Matt Damon

Steven Soderbergh compared Matt to Jack Lemmon in this article at Newsblaze. Meanwhile, Soderbergh is looking to sell the Liberace project to a distributor at the upcoming American Film Market. Don Cheadle discussed Matt at a recent Ante Up For Africa tournament.

Winona Ryder bites back on the December 2009 cover of BlackBook magazine. Here’s what the 38-year-old actress opened up about to BlackBook’s Nick Haramis: On Matt Damon and Johnny Depp: “Matt couldn’t be a greater, nicer guy. I’m really lucky that I’m on good terms with him. With Johnny, it’...

Matt Damon reveals that he likes working out what his characters' motivations are.

By Matt Bradshaw Green Zone Military action flick starring Matt Damon as a U.S. soldier searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The story is inspired by the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. The bit about Damon's character wanting to know why...

By Dorothy Matt Damon says Gandhi inspired him to get involved in humanitarian work. The ‘Bourne Ultimatum’ actor – who works closely with Water.org and the ONE campaign – revealed his mother Nancy taught him to help others from a young age, just like peaceful civil rights leader Gandhi.

But understatement is often overlooked, as Mr. Damon is well aware. "There's a style of acting that tends to get rewarded,"Mr. Damon said. After a pause, he added, "It's not what I do." (His one acting Oscar nomination was for "Good Will Hunting.")

By Dorothy MATT DAMON is delighted NELSON MANDELA paid a visit to the set of his forthcoming movie – because seeing the former South African president meet his young daughters is a memory he will treasure forever. The actor stars in Invictus, based on a book of Mandela’s life during the 1995 Rugby Worl...

By William Goss Paul Greengrass' Green Zone, on the other hand, was shuffled out of the Oscar race once Universal decided to sort out its slate after a lackluster summer at the box office, and that may have been a wise move. Yahoo's trailer (which is also embedded below) comes across as more of a straight-up...

By Elisabeth Rappe It's impossible to top an icon like John Wayne, but the Coen Bros' True Grit is shaping up to have a better supporting cast than the original did. (Hey, Wayne supposedly didn't like Kim Darby either.) Variety has just announced that Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in talks to join Jeff Bridges i...

Matt Damon and Josh Brolin could join Jeff Bridges in the Coen brothers' True Grit remake.

Winona Ryder has spoken probably for the first time about Matt since their break-up in 2000 - from Hollywood.com: Matt couldn't be a greater, nicer guy. I'm really lucky that I'm on good terms with him. With Johnny, it's like we're good, but we lead very different lives." Winona Ryder on ex love...

There's a long article in the November issue of GQ (US, Olivia Wilde cover) by Tom Carson praising Matt's performance in The Informant! and claiming he's been underused in previous roles. Excerpts: Eastwood, who will begin shooting for the first time in France today on his new film, "Here...

By Jette Kernion I fell asleep fairly quickly, but not before watching a memorable scene with a cruelly comic song that reveals the main character's girlfriend is cheating on him. The song is called "Scotty Doesn't Know," and since the main character is named Scotty ... you get the idea. The lead singer looked o...

Matt and Ben have been found to be tenth cousins once removed. We know that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are BFFs, but as it turns out, they’re actually related! A fun report on Matt's Entourage cameo. Matt Damon, his wife, kids, and two dogs, out for a stroll at 86th and Broadway.

By Michael d'Estries In the episode, Damon tried to enlist the star power of Vince (played by Grenier) to travel on a mission to Ohio to help fight hunger amongst children. Work obligations prevented Vince from going on this trip, but Damon wouldn’t let him get off that easy. Showing true dedication to the charit...

ONEXONE – the charitable organization committed to fighting health issues and preserving the lives of children locally and globally – along with Academy Award-winner Matt Damon, will host their 2nd Annual ONEXONE Fundraiser at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco, CA on Thursday, Octob...

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Recently, a viral video surfaced of Matt verbally attacking Entourage’s Adrian Grenier as they film a public service announcement for OneXOne. In the video, Adrian fumbles his lines and Matt curses and berates the actor. Matt Damon Freaks Out On Adrian Grenier — VIDEO

A long discussion by journalist David Poland with Steven Soderbergh is available in MP3 format at this link. In this Spanish interview Matt talks about the Liberace movie, working with friends and moving away from Miami. Can anyone confirm that Matt says he didn't have many friends in Miam...

