George Clooney’s upcoming adaptation of Catch-22 has just gained another cast member. According to Deadline, Julie Ann Emery (Preacher) will join the Hulu series in a recurring role. She’ll star alongside Christopher Abbott (The Sinner), George Clooney (Ocean’s 11), Hugh Laurie (Veep) and Kyle Chandler (Game Night). Emery will play Marion Scheisskopf, who’s married to Scheisskopf (Clooney), […]
George Clooney to direct sci-fi thriller Echo
It looks like George Clooney is gearing up to get back behind the camera, as Deadline is reporting that he is in talks to direct the sci-fi film Echo for 20th Century Fox. Echo is being produced y Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps from a script by Christopher MacBride (The Conspiracy, The Education of Fredrick Fitzell). […]
George Clooney reveals that Batman & Robin had the biggest influence on his career
George Clooney has revealed that Batman & Robin was the film that had the most influence on his career. Batman & Robin hasn’t improved with age and it’s still regarded as one of the weakest entries in Batman’s live-action catalogue. George Clooney has never quite been able to live down his performance as Bruce Wayne […]
Kyle Chandler replacing George Clooney in Catch-22
According to Variety, there has been a shuffling of the pack over on Hulu’s upcoming TV adaptation of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, with Friday Night Lights and Bloodline’s Kyle Chandler replacing George Clooney as Colonel Cathcart, and joining Hugh Laurie (House) and Christopher Abbott (The Sinner) in the spy thriller. Clooney, who is directing the opening two episodes, […]
Hulu picks up George Clooney’s Catch-22 series
Back in November it was announced that George Clooney is set to direct and star in a six-part TV adaptation of Joseph Heller’s seminal novel Catch-22, and now it has been revealed that streaming service Hulu has picked up the project with a series order. Catch-22 follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army […]
George Clooney and Matt Charman developing Watergate series
George Clooney will be diving back into the political drama as he and Bridge of Spies writer Matt Charman develop a limited eight-episode series based on the infamous Watergrate scandal. The series has reportedly gone to Netflix, though that may change as competition for it rises. Watergate was one of the biggest events to have happened in […]
Movie Review – Suburbicon (2017)
Suburbicon, 2017. Directed by George Clooney. Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, Glenn Fleshler, Gary Basaraba, Karimah Westbrook, Tony Espinosa, Megan Ferguson, and Oscar Isaac. SYNOPSIS: A home invasion rattles a quiet family town. It’s all too easy to discuss the rather meat-headed prescience of George Clooney’s Suburbicon, a film unable to shift a […]
George Clooney returning to TV with Catch-22 series
Suburbicon bombed at the box-office, so George Clooney looks to be retreating to the medium that launched his career – the world of television. According to The Hollywood Reporter he will direct and star in a Paramount produced limited series based on Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22. Co-written by Luke Davis (Lion) and David Michod (War […]
Movie Review – Suburbicon (2017)
Suburbicon, 2017. Directed by George Clooney. Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, Glenn Fleshler, Gary Basaraba, Karimah Westbrook, Tony Espinosa, Megan Ferguson, and Oscar Isaac. SYNOPSIS: A home invasion rattles a quiet family town. At this point, we must accept that George Clooney is a much better actor than director, or at the very […]
Toronto International Film Festival Review – Suburbicon (2017)
Suburbicon, 2017. Directed by George Clooney. Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, and Oscar Isaac. SYNOPSIS: Suburbicon is a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns…the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. But the tranquil surface masks a […]