Columbia Pictures is locking in a July start date for the Bennett Miller-directed Moneyball. The picture is close to getting a green light after the above the line participants adjusted their deals to bring the film’s budget down from near $60 million to somewhere in the vicinity of $47 million. The budget gyrations have played out over the last month, and the effort was helped by the delivery of the latest rewrite by Aaron Sorkin that has everybody excited about making the film. The participants seemed to take to heart the message of the Michael Lewis Moneyball book, which was about how Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane hurt his playing career becoming a bonus baby phenom who signed for the money, and then remade himself as a baseball executive who fielded winning A’s teams with a fraction of the payroll that rivals were spending.
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