We already know that Sony Pictures is working on a Steve Jobs biopic that will star Christian Bale and be directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) from a script by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network). Now comes word that the role of Steve Wozniak will be played by Seth Rogen. Wozniak founded Apple with Jobs and Ronald Wayne and is credited with launching the Apple I and Apple II computers in the late 1970s, which had a profound impact on the microcomputer revolution. He left Apple as a full-time employee in 1987. Variety is reporting that Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) is also in talks to join the cast. It's not clear which role she would play. Sorkin previously said that the new movie will consist of only three scenes "that all take place in real time. Each will take place backstage before a product launch. The first one being the Mac,...
- 10/31/2014
- WorstPreviews.com
Seth Rogen is the latest funny actor to dive into the dramatic film genre. He will play Steve Wozniak in Sony's Steve Jobs Biopic, which will star Christian Bale as the late Apple co-founder.
According to Variey, Rogen will play the role of Wozniak, who founded Apple with Jobs and Ronald Wayne and is also credited with launching the Apple I and Apple II computers in the late '70s.
Directed by Danny Boyle, the film is based on Walter Isaacson’s book and adapted by Aaron Sorkin. David Fincher was once set to direct the film, but left the project back in April due to compensation and over control of the production. Sorkin has mentioned that the movie will be divided into three long scenes, each taking place backstage before one of Apple's famous product launches.
Rogen's casting comes as a huge surprise. The actor is known for inappropriate comedies like Superbad,...
According to Variey, Rogen will play the role of Wozniak, who founded Apple with Jobs and Ronald Wayne and is also credited with launching the Apple I and Apple II computers in the late '70s.
Directed by Danny Boyle, the film is based on Walter Isaacson’s book and adapted by Aaron Sorkin. David Fincher was once set to direct the film, but left the project back in April due to compensation and over control of the production. Sorkin has mentioned that the movie will be divided into three long scenes, each taking place backstage before one of Apple's famous product launches.
Rogen's casting comes as a huge surprise. The actor is known for inappropriate comedies like Superbad,...
- 10/31/2014
- by Laura Frances
- LRMonline.com
Seth Rogen has scored the role of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Danny Boyle's upcoming Steve Jobs biopic at Sony Pictures.
Christian Bale is set to play Jobs in the Aaron Sorkin-penned project which involves three long scenes, each backstage before Jobs unveils three iconic Apple products - the Mac, the NeXT and the original iPod.
Jobs, Wozniak and Ronald Wayne co-founded the company in the late 1970s. Wozniak left as a full-time employee in 1987.
Scott Rudin, Mark Gordon and Guymon Casady are producing.
Source: Variety...
Christian Bale is set to play Jobs in the Aaron Sorkin-penned project which involves three long scenes, each backstage before Jobs unveils three iconic Apple products - the Mac, the NeXT and the original iPod.
Jobs, Wozniak and Ronald Wayne co-founded the company in the late 1970s. Wozniak left as a full-time employee in 1987.
Scott Rudin, Mark Gordon and Guymon Casady are producing.
Source: Variety...
- 10/30/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Sheila MacRae starred on the Broadway stage and in films, yet it was her small-screen role as the tolerant and brassy wife of a Brooklyn bus driver for which she is most remembered. MacRae, best known for playing Alice Kramden to Jackie Gleason's Ralph in the 1960s recreation of The Honeymooners, died Thursday. She was 92. The actress died at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J., MacRae's granddaughter Allison Mullavey told the Associated Press on Friday. In the 1950s version of The Honeymooners, Audrey Meadows starred with Gleason as the lovebirds and sparring partners Ralph and Alice.
- 3/8/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
There's a pretty decent chance that you're reading this very article from an iPhone or an iPad or some other gadget or gizmo whose origin can be directly linked to the seeds Steve Jobs and his Apple co-founders Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne planted over in Silicon Valley so many years ago. It's quite fitting if you are, really.
Today, the rather gutting first trailer for "Jobs" debuted at Yahoo! Movies, and in addition to confirming what we already knew about the uncanny resemblance between Ashton Kutcher and the late entrepreneur, the trailer packs quite a punch about what we can expect to learn of Jobs' journey to the top of the world.
