Gran Torino Becomes Clint Eastwood's Grandest Three-Day Weekend in the UK and Ireland

Gran Torino Becomes Clint Eastwood's Grandest Three-Day Weekend in the UK and Ireland

LONDON, March 2/PRNewswire/ -- Gran Torino, which has attained the highest gross at the U.S.
box office of any film in legendary actor/director Clint Eastwood's
filmography, is also a career best in the UK with the biggest three-day
opening of his career. Gran Torino made GBP1,351,278 in the UK this weekend.
In Ireland, where after its second weekend the film remains at the top of the
box office, Gran Torino has accrued GBP729,768, losing only 14% box office
share week on week.

Gran Torino has scored $138 million at the U.S. box office and
is still growing. The film is directed by Eastwood, who stars as an
iron-willed Korean War veteran who is forced by his immigrant neighbors to
confront his own long-held prejudices.

The film's U.S. gross tops the list of pictures directed by
and/or starring Eastwood, including In the Line of Fire ($102m), the
Oscar-winning Unforgiven ($101m) and Million Dollar Baby ($100m), Space
Cowboys ($90m), Every Which Way But Loose ($85m), Mystic River ($90m) and The
Bridges of Madison County ($71.5m).

In the U.S., Gran Torino opened for a three-week limited run,
during which it landed on a number of year-end ten best lists, with
Eastwood's performance and the film's screenplay winning awards from the
National Board of review, among other accolades. The film expanded to general
release on January 9 and raced to the top of the weekend box office, earning
a record-breaking $29.5m and becoming the biggest-ever opening for an
Eastwood film as well as the biggest-ever 3-day January opening.

Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Village
Roadshow Pictures, a Double Nickel Entertainment, a Malpaso Production, Gran
Torino. The film is directed by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by Nick
Schenk, story by Dave Johannson & Nick Schenk. Eastwood, Robert Lorenz and
Bill Gerber are the producers, with Jenette Kahn, Adam Richman, Tim Moore and
Bruce Berman serving as executive producers. The film stars Clint Eastwood,
Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Christopher Carley, John Carroll Lynch, Brian Haley,
Geraldine Hughes, Brian Howe and William Hill.

The creative behind-the-scenes team is led by Eastwood's
longtime collaborators: director of photography Tom Stern, production
designer James J. Murakami, editors Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach, and costume
designer Deborah Hopper. The music is by Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens,
orchestrated and conducted by Lennie Niehaus. The title song for "Gran
Torino" is performed by British jazz singer/pianist Jamie Cullum and Don
Runner. It was co-written by Eastwood; Cullum; the director's son, Kyle
Eastwood; and Kyle's writing partner, Michael Stevens.

Gran Torino is distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures,
a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village
Roadshow Pictures. http://www.grantorinomovie.co.uk

Source: Warner Bros. Pictures

For additional information, please contact: Warner Bros. Pictures: Louisa Radcliffe, +44(0)207-984-5286, Louisa.radcliffe@warnerbros.com

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