Production company 2929 Entertainment, owned by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban, Jeff Skoll’s Participant Media and Clooney are financing the effort.

The Broadway show "Good Night, and Good Luck" has broken box office records since its opening this April. The play stars George Clooney, who also starred in and co-wrote the movie it's based on. This June,

Decades before CNN agreed to a live telecast of Broadway’s Good Night, and Good Luck on June 7, George Clooney had originally envisioned it as a special for CBS, not a movie for theaters and a play on Broadway.