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Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman Deliver Predictable Drama With ‘Invictus’
19 hours ago | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Director Clint Eastwood has given up on subtlety, choosing instead to tell old-fashioned, direct stories with as much technical skill and dramatic competency as possible. There’s nothing particularly wrong with the legendary director’s “Invictus,” but it’s also not nearly as memorable or thrilling as it could have or, given the true story that it tells, should have been.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
Personally, I find Eastwood the most interesting when he deals in gray moral situations like the ones at the core of “Mystic River,” “Unforgiven” or “Million Dollar Baby”. Lately, with films like “Flags of Our Fathers,” “Changeling,” “Gran Torino,” and, now, “Invictus,” there is no gray. He seems to have lost any interest at all in striking a subtle chord. Every single character development and plot turn is telegraphed in the previews and merely underlined by the film itself. It’s old-fashioned cinema and, in this case, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Weekend Box-office: "Princess And The Frog" #1; "Invictus" Soft
23 hours ago | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
The Princess and the Frog, the animated fairy tale that breaks new ground by offering a black heroine, placed #1 at the weekend box-office in North America with $30 million. The well-reviewed pic will likely be a major player over the holidays. Clint Eastwood's Nelson Mandela-inspired Invictus landed a somewhat soft $9 million, but Warner Brothers didn't expect much more, given the fact that the film has zero appeal to young people, many of whom are completely ignorant of the events that are told in the story. Warner Brothers isn't worried, however - they are masters at nurturing Eastwood films into gradual major box-office successes by slowly building word-of-mouth, as in the cases of Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby and Grand Torino. The film's side theme - a major soccer tournament - probably has little appeal to American audiences, who have never warmed to the sport. However, soccer mania in international »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
This decade’s film: 2000-2004
14 December 2009 8:08 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Pottermania, Tolkein-mania, Twilight-mania…it’s fair to say that the noughties have been a strong one for different kinds of mania. Moreover, it’s also been the time for some pretty awesome movies. 2000 marked a particularly promising start: American Beauty, the directorial debut from Sam Mendes was a unique critique on the American dream that attracted widespread acclaim, being nominated for 8 Academy Awards and winning 5; including Best Picture. His next project, Road to Perdition proved this success to be no fluke. Apparently this was a good time for new directors, as further evidenced by Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, and Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich. Not that the decade was limited to low-budget concept flicks. Box office-smashing comic book adaptations became the name of the game; ranging from the great (Spider-Man, X-Men and Hellboy), to the not so much (Daredevil and Fantastic Four). It became (almost) socially acceptable »
- Uprising
Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: December 13, 2009
13 December 2009 12:35 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
This weekend:
Disney leap Frogs the competition to get to number one; Andy Daly moves to Jelly Stone Park; a Twilight star sees Hereafter; Polanski might not get a release but his Ghost Writer will; Diaz is a Bad Teacher; Frank Langella is an Unknown White Male and Frankenstein Lives in Death Race 2.
Box Office
Clint Eastwood’s Invictus scored just under $10 million over the weekend from 2,125 locations. Opening much like Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby, the film has had solid reviews from critics. With Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon head-lining, the film might have a chance of hitting the $100 million club if it gets some awards momentum.
Disney’s The Princess and the Frog took the top spot this weekend with an estimated $25 million. The film which had been on limited release in selected cinemas has gotten great reviews and with no real competition for the next »
- Niall Browne
Movie Review: Invictus
12 December 2009 11:22 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
Director: Clint Eastwood
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Running Time: 87 mins.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for brief strong language
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
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A South African newspaper’s heading read “he won the election, now can he lead a country?” This unhopeful question is referring to Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman), who in 1994 was elected the first black President of an apartheid stricken South Africa. After emerging 27 years from prison for political upheaval, Mr. Mandela had no inclinations to seek revenge on the white Afrikaners who placed the cuffs on him. Instead he disarms any such thought, and the film, entitled Invictus after an 1875 poem by British writer William Earnest Henley, is attracted to the passive stance which had, at its focal point, the sport of ruby.
Rugby is a primitive sport that glorifies brutality. A character »
- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)
Movie Review: Invictus
12 December 2009 11:22 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
Director: Clint Eastwood
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Running Time: 87 mins.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for brief strong language
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
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A South African newspaper’s heading read “he won the election, now can he lead a country?” This unhopeful question is referring to Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman), who in 1994 was elected the first black President of an apartheid stricken South Africa. After emerging 27 years from prison for political upheaval, Mr. Mandela had no inclinations to seek revenge on the white Afrikaners who placed the cuffs on him. Instead he disarms any such thought, and the film, entitled Invictus after an 1875 poem by British writer William Earnest Henley, is attracted to the passive stance which had, at its focal point, the sport of ruby.
Rugby is a primitive sport that glorifies brutality. A character »
- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)
Movie Review: Invictus
12 December 2009 11:22 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
Director: Clint Eastwood
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Running Time: 87 mins.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for brief strong language
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
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A South African newspaper’s heading read “he won the election, now can he lead a country?” This unhopeful question is referring to Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman), who in 1994 was elected the first black President of an apartheid stricken South Africa. After emerging 27 years from prison for political upheaval, Mr. Mandela had no inclinations to seek revenge on the white Afrikaners who placed the cuffs on him. Instead he disarms any such thought, and the film, entitled Invictus after an 1875 poem by British writer William Earnest Henley, is attracted to the passive stance which had, at its focal point, the sport of ruby.
