George Clooney will make his Broadway acting and playwriting debut next spring in a stage adaptation of his 2005 film about journalist Edward R. Murrow.
In the play, which is also entitled Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney will play Murrow as he pushes executives at CBS to allow him to continue to deliver critical reporting on U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist efforts. Clooney wrote the Broadway play with Grant Heslov, who co-wrote the screenplay with Clooney.
Good Night, and Good Luck will premiere on Broadway in spring 2025 at Shubert theater to be announced.
“I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to,” Clooney said in the press release.
Clooney directed the 2005 film and played Fred W. Friendly, co-producer of Murrow’s television program, See It Now, with Murrow,...
In the play, which is also entitled Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney will play Murrow as he pushes executives at CBS to allow him to continue to deliver critical reporting on U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist efforts. Clooney wrote the Broadway play with Grant Heslov, who co-wrote the screenplay with Clooney.
Good Night, and Good Luck will premiere on Broadway in spring 2025 at Shubert theater to be announced.
“I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to,” Clooney said in the press release.
Clooney directed the 2005 film and played Fred W. Friendly, co-producer of Murrow’s television program, See It Now, with Murrow,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The last time I spoke to Noah Jupe was four years ago when he was just 15 years old. It was over Zoom, and he was promoting HBO’s “The Undoing” from a Detroit hotel room, where he was under mandatory quarantine waiting to be cleared to start work on Steven Soderbergh’s “No Sudden Move.”
At the time, Jupe’s list of credits already included “The Night Manager,” “Suburbicon,” the first two “A Quiet Place” films and “Ford v Ferrari.” He had earned a Spirit Award nomination for his work starring role in “Honey Boy,” director Alma Har’el’s drama loosely based on Shia Labeouf’s childhood.
The British actor is now 19 and I’m meeting him once again over Zoom — this time, he’s in his London-area home — for this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast. He’s promoting Apple TV+’s “Franklin.” The limited series follows Benjamin Franklin,...
At the time, Jupe’s list of credits already included “The Night Manager,” “Suburbicon,” the first two “A Quiet Place” films and “Ford v Ferrari.” He had earned a Spirit Award nomination for his work starring role in “Honey Boy,” director Alma Har’el’s drama loosely based on Shia Labeouf’s childhood.
The British actor is now 19 and I’m meeting him once again over Zoom — this time, he’s in his London-area home — for this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast. He’s promoting Apple TV+’s “Franklin.” The limited series follows Benjamin Franklin,...
- 4/23/2024
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
If you’d have to guess, you would not probably get closer to the movie that terrified George Clooney. Of course, in our heads, Batman & Robin would pop up to be the scariest movie in his career but it was far from it.
George Clooney as Batman
Certainly, Clooney would hate to talk about his disastrous 1997 DC movie playing Batman against Arnold Schwarzenegger’s supervillain Mr. Freeze. However, the decorated Hollywood actor has opened up about the movie that sent shivers down his spine.
George Clooney Was Terrified Of One Coen Brothers Movie George Clooney in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
George Clooney and the Coen Brothers have been long-time collaborators as the actor went on to appear in five movies from the directors duo. As their go-to guy, Clooney appeared in Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading, Hail, Caesar!, and Suburbicon but his appearance in the 2000 movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou?...
George Clooney as Batman
Certainly, Clooney would hate to talk about his disastrous 1997 DC movie playing Batman against Arnold Schwarzenegger’s supervillain Mr. Freeze. However, the decorated Hollywood actor has opened up about the movie that sent shivers down his spine.
George Clooney Was Terrified Of One Coen Brothers Movie George Clooney in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
George Clooney and the Coen Brothers have been long-time collaborators as the actor went on to appear in five movies from the directors duo. As their go-to guy, Clooney appeared in Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading, Hail, Caesar!, and Suburbicon but his appearance in the 2000 movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou?...
- 3/27/2024
- by Lachit Roy
- FandomWire
George Clooney is opening up about why he has “more fun” directing than he does acting.
The Oscar winner recently spoke with Sky News about his latest directorial project, the film The Boys in the Boat.
During the interview, Clooney admitted that when it comes to directing compared to acting, “It’s more fun, you have a lot more control. I get to boss them around and I don’t have to learn how to row,” he quipped.
The Gravity actor added, “It’s fun to come in in the morning and it’s fun to write a screenplay and then have somebody build a set that you wrote, it really is.”
While Clooney has starred in dozens of projects, including Ticket to Paradise, Up in the Air, Michael Clayton, Ocean’s Eleven and ER, he has also directed a handful of films throughout his career such as The Tender Bar,...
The Oscar winner recently spoke with Sky News about his latest directorial project, the film The Boys in the Boat.
During the interview, Clooney admitted that when it comes to directing compared to acting, “It’s more fun, you have a lot more control. I get to boss them around and I don’t have to learn how to row,” he quipped.
The Gravity actor added, “It’s fun to come in in the morning and it’s fun to write a screenplay and then have somebody build a set that you wrote, it really is.”
While Clooney has starred in dozens of projects, including Ticket to Paradise, Up in the Air, Michael Clayton, Ocean’s Eleven and ER, he has also directed a handful of films throughout his career such as The Tender Bar,...
- 1/17/2024
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There’s a gripping story to be told in The Boys in the Boat. Daniel James Brown’s best-seller gained acclaim for depicting how nine Depression-era boys defied the odds and inspired a nation rowing crew for the U.S. in the 1936 Olympics. It’s a tale rife with optimism and intrigue – all of which director George Clooney siphons away in this bland, rote adaptation.
It’s the middle of the Depression when Joe Rantz (Callum Turner) decides to go out for Washington’s rowing team as a way to pay for his college education. Most of the young men on the team, coached by Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton), are there not because they have a passion for crew but because they simply want the paycheck. While they’re a ramshackle lot to begin with, over time the Jv crew team outshines the varsity squad and eventually wins a spot in the Olympics in Berlin,...
It’s the middle of the Depression when Joe Rantz (Callum Turner) decides to go out for Washington’s rowing team as a way to pay for his college education. Most of the young men on the team, coached by Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton), are there not because they have a passion for crew but because they simply want the paycheck. While they’re a ramshackle lot to begin with, over time the Jv crew team outshines the varsity squad and eventually wins a spot in the Olympics in Berlin,...
- 12/25/2023
- by Chris Williams
- CinemaNerdz
George Clooney’s directing career has been one of both ecstasy and agony. His bold, respected spy dramedy debut (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) was immediately followed by the incredibly lauded (and incredibly great) period drama Good Night and Good Luck. What followed was a run of more mixed fare. One film was ambitious and flawed (The Midnight Sky), one overrated (The Ides of March), one undercooked (Leatherheads), and two really didn’t work. Then came The Tender Bar in 2021, a modest piece of work featuring nuanced performances from an impressive cast. It’s an old-fashioned picture starring Ben Affleck, who offers many old-fashioned, matinee idol charms, square jaw and all. Perhaps Clooney learned something about himself as a filmmaker with The Tender Bar: he may be at his best when breathing life into fact-based drama and not trying to be too cute about it.
Clooney’s back in...
Clooney’s back in...
- 12/18/2023
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Updated with statement from Silver’s rep: Iconic producer Joel Silver has been fired from the forthcoming Amazon film Play Dirty, Deadline can confirm. While the decision reportedly stemmed from alleged verbal abuse on Silver’s part toward studio execs over creative differences, Amazon has declined to comment.
