Hereafter

HEREAFTER Blu-Ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: April 11th, 2011 at 9:40 am

Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter got so beaten up and ignored upon release that it’s easy to have a soft spot for it. At the time it was considered another a long line of Eastwood’s efforts to win more Oscars for himself and his cast and crew. But when Hereafter tanked, it became just another Eastwood misfire that’s bound to get lost in the shuffle of his latter career.

Matt Damon stars as a psychic who struggles with day to day life, as – in parallel stories – Cécile De France’s news reporter can’t quite come to grips with her near-death experience, and Frankie and George McLaren play twins Marcus and Jason, one of whom meets an untimely death. My review of the Blu-ray of Hereafter follows after the jump.

INCEPTION, LET ME IN, TRON, and THE WALKING DEAD Top the 2011 Saturn Award Nominations

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: February 23rd, 2011 at 7:10 pm

If you’re among the folk who believe the Academy Awards are too stodgy, too reluctant to embrace sci-fi, fantasy, and horror — the Saturn Awards are for you.  Sure, Best Picture nominee Inception led the field with nominations, but Let Me In and Tron: Legacy (just one Oscar nomination between them) fall close behind with 7 Saturn nominations apiece. Hereafter, Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Never Let Me Go, and Shutter Island all landed 5 or more nominations.

The Walking Dead racked up the most television nominations with 6, followed by Breaking Bad, Fringe, and Lost with 5 each.  Hit the jump for the full list of nominees and a breakdown of the number of nominations by film/series.

Oscar Visual Effects Shortlist Includes INCEPTION, SCOTT PILGRIM, TRON: LEGACY and Four More

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: January 5th, 2011 at 8:06 pm

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has narrowed down the contenders for the Visual Effects category to seven: Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Hereafter, Inception, Iron Man 2, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Tron: Legacy.  Given the face replace magic and impending Oscar dominance of The Social Network, I’m a bit surprised David Fincher’s movie didn’t get a nod.  But I’m glad Scott Pilgrim has the chance represent the relatively smaller-scale films in a big-budget category.  (Basically Scott must battle six evil FXes to win the heart of Oscar.)

The voting members will be invited to view 15-minute segments from each film on January 20th, then vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.  Hit the jump for the press release.

The Society of Camera Operators 2010 Nominations Include SALT, HEREAFTER, and 24

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: December 22nd, 2010 at 9:26 pm

Around awards season, I’m always interested by the nominations of guilds or other groups with a specific technical focus.  Of course, the Society of Camera Operators found a way to honor The Social Network like everyone else.  But Hereafter and Salt, which won’t contend for many awards as complete works, also earned nominations alongside The Town and The Fighter for feature film camera operator of the year.

The nominees in television are similarly eclectic.  The final season of 24 missed out on a swan song at the Emmys and the Golden Globes, but is recognized here with House, Bones, Sons of Anarchy, and Raising Hope.  Hit the jump for the full list.

Weekend Box Office – PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 On Top with $41.5 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: October 24th, 2010 at 9:27 am

It’s another weekend for the box office record books. Sort of. One week after Jackass 3D claimed the month’s highest opening weekend with $50.3 million, Paranormal Activity 2 has scored the highest opening ever for a supernatural horror flick. In terms of general horror titles, PA2 now ranks third.  First or third, with an estimate of over $41 million, the sequel is opening scary-huge.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Paranormal Activity 2	$41,500,000	$41.5
2	Jackass 3D	$21,600,000	$87.1
3	Red	$15,000,000	$43.4
4	Hereafter	$12,000,000	$12.3
5	The Social Network	$7,200,000	$72.8
6	Secretariat	$7,000,000	$37
7	Life As We Know It	$6,300,000	$37.4
8	Legend of the Guardians	$3,100,000	$50
9	The Town	$2,700,000	$84.6
10	Easy A	$1,700,000	$54.7

Friday Box Office – PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 Leads with $19 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: October 23rd, 2010 at 8:42 am

