George Clooney got his second Oscar this year, winning Best Picture as the producer of Argo. That seems to have cause him to have a look through the work of journalist Joshua Bearman, who wrote the article Argo is based on.
Now The Wrap reports that Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov are planning a film based on Bearman’s upcoming article about the Coronado Club. Clooney is thinking about directing the project himself, although that’s not been confirmed yet.
Not too much is known about the film, although Coronado is the name of a resort city in Southern California and the story is about a group of young people who are used to smuggle drugs. There’s no news on who will script the adaptation, although Sony Pictures is in talks to finance the project.
Clooney is currently shooting The Monuments Men, so he probably won’t get around to this one for a while yet.
Jon Favreau is best known as a director for Elf, Iron Man and Cowboys & Aliens, but he started out in the indie arena with Made, in which he starred with Vince Vaughn. Now he’s hoping to go back to independent film with Chef.
It was almost inevitable that at some point American Idol judge and pop star Nicki Minaj would want to try to be an actress, now it’s looks like he’s happening, as 
Studiocanal and Aardman Animations have announced that they’re going to team up for a stop-motion animated movie, based on the popular character, Shaun The Sheep.
Dark Knight cinematographer Wally Pfister has certainly lined up an impressive cast for his directorial debut, Transcendence. He’s got Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Kate Mara, Clifton Collins Jr., and Morgan Freeman lined up to star, and now he’s added one more name, Cole Hauser, according to 
Director Tarsem Singh was averaging one film ever six years with The Cell and The Fall, but he’s speeded up his output considerably, as Immortals and Mirror Mirror were released within eight months of one another in 2011 and 2012.
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