The first of a number of projects in the works at Amazon centered on the Parker crime novels by Donald E. Westlake, which were written under the pen name Richard Stark, Play Dirty was at one point supposed to star Robert Downey Jr., sources said, but while he’s no longer involved in that capacity, with Mark Wahlberg now attached to star, Downey remains aboard to produce for Team Downey and had left the project well ahead of the fallout with Silver. The project was set to reunite Silver with writer-director Shane Black following their work together on such titles as The Nice Guys, Predator,...
The first of a number of projects in the works at Amazon centered on the Parker crime novels by Donald E. Westlake, which were written under the pen name Richard Stark, Play Dirty was at one point supposed to star Robert Downey Jr., sources said, but while he’s no longer involved in that capacity, with Mark Wahlberg now attached to star, Downey remains aboard to produce for Team Downey and had left the project well ahead of the fallout with Silver. The project was set to reunite Silver with writer-director Shane Black following their work together on such titles as The Nice Guys, Predator,...
- 11/30/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
An inspirational true story turned into a bestselling novel is about to make its way to the big screen. That tends to be the natural playbook for these sorts of dramas, but this one in particular comes loaded with an extra amount of star power.
Based on author Daniel James Brown's book of the same name, "The Boys in the Boat" tells the well-documented events surrounding the 1936 Summer Olympics and the feats accomplished by the US men's rowing team from the University of Washington. As with other incredibly underdog stories, the stories of the individuals involved -- all of whom were working class athletes struggling to come out the other side of the Great Depression, almost rivals the magnitude of their achievements.
A few significant differences with "The Boys in the Boat," however, comes from its A-list director George Clooney and the historical backdrop of Nazi Germany hosting the...
Based on author Daniel James Brown's book of the same name, "The Boys in the Boat" tells the well-documented events surrounding the 1936 Summer Olympics and the feats accomplished by the US men's rowing team from the University of Washington. As with other incredibly underdog stories, the stories of the individuals involved -- all of whom were working class athletes struggling to come out the other side of the Great Depression, almost rivals the magnitude of their achievements.
A few significant differences with "The Boys in the Boat," however, comes from its A-list director George Clooney and the historical backdrop of Nazi Germany hosting the...
- 10/18/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Hollywood megastar George Clooney has come out in support of SAG-AFTRA and its 160,000-strong membership as the performers union takes to picket lines.
“This is an inflection point in our industry,” Clooney said in a short statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.
“For our industry to survive that has to change. For actors, that journey starts now,” he added as the actors union goes on strike after failing to reach a new deal with studios and streamers.
SAG-AFTRA members join Writers Guild of America members, on strike since early May, in the first double strike in Hollywood since 1960, which looks to largely shut down the film and TV business.
Clooney in his statement added “actors and writers in large numbers have lost their ability to make a living.”
The Oscar-winning actor, director and producer broke through with his role in NBC’s hit TV series ER before appearing in such...
“This is an inflection point in our industry,” Clooney said in a short statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.
“For our industry to survive that has to change. For actors, that journey starts now,” he added as the actors union goes on strike after failing to reach a new deal with studios and streamers.
SAG-AFTRA members join Writers Guild of America members, on strike since early May, in the first double strike in Hollywood since 1960, which looks to largely shut down the film and TV business.
Clooney in his statement added “actors and writers in large numbers have lost their ability to make a living.”
The Oscar-winning actor, director and producer broke through with his role in NBC’s hit TV series ER before appearing in such...
- 7/14/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For years, Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that create it. With that in mind, we thought why not take the first week of the month to showcase these awesome artists even more? Welcome to “Awesome Artist We’ve Found Around The Net.” In this column, we are focusing on one artist and the awesome art that they create, whether they be amateur, up-and-coming, or well-established. The goal is to uncover these artists so even more people become familiar with them. We ask these artists a few questions to see their origins, influences, and more. If you are an awesome artist or know someone that should be featured, feel free to contact me at any time at theodorebond@joblo.com.This month we are very pleased to bring you the awesome art of…
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- 4/1/2023
- by Theodore Bond
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Smokehouse Pictures partner George Clooney and Grant Heslov have signed an overall film deal with the Warner Bros. Pictures Group and its Co-Chairs and CEOs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy. It amounts to a homecoming for the filmmakers, who named their company for the Smoke House steak joint right off the Warner Bros lot, where they used to eat all the time. Clooney’s history with the studio goes back to his breakthrough starring role in the Warner Bros Television drama ER. They made their first deal at Warner Bros when they formed Smokehouse in 2006.
The duo told those who attended with them during a Q&a session at last Friday night’s screening of All The President’s Men that is part of a monthly screening series of WB classics set up by De Luca & Abdy. Clooney and Heslov will return to offices on the lot — one of...
The duo told those who attended with them during a Q&a session at last Friday night’s screening of All The President’s Men that is part of a monthly screening series of WB classics set up by De Luca & Abdy. Clooney and Heslov will return to offices on the lot — one of...
- 3/27/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Devanny Pinn has almost 90 screen acting credits to her name, with many of those credits being for roles she has played in horror film. Credits include Frost, Death Count, Pretty Boy, The Sunday Night Slaughter, The Dawn, Crossbreed, Death Hotel, Lilith, Party Bus to Hell, Scary Story Slumber Party, Dwelling, House of Manson, The Devil’s Nightmare, The Black Dahlia Haunting, and The Los Angeles Ripper. Now The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that Pinn is making her feature directorial debut with a thriller of her own, a 1970s serial killer tale called Black Mass, which started filming in Los Angeles last Friday.
Inspired by real events, Black Mass is set over a 24-hour period in Florida during the winter of 1978 when college girls were being stalked by a serial killer. Eric Pereira and Brandon Slagle wrote the screenplay.
Pinn has assembled a cool cast for the film, and some...
Inspired by real events, Black Mass is set over a 24-hour period in Florida during the winter of 1978 when college girls were being stalked by a serial killer. Eric Pereira and Brandon Slagle wrote the screenplay.
Pinn has assembled a cool cast for the film, and some...
- 3/21/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Paramount+ is not just the home of the Taylor Sheridan universe, it has also quietly assembled one of the best film libraries of any of the streaming services. Look no further than the list of what’s new on Paramount+ in March, which includes prestige dramas like “12 Years a Slave” and “Last of the Mohicans,” iconic thrillers like “The Sixth Sense,” “The Rock” and “Crimson Tide,” delightful rom-coms like “Kate & Leopold” and “Bridget Jones’ Diary” and other classics like “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Sunset Boulevard” and “Galaxy Quest.”
And that’s not to mention the new originals premiering in March: Kiefer Sutherland plays a corporate espionage operative framed for murder in “Rabbit Hole,” while “School Spirits” follows a high school teen who suddenly discovers she’s dead and still haunting her school.
Check out the full list of what’s new on Paramount+ in March 2023 below.
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And that’s not to mention the new originals premiering in March: Kiefer Sutherland plays a corporate espionage operative framed for murder in “Rabbit Hole,” while “School Spirits” follows a high school teen who suddenly discovers she’s dead and still haunting her school.
Check out the full list of what’s new on Paramount+ in March 2023 below.
Also Read:...
- 3/4/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
As an actor, you can count on George Clooney to deliver the goods -- whether that means flashing that legendary, mischievous smile of his, or buttoning down the charm to play a more conflicted and possibly amoral character. As a director, however, you can never be too sure which Clooney you're going to get. There's the one who gave us the fascinating "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" and the riveting "Good Night, and Good Luck." Then there's the one behind the political thriller "The Ides of March" and the apocalyptic survival drama "The Midnight Sky," both of which have their merits but are hurt by weak stories. Finally, we have the Clooney who helmed stuff like "The Monuments Men" and "Suburbicon," which are baffling misfires given the wealth of talent involved in making them.
