South Africa ’s longest running film festival, the Durban International Film Festival, has announced that its 29 th edition will take place from 23 July to 3 August 2008. Among the listing is George’s latest directing project Leatherheads. To read the full listing go to the DIFF official site.
Times and locations:
27 July-LEATHERHEADS PF – […]

George released a two-page message Thursday that gives a neutral position, laying out both sides of the fighting unions’ positions and focusing on the issues of the working actor.

JAKARTA (AFP) — Hollywood stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt joined forces with Asian political figures Wednesday in an advertising campaign calling on the region to push Myanmar’s junta to allow in more cyclone aid.
A full page advertisement in Indonesian English language daily The Jakarta Post by US-based pressure group Not On Our Watch said […]

On July 9th, France 2 (French Public Channel) will be broadcasting a TV show dedicated to George called “un jour, un destin”.  It was filmed on the Day he actually received his Oscar in Italy and filmed in “The Factory” part of George’s property.  Thanks to Anne, who has had the opportunity to view the […]

George Clooney’s Smoke House shingle has set up half-hour comedy script “The Fall of Bob” at Showtime.
Project, penned by Danny Zuker (“Stacked”), is a dark single-camera laffer that revolves around a man whose life flashes before his eyes as he jumps off a building.
Show will follow the lead character, Bob, as he narrates his life […]

Warner Bros. has set Anthony Peckham to adapt “The Tourist,” an Olen Steinhauer novel being developed as a potential star vehicle for George Clooney.
Smokehouse’s Grant Heslov, Nina Wolarsky and Clooney will produce.
Acquired by WB in the fall, “The Tourist” is a contemporary international thriller about a spy who risks everything to reveal a conspiracy after […]

Clooney calls for China, G8 action on Darfur
TOKYO, Japan — Actor George Clooney called Saturday for China and other major countries to raise the pressure on Sudan to end the bloodshed in Darfur. Writing in a special Africa edition of Japan’s Asahi Shimbun guest-edited by rock stars Bono and Bob Geldof, Clooney said the […]

George Clooney has praised United Nations (UN) peacekeepers for their work in some of the world’s trouble spots
“These brave men and women go to places where few others will and risk their lives for peace.
“I am proud to continue my work with the UN to remind those in the United States and around the world […]

Bollywood has met Hollywood at the Cannes Film Festival, with George Clooney, Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt signing rupee-spinning deals for big movie collaborations.
India produces more films than any other country, and sells more than four billion cinema tickets a year, far more than in America. Now one of its biggest companies is to become […]

Grant Heslov to direct Jon Ronson adaptation
George Clooney will topline, and his Smoke House partner Grant Heslov will helm, “Men Who Stare at Goats.”
Pic is an adaptation of British journalist Jon Ronson’s book about the U.S. Army’s First Earth Battalion, a unit that was to use paranormal powers. Title refers to the notion that one […]