Touted from day one as possibly the favourite for this year's Best Picture Award at the Academy Awards, Clint Eastwood's next movie is THE HUMAN FACTOR, a biopic of Nelson Mandela starring Morgan Freeman I what I expect to be his career defining role. The movie has been shooting for a few days now in South Africa and is based on John Carlin's novel Playing the Enemy and will be released in December, just in time for the Oscar season. Academy favourite Eastwood who surprisingly last year didn't have a movie up for nomination despite releasing both THE CHANGELING and GRAN TORINO, but is riding off his most popular movie of all time as TORINO has grossed $142 million at the domestic box office. One wonders if WATCHMEN ($72 million) has any chance of the legs to equal that number.