"Burn After Reading" Trailer
Burn After Reading is a dark spy-comedy from the Coen Brothers (woohoo - Joel and Ethan!). I can’t wait to see it, because I love their stuff. It follows an ousted CIA official (John Malkovich), whose memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two gym employees who intend to exploit it. Directed and written by Ethan and Joel Coen, this movie is rated R for pervasive language, some sexual content, and violence. In theaters Sept. 12, 2008. And wow, what a cast! George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad

Reel Screening - Burn After Reading
In our latest edition of Reel Screening, we have passes up for grabs to see the dark comedy, “Burn After Reading,” starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt. To win your free pass to the advance screening of “Burn After Reading” in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD, all you need to do is be one of the first 25 people to answer our question below in Reel Screening. That’s it! “Burn After Reading” plot: A dark spy-comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen. O

Video: "Burn After Reading" Red Band Trailer
A dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. An ousted CIA official's (Academy Award nominee John Malkovich) memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find. Also stars George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt.

George Clooney says he ‘couldn’t do what Brad and Angie are doing’
Star Magazine must be making deals with a lot of celebrity publicists because they’ve sure been scoring the A-list interviews lately. A few weeks ago they seemed to have one of the first interviews with Jennifer Aniston in years. Their most recent issue features an original interview with George Clooney. Interviews with Clooney are a dime a dozen but still remain fun as anything to read. The 47 year-old star is promoting his new Coen brothers film, Burn After Reading, which also stars Brad Pitt, Franc

George Clooney - Burn Hot At Venice
The Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading . starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton, received a generally warm reception from ...

New Photos: Coen Brother's Burn After Reading
The Coen Brother's hotly anticipated Burn After Reading (tentatively titled) is getting a lot of love this week. First we learn (via Yahoo) that the film, with its heavyweight cast of John Malkovich, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand, will headline the Venice Film Festival on August 27th. And today we get some new photos of these characters in what looks to be a dark comedy the likes of which only the Coen's could pull off. Ready to start the hype for this year's Coen Brothers h

Two Day Contest
In support of the upcoming movie release BURN AFTER READING (Focus Features / In Theaters September 12th) starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and more, INO has 5 prize packs to give away. One (1) Grand Prize Winner will receive: Burn After Reading USB 2.0 T-shirt Water Bottle Wrist Bands Four (4) First Prize Winners will receive: T-shirt Water Bottle Wrist Bands World-premiering as the opening-night film of the 2008 Venice International Film Festival; a dark spy-comedy from

Senators, Presidents and the Wacky Fall Ahead
In the specialty world, the summer ends as it began -- with more confusion and musical chairs than at a children's birthday party (or the Republican convention). It was, after all, back on June 3 that Paramount Vantage began its non-consolidatory consolidation -- it folded in marketing, distribution and physical production in what turned out to be prelude to the laying off of sixty staffers, its reinvention as a genre label and the departures of specialty vets Amy Israel and Gerry Rich. So why should the

Burn After Reading
The Coen Brothers reteam with George Clooney for this blackly comic film set in the world of a former spy. John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, and Tilda Swinton are along for the sure-to-be wild ride filled with the Coens' trademark humor.

Clooney, Pitt, Coens join Toronto festival lineup - AP
Movies featuring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Kate Beckinsale, Edward Norton and Colin Farrell and a documentary about Paris Hilton have joined the lineup for the Toronto International Film Festival. North America's largest cinema showcase announced Tuesday that the schedule will include Joel and Ethan Coen's CIA comedy "Burn After Reading," with Pitt, Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich. Among other additions were Gavin O'Connor's cop drama "Pride and Glory," starring Norton and Fa

Brad Pitt Picks Up Best Actor Award in Venice - A Year Late!
Brad Pitt picked up a best-acting award for his starring role in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford -- a year after the film was released and a year after he won the accolade, the Associated Press reports. "You can run but you can't hide," Pitt, 44, joked as he belatedly accepted the honor. The actor nabbed the prize at the opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, as his latest film, Burn After Reading, debuted. See photos of Brad Pitt through the years. Burn Af

Celebs News: Pictures: Brad Pitt and George Clooney at Venice Film Festival
Hollywood hunks Brad Pitt and George Clooney have been making a dashing double act at the Venice Film Festival today as they plug their new movie Burn After Reading. The film, a black comedy from Oscar-winning directing duo Ethan and Joel Coen, is being premiered tonight at the highbrow bash.  Clooney plays a federal marshal who gets mixed up in a conspiracy involving a former CIA analyst's memoirs which end up in a gym. Pitt meanwhile plays a gym instructor who along with

