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  • WATCH | George Clooney directorial, ‘The Boys In The Boat’ trailer tells story of 1936 rowing even

    By Express News Service

    The trailer of The Boys In The Boat, the upcoming film directed by George Clooney, was released by the makers on social media on Wednesday. The film is expected to revolve around a rowing team who were in competition for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin in 1936.

    The film stars Joel Edgerton and Callum Turner and is based on a best-selling book by Daniel James Brown, detailing the true story of the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed in the sporting event.

    The trailer, which has a significant stamp on the era the film is taking place, has hints of the Great Depression with many people facing the brunt of the economic crisis. It was also a time when joint activities encouraged people to show team spirit.

    Peter Guinness, Sam Strike, Thomas Elms, Jack Mulhern, Luke Slattery, and Chris Diamantopoulos, are part of the cast. The screenplay is by Mark L Smith, which is based on the book. The Boys In The Boat will release for Christmas.

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    The trailer of The Boys In The Boat, the upcoming film directed by George Clooney, was released by the makers on social media on Wednesday. The film is expected to revolve around a rowing team who were in competition for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin in 1936.

    The film stars Joel Edgerton and Callum Turner and is based on a best-selling book by Daniel James Brown, detailing the true story of the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed in the sporting event.

    The trailer, which has a significant stamp on the era the film is taking place, has hints of the Great Depression with many people facing the brunt of the economic crisis. It was also a time when joint activities encouraged people to show team spirit.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Peter Guinness, Sam Strike, Thomas Elms, Jack Mulhern, Luke Slattery, and Chris Diamantopoulos, are part of the cast. The screenplay is by Mark L Smith, which is based on the book. The Boys In The Boat will release for Christmas.

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  • Oliver Parker’s ‘Ticket to Paradise’ to release on Oct 6

    By Express News Service

    Ticket to Paradise, the romantic comedy starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts, will hit theatres in India on October 6. Directed by Oliver Parker, the film also stars Kaitlyn Dever, Maxime Bouttier, Lucas Bravo, Billie Lourd in pivotal roles.  

    Ticket To Paradise revolves around a divorced couple, Georgia (Julia Roberts) and David (George Clooney) who team up and travel to Bali so as to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.

    George Clooney said, “Julia and I weren’t actively looking for a project to do together, but, of course, it was easy to say yes to a chance to work on another project with her. Ol Parker  sent the script to both of us at the same time and said that he had written the parts for Julia and me. So, right after I read it, I called Julia and told her, ‘I’ll do it if you do it,’ and she said, ‘Well, I’ll do it if you will.’ And not long after that, we were heading to Australia.”

    “George and I have always had a good chemistry as friends. We approach our work in similar ways as well,” said Julia Roberts.

    Ticket to Paradise, the romantic comedy starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts, will hit theatres in India on October 6. Directed by Oliver Parker, the film also stars Kaitlyn Dever, Maxime Bouttier, Lucas Bravo, Billie Lourd in pivotal roles.  

    Ticket To Paradise revolves around a divorced couple, Georgia (Julia Roberts) and David (George Clooney) who team up and travel to Bali so as to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.

    George Clooney said, “Julia and I weren’t actively looking for a project to do together, but, of course, it was easy to say yes to a chance to work on another project with her. Ol Parker  sent the script to both of us at the same time and said that he had written the parts for Julia and me. So, right after I read it, I called Julia and told her, ‘I’ll do it if you do it,’ and she said, ‘Well, I’ll do it if you will.’ And not long after that, we were heading to Australia.”

    “George and I have always had a good chemistry as friends. We approach our work in similar ways as well,” said Julia Roberts.

  • Ticket to Paradise halts shoot in Australia

    By Express News Service

    According to sources close to the film, George Clooney and Julia Roberts-starrer Ticket To Paradise has halted filming in Australia. It is said to be due to a serious outbreak of Covid cases in Queensland state. It is also reported that both the actors have hence flown back to the US.

    Ticket to Paradise is directed by Mamma Mia fame Ol Parker and it is about two parents, who are divorced. They rush to Bali to stop their daughter from consenting to an unwise marriage, very much like their own. Whitsunday Islands in Australia is to be used as a stand-in for Bali, and other locations where filming is said to take place includes Brisbane and Gold Coast.

    The film is reportedly just two weeks from completion but according to local reports, the crew may not be able to roll the camera again for three months. It is also speculated that the three-month halt will further delay the release of the film. Universal, had initially slated the film to be released in September; however, they had postponed it to October 21. Ticket to Paradise is produced through the UK-based company Working Title, Roberts’ Red Om Films and Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures. 

