This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. THE FIGHTER [*Warning: Obvious spoiler ahead*] Great care was paid to ensure that The Fighter be as authentic a true story as…
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When the full suite of Oscar nominations were announced a few weeks ago, squatting smack in the middle of the final five for the Best Visual Effects category was Clint Eastwood's film Hereafter. And a great many people went... 'huh?' There are obviously effects in the film, which recreates the Indonesian tsunami from 2004. But…
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the final 15 contenders for the 2010 Oscar for Best Visual Effects. This is only the first cut, though. Next, members of the Academy's visual effects branch executive committee will select seven of the final 15. At that point, all the members of the visual…
Read MoreClint Eastwood's new film Hereafter is one of the most talked about films going into this year's festival. When the schedule for the festival was announced, it featured one sole performance, and no press screenings. Industry bloggers threw a fuss and Warner Bros responded that they planned to have a press screening sometime on the…
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Is this a Clint Eastwood movie or one by M. Night Shyamalan? OK, I'm kidding, and now that I've completely stacked the deck against Hereafter by even mentioning that name I guess I should backtrack. Clint Eastwood has called Hereafter his 'chick flick.' It features Matt Damon as a retired/reluctant psychic who brings together a…
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Last night we got a brief preview of some of the films that will appear in the always-entertaining Midnight Madness lineup at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Now we've got the full nine, which in addition to the three announced last night (Super, Bunraku and The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman) include John…
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Clint Eastwood's upcoming Hereafter, starring Matt Damon, is now slated to close this year's installment of the New York Film Festival. David Fincher's The Social Network is opening the fest and Julie Taymor's The Tempest is another of the big films; new additions to the program include Certified Copy, We Are What We Are (the…
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The Entertainment Weekly fall preview issue is a bonanza of first looks and new images. Scans from the magazine are showing up online, and they have the first official still from the Coen Bros. remake of True Grit, new images from Let Me In and Buried, and the first look at Clint Eastwood's drama Hereafter.…
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Not a lot of cast announcements this week, as Sundance has a great deal of Hollywood on hold. But there's one big story and a handful of small ones to report. The big one is that Will Ferrell is reportedly going to star in a remake of I Do: How to Get Married and Stay…
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Bryce Dallas Howard is no stranger to supernatural thrillers, having starred in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village and Lady in the Water. This time around it looks like she's joining Matt Damon and High Tension star Cecile de France in Clint Eastwood's next project, Hereafter. Written by Peter Morgan (The Last King of Scotland, The…
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Clint Eastwood works fast. He had two films out last year, Changeling and Gran Torino. He's got Invictus opening next month, but is already shooting his next picture, called Hereafter. That one, written by Peter Morgan, is one we haven't reported on too much yet, but features Matt Damon in a story of "of three…
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[Update: The fine folks over at Movieline claim to have read Morgan's script for Hereafter. I won't write about the details here (yet) but you can head on over there to check out some potentially minor spoilers about what this supernatural "thriller" is going to be all about.] Earlier this year we gave you a…
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