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While Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won the weekend box office race with a debut of $35.4 million thanks to kids and fanboys, Clint Eastwood's The Mule scored a victory of its own by appealing to America's heartland and decidedly older moviegoers. The Mule , from Warner Bros., opened to $17.2 million to land one of the top starts ever for a film helmed by Eastwood, who remains Hollywood's most prolific director at the age of 88. The Mule is actually the second film he directed this year, following The 15:17 to Paris , which was released in February. And although The Mule didn't come close to equaling the $35 million opening of Sully in 2016 or the $89 million that American Sniper scored in its first weekend of wide release in 2015, it otherwise ranks as Eastwood's best opening since 2000's Space Cowboys , not adjusted for inflation. Eastwood's longevity in the business paid off as fans that he has acquired over the years turned out to see his la...

Clint Eastwood ’s newest feature film, the drama “ The Mule .” In addition to directing, the veteran actor will step in front of the lens again, alongside fellow stars Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne Wiest and Andy Garcia , as well as Alison Eastwood, Taissa Farmiga, Ignacio Serricchio and Loren Dean, Eugene Cordero . Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he’s just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does well—so well, in fact, that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl is assigned a handler. But he isn’t the only one keeping tabs on Earl; the mysterious new drug mule has also hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates. And even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl’s past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it’s uncertain if h...