In the Closet: Burn After Bitching
Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt and George Clooney are bookended by the Coen Brothers while promoting Burn After Reading at the Venice Film Festival. They all may be a part of the same flick, but they fer sure ain't sharing a similar fashion sense. Joel and Ethan are behind-the-scenes director types, so we'll give their humdrum outfits a pass (tho ya think you could sport a tie or something when screening your movie?) Francie McD, howevs, looks like a schoolteacher at a liberal arts college i

Clooney, Pitt plug spy comedy in Venice
The Coen brothers wrote their dark comedy Burn After Reading with stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand all in mind. Not necessarily a compliment. The movie, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, is, simply put, a tale about idiots - and what happens when their worlds collide. Pitt and McDormand are a pair of hapless gym employees who get in way over their heads when the memoirs of a failed CIA analyst, played by John Malkovich, fall into their hands and they try to peddle them as c

Coen brothers dark comedy premieres at Venice fest - AP
The Coen brothers wrote their dark comedy, "Burn After Reading," with stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand in mind. Not necessarily a compliment. The movie, which premieres Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival, is a tale about idiots and what happens when their worlds collide. Pitt and McDormand are a pair of hapless gym employees who get in way over their heads when the memoirs of a failed CIA analyst (John Malkovich) fall into their hands and they try to peddle them as classified intel

pop nosh: the muppets coming back to TV?!?
† the best news i've heard all week...i can never get enough muppet action! EW's pop watch † jessica simpson's country performance turned out to be a total 'failure' webster's is my bitch † Michael Lohan is using his dad's recent death to take stabs at ex-wife dina cele|bitchy † wacky UK lady Jodie Marsh will forever be known as an 'empress of elegance' yeeeah! † please do not ask Reese Witherspoon about her boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal i'm not obsessed † Michael J

Tilda Swinton being fabulous on the cover of Black Book
Tilda Swinton's Reign“Amazing!” With a gasp of approval, Tilda Swinton places her delicate hands on the Chanel gold feather neckpiece that will eventually adorn her perfectly proportioned, alabaster frame at the BlackBookcover shoot. “It’s very regal,” she proclaims. “I just love it.” Avant-garde goddess. An icon of indie cinema. To some, the most beautiful woman on the planet. And, on this morning in Paris, fashion model. Just in from Milan, where she’s currently shooting the romantic drama

Brad Pitt's Wacky On-Set Antics
Ever wonder what it's like to work with Brad Pitt? Go behind the scenes of 'Burn After Reading' to find out! Get a peek at his hilarious on-set antics in this new video, only on ET! Producers Ethan and Joel Coen talk about working with the actor, while co-star Frances McDormand gives the low-down on playing opposite Brad!

New Images from BURN AFTER READING
BURN AFTER READING opens in theaters Friday, September 12 with an all star cast including Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand.

Tilda Swinton just being as fierce as humanly possible
Interview with The IndependentTilda Swinton describes herself as "a film fan who got lucky"Tilda Swinton - Confessions of an outsider Mention her Oscar win in February and actress Tilda Swinton bursts out laughing. She still finds it "hilarious" that she walked away with one of the highly coveted statues. When you tell her she was riveting as the ambitious lawyer in Michael Clayton, she looks at you like you're soft in the head. "But these awards are for actresses, and I'm not

Code of Coens: How to succeed in filmmaking
From their audacious 1984 debut “Blood Simple” onward, filmmaker brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have built a remarkably consistent and unmistakably personal body of work. Their latest, a hard-edged adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel “No Country For Old Men,” is one of the frontrunners at this year’s Oscars, tied with “There Will Be Blood” with eight nominations, including best picture. While it clearly ranks alongside “Fargo” and “The Big Lebowski” as the brothers’ best wo

Coen brothers cast 'Serious' men
The Coen brothers have tapped a pair of relative unknowns to star in their next pic, "A Serious Man." Michael Stuhlbarg, a Tony-nominated actor with little experience in front of the cameras, and Richard Kind, a character actor best known for his role on ABC's "Spin City," will star as brothers in the period black comedy. Set in 1967, story centers on Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg), a Midwestern professor whose life begins to unravel when his wife sets out to leave him and his socially inept brother (Kind)

Coen brothers win best director(s)
I'm a little surprised - I thought Paul Thomas Anderson would take it for "There Will Be Blood". But, there you go, their third Oscar in total, and their second for the night.

Is Hollywood Lacking In "Manly" Men? [Gender Benders]
Are there any tough guys left in America? Over on Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch Blog, Mandi Bierly links to a piece in Variety written by Anne Thompson, in which Thompson asks, "Where have the manly movie stars gone?" She claims the Hollywood machine has churned out nothing but boy-men. Johnny Depp? "Fey." Brendan Fraser? "Goofy." Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise? Just not macho enough! When a studio wants a real manly type, they turn to the UK, Australia or Europe: Christian Bale, Gerard Butler, Hugh Jackman