  • ‘Rust’ shooting incident: Alec Baldwin slams George Clooney on remarks over gun safety

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin in his recent first TV interview since the fatal ‘Rust’ shooting incident addressed the comments made by fellow actor George Clooney regarding gun safety on film sets.

    According to Fox News, the 63-year-old actor told the interviewer, George Stephanopoulos, that any outside comments made were not going to help the situation. “How do you respond to actors like George Clooney who say that every time they were handed a gun, they checked it themselves?” Baldwin was asked.

    The actor said, “Well, there were a lot of people who felt it necessary to contribute some comment to the situation, which really didn’t help the situation. At all.”

    “If your protocol is you check the gun every time, well, good for you. I’ve probably handled weapons as much as any other actor in films with an average career. Again, shooting or being shot by someone. And in that time, I had a protocol and it never let me down,” continued Baldwin.

    Clooney had said on the podcast ‘WTF with Marc Maron’ that he always personally checks a weapon after someone hands it to him on a set.

    The ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ actor reflected, “I’ve been on sets for 40 years and the person that hands you the gun, the person that is responsible for the gun is either the prop or the armorer, period. Now every single time I’m handed a gun on the set, every time they hand me a gun I look at it, I open it. I show it to the person I’m pointing it to, I show it to the crew.”

    “Every single take you had to back to the armorer when you’re done… You do it again and part of it is because of what happened to Brandon [Lee], everyone does it. Everybody knows and maybe Alec did that, hopefully he did do that,” he added.

    Baldwin explained that when he was a young actor a prop person told him not to manipulate a weapon before a scene. Reasoning on the subject Baldwin said, “When that person who is charged with that job handed me the weapon, I trusted them. And I never had a problem.”

    Stephanopoulos then questioned the Emmy-winner what responsibility the actor has on the set to ensure safety. “I guess that’s a tough question because the actor’s responsibility going this day forward is very different than it was the day before that,” Baldwin reflected, adding, “First of all I can’t imagine that I’d ever do a movie that had a gun in it again. The actor’s responsibility is to do what the prop armorer tells them to do.”

    Baldwin said he was handed the gun that discharged and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza by the film’s assistant director Dave Halls who told him the gun was “cold” meaning unloaded. The gun was in fact loaded with a real bullet which should have never been on set.

    The producer clarified he never pulled the gun’s trigger. He was holding the gun to line up a shot as directed by Hutchins to do when Baldwin “let go of the hammer” and the gun went off.

    In a statement through her attorney obtained by Fox News, the film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed said that she doesn’t know how a live round was loaded into the gun. “Never in a million years did Hannah think that live rounds could have been in the ‘dummy’ round box. Who put those in there and why is the central question,” one of her attorneys, Jason Bowles, said in a statement.

    “Hannah was incredibly safety conscious and took her job very seriously from the moment she started on October 4. She did firearms training for the actors as well as Mr. Baldwin, she fought for more training days and she regularly emphasized to never point a firearm at a person,” Bowles added, as per Fox News.

  • George Clooney writes letter to press, asks not to publish photos of his kids

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star George Clooney has penned an open letter to the media organisations around the world, asking them to not publish photographs of his children.

    Clooney, who shares two kids with wife Amal Clooney, decided to write the letter after a British tabloid published photos of actor Billie Lourd and her baby, reported Deadline.

    “Having just seen photos of Billie Lourd’s one-year-old baby in your publication, and the fact that you subsequently took those pictures down, we would request that you refrain from putting our children’s faces in your publication.

    “I am a public figure and accept the oftentimes intrusive photos as part of the price to pay for doing my job. Our children have made no such commitment,” the 60-year-old actor said.

    Clooney asserted that having photos of his children on the internet could put their lives at risk due to his wife Amal’s job as a human rights lawyer.

    “The nature of my wife’s work has her confronting and putting on trial terrorist groups and we take as much precaution as we can to keep our family safe.

    We cannot protect our children if any publication puts their faces on their cover.

    “We have never sold a picture of our kids, we are not on social media and never post pictures because to do so would put their lives in jeopardy.

    Not paranoid jeopardy but real world issues, with real worClooney, who shares two kids with wife Amal Clooney, decided to write the letter after a British tabloid published photos of actor Billie Lourd and her babyld consequences,” he added.

