Three Things You should Know about Entertainment this week...

George Clooney Receives Cecil B DeMille Award at 2015 Golden Globe awards

George Clooney this past Sunday received the Cecil B. DeMille Award this past Sunday at the 2015 Golden Globe Awards. This is an honorary Golden Globe Award bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment". It was first presented on February 21, 1952 at the 9th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony and is named in honor of its first recipient, director Cecil B. DeMille. 

Mr. George Clooney was presented his award from long time friends Angelina Margulies (Co-Star on ER) and Don Cheadle (Co- Start on ocean 11,12,13), George received this award for his outstanding work on the big screen and his incredible humanitarian work around the world. In his speech his gives a heart warming shout out to his new wife Amal While and, shed light on the travesty in France simple saying "Je suis charlie" This is important this week because Mr. Clooney has been a well known actor for years and is getting a well deserved award for all his hard work through his years in the business.

Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling and Christian Bale Team Up join forces to act in The Big Short.

Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling and Christian Bale are heard to be acting alongside each other in a new movie called The Big Short, an adaptation of Michael Lewis's bestselling book of the same name, according to Variety Magazine. Brad Pitt and his Plan B Production plan are heard to be also producing this movie with Mr. Adam McKay working out the script. 

The Big Short tells the story about the buildup to the housing bubble crash during the 2000s, highlighting the key players behind the financial crisis and those who predicted it would burst. Michael Lewis has had two books made into movies Moneyball and the 2009 Sandra Bullock film The Blind Side. Both were Oscar nominees for Best Picture. The importance of this story is the possibility of this movie having great success because the authors other pieces of work have been nominated for academy awards.

Ben Affleck Reteaming With Gone Girl Director David Fincher for Remake of Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train is the story of two strangers who meet on a train before negotiating a plan to carry out murders for each other. However, according to Deadline, the remake will star Ben Affleck as "a movie star—in the middle of a campaign for an Oscar during awards season—whose private plane breaks down and is given a ride to L.A. on another plane by a wealthy stranger." 

To create this movie Affleck will be teaming up with Director David Fincher. They had previously worked on the very successful movie Gone Girl. This story matters today because it will be interesting  to see how a classic Hitchcock movie will be translated into todays culture, Also it will be interesting to see if it succeeds like past Affleck movies or fails.