Sony Pictures Entertainment, the studio that produced highspeed and high-profile movies This Is It, with Michael Jackson, and The Social Network, about Mark Zuckerberg, could do it again with the Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.
The studio late last week concluded a deal to buy film rights to the authorized biography Steve Jobs, from Walter Isaacson, according to a person who was briefed on the deal and spoke on the condition of anonymity because the studio had not authorized a public statement. A Sony spokesman declined to comment. Word that discussions were being completed was posted Friday on the Deadline.com website.
After Jobs' death Wednesday, Simon & Schuster, which is publishing the book, moved up its release date by a month, to October 24. And advance orders have been brisk, as readers hunger for more information about a leader who has emerged as the embodiment of creativity and enterprise that has appeared to falter in much of the business culture.
Historically, movies have been developed slowly, and seldom tackled current events, as circumstances, interest and the national mood would often change in the years it took get a picture on track. But that has changed, as studios took advantage of faster digital production techniques, and showed a new willingness to keep pace with the increasing pace of the media world.
After Michael Jackson's death, the studio had his concert film, This Is It, in theaters within months. The Social Network was being written even as the book on which it was partly based, Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, was being rushed to publication.


据印度《经济时报》10月10日报道，曾出品过知名度很高的迈克尔•杰克逊传记影片《就是这样》，以及马克•扎克伯格（facebook创始人）的传记电影《社交网络》的索尼电影娱乐公司，如今又要拍摄一部讲述苹果创始人史蒂夫•乔布斯的新作。

据一名知情人士透露，该公司已于上周晚些时候与沃特尔•艾萨克森达成协议，欲购唯一授权传记《史蒂夫•乔布斯》的电影版权，该知情人士不愿透露姓名，因为索尼公司尚未授权发表公开声明。索尼官方发言人拒绝对此事发表评论。上周五Deadline.com网站上发布了双方商讨已完成的消息。

上周三乔布斯去世之后，出版其传记的西蒙与舒斯特公司已将传记发布日期提前至10月24日。预购订单的数量暴增，因为读者们急于了解这位创造力化身的领导者，以及企业文化似乎产生了动摇的苹果集团。


从历史上看，电影总是表现得滞后一些，而且很少反映当下发生的事件，因为环境、兴趣点和国民情绪通常在电影制作过程中的几年内已经发生改变。但今天已不再如此，因为电影公司采用了更快捷的数字化生产技术，表现出希望与飞速发展的传媒界保持同步的崭新意愿。


迈克尔•杰克逊去世后，索尼公司在短短几个月内就发行了他的演唱会电影《就是这样》。而《社交网络》速度更快，在其改编的原著本•麦兹里奇的小说《偶然的亿万富翁》被送往出版的时候，该电影的剧本就已经写出来了。

• entertainment [,entə´teinmənt] n.招(款)待；联欢会 (初中英语单词)
• comment [´kɔment] n.&v.评论；评注；注意 (初中英语单词)
• wednesday [´wenzdi] n.星期三 (初中英语单词)
• release [ri´li:s] vt&n.释放；放松；赦免 (初中英语单词)
• hunger [´hʌŋgə] n.饥饿；渴望 (初中英语单词)
• enterprise [´entəpraiz] n.企业；雄心；胆识 (初中英语单词)
• advantage [əd´vɑ:ntidʒ] n.优势；利益 (初中英语单词)
• partly [´pɑ:tli] ad.部分地；不完全地 (初中英语单词)
• studio [´stju:diəu] n.画室；照相室 (高中英语单词)
• falter [´fɔ:ltə] vi.蹒跚；犹豫；疲软 (高中英语单词)
• publication [,pʌbli´keiʃən] n.发表；公布；发行 (高中英语单词)
• network [´netwə:k] n.网状物 vt.联播 (英语四级单词)
• biography [bai´ɔgrəfi] n.传记(文学) (英语四级单词)
• accidental [,æksi´dentl] a.偶然的；附属的 (英语四级单词)
• spokesman [´spəuksmən] n.发言人 (英语六级单词)
• willingness [´wiliŋnis] n.情愿，乐意，自愿 (英语六级单词)