Tackling Directing and George Clooney

April 8, 2008 · Filed Under Leatherheads, Uncategorized · Comment 

Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures

John Krasinski, who appears in “Leatherheads,” above, is directing an adaptation of “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” a collection of stories by David Foster Wallace.

By DAVE ITZKOFF

Published: March 30, 2008

JUST as fans of the NBC sitcom “The Office” were celebrating the transformation of the fictional colleagues Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly from unrequited lovers to an honest-to-goodness couple, the writers’ strike cruelly stalled their romance and halted production on the show for several months. But for John Krasinski, the actor who plays Jim, the affable everydude of “The Office,” the news wasn’t all bad. He used the hiatus to resume postproduction work on his directorial debut, an adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” a collection of short stories and monologues that he has been trying to make into a film for more than five years.

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Unscripted interview with George and John Krasinski

April 8, 2008 · Filed Under Leatherheads, Video Clips · Comment 

The Unscripted interview with George and John Krasinski for ‘Leatherheads’ is up now.  (It’s the interview where George and John answer questions sent in by fans).  It’s really great, really funny—they poke fun of one another, so cute.  See it here!

LEATHERHEADS movie premiere, as viewed from an Extra

April 8, 2008 · Filed Under Leatherheads · Comment 

My wife, Linda and I went to one of the two Premier showings for movie Extras in Greenville, SC last night, and I did see myself in it (happily - after working 40hrs in 3 days last year). At 20 minutes or so into the movie there is a 2-3 second view of me walking out of the Historical Poinsett Hotel that Clooney has quickly pulled-up to on his motorcycle w/sidecar. Sometimes during the movie the images pass by rather quickly, but in other parts - the romantic ones in particular, the scenes are very close-up with Clooney and Renee Zellweger, where every word and facial expression have a lot of meaning, and are fun to interpret. The newbie to being in a lead role, Krasinski, does a great job in the way he conveys his confidence, his role as a football star, and as a war hero. Clooney, well need I say more? Having to play rough football with the younger guys and work on strategies for winning each game, he also shows his ability to work on a strategy to attempt to win-over Renee, the newspaper reporter. It was tough for “Dodge” to try to gain affection from the much younger “Lexie”, because he was competing over her against the war-hero and College superstar “Carter”. Renee was excellent in playing her role as kind of a sassy, but very attractive newspaper reporter starting to cover football games. She hung in there with the guys despite the occasional jokes directed at her during those games.
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New Interviews

March 27, 2008 · Filed Under Leatherheads, Video Clips · Comment 

I received this email today from Manny the Movie Guy.

I’m just proud to share with you my whole new set of interviews with the cast of “Leatherheads” including John Krasinski, Renee Zellwegger, and director George Clooney!

We talked about:

CLOONEY
His involvement as both the actor and director
The secret behind making “Leatherheads”
And much, much more!

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A Premiere Far From Hollywood

March 19, 2008 · Filed Under Leatherheads · Comment 

Video Trailer: ‘Leatherheads’
By MICHAEL CIEPLY

LOS ANGELES — “Leatherheads,” which was shot in the Carolinas, is about to get a hometown premiere, even if the hundreds of local people who worked as extras and bit players on this football comedy, set for release by Universal Pictures on April 4, have to do it themselves.

Which, in fact, they do.

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Clooney to screen new movie in Kentucky

March 19, 2008 · Filed Under Leatherheads · Comment 

By BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press

For one night, Maysville will be Hollywood along the Ohio River, thanks to George Clooney.

The 46-year-old actor-director will visit the northern Kentucky town Monday night for a special screening of his new movie, “Leatherheads,” his father, Nick Clooney, said Tuesday.

“The whole town is abuzz,” said Maysville Mayor David Cartmell.

Clooney, who won an Oscar for his role in “Syriana,” grew up in the town of Augusta, about 16 miles west of Maysville.

The setting has special significance for the Clooney family. In 1953, “The Stars Are Singing,” starring Rosemary Clooney, George Clooney’s aunt, premiered in Maysville.

“He knows all about that, and he is very interested in kind of connecting the dots as far as family history,” Nick Clooney said. “He thinks that would be kind of cool for the family, and one hopes for the town, too.”

Nick and Rosemary Clooney were born in Maysville. George Clooney was born in Lexington, and the family moved several times before settling in Augusta.

“Leatherheads,” which also stars Renee Zellweger, is a romantic comedy set in the world of 1920s professional football. The film will be in theaters April 4.

The movie will be shown at the Washington Opera Theatre, Nick Clooney and Universal Studios said Tuesday.

Cartmell said Monday night’s screening will probably be the biggest event in the town of about 9,000 since the premiere of “The Stars Are Singing.”

It will also be the hottest ticket in town.

Nick Clooney said about 300 seats will be available. The opera house seats about 450 people, but equipment needed to show the movie will take up space in the balcony, he said.

Cartmell said he expects the town to catch Hollywood fever.

“Next week, we’ll be Hollywood on the Ohio,” he said.

Leatherheads to Premiere…

January 22, 2008 · Filed Under Leatherheads · Comment 

Universal’s
“Leatherheads”
(Starring: George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, et al.)


Monday, March 31, 2008 - time TBA
(arrivals are likely to start between 5 PM and 6:30 PM)
at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre
6925 Hollywood Blvd, in Hollywood


(no press release available)
From Seeing Stars

SNEAKS 2008; ‘Leatherheads’;

January 14, 2008 · Filed Under Leatherheads · Comment 
Tackling comedy outside ‘The Office’; Susan King
Los Angeles Times   01-13-2008

JOHN KRASINSKI fumbled as a football player in junior high school.

“I played one year organized football . . . and it was only one year because I wasn’t very good,” says the lanky 28-year-old best known as the sales rep Jim on NBC’s “The Office.” But that hasn’t kept him away from the pigskin. “I have played tackle football with my friends all my life,” he adds.
So when George Clooney cast him in his screwball football comedy, “Leatherheads,” opening April 4, Krasinski “finally felt like the hero of the backyard game where the clock is ticking down and you are running through the field and you score a touchdown. I thank George for giving me all my childhood fantasies back.”

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Celebrity cause: Jack of all trades

December 20, 2007 · Filed Under Leatherheads · Comment 

Michael Sheather

1 January 2008

The Australian Women’s Weekly

Veteran screen favourite Jack Thompson keeps adding new strings to his bow, not least an uncharacteristic role in the movie epic, Australia, more Hollywood parts - and a range of tasty barbecue sauces to rival those down home in Texas, writes Michael Sheather. Read more

Leatherheads Featurette

December 20, 2007 · Filed Under Leatherheads · Comment 

Check out the Leatherheads featurette at Hollywood.com

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