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David Fincher isn’t quite ready to give a “like” to the concept of doing a sequel to his 2010 Academy Award-winning film about the founding of Facebook, The Social Network. Fincher, 61, talked about it with The Guardian in support of his new movie with Michael Fassbender, The Killer. "Aaron…

Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival after screenings of his directorial debut When You Finish Saving the World, Jesse Eisenberg covered a lot of bases, from his introduction to acting as an anxious teenager to his dislike of the sitcom Friends ("My sister loves it, and we get into…

Stephen Colbert opened Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show with a short clip of Jesse Eisenberg reprising his role as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg from The Social Network, poking fun at how the big tech billionaire lost more than $6 billion due to the Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outage. As the world plunged…

In long-ago 2011—as David Fincher's daringly innovative The Social Network was about to be upended in the film awards race by Tom Hooper's neoclassical The King's Speech—it was a bit shocking to note that Sony and its Columbia Pictures flagship, alone among the major film conglomerates, had scored no Best Picture…

EXCLUSIVE: In a bombshell development, CAA has just signed Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin, an Oscar winner for The Social Network and six time Emmy winner for his series creation The West Wing, makes the move after he completed his directorial debut, Molly’s Game. That film, financed by The Mark Gordon Company and eOne and to…

The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin will be honored with the WGA West's 2017 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement. Sorkin will receive the award, given in recognition of his career and body of work, at the WGAW's 2017 WGA Awards West Coast ceremony February 19 at the Beverly Hilton. "Starting…

EXCLUSIVE: In a deal spearheaded by Sony Pictures production president Hannah Minghella, the studio has made a preemptive acquisition of film rights to Lean In: Women, Work, And The Will to Lead, the 2013 book written by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. The studio has set Nell Scovell, the veteran TV writer/director, to…

Another NBC Olympic gaffe. Cameras for the Numbskull Broadcasting Company spotted actor Jesse Eisenberg sitting in the audience during the USA vs Spain gold medal basketball game. Then a commentator is caught on video identifying The Social Network star as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, adding: “Every executive of…

Despite a dismissal from a Massachusetts judge, self-proclaimed Facebook co-creator Aaron Greenspan is not giving up his battle against Columbia Pictures and Random House. Greenspan claims he was denied his rightful place in the Facebook saga by being left out of The Social Network and by having his name changed in…

EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Eisenberg is exiting ICM after more than a dozen years with the agent who helped put him in The Social Network which earned him a Best Actor Oscar nomination. ICM hoped it could hold him, but sources tell me he was surrounded by a bunch of CAA clients on his current film in production Now You See…

It was George Clooney 24/7 as the 38th Annual Telluride Film Festival kicked into high gear Friday. Clooney might as well have been running for mayor, if the reaction to his appearance at the Partrons Brunch in the morning was any indication. He was taking photos with anyone who asked and talking up a storm with any…

Producers Guild’s 2012 Awards Schedule As the announcement indicates, the PGA is following status quo, not Oscar, which is a bit of a surprise. Despite its close relationship with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Producers Guild of America today confirmed it will not be following Oscar’s lead this…