26 announced as part of the festival’s main slate, along with one of four World Premieres.
Some of the main slate highlights include Todd Haynes’s Carol, featuring Cannes Best Actress Winner Rooney Mara alongside Cate Blanchett, Miguel Gomes’s three part saga Arabian Nights, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin, the Us premiere of Michael Moore’s latest Where to Invade Next, Michel Gondry’s French film Microbe et Gasoil, and the World Premiere of the documentary Don’t Blink: Robert Frank, about the life of the fames photographer and filmmaker.
Previously announced films include the World Premiere of The Walk, Robert Zemeckis’s Philippe Petit biopic serving as the opening night film, the World Premiere of...
Some of the main slate highlights include Todd Haynes’s Carol, featuring Cannes Best Actress Winner Rooney Mara alongside Cate Blanchett, Miguel Gomes’s three part saga Arabian Nights, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin, the Us premiere of Michael Moore’s latest Where to Invade Next, Michel Gondry’s French film Microbe et Gasoil, and the World Premiere of the documentary Don’t Blink: Robert Frank, about the life of the fames photographer and filmmaker.
Previously announced films include the World Premiere of The Walk, Robert Zemeckis’s Philippe Petit biopic serving as the opening night film, the World Premiere of...
- 8/13/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Danny Boyle’s biopic, starring Michael Fassbender as the Apple visionary, to receive its European premiere in London.
The 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has announced that this year’s closing night film will be the European premiere of Steve Jobs.
Directed by Danny Boyle and starring Michael Fassbender as the visionary behind technology giant Apple, Steve Jobs was written by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) based on Walter Isaacson’s biography.
Boyle and Fassbender will attend the closing night gala on Oct 18 at the Odeon Leicester Square alongside Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet, who plays Joanna Hoffman, one of the original members of Jobs’ team in the 1980s.
It marks the third film directed by Boyle to close the Lff, following Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which the British filmmaker won an Oscar for directing, and 127 Hours (2010).
Boyle said: “If London was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution then San Francisco is the Bethlehem of the digital...
The 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has announced that this year’s closing night film will be the European premiere of Steve Jobs.
Directed by Danny Boyle and starring Michael Fassbender as the visionary behind technology giant Apple, Steve Jobs was written by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) based on Walter Isaacson’s biography.
Boyle and Fassbender will attend the closing night gala on Oct 18 at the Odeon Leicester Square alongside Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet, who plays Joanna Hoffman, one of the original members of Jobs’ team in the 1980s.
It marks the third film directed by Boyle to close the Lff, following Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which the British filmmaker won an Oscar for directing, and 127 Hours (2010).
Boyle said: “If London was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution then San Francisco is the Bethlehem of the digital...
- 8/6/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Tomorrow morning will see the first titles announced for the Toronto Film Festival, a day later Venice will begin to reveal their slate, but the New York Film Festival has already announced a pair of titles. Last week we learned Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead would close the fest that runs from Sept 25 - Oct 11 and today they've announced Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs starring Michael Fassbender will play the fest on October 3 as the Centerpiece selection. The interesting thing to note here is that nowhere in the press release announcing the selection does the word "premiere" show up, which leads me to believe Steve Jobs will likely show up either in Toronto, Telluride or Venice before New York with my leanings suggesting either Telluride or Toronto. The fact the announcement arrives today is no coincidence, but we'll have to wait a few more hours to find out. With a screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin,...
- 7/27/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Universal’s drama “Steve Jobs” has been chosen as the Centerpiece of the upcoming 53rd New York Film Festival, it was announced Monday by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Michael Fassbender stars in the film, which Danny Boyle directed from a script by fellow Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin. The duo worked off of Walter Isaacson’s bestselling biography of the tempestuous Apple co-founder. “Steve Jobs” will screen on Saturday, Oct. 3. The Nyff runs from Sept. 25 to Oct. 11. The film co-stars Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, Jeff Daniels as John Sculley, Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld,...
- 7/27/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
The 53rd New York Film Festival Centerpiece Gala is Danny Boyle's "Steve Jobs" biopic, adapted by Aaron Sorkin from Walter Isaacson's biography, starring Michael Fassbender as the man at the center of the digital revolution, Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, Jeff Daniels as John Sculley, Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, and Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan, set for Legendary/Universal release on October 9. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady, Scott Rudin, Boyle, and Christian Colson. This follows last week's announcement that Don Cheadle’s directorial debut "Miles Ahead," in which he stars as legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, will world premiere on closing night of the upcoming Nyff (September 25 – October 11). Cheadle stars as Davis, during his crazy Manhattan days in the late-70s, opposite Emayatzy Corinealdi as his great love Frances Taylor and Ewan McGregor as...
- 7/27/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Universal Pictures has unveiled a full trailer for the upcoming "Steve Jobs" biopic, starring Michael Fassbender and the late Apple founder and CEO. Check it out below. Plot: Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter. The new movie co-stars Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh, Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, Jeff Daniels as former Apple CEO John Sculley, Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs' ex-girlfriend, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Apple Macintosh development team. "Steve Jobs" is directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) from a script by Aaron Sorkin. It's set to hit theaters on October 9th. Trailer:...
