Tag: Craig Sherman
George Clooney to Make a Movie About the Smothers Brothers
George Clooney and Grant Heslov are in the Oscar race with The Ides of March and they are Smokehouse partners, too. So, those two busy guys and Sony Pictures will turn the story of 60s comedians Tom and Dicky Smothers, specifically focusing on their television variety show on CBS called, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in ”Atari”
Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in ”Atari” (writers – Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman), about the godfather of the video game industry, Nolan Bushnell.
Bushnell was an engineering student, puzzle-lover and game enthusiast who went from fixing broken pinball machines to launching Atari Corp., a video game manufacturer, in the early ’70s.
Its first product was a little game called Pong, which led to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of video game sales. Within a few years, he sold the company to Warner Communications for $28 million.
