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George Clooney in Talks for Alexander Payne's Next Film

George Clooney is in talks to play the lead role in the first feature film Alexander Payne has directed in five years, the follow-up to 2004’s Sideways. Payne also directed 1999’s Election and currently executive produces HBO’s series Hung. Produced by Fox Searchlight (where Payne has a first-look deal), the new film is a family “dramedy” called The Descendants, based on Kaui Hart Hemmings’ 2007 novel of the same name....  read more

Payne announces "small" film with Giamatti, Witherspoon

It seems Alexander Payne is partnering with screenwriting collaborator Jim Taylor again to pen his first feature film since 2004's Sideways won an Oscar for the duo's adaption of Rex Picket's novel of the same name. Rejoining the director for the film will be Paul Giamatti, who starred in Sideways, and Reese Witherspoon, who hasn't acted for Payne since her breakout film Election in 1999....  read more

The 17 Best Romantic Comedies This Decade

New York Times critic A.O. Scott said it best: "It might be Kate Hudson, or maybe Mandy Moore, or possibly Rachel Weisz, Lindsay Lohan or a Jennifer (Lopez? Aniston? Garner?) But if it's February, you can be pretty sure that some pretty, plucky actress will be traipsing around some glamorous and photogenic American city (or its Canadian double) in search of the dimple-chinned fellow who embodies her one true love." Sure enough, he's right: Hudson can currently be seen in Bride Wars, and Aniston in He's Just Not That Into You (which opens today). That's not even mentioning Renée Zellweger...  read more