Clooney smokes out new assembly home at Sony

LOS ANGELES – George Clooney has lined up a new home for his assembly company.

Clooney and bearing accomplice Grant Heslov's Smoke House Pictures is in final negotiations on a two-year development and assembly accord with Sony Pictures, flat Co-Chairwoman Amy Pascal said Tuesday.

For abounding years, Clooney had been set up at Warner Bros., aboriginal with his Section Eight affiliation with Steven Soderbergh and after with Smoke House. Clooney said he acquainted like "part of a family" at Warner.

"I'm abrogation a agitating aggregation and a lot of baby friends. They're a chic act," said Clooney, 48, who alleged Sony a "perfect match" for Smoke House. "Grant Heslov and I achievement to bear the affectionate of films that will accomplish them proud."

While at Warner, Clooney won a supporting-actor Academy Award for "Syriana" and had a best-director choice the aforementioned year for "Good Night, and Good Luck," which Heslov produced.

Smoke House still has bisected a dozen projects in development at Warner Bros. that will abide there. Future Clooney and Heslov projects will be developed at Sony.

"We couldn't be added aflame to be in business with them," Pascal said. "The ample ambit of affection projects they accept championed and the acute and sometimes annoying actual they abutment says aggregate about their aggregation and their artistic aspirations."