    The actor concluded by saying that he hopes the media’s “need to sell advertisement” is not greater than the need to “keep innocent children from being targeted”.

  • George Clooney, Brad Pitt’s film lands at Apple, Jon Watts to direct

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker Jon Watts’ upcoming movie, fronted by Hollywood stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt, has landed at Apple Studios.

    Watts, the director behind actor Tom Holland’s three “Spider-Man” movies as well as indie hits like “Cop Car” and “Clown”, will write, direct and produce the thriller film.

    The project hit the market last week with major Hollywood studios like Sony, Lionsgate, Annapurna, MGM, Universal, Warner Bros, Apple, Netflix and Amazon vying for it.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Clooney and Pitt will star as two lone wolf fixers assigned to the same job.

    The two actors previously shared screen space for films such as Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean” trilogy and “Burn After Reading”, which was directed by Ethan and Joel Coen.

    The untitled movie will be produced by Clooney and Pitt through their respective production labels, Smokehouse Pictures and Plan B Entertainment.

    Clooney most recently directed Ben Affleck and Tye Sheridan-starrer “The Tender Bar” for Amazon.

    The film is set to open on December 17 in the US.

    Pitt, who won an Oscar for Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, will next star in “Bullet Train” and filmmaker Damian Chazelle’s “Babylon”.

  • George Clooney -Brad Pitt movie package sparks bidding war 

    By Express News Service

    A-list actors George Clooney and Brad Pitt are all set to team up again for a thriller film that is set to be written and directed by Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts.

    The project has started a bidding war amongst studios such as Sony, Lionsgate, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Annapurna, Universal, MGM, and Warner Bros.

    Though plot details are scarce, the film will reportedly tell the tale of two lone-world fixers assigned to the same job.

  • George Clooney, Julia Roberts-starrer ‘Ticket To Paradise’ locks September 2022 release date

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts’ upcoming movie “Ticket To Paradise” will be released in the US theatrically on September 30, 2022. The film will feature Clooney and Roberts as a divorced couple who teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.

    The two actors previously shared screen space in movies such as “Ocean’s 11”, “Ocean’s 12” and “Money Monster. According to Variety, “Ticket To Paradise” is expected to begin filming later this year. The movie will be shot on location in Queensland, Australia, and will get tax incentives from the Australian federal government and from Screen Queensland’s Production Attraction Strategy.

    Ol Parker, known for movies like “Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again” and “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”, will direct from a script he wrote with Daniel Pipski. Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce alongside Deborah Balderstone and Sarah Harvey.

    Clooney is also producing with Grant Heslov for Smokehouse Pictures, alongside Roberts, Lisa Roberts Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill for Red Om Films.

  • George Clooney, Julia Roberts reteam for ‘Ticket to Paradise’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts are set to reunite for upcoming movie “Ticket to Paradise”.

    The film, which hails from Universal Pictures and Working Title, will be directed by “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” helmer Ol Parker, reported Variety.

    Clooney and Roberts will play a divorced couple who teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.

    The two actors previously collaborated on two “Ocean’s” Eleven” films and also for 2016 movie “Money Monster”.

    “Ticket to Paradise” has a script from Ted Melfi based on an idea by Parker and Daniel Pipski.

    Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce alongside Deborah Balder Stone and Sarah Harvey.

    Clooney most recently featured in Netflix’s sci-fi movie “The Midnight Sky”.

    Roberts will next star as Martha Mitchell in the TV series “Gaslit”.

  • Lily Rabe to play female lead in George Clooney’s ‘The Tender Bar’

    By Express News Service
    Actor Lily Rabe has been roped in to play the female lead in George Clooney’s upcoming Amazon movie The Tender Bar.

    Based on author JR Moehringer’s memoir of the same name, the drama also has Ben Affleck and Tye Sheridan.

    The book, which was published in 2005, is a coming-of-age story that follows the author, as a young boy who seeks to replace his father who abandons him.

    The boy develops a friendship with Uncle Charlie, who along with his friends, takes the boy to beach games, and ultimately into their circle.Tye Sheridan will play the role of the boy in the movie, while Affleck will play Uncle Charlie.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rabe will step into the role of the boy’s mother, who is the main female character in the memoir.

    The Tender Bar will be directed by Clooney, with a script written by Oscar-winning scribe William Monahan.

    Clooney will also produce the movie along with his producing partner Grant Heslov through their Smokehouse Pictures banner.

    The actor most recently starred in HBO’s The Undoing, opposite Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.