CLOONEY SETS SIGHTS ON `SIGHT'.Byline: Daily News Wire Services George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER is in talks to star in ``Out of Sight'' for Universal Pictures. The film, which is expected to start production this summer, would be Clooney's next picture after the recently completed ``Batman and Robin'' for Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . He is expected to get at least $10 million for the ``Sight'' role. The studio is currently meeting with directors, and Steven Soderbergh is believed to be one of the front-runners. Written by Scott Frank (``Get Shorty short·y also short·ie Informal n. pl. short·ies 1. A person short in stature. 2. A thing of less than average size, length, extension, or duration. adj. ,'' ``Heaven's Prisoners,'' ``Dead Again''), ``Sight'' is based on Elmore Leonard's novel about a female federal marshal who is taken hostage during a prison break by three fugitives. She falls for one of them, and when she's set free her bosses want her to spearhead the manhunt man·hunt n. An organized, extensive search for a person, usually a fugitive criminal. manhunt Noun an organized search, usually by police, for a wanted man or fugitive Noun 1. . Jackson circles sci-fi `Sphere': Samuel L. Jackson “Samuel Jackson” redirects here. For the senator from Indiana, see Samuel D. Jackson. Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor. will join Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Andre Braugher in Barry Levinson's epic science-fiction adventure ``Sphere.'' The film is expected to roll next month in Northern California. Jackson will portray a brilliant mathematician in the film, which derives from Michael Crichton's 1987 novel. Daltrey's next: Rock star Roger Daltrey and actor Jurgen Prochnow (``Das Boot'') have been cast in ``Fifth Freedom,'' which will shoot in the Netherlands this spring. ``Fifth Freedom'' is built around the historical fact that some 7,000 warplanes went down during World War II over the Netherlands' Inland Sea. |
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