<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; Stephen-Soderbergh</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/category/stephen-soderbergh/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com</link>
	<description>Movie News, Movie Reviews and Movie Trailers</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:05:28 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Mike has met with THE INFORMANT!, and here&#8217;s the intel&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/matt-damon/mike-has-met-with-the-informant-and-heres-the-intel.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/matt-damon/mike-has-met-with-the-informant-and-heres-the-intel.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matt-Damon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen-Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Informant]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/?p=26913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Steven Soderbergh, ever the unpredictable filmmaker, has this time drafted in Matt Damon for a bizarre comedic take on corporate whistleblower Mark Whitacre's take-down of agri-industry conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) over its international price-fixing of lysine (an essential amino acid synthesised from grain).

From The Informant's opening credits, Soderbergh sets out to play off the espionage thriller element against its comically ill-suited participants in the lysine business. Opening shots of surveillance equipment form montage shots reminiscent of Coppola classic The Converstion, as we are instantly primed for crime capering.


The Informant bucks the trend by being a good movie
with an exclamation mark in it's title!

Then, suddenly, in pops Matt Damon's voice rambling about all sorts of inconsequential, corn-related musings before we're thrown into the ultra-90s world of big round hair cuts, bright ties and facial hair. This comic incongruity provides the groundwork on which most of the amiable elements of this film are based.

But the premise is pushed much deeper, and when the FBI are called to ADM, ostensibly to investigate blackmail threats from a Japanese competitor, Whitacre reveals the company's price fixing activities and officially turns whilstleblower. From here on in, we are treated to a first class examination of ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/matt-damon/mike-has-met-with-the-informant-and-heres-the-intel.php/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>MMA Fighter Gina Carano is a KNOCKOUT for Steven Soderbergh!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/mma-fighter-gina-carano-is-a-knockout-for-steven-soderbergh.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/mma-fighter-gina-carano-is-a-knockout-for-steven-soderbergh.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gina Carano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knockout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen-Soderbergh]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/?p=26229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

From porn star Sasha Grey to MMA fighter Gina Carano. It is impossible to guess who will lead a Stephen Soderbergh picture these days. 

Maybe I shall get called up soon to play a small time movie reporter who stumbles across some news he shouldn't (that maybe Michael Bay is to direct Batman 3) and I am chased down by an angry movie studio exec (played by George Clooney) to cease and desist the information. Of course instead I turn to my mentor Michael Caine, (in pseudo post-modernist casting) who tells me that "the bloody truth must get out son" before he is shot down by Shia LaBeouf and can no longer play Alfred. 

God where is this going?

Anyway, Variety have confirmed today that after the public humiliation of his Brad Pitt movie Moneyball being yanked away from him by a tepid studio, Soderbergh's responds with a La Femme Nikita and female James Bond esque, sexy hot chick who can fight, spy thriller titled Knockout, which should begin production in late January from a script by Lem Dobbs, who wrote The Limey and Kafka.

Carano will play a girl "from the wrong side of the tracks" who has a second chance to put her life long ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/mma-fighter-gina-carano-is-a-knockout-for-steven-soderbergh.php/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Pitt/Soderbergh&#8217;s baseball movie in trouble after Columbia take their eye off the MONEYBALL</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/pittsoderberghs-baseball-movie-in-trouble-after-columbia-take-their-eye-off-the-moneyball.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/pittsoderberghs-baseball-movie-in-trouble-after-columbia-take-their-eye-off-the-moneyball.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moneyball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen-Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brad pitt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steve-zaillian]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/?p=24638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Columbia studio head Amy Pascal suddenly got very nervous on Friday for Moneyball, the adaptation of the bestselling Michael Lewis non-fiction baseball novel when the latest re-draft from Steve Zaillian (American Gangster, Schlinder's List) and director Stephen Soderbergh wasn't to her liking and was radically different from what she originally greenlit back in October. 

Pascal has given has given the pair until today (Monday) to find a new studio if they want to make the film as written. 

Otherwise Pascal will either replace Soderbergh/Zaillian with someone else (Devil Wears Prada helmer David Frankel was previously attached to direct) and potentially risk Brad Pitt walking out or Columbia will put the project in indefinitve turnaround. This is clearly a last minute panic as production was set to begin today in Phoenix.



Warner Bros. and Paramount are said to be interested according to Variety, and really it's no surprise.

