• George Clooney To Produce, Possibly Direct 'Enron'

    By Russ Fischer December 6th, 2010

    The defining screen take on the collapse of energy company Enron is currently the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. But there is a UK stage version of the story, a satirical take called simply Enron, that has been optioned by producer Laura Ziskin. To the chagrin of the UK company, she has…

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    Columbia Buys The Play E.N.R.O.N., About Rise And Fall Of Energy Giant

    By Russ Fischer September 22nd, 2009

    It's a good time to have a property about corporate malfeasance. There's already a perfectly good documentary about Enron, but that didn't stop Amy Pascal and Columbia for paying for Lucy Prebble's play E.N.R.O.N., which dramatizes the company's story. Variety reports on the deal in brief. Laura Ziskin is producing from Prebble's play, which opened…

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