Last year he starred in Cameron Crowe's "We Bought a Zoo," Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion" and George Nolfi's "Adjustment Bureau," among other high-profile films, and next year he'll be in "Elysium," a science-fiction blockbuster from the director Neill Blomkamp.
It's worth noting that in Contagion, Gwyneth Paltrow's character contracts the lethal virus while on a business trip to China, where she is cheating on her husband, before unwittingly bringing the virus back to the US.
For the last decade, the "Bourne" films and jobs like Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion" and Taylor Hackford's "Merchant of Shanghai" have kept Mr. Griffith exploring Asia.
In Paul Tough's laudatory book "Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America" (2008), Canada decries KIPP's approach as a kind of reverse "quarantine, walling off the most promising kids from a sick neighborhood's contagion," in Tough's paraphrase.
"Contagion," Steven Soderbergh's smart, spooky thriller about a thicket of contemporary plagues — a killer virus, rampaging fear, an unscrupulous blogger — is as ruthlessly effective as the malady at its cool, cool center.
The news could not come at a worse time for Warner Bros, the studio backing Contagion, Soderbergh's latest film, which is released in the US next month and in Britain in October.
In "Contagion," Steven Soderbergh's film about a virus that decimates the planet, Jude Law plays a conspiracy-minded freelance video blogger who regards vaccines as scams churned out by a medical establishment interested only in profits.
It doesn't take much contact to become infected in "Contagion," Steven Soderbergh's brilliant movie about the grimmest subject imaginable: a pandemic that kills millions of people in a few months.