Whether you feel Clooney is a capable journeyman who's convinced himself he's an auteur (as /Film's...
Whether you feel Clooney is a capable journeyman who's convinced himself he's an auteur (as /Film's...
- 2/6/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Famke Janssen (X-Men franchise) and Rose Williams (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris) will topline Locked In, a contemporary psychological thriller from Netflix, which is currently in production in London and the UK. Others in the cast include Alex Hassell (Violent Night), Finn Cole (Animal Kingdom) and Anna Friel (Monarch).
The first feature directed by award-winner Nour Wazzi (The Last Bus) pits the unhappy newlywed Lina (Williams) against her brittle, damaged mother-in-law, Katherine (Janssen). An affair sets Lina onto a journey of secrecy, betrayal and murder — and a plot to seemingly destroy her. But who is the real victim, and who can she truly trust?
Rowan Joffé wrote the script. Nicky Bentham (The Duke) is producing for Neon Films, with Alison Jackson exec producing for Gaumont.
Best known for starring roles in the Taken and X-Men film franchises, Janssen has...
The first feature directed by award-winner Nour Wazzi (The Last Bus) pits the unhappy newlywed Lina (Williams) against her brittle, damaged mother-in-law, Katherine (Janssen). An affair sets Lina onto a journey of secrecy, betrayal and murder — and a plot to seemingly destroy her. But who is the real victim, and who can she truly trust?
Rowan Joffé wrote the script. Nicky Bentham (The Duke) is producing for Neon Films, with Alison Jackson exec producing for Gaumont.
Best known for starring roles in the Taken and X-Men film franchises, Janssen has...
- 12/21/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Olivia Wilde’s second feature behind the camera, Don’t Worry Darling, will more likely be remembered for the offscreen intrigue — tabloid romance, lead actor replacement, a glaringly public serving of custody papers, a rumored clash between director and star — than it is for much else in this umpteenth Stepford Wives knockoff. That’s not to say it’s without sizeable pluses, chief among them a meaty lead role for the dependably compelling Florence Pugh, who hasn’t played a woman in this much peril since Midsommar. It also scores points for allowing Chris Pine to show what a devilishly charismatic villain he can be.
The high-concept, low-satisfaction psychological thriller marks an ambitious upgrade in scope for Wilde from the character-driven coming-of-age comedy of Booksmart, and she handles the physical aspects of the project with assurance. It’s just a shame all the effort...
Olivia Wilde’s second feature behind the camera, Don’t Worry Darling, will more likely be remembered for the offscreen intrigue — tabloid romance, lead actor replacement, a glaringly public serving of custody papers, a rumored clash between director and star — than it is for much else in this umpteenth Stepford Wives knockoff. That’s not to say it’s without sizeable pluses, chief among them a meaty lead role for the dependably compelling Florence Pugh, who hasn’t played a woman in this much peril since Midsommar. It also scores points for allowing Chris Pine to show what a devilishly charismatic villain he can be.
The high-concept, low-satisfaction psychological thriller marks an ambitious upgrade in scope for Wilde from the character-driven coming-of-age comedy of Booksmart, and she handles the physical aspects of the project with assurance. It’s just a shame all the effort...
- 9/5/2022
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Mather Zickel (Better Things) will star alongside Olivia Applegate, Clé Bennett, Zoé De Grand Maison, Nicholas Logan Sam Trammell and Jessica Frances Dukes in Michael Patrick Jann’s Western horror film Organ Trail for Paramount Pictures, which has wrapped production.
The film written by Meg Turner finds a young Abigale Archer friendless and alone in a brutal Montana winter during the 1870s—fighting for survival and to retrieve her one earthly possession, her family’s horse, from a gang of bloodthirsty bandits. Zickel is playing Pa Archer, a gaunt but imposing figurehead that has a commanding energy balanced by an instinctive compassion. In the throes of a brutal Montana winter, Pa’s steadfastness and sense of purpose—along with the skills he learned as a soldier in the Civil War—are the foundation on which his family’s survival rests. Jann is producing alongside David Codron.
Zickel will next...
The film written by Meg Turner finds a young Abigale Archer friendless and alone in a brutal Montana winter during the 1870s—fighting for survival and to retrieve her one earthly possession, her family’s horse, from a gang of bloodthirsty bandits. Zickel is playing Pa Archer, a gaunt but imposing figurehead that has a commanding energy balanced by an instinctive compassion. In the throes of a brutal Montana winter, Pa’s steadfastness and sense of purpose—along with the skills he learned as a soldier in the Civil War—are the foundation on which his family’s survival rests. Jann is producing alongside David Codron.
Zickel will next...
- 3/25/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Veteran producer Joel Silver (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey’s Team Downey and Amazon Studios are partnering to develop a series of feature film and television projects based on Donald E. Westlake’s series of highly popular Parker crime fiction novels, written under the pseudonym Richard Stark.
The first project emerging from the deal will be the film Play Dirty, in which Downey Jr. (Marvel’s Avengers franchise) is set to star as Parker, a professional thief who approaches his job with a straightforward, no-nonsense work ethic. He’s a craftsman. He’s brutal, brilliant. He’s also deadly. He’s whatever it takes to get the money and get away clean. The Parker character was first introduced in 1962’s The Hunter from Pocket Books and featured in 23 other titles from Westlake, subsequently serving as the basis for such films as Parker with Jason Statham,...
The first project emerging from the deal will be the film Play Dirty, in which Downey Jr. (Marvel’s Avengers franchise) is set to star as Parker, a professional thief who approaches his job with a straightforward, no-nonsense work ethic. He’s a craftsman. He’s brutal, brilliant. He’s also deadly. He’s whatever it takes to get the money and get away clean. The Parker character was first introduced in 1962’s The Hunter from Pocket Books and featured in 23 other titles from Westlake, subsequently serving as the basis for such films as Parker with Jason Statham,...
- 3/3/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
While George Clooney has vacillated from acting to directing for two decades now, starting with 2002’s “Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind,” the actor/director has really picked up the pace in the last few years. Since 2017, he’s directed three films, “Suburbicon” (2017), “The Midnight Sky” (2020), and “The Tender Bar” (2021). And at his current rate, he’ll have had three films out in three years if this new project pans out like it will.
Continue reading ‘The Boys In The Boat’: Joel Edgerton Joins Callum Turner As Director George Clooney Rounds Out His Cast at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Boys In The Boat’: Joel Edgerton Joins Callum Turner As Director George Clooney Rounds Out His Cast at The Playlist.
- 2/13/2022
- by Christopher Marc
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Michael D. Cohen, known for his work on Nickelodeon’s Danger Force and Henry Danger, has signed with Paradigm for representation.
The actor-writer-director is best known for his work as Schwoz Schwartz on the two Nickelodeon series. Danger Force recently received a GLAAD Media Award Outstanding Kids & Family Programming nomination for “Manlee Men,” a June 2021 episode Cohen co-wrote and directed. Henry Danger won the Kid’s Choice Award for Best Show in 2017 and 2020, and was nominated in 2018, 2019, and 2021.
His additional television credits include Angie Tribeca, The Mindy Project, 2 Broke Girls, The Real O’Neals, Backstrom; Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job and Modern Family. On the big screen he has appeared in An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn, Suburbicon, Whiplash and It Was You Charlie.