Beginning with the company's inception — including a comical car chat about what to title the to-be global empire — and building all the way up to that iconic moment when a turtleneck-clad Jobs stood before a crowd...
Today, the rather gutting first trailer for "Jobs" debuted at Yahoo! Movies, and in addition to confirming what we already knew about the uncanny resemblance between Ashton Kutcher and the late entrepreneur, the trailer packs quite a punch about what we can expect to learn of Jobs' journey to the top of the world.
Beginning with the company's inception — including a comical car chat about what to title the to-be global empire — and building all the way up to that iconic moment when a turtleneck-clad Jobs stood before a crowd...
- 6/21/2013
- by Amanda Bell
- NextMovie
Joshua Michael Stern.s Steve Jobs biopic, the awkwardly titled jOBS, will be one of the many movies vying for journalists. attention at the Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off this week. And because Sterns has uber-celeb Ashton Kutcher in the lead role of Jobs, the film.s getting a nice pre-Sundance boost from national media, which can only help it make a dent once the overcrowded Sundance field kicks into its highest gear. USA Today, for instance, ran a jOBS photo that also gives us our first look at co-star Josh Gad in character as Steve Wozniak, a computer engineer and programmer who co-founded Apple with Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Here.s the shot: Stern.s movie has been programmed as the Closing Night film for this year.s Sundance fest. After it screens, it will slide off the radar until April, when mainstream audiences will be able to...
- 1/16/2013
- cinemablend.com
Joshua Michael Stern.s Steve Jobs biopic, the awkwardly titled jOBS, will be one of the many movies vying for journalists. attention at the Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off this week. And because Sterns has uber-celeb Ashton Kutcher in the lead role of Jobs, the film.s getting a nice pre-Sundance boost from national media, which can only help it make a dent once the overcrowded Sundance field kicks into its highest gear. USA Today, for instance, ran a jOBS photo that also gives us our first look at co-star Josh Gad in character as Steve Wozniak, a computer engineer and programmer who co-founded Apple with Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Here.s the shot: Stern.s movie has been programmed as the Closing Night film for this year.s Sundance fest. After it screens, it will slide off the radar until April, when mainstream audiences will be able to...
- 1/16/2013
- cinemablend.com
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has suggested that Microsoft is currently more innovative than the company he built with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. The computer scientist, who ended his full-time employment with Apple in 1987, praised the Windows firm's recent developments in translation tech and admitted that the iPhone-maker may be "falling behind". He told TechCrunch: "If they're making strides in this voice recognition area, I fear that Microsoft might have been sitting in their labs trying to innovate. "Apple was just used to cranking out the newest iPhone and falling a little behind, and that worries (more)...
- 11/16/2012
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has backed Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs biopic to be "a great and popular film". It was revealed on Sunday (April 1) that Kutcher will play the technology pioneer, who started Apple with Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976, in Joshua Michael Stern's drama Jobs. Wozniak released a statement to TMZ saying that he is "on board" with the casting of Kutcher as the late Jobs. "The fear that many might have is that Ashton was selected because he's 'hot' right now," Wozniak said. "But I feel that his selection was done in the most professional manner. And I'm glad that he's on board. I think he'll put a lot into it and that he cares about this particular subject. "It's almost too bad that Steve Jobs (more)...
- 4/3/2012
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
It's hard to imagine anyone not wanting to do business with Steve Jobs. But before the late co-founder of Apple became known as technological visionary and creative genius, Jobs failed to make a good first impression on the head of a small advertising agency with whom he was trying to make a deal, Bloomberg reported. Photos: 10 Memorable Milestones of Steve Jobs' Career In June 1976, a few months after founding Apple with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, Jobs was trying to find a company that would print the manual for their first product, the Apple I computer. At
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- 12/22/2011
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The papers that officially founded Apple, the world's most valuable technology firm, have sold at auction for $$1,594,500 (£1.03m). The sale smashed all estimates, after British auction house Sotheby's had said that the three typed partnership agreements would go for between $$100,000 and $$150,000. The documents, signed by Apple's three co-founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976, were purchased by Eduardo Cisneros, chief executive of Cisneros Corporation. Also included in the sale was an amendment added 11 days later after Wayne quit the company, dropping his 10% stake in the firm. Cisneros, whose Miami-based firm owns stakes in businesses covering real estate, TV production and telecoms, beat five other bidders to the documents. The sale price includes a 12% buyer's premium paid to Sotheby's, meaning (more)...