Rugby is a primitive sport that glorifies brutality. A character »
- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)
Movie Review: Invictus
12 December 2009 11:22 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
Director: Clint Eastwood
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Running Time: 87 mins.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for brief strong language
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
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A South African newspaper’s heading read “he won the election, now can he lead a country?” This unhopeful question is referring to Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman), who in 1994 was elected the first black President of an apartheid stricken South Africa. After emerging 27 years from prison for political upheaval, Mr. Mandela had no inclinations to seek revenge on the white Afrikaners who placed the cuffs on him. Instead he disarms any such thought, and the film, entitled Invictus after an 1875 poem by British writer William Earnest Henley, is attracted to the passive stance which had, at its focal point, the sport of ruby.
Rugby is a primitive sport that glorifies brutality. A character »
- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)
Movie Review: Invictus
12 December 2009 11:22 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
Director: Clint Eastwood
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Running Time: 87 mins.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for brief strong language
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
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A South African newspaper’s heading read “he won the election, now can he lead a country?” This unhopeful question is referring to Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman), who in 1994 was elected the first black President of an apartheid stricken South Africa. After emerging 27 years from prison for political upheaval, Mr. Mandela had no inclinations to seek revenge on the white Afrikaners who placed the cuffs on him. Instead he disarms any such thought, and the film, entitled Invictus after an 1875 poem by British writer William Earnest Henley, is attracted to the passive stance which had, at its focal point, the sport of ruby.
Rugby is a primitive sport that glorifies brutality. A character »
- rlpolo04@aol.com (David DiMichele)
The 2009 Black List Revealed
11 December 2009 10:04 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Since 2004, Franklin Leonard releases The Black List every December. It’s a list of best read scripts that’s complied from the suggestions of agents assistants, managers, film executives, and whoever else he gets to contribute. While last year had 260 people contribute, this year’s had 97 scripts from 311 contributors. Most of the scripts on the list are in some stage of development in the studio system, and it’s been said that a high listing can help move your project forward. What I’m trying to say is, the list is very important in Hollywood and many people try extremely hard to land in the top ten.
So now that you’re curious, hit the jump to check out the top ten on the 2009 Black List:
Of course big thanks to Entertainment Weekly for posting the list. If you can, hit the link to show some appreciation. And for more on The Black List, »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Exclusive: 'The Black List' -- Top 11 unproduced screenplays of 2009
11 December 2009 8:30 AM, PST | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »
Last December, we introduced you to Franklin Leonard and The Black List, the list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Since then, Leonard has been named by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the top 35 executives under 35 working in Hollywood and his list has gained even more prominence. This year's list consists of 97 scripts with 311 people contributing to the ranking -- up from 260 in 2008. The top 10 (actually, 11, thanks to a tie in 10th place) is filled with mostly up-and-comers, with the exception of Aaron Sorkin and David Scarpa. All of the scripts are in some stage of development around Hollywood, »
- Nicole Sperling
Movie Review: Invictus
11 December 2009 7:00 AM, PST | MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news »
Dec 11, 2009
Clint Eastwood makes old-fashioned movies that usually deal in cut-and-dry moral situations. Personally, I find him the most interesting when he's forced to address the moral grays between the blacks and whites in films like Unforgiven and Mystic River, but, especially lately, he seems to have lost any interest at all in striking a subtle chord. Every character development and every plot turn in films like Gran Torino or Flags of Our Fathers is telegraphed and underlined so no one could possibly miss it. You could argue that there's ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com »
Movie Review - 'Invictus'
11 December 2009 1:15 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Rated PG-13
If you were to boil down Clint Eastwood's movies over his recent resurgence - at 79, he is arguably better than ever - they might all be summed up with the two-word phrase, "it's complicated." Narratively, not so much; Eastwood rarely plays with perspective and chronology, certainly not to the point of gimmickry. But thematically and emotionally, his past few films have not been easy.
Witness the unfolding of the third acts in Mystic River or Million Dollar Baby, the racism in Gran Torino, and the constrasting images of a less prosaic Flags of Our Fathers and the unbelievably graceful Letters from Iwo Jima.
