Brad Pitt and George Clooney took pay cut to ensure film has cinema release

nme.com:

Oceans Eleven and Burn After Reading are reuniting once more for an as yet untitled film.The thriller, helmed by Spider Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts, was won by Apple Original Movies after a major bidding war.

It’s described as a “tale of two lone-wolf fixers assigned to the same job.”Speaking to Deadline, Clooney revealed that they’d taken a pay cut and that he believes films can co-exist in cinemas and on streaming platforms together.He said: “It was an exciting time because it got to be one of those weird bidding wars which happen every once in a while, and it ended up being pretty extreme, and Apple came in with a really big number for Brad and I.”He said: “And we said we’d like to take less as long as we can guarantee that we can have a theatrical release, and they said great.“I do think that there’s a way that we can all co-exist.

You know, I do think that there is a version of this that we can do.“There’s a lot of movies that are fun to still see on a big screen.

You know, the film I’m doing with Julia [Roberts] right now is a Universal film, and it’s a comedy, and comedies are fun to see in a room full of people.” George Clooney most recently directed and starred in The Midnight Sky on Netflix.In a three-star review of the film, NME wrote: “As an exercise in visionary filmmaking, The Midnight Sky succeeds admirably, and Clooney’s seasoned and trusted approach to working with a tight-knit ensemble of performers shines through.“If only these strengths weren’t undercut by a need to strike a commercial chord with audiences, we’d be faced with a far more bold and robust piece of sci-fi filmmaking.”.