I am loving this! Apparently the new trend is Hollywood is to assemble lineups of really talented people in films with interesting premises. Now here's a Hollywood movement I can get behind. I love that Paltrow is (cautiously) making her way back into big films, what with Iron Man now a successful series, with the second installment arriving in May. And Marion Cotillard and Kate Winslet doing sci-fi/thriller? I'll pay to see that (although, to be fair, Cotillard will already be venturing into sci-fi/thriller territory this summer with Inception)!! And then there's Soderbergh, always an interesting director; if there's one thing he can't really be accused of, it's making the same film twice.
Brief news on Contagion, the recently announced Steven Soderberg viral thriller penned by Scott Z. Burns. The film already has a hell of a cast: repeating Soderbergh star Matt Damon plus Kate Winslet, Marion 
Burns and Soderbergh hatched the story while making The Informant!, and the script was inspired by the swine flu outbreak and discussions about “germs and how the nature of a virus could be used to deal with issues of sovereignty and as a metaphor for the way information and misinformation travel in contemporary society.”
The film isn’t sold to a distributor yet, but Soderberg & Co. are shopping it around based on a $60m budget. [DHD]
Read more: Gwyneth Paltrow Joins Soderbergh’s Contagion | /Film http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/16/gwyneth-paltrow-joins-soderberghs-contagion/#ixzz0gJFbJZsV
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