Invictus has "it's complicated" written all over it, but Eastwood takes an easier road. It's gentle and dignified, characteristics you might expect of a film about Nelson Mandela, but it seems never in doubt, »
- Colin Boyd
The Lovely Bones review
10 December 2009 10:01 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
"The Lovely Bones" is a lovingly crafted tale of afterlife toil and the bond of family. It is a modern-day, dark fable, a Vertigo comic book of a movie. Built on and all about death and tragedy, it is the kind of super-natural fable that we have become far too afraid to share with our children in this day and age. While it is a tale of child murder, it absolutely is not Peter Jackson's "Mystic River". Nor is it "Heavenly Creatures II". Despite its noticeable flaws, "The Lovely Bones" has the benefit of being a very original work, unlike most anything else out there. Although heavy-handed in direction and tonally uneven, the film ultimately strikes the right cords, thanks in part to some of the best performances of the year. »
The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")
8 December 2009 10:25 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Best Films Of The Decade (aka The Naughties) From Alex & Terry
List # 1
By Alex Simon
When Terry and I initially discussed writing these lists, I had a tough time thinking back on 20 films over the past decade which I was really taken with, thinking that movies have sunk so low over the past ten years, that even choosing a dozen would be a short-order job. Thirty minutes into it, my list had nearly 60 titles! After much cutting, pasting, and re-cutting and pasting, here are my top 20 films (in no particular order) of the first decade of the 21st century, dubbed by many as “the naughties.” --A.S.
1.No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) An elegiac blend of stark beauty and full-throttle despair from two of our finest filmmakers, set in the contemporary American West. Every frame is damn near flawless, and would have been an even more perfect vehicle for the late Sam Peckinpah. »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Decade in Review: 2003 Top Ten
8 December 2009 6:30 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
As you may have noticed, I will not be done with my Decade in Review until sometime into the new year. Hopefully we'll wrap up shortly after the Oscars; You know how distractingly all-consuming the Oscars can be! I hope you'll stay with it even though the rest of the media will move on any second now. They're always in such a rush. No stopping and smelling of the flowers. I've still got to update that "Actors of the Aughts" project for final compilation/statement. For now, let's move on to 2003. What follows is my original top ten list, based on films released in NYC in 2003. If I have anything new to say that'll be in red after the original text.
Special Mentions: The Cremaster Cycle and Angels in America
Most Underappreciated: Hulk (Ang Lee), In the Cut (Jane Campion), Anything Else (Woody Allen), Charlies Angels: Full Throttle (McG) and »
- NATHANIEL R
Clint Eastwood Talks Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift
8 December 2009 2:44 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'You listen to things because the kids are listening to them,' the 'Invictus' director tells MTV News.
By Larry Carroll, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Photo: MTV News
Clint Eastwood is quite possibly the most badass man in movie history. From "Dirty Harry" to "The Man With No Name" to last year's "Gran Torino," his steely glare, clenched teeth and no-nonsense style have made lesser men soil their pants in fear.
But that doesn't mean the guy can't rock out to Lady Gaga every once in a while.
"Oh, yeah, now you're getting really exciting," the 79-year-old living legend responded when we asked which hot acts he's into. "I know [Gaga] is very big. I know she's very important, and my kids have listened to her too."
In addition to giving birth to nearly a hundred movies, Eastwood has three children (including a 12-year-old) and two grandchildren (including a 15-year-old). And, »
Full Contact
7 December 2009 9:08 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
This week sees an impressive list of heavy-hitters make a late December showing as Clint Eastwood and Peter Jackson deliver their latest, Werner Herzog assembles the unlikely pairing of Udo Kier and Verne Troyer, and Tom Ford unveils his directorial debut.
Hilary Duff adds the title of executive producer to her résumé by backing the feature debut of veteran music video director Nancy Bardawil. After demonstrating a dark side on "Gossip Girl" this season, Duff continues to shed her good girl image as a rebellious 17-year-old who proves to be too much of a handful for her mother (Melissa Leo) and is sent off to spend the summer on Jersey Shore with her grandparents (Ellen Burstyn and Michael Murphy), to whom she promises she will kill herself by her 18th birthday. In the midst of plotting her suicide, she begins a romance with a troubled short-order cook »
- Neil Pedley
Preview: Invictus
6 December 2009 1:17 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
In the 1950’s, a western TV show called Rawhide hit Us airwaves. One of several series about the old west, it captivated adults and children alike. Rawhide featured an ensemble cast of largely unknown actors, including a young man named Clint Eastwood. Eastwood had appeared in TV and film before, but it was here he really found fame. After Rawhide ended, Eastwood made a handful of TV shows and movies, until his big break came along. Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars and it’s follow ups made Eastwood into an icon. He went on to play numerous tough guy parts, invariably a cowboy or cop, and was very successful.
He made his directorial debut early on, often combining his newfound talent with his acting. He met with mild success until his 1992 western Unforgiven. It was hailed as one of the best westerns of all times, and gained Eastwood alot of credibility. »
- Barry Steele
National Board of Review goes crazy for Clooney and Clint again ... Will disaster follow at the Oscars?
3 December 2009 3:07 PM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
The National Board of Review continued its love affair with George Clooney and Clint Eastwood when unveiling award winners today. Clooney's "Up in the Air" reaped prizes for best picture, lead actor (Clooney), supporting actress (Anna Kendrick) and adapted screenplay (Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner). Its helmer, Reitman, was cheated out of the director's award by Nbr fave Clint Eastwood ("Invictus"). "Invictus" star Morgan Freeman tied Clooney for the lead actor's laurels. Two years ago Clooney won best actor for "Michael Clayton." His "Good Night, and Good Luck" was voted best picture of 2005. Clint's "Letters From Iwo Jima" won best picture of 2006 and "Mystic River" best flick of 2003. Last year he won best... »
- tomoneil
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