We've lost the next Soderbergh picture

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Despite having Brad Pitt attached, the New York Times reports that Sony has scuttled Steven Soderbergh's big screen adaptation of the baseball book Moneyball (2003), two weeks before shooting was to begin. He's the key passage: "Representatives of Sony . . . described a process in which the heady thrill of a film rushing toward production was halted by a studio that was suddenly confronted by plans for something artier and more complex than it had bargained for."

Dang it. At least THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE is playing at the Olympia Film Society this week....