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JANUARY 10, 2016 VARIETY: SUNDANCE: HBO PICKS UP SYRIAN CIVIL WAR DOCUMENTARY The Sundance Film Festival doesn’t start for another month, but already the market for films is heating up. HBO has acquired U.S. TV rights for “Cries From Syria,” a documentary about the Syrian civil war. The film is directed by Evgeny Afineevsky, who previously oversaw the Emmy and Oscar-nominated “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom.” READ MORE MAY 13, 2016 PEOPLE: THE PEOPLE REVIEW: GEORGE CLOONEY RINGS UP A GREAT PERFORMANCE IN MONEY MONSTER In this satiric comedy-drama directed by Jodie Foster – it’s her fifth feature film – George Clooney plays Lee Gates, a Wall Street prophet of profit who hosts a Jim Cramer-like cable show. Lee talks a manic streak of highs and lows, winners and losers, buy-nows and sell-sooners, all syncopated to the nano-beat of computerized financial algorithms. READ MORE MAY 12, 2016 DEADLINE: ‘MONEY MONSTER’ REVIEW: GEORGE CLOONEY & JULIA ROBERTS IN A SHARP MOVIE JUST RIGHT FOR THE TIMES – CANNES Movies don’t get much timelier than Money Monster, but I am not quite sure if the filmmakers were thinking that when they made this thriller about a disgruntled blue-collar worker (Jack O’Connell) who interrupts the live broadcast of a CNBC-style financial show and takes its showman-like host Lee Gates (George Clooney) hostage in front of a live TV audience. READ MORE MAY 12, 2016 DEADLINE: ‘MONEY MONSTER’ PRODUCERS DANIEL DUBIECKI & LARA ALAMEDDINE ON A SUSPENSE THRILLER SEVEN YEARS IN THE MAKING – CANNES STUDIO The Jodie Foster directed-thriller Money Monster starring George Clooney as a financial news talk-show host who is taken hostage on air by a crazed young man premieres tonight at the Cannes Film Festival out of competition. Julia Roberts plays Clooney’s TV producer Patty Fenn who tries to keep the situation together while Jack O’Connell plays a Kyle, a tortured young man who took the wrong stock tip from Clooney’s Lee Gates and lost his nest egg. READ MORE MAY 12, 2016 DEADLINE: PHOTOS: DEADLINE STUDIO AT CANNES 2016 – PART 1 – WOODY ALLEN, SUSAN SARANDON, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, KRISTEN STEWART AND MOREDeadline’s studio at the Cannes Film Festival kicked off seven talent-filled days on the Croisette with visits by Woody Allen, director of opening night’s Café Society, along with actors Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Corey Stoll and Kristen Stewart. Also stopping by the studio were Money Monster producers Lara Alameddine and Daniel Dubiecki, Roy Price of Amazon Studios, Tom Bernard and Michael Barker of Sony Pictures Classics, and many more. READ MORE MAY 5, 2016 MOVIEFONE: WATCH GEORGE CLOONEY AND JULIA ROBERTS GO B-A-N-A-N-A-S IN CARPOOL KARAOKE Have you been waiting your whole life to hear George Clooney rap/sing, "This sh-t is bananas," then define -- in his own interpretation -- what it means to be a "Hollaback Girl"? Well, you are in luck! Clooney, Julia Roberts, Gwen Stefani, and James Corden went completely B-A-N-A-N-A-S in the latest Carpool Karaoke video, ending with a rousing rendition of Queen's "We Are the Champions," despite the song not really being relevant to anyone in the vehicle. It was still awesome. READ MORE MAY 4, 2016 DEADLINE: ‘CARPOOL KARAOKE’ COPS CLICKS WITH GWEN STEFANI, GEORGE CLOONEY & JULIA ROBERTSJames Corden’s latest Carpool Karaoke video is careening toward its first 1 million YouTube views this morning, featuring Gwen Stefani, while demonstrating how to grow the franchise being sold as a syndicated series. This time, it’s about the back seat. James picked up two pals in order to take advantage of the HOV+4 lane. As luck would have it, Money Monster co-stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts had nothing else to do at that moment, and were good sports about taking a back seat to The Voice judge and CBS Late Late Show host. READ MORE MAY 4, 2016 ROLLING STONE: GWEN STEFANI ENLISTS GEORGE CLOONEY, JULIA ROBERTS FOR 'CARPOOL KARAOKE' Gwen Stefani sat shotgun with James Corden for an extended session of "Carpool Karaoke" on The Late Late Show Wednesday that included two bonus passengers: Money Monster co-stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts. READ MORE MAY 4, 201 VARIETY: WATCH: GWEN STEFANI JOINS JAMES CORDEN, GEORGE CLOONEY AND JULIA ROBERTS FOR CARPOOL KARAOKE Gwen Stefani joined James Corden for another installment of “The Late