One year ago, box office observers were gushing over the obscene amount of money Paramount was making with Paranormal Activity. You remember. The studio picked up the film for about three dollars and then marketed it into one of 2009’s most successful R rated releases – certainly the most profitable. It was a Cinderella story (with screaming and shaky camera work) that gave us all something to cheer last October. One year later, here comes the sequel. Paranormal Activity 2 was made for $3 million but, aside from that, not a lot has changed. Audiences made PA2 Friday’s number one film with a very impressive $19 million from 3,216 locations. That estimate includes the film’s record setting $6.3 million earned from Thursday midnight screenings. Weekend projections are now expected to top $36 million. That knocks Paramount’s other over-achiever, Jackass 3D, into second place. Finally, Clint Eastwood’s latest film seems to have struck a bad note with audiences and critics alike. The director’s supernatural drama Hereafter went wide this weekend but could only scare up $4 million for a fourth place finish. Full details tomorrow.

	Title	Friday	Total
1	Paranormal Activity 2	$19,000,000	$19
2	Jackass 3D	$7,700,000	$73.2
3	Red	$4,500,000	$32.9
4	Hereafter	$4,000,000	$4.3
5	The Social Network	$2,275,000	$67.8

HEREAFTER Review

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: October 22nd, 2010 at 7:36 am

One of the great unanswered metaphysical questions is “What happens to us after we die?”  It’s a question that can provoke rich, thoughtful, and emotional responses.  As evidenced by Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, it can also provoke a response that’s plodding, vapid, and distant.  Rather than explore the notion of an afterlife through a strong, single narrative, Hereafter takes three unconnected and underdeveloped stories and then clumsily puts them together at the end as the lead characters attempt to come to grips with the great beyond.  The story of a journalist (Cecile de France) coping with her own near-death experience lacks conflict and the tale about a twin (Frankie and George McLaren) dealing with the death of his brother is undone by a weak performance. The plotline about a psychic (Matt Damon) who feels cursed by his ability to communicate with the dead is the only story that feels like it could stand as its own movie, but it’s underserved since it loses screen time to the weaker narratives.

Clint Eastwood’s HEREAFTER Giveaway

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: October 19th, 2010 at 11:51 am

With Clint Eastwood’s latest Hereafter opening everywhere October 22 (it’s currently playing in limited release), we’ve been given some Hereafter movie related swag to giveaway to some of our readers.  Hereafter stars Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jay Mohr, and Frankie/George McLaren and it tells the story of three people who are haunted by mortality in different ways.  Hit the jump for more info on the movie and what you can win:

Weekend Box Office – JACKASS 3D Sets Records with $50 Million Debut; RED Strong with $22.5 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: October 17th, 2010 at 9:29 am

On Friday we told you that Jackass 3D had secured fall’s single-day debut record with over $21 million and that the sequel seemed destined to become one of the season’s all-time weekend champs with a projection of over $40 million. Turns out that the Jackass boys were destined for bigger things. With an estimated $50 million from 3,081 locations, the third installment in the franchise now holds both the October and the all-time fall weekend record – eclipsing Scary Movie 3’s $48.1 million set in 2003.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Jackass 3D	$50,000,000	$50
2	Red	$22,500,000	$22.5
3	The Social Network	$11,000,000	$63.1
4	Secretariat	$9,500,000	$27.5
5	Life as We Know It	$9,200,000	$28.8
6	Legend of the Guardians	$4,325,000	$46
7	The Town	$4,040,000	$80.5
8	My Soul to Take	$3,160,000	$11.9
9	Easy A	$2,650,000	$52.3
10	Wall Street 2	$$2,350,000	$47.8

Screenwriter Peter Morgan Exclusive Interview HEREAFTER; Plus a TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY Update

by Christina Radish    Posted: October 14th, 2010 at 10:50 am

The drama Hereafter, directed by Clint Eastwood, tells the story of three people who are each haunted by mortality. When screenwriter/executive producer Peter Morgan read a book about a woman who lost her sister and really sought to connect with her, he was so moved that it inspired him to explore the ways in which death touches different individuals in different ways. The film stars Matt Damon, Cecile de France and Frankie & George McLaren.

