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The past month has been rough for Moneyball, which saw a rare eleventh hour cancellation by Sony over a script dispute last month. The adaptation of Michael Lewis’ non-fiction book about the Oakland A’s was dropped five days before it was supposed to start shooting and Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh was removed from the project. In interviews during the fallout, Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal defended her decision to scrap the $57 million budget and the $10 million already spent in development. Reports said Soderbergh turned in a script days before production was to start in Arizona with “radical changes” to the one written by Steven Zaillian and approved by Sony. Pascal cites the difference in expectations...
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- Jeff Leins
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