• George Clooney And Grant Heslov Developing Smothers Brothers Biopic

    By Russ Fischer December 12th, 2011

    You might think of Tom and Dick Smothers as cute old guys; a quaint, genial and humorously argumentative duo that played folk songs flavored with comedy on variety TV shows and as the stars of their own show in the '60s. And they were that, but there's a history to the Smothers Brothers that is…

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    Leonardo DiCaprio Is Nolan Bushnell In Atari

    By Peter Sciretta June 7th, 2008

    Leonardo DiCaprio has signed on to star as Nolan Bushnell in Atari, a biopic about "the founding father of electronic gaming", who was the inventor of Pong and founder of Atari. Screenwriters Brian Hecker (Tribeca short film Bart Got a Room) and Craig Sherman (Pop Warner's biopic) sold the pitch to Paramount on Friday, and…

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