Netflix is ramping up its star power. The streamer said Monday that two-time Oscar winner George Clooney is attached to direct and star in a feature based on Lily Brooks-Dalton’s 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight, which was adapted for screen by The Revenant scribe Mark L. Smith. Clooney and producing partner Grant…

An Italian man by the name of Francesco Galdelli and his wife Vanja Goffi were arrested in Thailand Sunday after Galdelli claimed to be George Clooney and sold clothes online, claiming it was a business opened by the actor. According to Thailand’s Crime Suppression Division, Galdelli claimed he was Clooney and he…

There's an hour to go before the pilot episode of Catch-22 unspools to Emmy voters at the Television Academy in the San Fernando Valley, and George Clooney is feeling pretty confident. He and his Smokehouse partner Grant Heslov have completed work on their six-part miniseries based on Joseph Heller's classic World War…

Hollywood is clearly up in arms over the “fetal heartbeat” bill signed into law last month by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Should the town use the threat of a mass exodus from the film and TV location-friendly state that would decimate Georgia’s thriving production industry, or put Hollywood muscle and money into funding…

Critics have often been stumped by satire. This seemed again the case this week as puzzled TV reviewers wrestled with George Clooney's superbly astringent rendition of Catch-22. Shouldn't there be more laughs in satire, some asked? Ironically, I revisited this question as I paid a visit to the Comedy Store (a guilty…

Following the Sultan of Brunei’s decision to back down on death penalty laws for those engaging in gay sexual acts, George Clooney, who has been a pivotal part of the global outcry against the country’s acerbic and inhumane legal codes, issued a statement today in response to the country’s reversal. "This is a huge…

Following a global backlash and an outcry from celebrities including George Clooney, Elton John and Ellen DeGeneres to boycott the nine luxury hotels he owns around the world, the Sultan of Brunei today pulled back on extreme laws against LGBTQ citizens of his country, extended a moratorium on a death penalty that…

Hulu has dropped the official trailer ahead of the May 17 premiere of Catch-22, its high-profile limited series from George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Paramount Television and Anonymous Content.] Written by Luke Davies and David Michôd based on the seminal Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 is the story of the incomparable…

MGM has signed Smokehouse Pictures partners George Clooney and Grant Heslov to a two year first look deal. First up is an untitled film that Clooney will direct and possibly star in about controversial car engineer and designer John DeLorean. MGM Motion Picture Group president Jonathan Glickman made the deal. The film…

Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John and Billie Jean King are among celebrities to follow George Clooney’s lead in calling for a boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei, who on Wednesday introduced strict new laws in his country including sentences of stoning to death for adultery and homosexual sex. Starting today…

Last Thursday, George Clooney wrote a guest column for Deadline calling for the immediate boycott of nine luxury hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei, including the Beverly Hills and Bel-Air hotels in Los Angeles. Clooney was reacting to the enactment of laws that make it potentially legal to murder gay people by…

Elton John has joined George Clooney’s call for a boycott of nine hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei, after the Southeast Asian leader’s nation enacted new laws making homosexual acts punishable by death, starting April 3. “I believe that love is love and being able to love as we choose is a basic human right…