- 12/14/2011
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
On your TV this Wednesday: X Factor invites you to rock the vote, Up All Night sets a parent trap, a Modern woman gives her hubby an ultimatum,, and more. As but a supplement to TVLine’s original feature stories, here are 12 programs to keep on your radar.
8 pm The X Factor (Fox) | We’re down to the Top 12, and it is now time for y’all to start voting!
8 pm Up All Night (NBC) | Reagan wants to set an example for baby Amy by trying to get along with her own parents (guest stars Blythe Danner and Richard Schiff...
8 pm The X Factor (Fox) | We’re down to the Top 12, and it is now time for y’all to start voting!
8 pm Up All Night (NBC) | Reagan wants to set an example for baby Amy by trying to get along with her own parents (guest stars Blythe Danner and Richard Schiff...
- 11/2/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
From humble beginnings to worldwide leaders, how have Apple grown from designing and creating circuit boards in a bedroom to being named the most valuable company (albeit briefly) on the planet?
In this series, I will be looking at the history of Apple inc., it’s products and projections for the future in a post-Steve Jobs world.
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Computers in 1976 with the intention of selling the Apple personal computer. Wozniak had designed and hand built the initial prototype in Job’s bedroom and financed the project by selling some of their posessions including Job’s Volkswagen van. The idea had originally started as a hobby but after discussions with a local businessman, Paul Terrell, who was opening a new computer shop, they hand built and sold 200 units at $666 each.
The Apple I was largely unrecognisable from today’s personal computers, consisting...
In this series, I will be looking at the history of Apple inc., it’s products and projections for the future in a post-Steve Jobs world.
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Computers in 1976 with the intention of selling the Apple personal computer. Wozniak had designed and hand built the initial prototype in Job’s bedroom and financed the project by selling some of their posessions including Job’s Volkswagen van. The idea had originally started as a hobby but after discussions with a local businessman, Paul Terrell, who was opening a new computer shop, they hand built and sold 200 units at $666 each.
The Apple I was largely unrecognisable from today’s personal computers, consisting...
- 10/27/2011
- by Pete Reed
- Obsessed with Film
Filed under: TV News
PBS has announced that it will air a new, "unflinching" documentary about the late Appple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died three weeks ago. 'Steve Jobs -- One Last Thing' will air Wednesday, Nov. 2 as part of a night devoted to science and technology exploration.
In what's sure to stoke controversy in some quarters, PBS says 'One Last Thing' takes "an unflinching look at Jobs's difficult, controlling disposition, and offers unique insights into what made him tick. While there has been near-universal agreement that Steve Jobs was a great innovator in business and technology, One Last Thing looks into why he was so great. What were the influences that shaped his character? What drove him from such humble beginnings to the heights of success?"
The documentary features interviews with Apple insiders Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne and Dean Hovey, as well as Bill Fernandez, who introduced Jobs and Wozniak in Sunnyvale,...
PBS has announced that it will air a new, "unflinching" documentary about the late Appple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died three weeks ago. 'Steve Jobs -- One Last Thing' will air Wednesday, Nov. 2 as part of a night devoted to science and technology exploration.
In what's sure to stoke controversy in some quarters, PBS says 'One Last Thing' takes "an unflinching look at Jobs's difficult, controlling disposition, and offers unique insights into what made him tick. While there has been near-universal agreement that Steve Jobs was a great innovator in business and technology, One Last Thing looks into why he was so great. What were the influences that shaped his character? What drove him from such humble beginnings to the heights of success?"
The documentary features interviews with Apple insiders Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne and Dean Hovey, as well as Bill Fernandez, who introduced Jobs and Wozniak in Sunnyvale,...
- 10/27/2011
- by Catherine Lawson
- Aol TV.
