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Clint Eastwood’s meditation on death, “Hereafter,” will now open in New York City, Los Angeles and Toronto on October 15th before going wide on October 22nd. The film, which Eastwood calls his “chick flick,” was written by Peter Morgan (“The Queen,” “Frost/Nixon”) and follows three plotlines: Matt Damon plays a psychic in San Francisco who can’t connect emotionally with his girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard) and wants nothing to do with his powers; Cecile DeFrance plays a French TV journalist/talk show host who has a near death experience in the 2004 Tsunami and the third character is a young boy whose twin brother dies in an accident (played by unknowns Frankie and George McClaren).

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The film, which Eastwood calls his “chick flick,” was written by Peter Morgan (“The Queen,” “Frost/Nixon”) and follows three plotlines: Matt Damon plays a psychic in San Francisco who can’t connect emotionally with his girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard) and wants nothing to do with his powers; Cecile DeFrance plays a French TV journalist/talk show host who has a near death experience in the 2004 Tsunami and the third character is a young boy whose twin brother dies in an accident (played by unknowns Frankie and George McClaren).

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Eastwood would manage to leverage his triumphant return into another career-defining work (if not maybe one of his best), the ‘Iwo Jima’ twosome “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letter from Iwo Jima,” then spend the next few years, like Allen, pumping out a string of duds, including last year’s ham-fisted Obama allegory “Invictus” and the hysterical cluster-fuck that is “Changeling.” The most frustrating thing about both these films is that, unlike the ‘Iwo Jima’ block, you can’t really blame their flaws on Clint’s screenwriters exclusively—”Invictus” climaxes in one long sports cliche that grossly undercuts its attempted emphasis on communal catharsis, and “Changeling” is a wretched cocktail of tonal fissures and narrative digressions, moral inconsistencies and truckloads of didactic tedium.

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Nine films have been added to the Special Presentation slate and they include some impressive titles. The announced titles include the previously confirmed Danny Boyle-directed true story survival tale “127 Hours”; Clint Eastwood’s supernatural “Hereafter” (just announced as the New York Film Festival’s closer); Dustin Lance Black’s directorial debut “What’s Wrong With Virginia?”; the Casey Affleck-directed documentary/performance piece “I’m Still Here” with Joaquin Phoenix; the highly anticipated American remake of “Let The Right One In” by director Matt Reeves, “Let Me In”; the previously hinted Will Ferrell dramedy “Everything Must Go” and Benoit Jacquot’s “Deep in the Woods.”

The Midnight Madness slate has also firmed up its lineup.

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NYFF has already announced its opening night film, David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” and its centerpiece film, Julie Taymor’s “The Tempest,” and under some new creative management, the festival is really flexing its muscles this year. The move is not a total surprise in that it has an existing relationship with Eastwood and premiered “Changeling” in 2008.

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Courtesy of the latest print edition of EW (not yet online, hat tip to one our readers for the scan) we now have our first look at the film. Speaking with magazine, Eastwood himself seems to play down the initial assumptions about the film saying, “I like to think of it as my chick flick.

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The film, starring Matt Damon, Cécile de France and Bryce Dallas Howard among others, was scribed by Peter Morgan and follows three concurrent stories involving an American factory worker with the ability to communicate with the dead; a young British boy looking to contact his deceased twin; and a French journalist coping with a near-death experience from the 2004 tsunami.

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First up, what we can tell you is Clint Eastwood’s “Hereafter,” Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” and Gus Van Sant’s still untitled new film (once called, “Restless“) are definitely not going to be headed to the south of France.

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The actor will play a forty-something jockey’s agent and joins the already illustrious cast of Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, Nick Nolte, John Ortiz, Kevin Dunn, Kerry Condon and Tom Payne, just one of many talent-heavy HBO productions this coming season. Also added to the cast is British actor Ian Hart who will play a loudmouth gambler who comes into some cash.

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Eastwood is set to direct a biopic of FBI Director J.

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— Not for lack of trying, but Steve Coogan’s yet to fully translate his success with British TV comedies to mainstream cinema, despite brilliant performances in Michael Winterbottom’s “24 Hour Party People” and “A Cock and Bull Story.” But, along with his villainous role in Adam McKay’s “The Other Guys,” Coogan’s finally close to bringing his trademark character Alan Partridge, a failed chat show host, to the big screen.

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-As was pretty much figured from day one, considering their successful work on “The Wrestler” and the fact it was mentioned in the trades from the beginning Fox Searchlight is in talks to distribute Darren Aronofsky’s supernatural ballet film, “Black Swan.” It’s surely all but a done deal by now.

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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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The Peter Morgan (“Frost/Nixon“) scribed script had been picked up by Spielberg at DreamWorks/Paramount in March 2008, and he held onto it when those two companies parted ways.

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