The novel is a clear audience favourite and although the concept possibly sounds difficult for an easy adaptation (movie is about Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane, who assembled a contending baseball club on a small budget by employing a sophisticated computer-based analysis to draft players), Soderbergh has delivered proven audience hits (The Ocean's movies) and of course has the real Moneyball in ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/pittsoderberghs-baseball-movie-in-trouble-after-columbia-take-their-eye-off-the-moneyball.php/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Mike ponders the end of CHE in PART TWO</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/reviews/mike-ponders-the-end-of-che-in-part-two.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/reviews/mike-ponders-the-end-of-che-in-part-two.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benicio-Del-Toro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt-Damon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen-Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stuff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/?p=20484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the heady successes and awesome guerrilla scenes of CHE PART ONE (THE ARGENTINE in the States) I was hugely looking forward to the second half of Steven Soderbergh's epic. Would it look at how how Che coped with the change in nature of Fidel's regime from populist uprising to dictatorship? Would it look at how and why Che fomented revolution across Africa and South America? Actually, what it does is look at the in-depth world of a guerrilla fighter again - but when revolution fails to take hold.

Focussing on Guevara's time in Bolivia as described in his Bolivia Diaries, Part Two is a painful charting of the decline of a great man that gets deeply involved in the character of the man as he is pushed to the limit by adverse circumstances. Like the first half of the epic, Soderbergh is at pains to show the nitty gritty of guerrilla life. The training, the setting up camps, the hiding, the necessary interaction with skeptical peasants and the desperate bid to win them over. But rather than punctuating this with pitched battles Soderbergh merely offers a few desperate skirmishes (which admittedly look just as good as earlier battles) and bleak ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/reviews/mike-ponders-the-end-of-che-in-part-two.php/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Soderbergh directs Pitt&#8217;s MONEYBALL</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/soderbergh-directs-pitts-moneyball.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/soderbergh-directs-pitts-moneyball.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Frankel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moneyball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen-Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brad pitt]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/?p=20246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Has star power won in Hollywood again?

Back in October, we reported that Brad Pitt had signed on to star in MONEYBALL, an adaptation of the true life story of Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane, who assembled a contending baseball club on a small budget by employing a sophisticated computer-based analysis to draft players. 

Back then it was to be directed by David Frankel (THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA) but now comes word from Variety that Stephen Soderbergh has entered talks for the project. 

Has Pitt forced Frankel off the film so he can once again work with his director on the OCEAN'S movies?

Steve Zaillian (AMERICAN GANGSTER, SCHLINDER'S LIST) has adapted Michael Lewis book for Columbia. 

Presumably Pitt will play the coach and it's one of the more conventional projects the actor has signed himself too recently but it does continue his new desire to only work with the top directors in the industry (Fincher, Tarantino, Malick, Coens).

The movie will be Soderbergh's next after his ambitious rock opera CLEO (about Anthony and Cleoptra) fell apart after star Hugh Jackman bailed on the Egyptian epic.

I predicted he did so because of the failure of AUSTRALIA and for his desire to not take a risk as his next ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/soderbergh-directs-pitts-moneyball.php/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Hugh Jackman won&#8217;t play Marc Antony in Soderbergh&#8217;s CLEO but which British hard man will play Julius Caesar?</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/hugh-jackman-wont-play-marc-antony-in-soderberghs-cleo-but-which-british-hard-man-will-play-julius-caesar.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/hugh-jackman-wont-play-marc-antony-in-soderberghs-cleo-but-which-british-hard-man-will-play-julius-caesar.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Zeta Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh-Jackman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray-Winstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen-Soderbergh]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/?p=19258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The sizable failure of Baz Luhrmann's sweeping love story epic AUSTRALIA may have cost Stephen Soderbergh his leading man for his equally ambitious $30 million historical 3-D rock musical CLEO.

Variety report that Hugh Jackman has dropped out of talks for the film, presumably turned off by the reaction of AUSTRALIA and not wanting to put his career on the line by starring in another big budget risk for an unusual genre effort.

The trades say "inside scheduling conflicts" is the reason, which could equally be true. We know he is set to play Houdini on stage in 2011 and will want plenty of prep time for it which I've heard may also be shot as a movie at the same time.

Soderbergh now has the arduous task of finding a replacement for Jackman, he needs an actor with the same kind of presence, stature and acting chops who can also sing and dance to play opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones' Cleopatra. Not easy.

