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We are a nation of voyeurs. Ingrained in us is a deep-seeded obsession with celebrity, the hero and the underdog. We love to watch individuals rise. We love to taste their fall even more. And so is born the genre of sport-dramas.
“Moneyball” starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman opened last weekend. We’ve given it a week in theaters. And? What have the People to say?
As a filmmaker, if you’ve got a subject that’s been done a hundred times over (as with most sport-dramas), you’ve got a challenge on your hands. If you take that on, you better deliver. There are some films, however, that have hit it spot on. In order to illustrate, we offer a comparison of three films: “He Got Game,” “Moneyball,” and “The Damned United.”
In a desperate move to get the live action AKIRA off the ground and recoup the serious $$$ they’ll be doling out, execs at Warner Bros. supposedly phoned Brad Pitt in a bid to get him as the lead.
Apparently there’s some serious sh*t brewing between the Hughes Brothers and Warner Brothers honchos in the pre-production stages for the film adaptation of what is arguably the greatest Japanese animated film of all time. The general consensus is that it’s also possibly the worst idea in a long time, even more than re-making Footloose.