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    Sony Pictures preps for ‘Steve Jobs: The Film’

    Jobs in 2007. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

    It's been a week since Steve Jobs died, and Sony Pictures--which owns the film rights to the Apple co-founder's forthcoming biography--is already making preparations for the Steve Jobs movie.

    Sony registered the following domain names on Oct. 11:

    stevejobs-film.com
    stevejobs-film.net
    stevejobs-movie.net
    stevejobs-thefilm.com
    stevejobs-thefilm.net
    stevejobs-themovie.net
    stevejobsfilm.net
    stevejobsthefilm.net

    No word on a release date, but Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs--which had originally been titled "iSteve: the Book of Jobs"--is being rushed to publication by Simon & Schuster.

    It's common for studios to register domain names and trademarks well before a movie begins production. Earlier this year, Disney trademarked the term "Seal Team 6"--the Navy Seals unit responsible for killing Osama Bin Laden--two days after an American operation took out the terrorist leader. (Disney later withdrew the trademark.)

    As Fusible.com noted, two other Jobs film-related domains--SteveJobsfilm.com and SteveJobsmovie.com--were registered by Stoneport LLC, a Virginia-based Web design firm, in late August.

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    8 comments

    • de obvious  •  7 mths ago
      iTired of hearing everyone coo about how this guy iWalked on water.
    • Bob  •  7 mths ago
      The Pirates Of Silicon Valley, is a great dvd you may be able to check out at your local library. The film dpicts the lives of Jobs, Wozniak, and Gates.
      • de obvious 7 mths ago
        The three horsemen of the technocalypse.
    • Harco  •  7 mths ago
      must be a slow news day...
    • Voice of Reason  •  7 mths ago
      Really? Will the tickets cost twice as much as other movies? Will they bring it back again the next year with a different color background for the credits, and get people to line up to see it again? Will Sony then sue all of the other movie companies, stating that their movies have the same shape on screen as theirs and try to get them banned? Inquiring minds want to know.
    • Russ  •  7 mths ago
      Even Marin Luther King Jr had skeletons in his closet, Jobs will be no different and the fans will scream foul the moment reviewers get ahold of the screener.
    • FREEDOM FIGHTER  •  7 mths ago
      No thanks. Keep the #$%$ movie off the screen. Nobody cares about a greedy geek.
    • brokeasajoke  •  7 mths ago
      I'll save my money. So this guy made some gadgets that have our kids getting fat and addicted while employing slave labor never doing one thing philantoophic for his fellow human beings. He was just a smart greedy pri===k!
    • 7MILE ATL-CAL  •  7 mths ago
      I can see Justin Long portraying Steve Jobs in a biopic...but, it'll probably be made a bigger deal than Dylan's movie, with multiple actors as Jobs. *smh*
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