George Clooney Joins London Film Fest Screen Talk Lineup

George Clooney struggled to land any Hollywood roles after his 1997 movie Batman & Robin flopped.The 59-year-old actor starred alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alicia Silverstone, Chris O’Donnell, and Uma Thurman in the superhero movie, which took just $238 million worldwide despite having a production budget of $125 million.Following the poor reception to the film, George found it hard to be taken seriously for further roles – until Steven Soderbergh came along with his 1998 crime comedy Out of

Just imagine if things had turned out like this for The Notebook… what a totally different film it would’ve been!

If we’re judging based solely on handsomeness, it’s hard to decide who is the more attractive human, Ryan Gosling or George Clooney. It gets even more difficult when you consider mid-‘90s, “ER”-era Clooney and mid-2000s “The Notebook”-era for Gosling.

Ryan Gosling and James Garner were perfect as young and old versions of Noah Calhoun in The Notebook, but it turns out that the iconic movie could’ve starred George Clooney and Paul Newman instead! During an interview with Deadline, George recently revealed that he and Paul had eyed the project together so they would work together in something. “We were going to do The Notebook together,” he shared. “Basically, I was going to play him as a young man, and it was funny.

Ryan Gosling and James Garner, but that almost wasn’t the case.During a virtual panel for the 64th BFI London Film Festival, George Clooney revealed that he and Paul Newman were going to play the young and old Noah, respectively, in The Notebook — but he turned it down!“We were going to do The Notebook together,” the two-time Academy Award winner, 59, said on Sunday, October 18. “Basically, I was going to play him as a young man, and it was funny.

George Clooney was almost Noah Calhoun. During a virtual chat at the 64th BFI London Film Festival, the 59-year-old actor revealed that he nearly starred in Ryan Gosling's role in.

Hard to imagine that anyone would want to shun George Clooney but that is what the actor has said Hollywood did after the flop of “Batman & Robin”.

Ryan Gosling and James Garner were perfect as Noah Calhoun in The Notebook, but it turns out that the iconic movie could’ve starred George Clooney and Paul Newman instead.

Bob Dylan are set to work on a new film adaptation together.The pair will adapt John Grisham’s lauded baseball-themed book Calico Joe in a forthcoming feature film.The new project sees Clooney and his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov teaming up with Dylan’s Grey Water Park Productions.

A new George Clooney project is similar to that of stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio or Brad Pitt. They’re not things that come around often and when they do, you have to pay attention.

Steve McQueen helped raise the curtain on the 2020 BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday night, with his feature Mangrove — one of his five films in the BBC/Amazon Small Axe anthology — getting its European premiere in London and simultaneously across select cinemas around the U.K.

George Clooney has joined the line-up of the BFI London Film Festival.

Naman Ramachandran Actor and filmmaker George Clooney will deliver a virtual screen talk at the 64th British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival, where he will discuss his career and his latest feature “The Midnight Sky.”“The Midnight Sky” is a post-apocalyptic tale that follows Clooney, playing a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop an astronaut, played by Felicity Jones (“On the Basis of Sex”), and her team from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorGeorge Clooney Joins LFF LineupThe BFI London Film Festival has added a virtual Screen Talk with George Clooney who will discuss his career and latest feature The Midnight Sky. The event will be free to access both in the UK and internationally via the BFI YouTube channel.

Ava DuVernay will be among the big names joining this year's 64th BFI London Film Festival industry program, which promises to focus on "key learnings and experiences that have emerged during a tumultuous and historical 2020, a year in which creatives seek new ways to collaborate across fractured media, cultural and social landscapes." Talks and panel events will explore themes arising from the coronavirus pandemic, changing business models and "demands to tackle systemic bias in the cultural