Coen Brothers

The Coen brothers' follow-up to No Country for Old Men is headed to the City of Water this summer, according to the Associated Press. Their film, the spy comedy Burn After Reading starring George Clooney, John Malkovich and Brad Pitt, will open this year's Venice Film Festival on Aug. 27. Not ready to book your plane tickets yet? How about some more details about the script. Mr. Pitt is sporting a wacky flat-top hairdo for his role as a goofball personal trainer who finds a manuscript written by Mr. Malkovich's character, an alcoholic former CIA agent. The gym buffster plans to profit from the memoir and Mr. Clooney plays a supporting role as a Treasury agent who gets caught up in the whole affair.

Perhaps hoping for a repeat of No Country For Old Men, the Coen Brothers are once again teaming up with producer Scott Rudin to make a movie out of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Variety reports. Columbia acquired the screen rights.

"No Country," which was based on the Cormac McCarthy book, was nominated for eight Oscars this year, including for best picture and best adapted screenplay.

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The Coen brothers’ No Country For Old Men won the top prize at the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild awards show, while The Sopranos cleaned up in the television categories. With this year's Golden Globes reduced to a press conference and the fate of next month's Oscars uncertain, the ordinarily downplayed Screen Actors Guild Awards made big headlines thanks to the WGA’s promise that it would not picket the show, a sign of solidarity with actors who have been supportive of the writers’ ongoing push to be compensated for new media content. AP has the complete list of awards after the jump.  read more »

The New York Film Critics Circle follows the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures route and gives the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men top accolades during today's voting. The film won best film, best screenplay, best director and Javier Bardem received the best supporting actor award.

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Get out your Oscar pool cards, kids! The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, which usually tests the awards-season winds early in the season, announced their annual awards this afternoon, naming the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men 2007's Best Film of the Year. They also got the best adapted screenplay award and the cast, which includes Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Kelly MacDonald, was named the best ensemble.  read more »

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and No Country for Old Men are well suited to our depressing times. But still!  read more »