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More updates are coming down the pipe from the American Film Market in Santa Monica, with our friends at Collider uncovering a first look at George Clooney in Control director Anton Corbijn's The American .

It's obvious to conclude the tone of Grant Heslov's "The Men Who Stare At Goats" immediately - in the first scene, we get an opening title that reads, "more of this is true than you would believe." Satire, it is.

"The Men Who Stare at Goats," starring Jeff Bridges as an army shaman and George Clooney as his best pupil, is a refreshingly unpredictable and fizzy comic fantasy.

Now that the November winds are blowing and the nights are getting longer, it's time to fly away.

Tilda Swinton hated attending a strict boarding school where she was cut off from music, boys and parties, but claims she is relieved she wasn't a ''beautiful'' teenager.

It's not really funny, what's happening to 1960s college physics professor Larry Gopnik in the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man." But it's hilarious, just the same.

George Clooney in "The Men Who Stare at Goats," which opens Friday. George Clooney stars alongside a goat among others in Iraq-based movie Paranormal war comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats" opens this Friday Actor also fronts two more acclaimed, upcoming films "Up in the Air" and "Fantastic Mr.

George Clooney is in talks to play the lead role in the first feature film Alexander Payne has directed in five years , the follow-up to 2004's Sideways .

George Clooney meet Dusan Makavejev: Hollywood clown to Yugoslavian art-movie satirist.

A Serious Man opens Friday The Coen Brothers don't care what I think of their latest movie.

In post-studio Hollywood, any number of leading men have seen their career trajectory go south after a series of bad choices - and those choices almost always involved picking projects that paid well but were utter drivel.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. We hear it all the time, but George Clooney is living proof that perseverance pays off: Despite the inauspicious beginnings of a career that threatened to pigeonhole him as a Ted McGinley-style supporting player on fading sitcoms, he's risen to the ranks of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, and has ...

George Clooney is circling the lead in the Alexander Payne-helmed family dramedy "The Descendants" for Fox Searchlight.

Elizabeth Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction a long six months ago, but she's still giddy about being awarded American literature's top honor.

Fred Melamed stars as Sy Ableman and Sari Lennick stars as Judith Gopnik in "A Serious Man." TORONTO -- A playful note at the end of "A Serious Man" affirms: "No Jews were harmed in the making of this motion picture." Actress Sari Lennick, however, did sacrifice her long blond hair and Richard Kind, his waistline and vanity.

Back in May, we heard about the Frank Sinatra biopic that Martin Scorsese will be directing with Universal producing.

The Coen brothers may just have made their masterpiece with this, their 14th feature and yet another hairpin-bend change of direction, which has been their trademark for their entire career.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced that it will release Quentin Tarantino's summer blockbuster Inglorious Basterds on Blu-ray and DVD December 15th.

The latest incarnation of "The Academy: Orange County Fire" moves from the training school for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department to that of the Orange County Fire Authority, where 28 candidates train to fight the wildfire breakouts of Southern California.

The Coen brothers aren't sure whether their latest movie is a comedy or a tragedy - that is for the viewers to figure out.