Catherine Zeta-Jones to Join All-Star Cast of ``Ocean's Twelve''.Entertainment Editors BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2004 Oscar-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones will join 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 , Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle Donald Frank Cheadle (born November 29, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. Biography Early life Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri to Donald Cheadle, a child psychologist, and Betty, a bank manager and a , Andy Garcia, and the rest of the all-star ensemble cast An ensemble cast is a cast in which the principal performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance in a dramatic production. This kind of casting became more popular in television series because it allows for flexibility for writers to focus on different of "Ocean's Eleven" in its much-anticipated sequel, "Ocean's Twelve," scheduled to begin production this April for Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures. The film is directed by Steven Soderbergh and produced by Jerry Weintraub in association with Section Eight. The screenplay is by George Nolfi George Nolfi is an American screenwriter. In 2004, he adapted his spec screenplay “Honor Among Thieves” (previously considered as a John Woo vehicle) into the sequel to Ocean's Eleven called Ocean's Twelve. . "Ocean's Twelve" reunites the original cast in another crime caper caper, common name for members of the Capparidaceae, a family of tropical plants found chiefly in the Old World and closely related to the family Cruciferae (mustard family). , this time set in Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Vincent Cassel, Elliott Gould, Eddie Jemison, and Carl Reiner also star. "Ocean's Twelve" will be released worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures. "Catherine is just terrific -- one of those stars who comes along once in a long while," said Weintraub. "It's not easy to find an actress who can measure up to the star power of this cast, but Catherine will not only hold her own, she'll add a lot to the movie. I've wanted to work with her forever, and couldn't be happier to welcome her." Said Jeff Robinov, President, Production, Warner Bros. Pictures, "Catherine has demonstrated her ability to handle humor as gracefully as she does drama; she will be the perfect addition to our already terrific cast on this movie. We're extremely happy to be working with the tremendous team involved with this picture." Zeta-Jones was honored with an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in last year's hit adaptation of the Broadway musical "Chicago," which also earned her a Golden Globe nomination and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In an earlier collaboration with Steven Soderbergh, Zeta-Jones earned another Golden Globe nomination and shared a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture for her work in "Traffic." Zeta-Jones previously starred with "Ocean's Twelve" castmates George Clooney in "Intolerable Cruelty" and Julia Roberts in "America's Sweethearts." She first came to worldwide audience attention with her role opposite Antonio Banderas in "The Mask of Zorro zorro: see fox. Zorro masked swordsman, defender of weak and oppressed. [Am. Lit.: comic strip (1919); Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 794; TV: Terrace, II, 461–462] See : Disguise ," which she followed with a starring role opposite Sean Connery in "Entrapment entrapment, in law, the instigation of a crime in the attempt to obtain cause for a criminal prosecution. Situations in which a government operative merely provides the occasion for the commission of a criminal act (e.g. ." Zeta-Jones will be seen later this year opposite Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg's "Terminal." |
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