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George Clooney To Star In “The Descendants”
4 November 2009 3:03 PM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
George Clooney is in discussions to head the cast of Alexander Payne’s comedy-drama “The Descendants.”
The movie marks Payne’s first movie since 2004’s Oscar winner “Sideways” and the first collaboration between Clooney and the director.
The movie centers on a wealthy revolves around a wealthy father who takes his two daughters on a trip to find his wife’s lover in the hope that it will keep his family together.
Screenplay for “The Descendants,” based on the debut novel of the same name by Kaui Hart Hemmings, is written by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.
Production is scheduled to start in February in Hawaii.
Alexander Payne, Jim Burke and Jim Taylor are producing through their shingle Ad Hominem.
Clooney, who is currently shooting Anton Corbijn-directed thriller “The American,” has three films set for release in the coming weeks – he is the voice of the title character in »
- Fiona
George Clooney Joining Alexander Payne's The Descendants
3 November 2009 9:31 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
George Clooney is certainly finishing strong this year with a trio of releases hitting theaters over the next two months. Clooney will next be seen in The Men Who Stare at Goats (opening November 6th) followed by Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox also this month and Up in the Air later in December. But despite his busy schedule promoting these films and shooting the Anton Corbijn directed thriller The American (formerly known as A Very Private Gentlemen) it looks like Clooney is adding yet another role to his roster as Variety says he's in talks to lead Sideways director Alexander Payne's first film in five years, The Descendants. Actors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash wrote the screenplay based on Kaui Hart Hemming's debut novel of the same name which tells the story of a newly widowed father, also one of the richest men in Oahu, Hawaii, as he »
- Ethan Anderton
The Potential is There for George Clooney to Star in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants
3 November 2009 9:30 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Alexander Payne must choose his films very carefully because he has directed only four of them in over thirteen years. Sideways was possibly his best and most complete film yet, and so his followup has been anticipated. According to Variety, Payne is working on a film called The Descendants, and George Clooney could potentially come on board to star. I know that potential is sometimes like saying that the Large Hadron Collider could potentially create a blackhole that swallows the planet, but this one sounds like it’s happening. Variety has the details: The actor, who is currently shooting Anton Corbijn-directed thriller “The American,” is in talks to topline “Descendants,” which centers on a wealthy landowner who takes his two daughters on a search for his wife’s lover in the hopes of keeping his family together. Project, which marks Payne’s first feature in five years, is scheduled »
- Jacob
Clooney in Talks to Join 'Descendants'
3 November 2009 6:21 AM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Variety
George Clooney is circling the lead in the Alexander Payne-helmed family dramedy "The Descendants" for Fox Searchlight.
The actor, who is currently shooting Anton Corbijn-directed thriller "The American," is in talks to topline "Descendants," which centers on a wealthy landowner who takes his two daughters on a search for his wife's lover in the hopes of keeping his family together.
Read more from Variety.
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- Dylan Stableford
George Clooney in talks to join The Descendants
3 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
George Clooney is currently in talks to join Fox Searchlight Pictures' "The Descendants." The story follows a wealthy landowners who takes his two daughters on a search for his wife's lover in hopes of keeping his family together. The actor is currently shooting the Anton Corbijn-helmed thriller "The American." Alexander Payne returns to the helm after almost five years and filming is scheduled to start in Hawaii in February. This marks the first collaboration between Payne and Clooney. The screenplay is based on the first novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings and is penned by Jim Rash and Nat Faxon. »
Clooney in Talks for Payne's Descendants
3 November 2009 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
George Clooney is in talks to star in Alexander Payne's family dramedy The Descendants at Fox Searchlight Pictures. Clooney, who is currently shooting Anton Corbijn-directed thriller The American , would topline the film, which centers on a wealthy landowner who takes his two daughters on a search for his wife's lover in the hopes of keeping his family together. The Descendants is scheduled to begin filming in February in Hawaii. The screenplay, which is based on Kaui Hart Hemmings' debut novel of the same name, was written by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. »
George Clooney is in talks for The Descendants
3 November 2009 4:11 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
George Clooney is in talks to star in Alexander Payne's new movie The Descendants, a family dramedy for Fox Searchlight.
Variety reports that the film centers on a wealthy landowner who takes his two daughters on a search for his wife's lover in the hopes of keeping his family together. The film is Payne's first feature in five years, and is scheduled to begin shooting in February in Hawaii.
Clooney is currently shooting The American for director Anton Corbijn. The Descendants is written by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, based on Kaui Hart Hemmings' debut novel of the same name.
Clooney stars in The Men Who Stare At Goats which is release in the UK on November 6th. »
- Paul
George Clooney considers Alexander Payne’s Descendants
3 November 2009 3:24 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
George Clooney is busy. Not only is he saving the world … Ok, that’s a slight exaggeration, but he also has tons of films coming out and it’s showing signs of slowing down.
