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Express Tribune
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Clint Eastwood wants filmmakers to be original
Hollywood star Clint Eastwood urged fellow filmmakers to come up with new ideas as he approached his 95th birthday this weekend. Oscar-winning director Eastwood told Austrian newspaper Kurier he planned to keep working, saying that he was still in good physical shape and hopeful that no one would have to worry about him in that regard "for a long time yet." Eastwood's most recent film, legal drama Juror #2, came out in the United States last year and the newspaper said he was currently in the pre-production phase for another film. When asked for his view on the current state of the film industry, the star of films such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Dirty Harry, and director of dozens of films including Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, said, "I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea." "We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I've shot sequels three times, but I haven't been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home," added Eastwood, who turned 95 on Saturday. Asked where he got his energy from, Eastwood said, "There's no reason why a man can't get better with age. And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I'm not one of them." Eastwood also shared the secret to his success. "As an actor, I was still under contract with a studio, was in the old system, and thus forced to learn something new every year," he said. "And that's why I'll work as long as I can still learn something, or until I'm truly senile." Reuters
See - Sada Elbalad
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
Clint Eastwood Has Found His Next Movie
Yara Sameh There's just no stopping Clint Eastwood. The acclaimed actor and director has confirmed that he's already working on another movie, after keeping audiences on the edge of their seats with "Juror No. 2". While it's true that Eastwood will be celebrating his ninety-fifth birthday this year, the director looks very eager to continue his trajectory as one of the biggest icons in the history of cinema. Eastwood sounded very confident when talking about his health to Kurier, but the icon refused to give any details surrounding the premise of his next endeavor. Time will tell what Clint Eastwood is baking in the oven right now. The last time audiences got to enjoy the magic of Clint Eastwood's talent on the big screen was last year when Juror #2 depicted a man ridden with guilt during a murder trial. Justin Kempt (Nicholas Hoult) was called up for jury duty. The character was surprised when, while listening to the details of the murder case, he realized he might have been involved in the victim's death. Toni Collette and J.K. Simmons also starred in this legal thriller that earned more than $24 million at the global box office. Before the devastating story of Justin Kemp reached the big screen, Clint Eastwood had been working on Cry Macho and Richard Jewell. Warner Bros. has been the studio to produce the legendary artist's recent directorial efforts. The company has been working alongside Clint Eastwood for years, giving the director a blank canvas to develop the acclaimed stories he has put out throughout the latest stage of his career. It remains to be seen if Warner Bros. will also produce Eastwood's next project. Clint Eastwood's next movie will mark the next step in an unrivaled trajectory in the entertainment industry. Thanks to stories such as "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" and "The Beguiled", Eastwood became one of the most recognizable people in the history of cinema. Regardless of what his next movie ends up dealing with, the prolific star has consolidated his name thanks to his unforgettable performances and ka een eye for storytelling. A release date for Clint Eastwood's next movie hasn't been announced yet. read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia News Australia Fines Telegram $600,000 Over Terrorism, Child Abuse Content Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Sports Neymar Announced for Brazil's Preliminary List for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers News Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly Inaugurates Two Indian Companies Arts & Culture New Archaeological Discovery from 26th Dynasty Uncovered in Karnak Temple Business Fear & Greed Index Plummets to Lowest Level Ever Recorded amid Global Trade War Arts & Culture Zahi Hawass: Claims of Columns Beneath the Pyramid of Khafre Are Lies News Flights suspended at Port Sudan Airport after Drone Attacks News Shell Unveils Cost-Cutting, LNG Growth Plan
San Francisco Chronicle
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
As Clint Eastwood turns 95, is the America that made him slipping away?
