George Clooney doesn’t really seem all that interested in acting these days. He’s actually all about directing now.
Deadline’s exclusively reporting that Clooney’s “The Boys in the Boat” has had such high test screening scores that MGM have given it a coveted awards-bait release date on Christmas Day.
“The studio, I understand, were ecstatic over the test scores and landed on the pic’s release date in an effort to grab families.”
The film is based on Daniel James Brown’s non-fiction bestseller about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team who competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin.
The cast includes Joel Edgerton, Chris Diamantopoulos, Callum Turner, Jack Mulhern, Sam Strike, Luke Slattery, Thomas Elms, Tom Varey, Bruce Herbelin-Earle, Wil Coban, James Wolk, Hadley Robinson, and Courtney Henggeler.
Filming on the film took place in March 2022.
I liked Clooney’s earlier films as a director (“Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” “Good Night and Good Luck,” “The Ides of March”), but, as of late, he’s been struggling behind the camera with such duds as “Leatherheads,” “Suburbicon,” “The Monument’s Men,” “The Midnight Sky” and “Tender Bar.”
Here’s hoping he has a winner here.