Here’s the trailer for the George Clooney-directed Suburbicon, starring Matt Damon & Julianne Moore. It feels very Coen Brothers (they co-wrote the script). [Pajiba]
Mahershala Ali is definitely doing True Detective Season 3. YAS. [LaineyGossip]
Anderson Cooper says he’s still buds with Kathy Griffin. [Dlisted]
Elizabeth Hurley is dating David Foster? Huh. [Wonderwall]
Imagining Alex Jones’ rants as an indie song. [OMG Blog]
Katy Perry got hit in the face with a basketball. [Celebslam]
Bill Skarsgard talks about Pennywise the Clown. [JustJared]
George HW Bush & Dan Quayle still hang out. [Seriously OMG WTF]
Amber Rose talks about Kanye West. [Socialite Life]
Clooney and Damon must love their working relationship. How many films have they done together already?
This is refreshing to see, thank you Kaiser. I stopped watching movies so long ago because everything is either repeated or just copies of foreign films. This is something I will be marking my calendar for. Great role for Matt D!
That trailer’s not great and while it clearly has Coen Bros elements, it lacks their signature verve. Clooney desperately needs a hit but I don’t think this is going to be it, despite the great cast.
Not sure I agree with ‘desperately needs a hit’. His work acting and producing is hit and miss. He did win an Oscar for producing Argo. He was in Gravity which won allot of awards. Personally, I thought he was great in Hail Caesar.
And then there’s all that tequila money.
I mean as a director, Browniecakes. ‘The Monuments Men’ was an unholy mess and his previous efforts – ‘Ides of March’ and ‘Leatherheads’ – were only marginally more competent.
He really needs a directorial hit to kill the bad smell and no amount of tequila money can’t make that go away.
@Skylark, I loved Ides of March. I remember going to the movie theatre to see it, and we all loved it. Four of us went.
I never saw Monuments Men, which did get bad reviews Leatherheads I wasn’t interested in.
Suburbicon doesn’t sound interesting, but maybe it will be a better story than I think
How do you mean Skylark? Ides of March was a critical darling with an 80% Rotten Tomatoes and nominations for Gosling. We dont know what it cost but it grossed 70 million worldwide. This was a small interior movie with no location shooting, its unlikely it cost more than 40 million to make.
Monuments Men on the other hand didnt do well with critics at 30% Rotten Tomatoes score but it grossed double its production costs worldwide. Its US box office alone grossed enough to cover production at 70 million. Thats really good for a non franchise movie in this decade. I’m sure he would love an Oscar and a smash hit but even without that, he is still doing way better than most directors
He doesn’t need a directorial hit at all because he can still act and produce. And let’s just review: he has an Oscar for producing Argo and an Oscar for supporting actor in Syriana. He has three other nominations for lead actor for Michael Clayton, the Descendants, and Up in the Air. He also has two Oscar nominations for writing The Ides of March and Good Night and Good Luck AND a best director Oscar nomination for Good Night and Good Luck. The guy will get work. And I’m not a Clooney fan. He bugs me.
He doesn’t desperately need a hit. If he wants to make big-budget films, then yes, but since most of his films are in the mid to low budget range and get a lot of free promotion from their casts, he’s fine. Monuments Men made a bit of money, Ides of March got some critical acclaim, Leatherheads was a bust (but not a costly one).
He made Good Night and Good Luck with 7 million. Worst comes to worst he can easily fund his own directorial endeavours.
Definitely going to see this. Not in the theater, but looking forward to when it comes out on Netflix or something. Judge me if you want, but I’m a sucker for any project involving Clooney and/or Damon (except that Great Wall of China movie, that didn’t interest me at all).
I love Damon in most movies, and George in most. George has looked older lately. But there is a new longform ad on the Internet for Omega. George is in a tux with Buzz Aldrin. He looks so movie star handsome, and George just has charm, plain and simple. Great voice, great smile, comfortable in his skin. If you like George, you will like this. If you don’t like George, you will find it schmaltzy. This year was the 60th anniversary of the Omega Speedmaster historical timepiece.
Buzz and George looking back to when Buzz walked on the moon in the ad. Buzz loves his rings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIDlmBmhPFY
That was as a great little video, thanks for linking it 😁
Damon and Clooney are both very talented. Will at least check the film out. Trailers are like book covers, don’t judge the whole thing based on that alone.
Damn. That didn’t land for me at all and I was hopeful for this. The “loss of life” line made me laugh but otherwise? Nope. Did not work for me.
As an aside can we stop putting moustaches on Oscar Isaac? He’s great with a bit of scruff but the full mustache-only is a no thank you! I’m picky with my Oscar and hey, at least it’s not that X-men blue monstrosity.
I don’t think this is a comedy. It seems rather Soprano-ish to me.
The last scene in the trailer where he tries to “run off” on a bike is from whichever Despicable Me. At least that is what I remeber from the trailer – explosion going off and the driving off on way too small scooter.
Other than that, I am not sure I understood what the movie is about.
What’s up with trailers lately? They all have a little tiny trailer before the trailer, like, WHY?
Just more PR, and I guess someone has studied this. The short one is perfect for TV spots and gets everyone interested (because of how confusing it is?) and primed for something more substantial. Big movies, big marketing –??
I am intrigued. 😉
I am too. 🙂
Great cast, but it didn’t hold my interest
Oscar Isaac is in, so I’ll be sure to check this one.
I love that DJ Shadow song in the trailer.