6 articles from 2009
Review: Did You Ever See... Erin Brockovich?
18 September 2009 2:08 PM, PDT
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Steven Soderbergh's The Informant is released in the Us this week. Matt Damon plays Mark Whitacre, in the story of a real-life executive at a corn-based food company that went to the FBI to expose the corporation's price-fixing tactics.
This isn't the first Soderbergh film dealing with real individuals. Last year he made the history lesson disguised as film Che Parts One and Two. One of his earliest films saw the author Kafka entering a world where fiction and reality merged. And he has also made a biopic of another whistle-blower. It bagged an Oscar for it's lead actress Julia Roberts, and lost out on the award for best film to Soderbergh's own Traffic. I'll see you on the other side for a look at 2000's Erin Brockovich.
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Soderbergh's next a Knockout
8 September 2009 12:39 AM, PDT
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Steven Soderbergh has rebounded from the collapse of his Moneyball project and is crafting a Knockout for us. The title of his next film, Knockout is an action movie that sounds as if it has the potential to be a breakout vehicle for Mma womens fighter-turned-actor Gina Carano.
In the movie Carano will play a tough woman who grew up on the wrong side of the town. After graduating from the school of hard knocks she finds a way to use her fighting skills to carve out a life for herself. The script is being finished by Lem Dobbs, the screenwriter who worked with Soderbergh on two of his earlier works, The Limey and Kafka.
Soderbergh was introduced to Carino when he saw her fight in the mixed martial arts circuit. Prior to this big break she appeared in a couple of reality TV series about the sport and as
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Steven Soderbergh Casts Martial Artist Gina Carano in Knockout
7 September 2009 6:20 AM, PDT
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Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh is looking to spice up his resume by adding a little action, and he's picked a mixed martial arts fighter to help him.
The director of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Erin Brockovich, Ocean's Eleven, and Traffic will next direct Knockout, a spy thriller in the mold of a 007 movie, but with a female lead. Soderbergh discovered his Knockout leading lady, Gina Carano, a Muay Thai-trained fighter, on the Mma circuit where she had a professional fight record of 7-1.
The script for Knockout is by Lem Dobbs, who previously wrote Kafka and The Limey for Soderbergh. Soderbergh is expected to surround Carano with name actors in supporting roles, but no other names have been announced. Production is slated to begin in late January, 2010.
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It's A Knockout For Soderbergh
7 September 2009 3:40 AM, PDT
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Steven Soderbergh is pulling no punches with the latest choice of hot non-actress set to star in his next film Knockout. Having spotted mixed martial arts madame Gina Carano on the fighting circuit, the director has worked out a script to integrate her fighting prowessinto the plot of a spy thriller.Known for his quirky movie choices, Soderbergh has moved in the last two years between a big budget heist (Ocean's Thirteen), revolutionary biopic (Che Parts I and II), filth-filled drama (The Girlfriend Experience) and fattening up Matt Damon (for The Informant!). Adding a girl-fight to a roster which also boasts a musical about the life of Cleopatra (Cleo) could never have seemed so predictable.Knockout is written by Lem Dobbs - who also penned The Limey and Kafka for Soderbergh - and will see the inexperienced actress Carano (also known in America as Gladiator Crush) playing a girl from
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Gina Carano to Star in Knockout, Soderbergh’s Spy Adventure
6 September 2009 4:18 PM, PDT
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The mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano is to make her big screen starring debut in Steven Soderbergh's Knockout, a spy drama he's comparing to James Bond but also sounds to me a little like Luc Besson's Nikita. Described by producer Ryan Kavanaugh as "mainstream action film with universal appeal for a reasonable budget" this picture sounds like heaven on a slice of warm toast.
The screenplay for Knockout has been written by Lem Dobbs, who had a hand in writing Dark City and was previously responsible for scripting Soderbergh's The Limey and Kafka, as well as Edward Ford, reputedly one of the great unproduced screenplays of all time. The boy can write.
According to Variety, Soderbergh will be filming in the New Year, with locations in the Us, Ireland and Turkey - at least. This sounds like it could be a proper, square-on-the-nose spy caper. Here's hoping
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- Brendon Connelly
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Soderbergh Set for 'Knockout' with Mma Fighter Gina Carano
6 September 2009 2:13 PM, PDT
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Steven Soderbergh is going from directing pornstars (Sasha Grey in The Girlfriend Experience) to mixed martial arts circuit fighters as Variety reports his next film will be a spy thriller with Mma fighter Gina Carano making her feature film debut. The film is titled Knockout and Relativity Media will fully finance with plans to begin filming in late January and expectations a distributor will be locked quickly.
The pic was written by Lem Dobbs who wrote The Limey in 1999 and Kafka in '91, both for Soderbergh. Knockout casts Carano as a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who is given a second chance to use her skills for constructive purposes. Variety's Mike Fleming says the film is a closer cousin to La Femme Nikita and Kill Bill than Million Dollar Baby, in that it doesn't take place in the fight ring and is more of a flat out
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