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Visit Clint Eastwood's Version of the 'Hereafter' in Maui

Today, Clint Eastwood's Hereafter opens nationwide and critics are already raving about the movie. But, rather than thinking about the film's focus, which is, well, death, we'd rather think about its amazing locations like Paris, London, San Francisco and especially, Maui.

The movie's griping opening sequence, in which a tsunami hits an island and wipes out a busy marketplace, was filmed on Front St in Lahaina, Maui. According to the movie's location manager, Lahaina was perfect for the scene because, "Front Street's proximity to the water and the architecture of its buildings help supply a look that will require much less transformation towards this goal than other locations which were under consideration."

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Clint Eastwood's Creating A Tsunami in Maui

While millions are dealing with a real disaster in Haiti, Clint Eastwood is staging a disaster in Hawaii for his new movie, "Hereafter." The director is in Maui this week filming scenes for the movie, which follows three characters: a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy, who are all trying to discover what may happen in the afterlife after being touched by death. The movie stars Matt Damon but, unfortunately for him, he isn't in any of the Hawaii shots.

The Maui scenes, filmed on Lahaina's Front St, will open the film and follow actress Cecile De France as she heads out to do some shopping when a tsunami hits. But, instead of flooding the streets of Maui to complete the scenes, the wall of water will be added later through CGI and the underwater scenes have already been completed in London. Yesterday, hundreds lined Front St while more than 60 extras ran from the "tsunami." It's not surprising that there were more on-lookers than actors on hand, considering this was the biggest production to hit Maui in nearly 20 years.