{"id":1326,"date":"2013-01-06T16:54:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T16:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/06\/ashton-kutcher-s-jobs-sells-to-open-road-before-sundance\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T15:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T14:32:43","slug":"ashton-kutcher-s-jobs-sells-to-open-road-before-sundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/ashton-kutcher-s-jobs-sells-to-open-road-before-sundance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashton Kutcher\u2019s jOBS sells to Open Road before Sundance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>One of the most buzz-worthy titles at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival is already off the market.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p><strong>\u2018jOBS,\u2019 the festival\u2019s closing-night film starring Ashton Kutcher as Apple founder Steve Jobs, will be released by Open Road Films in April, the independent distributor said recently. Open Road, co-owned by movie theatre chains AMC Entertainment and Regal Entertainment, will handle the release in the US and Canada on behalf of Five Star Films, which financed the movie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p><strong>The film follows Jobs\u2019 life from 1971 through 2000, and much of the picture was shot in the garage where the late entrepreneur first launched Apple in Palo Alto.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p><wp-block data-block=\"core\/more\"><\/wp-block>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p><strong>The movie, which is to premiere at Sundance on January 25, is the first of two new Hollywood productions that centre on Jobs. The other, being written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, reportedly will only have three scenes, all of which occur backstage before three vital Apple product launches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"article-ad\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p><strong>In a statement announcing the film\u2019s acquisition, producer Michael Hulme described Kutcher\u2019s performance in \u2018jOBS\u2019 as \u201cinspiring and unforgettable.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>But reception for the film at the Park City, Utah, festival will be a bellwether for Kutcher, the 34-year-old star of TV\u2019s \u2018That 70\u2019s Show\u2019 and \u2018Two and a Half Men\u2019 who has not always been taken seriously as an actor. In recent years, Kutcher has primarily appeared in movies such as the romantic comedies \u2018New Year\u2019s Eve\u2019 and \u2018No Strings Attached.\u2019 His 2009 Sundance effort, \u2018Spread,\u2019 was a critical and commercial flop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most buzz-worthy titles at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival is already off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,56],"tags":[1580,499,1582,1581,927,1584,1583,1585,66],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-news","tag-ashton","tag-before","tag-jobs","tag-kutchers","tag-open","tag-road","tag-sells","tag-sundance","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}