Offbeat Drama from Smokehouse Pictures and Warner Horizon Television Being Executive-Produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Writer Liz M. Garcia Jason Lee, who starred for four seasons in the critically acclaimed comedy My Name Is Earl, has been cast in the lead role of the TNT pilot DELTA BLUES. He will play Dwight Hendricks, a Memphis police officer who lives with his mother and moonlights...
"My Name Is Earl" star Jason Lee wants back on prime-time TV. The actor has signed on to star as a Memphis cop who lives with his mother and moonlights as an Elvis impersonator in the TNT project "Delta Blues."...
In a surprisingly robust debut, 2012 took in a huge $65M to easily capture the weekend box-office crown. Despite completely sucking, the latest Roland Emmerich disaster pic easily out-distanced last week's champ, Disney's A Christmas Carol which managed to bring in a decent $22.3M in its second frame ($63.2M). Grant Heslov's hilarious The Men Who Stare at Goats grabbed third place ($6.2M | $23.3M),...
The Men Who Stare at Goats Dir: Grant Heslov Cast: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey I stared at Grant Heslov’s directorial debut for nearly two hours. It didn’t - quite - keel over and die, but the memory of it began to fade fast as soon as I stopped staring. It’s really two films, and to what extent either is based on the book of the same name by British...
Please upgrade your browser A reporter, trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. The founder [...]
I ran into Men Who Stare at Goats director-writer Grant Heslov on 10.13 at the opening-night party for the London Film Festival. He had flown up from Italy with George Clooney, the star of Anton Corbijn's then-shooting The American, which Heslov is one of the producers. It's about an asssassin (Clooney) hanging back and chilling down in a Southern Italian village as he prepares for the proverbial final...
Not that McGregor has any help from director Grant Heslov, who’d still be taking coroner roles on CSI if his megastar buddy-from-acting-class hadn’t chosen him for a production partner after burning out on Steven Soderbergh. Directing with a budget for the first time, Heslov doesn’t just fail to find a tone for the film — he may not have been looking. We have no idea how to...
It seems too ludicrous to be real: a U.S. Army unit that sought to acquire and refine Jedi-like powers, and trained by attempting to kill goats through mind power alone. But the movie ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’, starring George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey, is based on actual events and [...]
From : In the new film, “Men Who Stare at Goats,” director Grant Heslov looks at what America's military force would be if it were controlled by New Age tactics rather than violent means.The film starts with reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) looking for a new way to spice up his life. He then encounters Sgt. Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a retired member of the now defunked New Age Army....
Part of the story angle behind Grant Heslov's directorial effort The Men Who Stare at Goats is that the film is based on a true story. Usually I ignore that sort of background when first approaching a movie -- I want a film to work on its own merits, rather than as an adaptation or recounting of history -- but after the fact it's always fun to look at the real material that inspired a story. In this...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Getting his project cast and financed was not the hard part for Grant Heslov. His feature directing debut, “The Men Who Stare at Goats,” starring George Clooney, opened Friday via Overture Films and earned a respectable $13.3 million during its first three days. Heslov, who produced “Goats” with Clooney, his partner in [...]
Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare at Goats opens with the disclaimer: More of this is true than you would believe. Based on the non-fiction book of the same name, it is a film that looks at the U.S. Armed Forces’ attempts to explore the possibility of using paranormal abilities for war. The framing story [...]
Year: 2009 Director: Grant Heslov Screenplay: Peter Straughan Starring: George Clooney , Ewan McGregor , Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey The Men Who Stare At Goats is a film which reminds me of one of my favorite films of 2002: Confessions of a dangerous mind. Both deal with larger than life characters who may or may not have had self-confessed influential roles with American government agencies. Confessions...
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