"Steve Jobs - One Last Thing," a one-hour expose on the life and career of the recently deceased Apple mastermind, will premiere on PBS, November 2. Titled as a play on the catchphrase Jobs used at his product launch presentations, "One Last Thing" features interviews with Ronald Wayne, co-founder of Apple, Walt Mossberg, principal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal and The Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am. According to ...
- 10/26/2011
- Indiewire
PBS will take an unflinching, in-depth look at the influences on Steve Jobs’ character and career in the one-hour documentary Steve Jobs — One Last Thing, which is set to premiere Nov. 2 at 10 p.m. Et (check local listings). According to the announcement, the documentary features interviews with, among others: Ronald Wayne, co-founder of Apple with Jobs and Steve Wozniak; Ross Perot, who invested in NeXT Computer when Jobs was running out of money; Walt Mossberg, principal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, who interviewed Jobs every year from 2003-2010; will.i.am, frontman and producer for The Black Eyed Peas,...
- 10/26/2011
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
Steve Jobs, the co-founder and face of Apple, has died at the young age of just 56. Truly a visionary, this incredibly saddening news has been felt across the globe, with politicians and CEOs in Jobs’ rival technology companies sending out heartfelt statements lamenting the tragic loss of such a brilliant man at such a young age.
Decades ago, when he was just twenty years old, Jobs and two of his friends, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, started what would come to be one of the most profitable and market-leading companies in the world, Apple, Inc.
Starting something not just life-changing but world-changing too at the age of just twenty is truly a remarkable feat. His hard work over the thirty-six years since has led to the creation of the Macintosh, the iMac, the iPod, the iPad, the iPhone, and a company with an estimated market value of $351bn, the most...
Decades ago, when he was just twenty years old, Jobs and two of his friends, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, started what would come to be one of the most profitable and market-leading companies in the world, Apple, Inc.
Starting something not just life-changing but world-changing too at the age of just twenty is truly a remarkable feat. His hard work over the thirty-six years since has led to the creation of the Macintosh, the iMac, the iPod, the iPad, the iPhone, and a company with an estimated market value of $351bn, the most...
- 10/6/2011
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Steve Jobs, the co-founder, chairman and until very recently CEO of Apple, Inc., died today after a long battle with cancer. He was 56.
Jobs leaves behind a legacy of inventions known (and loved) for their functionality and elegance as well as several critically acclaimed animated films produced through Pixar Animation Studios.
In 1976, following a stint as a technician at Atari and a spiritual retreat to India that converted him to Buddhism, Steve Jobs, along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, founded Apple, Inc.
In the late '70s, Jobs and his team developed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early '80s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of a little device known as the mouse, which led to the creation of the Macintosh.
Jobs actually resigned from Apple in 1985 and founded NeXT, a computer platform...
Jobs leaves behind a legacy of inventions known (and loved) for their functionality and elegance as well as several critically acclaimed animated films produced through Pixar Animation Studios.
In 1976, following a stint as a technician at Atari and a spiritual retreat to India that converted him to Buddhism, Steve Jobs, along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, founded Apple, Inc.
In the late '70s, Jobs and his team developed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early '80s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of a little device known as the mouse, which led to the creation of the Macintosh.
Jobs actually resigned from Apple in 1985 and founded NeXT, a computer platform...
- 10/6/2011
- by Bryan Enk
- NextMovie
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco. Adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs, he grew up in Mountain View, attending Cupertino Junior High School and Homestead High School in California during his teenage years. Jobs graduated from high school in 1972. He met Steve Wozniak through a mutual friend, and the pair worked at Hewlett Packard and attended meetings of the influential Homebrew Computer Club during the early and mid-1970s. Jobs founded Apple in 1976 with Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, and the first Apple computer was created at Jobs's parents' house. Its successor, the Apple II, went on sale in June 1977 and became a huge hit, setting the foundations for the company's continued success. Apple went public in 1980, and Jobs famously secured the services of Pepsi-Cola president John Sculley in 1983 by asking, "Do you want to (more)...
- 10/6/2011
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs died on Wednesday, the company announced shortly after 4:30 Pm. Steve Jobs announced he was suffering from a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004 and battled severe health problems until his death. Jobs was only 56.
