With the success of Moneyball, baseball movies appear to as popular as ever, and WB knows exactly that fact.

According to Variety, the studio’s upcoming baseball picture Trouble With The Curve has just added Justin Timberlake to its cast, which also includes Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams.

Talk about a way to jump start a career.

With just a few TV credits to his name, The Wrap is reporting that actor Joe Massingill has joined the cast of the upcoming film, Trouble With The Curve, for WB.

The film stars Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams, with Matthew Lillard also in talks to take a role in the project. The movie will follow an “ailing baseball scout who takes his daughter on one last recruiting trip to Atlanta.” Eastwood will take the lead, with Adams taking on the role of the daughter.

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is the Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros. DVD box set for only $76.99 (that’s 57% off the list price of $179.98).

This DVD collection comes with 35 of Clint Eastwood‘s films from Warner Bros., including titles like Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Unforgiven. (See full list of movies included here below.) Some of the films include bonus features like commentaries and featurettes.

J. Edgar
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Judi Dench
Release Date: November 11, 2011

Submerged in sloppy sentiment, J. Edgar, Clint Eastwood‘s latest directorial effort, is unrelieved of its melodramatic characteristics, growing sappier as the film approaches its conclusion. Instead of getting an aggressively bold portrait of J. Edgar Hoover, a man undoubtedly built into the firmament of American history, we get a dreary and almost entirely lifeless (save for Leonardo DiCaprio‘s vigorous performance as Hoover) film that teeters on a precipitous cliff until it finally crumbles and dissolves into a pool of cheap melodrama.

Mr. Eastwood usually navigates keenly the narrow road that divides drama from melodrama. We have been accustomed, to the point of being spoiled, to witness him effortlessly depict his craft in top form in Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby, two films that could have easily mingled with cheap sappiness but instead were rescued by assured direction and consistently intelligent scripts.

At one time or another, you’ve probably seen one of the paintings that various people in a position of power have had commissioned of themselves. One particularly notable portrait out there is that of the Russian general, which someone has taken to an extremely entertaining new level.

George Dawe, an English portrait artist who has painted 329 portraits of Russian generals, uses a digital copy of his work as a basis to add his friends, family, and some celebrities into the paintings using Photoshop.

So far he’s done a bunch of celebrities, and most of them look amazing. If we didn’t know who these people were, you wouldn’t think twice about whether most of them were a legit Russian general or not. Some look a little off such as Sean Connery, for example, who looks as though he’s just passed gas in a room full of people, and is pleased that none of them can figure out who it was.

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