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EXCLUSIVE: In his first comments addressing the controversy surrounding Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell, which has culminated in a threatened defamation lawsuit by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the film’s screenwriter Billy Ray assailed the newspaper for failing to own up to its role in destroying the life of the…

Warner Bros is more than willing to take on one of America's largest newspapers over claims that portion of the Clint Eastwood directed Richard Jewell movie are defamatory. "The film is based on a wide range of highly credible source material," said the AT&T-owned studio today after being threatened with a defamation…

Richard Jewell opens wide this week, but the Clint Eastwood-directed film could find itself in court soon afterward facing defamation charges if Atlanta’s leading newspaper doesn’t get the results it wants. "It is highly ironic that a film purporting to tell a tragic story of how the reputation of an FBI suspect was…

At 89, Clint Eastwood might be one of the oldest directors ever to make a major studio movie, much less one that already has made the AFI and National Board of Review Top 10 lists for 2019. But that is the case for this remarkably durable actor, producer and director who even writes the music score for most of his…

In the wake of Atlanta Journal-Constitution Editor-in-Chief Kevin Riley disagreeing with factual plot points in Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell — specifically that reporter Kathy Scruggs traded sex with an FBI agent for a tip that Jewell was their lead suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing — Wilde pushed back…

If it is an awards season, the name Clint Eastwood can’t be too far away. And so it is yet again as another Eastwood movie has just thrown its hat in the ring. Richard Jewell had a rousing AFI Fest premiere Wednesday night at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, as well as a SAG Nominating Committee screening at…

Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell is set to make its world premiere at this year’s AFI Fest, the American Film Institute revealed today. The Gala will take place on Wednesday, November 20 at the TCL Chinese Theatre. Warner Bros. Pictures' Richard Jewell is directed and produced by Eastwood, an AFI Life Achievement Award…

Can Clint Eastwood save the Oscars? With luck and a little help, yes, absolutely. It could happen. The stars already are aligning. Since the debut last week of a trailer for Eastwood's Richard Jewell, about the pursuit of a security guard who was wrongly suspected of Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park bombing in 1996…

For the record, here’s what a real media witch hunt looks like. The trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell efficiently recaps the true-life story of a man whose life was ruined when law enforcement – and the press – got its story wrong and blamed an innocent man for a heinous crime. Jewell, of course, was the…

It’s official: Warner Bros is opening Clint Eastwood’s next movie Richard Jewell on December 13. Paul Walter Hauser stars as Jewell, the security guard whose life was turned upside down after law enforcement leaked to a reporter that he was a possible suspect in the the 1996 Atlanta Olympics’ Olympic Park bombing. Sam…

To Quentin Tarantino, the year 1969 represented a moment of magic and turmoil in Hollywood and, being Tarantino, he determined to make a movie exploring it. He was, in fact, only 6 years old in 1969; as a result, his “take” on that year inevitably poses a challenge to those of us who'd actually lived through it. This…

Three months ago, I supposed the next great movie newsroom drama would look more like Absence of Malice than All The President's Men. Who knew that Clint Eastwood, filmdom's Great Disruptor, would so soon be on his way to making sense of that supposition? Just last week, Warner Bros. confirmed that Eastwood was poised…