WB Boss Reportedly Mad At Reason Clint Eastwood's New Movie Was Made

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Warner Bros. Discovery's new CEO David Zaslav was reportedly angry over the reason that the studio backed Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Cry Macho. Zaslav only recently took over as CEO of the renowned studio and one of the first items on his to-do list was to find out why a string of recent box office failures were ever greenlit in the first place. For Eastwood’s part, all four of the Oscars that he’s won over the years have been as a director and not an actor.

Yet even with Eastwood’s highly successful transition from actor to filmmaker, his last two films have failed to turn a profit. This is a particularly big deal for someone of Eastwood’s stature, marking a significant turn from the early 2000’s, which were arguably the heyday of his directorial career. Now at the age of 91, Eastwood has been a major part of Hollywood for decades now. His rise to fame as an actor received a considerable boost from his early work with famed Italian director Sergio Leone. Together they made three films in the Spaghetti Western genre, the likes of which are considered classics today. However, in 1971, Eastwood took his first steps as a filmmaker with the thriller Play Misty for Me, ultimately delivering his own western, High Plains Drifter, in 1973.

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And while Eastwood’s status as a Hollywood icon remains quite firmly intact, the recent changing of the guard at Warner Bros. Discovery promises new priorities for the studio. As The Wall Street Journal reports, during his first meeting with Warner executives, CEO David Zaslav apparently wasted no time in getting to the bottom of some important issues. One such issue came after executives admitted that they didn’t think that