Steven Soderbergh Talks Almost Doing A ‘Bond’ Movie & Considering The Coen Brothers For ‘Ocean 11’

Erin Brockovich, Contagion, Traffic and the Oceans franchise among many more films – keeps a thorough, daily record of all the movies, TV shows, plays and short films he’s watched as well as the literature he’s read.Among his list of TV series are Better Call Saul, Below Deck, Devs, Call My Agent, I May Destroy You, Dave and I Hate Suzie.

NEW YORK -- Tanya Roberts, who captivated James Bond in “A View to a Kill” and appeared in the sitcom “That ’70s Show,” has died, several hours after she was mistakenly declared dead by her publicist and her partner. She was 65.Lance O’Brien, her companion of nearly two decades, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center reached out to him on Monday at 9:30 p.m.

Steven Soderbergh isn’t your typical filmmaker. Honestly, we have to wonder if he’s even human.

Would it be a brand new year if we didn’t have the unveiling of Steven Soderbergh’s watch list? At this point, if you’re a huge film fan, you probably come to expect the big release of everything the filmmaker watched over the past year, looking over every entry to try to piece together what Soderbergh loved and what he skipped. And in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing him to not make a half dozen films, it appears that Soderbergh did a lot of film and TV watching.

LOS ANGELES -- Tanya Roberts, who captivated James Bond in “A View to a Kill” and later played Midge Pinciotti in the sitcom “That ’70s Show,” has been hospitalized after falling at her home. The actor had mistakenly been reported dead by her publicist earlier Monday.Roberts' publicist Mike Pingel later told The Associated Press Monday afternoon that Roberts, 65, was still alive as of 10 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Tanya Roberts, who captivated James Bond in “A View to a Kill,” appeared in the final season of “Charlie’s Angels” and later played Midge Pinciotti in the sitcom “That ’70s Show,” has died in Los Angeles. She was 65.Roberts' death Sunday was announced by her publicist, Mike Pingel.

Steven Soderbergh is working on the “next iteration” of Contagion!

Twelve years after she starred opposite Daniel Craig’s James Bond in “Quantum of Solace,” Gemma Arterton has expressed some regret over her breakout role.In a new interview with The Sun, Arterton said she still gets flak for playing MI6 agent Strawberry Fields in the 2018 blockbuster.

One of the decade’s most prescient hits might be getting a follow-up.

As if Steven Soderbergh is actually Nostradamus, the filmmaker’s almost-decade-old “Contagion” seemed to lay out a similar story to the one that was experienced all over the world in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. And naturally, when you have a film become so relevant that it’s being talked about almost non-stop a decade later, there are going to be questions about whether or not there’s a potential sequel to be made.

Steven Soderbergh has been a filmmaker that has consistently pushed the boundaries of whatever medium he’s working in. On the small screen, he’s pushed the limits of TV and on streaming platforms with projects like “Wireless” and “Mosaic.” In film, he’s tested new ways of filming things (with smaller cameras and even smartphones), as well as marketing films (taking on the role of de facto marketer for “Logan Lucky,” for example.

WarnerMedia’s awkwardly revealed re-invention of Hollywood’s release windows has stirred anger among filmmakers and their reps, with fists clenched and threats exchanged. But then there’s Steven Soderbergh, the idiosyncratic filmmaker who reminds us that he is above it all.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Jon Burlingame Leave it to director Steven Soderbergh and composer Thomas Newman to go retro ’60s with the music for their fourth collaboration, “Let Them All Talk.”Accompanying Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest and the rest of Soderbergh’s cast crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2 is a jazz score that might easily have been penned by John Barry (“The Knack”), Neal Hefti (“The Odd Couple”) or Henry Mancini (“The Pink Panther”).“Steven genuinely loves that kind of music,” Newman

Before Sundance exploded into a huge film industry event, it was the place where a new wave of indie filmmakers started their careers in the late ’80s and early ’90s. One of those filmmakers was Steven Soderbergh, whose first feature film “Sex, Lies and Videotape” premiered in the 1989 Sundance Film Festival and won an audience award, before going on to also win the Palme d’Or and FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes, and even getting an Oscar nomination for the film’s script.

Before Sundance exploded into a huge film industry event, it was the place where a new wave of indie filmmakers started their careers in the late ’80s and early ’90s. One of those filmmakers was Steven Soderbergh, whose first feature film “Sex, Lies and Videotape” premiered in the 1989 Sundance Film Festival and won an audience award, before going on to also win the Palme d’Or and FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes, and even getting an Oscar nomination for the film’s script.