America has changed a lot since 1930, but Clint Eastwood hasn't. Or so it would seem. The cinema legend, who turns 95 on Saturday, May 31, was born in San Francisco, raised in the East Bay and spent most of his life as a resident of Monterey County. He was always an outsider in Hollywood — he had to go to Europe to find his breakthrough as a film star — and cultivated an aura of rugged individualism as an action antihero, including his iconic roles as the Man With No Name in Sergio Leone's ' Spaghetti Westerns ' in the 1960s and San Francisco cop 'Dirty Harry' Callahan in five movies. He's the kind of man who built America, one school of thought goes; the kind of guy you could count on to fight valiantly in the Civil War, or tame the western frontier, like he did in his movies. He doesn't have time for your bull—, and when he stares at you with that Clint Squint, he's daring you to 'make my day.' He's a man of law and order, upholding American values. 'Dirty Harry' (1971), produced by Eastwood and directed by Don Siegel, was the conservative antidote to the hippie, free love ideals of 'Easy Rider' (1969) as Hollywood was remaking itself during a remarkable decade of cinematic change. But what if we're looking at Eastwood the wrong way? What if, in his own way, Eastwood has been questioning America all along? We all know Eastwood is conservative, aligning with the party that claims to be defenders of traditional American values. Although he has said he's a registered Libertarian, he has supported mostly Republican politicians, including most presidential candidates (remember his anti-Obama talking-to-the-empty-chair moment at the 2012 Republican National Convention?), and ran as a Republican in becoming mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea in the 1980s. Yet he is liberal on most social issues, including abortion, same-sex marriage and, surprisingly, gun control — ironic for a guy whose most famous character openly bragged about his .44 Magnum, 'the most powerful hand gun on Earth, which can you blow your head clean off.' He has supported Democratic politicians in the past, including late Sen. Dianne Feinstein and former California governor Gray Davis, and broke from President Donald Trump during his first term. But while he might have liked Feinstein off-screen, he hated most of the San Francisco mayors he dealt with as Dirty Harry. The Civil War-set 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' (1976), which Eastwood starred in and directed, can be read as a diatribe against the military industrial complex, a theme echoed in his espionage thriller 'Firefox' (1982). Government corruption and incompetence are at the heart of 'In the Line of Fire' (1993), directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and 'Absolute Power' (1997), directed by Eastwood. Indeed, many of Eastwood's movies, both as star and director, have questioned the system itself. Like most artists, however, Eastwood's films are also concerned with the human condition. He won Oscars for best picture and director for the revenge western 'Unforgiven' (1992) and 'Million Dollar Baby' (2004), both moving emotional experiences. He has some surprising films on his resume, too. Who would have thought that as a much younger man he would sensitively explore a May-December romance in 1973's underrated 'Breezy,' starring William Holden? Or that he would explore the jazz legend Charlie Parker in 1988's 'Bird,' starring Forest Whitaker? (Eastwood once said America's two greatest artistic inventions were jazz and the western movie genre.) And then there is 1995's 'The Bridges of Madison County,' one of the great modern weepy romances in which he starred opposite Meryl Streep. As he's aged, Eastwood's films have deepened with a sense of changing times and of characters who are isolated or lost, at least temporarily. In ' Gran Torino ' (2008), he channels his own tough-guy persona to portray a hardened conservative white guy's journey to embracing immigration. While reconnecting with his daughter (Amy Adams) in ' Trouble With the Curve ' (2012), he's an aging baseball scout traversing the small town trappings of a sport and an America he no longer recognizes. In 'The Mule' (2019), he's an elderly man forced to turn to drug running during tough economic times. In retrospect, Eastwood's heroes and antiheroes alike have valued one undisputed ideology: competence. Perhaps the system isn't really corrupt, it's just run by buffoons. The line between societal order and anarchy is a thin one manned by the capable — Dirty Harry vs. the mayor and the San Francisco political machine, for example. But increasingly, Eastwood's competent heroes are working quietly, and unspectacularly, in the shadows until history demands they reveal themselves in a series of heartfelt ripped-from-the headlines stories. His films have celebrated the heroism of Iraq War hero Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper in 2014's ' American Sniper '), East Bay commercial pilot Sully Sullenberger (Tom Hanks in 2016's ' Sully '), the soldiers who foiled a terrorist plot (2018's 'The 15:17 to Paris') and the unlikely misfit who saved lives during the Atlanta Olympics (Paul Walter Hauser in 2019's 'Richard Jewell'). All the while, Eastwood's box-office drawing power remains vibrant with his films reliably turning a profit. 'American Sniper' made a half-billion dollars, while 'Sully' and 'The Mule' each took in about four times its budget. It's a notable feat in an ever-changing Hollywood theatrical and streaming model that often struggles to identify what an audience wants. Take last year's courtroom thriller ' Juror No. 2,' said to be Eastwood's last film as director. Even with an unprecedented record as an A-list director and star stretching back for more than nearly 60 years, his longtime studio, Warner Bros., made the film available in just a few theaters without much of an advertising push. Now, it's a streaming hit on Max since its debut there in December.
