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Actor George Clooney recently revealed why he and his co-star Brad Pitt agreed to accept a lower salary for their upcoming project.
During his conversation with Deadline, the 60-year-old spilled beans on his much-anticipated reunion with the Fight Club actor. The upcoming project marks that A-listers’ first film together since the 2008 film Burn After Reading.
The Ocean’s Eleven actor didn’t share many details about the upcoming motion movie however he admitted that they both agreed on ‘less’ to ensure that their film gets a theatrical release.
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Clooney 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.”
“Apple came in with a really big number for Brad and I, 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,” he explained.
Emphasizing on the possibility of movie theaters’ co-existence with streaming platforms, he said, “I’d like to believe – and I still believe – that there’s a way that grownup films can still survive, and survive in movie theaters.”