Beyond the screen, Cohen founded the “Trans Youth Acting Challenge,” an initiative to support young trans and non-binary actors in helping discover and...
The actor-writer-director is best known for his work as Schwoz Schwartz on the two Nickelodeon series. Danger Force recently received a GLAAD Media Award Outstanding Kids & Family Programming nomination for “Manlee Men,” a June 2021 episode Cohen co-wrote and directed. Henry Danger won the Kid’s Choice Award for Best Show in 2017 and 2020, and was nominated in 2018, 2019, and 2021.
His additional television credits include Angie Tribeca, The Mindy Project, 2 Broke Girls, The Real O’Neals, Backstrom; Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job and Modern Family. On the big screen he has appeared in An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn, Suburbicon, Whiplash and It Was You Charlie.
Beyond the screen, Cohen founded the “Trans Youth Acting Challenge,” an initiative to support young trans and non-binary actors in helping discover and...
- 1/28/2022
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
When George Clooney jumped to directing he claimed to be motivated by the kinds of movies Hollywood doesn’t make anymore—screwball comedies, sober political thrillers, and on. In the past decade his performances have grown less frequent while he’s turned increasingly prolific behind the camera, but an ambition to recapture the spirit of the Hollywood of bygone eras has been replaced by merely trying to imitate his most famous collaborators. He hit a career low with Suburbicon, an ill-fated attempt at infusing social commentary into an abandoned Coen brothers script, and more recently tried following in the footsteps of Alfonso Cuarón with The Midnight Sky––reportedly one of Netflix’s most-watched titles of all time, yet one never discussed following its Christmas debut last year.
Clooney is one of Hollywood’s most likable actors, yet almost impossible to root for in his directorial efforts. The Tender Bar does...
Clooney is one of Hollywood’s most likable actors, yet almost impossible to root for in his directorial efforts. The Tender Bar does...
- 10/14/2021
- by Alistair Ryder
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Liana Liberato has signed on to star in Todd Bogin’s first feature, Left with Only Rain, with Jordan Rodrigues (Ladybird), Rumer Willis (Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood), and Richard Kind (A Serious Man) also joining the cast.
The thriller centers on Sabina Geshem, a young woman reeling from a breakup, who is struggling to rebuild her once-promising dance career. After a dalliance with her ex threatens her big comeback, Sabina goes to a small town to track him down. There, she discovers his new and pregnant girlfriend, inserting herself into the unsuspecting woman’s life, and seeking something other than closure.
Bogin penned the script for the film, which 2×4 Productions’ Dustin Williams will produce alongside Gabriel Francisco and Rafael Francisco of Francisco Productions.
Liberato recently wrapped production on K. Asher Levin’s Dig, an indie feature in which she stars opposite Emile Hirsch.
The thriller centers on Sabina Geshem, a young woman reeling from a breakup, who is struggling to rebuild her once-promising dance career. After a dalliance with her ex threatens her big comeback, Sabina goes to a small town to track him down. There, she discovers his new and pregnant girlfriend, inserting herself into the unsuspecting woman’s life, and seeking something other than closure.
Bogin penned the script for the film, which 2×4 Productions’ Dustin Williams will produce alongside Gabriel Francisco and Rafael Francisco of Francisco Productions.
Liberato recently wrapped production on K. Asher Levin’s Dig, an indie feature in which she stars opposite Emile Hirsch.
- 10/6/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Deborah McIntosh and Alex Walton will lead WME Independent, a new division of WME that will handle domestic and international film sales and film financing consulting services. Both were most recently at Endeavor Content, which WME’s parent company Endeavor Holdings is selling a majority stake in as part of a settlement agreement with the Writers Guild of America that limits major agencies’ ability to package material.
The new group will bring film sales and film financing consulting services back inside the agency and will offer both domestic and international film sales services.
“WME Independent will serve as a critical vehicle to fuel our clients’ projects while providing the global perspective necessary to navigate today’s content marketplace,” said Dan Limerick, WME’s chief operating officer, in a statement. “Deb, Alex and their team have an undeniable track record of bringing many successful artist-driven projects to fruition, and we look...
The new group will bring film sales and film financing consulting services back inside the agency and will offer both domestic and international film sales services.
“WME Independent will serve as a critical vehicle to fuel our clients’ projects while providing the global perspective necessary to navigate today’s content marketplace,” said Dan Limerick, WME’s chief operating officer, in a statement. “Deb, Alex and their team have an undeniable track record of bringing many successful artist-driven projects to fruition, and we look...
- 9/27/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
WME on Monday launched WME Independent, a division to broker domestic and international film sales and film financing consulting services. It will be headed by Deborah McIntosh and Alex Walton, both of whom were most recently at Endeavor Content.
Those deals had for years been steered under Endeavor Content, but that entity is in the process of being sold off as a freestanding production entity. McIntosh and Walton will bring film sales and film financing consulting services back inside the agency and will differentiate itself in the marketplace by offering domestic and international film sales services.
“WME Independent will serve as a critical vehicle to fuel our clients’ projects while providing the global perspective necessary to navigate today’s content marketplace,” WME chief operating officer Dan Limerick said. “Deb, Alex and their team have an undeniable track record of bringing many successful artist-driven projects to fruition, and we look forward...
Those deals had for years been steered under Endeavor Content, but that entity is in the process of being sold off as a freestanding production entity. McIntosh and Walton will bring film sales and film financing consulting services back inside the agency and will differentiate itself in the marketplace by offering domestic and international film sales services.
“WME Independent will serve as a critical vehicle to fuel our clients’ projects while providing the global perspective necessary to navigate today’s content marketplace,” WME chief operating officer Dan Limerick said. “Deb, Alex and their team have an undeniable track record of bringing many successful artist-driven projects to fruition, and we look forward...
- 9/27/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Endeavor Content senior vice president Kristen Figeroid has exited the agency as others in the unit’s sales and distribution unit prepare to head back to WME, sources close to the situation told Variety.
Figeroid joined Endeavor Content in 2018 as senior VP of sales and distribution. Her departure last week was amicable, one insider noted, and the executive is exploring a return to working with boutique and international-focused film finance and sales agencies.
The film sales team at Endeavor Content, meanwhile, is set for a return to WME in the wake of the agreement the agency signed earlier this year with the Writers Guild of America. The deal that settled a nearly two-year standoff over TV and film packaging also requires them to divest themselves of 80% of Endeavor Content by year’s end, while talent agency packaging of TV series and film projects will mostly cease to be as of June 30, 2022.
Endeavor Content,...
Figeroid joined Endeavor Content in 2018 as senior VP of sales and distribution. Her departure last week was amicable, one insider noted, and the executive is exploring a return to working with boutique and international-focused film finance and sales agencies.
The film sales team at Endeavor Content, meanwhile, is set for a return to WME in the wake of the agreement the agency signed earlier this year with the Writers Guild of America. The deal that settled a nearly two-year standoff over TV and film packaging also requires them to divest themselves of 80% of Endeavor Content by year’s end, while talent agency packaging of TV series and film projects will mostly cease to be as of June 30, 2022.
Endeavor Content,...
- 8/9/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Shane Paul McGhie (Deputy) and Karimah Westbrook (All American) have signed on to star in Panorama, a short film exec produced by former New York Giants player Spencer Paysinger and the NFL team’s current defensive end, Leonard Williams.
