‘Hereafter’ To Open Early On Oct. 15 Before Going Wide

Warner Bros. has done some slight tweaking and re-arranging to their October calendar.

Clint Eastwood’s meditation on death, “Hereafter,” will now open in New York City, Los Angeles and Toronto on October 15th before going wide on October 22nd. The film, which Eastwood calls his “chick flick,” was written by Peter Morgan (“The Queen,” “Frost/Nixon”) and 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. We saw the film at TIFF and while we applauded Eastwood’s ambition, we called it a “compromised effort.”

And in case you cared, the Katherine Heigl/Josh Duhamel (shudder) romcom “Life As We Know It,” directed by Greg Berlanti, will get a sneak preview in 800 theaters on October 2nd. It looks like dreck to us, but from what we’ve seen, audiences have been eating up the trailer with a spoon and with Warner Bros. getting it out of the gate early, they clearly believe they have a winner on their hands. The film will go in wide release on October 8th. [Deadline]