“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,” Mike Fleming reports for Deadline.
“I’m hearing the deal is $1 million against $3 million and that Mark Gordon will be the biopic’s producer,” Fleming reports. “But this will be an MG360 project, which is the movie production partnership between Gordon and Management 360. ICM reps both Isaacson and Gordon. Sony Pictures would not comment.”
Fleming reports, “The studio seems a good fit for the book, having boiled business books into compelling dramas with both the Oscar-nominated The Social Network and Moneyball.”
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MacDailyNews Take: That’ll be one opening night we will not miss!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Deus Ex Technica” for the heads up.]