Now comes word from Variety that Clooney is considering the lead in the Alexander Payne family dramedy The Descendants.
You can see him before that in The Men Who Stare as Goats this Friday (Nov. 6) and the upcoming films Fantastic Mr. Fox and Up in the Air.
He’s also currently shooting The American, a thriller directed by Anton Corbijn.
But now back to Descendants … it’s a film about a wealthy man who takes his two daughters on a search for his wife’s lover in hopes of keeping the family together.
The screenplay is written by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash and based on Kaui Hart Hemmings’ debut novel of the same name.
This »
- Jeff Bayer
Clooney To Topline 'The Descendants'
3 November 2009 3:03 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
George Clooney is not a man to stay still for long. Not content with having three films come out within a couple of months of one-another (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Up in the Air) and shooting Anton Corbijn's The American it looks very much like Clooney's going to star in Alexander Payne's The Descendants (Sideways and About Schmidt).
According to Variety the Oscar winning actor is in talks to star in the dramatic comedy by as a father who takes his two daughters on the road to track down his wife's lover.
We here at Screenrush have long been amazed it George's remarkable ability - given the fact that he's one of the most handsome, charming and intelligent men on the planet! - to express pathos (think Michael Clayton and Up in the Air, the upcoming comedy from Juno director Jason Reitman »
George Clooney in Talks to Star in Alexander Payne’s Next Film, The Descendants
2 November 2009 10:03 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
While I enjoy poking fun at most actors who never seem to slow down and it feels like I’m announcing a new project for them every week, I never mind it when that actor is George Clooney. Even when I’m not crazy about the film, like “The Good German” or “Intolerable Cruelty”, I still think he’s great in it. You’ll find that there’s no escaping Clooney for the rest of 2009 since he has three movies coming out over the next two months. But since he’s great in “The Men Who Stare at Goats” and “Up in the Air”, I don’t think you’ll mind (I have yet to see “Fantastic Mr. Fox” but I don’t think his voice work is going to let me down).
Even though Clooney is currently in Italy shooting Anton Corbijn’s spy-thriller “The American”, he’s already »
- Matt Goldberg
John Lennon Biopic Nowhere Boy Trailer
29 October 2009 6:16 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
A fresh wave of Beatlemania swept across the world last month with the release of Beatles Rock Band and the newly remastered Beatles catalogue, and the timing seems to have worked out quite nicely for Sam Taylor Wood's upcoming John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy. Although you might expect a Lennon biopic to be a massive Hollywood blockbuster with big name stars, this is a smaller British affair, using mostly unknown actors and (I believe) none of the Beatles' music. Because of this stripped down approach, and the fact that it focuses mainly on Lennon's childhood, Nowhere Boy seems like it has a good shot at avoiding many of the painful cliches of musical biopics. The trailer for Nowhere Boy claims to feature an "untold story", but it is based on a book by Lennon's half-sister, Julia Baird. The screenplay was written by Matt Greenhalgh, who also penned Anton Corbijn's Ian Curtis biopic Control, »
- Sean
Joe Anderson
21 October 2009 8:02 AM, PDT | Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news »
In Mira Nair's latest film, Amelia, a biopic about pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, Joe Anderson plays Wilmer "Bill" Stultz, the pilot who helmed the first transatlantic crossing with a female passenger-Earhart-in 1928, despite his belief that a woman's place was not in the cockpit. Anderson, though, had no such qualms about flying alongside Hilary Swank, who plays Earhart in the film, as the two actors reenacted the 20-plus-hour, near-freezing flight. "Most of the time, we were sweating our asses off in leather jumpsuits, pretending to be cold," says the 27-year-old British-born Anderson, who drew attention a couple of years ago for his performances in a pair of choice indies about rock bands: Julie Taymor's valentine to the Beatles, Across the Universe, and Anton Corbijn's ode to Joy Division, Control. In addition to Amelia, Anderson recently completed Rogue's Gallery, a political satire produced by Richard Kelly, as well as The Crazies, »
- By Michael Martin Photography ALASDAIR McLELLAN
George Clooney Is The American
29 September 2009 12:01 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
A press release from Focus Features has announced that shooting has begun in Italy on The American: Anton Corbijn's second film as director (after the brilliant Control), starring George Clooney.It's based on Martin Booth's 2005 novel A Very Private Gentleman: a languid, introspective thriller about an ageing manufacturer of intricate and unusual bespoke weapons, hiding out in the Italian Appenines, posing as a painter of butterflies when his past comes back to haunt him. The screenplay has been adapted by Roland's son Rowan Joffe (co-writer of 28 Weeks Later and the upcoming new version of Brighton Rock). Grant Heslov, who was with Clooney for Goodnight and Good Luck and The Men Who Stare At Goats, is among the producers. Costume and production design is by the Slumdog Millionaire team of Suttirat Larlarb and Mark Digby, and Corbijn's editor and cinematographer from Control, Martin Ruhe and Andrew Hulme, are also on board. »
George Clooney is The American
28 September 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
