George Clooney is in final talks on a two-year agreement to move his film production company to Sony Pictures Entertainment from Warner Bros.
A three-year development deal that Time Warner's Warner Bros. has with Clooney, director Grant Heslov and their Smokehouse Pictures is expiring, Clooney spokesman Stan Rosenfield said.
The agreement gives Culver City, California-based Sony Pictures, first rights to future projects developed through Smokehouse.
Six movies in development, including the drama Escape from Tehran, will stay at Burbank, California-based Warner Bros, Sony said.
Previous Smokehouse movies include Leatherheads, the 2008 release starring Clooney as a professional football player in the 1920s.
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