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George Clooney
With 2006 closing out most actors are working on filling their to-do list for 2007. George Clooney seems to be one year ahead, having filled his 2008 schedule with 2009 releases.
Clooney for The Belmont Boys and White Jazz
Clooney is hoping to become a busy Ocean. The actor has first committed himself to direct The Belmont Boys, a heist movie that will reteam him with Ocean's Thirteen producer Jerry Weintraub.
The script for the film will be written by scribes Brian Koppelman and David Levien.
Once done behind the camera, Clooney will quickly jump back in front of the lens with White Jazz, a film he will star in for Warner Independent Pictures. Based on the James Ellroy novel, Clooney will play a dirty LAPD vice squad lieutenant whose mastery at skirting the rules gets tested when he's set up by his crooked bosses to be the fall guy for a murder.
Matthew Michael Carnahan -- who recently scored Tom Cruise with his script Lions for Lambs -- wrote the script for White Jazz.
The Belmont Boys tells the story of seven thieves who first meet at the horse track and nearly pull off the job of a lifetime. They reunite 30 years later, to finish what they started.
The film will lens in both the U.S. and Europe. Since Clooney's to-do list is already chalk full for 2007, all his new projects -- including The Belmont Boys and White Jazz -- must wait until 2008 before entering production.
Among the project Clooney has coming our way are Ocean's Thirteen, The Good German, Michael Clayton, Burn After Reading and Leatherheads.
By the time 2007 closes out we may be sick of Clooney.
George Clooney 
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