The Advertiser
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Secret of Clint Eastwood's success: do something new
Hollywood star Clint Eastwood urged fellow filmmakers to come up with new ideas as he approaches his 95th birthday this weekend, observing in a newspaper interview that the movie business is now full of remakes and franchises. Oscar-winning director Eastwood told Austrian newspaper Kurier he planned to keep working, saying that he was still in good physical shape and hopeful that no one would have to worry about him in that regard "for a long time yet". Eastwood's most recent film, legal drama Juror#2, came out in the United States in 2024 and the newspaper said he was currently in the pre-production phase for another movie. The star of movies such as Dirty Harry and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and director of dozens of films including Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, was asked for his view on the current state of the film industry, "I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea," according to the German text of the interview published on Friday. "We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I've shot sequels three times, but I haven't been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home," added Eastwood, who will turn 95 on Saturday. Asked where he got his energy from, Eastwood said: "There's no reason why a man can't get better with age. And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I'm not one of them." Eastwood, who made World War II thriller Where Eagles Dare in Austria with Welsh actor Richard Burton in the late 1960s, told the paper the secret to his success was that he had always tried something new as a director and an actor. "As an actor, I was still under contract with a studio, was in the old system, and thus forced to learn something new every year," he said. "And that's why I'll work as long as I can still learn something, or until I'm truly senile." Hollywood star Clint Eastwood urged fellow filmmakers to come up with new ideas as he approaches his 95th birthday this weekend, observing in a newspaper interview that the movie business is now full of remakes and franchises. Oscar-winning director Eastwood told Austrian newspaper Kurier he planned to keep working, saying that he was still in good physical shape and hopeful that no one would have to worry about him in that regard "for a long time yet". Eastwood's most recent film, legal drama Juror#2, came out in the United States in 2024 and the newspaper said he was currently in the pre-production phase for another movie. The star of movies such as Dirty Harry and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and director of dozens of films including Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, was asked for his view on the current state of the film industry, "I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea," according to the German text of the interview published on Friday. "We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I've shot sequels three times, but I haven't been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home," added Eastwood, who will turn 95 on Saturday. Asked where he got his energy from, Eastwood said: "There's no reason why a man can't get better with age. And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I'm not one of them." Eastwood, who made World War II thriller Where Eagles Dare in Austria with Welsh actor Richard Burton in the late 1960s, told the paper the secret to his success was that he had always tried something new as a director and an actor. "As an actor, I was still under contract with a studio, was in the old system, and thus forced to learn something new every year," he said. "And that's why I'll work as long as I can still learn something, or until I'm truly senile." Hollywood star Clint Eastwood urged fellow filmmakers to come up with new ideas as he approaches his 95th birthday this weekend, observing in a newspaper interview that the movie business is now full of remakes and franchises. Oscar-winning director Eastwood told Austrian newspaper Kurier he planned to keep working, saying that he was still in good physical shape and hopeful that no one would have to worry about him in that regard "for a long time yet". Eastwood's most recent film, legal drama Juror#2, came out in the United States in 2024 and the newspaper said he was currently in the pre-production phase for another movie. The star of movies such as Dirty Harry and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and director of dozens of films including Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, was asked for his view on the current state of the film industry, "I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea," according to the German text of the interview published on Friday. "We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I've shot sequels three times, but I haven't been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home," added Eastwood, who will turn 95 on Saturday. Asked where he got his energy from, Eastwood said: "There's no reason why a man can't get better with age. And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I'm not one of them." Eastwood, who made World War II thriller Where Eagles Dare in Austria with Welsh actor Richard Burton in the late 1960s, told the paper the secret to his success was that he had always tried something new as a director and an actor. "As an actor, I was still under contract with a studio, was in the old system, and thus forced to learn something new every year," he said. "And that's why I'll work as long as I can still learn something, or until I'm truly senile." Hollywood star Clint Eastwood urged fellow filmmakers to come up with new ideas as he approaches his 95th birthday this weekend, observing in a newspaper interview that the movie business is now full of remakes and franchises. Oscar-winning director Eastwood told Austrian newspaper Kurier he planned to keep working, saying that he was still in good physical shape and hopeful that no one would have to worry about him in that regard "for a long time yet". Eastwood's most recent film, legal drama Juror#2, came out in the United States in 2024 and the newspaper said he was currently in the pre-production phase for another movie. The star of movies such as Dirty Harry and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and director of dozens of films including Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, was asked for his view on the current state of the film industry, "I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea," according to the German text of the interview published on Friday. "We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I've shot sequels three times, but I haven't been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home," added Eastwood, who will turn 95 on Saturday. Asked where he got his energy from, Eastwood said: "There's no reason why a man can't get better with age. And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I'm not one of them." Eastwood, who made World War II thriller Where Eagles Dare in Austria with Welsh actor Richard Burton in the late 1960s, told the paper the secret to his success was that he had always tried something new as a director and an actor. "As an actor, I was still under contract with a studio, was in the old system, and thus forced to learn something new every year," he said. "And that's why I'll work as long as I can still learn something, or until I'm truly senile."
West Australian
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Secret of Clint Eastwood's success: do something new
Hollywood star Clint Eastwood urged fellow filmmakers to come up with new ideas as he approaches his 95th birthday this weekend, observing in a newspaper interview that the movie business is now full of remakes and franchises. Oscar-winning director Eastwood told Austrian newspaper Kurier he planned to keep working, saying that he was still in good physical shape and hopeful that no one would have to worry about him in that regard "for a long time yet". Eastwood's most recent film, legal drama Juror#2, came out in the United States in 2024 and the newspaper said he was currently in the pre-production phase for another movie. The star of movies such as Dirty Harry and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and director of dozens of films including Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, was asked for his view on the current state of the film industry, "I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea," according to the German text of the interview published on Friday. "We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I've shot sequels three times, but I haven't been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home," added Eastwood, who will turn 95 on Saturday. Asked where he got his energy from, Eastwood said: "There's no reason why a man can't get better with age. And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I'm not one of them." Eastwood, who made World War II thriller Where Eagles Dare in Austria with Welsh actor Richard Burton in the late 1960s, told the paper the secret to his success was that he had always tried something new as a director and an actor. "As an actor, I was still under contract with a studio, was in the old system, and thus forced to learn something new every year," he said. "And that's why I'll work as long as I can still learn something, or until I'm truly senile."
