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Oscar Index: Get Ready For the Upset of the Century!

As we race toward O-Day, Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics has worked tirelessly to parse the latest input, insight and insanity to arise in the build-up to the 83rd Academy Awards. It hasn’t always been pretty, but it’s as close to empirically accurate as you’re going to get without a peephole at PricewaterhouseCoopers. And this week we’ve been especially busy. To the Index!

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Oscar Index: Get Ready For the Upset of the Century!

Is Moneyball the Next Social Network?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A popular non-fiction book — without any real cinematic leanings — gets turned into a buzzed-about feature film with the help of Aaron Sorkin, Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca, and Sony Pictures. Nope, not The Social Network — Moneyball ! ESPN writer Jon Weisman (formerly of Variety) makes the case that the Bennett Miller-directed film could be a sleeper hit next fall along the lines of The Social Network and that other Michael Lewis penned sports-book-turned-movie, The Blind Side . Probably not, but, hey, Brad Pitt is in it! So, maybe? [ ESPN ]