Late Show” host’s Carpool Karaoke on Wednesday night — and they enlisted a couple of friends to come along for the ride. READ MORE MAY 4, 2016 PEOPLE: WATCH: GEORGE CLOONEY AND JULIA ROBERTS FACE AN UNHINGED INVESTOR IN THIS EXCLUSIVE MONEY MONSTER CLIP In this tense exclusive clip from the upcoming film Money Monster, an unhinged investor who lost everything menacingly paces around the studio of a financial show modeled after CNBC’s Mad Money while it’s live on the air. READ MORE APRIL 13, 2016 VARIETY: DAVID OYELOWO TO STAR IN ‘A DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA’ David Oyelowo will star in and produce the movie “A Day in the Death of America,” which focuses on the 10 children killed by guns on Nov. 23, 2013. Production companies are the Allegiance Theater, headed by Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine, and Eric Eisner’s Double E Pictures. They have acquired exclusive feature film and life rights to Gary Younge’s nonfiction book of the same name. READ MORE APRIL 13, 2016 DEADLINE: DAVID OYELOWO TO STAR IN GUN VIOLENCE PIC ‘ANOTHER DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA’ FROM ‘MONEY MONSTER’ PRODUCERS David Oyelowo has been attached to star in and produce Another Day In The Death Of America, the haunting upcoming nonfiction book by The Guardian journalist Gary Younge. It’s based on the true story of the writer who investigated 10 children shot dead in one random day in America, a wrenching journey which led to his book. The Allegiance Theater, headed by Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine — they have the Cannes-bound Money Monster teed up as its first production READ MORE APRIL 1, 2016 PEOPLE: PRIMETIME THRILLER: SEE JULIA ROBERTS AND GEORGE CLOONEY AS HOSTAGES ON LIVE TELEVISION IN EXCLUSIVE MONEY MONSTER POSTER With fear in her eyes, Julia Roberts bravely stands by George Clooney during an on-air hostage situation in the upcoming Money Monster. READ MORE MARCH 15, 2016 VARIETY: JODIE FOSTER, GEORGE CLOONEY’S ‘MONEY MONSTER’ TO PLAY CANNES FILM FESTIVAL Jodie Foster’s thriller “Money Monster,” starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts, will screen at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, Variety has confirmed. READ MORE MARCH 15, 2016 THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: GEORGE CLOONEY, JULIA ROBERTS' 'MONEY MONSTER' TO SCREEN AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL Jodie Foster directed the thriller, about a financial talk show host who is held hostage by an irate viewer. Jodie Foster's Money Monster — starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — has landed a berth at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. READ MORE JANUARY 12, 2016 PEOPLE: GEORGE CLOONEY AND JULIA ROBERTS MAKE THE ULTIMATE TEAM IN FIRST MONEY MONSTER TRAILER George Clooney and Julia Roberts are together again on screen. The Oscar winners star in the new political thriller Money Monster helmed by director Jodie Foster. READ MORE JANUARY 12, 2016 DEADLINE: ‘MONEY MONSTER’ TRAILER: GEORGE CLOONEY HAS ‘NETWORK’-ING SKILLS Here’s the first trailer for Money Monster, a monster in its own right when TriStar Pictures won rights to the real-time thriller in 2014. It’s Jodie Foster directing and George Clooney starring as a Jim Cramer-like TV stock wiz Lee Gates, who with his ace producer (Julia Roberts) is held hostage on air by a man (Jack O’Connell) who followed Gates’ advice, lost his money and put his young family in precarious straits. Jamie Linden, Alan DiFiore & Jim Kouf wrote the script. Dominic West, Giancarlo Esposito, and Caitriona Balfe co-star. READ MORE JANUARY 12, 2016 THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: 'MONEY MONSTER' TRAILER: GEORGE CLOONEY, JULIA ROBERTS TAKE ON ACTIVE SHOOTER, WALL STREET Jodie Foster directs the real-time thriller.The Money Monster trailer sees George Clooney as Lee Gates, the Wall Street newsman who gets held hostage onscreen by an irate investor (Unbroken's Jack O'Connell) after one of his tips turns out badly. READ MORE JANUARY 12, 2016 VARIETY: GEORGE CLOONEY AND JULIA ROBERTS IN ‘MONEY MONSTER’ TRAILER George Clooney becomes a hostage on network TV in the first trailer for TriStar Pictures’ “Money Monster.” Clooney is playing a glib investment guru with the TV show “Money Monster” who has to deal with a gun-toting investor — played by Jack O’Connell of “Unbroken” — after the investor takes a bath on a tech stock. READ MORE |
