Largest Single Artist Box Set Ever Includes The Eastwood Factor, Intimate Short Film from Richard
Schickel Offering a
Rare Personal Look at Eastwood, Plus Extract from
Schickel’s New Book, Special Features and Memorabilia
Burbank, Calif.,
November 30, 2009 -- Clint Eastwood’s illustrious motion picture career has
spanned more than a half century and
has touched generations of filmgoers. The filmmaker/actor
has won five Academy Awards®,and his films have grossed nearly
$2 billion at the domestic box office. Warner Home Video (WHV) will celebrate Eastwood
and his 35-year association with the studio through Malpaso
Productions with a comprehensive, elegant giftset, Clint
Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros., to be released February 16,
2010.
The collection,
considered the largest feature film box set ever released for a single artist, contains 34 classic Eastwood
films from the Warner library and highlights the breadth and depth of his work -- from Where Eagles Dare through Gran
Torino. Included are his “Dirty
Harry†movies, his Best Picture Oscar® dramas and nominees, his
Westerns, his war movies, his comedies, and more.
(A complete list is available at the end of this release.)
The 35th
film is The Eastwood Factor,
an intimate short film from Time magazine critic and film historian Richard Schickel. The Eastwood Factor presents Eastwood in a way he’s rarely seen
-- visiting film locations or sites
where his movies were created, and on the Warner lot visiting the costume
department and Eastwood Scoring Stage,
as well as at his home. Eastwood’s candid, intelligent and often humorous interviews about his body of work and the choices he made, along with Schickel’s
selection of scenes from his movies (including his upcoming Invictus),results in an up-close and personal portrait
of one of the great icons of our era. The end result is a clear reminder of why
Eastwood’s career as both a great filmmaker and actor
has been so enduring and his work so
respected.
“I’ve known
Clint for most of the time he’s been at Warner Bros.,†said Schickel. “I was
fortunate to be able to wander around the Warner lot with him and hear his
reminiscences. To be able to show him in the places where he works and lives
and feels most comfortable is, I think, a unique opportunity.â€
A sampling of the
documentary is scheduled to run on a minimum of 10,000 screens nationwide in
the first quarter of 2010. Additional moments from this remarkable
retrospective of Eastwood’s career will be glimpsed over the course of the
media campaign in support of the
release.
The box set will
also include a 24-page booklet extracted from Richard Schickel’s new monographClint: A Retrospective, as well as Studio letters and photos.
Packaged in a
20-page double-wide album, Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner
Bros. willcontain 19 discs
and will sell for $179.98 SRP.Â
Select titles
from Clint
Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros. will also be available for download via iTunes, Xbox Live, Zune Marketplace,
Amazon Video on Demand and other digital retailers.
The full
288-page book from Richard Schickel, entitled Clint: A Retrospective, will be published at the end of February/early
March by Sterling Publishing Inc. This definitive appraisal contains 325
photographs, meticulously researched from Warner Bros.’ files and other key
image archives. It is Schickel’s homage to the actor
who, Schickel says, has most inspired him as a critic over the years. Eastwood
himself provides an introduction. A 20-minute version of the full-length
documentary will accompany the book,which
will also be released in all English-speaking
territories overseas. Translations
by major publishers will follow in
France, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Spain and Japan.
In making the
announcement, Jeff Baker, WHV’s Executive VP and General Manager, Theatrical
Catalog said, “There is not much you can say that hasn’t already been said
about this amazingly talented man. We are so proud to have had such a
longstanding association with Clint, and we’re delighted to be releasing this
major collection so both loyal fans and those newly discovering Clint can enjoy
his wonderful body of work.â€
Early in his
career, Eastwood starred as the “Man with No Name†in A Fistful of Dollars, his first “spaghetti western,†which was a
box office success and drew attention to the young actor.
Additional roles followed, including the role of Harry Callahan in five “Dirty
Harry†films, beginning in 1971. That same year, he made his directorial debut with Play
Misty for Me. Other noted
Eastwood films include the Charlie Parker biography Bird; The Bridges of Madison County; In the Line of Fire; Midnight in
the Garden of Good and Evil; White Hunter, Black Heart; Absolute Power; Space
Cowboys; Mystic River; Flags of Our Fathers; Letters from Iwo Jima; and,
most recently, Gran Torino. His newest film, Invictus, stars Oscar® winners Morgan
Freeman and Matt Damon in the inspiring true story
of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with
Francois Pienaar, captain of South Africa's rugby team, to help unite their
country.
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Film Titles in
the 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros.
Collection