The film, written and directed by former theater director Scott Felix, is described as a sense-bending drama that tells the story of Sam (McGhie), a young man grieving the unexpected loss of his Mother (Westbrook). Upon being hit by a car, Sam is catapulted into a near death experience where his Mother guides him through various chapters of his life.
Panorama also stars Thomas Q. Jones (Luke Cage), Myles Cranford (Mindhunter), Maleah Goldberg (On My Block) and Krystian Alexander Lyttle (Foster Boy).
Jordan Orsak, Jevin Lee, Jp Hughes and Dane Morck are set to produce the short, which is heading into production in Los Angeles. Paysinger and Williams exec produce alongside McGhie.
The film, written and directed by former theater director Scott Felix, is described as a sense-bending drama that tells the story of Sam (McGhie), a young man grieving the unexpected loss of his Mother (Westbrook). Upon being hit by a car, Sam is catapulted into a near death experience where his Mother guides him through various chapters of his life.
Panorama also stars Thomas Q. Jones (Luke Cage), Myles Cranford (Mindhunter), Maleah Goldberg (On My Block) and Krystian Alexander Lyttle (Foster Boy).
Jordan Orsak, Jevin Lee, Jp Hughes and Dane Morck are set to produce the short, which is heading into production in Los Angeles. Paysinger and Williams exec produce alongside McGhie.
- 7/14/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Actress and filmmaker Karimah Westbrook has signed with Zero Gravity for management.
Westbrook has played the lead role of Grace James, Spencer’s (Daniel Ezra) mother, on the CW’s All American since the pilot. The popular series is currently airing its third season.
Westbrook co-wrote, starred in produced and directed the award-winning short film Best Kept Secret.
Her other acting credits include the feature Suburbicon, directed by George Clooney, The Rum Diary and American Violet. She also has guest-starred on Shameless, Aquarius and Masters of Sex, among others.
“We couldn’t be more excited about working with Karimah here at Zero Gravity,” said Zero Gravity partner Eric Williams. “A wonderfully talented actress, we’ve admired her work over the years, most recently as a force on All American. As she is now writing and directing her own material, we look forward to continuing to elevate her career as a multi-hyphenate.
Westbrook has played the lead role of Grace James, Spencer’s (Daniel Ezra) mother, on the CW’s All American since the pilot. The popular series is currently airing its third season.
Westbrook co-wrote, starred in produced and directed the award-winning short film Best Kept Secret.
Her other acting credits include the feature Suburbicon, directed by George Clooney, The Rum Diary and American Violet. She also has guest-starred on Shameless, Aquarius and Masters of Sex, among others.
“We couldn’t be more excited about working with Karimah here at Zero Gravity,” said Zero Gravity partner Eric Williams. “A wonderfully talented actress, we’ve admired her work over the years, most recently as a force on All American. As she is now writing and directing her own material, we look forward to continuing to elevate her career as a multi-hyphenate.
- 4/2/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
When George Clooney approached Alexandre Desplat about scoring “The Midnight Sky,” he told him right off the bat that he would have to write more music that he ever has before for a film. “When a director says something like that, you always think maybe it’s a fantasy and you’re going to be able to escape the iceberg that’s coming towards you with this huge amount of music to write,” Desplat tells Gold Derby (watch above). “But he was right. From the script to the film, there’s a big gap, and I wasn’t sure the movie would be as silent as it is now and that music would convey the emotions, the dangers that the characters are experiencing. But yes, he was right, and I had to compose a lot of minutes of music.”
It was about 90 minutes total and all of it made it into the Netflix film.
It was about 90 minutes total and all of it made it into the Netflix film.
- 2/2/2021
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Photo: 'The Midnight Sky'/Netflix It’s hard to believe but the last time George Clooney was in movies was four years ago with 2016’s ‘Money Monster’: for historical context, that was the final year of the Obama administration. And yet, the actor-director-activist has kept busy: last year he executive produced, directed, and co-starred in the ‘Catch-22’ miniseries on Hulu. At the same time, he continued his numerous humanitarian efforts with his wife Amal Clooney and became a father to twins. This brings us to ‘The Midnight Sky’ on Netflix, which marks Clooney’s return to big-screen acting as well as his seventh directorial effort after 2017’s ‘Suburbicon’. Based on the novel ‘Good Morning, Midnight’ by Lily Brooks-Dalton, this is certainly his most ambitious film as a director—a sci-fi doomsday/dystopian drama. But Clooney’s aiming for something different here with an emphasis on emotion and personal stakes.
- 12/25/2020
- by Mario Yuwono
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
There’s a lot that’s frustrating about George Clooney’s new film “The Midnight Sky,” from its egregious borrowing from any number of better movies to its pacing issues, but thanks to a few grace notes, its shortcomings are mostly forgivable.
Premiering December 23 on Netflix, it’s a film that sees Clooney entering a new phase of his acting career, and it also represents an uptick among his directorial output, on the heels of the misbegotten “Suburbicon” and “The Monuments Men.” Audiences will find much of “The Midnight Sky” familiar, but that familiarity puts its original moments and ideas into sharp relief.
Some cinematheque or other needs to host a “George Clooney in space” retrospective, connecting his acting efforts in films as philosophically diverse as “Gravity,” “Solaris,” and “Tomorrowland,” and each of those efforts has certainly flavored this new feature, written by Mark L. Smith (“The Revenant”), based on...
Premiering December 23 on Netflix, it’s a film that sees Clooney entering a new phase of his acting career, and it also represents an uptick among his directorial output, on the heels of the misbegotten “Suburbicon” and “The Monuments Men.” Audiences will find much of “The Midnight Sky” familiar, but that familiarity puts its original moments and ideas into sharp relief.
Some cinematheque or other needs to host a “George Clooney in space” retrospective, connecting his acting efforts in films as philosophically diverse as “Gravity,” “Solaris,” and “Tomorrowland,” and each of those efforts has certainly flavored this new feature, written by Mark L. Smith (“The Revenant”), based on...
- 12/23/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
by Juan Carlos Ojano
Two-time Oscar winner Goerge Clooney directs and stars in Netflix’s final awards contender to drop to streaming during this calendar year, the science fiction drama The Midnight Sky. Based on a novel by Lily Brooks-Dalton, the film follows a lone scientist (Clooney) in the Arctic who must contact a group of astronauts to stop them from returning to earth. This is Clooney’s first film as an actor since 2016’s Money Monster and his first as a director since 2017’s Suburbicon. The film will join a curiously large cinematic trend of 2010s Hollywood: the astronaut drama...
Two-time Oscar winner Goerge Clooney directs and stars in Netflix’s final awards contender to drop to streaming during this calendar year, the science fiction drama The Midnight Sky. Based on a novel by Lily Brooks-Dalton, the film follows a lone scientist (Clooney) in the Arctic who must contact a group of astronauts to stop them from returning to earth. This is Clooney’s first film as an actor since 2016’s Money Monster and his first as a director since 2017’s Suburbicon. The film will join a curiously large cinematic trend of 2010s Hollywood: the astronaut drama...
- 12/19/2020
- by Juan Carlos Ojano
- FilmExperience
Since the release of Gravity in 2013, George Clooney has been in quite the acting slump, with Brad Bird’s severely underrated Tomorrowland as the lone bright spot. Scan his IMDb page and he appears to have made more Nespresso-funded short films than studio features, albeit for altruistic causes. The directorial projects have been even direr, a far cry from the glory days of Good Night and Good Luck and The Ides of March.
