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JANUARY 10, 2017 DEADLINE: SUNDANCE-BOUND ‘CRIES FROM SYRIA’ ACQUIRED BY HBO HBO has acquired U.S. TV rights to Cries From Syria, the follow-up documentary from Evgeny Afineevsky, who helmed last year’s Oscar- and Emmy-nominated Winter On Fire. Syria is having its world premiere in the Sundance Film Festival’s Documentary Premieres section this month, and HBO will debut it on Monday, March 13. 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 MORE Deadline’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 |
