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Pamela McClintock announces that director Clint Eastwood will open two films in 2008: Changeling, which debuted well at Cannes, and Gran Torino. She broke the news on her brand new Boxoffice Boffo blog . Changeling, which stars Angelina Jolie in a true 1920s L.A. story about a woman who fights the system, will open in October, while Gran Torino, which stars Eastwood as a curmudgeonly Korean War vet who gets to know his immigrant neighbors, will shoot this summer and open by year's end. Eastwood is famous for his ability to shoot his films swiftly and efficiently: he doesn't put much store in pomp and circumstance. The last time he released two movies in one year was 2006, when Flags of Our Fathers opened in the early fall, followed at year's end by Letters from Iwo Jima. If the rest of the business followed his unpretentious model, we'd all be better off. ...
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Pamela McClintock announces that director Clint Eastwood will open two films in 2008: Changeling, which debuted well at Cannes, and Gran Torino. She broke the news on her brand new Boxoffice Boffo blog . Changeling, which stars Angelina Jolie in a true 1920s L.A. story about a woman who fights the system, will open in October, while Gran Torino, which stars Eastwood as a curmudgeonly Korean War vet who gets to know his immigrant neighbors, will shoot this summer and open by year's end. Eastwood is famous for his ability to shoot his films swiftly and efficiently: he doesn't put much store in pomp and circumstance. The last time he released two movies in one year was 2006, when Flags of Our Fathers opened in the early fall, followed at year's end by Letters from Iwo Jima. If the rest of the business followed his unpretentious model, we'd all be better off. ...