Clint Eastwood’s INVICTUS Opens Dec 11. Goes Up Against Jackson’s BONES

Just recently it was announced that Clint Eastwood‘s new movie, a Nelson Mandela biopic, initially titled THE HUMAN FACTOR is now called INVICTUS based on a title a short poem written by William Earnest Henley and published in 1875 and it was a great source of inspiration for Mandela.
The potentially Oscar worthy drama centers on a rugby star Francois Pienaar, played by Matt Damon, whose team won the 1995 world up and along with former South African president Mandela, played by Morgan Freeman, created an event that gave the South African whites and blacks together for a common cause as the country healed from years of apartheid.

According to Variety, INVICTUS now has a release date and that is December 11th, 2009. But that also means it will be in competition with another potentially Oscar worthy movie, THE LOVELY BONES, an adaptation directed by Peter Jackson (Check out the first images)
And what comes one week after those two hit theaters? James Cameron’s AVATAR!
Fall season sounds just as exciting as Summer blockbuster season, doesn’t it?