Given the popularity of baseball in Japan (did anyone else watch the country’s amazing run through the most recent Little League World Series?), this move seems like a no-brainer. But now it’s official: Bennett Miller’s “Moneyball” will close this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival on Oct. 30.
Miller’s film stars Brad Pitt as Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, who introduced a revolutionary concept of paying less for run-producing, reportedly-washed-up Major League Baseball veterans in order to build a winning team. “Moneyball” is based on Michael Lewis’s book “The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” an co-stars Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright.
Word on “Moneyball” is that Miller has crafted a rousing crowd-pleaser of a film that instantly will earn a place alongside Hollywood’s best baseball dramas, from “The Natural” to “Bull Durham.”
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Brad Pitt: Total Prankster, Says Moneyball Costar Jonah Hill
“It was scarier to work with Phil, because his character didn’t like me in the movie,” Hill said. “Brad and I are the two leads of the movie and Phil, he doesn’t like us in the movie. He doesn’t like what we represent.”
Moneyball is the real-life story about Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane’s (Pitt) attempt to revamp the disgraced baseball team with the help of his assistant general manager (Hill).
Hill echoed what so many other celebs have told us about working with Pitt.
“He’s fantastic,” he said. “He’s so giving. He’s just, like, a guy you look up to for so many reasons. He’s the coolest guy! He started playing pranks on me like right off the bat.” Hill declined to say exactly what Mr. Pitt did, but we imagine whoopee cushions were not involved.
New York Magazine
• x003 New York Magazine (Fall Movie Preview).
You can read the full interview @ BP Press (NY Magazine – Brad’s Pitch).
I just got a slight heart attack when I came upon this new photoshoot picture for New York Magazine. Slight, huge? Wow. I love it so much. Who is willing and able to scan this for the website? Please? In stores tomorrow.
Entertainment Weekly
• x003 Entertainment Weekly. Thanks Lynn.
The interview/article can also be read @ BP Press for your convenience.
