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'Moneyball' Cast Coming Together

Michael Lewis' book about Billy Beane's strategy in making a small-market team successful in Major League Baseball, "Moneyball," is going to be made into a feature-length movie. Shooting isn't set to begin until June, but many of the key players are being put in place. Brad Pitt is going to play Oakland A's general manager...

Left on Base: Derek Jeter's Next Contract, Truck Day, and the Million Manny March

Left on Base is MLB FanHouse's link dump.* "In 21 months, or just 324 regular-season games from now, Derek Jeter's contract expires. At that point, the Yankees have to decide what to do with Jeter and Jeter has to decide what to do with the Yankees. [...] By 2011, the Yanks could have either Jeter or just his future plaque...

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05/30/12 Clip joint: Heists and getaways Source: Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk This week's Clip joint is by David Keeble, who you can follow on Twitter here , and visit his website here.
05/29/12 Blockbuster fatigue? A summer alt-movie guide Source: Salon.com It may feel to you as if the summer moviegoing season has only just begun, and many months of popcorn-munching delight lie ahead.
05/23/12 Chris Rock Urged Manganiello To Strip For Magic Mike Source: The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) Funnyman Chris Rock helped talk hunky Joe Manganiello into stripping off in racy new movie Magic Mike when the True Blood star asked the comic for career advice.
05/22/12 Zach Galifianakis May Lead 'Confederacy Of Dunces' For... Source: The Playlist When you talk dream projects that you wish could become resurrected -- something we do for shits and giggles from time to time -- very high on our list is John Kennedy Toole posthumously-published picaresque novel " A Confederacy of Dunces " (published in 1980, eleven years after the author's suicide at the age of 32).
05/22/12 Why Does âOceans Eleven' Get All of the Heist Movie... Source: Film School Rejects Though Steven Soderbergh has had a lengthy career full of acclaimed projects, he's perhaps best known for his remake of Ocean's 11 , a successful compiling of some of the biggest names in Hollywood for a good, old-fashioned heist movie that was so successful it spawned two sequels.