We want to bring you more news every day, but unfortunately our robot army of writers who never need to sleep, to eat, or to love, is still under development (currently all they do is sleep, eat, and love).  In the meantime, we’re going to be making “A Fistful of News” a regular feature you’ll see every other day where we bring you some additional news stories we found but didn’t have time to write.  Until the Robot Army is ready to proceed (which is unlikely as we cut corners and ordered them from Belize, a country not known for quality robotics).

After the jump you’ll find ten quick news items including what’s next for Up director Peter Docter even though it’s not Monsters, Inc. 2, Guillermo del Toro’s monster cameo in The Hobbit, and Jeff Bridges’ behind-the-scenes photography on the set of Iron Man.

The first trailer for Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus” has been released and it absolutely looks like an awards contender.  You’ve got the stellar cast (Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon), the director everyone loves, and a feel good story about a country coming together.  If you aren’t familiar with the film, “Invictus” tells the true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), to help unite their country.  Check out the trailer after the jump.

The first poster for director Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus” has been released and it’s after the jump. The movie used to be called “The Human Factor”, so if the name sounds new…that’s because it is. The film stars Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman and it’s based on a true story from 1995. That year saw Nelson Mandela join forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match. While we’ve all seen a lot of sports movies…with this cast and Eastwood behind the wheel, I wouldn’t bet against it. “Invictus” gets a limited release on December 11^th.

Matt Damon is having a big week.  Not content with appearing on every talk show known to man in support of his new movie “The Informant!”, or with announcing that he will reteam with “Informant!” director Steven Soderbergh for his new “Liberace” biopic, Damon is also getting some play in the trades for a project that has nothing to do with Soderbergh for a change.  Damon will next star in “Hereafter”, a supernatural thriller from director Clint Eastwood that is set to film this fall.  To give Matt Damon another topic to discuss at press junkets, hit the jump.

Warner Bros. has released a preview of their upcoming 2009 movies. In the preview, they’ve got updated synopsis’ along with new images from “Whiteout”, “Ninja Assassin”, “The Invention of Lying”, “The Informant!” and a few others. So if you’d like to see the new images and read what’s coming later this year (it’s a lot of great stuff), it’s all after the jump:

On one hand it’s great Fox has been releasing their catalog titles in 1080p and in DTS looking great. On the other hand, they haven’t put in that much work to jazz it up for audiences buying it a second time. None of the films here have anything new, but all look appreciably better in their Blu-ray iterations. After the jump are my reviews of “Predator 2″, “Fargo” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” on Blu-ray.

Somewhere around 1988’s Bird, Clint Eastwood’s career took a turn for the respectable. Four years later he had two Oscars for Unforgiven. And though Eastwood’s career as an auteur has had some detractors (people either love him, or find him highly overrated), his run in the 21^st century has shown that he’s given up his “Right turn, Clyde” ways and been fully embraced by the academy. Except as an actor.

And Eastwood’s acting career has always been defined by what Sergio Leone said about him, and that’s that he’s basically a brick, a piece of stone to which you work around. And being leaden and of small range has always been the main criticism leveled against him. Like Jimmy Stewart, he played with that image, often turning his hard characters into psychotics, or fetishists (Tightrope and White Hunter, Black Heart come to mind), but he never received much love from the Academy.