George Clooney

Logline: About a fixer in Hollywood circa 1950s who works for the studios to protect the stars of the day

Logline: In the 1980s, a man laying underwater pipeline in the North Sea experiences a tragic accident–but his quest to get to the bottom of it may prove more dangerous still.

Logline: Story follows a man who, along with his brother, is laying pipeline in the North Sea, when a sudden, tragic accident changes everything.

During World War II, the U.S. government forms a group of international art experts to hunt down and recover artwork stolen by the Nazis.

During World War II, the U.S. government forms a group of international art experts to hunt down and recover artwork stolen by the Nazis.

NASA astronauts Ryan Stone and Matt Kowalski are busy repairing the Hubble telescope in orbit, when they receive sudden word to abandon the mission and reboard their ship due to a a satellite avalanche plummeting in their direction at breakneck speed. In the race to get back into their shuttle and back to earth before the tidal wave of space junk reaches their ship, they lose all communications, and power, as they drift aimlessly through the darkness of space, searching for a way back home.

During World War II, the U.S. government forms a group of international art experts to hunt down and recover artwork stolen by the Nazis.

NASA astronauts Ryan Stone and Matt Kowalski are busy repairing the Hubble telescope in orbit, when they receive sudden word to abandon the mission and reboard their ship due to a a satellite avalanche plummeting in their direction at breakneck speed. In the race to get back into their shuttle and back to earth before the tidal wave of space junk reaches their ship, they lose all communications, and power, as they drift aimlessly through the darkness of space, searching for a way back home.

NASA astronauts Ryan Stone and Matt Kowalski are busy repairing the Hubble telescope in orbit, when they receive sudden word to abandon the mission and reboard their ship due to a a satellite avalanche plummeting in their direction at breakneck speed. In the race to get back into their shuttle and back to earth before the tidal wave of space junk reaches their ship, they lose all communications, and power, as they drift aimlessly through the darkness of space, searching for a way back home.

NASA astronauts Ryan Stone and Matt Kowalski are busy repairing the Hubble telescope in orbit, when they receive sudden word to abandon the mission and reboard their ship due to a a satellite avalanche plummeting in their direction at breakneck speed. In the race to get back into their shuttle and back to earth before the tidal wave of space junk reaches their ship, they lose all communications, and power, as they drift aimlessly through the darkness of space, searching for a way back home.

NASA astronauts Ryan Stone and Matt Kowalski are busy repairing the Hubble telescope in orbit, when they receive sudden word to abandon the mission and reboard their ship due to a a satellite avalanche plummeting in their direction at breakneck speed. In the race to get back into their shuttle and back to earth before the tidal wave of space junk reaches their ship, they lose all communications, and power, as they drift aimlessly through the darkness of space, searching for a way back home.

Logline: Based on the true story about students of Coronado High School who were employed as mules to smuggle drugs into their San Diego suburb.

Logline: Kept under wraps but revolves around New York crime organizations.

Actor in talks to star in Disney Sci-Fi pic.

Logline: An American rises through the ranks after helping Castro overthrow the Cuban government, but falls prey to accusations of his loyalties to both Cuba and the US.

Logline: After a desperate man loses all his money in the stock market by following the advice of a Wall Street TV host, he takes the money adviser hostage on live television.

Logline: During World War II, the U.S. government forms a group of international art experts to hunt down and recover artwork stolen by the Nazis.

“The Descendants” duo set for a re-team for Dennis Lehane adaptation?

Logline: Story follows the Smothers brothers, who, famously squabbled on and off screen, were transformed by the period’s social upheaval.

Nominees announced for the 2011 Gotham Independent Film Awards

Thesp joins another political game.

Logline: Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as “Tomorrowland.”

Logline: The story centers on Neel Kashkari who helped create the controversial TRAP initiative, which bailed out the big banks after the financial collapse in 2008, to then immediately escaped from Washington after doing so.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Follows the true story of a thriller writer and an Italian journalist as they investigate the Monster of Florence, Italy’s answer to Jack the Ripper, a murderer who stalked the Italian countryside from 1968 to 1985.

Clooney joins Bullock in Cuaron’s GRAVITY.

A group of oddballs compete in a wild and illegal cross-country car race.

Logline: Story centers on a group of flawed men and women working inside one of the most corrupt companies in modern time, battling with the urges of greed and ethical loss every day building up to the eventual collapse and financial ruin the company would distill on a personal and professional level all across the world.

Soderbergh signs on, and a few days later he invites a few friends.

Another SLOW weekend upon us, as George Clooney’s equally slow-moving thriller(?) THE AMERICAN won the weekend over fellow newcomers: the blood-filled grindhouse film MACHETE, and the real life couple-turned ex’s rom/com GOING THE DISTANCE.

And somewhere in between the Q-list slash & actioner and the seen it all before rom/com, last week’s top draws TAKERS and THE LAST EXORCISM managed to stick around in the top 5 for another week.