Untie the League. Lys D. What happens if Justice League suck as bad as Batman v Superman does Do the other DC movies get scrapped Do they try another new DC. At Home With George Clooney in Italy Amal, the Twins, Politics and an Incendiary New Movie. George Clooney strides across the lush lawn of his Lake Como home and points toward a cluster of trees, the only barrier that separates him and this 1. Italian villa from an increasingly invasive world. Thats where he got in, he says, more matter of fact than angry. The guy climbed the fence and got up into the trees there. The he in question is a paparazzo. Less than 2. 4 hours earlier, news was tearing across the internet that a photographer one of hordes that swarm around Clooney like the mosquitoes on the nearby lake had slipped past the guardhouse, crept through the bushes, crawled up a tree and snapped pictures of the star and his wife, Amal, cradling their 7 week old twins. Clooney vowed to sue. E Entertainment Television, LLC. A Division of NBCUniversal with news, shows, photos, and videos. The fact that a stranger could penetrate his sanctum sanctorum the one place where, for a few brief weeks each summer, he can flee the pressures of his almost unparalleled celebrity infuriated him. That the interloper would also exploit his babies tapped into the peculiar nexus where Clooneys sense of private rights and public wrongs collide, adding fuel to both. He long ago abandoned hope of maintaining any part of himself for him alone, but now hes thinking about his wife and children. Every single day theres some crazy sort of infringement, he says. And you go, OK, well eat it. Thats what we have to do. But when someone breaks the law, thats beyond what we bargained for, beyond the pact I made that when youre famous, youre going to be followed. I dont know anyone who wouldnt be furious. His words linger, and then he waves them away, and they dissolve in the heat and humidity of this sweltering late July afternoon, as if Clooney, calmer and apparently more content than ever before and even contemplating a new career refuses to let anything unwanted trouble his mind. He started coming to Lake Como 1. Rande Gerber stumbled on the Villa Oleandra while crisscrossing Italy on their motorbikes. After one of the bikes broke down outside its gates, the owners ushered them in and proceeded to sell Clooney their house for 7. Since then, hes also bought an adjacent property, the Villa Margarita, partly to keep that building from becoming a vipers nest for enquiring minds. Each summer, this prince of the New World exiles himself to the heart of the Old, an ancient terrain of artists and aristocrats. Its here that Clooney invites friends, family and a few chosen acquaintances Charlie Rose, David Gergen and Samantha Power, among others to join him for a contemporary Algonquin Round Table, one of the few remnants of the past for which this maestro of the present still hankers. I was always enamored of that idea, he says. All these really interesting, smart people, sitting around having conversations. Barack Obama might soon be one of them. EaoAdU1ze04/U1qV4WXHUKI/AAAAAAAACWA/6_BkzYhSj_4/s1600/Almost+Home+3.jpg' alt='The New Almost Home Movie ' title='The New Almost Home Movie ' />Our film critics on blockbusters, independents and everything in between. The latest movie news, movie trailers, new movies from 2017 movies releases and more. To describe Moonlight, Barry Jenkinss second feature, as a movie about growing up poor, black and gay would be accurate enough. It would also not. News and reviews on the trends and rising stars in movies, music, television and more. Clooney is hoping Obama will visit his Lombardian estate, just as he did Clooneys home in Sonning, England, where the former president spent a night in early June along with a squadron of Secret Service, remaining for a five hour meal, bantering and playing hoops. I shot the lights out that day, Clooney smiles. I think it really bothered him. He and Obama have a jocular relationship that at times teeters into the risque. I glimpse a text from the former president on the actors phone. What a jerk Obama teases. Has Clooney ever been racy with him Sometimes, sure, he says. A little bit. Not Scaramucci racy, but you know, I have over the years with my friends said a lot of really outrageous things. Ive had an email exchange with Sacha Baron Cohen thats some of the filthiest stuff, honestly. Amal will be on the chain and shell be upstairs and Ill hear her scream, No because its just foul, and you think, Well, that would probably not be great if it came out. Clooney understands these risks better than anyone. He knows the pitfalls of fame, alert to all the dangers whatever naivete might once have been part of him has long gone in the glare of public scrutiny. In Absentia Movie Dvd Watch here. He was among the first people to receive a middle of the night call from his friend Amy Pascal, the embattled Sony Pictures chairman, in the heat of the now famous North Korean hack of November 2. She and her colleague Michael Lynton turned to him for advice. Amy felt with all that stuff, there were only a couple of people that really stood by her side, he says. Grant Heslov, his producing partner and I were among them. Hes still tight with the former executive, but, looking back, he acknowledges They didnt do a whole lot right. Theyd say that, too Im not speaking out of school. They should have been more on top of the idea of hacking earlier on. The response initially was good but needed to be better, and then Amy was caught making a dumb, bad joke in an email. That joke made fun of Obama, speculating about the African American films he was watching. For Clooney, its all water under the bridge. I hate to think that any one of us could have made dumb, bad jokes, he says, shrugging. Its unfortunate that it was also racist, about the president, and thats not a very smooth maneuver. Racism is at the heart of Clooneys new film, Suburbicon, a drama set in the late 1. Heslov, starring Matt Damon and Julianne Moore. The movie, which debuted Sept. Venice Film Festival, interweaves two stories a family drama, as a seemingly ordinary husband and father Damon becomes increasingly off kilter and a racial conflict, as a white neighborhood turns against a black family that has just moved in, whose superficial abnormality masks the genuine abnormality of the white family. Its Clooneys most dyspeptic take yet on the state of his country. I wanted it to be violent, I wanted it to be angry, and I think its a very angry film, he says, fixing me a coffee as we sit at a long, wooden table in his dark, country style kitchen, three dogs loping around at our feet. Were at a time when we need to address these issues, and unfortunately theyre issues that we have never completely exorcised. The project originated with the Coen brothers, who wrote the first drafts of a screenplay they planned to film and then in the late 1. Clooney to star. But their script depicted only the white familys tale. When Clooney and Heslov contemplated the race issues that had simmered during Donald Trumps run for the White House, they decided to include a second plot element, drawing inspiration from the real life drama of Levittown, Pennsylvania, in 1. African American family named Myers. What I found fascinating, growing up in Kentucky, was that whenever youd see these movies about any form of bigotry, they were always with a Southern accent, says Clooney. Those in the North love to think they had nothing to do with it. They love to wash their hands and say, Actually, we were the liberals. We were against slavery and for civil rights. And the truth of the matter is much more complicated. There were a lot of problems, particularly in places like Levittown. They built a fence around the peoples homes they hung confederate flags around it they named their dog Nigger. They got instruments and played all night, 2. Clooney showed news footage of Levittown to his cast, who were only vaguely aware of what had happened there. I didnt know about that before George told me, says Damon, who slashed his usual fee and then shot Suburbicon after wrapping four others that hed made back to back. I was floored. Its that incredible thing where people are like Well, were not racist we just dont want them to live here. The Paramount release, filmed in Los Angeles last year on a budget of 2. Clooneys Good Night, and Good Luck 2. Coen brothers, though neither was involved beyond writing the original script. Grant and I felt an incredible responsibility to the Coens, says Clooney. The tone of their film was very, very dark, and we thought that was a good thing.