2011年10月9日星期日

Sony buying movie rights to Steve Jobs biography

Sony Corp.'s movie studio is in ultimate talks to acquire the motion picture rights to the very envisioned approved biography of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Employment by Walter Isaacson.

According to a person acquainted with all the matter, the studio is negotiating to pay about $1 million for that rights for the undertaking.

The person declined for being discovered because the offer has not been finalized.

Sony was also driving the Oscar-winning biopic "The Social Network," about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and "This Is it," a documentary made of concert rehearsal footage of pop star Michael Jackson.

The news was earlier described by Hollywood blog Deadline.com.

Right after Jobs' dying on Wednesday, publisher Simon & Schuster pushed up the release date on Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" by a month to Oct. 24.

Large numbers of pre-orders of the digital e-book for $16.99 pushed the title to No. one on Apple's iTunes store and No. 2 on Amazon.com. Pre-orders of the hard cover copy, for $17.88, put the book at No. 1 on Amazon.

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