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Because Clooney thinks of celebrity as something that is happening to him rather than who he is, he's able to exploit the power of fame for creative control. Since forming the production company Section Eight in 2000 with director Steven Soderbergh, with whom he had worked on Out of Sight, Clooney the producer has used Clooney the actor as barter. He did it to get Warner Bros. to make next year's Good Night and Good Luck, a movie about Edward R. Murrow's battle with Joseph McCarthy that CBS, Murrow's old network, had passed...
...downside to putting on passion projects is that they rarely make any money. Section Eight has made 23 film and television projects in the past four years, but none besides Ocean's Eleven has made a profit. "Steven and I are massively in the hole for Section Eight. Massively. We figured the other day that we are each $850,000 in the hole," Clooney says of the partnership, in which they have agreed to finance any project the other feels strongly about. Nevertheless, it's a relationship that he believes more star-director combos should attempt. "I think...
Irish director Terry George (Some Mother's Son) may not have Steven Spielberg's skills, but he is a serious and persistent man. This comparatively low-budget film (roughly $16 million) was not an easy sell to the studios. In the end, the financing deal involved 12 signatories on three continents and 93 documents--and this was before a payroll car heading for the South African location was hijacked...
...Happening was compiled by Vinita M. Alexander, Mary A. Brazelton, Theodore B. Bressman, Julie S. Greenberg, Steven N. Jacobs, Bryant Jones, Marianne F. Kaletzky, Amelia E. Lester, Kristina M. Moore, Alexandra B. Moss, Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey, Tony A. Onah, Deborah H.M. Pan, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, David B. Rochelson, Zachary M. Seward, Emer Craig Myrick Vaughn, Julie Y Zhou...
...Steven G. Catalano, Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesman, said Decker did not mention to police that she had been assaulted that day.“These allegations of her being assaulted are new,” said Catalano, who also said police reports indicate that Mckenzie was the victim...