Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’ Adds Three French Cast Members; Starts Shooting In Paris Late October

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:49:00 +0000

79-year-old Clint Eastwood is just simply not slowing down. Last year he had two films released in 2008, the child-stolen, courtroom drama, “Changeling,” and the grumpy-old-man-befriends-Korean-kids feel-doe’r, “Gran Torino.”

Obviously he’s already got “Invictus” in the can — we just finished the script, and it does have Oscar written all over it; more on that later — and evidently he and Matt Damon (pictured above on the set of the South African-set Mandela drama) got on well, because Eastwood’s already announced his follow-up, “Hereafter,” a supernatural thriller that’s evidently not much of a thriller (Movieline calls it, “quiet drama about three people trying to figure out what, if anything, exists after death”), with Damon attached.

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France Picks ‘The Class’ As Its Official Oscar Entry

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:34:00 +0000

France has had a banner year for films in 2008, but so much for strong films like, “A Secret,” “Tell No One,” “A Girl Cut in Two,” or Philippe Claudel’s “I’ve Loved You So Long” (one we haven’t seen yet, but one receiving stellar reviews), cause France has officially selected Laurent Cantet’s “Entre Les Murs,” (“The Class”) as its official Foreign Oscar entry for ’08.

That’s not a bad thing. We just saw “The Class,” earlier this week and we loved it.

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Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’ Adds Three French Cast Members; Starts Shooting In Paris Late October

France Picks ‘The Class’ As Its Official Oscar Entry