bighollywood.breitbart.com - 1/10/2009
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Steve Mason is on Facebook and now also on Twitter.
Clint Eastwood may have saved his biggest for last.
If Gran Torino (Warner Bros) is, as he has hinted, his final big screen acting role, he is going out on top. The 78-year-old multi-Oscar winning director has the #1 movie in America, and the ...
filmlinc.wordpress.com - 1/5/2009
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IMG_2534 In the spirit of Changeling being this
year’s Centerpiece selection at the New York Film Festival–and
that Clint Eastwood will most likely gain a bunch of Oscar nominations for Gran Torino–Film Comment decided to host some of New York’s ...
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Stand Aside, Ladies
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Stand Aside, Ladies Big Hollywood 's Steve Mason is reporting that contrary to yesterday's expectations , Clint Eastwood 's Gran Torino has cleaned the Bride Wars clock. The deeply loathed Kate Hudson-Anne Hathaway comedy made about $7.5 million yesterday for a projected $21 million by Sunday night, but Torino will beat that total by $9 million. The wide-breaking Eastwood flick tallied $10 million yesterday and could hit $30 million by Sunday night, which would be an opening-weekend Eastwood high. (The second biggest is the $18,9 million earned by Space ...
Get Off My Lawn
Awards Daily —
... It turns out that Gran Torino is quite a smash hit at the box office. Steve Mason at Big Hollywood is reporting that the film will open at number one this weekend, beating The Bride Wars. It will become Eastwood’s highest ever opener in wide release (we remember how well Million Dollar Baby did in limited release): ...
"Get Out of My Theater!"
From the Front Row —
... Not anymore. Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino opened wide to a $10 million haul yesterday, compared to Bride Wars $7.5 million. Torino looks to finish the weekend with $30 million, according to Big Hollywood's Steve Mason (formerly of Fantasy Moguls), while Bride Wars will finish with $21.28 million. That will bring Torino 's total gross to $41 million after several weeks in limited release. That is great news . Not only is Clint Eastwood still beating the competition, but one of the best films of 2008 is wiping the floor with one of the first insipid comedies of 2009. ...
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