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George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures is teaming with Sports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios to produce a docuseries based on a three-decade-long scandal in the athletic department at Ohio State University. The docuseries is based on Sports Illustrated executive editor and senior writer Jon…

EXCLUSIVE: This year especially, film holiday bragging rights ought to belong to the streamers, as numerous big pictures fill the holiday corridor gap emptied by the pandemic. Trouble is, most of them resist transparency, even when the news is good. I’m trying to coax out information on a couple of films, but here’s…

Catch-22 recently made its highly-anticipated debut on Hulu. George Clooney directs and co-stars in the adaptation of Joseph Heller’s seminal novel about artful dodger Yossarian (Christopher Abbott). The book contained nearly four dozens characters, which made it extremely difficult for writers Luke Davies and David…

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…

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…

If you’ve followed the news at all today, you know Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen abruptly resigned amid tension in the Trump administration over its failure to stop Central American migrants from crossing the southern border. President Donald Trump tweeted news of Nielsen’s departure at 6:02 p.m. ET. He…

George Clooney says he first read Catch-22 in high school, joking it was required reading back then when he was young “15 years ago.” His initial response when asked about making Hulu’s six-episode series? “No,” he said, surprising TV critics at TCA on Monday. “It seemed ridiculous. I didn’t want to get into the…

George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures has brought on Focus Features’ production executive Rebecca Arzoian as President of Television. In her new role, Arzoian will be overseeing all aspects of television development and production for the TV division of Clooney and Heslov's company through their first…

We’re getting a first look at Catch-22, Hulu's high-profile limited series from George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Paramount Television and Anonymous Content. Hulu has released nine episodic photos for the series (see above and below), which is slated for premiere this spring. Written by Luke Davies and David Michôd based…

George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures is expanding its relationship with Paramount TV, signing a two-year first-look deal, which includes all television, digital and episodic projects from Smokehouse, excluding features. Paramount TV and Smokehouse, along with Anonymous Content, are currently in…

YouTube has finalized a deal for 10-episode series order to On Becoming A God In Central Florida, a 1990s-set one-hour dark comedy series, starring and executive produced by Kirsten Dunst. The series, set to premiere on YouTube Premium in 2019, hails from George Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smokehouse Pictures and…

EXCLUSIVE: In what could give new meaning to the term breakout performance, Great Curve Films has managed to shoot a pair of feature films in Indiana’s maximum-security Pendleton Correctional Facility, with the hundreds of men who are incarcerated there. Its producers claim it is the first time a fiction and a…