As a writer who has spent much of his career telling stories that are fact-based, Peter Morgan admits that writing something that was more instinctual and emotional was very different for him. During this recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, he talked about doing more of a mixture in his storytelling now, how encouraging it is to work with someone who puts trust in you as a writer in the way that Clint Eastwood does and how, when a story grabs him in a particular moment, he just has to jump on it. He also spoke about how he became involved as executive producer on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, being directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In), and that the biopic about Freddie Mercury, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, is where his focus is now. Check out what he had to say after the jump:

4 Movie Clips from Clint Eastwood’s HEREAFTER

by David Lane    Posted: October 13th, 2010 at 8:54 am

With Clint Eastwood’s latest Hereafter opening in limited release this weekend and everywhere on October 22, we’ve been given 4 clips.  Hereafter stars Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jay Mohr, and Frankie/George McLaren and it tells the story of three people who are haunted by mortality in different ways.  Hit the jump for the official synopsis and the clips:

New Posters for MEGAMIND, HEREAFTER, and UNSTOPPABLE

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: September 23rd, 2010 at 12:43 pm

We have three new posters for you this afternoon.  First up is the bland final poster for DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind starring the voices of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, David Cross, Jonah Hill, and Brad Pitt.  Then we have the giant floaty-head poster for Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter starring Matt Damon.  Finally, there’s the UK poster for Tony Scott’s Unstoppable starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine.  It’s a slight improvement over the US poster since it almost lets you know that the movie involves a train.

Hit the jump to check out all three posters along with a synopsis for each film.  Megamind opens November 5th.  Hereafter opens October 22nd.  Unstoppable opens November 12th.

First Trailer for Clint Eastwood’s HEREAFTER Starring Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Bryce Dallas Howard

by Ramses Flores    Posted: September 10th, 2010 at 5:32 pm

Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for Clint Eastwood’s new film, Hereafter.   The script from Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon) tells the story of three people who are haunted by mortality in different ways.  The trailer at first made me think that the movie was going to be about a reluctant psychic (played by Matt Damon) living in a small town, but then crazy stuff started to happen halfway through involving drowning, a tidal wave, and explosions.  Now, I don’t really know what exactly Hereafter is going to be about, but it certainly looks interesting and intense.

Hit the jump for the trailer along with a plot synopsis.

Clint Eastwood’s HEREAFTER, Starring Matt Damon, to Close out 2010 New York Film Festival

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: August 16th, 2010 at 8:59 am

We previously reported that David Fincher’s The Social Network would open this year’s New York Film Festival.  Today, the Festival has announced that Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter will be the closing night film.  The movie [via The Playlist]:

“Follows three plotlines: Matt Damon plays a psychic in San Francisco who can’t connect emotionally with his girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard) and wants nothing to do with his powers; Cecile DeFrance plays a French TV journalist/talk show host who has a near death experience in the 2004 Tsunami and the third character is a young boy whose twin brother dies in an accident (played by unknowns Frankie and George McClaren). Slowly as the script evolves, their lives interconnect.”

As we reported last week, Eastwood describes the film as his first “chick flick” but one that won’t make men “want to stick a Swiss Army knife in their leg.” Hit the jump to see the full line-up for the festival, which runs from from September 24 – October 10.  Hereafter opens nationwide on October 22nd.

First Look at the Coen Brothers’ TRUE GRIT and Clint Eastwood’s HEREAFTER

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: August 13th, 2010 at 1:16 pm

The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a first look at plenty of fall movies.  Two of the major films coming out in the remainder of 2010 are the Coen Brothers’ True Grit starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Hailee Steinfeld, and Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter starring Matt Damon.  Grit is one of my most-anticipated movies of the year as I love westerns and I love the Coen Brothers even more.  Bridges plays Rooster Cogburn (a role originally played by John Wayne when the Charles Portis’ book was adapted in 1969), a drunken U.S. Marshall who agrees to help a girl (Steinfeld) track down her father’s killer.

As for Hereafter, Eastwood tells EW that “I like to think of it as my chick flick. But one that men will like too.” I can’t imagine Eastwood saying the words “chick flick.”  He adds, “Or at least one that won’t make them want to stick a Swiss Army knife in their leg.”  That I can imagine him saying.  Hit the jump to learn more about Hereafter and see the first images from both movies.  True Grit is due out on December 25th and Hereafter opens on October 22nd.

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