The first trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biography Behind the Candelabra, airing on HBO later this month, didn't show us much of the work Michael Douglas did to bring the late entertainer back to life. This long featurette on the making of the film gives us a lot more to look at, while also introducing…
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Steven Soderbergh's retirement has turned out to be more of a transition. While he's done with theatrical features for now, he's as active as ever on the small screen. Just last week, he was talking up his plans to adapt John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor into a 12-hour miniseries. Perfectly positioned to mark that switch…
Read MoreThe Liberace movie that Steven Soderbergh has talked about making for a couple years is finally going to happen. Once slated to shoot earlier this year with Michael Douglas playing LIberace and Matt Damon playing his lover Scott Thorson, the project was put on hold when Douglas had to dedicate time to his affliction with…
Read MoreDespite a rather public battle with throat cancer in the last few months, Michael Douglas appears to be gathering his strength. He's been looking more and more healthy in the past few weeks (just look at him here) and now it seems he's prepping to go back to work. In a new interview, the…
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Steven Soderbergh is nothing if not professional, and when a project doesn't work out for a pro, they just move on. Moneyball, Soderbergh's planned adaptation of the Michael Lewis book about the stat-based success of Oakland A's manager Billy Beane, was famously canceled at the last minute a couple months ago. But we didn't hear…
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Steven Soderbergh's career has always been incredibly diverse, ranging from the audacious Sex, Lies, and Videotape to the fluffy Ocean's trilogy. Now comes word from Variety that Soderbergh is helming a biopic based on pianist Liberace's life, a film still in early stages of development. Soderbergh wants Michael Douglas for the lead role, while Matt…
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