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At Sunday’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles event, The Tender Bar star Ben Affleck and the two young actors — Tye Sheridan and Daniel Ranieri — who share the role of the older and younger J.R. Moehringer in George Clooney’s film version of Moehringer’s memoir, joined me virtually as part of the Amazon Studios…

“In life, you've gotta have ‘it,'” two-time Oscar winner Ben Affleck says in the first trailer for director George Clooney’s The Tender Bar, released by Amazon today. “If you don't have ‘it, you'll never get it—and I say you got it.” Clooney’s follow-up to Netflix sci-fi pic The Midnight Sky is an adaptation of…

As a director, George Clooney’s filmography has veered through different genres (most recently from the frigid edges of earth into outer space in the big-scale epic The Midnight Sky). But I don’t think he has ever hit us directly in the heart quite the way his latest, The Tender Bar, does. The only special effect used…

George Clooney has described his The Tender Bar lead Ben Affleck as “a really wonderful actor who hasn’t been given a lot of great parts to show that off.” Making an in-person appearance at today’s Deadline Contenders London alongside his producing partner Grant Heslov, Clooney said Good Will Hunting star Affleck is…

Amazon Studios has set a release date for George Clooney’s latest directorial effort, The Tender Bar, starring Ben Affleck (Argo), Tye Sheridan (The Card Counter), Lily Rabe (The Undoing), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) and more. The coming-of-age drama will hit L.A. and NY theaters in limited release on…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios’ forthcoming George Clooney-directed adaptation of The Tender Bar based on the memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer J.R. Moehringer has rounded out the cast with Sondra James (Joker), Max Martini (Sgt. Will Garner), Michael Braun (The Affair), Matthew Delamater (Castle Rock), Max Casella (T…

EXCLUSIVE: After winning an Oscar together on Argo, George Clooney is now getting the opportunity to direct Ben Affleck in his next feature film. Sources tell Deadline that Affleck is in negotiations to star in Amazon Studios’ adaptation of The Tender Bar with Clooney helming. The two A-listers have been trying to…

EXCLUSVE: After finishing production on the Netflix pic Midnight Sky, George Clooney has found his next film to direct. We are hearing Clooney is in negotiations to direct and produce The Tender Bar at Amazon Studios. Amazon had no comment. If a deal closes, Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov would produce…