Universal is extending the football season to April. By Carl DiOrio, The Associated Press Universal is extending the football season to April. George Clooney’s crush of other commitments has resulted ...

Leatherheads: Comedy. Starring George Clooney, Renée Zellweger and John Krasinski. Directed by George Clooney. (PG-13. 114 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. "Leatherheads" is not that good a movie, and ...

In Leatherheads - a romantic comedy set in the early days of America's pro-football league in the 1920s - Clooney plays Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football captain determined to guide his ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Maybe the best offense in a real football game is a good defense. Not so in a movie about the early years of the sport, when pro football was a poor cousin to the college game. George Clooney's ...

It’s been a long road for Duncan Brantley, who sold the script for Leatherheads to Universal Pictures in 1991. It was to be director Steven Soderbergh’s second film after Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989 ...

In this romantic comedy, the woman who is the object of both Dodge’s and Carter’s affections is the alluring Lexie Littleton (Renée Zellweger). An intelligent and confident young reporter for a major ...

George Clooney got sacked at the box office. The Hollywood star poured his heart and soul into the football comedy “Leatherheads,” but it drew measly crowds in theaters and earned a paltry $13.5 ...

PASSING:Far from great, but not awful; Leatherheads is less of a football story as it is a fanciful, but not really romantic interplay of characters using the milieu of the pre-pro football era.

George Clooney's crush of other commitments has resulted in the studio's pushing the wide release of his 1920s pigskin pic "Leatherheads" to April 4, officials said Thursday. By Carl DiOrio, The ...