Considering its pandering weightiness and saccharine heart, Clooney’s The Midnight Sky feels like a blatant attempt to get back in the good graces of unadventurous critics and Oscar voters. Adapted from the novel Good Morning, Midnight by co-screenwriter Lily Brooks-Dalton, it envisions our planet’s last gasp through the glassy, sad eyes of world-renowned scientist Augustine Lofthouse (Clooney). Afflicted with a mortal ailment, he has decided to stay on Earth while what’s left of...
Considering its pandering weightiness and saccharine heart, Clooney’s The Midnight Sky feels like a blatant attempt to get back in the good graces of unadventurous critics and Oscar voters. Adapted from the novel Good Morning, Midnight by co-screenwriter Lily Brooks-Dalton, it envisions our planet’s last gasp through the glassy, sad eyes of world-renowned scientist Augustine Lofthouse (Clooney). Afflicted with a mortal ailment, he has decided to stay on Earth while what’s left of...
- 12/12/2020
- by Glenn Heath Jr.
- The Film Stage
Alexandre Desplat, the Oscar-winning composer of The Shape of Water and The Grand Budapest Hotel (and 11-time nominee, for everything from The Queen to Little Women) is George Clooney’s go-to music guy.
The pair have collaborated on four of Clooney’s films as a director, starting with Ides of March (2011), through The Monuments Men (2014), Suburbicon (2017), and now, The Midnight Sky.
Desplat’s score for the film, which premieres on Netflix Dec. 23, is as central a character in the science-fiction drama as Clooney’s protagonist Augustine, the lonely scientist who, together with a young, mute girl, races across the barren Arctic ...
The pair have collaborated on four of Clooney’s films as a director, starting with Ides of March (2011), through The Monuments Men (2014), Suburbicon (2017), and now, The Midnight Sky.
Desplat’s score for the film, which premieres on Netflix Dec. 23, is as central a character in the science-fiction drama as Clooney’s protagonist Augustine, the lonely scientist who, together with a young, mute girl, races across the barren Arctic ...
- 12/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Alexandre Desplat, the Oscar-winning composer of The Shape of Water and The Grand Budapest Hotel (and 11-time nominee, for everything from The Queen to Little Women) is George Clooney’s go-to music guy.
The pair have collaborated on four of Clooney’s films as a director, starting with Ides of March (2011), through The Monuments Men (2014), Suburbicon (2017), and now, The Midnight Sky.
Desplat’s score for the film, which premieres on Netflix Dec. 23, is as central a character in the science-fiction drama as Clooney’s protagonist Augustine, the lonely scientist who, together with a young, mute girl, races across the barren Arctic ...
The pair have collaborated on four of Clooney’s films as a director, starting with Ides of March (2011), through The Monuments Men (2014), Suburbicon (2017), and now, The Midnight Sky.
Desplat’s score for the film, which premieres on Netflix Dec. 23, is as central a character in the science-fiction drama as Clooney’s protagonist Augustine, the lonely scientist who, together with a young, mute girl, races across the barren Arctic ...
- 12/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ben Affleck is being considered to star in George Clooney’s feature film version of J.R. Moehringer’s coming-of-age story “The Tender Bar: A Memoir” for Amazon Studios.
Affleck and Clooney worked together as producers on “Argo,” which won them and Clooney’s producing partner Grant Heslov an Academy Award for best picture.
Clooney and Heslov are producing “The Tender Bar” through their Smokehouse Pictures banner along with Ted Hope. The project was set up in July. William Monahan, who won an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for “The Departed,” has written the script for “The Tender Bar.”
Moehringer’s book, published in 2005, centers on the author seeking a replacement for his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before his son spoke his first word. When he can’t find his father’s voice on the radio anymore, the boy turns in desperation to the bar on the corner,...
Affleck and Clooney worked together as producers on “Argo,” which won them and Clooney’s producing partner Grant Heslov an Academy Award for best picture.
Clooney and Heslov are producing “The Tender Bar” through their Smokehouse Pictures banner along with Ted Hope. The project was set up in July. William Monahan, who won an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for “The Departed,” has written the script for “The Tender Bar.”
Moehringer’s book, published in 2005, centers on the author seeking a replacement for his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before his son spoke his first word. When he can’t find his father’s voice on the radio anymore, the boy turns in desperation to the bar on the corner,...
- 12/9/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Until until now, George Clooney’s efforts as a director have stayed firmly planted on Earth, with the stories that attract him being either inspired by true events or tapped directly into the zeitgeist (The Ides of March). With The Midnight Sky, Clooney not only expands his horizons as a filmmaker, literally, but he also takes a giant leap into the speculative. In the process, he’s made a film that doesn’t always hang together, yet it ends up as possibly his most moving feature to date.
To be sure, Clooney’s track record as a director is also significantly uneven: the two films mentioned above are easily the best of the seven he’s helmed. Others, such as The Monuments Men and the almost unwatchable Suburbicon, have been muddled and unfocused affairs. The Midnight Sky falls in the middle of the pack. It’s his first direct attempt at helming science fiction,...
To be sure, Clooney’s track record as a director is also significantly uneven: the two films mentioned above are easily the best of the seven he’s helmed. Others, such as The Monuments Men and the almost unwatchable Suburbicon, have been muddled and unfocused affairs. The Midnight Sky falls in the middle of the pack. It’s his first direct attempt at helming science fiction,...
- 12/9/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Not every actor who tries his or her hand at directing has the chops to be a true filmmaker; in fact, very few do. But George Clooney, in the early 2000s, took to directing as if born to it. His first effort, “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” (2002), had an early Charlie Kaufman script that Clooney staged with attitude and style, getting the audience to buy into a gonzo what-if? biopic of Chuck Barris. Clooney’s sophomore effort, “Good Night, and Good Luck” (2005), vividly dramatized the war between the TV newsman Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy, with Clooney using the black-and-white cinematography to make the 1950s broadcast-news world (and everyone in it) pop. “The Ides of March” (2011) caught the postmodern cynicism of our greedy and gridlocked political culture.
Then Clooney made “The Monuments Men” (2014), and he fell off a cliff. A World War II combat heist thriller about art...
Then Clooney made “The Monuments Men” (2014), and he fell off a cliff. A World War II combat heist thriller about art...
- 12/9/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
When he couldn’t get to his home in Italy after the March lockdown, George Clooney wound up hunkered down with his family in his three-acre Laurel Canyon compound and with no domestic help. When he wasn’t doing dishes or laundry, or playing with his three-year-old twins, he was remotely finishing his seventh feature film as a director. “I had to take a six-month crash course in visual effects,” said Clooney, who is now calling from a beach house in Hawaii. “But it’s not jam-packed with exploding things.
“The Midnight Sky” could return Clooney to Oscar contention for the first time since 2013 Best Picture-winner “Argo” (produced with his partner and frequent co-writer Grant Heslov and director Ben Affleck). That came one year after Clooney scored not only an acting nomination for “The Descendants” but also an Adapted Screenplay nomination for “The Ides of March” (with Heslov and Beau Willimon...
“The Midnight Sky” could return Clooney to Oscar contention for the first time since 2013 Best Picture-winner “Argo” (produced with his partner and frequent co-writer Grant Heslov and director Ben Affleck). That came one year after Clooney scored not only an acting nomination for “The Descendants” but also an Adapted Screenplay nomination for “The Ides of March” (with Heslov and Beau Willimon...
