At the Movies: Clooney Back with O Brother Brothers
Per the
Hollywood Reporter,
George Clooney will play a killer in
Burn After Reading, a spy caper being helmed by Joel and Ethan Coen, with whom Clooney did
O Brother, Where Are Thou? and
Intolerable Cruelty.... Universal has grabbed the rights to
Cobalt 60, a cult comic book set in a postapocalytpic world inhabited by mutants. Zack Snyder (
Dawn of the Dead) will direct....
Robert Zemeckis will release the
Polar Express-like, digitally enhanced
Beowulf, starring
Angelina Jolie, in large-format 3-D on Nov. 16.... Per
Variety,
Sarah Jessica Parker has replaced Rachel Weisz opposite Dennis Quaid in
Smart People....
Peter Sarsgaard will join future bro-in-law Jake Gyllenhaal in
Rendition, director Gavin Hood's
Tsotsi follow-up....
Anthony Mackie (
Half Nelson) will play Olympic track-and-field legend Jesse Owens in a biopic shooting next summer.
