Showing posts with label Clint Eastwood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clint Eastwood. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

If Samuel L. Jackson Doesn't Get Part Will He Blame 'Racism'? (humor)

June 03, 2015 Associated Press , Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger 0 Comments
Clint Eastwood To Make Biopic Of Pilot 'Sully' Sullenberger 

By Associated Press, Jun. 3, 2015

NEW YORK – Clint Eastwood will follow his box-office sensation "American Sniper" with a biopic of pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger.

Warner Bros. announced Tuesday that Eastwood will direct and produce the not-yet-titled drama as his next film. The film is to be adapted from Sullenberger's 2009 memoir, "Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters," which chronicled his personal history before he famously landed a US Airways plane in the Hudson River in New York in 2009.

"I am very glad my story is in the hands of gifted storyteller and filmmaker Clint Eastwood," Sullenberger said in a statement.

Read the full story: www.foxnews.com

Join us - become an Elderado today at: LarryElder.com   

Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , , , ,

Friday, April 24, 2015

Just Don't Use A Firearm!

April 24, 2015 American Sniper , Clint Eastwood 0 Comments
"Clint Eastwood Denies Threatening To Kill Michael Moore But Says 'It Isn’t A Bad Idea'"

By Darby Crash, Apr. 22, 2015, PatDollard.com

Excerpted from The Hollywood Reporter: When he was honored at an event at CinemaCon Wednesday, Clint Eastwood shared thoughts on his acting career, his interest in directing and one of his most vocal critics: Michael Moore.

The American Sniper helmer, who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter’s Stephen Galloway at the annual convention, told the crowd that he had been asked many times about Moore’s comments against his war drama.

“Everyone is saying I threatened to kill Michael Moore – that’s not true … but it isn’t a bad idea,” he joked, getting a big laugh from the crowd.

“Once years ago somebody asked me what I would do if a guy like [Moore] came to my house and started filming like they did with Charlton Heston … and I thought, well if he’s on your property, I guess you can shoot him,” he said.

Read the full story:  www.patdollard.com

Join us - become an Elderado today at: LarryElder.com 

Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , , ,

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Kyle's widow "hasn't spoken publicly about proceeds..."

February 19, 2015 Alex Ben Block , American Sniper 0 Comments
'American Sniper': Chris Kyle's Widow At Center Of Quiet Furor Over Profits

By Alex Ben Block, Feb. 18, 2015, HollywoodReporter.com

 When he was alive, Chris Kyle told friends and business associates that he viewed any profits from his memoir American Sniper as "blood money." The legendary Navy SEAL, whose account of his four tours of duty in Iraq was adapted into the Clint Eastwood movie that is now up for six Oscars including best picture, maintained that he wanted the money to go to support struggling military families.

After Kyle and a friend were shot and killed in 2013 by a veteran Kyle was helping, The New York Times retold this widely known point of view: "Though his book became a best-seller, he never collected money from it, friends said, donating the proceeds to the families of two friends and fallen SEAL members, Ryan Job and Marc Lee."

 Yet today, with more than $6 million banked from the American Sniper franchise (boosted by the sale of more than 2 million books) and millions more on the way as the Warner Bros. film nears $400 million worldwide, a quiet dispute festers over who is entitled to that windfall. At the center of the discord is Kyle's widow, Taya, 40, who is alleged to have ignored her late husband's wishes and withheld money from the bereaved families he publicly had promised to support.

 Read the full story: www.hollywoodreporter.com

Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , , , , ,

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Eastwood "opposed both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"

February 12, 2015 American Sniper , Bill Maher 0 Comments
Clint Eastwood Agreeing With Michael Moore And Bill Maher?

By Joel Himelfarb, Feb. 10, 2015, Newsmax.com

Clint Eastwood surprised many people recently by saying he agreed with critics who have attacked his Oscar-nominated film "American Sniper."

Since the film was released last month, it has been attacked by film director Michael Moore, who called military snipers "cowards."

Comedian Bill Maher questioned whether the subject of the film — the late U.S. military sniper Chris Kyle — was a "hero or not" and called him a "psychopath patriot," The Daily Beast reports.

Special: Drugstore Drink Stops Migraines in 5 Minutes

As he was leaving a West Hollywood restaurant Monday night, Eastwood was asked by TMZ what he thought about the recent criticism by Moore and Maher.

"They were right," he said.

"Did Clint Eastwood Just Agree with 'American Sniper' Critics?" a Daily Caller headline asked.

Read the full story:  www.Newsmax.com

Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , , , , ,

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Hasn't everybody?

February 01, 2015 American Sniper , Clint Eastwood 0 Comments
Michael Moore: Clint Eastwood Threatened To Kill Me

By Radio Fox News, Jan. 31, 2015

So, Michael Moore may have an additional reason to not like Clint Eastwood’s movies.

As Moore tells it, “Ten years ago this past week, Clint Eastwood stood in front of the National Board of Review awards dinner and announced to me and to the crowd that he would ‘kill’ me if I ever came to his house with my camera for an interview.”

Eastwood was likely referring to the scene in Moore’s documentary Bowling for Columbine in which the director confronted an elderly Charlton Heston about his role as head of the National Rifle Association.

Read the full story:  www.radio.foxnews.com

Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , ,

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Can't call people who behead "savages," now can we?

January 27, 2015 American Sniper , American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 0 Comments
Group Says 'American Sniper' Film Spurs Threats Against Muslims

Mark Guarino, Jan. 24, 2015

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said in a letter to Eastwood and Cooper that its members had become targets of "violent threats" since early last week, before "American Sniper" went into general release. The letter said Eastwood and Cooper, the film's producer and star, could bolster the ADC's message of tolerance.

"It is our opinion that you could play a significant role in assisting us in alleviating the danger we are facing,” said the letter, dated Jan. 21.

Read more: ca.news.yahoo.com

 Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , , , ,

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

FLASHBACK: Spike Lee Calls Clint Eastwood A Racist And Angry Old Man --Oh yeah, that...

May 14, 2014 Clint Eastwood , Racist Comments 0 Comments
Spike Lee
June 9, 2008, Popcritics.com

The war of words between Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood has reached a fevered pitch as Spike Lee obviously doesn’t know when to “shut his face” as Eastwood so eloquently put it.

As we told you the other day, Spike Lee is upset with Eastwood for not putting black actors in his WWII movies, Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. In response to Lee’s racist-tinted accusations against him, Eastwood said that.  A guy like him should shut his face.

Well, Spike Lee started talking some more. ABCNews.com was able to get this response from Lee:

“First of all, the man is not my father and we’re not on a plantation either,” he told ABCNEWS.com. “He’s a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn’t personally attack him. And a comment like ‘a guy like that should shut his face’ — come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there.”

Lee has a proposal for Eastwood:

“If he wishes, I could assemble African-American men who fought at Iwo Jima and I’d like him to tell these guys that what they did was insignificant and they did not exist,” he said. “I’m not making this up. I know history. I’m a student of history. And I know the history of Hollywood and its omission of the one million African-American men and women who contributed to World War II.”

Read the full story:  www.popcritics.com

Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
By - No comments:
Labels: , ,