But that talks is for another time because the trades have gotten word that Ray Winstone, suddenly one of Britian's most in demand actors for big budget movies is in talks to play Julius Caesar. Wow, if you thought Winstone playing Beowulf ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/hugh-jackman-wont-play-marc-antony-in-soderberghs-cleo-but-which-british-hard-man-will-play-julius-caesar.php/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>UPDATED: Rock &#8220;n&#8221; Roll CLEOPATRA musical from Stephen Soderbergh starring Catherine Zeta Jones &amp; Hugh Jackman!!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/rock-n-roll-cleopatra-musical-from-stephen-soderbergh-starring-catherine-zeta-jones-hugh-jackman.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/rock-n-roll-cleopatra-musical-from-stephen-soderbergh-starring-catherine-zeta-jones-hugh-jackman.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catherine Zeta Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleopatra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guided by Voices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh-Jackman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Greer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen-Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stuff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/?p=16882</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: 

The Hollywood Reporter's story differs and tells us the movie will be titled CLEO and set in the same 1920's gangster period as Zeta-Jones' CHICAGO. 

The always working and experimental Stephen Soderbergh (OCEAN's trilogy, two CHE biopics) is to direct a 3-D live-action rock ’n’ roll musical about CLEOPATRA... the historical figure which infamously nearly made major studio 20th Century Fox bankrupt in 1963.



Unlike that $44 million production four decades ago (which equals just under $300 million today... the most expensive picture ever made until PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END according to Forbes) starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor which amazingly despite all it's problems made a profit, Soderbergh's version will be made for just $30 million and will be shopped around studio's for financing and distribution in the coming weeks say Variety.

Catherine Zeta Jones, Academy Award winner for the musical CHICAGO (as the Egyptian Queen) and Hugh Jackman (her lover Marc Antony) will star.

The musical has been written by Indie rock band Guided by Voices (who you can here via this link)... with the script coming from James Greer (JUST MY LUCK) who is also the former bass player for the group.

As we've said the mercurial ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/rock-n-roll-cleopatra-musical-from-stephen-soderbergh-starring-catherine-zeta-jones-hugh-jackman.php/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Michael Douglas stars in Soderbergh&#8217;s LIBERACE biopic</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/michael-douglas-stars-in-soderberghs-liberace-biopic.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/michael-douglas-stars-in-soderberghs-liberace-biopic.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt-Damon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Douglas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen-Soderbergh]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/?p=15027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt here…

Michael Douglas is to team with his Traffic director Stephen Soderbergh for a Liberace biopic over at Warner Bros according to Variety.

Douglas will play the flamboyant entertainer who at one time was the highest grossing performer in the U.S.

He is remembered for his electric energy as a pianist, his eccentricities and his unrelenting popularity with a mass legion of fans.


Soderbergh's "go to guy" Matt Damon is in talks to play Scott Thorson, the man who sued Liberace for $113 million in 1982 claiming palimony because he was the entertainer's partner for five years. This is despite Liberace fighting against claims his whole career that he was gay, all the way to his death in 1987.

Presumably as Douglas is no spring chicken, the movie will follow the later years of Liberace and particularly his relationship with Thorson. Although there is definitely an appearance resemblance, I don't believe anyone has ever once watched Michael Douglas on screen and shouted... LIBERACE! But hey, Douglas at one time was the man... and I've enjoyed his recent small sized comebacks in The Sentinel and The King of California.

It's nice to have him acting again and here, taking risks.


Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed P.S. ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/michael-douglas-stars-in-soderberghs-liberace-biopic.php/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Stephen Soderbergh&#8217;s CHE epic receives stellar reviews at Cannes</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/stephen-soderberghs-che-epic-recieves-stellar-reviews-at-cannes.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/stephen-soderberghs-che-epic-recieves-stellar-reviews-at-cannes.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 10:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benicio-Del-Toro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Che]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen-Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Guerilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The-Argentine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/stephen-soderberghs-che-epic-recieves-stellar-reviews-at-cannes.php</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, because you guys have frequently talked about this movie being shown at Cannes in the comments section, here's a little update for you on the current status of the epic biopic of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara.

Both back-to-back Stephen Soderbergh shot biopics The Guerilla and The Argentine were shown as one 4 hour and 18 minute length feature titled CHE which was only broken up by an intermission (only one credits sequence) and it quickly became the festival darling of the critics, who now expect the director to easily walk away with the Palm d'Or prize.