- 12/7/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
When he couldn’t get to his home in Italy after the March lockdown, George Clooney wound up hunkered down with his family in his three-acre Laurel Canyon compound and with no domestic help. When he wasn’t doing dishes or laundry, or playing with his three-year-old twins, he was remotely finishing his seventh feature film as a director. “I had to take a six-month crash course in visual effects,” said Clooney, who is now calling from a beach house in Hawaii. “But it’s not jam-packed with exploding things.
“The Midnight Sky” could return Clooney to Oscar contention for the first time since 2013 Best Picture-winner “Argo” (produced with his partner and frequent co-writer Grant Heslov and director Ben Affleck). That came one year after Clooney scored not only an acting nomination for “The Descendants” but also an Adapted Screenplay nomination for “The Ides of March” (with Heslov and Beau Willimon...
“The Midnight Sky” could return Clooney to Oscar contention for the first time since 2013 Best Picture-winner “Argo” (produced with his partner and frequent co-writer Grant Heslov and director Ben Affleck). That came one year after Clooney scored not only an acting nomination for “The Descendants” but also an Adapted Screenplay nomination for “The Ides of March” (with Heslov and Beau Willimon...
- 12/7/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Four top film production designers will reveal the secrets behind their crafts when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Btl Experts” Q&a event with key 2021 guild and Oscar contenders this month. Each person will participate in two video discussions to be published on Monday, December 14, at 5:00 p.m. Pt; 8:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Joyce Eng and a group chat with Joyce and all of the designers together.
RSVP today to this specific event by clicking here to book your reservation. Or click here to RSVP for our entire ongoing panel series. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.
This “Meet the Btl Experts” panel welcomes the following 2021 guild and Oscar contenders:
“I’m Your Woman” (Amazon Prime): Gae Buckley
Buckley’s career has included such projects as “Stargirl,” “Breakthrough,...
RSVP today to this specific event by clicking here to book your reservation. Or click here to RSVP for our entire ongoing panel series. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.
This “Meet the Btl Experts” panel welcomes the following 2021 guild and Oscar contenders:
“I’m Your Woman” (Amazon Prime): Gae Buckley
Buckley’s career has included such projects as “Stargirl,” “Breakthrough,...
- 12/7/2020
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
After a lackluster November that left Netflix scrambling to rescue its award season ambitions after “Hillbilly Elegy” didn’t quite hit the mark, the streaming giant is showing its full strength with a December lineup that pairs unmissable Originals like “Mank” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” with quintessential library titles like “E.T.” and “Jurassic Park.” Add a bearded George Clooney and a rapping Meryl Streep into the mix, and you’ve got the kind of holiday viewing slate that only Netflix has the chutzpah to put out into the world.
Here are the seven most exciting movies coming to the platform this month.
7. “The Prom” (2020)
Future historians will note that 2020 ended the only way this cursed year possibly could: With Meryl Streep rapping on camera in a Netflix musical directed by Ryan Murphy. And yet, despite all evidence to the contrary, it seems “The Prom” might be just the party...
Here are the seven most exciting movies coming to the platform this month.
7. “The Prom” (2020)
Future historians will note that 2020 ended the only way this cursed year possibly could: With Meryl Streep rapping on camera in a Netflix musical directed by Ryan Murphy. And yet, despite all evidence to the contrary, it seems “The Prom” might be just the party...
- 12/2/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Black Bear Television has nabbed the rights to Mary Kubica’s “Local Woman Missing,” an upcoming mystery novel about a series of strange disappearances.
The deal come in advance of “Local Woman Missing’s” release in May 2021. The story is told through different perspectives and timelines, and revolves around three missing women from the same town whose disappearances have remained unsolved. One day, over a decade after the women go missing, one of the victims shockingly returns home. That raises a number of questions. Where has she been? What happened to the other women? And who is responsible?
Park Row will publish the novel. Kubica’s previous best-selling works include “The Good Girl,” “The Other Mrs.” and “Pretty Baby.” Black Bear Television is the TV studio division of Black Bear Pictures, the production and financing company behind “The Imitation Game,” “Mudbound,” “Suburbicon” and the upcoming “I Care a Lot.” The...
The deal come in advance of “Local Woman Missing’s” release in May 2021. The story is told through different perspectives and timelines, and revolves around three missing women from the same town whose disappearances have remained unsolved. One day, over a decade after the women go missing, one of the victims shockingly returns home. That raises a number of questions. Where has she been? What happened to the other women? And who is responsible?
Park Row will publish the novel. Kubica’s previous best-selling works include “The Good Girl,” “The Other Mrs.” and “Pretty Baby.” Black Bear Television is the TV studio division of Black Bear Pictures, the production and financing company behind “The Imitation Game,” “Mudbound,” “Suburbicon” and the upcoming “I Care a Lot.” The...
- 11/11/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
After lending his talents to an outer space setting as an actor in efforts such as Steven Soderbergh’s “Solaris” and Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar winner “Gravity,” George Clooney is finally ready to tackle outer space from the director’s chair with his upcoming adventure “The Midnight Sky.” The Netflix release is an adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel “Good Morning, Midnight” and features an ensemble cast that includes Clooney, Felicity Jones, Kyle Chandler, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, and Demián Bichir.
“The Midnight Sky” stars Clooney as a cancer-stricken scientist who tries to prevent a group of astronauts from returning to Earth after a global catastrophe wipes out the planet. If the astronauts make it back to Earth, they’ll most likely die. To send a message to the spaceship, the scientist must venture out into the toxic environment to reach an observatory that has enough power to send a communication through the atmosphere.
“The Midnight Sky” stars Clooney as a cancer-stricken scientist who tries to prevent a group of astronauts from returning to Earth after a global catastrophe wipes out the planet. If the astronauts make it back to Earth, they’ll most likely die. To send a message to the spaceship, the scientist must venture out into the toxic environment to reach an observatory that has enough power to send a communication through the atmosphere.
- 10/27/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Noah Jupe is only 15 years old, but he’s already racked up an impressive list of acting credits, including “The Night Manager,” “Suburbicon,” “Ford V Ferrari” and the upcoming sequel to “A Quiet Place.”
It was his work in last year’s “Honey Boy” that solidified his standing not as someone to watch, like so many young Hollywood hopefuls, but someone who has already arrived.
Now, he’s back on the small screen playing Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant’s son in “The Undoing,” the David E. Kelley-created and Susanne Bier-directed six-episode series about a New York City therapist (Kidman) whose life unravels when her doctor husband (Grant) is charged with a gruesome murder. “The Undoing” premieres on HBO on Oct. 25.
“The first time I met [Kidman and Grant] was at the read-through,” Jupe says on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “It was pretty...
It was his work in last year’s “Honey Boy” that solidified his standing not as someone to watch, like so many young Hollywood hopefuls, but someone who has already arrived.
Now, he’s back on the small screen playing Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant’s son in “The Undoing,” the David E. Kelley-created and Susanne Bier-directed six-episode series about a New York City therapist (Kidman) whose life unravels when her doctor husband (Grant) is charged with a gruesome murder. “The Undoing” premieres on HBO on Oct. 25.
“The first time I met [Kidman and Grant] was at the read-through,” Jupe says on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “It was pretty...
- 10/20/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
George Clooney and Grant Heslov are developing John Grisham’s baseball-themed novel “Calico Joe” as a movie with Clooney attached to possibly direct.
Clooney and Heslov will also produce under their Smokehouse Pictures banner alongside Bob Dylan’s Grey Water Park Productions. The script’s development is being financed by Zq Entertainment, the newly-launched production company from former CAA agent and producer Ara Keshishian and a multi-million dollar financing and development fund managed by Petr Jakl and represented by attorney Martin J. Barab.
