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“THE MONUMENTS MEN,” DIRECTED BY AND STARRING GEORGE CLOONEY,BEGINS PRODUCTION IN GERMANY

BERLIN, Ger., March 5, 2013 – Columbia Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox announced today that The Monuments Men, a Smokehouse production directed by and starring George Clooney, has started production in Berlin, Germany. The action-thriller is written by Clooney & Grant Heslov, based on the book by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter. Clooney and Heslov also produce the film through their Smokehouse Productions. It is their first production since winning the Academy Award® for Best Picture for their work on Argo. Barbara A. Hall is executive producer.

Jennifer Aniston and George Clooney are most popular apocalypse companions

Jennifer Aniston and George Clooney have emerged as the top male and female choices for companionship when the world ends, according to a bizarre new poll.

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4. Naomi Watts pulls off 'The Impossible' to critical acclaim

LOS ANGELES: Days after the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, actress Naomi Watts took part in a fundraising telethon spearheaded by George Clooney to help the millions of people from Indonesia to the east coast of Africa whose lives were shattered.

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Naomi Watts pulls off "The Impossible" to critical acclaim

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Days after the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, actress Naomi Watts took part in a fundraising telethon spearheaded by George Clooney to help the region's hundreds of thousands of people in 14 nations whose lives were shattered.

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4. Hollywood quiet so far on gun control after Connecticut

LOS ANGELES: Pick a social cause and you'll often find a Hollywood celebrity speaking out. Gay marriage (Brad Pitt), Darfur (George Clooney), the environment (Robert Redford or Leonardo DiCaprio). Gun control?

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The things they say

"I just came off kissing George Clooney in a movie, then Ashton Kutcher on a TV show. My poor husband was like, 'Really?' We weren't even engaged yet at the time." Actress Judy Greer admits her now-husband, producer Dean Johnsen, was a little jealous of her onscreen romances in The Descendants and Two and a Half Men.

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Weekly Ketchup: Chronicle Star Cast as Spider-Man 2's Harry Osborn

This week's Ketchup has lots and lots of movie development news stories involving sequels (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2, Clerks III, Pacific Rim 2, TRON 3, and Wreck-It Ralph 2). Is our long, slow slog through the wave of remakes finally behind us, so that Hollywood can get back to focusing its collective social regurgitation on that whole chestnut, the endless wave of sequels?

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'Argo': Ben Affleck, George Clooney on acting in one's own movie

Some actors and directors have such complementary working relationships that it seems as if they share a brain. In a few cases, they do. Such is the case with Ben Affleck, who is the star and director of "Argo," a political thriller about an unusual CIA rescue mission during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

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Clooney: Village burnings in Sudan a war crime

George Clooney is trying to highlight satellite evidence from a U.S.-based anti-genocide group that 26 villages in Sudan were intentionally set on fire last month.

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