Ben Stiller receives film award

16 November 2012 Last updated at 09:21 GMT Ben Stiller: "It is probably going to be painful for me to go through"

Ben Stiller received an honour at the 26th Annual American Cinematheque event in Beverly Hills on Thursday for his contribution to film.

Along Came Polly co-star Jennifer Aniston, Laura Dern and Martin Short paid tribute to the comedy star.

Stiller, 46, joins past award recipients Tom Cruise, George Clooney and Steven Spielberg.

He joked: "It is probably going to be painful for me to go through", adding the tribute would be "more roast-like".

He said: "Hopefully it will be fun and definitely like the kind of a nightmare you have to go to, and know you're gonna have a whole evening devoted to people talking about you, and have to look at stuff that I've done, and stuff I've tried to lock out for years."

Stiller's memorable performances include supermodel Derek Zoolander and roles in There's Something About Mary with Cameron Diaz and the Meet The Parents series, opposite Robert DeNiro.

He has also directed and produced several films with credits including Submarine and Megamind in 2010, Tropic Thunder in 2008 and Starsky and Hutch in 2004.

Born into a comedic family, Stiller has been working in the industry for nearly three decades getting his break with a stint on sketch show Saturday Night Live in 1987.

He later won an Emmy Award for his programme The Ben Stiller Show, which aired on MTV and Fox in 1992.

Ben Stiller is married to his Zoolander co-star Christine Taylor. They have two children.

Stiller's co-star in 2010's Little Fockers, actress Laura Dern said: "He is a filmmaker in every sense of the word, not just when he is directing. When he is producing, when he is an actor on a film, he is thinking about the whole vision of the film, even if it is for another director. And I know that from working with him."

The prize was awarded at the Beverly Hilton Hotel by American Pie star Eugene Levy and comic actor Martin Short, who worked with Stiller in the animated movie Madagascar 3.

"I think that Ben is constantly pushing his personal envelope trying to see what else he can accomplish that he has not accomplished before," he explained, "And that's the sign of a great artist."

Stiller has recently filmed a remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty while a sequel to Zoolander is in pre-production.

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Sorkin reveals Jobs movie plot

16 November 2012 Last updated at 12:45 GMT Aaron Sorkin's work on The West Wing television series helped make him a famous scriptwriter Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin has revealed plans to take an unusual "real-time" approach to his Steve Jobs script.

The writer said he intended to write just three scenes for the movie, each set backstage immediately before a product launch.

He said that every half hour that passed in the on-screen characters' lives would last 30 minutes of the audience's time.

Apple's co-founder died on 5 October 2011.

Two days later it emerged that Sony Pictures had bought the rights to his authorised biography ahead of its release. Movie site Deadline - which broke the news - said it had paid between $1m to $3m (£630,000 to £1.9m).

Mr Sorkin had already written The Social Network for the studio - the adaptation of an unauthorised account of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's rise - making him a natural choice for the project.

However, rather than depend on Walter Isaacson's book it has emerged that Mr Sorkin is basing his treatment on his own research.

"I'm meeting with all the people in Steve's life now, from [Apple co-founder] Wozniak to all the people who were around for the Macintosh," Mr Sorkin said in a video posted online by The Daily Beast news site.

The rights to Steve Jobs's official biography were sold before the book was completed

"So I've been able to meet these people who revere him in spite of the fact he made all of them cry at one point or another, but he made all of them better at what they were doing."

Mr Sorkin added that his plan was to focus on the minutes leading up to the launch of a Macintosh computer; an event during Mr Job's time at Next Computer - possibly 1998's launch of the system in San Francisco; and the unveiling of an iPod.

He said he did not plan any "time-cuts", preferring not to break away from the launch event preparations to flashbacks of other events.

However, he did signal there would be one further element at the end of the film: a version of Apple's first Think Different television advert.

"If I can end the movie with that text, with that voiceover - 'here's to the crazy ones' - if I can earn that ending then I'll have written the movie I want to write," Mr Sorkin said.

Thinking differently

Mr Sorkin's approach is radically different to the biography Sony paid for, which gives a much broader overview of Mr Job's life and does not spotlight the minutes leading up to the three launches.

Another unauthorised movie starring Ashton Kuchter is also being made by an independent studio offering a broader take on Mr Jobs' life - a format audiences are more used to.

Despite this Ian Freer, assistant editor of movie magazine Empire, said he was excited by Mr Sorkin's approach.

Some Apple followers have expressed the desire to see Bill Gates appear in the movie script

"It does make it an exciting proposition," he told the BBC.

"It would have been very easy to have just trotted out the beats in his life, but this seems a very challenging, novel approach."

Bill Gates cameo?

But not everyone is as positive.

Some members of the Macrumors site have expressed concern that the suggested format would miss the opportunity to show Mr Jobs interacting with his rival Bill Gates - a tense relationship which was previously the focus of the television movie Pirates of Silicon Valley.

However, there is still the possibility that their wish will be granted if Mr Sorkin decides to focus on the Macs launched at one of Mr Jobs's keynote appearances in 1997.

Mr Gates took part in the press conference, appearing via a video link to announce that Microsoft was taking a stake in its rival.

However, bearing in mind Mr Sorkin referred to the launch of "the Mac", it is more probable that he is referring to 1984's unveiling of the computer.

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