The fund will focus on the development of high-end film and television, with the goal of 15 projects per year. Jakl, Keshishian, and Barab will executive produce “Calico Joe.”
“John has written a beautiful story and the chance to collaborate with Bob to bring it to the screen is just fantastic,” said Clooney and Heslov in a joint statement.
Dylan said, “George and Grant see in this book...
Clooney and Heslov will also produce under their Smokehouse Pictures banner alongside Bob Dylan’s Grey Water Park Productions. The script’s development is being financed by Zq Entertainment, the newly-launched production company from former CAA agent and producer Ara Keshishian and a multi-million dollar financing and development fund managed by Petr Jakl and represented by attorney Martin J. Barab.
The fund will focus on the development of high-end film and television, with the goal of 15 projects per year. Jakl, Keshishian, and Barab will executive produce “Calico Joe.”
“John has written a beautiful story and the chance to collaborate with Bob to bring it to the screen is just fantastic,” said Clooney and Heslov in a joint statement.
Dylan said, “George and Grant see in this book...
- 10/15/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Fledgling from Zq Entertainment provides script financing.
George Clooney and Grant Heslov will adapt and Clooney will direct John Grisham’s baseball-themed novel Calico Joe.
Clooney and Heslov will also produce under their Smokehouse Pictures banner alongside Bob Dylan’s Grey Water Park Productions.
Calico Joe takes place in 1973 and tells of a phenomenal rookie baseball player who has a fateful encounter in a game with the father of one of his young fans.
Script development financing comes from Zq Entertainment, the fledgling company launched by producer Ara Keshishian, and a multi-million dollar financing and development fund managed by Petr Jakl.
George Clooney and Grant Heslov will adapt and Clooney will direct John Grisham’s baseball-themed novel Calico Joe.
Clooney and Heslov will also produce under their Smokehouse Pictures banner alongside Bob Dylan’s Grey Water Park Productions.
Calico Joe takes place in 1973 and tells of a phenomenal rookie baseball player who has a fateful encounter in a game with the father of one of his young fans.
Script development financing comes from Zq Entertainment, the fledgling company launched by producer Ara Keshishian, and a multi-million dollar financing and development fund managed by Petr Jakl.
- 10/15/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
George Clooney is in talks with Amazon Studios to direct and produce a feature film version of J.R. Moehringer’s coming-of-age story “The Tender Bar: A Memoir.”
Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov would produce through their Smokehouse Pictures banner along with Ted Hope. William Monahan, who won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Departed,” has written the script for “The Tender Bar.”
An adaptation of Moehringer’s book, published in 2005, had been set up previously at Sony Pictures. The story centers on the author, who as a young boy is seeking a replacement for his father, a New York City disc jockey who had vanished before his son spoke his first word. When he can’t find his father’s voice on the radio anymore, the boy turns in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he finds friendship from his Uncle Charlie and other adults,...
Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov would produce through their Smokehouse Pictures banner along with Ted Hope. William Monahan, who won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Departed,” has written the script for “The Tender Bar.”
An adaptation of Moehringer’s book, published in 2005, had been set up previously at Sony Pictures. The story centers on the author, who as a young boy is seeking a replacement for his father, a New York City disc jockey who had vanished before his son spoke his first word. When he can’t find his father’s voice on the radio anymore, the boy turns in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he finds friendship from his Uncle Charlie and other adults,...
- 7/24/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusve: After finishing production on the Netflix pic Midnight Sky, George Clooney has found his next film to direct. We are hearing Clooney is in negotiations to direct and produce The Tender Bar at Amazon Studios.
Amazon had no comment.
If a deal closes, Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov would produce through their Smokehouse Pictures banner. Ted Hope is also a producer. William Monahan penned the script.
Clooney had been considering MGM’s Boys in the Boat, an adaptation of the Daniel James Brown book about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that won gold at the 1936 Olympics. Sources say he’s still attached but felt the timing wasn’t right given the complexity of shooting such a film in the backdrop of a pandemic. He decided to make The Tender Bar his next directing job.
It’s unknown at this time if Clooney would also appear in...
Amazon had no comment.
If a deal closes, Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov would produce through their Smokehouse Pictures banner. Ted Hope is also a producer. William Monahan penned the script.
Clooney had been considering MGM’s Boys in the Boat, an adaptation of the Daniel James Brown book about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that won gold at the 1936 Olympics. Sources say he’s still attached but felt the timing wasn’t right given the complexity of shooting such a film in the backdrop of a pandemic. He decided to make The Tender Bar his next directing job.
It’s unknown at this time if Clooney would also appear in...
- 7/24/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Scream Factory is looking to make this summer one to remember for horror fans with a bunch of new Blu-ray releases, and perhaps one of their most anticipated titles is 2001's Thirteen Ghosts, the Dark Castle remake of William Castle's 1960 film. Initially slated for a June 9th debut, the new Collector's Edition Blu-ray is now coming out on July 28th, and we've been provided with the full list of special features, including a new audio commentary with director Steve Beck:
Press Release: This summer, thrills and chills abound with the arrival of the horror thriller Thirteen Ghosts Collector’s Edition Blu-ray on July 28, 2020 from Scream Factory™. Awesome ectoplasmic specters populate Thirteen Ghosts, an effects-rampant remake of the 1960 William Castle haunted-house film directed by Steve Beck (Ghost Ship) and from producers Gilbert Adler (House on Haunted Hill), Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis. Tony Shalhoub (Galaxy Quest) leads a cast...
Press Release: This summer, thrills and chills abound with the arrival of the horror thriller Thirteen Ghosts Collector’s Edition Blu-ray on July 28, 2020 from Scream Factory™. Awesome ectoplasmic specters populate Thirteen Ghosts, an effects-rampant remake of the 1960 William Castle haunted-house film directed by Steve Beck (Ghost Ship) and from producers Gilbert Adler (House on Haunted Hill), Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis. Tony Shalhoub (Galaxy Quest) leads a cast...
- 6/16/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Black Bear Pictures, whose credits include “The Imitation Game,” “Mudbound” and “Suburbicon,” has optioned the rights to Irish writer Naoise Dolan’s debut novel “Exciting Times,” which has received critical plaudits after its U.K. release, and is published in the U.S. on Tuesday.
Black Bear Television, a division of Black Bear Pictures, will develop and produce “Exciting Times” as a premium television series.
Critics have compared Dolan to literary sensation Sally Rooney, the author of the celebrated best-selling novel “Normal People,” recently adapted as a hit TV series. In its review, Vogue said “Exciting Times” was: “Half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy ‘Crazy Rich Asian’ high-living and guaranteed to please.” Time’s reviewer said: “Dolan crafts sharp commentary on the intersection of longing, class and power.”
Black Bear described the book as “dryly funny and heartbreakingly raw,” and “thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love.
Black Bear Television, a division of Black Bear Pictures, will develop and produce “Exciting Times” as a premium television series.
Critics have compared Dolan to literary sensation Sally Rooney, the author of the celebrated best-selling novel “Normal People,” recently adapted as a hit TV series. In its review, Vogue said “Exciting Times” was: “Half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy ‘Crazy Rich Asian’ high-living and guaranteed to please.” Time’s reviewer said: “Dolan crafts sharp commentary on the intersection of longing, class and power.”
Black Bear described the book as “dryly funny and heartbreakingly raw,” and “thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love.
- 5/28/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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