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    Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2” Named Closing Night Film At AFI Fest

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    Nicholas Hoult (l) and Clint Eastwood on the set of "Juror #2" (photo by Claire Folger/Warner Bros. Pictures)
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    The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced that the world premiere of Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 will close the 38th edition of AFI Fest. The Warner Bros. Pictures film stars Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbrough, Leslie Bibb and Kiefer Sutherland. Juror #2 will screen as the AFI Fest Closing Night Red Carpet Premiere at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre on October 27.

    “There is only one Clint Eastwood–and AFI is proud to present the world premiere of this next chapter in his historic canon,” said Bob Gazzale, AFI president and CEO. “We are honored to bring the community together once again–artists and audiences–to celebrate an American icon.”

    The premiere of Juror #2 continues a long relationship between Eastwood and AFI. Eastwood launched the World Premieres of American Sniper, J. Edgar and Richard Jewell at AFI Fest. In 1996, Eastwood received the 24th AFI Life Achievement Award–the highest honor for a career in film, and in 2009, AFI conferred an Honorary Degree upon Eastwood for contributions of distinction to the art of the moving image.

    Juror #2 follows family man Justin Kemp who, while serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict–or free-–the accused killer.

    Juror #2 is written by Jonathan Abrams; produced by Eastwood, Tim Moore, p.g.a., Jessica Meier, p.g.a., Adam Goodman and Matt Skiena; and executive produced by David M. Bernstein, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jeremy Bell. The film features the work of Yves Bélanger, director of photography; Ron Reiss, production designer; Joel Cox, David Cox, editors; Deborah Hopper, costume designer; Mark Mancina, original score; and Geoffrey Miclat, casting.

    As previously announced, the world premiere of the documentary film Music By John Williams will open AFI Fest on October 23, the world premiere of Robert Zemeckis’ Here will be the Centerpiece Screening on October 25, and the world premiere of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl will screen on the afternoon of October 27.

    AFI Fest presented by Canva will take place October 23–27. The full festival lineup will be unveiled on October 1.

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    What To Stream: “”Mother Mary,” “Outer Banks” and Steven Soderbergh’s “The Christophers”

    Monday, August 17, 2026

    The final season of "Outer Banks" and a new album from Anthony Hopkins (yes, Sir Anthony Hopkins) are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

    Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists: Weezer's 20th album, the survival horror game "The Sinking City 2" and "Mother Mary," which kicked off Anne Hathaway's incredibly prolific year in theaters.

    New movies to stream from Aug. 17-23
    — Anne Hathaway's epic year at the movies (which is still going at full throttle with "The End of Oak Street" and the upcoming "Verity") didn't start with "The Devil Wears Prada 2" or "The Odyssey," but with "Mother Mary," David Lowery's experimental film about a pop star (Hathaway) and her estranged designer (Michaela Coel). In his review for the AP, Film Writer Jake Coyle called it "a fitfully spellbinding chamber drama that grows more operatic with every stitch," adding that "Hathaway makes not just a believable pop star but an indelible portrait of an artist's ego in extremes." But, Coyle wrote, "the movie belongs to Coel … 'Mother Mary' is the story of an exorcism, and she's the exorcist." It debuts on HBO Max on Friday.

    — Coel also stars in one of the year's best two-handers, "The Christophers," which arrives on Hulu on Saturday. Written by Ed Solomon and directed by Steven Soderbergh, the film is a kind of heist movie in disguise, in which a pair of wannabe heirs (James Corden and Jessica Gunning) hire a restoration specialist and sometimes forger (Coel) to covertly finish a series of paintings by their famous father Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen). In my review, I wrote that it was "a meditation on art, legacy,... Read More

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