In sports as in anything else in life you have the rich and the not so rich and then the plain old poor. So how do you beat up on the rich? In the case of Brad Pitt’s film that he produced and stars in Moneyball with a baseball bat and numbers. Brad Pitt will roll into town for the Toronto Film Festival to premier his film and how appropriate it is to showcase the film at this festival in a city who’s baseball team the Toronto Blue Jays were the first expansion team to win back two back world series 1992-1993 and the 1993 win was the first and to date the only World Series to be concluded out side of the United States of America. The book Moneyball was sent to me to read when Amy Pascal pulled the plug on the project at Sony Pictures, and those who have had a taste of making films with Studio’s know if they don’t like what they read it’s better to pull the plug then let the project get pregnant and it becomes too late to abort. That is smart if your the Studio executive. However if you are the producer you go to bat for what you believe will make a good film, the way you want to make it and in this case Brad Pitt went to bat and got the project made.
















