Sony buys movie right to Steve Jobs biography

Sony Corp.’s movie studio is in final talks to acquire the movie rights to the highly anticipated authorized biography of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

According to a person familiar with the matter, the studio is negotiating to pay about $1 million for the rights to the project…

After Jobs’ death on Wednesday, publisher Simon & Schuster pushed up the release date on Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” by a month to Oct. 24.

Large numbers of pre-orders of the digital e-book for $16.99 pushed the title to No. 1 on Apple’s iTunes store and No. 2 on Amazon.com. Pre-orders of the hard cover copy, for $17.88, put the book at No. 1 on Amazon

Thus the NYTimes and Deadline provide the set-up for the inevitable question: Who would you cast as Steve Jobs?

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