'Hail, Caesar!' to Open 2016 Berlin Film Festival in Berlin on 11th Feb 2016

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Perfect choice. Nicky, you got to meet George&lots of other stars and the Coens on the red carpet!

Wow!
Damn, I just checked the date, it's a Thursday so not too easy to get there due to work...

Full press release:
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George Clooney film to open Berlin festival
2015-12-07 15:38
 
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Berlin - The Coen brothers' all-star romp Hail, Caesar! featuring George Clooney as a bumbling Hollywood actor playing the Roman emperor will open the 66th Berlin film festival in February, organisers said on Friday.
The Oscar-winning American siblings are due to walk the red carpet in the German capital on 11 February  to kick off the 11-day event, ranked with Cannes and Venice among Europe's top cinema showcases.
"It's wonderful that Joel and Ethan Coen are once again opening the Berlinale," festival director Dieter Kosslick said in a statement.
"Their humour, unique characters and fantastic narrative skill are guaranteed to thrill the audience," he added, calling it the "perfect start" to the 2016 edition.
See the trailer here:
The Coens presented what would become their cult classic The Big Lebowski in 1998 at the Berlinale, as the event is known, and opened the festival in 2011 with their remake of the western True Grit.
A festival spokeswoman told AFP that Hail, Caesar! would screen out of competition for the event's Golden Bear top prize, which will be awarded by a jury led by Meryl Streep on 20 February.
The movie, which is due to be released in the United States on 5 February , is a send-up of Hollywood's 1950s Golden Age when the big studios still had the industry in their grip.
It presents a madcap day in the life of a studio fixer played by Josh Brolin and features a cast including Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Channing Tatum.
The Coen brothers have described the role for Clooney in interviews as the third in a Numbskull Triology after O Brother, Where Art Thou? in 2000 and Intolerable Cruelty in 2003.
This year's Golden Bear went to Taxi by Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi.
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I already posted the news days ago. And you posted it in the wrong section. This isn't for Hail Caesar....

Ok no worries, I've merged the two threads. Thanks pigpen for posting the whole article and not just the link.

Sevens - usually when people just post a link, other posters don't bother clicking on it so possibly not many people noticed that you posted. I really appreciate everyone who keeps the forum updated and I'd rather have the same news twice than not at all.

I know that Katie but most time when I'm trying to post news ASAP, I should be on my mobile. That would make copying the whole article a bit difficult.
Anyway, it's HAIL,CAESAR! time soon!So hyped for this movie!
My favorite directors are working with my George again!!!!! Can't hold that level of excitement!

  sorry... will try better in the future.

Katie, would you like to change the titles of Hail Caesar and Money Monster sections to both definite 2016? That really bothers me as their release dates were announced a long time ago yet we're still using the wrong releasing year for them. Thanks.

Merged threads as a reminder this is happening next week. He is coming to Berlin 

Nicky,
will you go there?
I thought about it but can't, can't get off work, my husband's away the whole week, and I've got no one to look after the kids...

Not sure yet. I need to check. Last time , for the MM premier, I had off and this was good as you need to come earlier to stay in the front row. This time I'm not off and by the time I would go it is already pact with people. The Berlinale has always more people coming to the event then a "normal" premier.    I might try to see if I can go and sneack somehow into the first row. 

Nicky - When they premiered MM here I was told that people could sign up to attend the screening of the film as "seat fillers". The organizers of the event signed people up before the screening and then called in as many as they needed to fill empty seats. Maybe they do the same at Berlinale??

Nicky, try to get a LAP seat on George!

Or under him!

Pictures on Getty of new? or old? waxwork.........

There's a piece in Die Welt - no less - about Amal being there.........

...yep, the fact that Amal is going to the Berlinale seems to have made headlines in most German papers.

Thank goodness she has a great sense of humour. An article in the Guardian quoting George on that....

party animal - not! wrote:...yep, the fact that Amal is going to the Berlinale seems to have made headlines in most German papers.

Thank goodness she has a great sense of humour. An article in the Guardian quoting George on that....

Headlines not really. I had to search a bit to find the info. Some German newspaper wrote most about George coming and not because of Amal. But I must say the Media hype was bigger when MM opened the Berlinale maybe because other Hollywood stars like Matt Damon and co joined the premier. Now it less media hype. I think that's why the Berlinale director released the info about Amal in order to get media attention again. But it was not like that you can call it "headlines in most German papers" 

Oh, that's interesting 'cos when you google, say, George Clooney, Berlinale 2016 - a load of articles come up. But maybe they're all from the same syndicate..........

Nicky80 wrote: But I must say the Media hype was bigger when MM opened the Berlinale maybe because other Hollywood stars like Matt Damon and co joined the premier. Now it less media hype.

More likely because MM was filmed in Germany and was about German history.

Yeah that too and the fact of the other Hollywood stars. Together it is a great combination.

It's interesting that Josh Brolin's character is the linch-pin of the film, but George and Channing Tatum seem to be doing most of the promotion. I haven't seen Scarlett Johansen do much press either.

I wonder if it's because of scheduling conflicts or because the promoters don't think they'd garner as much attention as George and Channing. It bothers me because putting George out front like this makes it easy for people to blame him if the film isn't "successful".

I think no matter what at this point George would get the blame.

Any movie that George is in will be a 'George Clooney movie.' That's the nature of stardom and celebrity. You take the good, you take the bad...

For what it's worth, Josh Brolin burned a lot of bridges when he was drinking. He's sober now apparently, and working steadily, so he still has allies and industry fans, but he was an ugly, violent drunk for a while and might still have some time before he's trotted out as any big film's golden boy.

Way2Old - I wasn't aware that Josh Brolin's drinking was that bad. I guess he's lucky to have friends like the Coens who seem willing to take a chance on him. It makes sense that they'd want to protect him (and the film) - the pressure of a junket might be more than he can handle.

LizzyNY wrote: but George and Channing Tatum seem to be doing most of the promotion. I haven't seen Scarlett Johansen do much press either.

I wonder if it's because of scheduling conflicts or because the promoters don't think they'd garner as much attention as George and Channing. It bothers me because putting George out front like this makes it easy for people to blame him if the film isn't "successful".

I think the stars of a film have contracts stipulating how much press they do for a film and also when/where they do it. It may be that the other stars had lesser obligations in their contracts and/or the fact that they may be busy filmig elsewhere (I can't be bothered to google what Scarlett Johansen is up to right now).

Way2Old4Dis wrote:For what it's worth, Josh Brolin burned a lot of bridges when he was drinking. He's sober now apparently, and working steadily, so he still has allies and industry fans, but he was an ugly, violent drunk for a while and might still have some time before he's trotted out as any big film's golden boy.

TBH, that was my first reaction when I heard he was in the film: couldn't believe that George would work with someone like him. I guess every person deserves a second chance (and a third and a fourth . . . ) but Brolin's reputation for me is as someone very unsavoury and not at all Clooney-circle friendly.

And Brolin is also cast in Suburbicon.

Scarlett is filming in New Zealand.