Taking on Molly’s Game, Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, without ever having cut a project the scribe had written, editors Alan Baumgarten and Josh Schaeffer were challenged with learning to cut Sorkin’s long, fast-paced, dialogue-driven scenes, while confronting a narrative of great structural complexity. Brought on…

Update Sunday AM: Sony’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is up to $36M for the weekend in No. 1, but the biggest gain was made by Universal/Blumhouse/Stage 6’s Insidious: The Last Key with $29.3M over 3 days after a Saturday where there wasn’t as much falloff with $11M, -13%. Overall, a very robust first weekend of…

With the parameters of TV continuing to explode, most movie directors are finding their way to the small screen. But that format's maestro, Aaron Sorkin, is finally making his mark as a director on the big screen with his feature adaptation of the book Molly's Game by Molly Bloom. While some believe low budget dramas…

Yesterday, Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi took over Wonder Woman‘s second-place spot on the 2017 top box office grossers list with a running cume of $423.7M. Wonder Woman had finaled at $412.6M. There’s also a very good chance that Last Jedi becomes the highest-grossing film of the year by Dec. 31…

Aaron Sorkin has waited a long time to make his directorial debut. The acclaimed and much rewarded writer of such screenplays as Moneyball, Steve Jobs, Charlie Wilson’s War, A Few Good Men, his Oscar-winning The Social Network as well as creator and writer of TV shows like The West Wing and Sports Night tells me never…

The Christmas is an apex moment for high-profile (and otherwise) roll outs, particularly for films in limited release. Always a favorite for a swath of cineastes (and otherwise) is Paul Thomas Anderson as well as Daniel Day-Lewis. The two have reunited for Phantom Thread, also starring Lesley Manville and Vicky Krieps…

It is hard for me to believe that in his long writing career, Aaron Sorkin has never once had the desire to direct, and that includes every episode of The West Wing, Sports Night and other series he created and wrote, along with such bellwether movies as Moneyball, Steve Jobs, Charlie Wilson’s War and The Social Networ…

Jessica Chastain swears she’s terrible at poker. Still, don’t bet against her. For Molly’s Game, the two-time Oscar-nominee learned all the tricks, terms, and bluffs of ultra-high stakes gambling—we’re talking millions of dollars a hand. Not many people could afford to buy in, and game hostess Molly Bloom’s memoir of…

The new movie Molly’s Game from STXfilms kicked off Deadline’s 7th annual The Contenders event celebrating the launch of the movie-awards season. Aaron Sorkin makes his directorial debut with the script which he wrote, and it stars Jessica Chastain as Molly Bloom, a onetime champion skier who eventually becomes a…

Anger is taking the place of reason in the dialogue about sexual harassment in Hollywood, but positive opportunities could still emerge, as we discuss on Episode #14 of The Bart & Fleming Podcast. Filmmakers are fighting to liberate their films from companies like The Weinstein Co., and spending major dollars on…

The American Film Institute has chosen Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game, starring Jessica Chastain, as its closing night gala screening on Nov. 16, replacing the Kevin Spacey-starrer All the Money in the World. “Aaron Sorkin is an American master, and we are proud to shine a proper spotlight on his directoral debut, Molly’s…

The seventh annual The Contenders, Deadline’s movie awards-season event, is now underway at the DGA Theater in Hollywood. A total of 19 studios and distributors are showing off their Oscar-contender wares at the all-day happening in front of an invitation-only audience comprised mostly of Academy voters and key guild…