Academy Award winner George Clooney stars in the title role of The American for director Anton Corbijn (Control). Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the suspense thriller, which begins production this week on location in Italy. Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement today. The screenplay by Rowan Joffe is adapted from Martin Booth’s novel A Very Private Gentleman, published in 2005. The film’s producers are This is that’s Anne Carey, who most recently produced Adventureland and The Savages; Smokehouse’s Grant Heslov, an Academy Award nominee as producer an... »
George Clooney Is The American
28 September 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
I imagine it.s cliché at this point to say that George Clooney is my man crush. He.s an impossible dude to resist. And he just seems to get smoother with age. And I don.t necessarily mean his looks either. The guy went from starring in a pretty good television series to starring in some of the best mainstream independent movies released over the last decade. In his next role, Clooney will play the title character in The American. Yep, Clooney is playing The American. If he.s our representation, then I.m more than proud to live here. The film, directed by Anton Corbijn, will follow Clooney as Jack, a master craftsman who finds some time away in Italy from his dangerous profession after a bad job and ends up falling in love and making friends with a local priest. All isn.t good, though, as his »
Anton Corbijn announces next project: The American with Clooney
28 September 2009 4:49 PM, PDT | 24framespersecond.net | See recent 24FramesPerSecond news »
Photographer, director and all around visual genius Anton Corbijn is set to begin production this week on his second feature length film, The American, in Italy with George Clooney starring in the title role, according to press release from Focus Features, who will be handling distribution of the film worldwide. Corbijn, whose previous feature was the Joy Division biography Control is probably best know for having directed a ton of music videos and for being an incredibly gifted and stylish photographer. »
Anton Corbijn starts shooting The American with American George Clooney
28 September 2009 4:14 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
We loved the film Control. You know, that Joy Division film from last year. So much, despite its doom and gloom. Former photographer Anton Corbijn was always destined to go on to fry much bigger fish, and here's the news that he has just literally kicked off shooting his new film with non other than A-listed gorgeous George Clooney.
The film is The American and is based on the 2005 book A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth. Clooney stars in the lead role as an assassin. Roland Joffe adapted the novel. All of the info can be found via the lengthy press release, which we have posted after the jump.
New York, September 28, 2009 - Academy Award winner George Clooney stars in the title role of The American for director Anton Corbijn (Control). Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the suspense thriller, which begins production this week on location in Italy. »
- Paul
Clooney and Corbijn Begin Filming 'The American'
28 September 2009 2:09 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Focus Features just let us know that George Clooney has started work on Anton Corbijn's The American, which is filming near the actor's home away from home in Italy. The film is based on Martin Booth's book A Very Private Gentleman, and per his usual, Clooney is also co-producing the film with his partner at Smokehouse, Grant Heslov.
Corbijn is one of the most celebrated music video directors and photographers alive, and his 2007 feature film debut, Control, was one of the best-reviewed films of that year. The film is a spy thriller set in Europe, and while the story (detailed below) isn't auspicious in its originality, the combination of Clooney and Corbijn could be electric. Certainly, it's a rather unpredictable pairing.
Here's the synopsis, straight from Focus, with a few alterations for brevity: »
- Colin Boyd
George Clooney and Anton Corbijn’s A Very Private Gentleman Becomes The American, Begins Filming in Italy
28 September 2009 1:23 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
We've known for quite a while that George Clooney would be starring in an adaptation of the Martin Booth novel A Very Private Gentleman for Control director Anton Corbijn. Now we're told, via press release from Focus Features, that the film's official title is The American, and that the film begins shooting in Italy this week. I've been skeptical of Corbijn going from photographer to director. (Which was silly; if he's good enough to shoot Tom Waits I should've had faith.) But his film Control, which dramatized the life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, an early photographic subject of Corbijn's, really won me over. Corbijn's cinematographer from that film, Martin Ruhe, is back on board for this feature, too. If nothing else, we can expect a fantastic-looking movie. And reading the plot, I'm hoping for a character-based drama/thriller in the vein of those '70s films, the absence »
- Russ Fischer
Buzz Break: Pen's Pals
28 September 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
· In the new issue of Vanity Fair, Penélope Cruz is asked whether she preferred kissing Scarlett Johansson or Charlize Theron. "No matter how I answer that I will be in trouble. Both were pretty beautiful partners."
· George Clooney's set to star in the new thriller The American from director Anton Corbijn (Control).
· Lorne Michaels is helpfully dishing to the Washington Post about Jenny Slate and her foul mouth: "It has to be an actor's worst nightmare. Your first time on Saturday Night Live and this happens. You could sense the mortification in the studio."
· Congratulations to Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy, who married this month in France.
· Did Matthew Weiner orchestrate last week's Mad Men foot mowing as some form of revenge? Let's wait and see who Sally Draper brutally murders in the season finale before we start drawing conclusions. »
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