Trailer: ‘Gravity’ - Oct. 4

Directed by Alfonso Cuaron, written by Alfonso and Jonas Cuaron, starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock.

Talk about catching you off guard. This is certainly a captivating trailer, though I’m not sure what the premise of an ensuing 90-minute+ movie would be.

(via EW)

Local Actor Crowned George Clooney Lookalike | Kilkenny People

The guy on the left won a chance to attend the Oscars by claiming the top prize in an Irish GEORGE CLOONEY LOOKALIKE CONTEST.

(ht Empire)

entertainmentweekly:

This Week’s Cover: Viola Davis and George Clooney talk Oscars, acting, and their longtime friendship

awards-season:

The Descendants and Hugo are the big winners at this year’s National Board of Review awards. Hugo nabbed top honours, scoring Best Film and Best Director, while The Descendants won Best Actor for George Clooney, Best Supporting Actress for Shailene Woodley and Best Adapated Screenplay. Category frontrunner Christopher Plummer won Best Supporting Actor, while Tilda Swinton won Best Actress for her performance in We Need To Talk About Kevin. More below -

Best Film: Hugo

Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Hugo

Best Actor: George Clooney, The Descendants

Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Best Supporting Actress: Shailene Woodley, The Descendants

Best Original Screenplay: Will Reiser, 50/50

Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, The Descendants

Best Animated Feature: Rango

Breakthrough Performance: Felicity Jones, Like Crazy

Breakthrough Performance: Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Debut Director: J.C. Chandor, Margin Call

Best Ensemble: The Help

Spotlight Award: Michael Fassbender (A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, X-Men: First Class)

NBR Freedom of Expression: Crime After Crime

NBR Freedom of Expression: Pariah

Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation

Best Documentary: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Special Achievement in Filmmaking: The Harry Potter Franchise – A Distinguished Translation from Book

Trailer: The Ides of March - Oct 7

Co-Written and Directed by George Clooney. Starring Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Evan Rachel Wood, and Marisa Tomei.

Make no mistake this is a heavy political drama headed straight for awards season. The trailer makes it seem more intense that it will likely be, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be riveting. Clooney’s direction is hit or miss, hopefully this is the former - we can already say that about the cast. For some reason I can’t help but shake the HBO-Made-For-TV-Movie feel, anyone else get that from this?

(via /Film)

Poster: The Ides of March | /Film

Posted again for HQ.

Poster: The Ides of March

awards-season:

tallwhitney:

See guys? Gosling is the new Clooney.

Poster for The Ides Of March. Um, maybe my favourite poster of the year thus far.

Oh yeah, this is stellar.

Trailer: The Descendants - Dec. 16

Directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways). Starring George Clooney (George Clooney).

Looks like your typical family drama but it’s good to see Clooney in such a commanding lead role that doesn’t require heists or espionage. It’s blatant Oscar bait, if that’s the kind of thing you’re into. Good use of music though.

(via THR)

Two months after Darren Aronofsky announced that he wouldn’t be making The Wolverine, Vulture has learned that the Black Swan director has set his sights on a new film: a fifteen-year-old original sci-fi spec script called Human Nature by a little-known screenwriter named Jeff Welch. We hear that George Clooney is attaching himself to star as a man who is cryogenically frozen and wakes up years later to a world in which humans have become pets of another species. Insiders tell us that Warner Bros.–based producer Akiva Goldsman (I Am Legend) is currently budgeting the movie, but if things go to plan, this would likely be Aronofsky’s next project.

Kind of Planet of The Apes-y. Also kind of bonkers.

First Look at George Clooney’s Campaign Posters in The Ides of March | Movieline

Sony has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to George Clooney’s next directorial feature, The Ides of March.  Based on the Broadway play Farragut North, the political drama–which is loosely based on the 2004 Democratic Primary run of Howard Dean–is set to star Ryan Gosling as “a young press spokesman who falls prey to backroom politics.”  The film will also star Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, and Clooney.  According to Variety, Sony wanted to keep the title as “Farragut North”, but Clooney insisted that it be changed to The Ides of March (which is a reference to the seer’s unheeded warning of Caesar’s death in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar).

The studio is planning to release the film in platform release next December before expanding wide in January 2012, which probably means they think that the film has awards potential.

George Clooney will direct and star in The Ides of March, an adaptation of the 2008 Broadway play Farragut North by Beau Willimon, reports Variety. Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood have been cast in the drama, which focuses on a political press spokesman (Gosling) who works for a Democratic presidential candidate (Clooney) and tangles with a rival campaign manage (Giamatti), a reporter (Tomei) and an alluring intern (Wood). Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov wrote the screenplay with help from Willimon.