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…Or maybe Clint Eastwood is just Dirty Harry again

Internet hopes that Clint Eastwood’s upcoming Gran Torino would turn out to be a new Dirty Harry movie were stoked this evening with the unsubstantiated claims of some character named Kurt from North Hollywood.
Kurt wrote in to tell AICN’s Harry Knowles that he’d recently been approached by a representative from Village Roadshow Pictures looking to check out the [...]

Don’t Mind the Staple

Proving that some people really do read Playboy for the articles, William Monahan (The Departed) is set to write a new thriller based on a true story that will be written up in a future issue of the magazine for men who only like women with the very life airbrushed right out of them.
The article [...]

Cinema Eye Honors ‘Manda Bala’

 
The 1st Annual Cinema Eye Honors for documentary films were handed out at the IFC Center in Manhattan last night and the big winner was Manda Bala (Send a Bullet).
Winner of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2007, Jason Kohn’s look at some of the ways that the pervasive political and economic corruption and violent crime [...]

Clint Eastwood IS Starsky’s Car

 
Suddenly, Clint Eastwood has another movie scheduled for 2008 besides Changeling (Nov. 7) and he’s not only directing, he’s going to star in it. It’s called Gran Torino and it’s coming in December. People everywhere are scratching their heads wondering what it all means.
Source: Variety
Meanwhile, Paramount wants Sam Raimi to bring back CIA analyst/action hero [...]