Thanks to Lorelli for donating the above pictures of George filming Michael Clayton on location in Blooming Grove, NY.  George also filmed the 2006 Oscars Opening scene, the one with him and John Anderson in Bed, in Lorelli's parents Bedroom.  Click here to view the larger versions and to read about Lorelli's experience. 

Sydney Pollack had this to say on his role as George Clooney's boss in the movie "Michael Clayton," Pollack said, "I play an evil guy. I usually play bad guys." Source

PR man Stan Rosenfield introduced me to his client Danny DeVito and wife Rhea Perlman; I told Stan I'd heard that people had seen Michael Clayton, starring his client George Clooney, and word was good. He'd heard the same thing, he said; it will open in September. (THR-Risky Biz)

Rumour has it, for example, that George Clooney's forthcoming thriller Michael Clayton would never have happened had Creative Artists Agency (CAA) not put the writer/director Tony Gilroy in the same room as the Cloonster himself. (The Times)

Synopsis
September 14
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Director: Tony Gilroy
Writer: Tony Gilroy
Producers: Sydney Pollack, Steve Samuels, Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent
Executive Producers: Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, Jim Holt, Anthony Minghella
Cast: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack

Drama. Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house “fixer” at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen’s dirtiest work at the behest of the firm’s co-founder Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack). Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton’s firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach’s brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.

This film has been rated “R” by the MPAA for “language including some sexual dialogue.”

Julie White has this to say in an interview posted on Playbill 

   White also told Playbill.com about her other upcoming film ventures. "...' and then something in George Clooney's movie 'Michael Clayton' which is a really smart, great movie."

Some of Hollywood's biggest talents are now looking to tap into agencies' money connections. For instance, instead of trying to persuade a major studio to open its wallet to make veteran screenwriter Tony Gilroy's newest script, the agency lined up the money from a Boston developer who made a fortune building shopping malls.

CAA went to a handful of financiers they had identified as potential partners with Gilroy's new script, called "Michael Clayton," about a Manhattan lawyer who battles an evil conglomerate.

Developer Steven B. Samuels, who founded Santa Monica-based Samuels Media in 2004, read the script and met with Gilroy, who penned such blockbusters as "The Bourne Identity."

Gilroy told him his vision — he wanted to direct the picture himself — and Samuels felt he could trust him with his investment. When CAA said it would draw upon its vast roster of movie stars to cast the movie if he funded it, Samuels bit. Shortly after, George Clooney signed on in the leading role.

"The beauty of what CAA is doing now is they are putting people in a room early on who can put the puzzle together and make the film go with or without the studios," Samuels said. (Source: Calendarlive)  Complete article at the source.

Artist Tommy Kane had the opportunity to visit the set of Michael Clayton: 

George Clooney by Tommy Kane

Jason Strong was cast in the movie Michael Clayton and gives us an account of his time spent on the set.