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Tag: Walter Isaacson

Leaked Sony e-mails reveal Aaron Sorkin wanted Tom Cruise as Steve Jobs

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 5:30 pmTuesday, December 9, 201432 Comments

While the cyber-attackers who struck at Sony Pictures the week of Thanksgiving…

Jeff Daniels eyed to play former Apple CEO John Sculley in ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 2:22 pmTuesday, December 9, 20149 Comments

Michael Fassbender has closed a deal to star as the Apple icon…

Universal picks up ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic from Sony for over $30 million; Fassbender to star

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 9:29 amTuesday, November 25, 201412 Comments

Less than a week after Sony Pictures put the high-profile Steve Jobs movie into turnaround…

‘Steve Jobs’ biopic dead at Sony

Thursday, November 20, 2014 11:05 amThursday, November 20, 201417 Comments

The much-discussed project, based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs…

Aaron Sorkin: You could do ten more movies about Steve Jobs

Thursday, November 6, 2014 9:11 amThursday, November 6, 20146 Comments

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin discusses his upcoming biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs…

Sony eyeing Michael Fassbender to star in ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 5:30 pmTuesday, November 4, 20148 Comments

Michael Fassbender is the actor who’s currently being eyed to play Steve Jobs…

Christian Bale exits Sony’s ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic

Monday, November 3, 2014 3:59 pmMonday, November 3, 201421 Comments

Christian Bale will not be Steve Jobs after all..

Seth Rogen in talks to play Steve Wozniak in ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic

Thursday, October 30, 2014 4:27 pmThursday, October 30, 20147 Comments

Actor Seth Rogen is in talks to play Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak…

Aaron Sorkin: Christian Bale is ‘gonna crush it’ playing Steve Jobs

Thursday, October 23, 2014 9:25 amThursday, October 23, 201416 Comments

Actor Christian Bale didn’t have to audition for the role of Steve Jobs…

Christian Bale in talks to play Steve Jobs in Aaron Sorkin-penned biopic

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:44 pm15 Comments

Oscar-winner Christian Bale, who has played Batman and Moses…

Leonardo DiCaprio exits Steve Jobs biopic as contenders line up

Friday, October 3, 2014 3:56 pmFriday, October 3, 201428 Comments

Leonardo DiCaprio will not be tackling the role of Steve Jobs…

John Sculley: Apple could unveil the ‘holy grail’

Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:42 pmTuesday, September 9, 201410 Comments

Apple will likely unveil mobile payments on Tuesday…

Steve Jobs, Japanese manga star

Thursday, August 7, 2014 4:04 pmThursday, August 7, 20144 Comments

The life of Apple guru Steve Jobs is already a book and a Hollywood movie, so…

Isaacson: Steve Jobs would have done Beats deal

Friday, May 30, 2014 11:13 amFriday, May 30, 20148 Comments

One of the rallying cries of those opposed to Apple’s…

70% chance Apple’s Beats deal is happening and, if so, it’s a Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine acquihire, says source

Thursday, May 22, 2014 5:32 pmThursday, May 22, 201454 Comments

A well-placed source has confirmed rumors that Apple’s acquisition of Beats…

As MacDailyNews already posited, Walter Isaacson thinks maybe Jimmy Iovine will run Apple’s content business

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 8:57 amTuesday, May 20, 201415 Comments

Apple is reportedly acquiring Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion…

What Steve Jobs really said about an Apple HDTV

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:02 pm12 Comments

When it comes to the bevy of Apple HDTV rumors that seasonally spring up…

Leonardo DiCaprio eyed to star in Steve Jobs biopic

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 12:56 am19 Comments

Moving fast to replace David Fincher on its highly anticipated Steve Jobs movie…

David Fincher out of Steve Jobs biopic in $10 million fee fight

Tuesday, April 15, 2014 3:28 pmTuesday, April 15, 20146 Comments

Sony Pictures is looking to replace David Fincher as director…

The ‘Apple television’ is the magical unicorn of consumer tech

Monday, March 24, 2014 1:28 pmMonday, March 24, 201413 Comments

It doesn’t exist and perhaps never will…

Tim Bajarin: I would not be surprised to see Steve Jobs’ vision of Apple TV this year

Monday, March 10, 2014 6:33 pm14 Comments

At Apple’s recent shareholder meeting, CEO Tim Cook told his audience…

David Fincher in talks to direct Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic

