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Soderbergh's Swansong

His new movie, The Informant!, is full of buzz. But Steven Soderbergh tells The Daily Beast’s Nicole LaPorte he’s ready to quit filmmaking.

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The Oscar-winning filmmaker, who effectively launched the indie movement of the 1990s with his groundbreaking sex, lies and videotape in 1989, and then went on to conquer Hollywood, with films such as Erin Brockovich and the Ocean’s Eleven franchise, says he’s had it with movie-making and is going to become...

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