No focus guys in Peoria rode off on bicycles.” Needless to say, the movie went on to win best actor and supporting actor Oscars for Sean Penn and Tim Robbins.Ģ. ‘I’ll make it my way.’ Clint Eastwood makes it his way because he has final cut. “The studio didn’t like the ending, cuts half the budget and Eastwood goes and gets the other half. “I wouldn’t want some pain-in-the-ass author breathing down my neck,” he says. “ Mystic River (2003) was made by somebody who comes along and says, ‘I’m going to make this film,'” says Lehane, who kept his distance from writer Brian Helgeland. “My three films were made in odd non-conformist ways within the system.”ġ. “I’m still not sure I’ve capitulated to Hollywood per se,” he says by phone from his native Boston. The second weekend will tell the tale.Īfter initially resisting Hollywood–it took Clint Eastwood calling him on the phone to land Mystic River–Lehane has settled in for a pretty smooth movie ride. Earning diverse, mixed reviews (here’s The New Yorker) and a B+ Cinemascore, the question remains how well Shutter Island actually played for audiences. Shutter Island delivered a boffo $40-million weekend, the best ever for both DiCaprio and Scorsese. Paramount obviously made the right call pushing the HItchcockian suspenser into February–and selling the movie as a nasty R-rated psycho-thriller. Building the ‘Dead Ringers’ Prosthetic Babies Wasn’t an Easy Delivery
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |