More from Steven at Edinburgh FF

When George Clooney went into business with Hollywood auteur Steven Soderbergh, it transformed him into one of the film industry’s leading players.  But as is the wont of Clooney when it comes to relationships, he has decided to call it quits; the pair pull the plug on their production company, Section Eight, next March. This breaks their eight-year working relationship, which began when Soderbergh plucked Clooney from (relative) obscurity on the set of the medical television soap ER, to star in the Oscar-winning movie Out of Sight.   Working together had “stopped being fun”, the director said at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.  “We just sat down one day and said ‘no more’. It was a bit like The Beatles - let’s get out after Abbey Road - although with less acrimony. The workload became too heavy.”

Source: Independent Online