- 7/2/2015
- WorstPreviews.com
Opening in cinemas on October 9, here’s you first look at the new trailer for Universal Pictures’ Steve Jobs.
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin, Boyle and Academy Award winner Christian Colson.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh.
Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley.
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin, Boyle and Academy Award winner Christian Colson.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh.
Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley.
- 7/1/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"Musicians play their instruments – I play the orchestra." That key line, from the new trailer for upcoming biopic Steve Jobs, is delivered by Michael Fassbender, as the enigmatic Apple mogul defends his position against co-founder Steve Wozniak.
"What do you do?" Wozniak (Seth Rogen) asks his business partner. "You're not an engineer. You're not a designer. You can't put a hammer to a nail. I built the circuit board. The graphical interface was stolen. So how come, 10 times in a day, I read Steve Jobs is a genius. What do you do?...
"What do you do?" Wozniak (Seth Rogen) asks his business partner. "You're not an engineer. You're not a designer. You can't put a hammer to a nail. I built the circuit board. The graphical interface was stolen. So how come, 10 times in a day, I read Steve Jobs is a genius. What do you do?...
- 7/1/2015
- Rollingstone.com
The dark side of Steve Jobs is on full display in the first trailer for Universal’s upcoming biopic of the Apple CEO, which takes place backstage at a handful of the most important product launches of his career.
It’s undeniably exciting to see Steve Jobs finally making its way to theaters – the project was originally set up at Sony, with Scott Rudin producing and David Fincher directing, but that fell apart rather spectacularly and Sony unceremoniously dumped the movie, leaving Universal to swoop in. Now, thankfully, production has wrapped and the pic is well on its way to theaters.
Aaron Sorkin (The Newsroom) wrote the script and appears to have packed it with some absolutely stinging lines of dialogue, from the sounds of the new trailer. Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) is at the helm here, returning to prestige fare after 2013’s silly caper Trance, and he’s...
It’s undeniably exciting to see Steve Jobs finally making its way to theaters – the project was originally set up at Sony, with Scott Rudin producing and David Fincher directing, but that fell apart rather spectacularly and Sony unceremoniously dumped the movie, leaving Universal to swoop in. Now, thankfully, production has wrapped and the pic is well on its way to theaters.
Aaron Sorkin (The Newsroom) wrote the script and appears to have packed it with some absolutely stinging lines of dialogue, from the sounds of the new trailer. Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) is at the helm here, returning to prestige fare after 2013’s silly caper Trance, and he’s...
- 7/1/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Written by Aaron Sorkin, the long-gestating film stars Michael Fassbender as the titular Apple mogul, alongside Kate Winslet (Macintosh marketing chief Joanna Hoffman), Seth Rogen (as Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak), Jeff Daniels (as former Apple CEO John Sculley) and Katherine Waterston (as the artist-mother of Jobs' first child). Read More: Steve Job Biopic Finally Lands at Universal; What Took So Long? Sorkin reportedly written a 181-page, three-act screenplay that spans 16 years and could yield a very long movie. Based on Walter Isaacson's 2011 tome, the film passed from director to director, and studio to studio, like a hot potato before finally landing at Universal, with Oscar winner Danny Boyle at the helm. (The Sony Hack revealed the tumultuous back-and-forth between then-Sony chief Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin.) Sorkin has said that he wanted to skirt the conventional "cradle-to-grave structure of a biography," looking instead at a "point of...
- 7/1/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
The first look at Michael Fassbender as late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is here.
The teaser trailer for the upcoming biopic debuted on Sunday and also features Seth Rogen as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Kate Winslet as former marketing chief of Macintosh Joanna Hoffman and Jeff Daniels as former Apple CEO John Sculley.
"You can't write code. You are not an engineer. What do you do?" Rogen's Wozniak is heard saying in a voiceover.
Photos: Hot Shots Of Michael Fassbender
"The musicians play the instruments. I play the orchestra. I sat in a garage and invented ...
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The teaser trailer for the upcoming biopic debuted on Sunday and also features Seth Rogen as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Kate Winslet as former marketing chief of Macintosh Joanna Hoffman and Jeff Daniels as former Apple CEO John Sculley.
"You can't write code. You are not an engineer. What do you do?" Rogen's Wozniak is heard saying in a voiceover.
Photos: Hot Shots Of Michael Fassbender
"The musicians play the instruments. I play the orchestra. I sat in a garage and invented ...
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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
- 5/18/2015
- by access.hollywood@nbcuni.com (Access Hollywood)
- Access Hollywood
It's here! Universal Pictures' Steve Jobs biopic had quite the casting shuffle in its early stages, but it looks like Michael Fassbender was the perfect choice to portray Apple's late co-founder on the big screen. Viewers got an official first look of Fassbender in character Sunday in the first Steve Jobs trailer. The clip also provides a brief glimpse of Kate Winslet as former marketing chief of Macintosh, Joanna Hoffman, Seth Rogen as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and Jeff Daniels as former Apple CEO John Sculley. Voiceovers provide the narrative for most of this preview. At one point, Wozniak (voiced by Rosen) says: "You can't write code. You are not an engineer. What do you...
- 5/18/2015
- E! Online
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