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A documentary feature is in the works based on the 2020 Sports Illustrated story about alleged sexual abuse scandal at the Ohio State University that spanned three decades. Production has begun on the untitled film produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Pictures and David C. Glasser of 101 Studios…

EXCLUSIVE: Courtney Henggeler (Cobra Kai, Mom) has signed on to star alongside Joel Edgerton, Callum Turner, Jack Mulhern, Sam Strike, Luke Slattery, Thomas Elms, Tom Varey, Bruce Herbelin-Earle, Wil Coban and Hadley Robinson in The Boys in the Boat, director George Clooney’s latest film for MGM, Spyglass Media Group…

EXCLUSIVE: George Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smokehouse Pictures has landed the film rights to Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City, the latest work of non-fiction from award-winning sports journalist Kent Babb. The book published on August 10 by HarperOne follows New Orleans’ Edna Karr…

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…

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…

HBO and sales agent Independent have boarded George Clooney-produced political documentary The Art of Political Murder. The premium broadcaster has taken the North American rights to the project via its HBO Documentary Films, while Independent will take it to Cannes. The feature doc, which was previously in…

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…

The specter of Watergate has loomed large over Washington, D.C. recently — great timing for a television series looking at the scandal. Bridge of Spies writer Matt Charman has partnered with George Clooney and Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov for Watergate, an eight-part limited series. We hear that…

EXCLUSIVE: It is early days, but Smokehouse Pictures partners George Clooney and Grant Heslov are developing a narrative feature from The White Helmets, the Orlando von Einsiedel-directed documentary about one of the bravest groups of first responders imaginable. The White Helmets, also known as the Syrian Civil…

EXCLUSIVE: Imperative Entertainment just won an auction for the novel Tangerine with George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse on board to produce and Scarlett Johansson attached to star. The story is about two women whose lives intersect more than once and both times leads to the death or disappearance of one…

George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s indie production company Smokehouse Pictures is continuing its push into television, inking a first-look deal with Sonar Entertainment. Their first project under the pact is America's Most Admired Lawbreaker, based on the serialized Huffington Post article by journalist Steven Brill. M…

Based on the 2005 documentary of the same name, Our Brand Is Crisis portrays a fictionalized account of the highly contentious 2002 Bolivian presidential election in which American consulting firm Greenberg Carville Shrum was brought in to apply techniques used stateside to secure the election of Gonzalo Sánchez de…