Thursday, February 27, 2014 2:29 pmThursday, February 27, 201411 Comments

Sorkin has publicly said the Jobs biopic will be divided into three long scenes…

‘Steve Jobs’ biographer Isaacson backpedals on ‘Google more innovative’ comment, says ‘Apple is the best at execution’

Friday, January 31, 2014 10:04 amFriday, January 31, 201421 Comments

As with John Sculley and Eric Schmidt, Steve Jobs picked the wrong guy…

Scribe of flavorless Steve Jobs biography thinks Google is ‘more innovative’ than Apple because Google bought a thermostat company

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 4:43 pmThursday, January 16, 201497 Comments

The greatest innovator in the world right now is Google, so says Walter Isaacson…

Aaron Sorkin completes script for Sony’s ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic

Tuesday, January 14, 2014 10:00 am12 Comments

Sorkin has turned in script for Sony’s Steve Jobs biopic…

Frog Design’s Harmut Esslinger: Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography is ‘disappointing’

Friday, October 4, 2013 12:28 pmFriday, October 4, 201320 Comments

Harmut Esslinger was already a big name in the field of industrial design…

Steve Jobs as entertainment

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 4:28 pmWednesday, August 21, 20138 Comments

Steve Jobs has been many things to many people…

Like Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs,’ Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Jobs’ somehow misses the whole point

Monday, August 19, 2013 11:28 amMonday, August 19, 201321 Comments

I know the Jobs story fairly well…

Walter Isaacson on Apple after Steve Jobs (with video)

Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:28 amThursday, August 15, 201313 Comments

Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute president & CEO, provides insight on Apple…

Aaron Sorkin and the ghost of Steve Jobs

Monday, July 29, 2013 4:02 pmMonday, July 29, 201314 Comments

With Steve Jobs now gone, and his once fledgling company now a powerful and important world force…

Steve Jobs manga comic book debuts in Japan

Monday, March 25, 2013 11:19 pm8 Comments

Steve Jobs is now a manga comic book character courtesy of a new series…

Google quotes Steve Jobs biography in attempt to win iPhone import ban

Friday, March 15, 2013 8:22 pmFriday, March 15, 201313 Comments

Through its wholly-owned Motorola Mobility subsidiary…

Steve Jobs biographer Isaacson dropped from Apple ebook case, James Murdoch named in Steve Jobs’ email

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 1:32 pmWednesday, March 6, 20131 Comment

Walter Isaacson will not have to share his notes or testify…

Did Steve Jobs’ extreme diets contribute to his health problems?

Monday, January 28, 2013 3:24 pm43 Comments

PETA has yet to acknowledge the role that Jobs’s near vegan diet…

First official photo of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs released

Monday, December 3, 2012 10:21 pmMonday, December 3, 201224 Comments

Eight months after coping with the news that Ashton Kutcher would be playing Steve Jobs…

Steve Jobs never said he wanted to build a revolutionary television set

Sunday, November 25, 2012 10:23 am26 Comments

The official biography of Steve Jobs revealed…

Steve Jobs vs. Sam Walton: A rare conversation with their biographers

Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:03 pm4 Comments

I think I understood everything about Jobs except…

Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’ biography is a great lesson in economics

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 6:46 pmTuesday, November 13, 201248 Comments

The Jobs biography is an amazingly useful economics lesson…

New ebook reveals Obama met with Apple’s Scott Forstall, ‘Steve Jobs’ biographer Isaacson to discuss ‘civility and political discourse’

Monday, August 20, 2012 11:39 amMonday, August 20, 201255 Comments

A succession of political disagreements and personal rivalries have haunted the Obama reelection effort…

Walter Isaacson fights subpoena over heart-to-heart chats with Steve Jobs

Tuesday, July 31, 2012 1:01 pmTuesday, July 31, 201224 Comments

Biographer Walter Isaacson is fighting a subpoena to unlock his unpublished interviews with Steve Jobs…

U.S. presidential candidate Romney gains toehold in Silicon Valley fundraising

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:00 amTuesday, June 26, 201241 Comments

Presidential candidate Barack Obama, his Blackberry always close at hand…

Live at D10: Ellison, Pixar’s Catmull discuss ‘the lessons of Steve Jobs’

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:53 pm5 Comments

Live coverage of Pixar’s Ed Catmull and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison…

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