Out of all the actors working in Hollywood today, few actors have had a rollercoaster ride of a career like Robert Downey Jr. He got started as a performer when he was just a little boy appearing in the films of his father, Robert Downey Sr. and transitioned into teen films during the 1980s. Although he began working on a number of prestige projects in the 1990s, his career was derailed by drug abuse and run-ins with the law that saw him serve prison time. By the early 2000s, he was essentially uninsurable, meaning that no studio would take on the risk of hiring him.
But after a stint in rehab, Robert Downey Jr. clawed his way back, working on small, independent films to prove that he wouldn't disrupt production. As his rocky reputation became a thing of the past, he was cast in the role that defined his career...
But after a stint in rehab, Robert Downey Jr. clawed his way back, working on small, independent films to prove that he wouldn't disrupt production. As his rocky reputation became a thing of the past, he was cast in the role that defined his career...
- 9/22/2024
- by Audrey Fox
- Slash Film
George Clooney is set to make his Broadway debut in a stage adaptation of his 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck about broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow.
The actor will star as Murrow and the play is slated to premiere on Broadway next spring. Clooney wrote the play alongside Grant Heslov, and Tony Award winner David Cromer will direct the project.
“I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to,...
The actor will star as Murrow and the play is slated to premiere on Broadway next spring. Clooney wrote the play alongside Grant Heslov, and Tony Award winner David Cromer will direct the project.
“I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
The actor will play the lead in a stage adaptation of his Oscar-nominated journalism drama from 2005
George Clooney is set to make his Broadway debut in a stage adaptation of his 2005 journalism drama Good Night, and Good Luck.
The actor’s sophomore feature as director will be transformed into a play set to premiere in spring 2025. Clooney, who played Fred W Friendly in the original, will now take on the role of Edward R Murrow.
George Clooney is set to make his Broadway debut in a stage adaptation of his 2005 journalism drama Good Night, and Good Luck.
The actor’s sophomore feature as director will be transformed into a play set to premiere in spring 2025. Clooney, who played Fred W Friendly in the original, will now take on the role of Edward R Murrow.
- 5/13/2024
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
George Clooney will make his Broadway acting and playwriting debut next spring in a stage adaptation of his 2005 film about journalist Edward R. Murrow.
In the play, which is also entitled Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney will play Murrow as he pushes executives at CBS to allow him to continue to deliver critical reporting on U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist efforts. Clooney wrote the Broadway play with Grant Heslov, who co-wrote the screenplay with Clooney.
Good Night, and Good Luck will premiere on Broadway in spring 2025 at Shubert theater to be announced.
“I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to,” Clooney said in the press release.
Clooney directed the 2005 film and played Fred W. Friendly, co-producer of Murrow’s television program, See It Now, with Murrow,...
In the play, which is also entitled Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney will play Murrow as he pushes executives at CBS to allow him to continue to deliver critical reporting on U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist efforts. Clooney wrote the Broadway play with Grant Heslov, who co-wrote the screenplay with Clooney.
Good Night, and Good Luck will premiere on Broadway in spring 2025 at Shubert theater to be announced.
“I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to,” Clooney said in the press release.
Clooney directed the 2005 film and played Fred W. Friendly, co-producer of Murrow’s television program, See It Now, with Murrow,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The closest comp to Ed Zwick’s new memoir Hits, Flops And Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood is William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen Trade, where he posited a definitive piece of advice on the elusive formula for hit making: “Nobody knows anything.” Although he didn’t create the “if you want to send a message, try Western Union” line that has many authors, Zwick spent a career trying to defy that adage, in directing, writing and producing a long list of great and meaningful films and TV series topped by the Oscar winning Shakespeare in Love and Traffic, to Glory, Blood Diamond, About Last Night, Defiance, The Last Samurai, The Siege, thirtysomething, My So Called Life and many others.
Comparing his book to Goldman sets a high bar. Like the scripter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid did, Zwick might fawn over great actors like Denzel Washington,...
Comparing his book to Goldman sets a high bar. Like the scripter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid did, Zwick might fawn over great actors like Denzel Washington,...
- 2/7/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly were journalism visionaries whose moves at CBS in the 1950s continue to define that company’s news division. Yet even they might be surprised to see where some of their ideas are heading.
CBS News is set to revive two landmark programs created under the auspices of one or both of those broadcasters, “Person to Person” and “CBS Reports,” but retooled for the streaming era. Norah O’Donnell will launch a new “Person to Person” series of one-on-one interviews with newsmakers and people of interest, while Gayle King is set to kick off a new series of “CBS Reports” documentaries and special reports on February 25 with a deep dive into the death of Trayvon Martin. Both series will run on the CBS News Steaming Network, part of a large-scale overhaul and expansion of the broadband news hub once known as Cbsn that initially debuted...
CBS News is set to revive two landmark programs created under the auspices of one or both of those broadcasters, “Person to Person” and “CBS Reports,” but retooled for the streaming era. Norah O’Donnell will launch a new “Person to Person” series of one-on-one interviews with newsmakers and people of interest, while Gayle King is set to kick off a new series of “CBS Reports” documentaries and special reports on February 25 with a deep dive into the death of Trayvon Martin. Both series will run on the CBS News Steaming Network, part of a large-scale overhaul and expansion of the broadband news hub once known as Cbsn that initially debuted...
- 1/24/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
For the sake of this particular movie column let’s just consider the media types of news personalities, journalists and reporters as interchangeable. With that in mind Newsmakers and Media Shakers: Top Ten Reporters in the Movies will look at some of cinema’s top inquirers in the name of getting down to the nitty-gritty in bringing the truth to the forefront.
The movies have intensely, if not sometimes comically, showcased those characters that felt justified in reporting their newsworthy findings in the name of riveting entertainment. Whether spotlighting real-life newsmaker and shakers such as legendary luminaries in Edward R. Murrow to Watergate busters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein or profiling parodies of probing journalists as Natural Born Killer’s Wayne Gale it has been a trippy ride in witnessing cinematic reporters and their excitable exploits.
Perhaps Newmakers and Media Shakers: Top Ten Reporters in the Movies will be irresponsibly...
The movies have intensely, if not sometimes comically, showcased those characters that felt justified in reporting their newsworthy findings in the name of riveting entertainment. Whether spotlighting real-life newsmaker and shakers such as legendary luminaries in Edward R. Murrow to Watergate busters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein or profiling parodies of probing journalists as Natural Born Killer’s Wayne Gale it has been a trippy ride in witnessing cinematic reporters and their excitable exploits.
Perhaps Newmakers and Media Shakers: Top Ten Reporters in the Movies will be irresponsibly...
- 2/14/2015
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
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