Great reviews from Cinematical...
Che is everything a biopic should be, and del Toro's performance is nothing short of astounding. And yes, the film needs to be that long, and it needs -- MUST -- be shown elsewhere just as it is here; not as two separate films, but as one epic masterpiece with a brief intermission between Cuba and Bolivia.
Jeffrey Wells...
The tale is the tale, and it's told straight and true.  Benicio del Toro's Guevara portrayal is, as expected, a flat-immersion that can't be called a "performance" as much as...I don't know, some kind of knock-down, ass-kick reviving of the dead. Being, not ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/stephen-soderberghs-che-epic-recieves-stellar-reviews-at-cannes.php/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>First look at Matt Damon as THE INFORMANT</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/first-look-at-matt-damon-as-the-informant.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/first-look-at-matt-damon-as-the-informant.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 07:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matt-Damon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen-Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Informant]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/first-look-at-matt-damon-as-the-informant.php</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Filming right now out in Illnois is Matt Damon, where he is re-teaming with his Ocean's director Stephen Soderbergh for the C.I.A. thriller The Informant and today TheBadandUgly.com provide us our first set look...

The movie is based on the true story of the mid-90's lysine price-fixing scam that see's Damon lead as business insider Mark Whitacre who along with two F.B.I. agents played by Scott Bakula and Josh McHale are dangerously working under-cover.

Supporting cast includes mostly unknown character actors and comedians which include Melanie Lynskey, Tom Wilson, Tony Hale, Eddie Jemison and Mike O'Malley.

The Informant will be out March 2009.

source - coming soon ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/first-look-at-matt-damon-as-the-informant.php/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Stephen Soderbergh asks for THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/stephen-soderbergh-asks-for-the-girlfriend-experience.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/stephen-soderbergh-asks-for-the-girlfriend-experience.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen-Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Girlfriend Experience]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/stephen-soderbergh-asks-for-the-girlfriend-experience.php</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The always busy Stephen Soderbergh will direct The Girlfriend Experience, a movie about a $10,000 a night prostitute and much like the recent UK ITV drama Secret Diary of a Call-Girl (pictured below) - it will revolve around her p.o.v and sexual exploits.

Brian Koppelman and David Levien will scribe, they pitched the idea to Soderbergh whilst the trio were working on Ocean's Thirteen.

Soderbergh is said to be toying whether to use an actual adult film actress for the lead to add than extra authenticity, similar to what he did with Bubble - his low budget and partly improvisational shot film with no professional actors that was released simultaneously in theatres, on cable TV and on DVD.

The Girlfriend Experience will be the second in the six movie distribution deal to release films this way via 2929 Entertainment and their HDNet label.

The movie will be shot in the short span of 14 days (presumably most of it will be in various bedrooms) this fall say Variety.

Soderbergh's next movie, the government conspiracy thriller The Informant with Matt Damon will lense soon and later this year we will finally see his two movie epic biopics on Che Guerra which both starred Benicio del Toro.

And ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/stephen-soderbergh-asks-for-the-girlfriend-experience.php/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>No April Fool&#8217;s! Scott Bakula finds a good role.</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/no-april-fools-scott-bakula-finds-a-good-role.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/no-april-fools-scott-bakula-finds-a-good-role.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Casting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Josh McHale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Bakula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen-Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Informant]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/no-april-fools-scott-bakula-finds-a-good-role.php</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Bakula, who I dearly wish was a Captain on a Star Trek series worthy of his talent has lingered in the abyss for far too long. Since Enterprise ended three years ago he has barely done anything of note but all that is set to change thanks to Stephen Soderbergh.

The Ocean's director has hired Bakula for a supporting role in The Informant, a movie that will begin production next month with the always in demand Matt Damon toplining. Also on board if talks go well will be "The Soup" host Josh McHale says The Hollywood Reporter.


Bakula and McHale, who is in final negotiations, will play FBI agents working with agri-business insider Mark Whitacre (Damon) to stop a price-fixing scam. The film is based on Kurt Eichenwald's 2000 best-seller "The Informant: A True Story."

Other new cast members known for their comedic turns are Mike O'Malley (CBS' "Yes, Dear"), Andrew Daly (Semi-Pro), Adam Paul (Starz's "Hollywood Residential") and Melanie Lynskey (CBS' "Two and a Half Men"). Comedian-actors Tom Wilson, Rick Overton and Tom Papa will round out the cast.
Later this year Soderbergh should release his two Che Guevara epic films that he has made with Benicio del Toro.

The Informant does sound ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/no-april-fools-scott-bakula-finds-a-good-role.php/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
