Aaron Sorkin to Write ‘Steve Jobs’ Movie for Sony

John Shearer/Getty Images for UCLA It’s official: , the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind The Social Network, A Few Good Men and TV’s The West Wing, has signed on to adapt Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s biography on the late Apple co-founder. Mark Gordon, Scott Rudin and Guymon Casady are producing the project. Sony reportedly paid $1 million for the rights to the biography, picking it up in October. The book was Amazon’s best-selling title of 2011 and, according to Publisher’s Weekly, 2.2 ...

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Justin Bieber Manager Scooter Braun, Universal Music’s Lucian Grainge Team Up for Label, Consultancy Deal

A years ago, still months before Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun made a permanent move to Los Angeles from Atlanta, Universal Music Group chairman Lucian Grainge was already offering the 30-year-old self-made millionaire office space at UMG’s Santa Monica headquarters (in the office adjacent to his, naturally). Now we know why. On Tuesday, UMG announced as investment in Braun’s Schoolboy Records along with an agreement to distribute future releases. Braun, who currently boasts three artists with singles in the top ...

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Mexican Novelist Carlos Fuentes Dies at 83

Award-winning Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, regarded as the dad of modern Latin American literature, died Tuesday in Mexico City at age 83. The Panamanian-born Fuentes focused mainly on contemporary Mexico and what he saw as its political failures. He published his first novel, The Air is Clear when he was 29. This was followed by such acclaimed works as The Death of Artemio Cruz, Old Gringo, and Aura. Fuentes also was a college professor and served as Mexican ambassador to ...

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Djokovic, Andy Murray begin well at Italian Open

Top-ranked Novak Djokovic made a solid return to red-clay courts, dominating Australian teenager Bernard Tomic 6-3, 6-3 to open the defence of his Italian Open title on Tuesday night. Coming off a quarterfinal loss to fellow Serb Janko Tipsarevic on the blue clay at last week’s Madrid Open, Djokovic went ahead with two early breaks and faced minimal resistance from the 19-year-old Tomic, the youngest player in the top 50 at No. 32. With the French Open less than two ...

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US Investigates JPMorgan’s $2 Billion Loss

News media in the United States are reporting that the federal government has opened a criminal investigation into the more than $2 billion trading loss sustained by the JPMorgan Chase & Co. investment bank. Sources told various news outlets on Tuesday that the Justice Department probe is at an early stage. The investigation is being started only days after JPMorgan’s chairman and chief executive, Jamie Dimon, disclosed the loss that stemmed from complex trading transactions in the London office of ...

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Friedman: Patrick Kane not a laughing matter + 30 Thoughts

It’s possible that Patrick Kane doesn’t have any kind of problem other than being youthful, but given how much the Chicago Blackhawks have invested in the forward, it’s incumbent on the team and maybe even the players’ association to closely monitor the situation. The question everyone’s asking is: Should the Blackhawks trade Patrick Kane?  The question should be: what are the Blackhawks, the NHL and the NHLPA going to do about Patrick Kane?  It is possible Kane doesn’t really have ...

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Reports: US Aids Yemen al-Qaida Strikes

CAIRO – With U.S. troops reportedly guiding air raids from a nearby base for the first time, Yemeni jets attacked positions of al-Qaida insurgents Tuesday in southern Yemen’s Abyan province. Yemeni officials stated a “four-pronged assault” on the militants was being waged on the ground, backed by heavy artillery and aerial bombardment, and that U.S. troops stationed at al-Annad air base in Lahj province were providing logistical support. The reported participation of U.S. forces in directing Yemeni fighter jets would ...

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Bush touts Arab spring, states US cannot fear freedom

Former President George W. Bush on Tuesday praised the Arab spring movement and stated the U.S. shouldn’t fear the spread of freedom, even if it doesn’t know what policies newly liberated countries will pursue. “America does not get to select if a freedom revolution should start or end in the Middle East or elsewhere,” Bush said. “It only gets to select what side it is on.” And the U.S., Bush said, should always be on the side of freedom. The ...

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Cannes: 10 to watch

EW’s Owen Gleiberman will be detailing all his thoughts on the great and not so great at Cannes, but here’s a quick primer on what’s likely to light up the famed Croisette, in chronological order of their huge premieres inside the cavernous Grand Théâtre Lumière.  IN COMPETITIONNew films from Palme d’Or winners Michael Haneke (Love) and Cristian Mungiu (Beyond the Hills), and Cannes mainstays Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone), Abbas Kiarostiami (Like Someone in Love), Ken Loach (The Angels’ Share), and ...

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Roadside Blast Hits UN Conoy; 20 Killed at Syrian Funeral

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations states a roadside blast hit a convoy carrying a group of its unarmed observers near the Syrian city of Hama on Tuesday, damaging their vehicles but not injuring the monitors. Meanwhile, Syrian activists have accused the government of killing at least 20 mourners at a funeral in the same area.   The U.N. mission in Syria states a convoy of four of its vehicles was struck by a blast from an improvised explosive device ...

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