Steve Jobs founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne and A.C. Markkula Jr when he was just 21. Jobs was forced to take several long absences from Apple for treatment after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He underwent surgery for the cancer in 2004 and received a liver transplant in 2009. Earlier this year, Jobs took an indefinite leave of absence from Apple to focus on his health, before finally deciding to step down entirely.
Known as the ‘father’ of Macintosh, Jobs finally announced on August 24th that he would be resigning as CEO of Apple. “I have always said that if there ever came a day when I could...
Steve Jobs founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne and A.C. Markkula Jr when he was just 21. Jobs was forced to take several long absences from Apple for treatment after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He underwent surgery for the cancer in 2004 and received a liver transplant in 2009. Earlier this year, Jobs took an indefinite leave of absence from Apple to focus on his health, before finally deciding to step down entirely.
Known as the ‘father’ of Macintosh, Jobs finally announced on August 24th that he would be resigning as CEO of Apple. “I have always said that if there ever came a day when I could...
- 10/6/2011
- by Laura Vess
- SnarkFood.com
It’s a lofty claim, but surely not one that many would disagree with. And Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was so steadfast in his belief that resigning Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a technological marvel, he repeated his praise twice during an interview with Bloomberg West’s Emily Chang and Cory Johnson. First labeling Jobs as “the greatest technical leader we’ve ever seen in our lifetime, at least,” Wozniak later amped up his statement: “He’s always going to be remembered as probably, maybe for the next 100 years, the greatest business leader — at least technology business leader — of our time,...
- 8/25/2011
- by Kate Ward
- EW.com - PopWatch
In one of the more shocking and unexpected announcements in recent memory, Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple Inc.—the company he established in 1976 along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne—leading many to grow worrisome of his decreasing health.
Jobs has battled pancreatic cancer and other health issues over the years, one leading to a liver transplant in 2009. It's unclear whether his health issues are in fact directly responsible for his departure as the head of Apple, but he has been on medical leave since January 17, which he said was so that he could concentrate on his health. It is for this reason that those involved with Apple and its many fans and consumers are understandably worried for the well–being of Jobs.
The man who stepped in as the CEO of Apple over the course of Jobs' various medical leaves, Tim Cook, has once again...
Jobs has battled pancreatic cancer and other health issues over the years, one leading to a liver transplant in 2009. It's unclear whether his health issues are in fact directly responsible for his departure as the head of Apple, but he has been on medical leave since January 17, which he said was so that he could concentrate on his health. It is for this reason that those involved with Apple and its many fans and consumers are understandably worried for the well–being of Jobs.
The man who stepped in as the CEO of Apple over the course of Jobs' various medical leaves, Tim Cook, has once again...
- 8/25/2011
- by The Movie God
- Geeks of Doom
"The Big Bang Theory" loves to whip their fans into a frenzy with some geek guest stars. Wil Wheaton, who moderated Friday's (July 23) panel at San Diego Comic-Con, is just one example.
Executive Producers, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, told reporters that the king of all nerd-dom, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, will be guest starring next season. When pressed for more information on how he'll enter the universe of "The Big Bang Theory," they refused to divulge any more details.
A hero to science geeks everywhere, Wozniak co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne.
This won't be Wozniak's first TV appearance. For his last TV appearance, he got off his trademark Segway long enough to compete on "Dancing with the Stars." He also dated Kathy Griffin for a short time and appeared on her Bravo show, "My Life on the D-List," among other TV appearances.
A spokesperson for "The Big Bang Theory...
Executive Producers, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, told reporters that the king of all nerd-dom, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, will be guest starring next season. When pressed for more information on how he'll enter the universe of "The Big Bang Theory," they refused to divulge any more details.
A hero to science geeks everywhere, Wozniak co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne.
This won't be Wozniak's first TV appearance. For his last TV appearance, he got off his trademark Segway long enough to compete on "Dancing with the Stars." He also dated Kathy Griffin for a short time and appeared on her Bravo show, "My Life on the D-List," among other TV appearances.
A spokesperson for "The Big Bang Theory...
- 7/24/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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