By Erik Davis I personally think they're filming something for an upcoming Entourage episode and decided to have a little fun at the same time by throwing together this little viral video. Either way it's pretty hilarious, and I wish it went on a drop longer so we could really watch cameo king Matt Damon f...

By Bill Graham To call the latest from director Steven Soderbergh smart and funny wouldn’t do the film justice. You have to go into detail and it’s the small touches by all involved that elevates the pic far beyond mediocrity, including the mustache, hairpiece, and 30 pounds Damon gained for the role.

By kariyanine When you are friends with the likes of George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon you have very little to worry about in terms of being able to get your films bankrolled, after all those four are some of the biggest names in the film industry and they all carry some major weight be...

By Cinematical staff If you're about to dig into a mid-'90s "period piece" about a plain nebbish at a food additive company who decides to blow the whistle on his corporation's illegal price-fixing practices, well, you better get a few interesting people to bring this sort of story to the screen. With a leading...

Twelve years ago he was the baby-faced actor from Cambridge who captured moviegoers as the troubled boy genius Will Hunting and then brought his mother as his date to the Oscars. George wrote the last Bourne movie, he wrote Ocean's Twelve, and it's his directing debut," says Damon. "When Ph...

By Elisabeth Rappe Once Clint Eastwood casts you in a movie, you're his friend for life and you'll probably enjoy a steady supply of work until the terrible day he decides to retire. (If I was a young actor at Warner Bros, I would just happen to walk by his office with bagels and coffee, just in case he was hungry an...

Steven Soderbergh's droll new comedy, "The Informant!," tells a corporate-whistleblower story that's so whacked-out, there seems no way it could be true. But it is. Just as his ADM employers are getting concerned about the corn-syrup virus, Mark comes to them with a new problem: He's bee...

Reviews for The Informant! are strong - including four stars from Roger Ebert, four stars at the National Post and a great review at the New York Times. The movie is released today in the US and Canada. Baz Bamigboye at the Daily Mail mentioned a possible new project with Matt and George Cloone...

By Gesnarf! This sounds like a winner to me. Another un-moronic comedy I'd actually pay to see. Matt Damon seems to really go for broke in there and show once again how talented he is. AND our friend Roger Ebert gave it four stars. I mean, what more do you need?

By soothsayer767 The Informant marks the return of director Steven Soderbergh to mainstream films after his Che double-header and playing around with a pornstar Sasha Grey in The Girlfriend Experience. Soderbergh loves to experiment with films from anything to The Good German to Bubble to Out of Sigh...

By Kaiser Matt Damon insists the Oscars are no indication of whether films are good or not - even though he’s a past winner. The Bourne Supremacy star picked up a Best Screenplay Oscar in 1998 for Good Will Hunting, a film which also earned him a Best Actor nomination - but he’s skeptical about the way th...

Directed by Dirty Harry star Eastwood, the film will feature Morgan Freeman as Mandela and Bourne Identity actor Matt Damon playing Francois Pienaar – the man presented with the trophy in a moment widely seen as the birth of modern South Africa.

Starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne––a highly-trained assassin on the run from a shadowy government agency––the Bourne movies offer non-stop action, edge-of-your-seat suspense and spectacular chase sequences brimming with international espionage ...

By Dorothy Damon met Beardon when he was working as a technical advisor on the grim Cold War spy film The Good Shepherd, in which Damon played a fictionalized version of legendary CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton. Damon has acted in several spy movies, including three as discarded CIA s...

By Dorothy We’ve never made it much of a secret that most of the staff around here doesn’t like anime movies. I personally don’t have anything specifically against them. I just haven’t found any that really appeal to me. Of course, anime fans are quick to try to remedy this, and I’ve always been told that I...

Jason Bourne is at #32 of Empire magazine's list of the Greatest Movie Characters. More quotes from Joel McHale about The Informant are at TV Guide and the Seattle Times: Gus Van Sant discussed replacing Matt in Milk at Canwest News Service:

As Beck opens the new Club Nokia, Miche bitches about the high cost of tickets to the Indie Christmas party. Miche is sad that Jesse and Deanna have broken up. The movie Che is pretty long. Radio Nowhere with "Cortez and Pisarro," available on the Podsafe Music Network (http://music.mevio.com...

By J.S. Peyton Lately, with the audiobook business booming, actual Hollywood stars are frequently stepping behind the mic. Kevin Spacey has read Bob Woodward. Oprah reads White Oleander. Matt Damon reads A People's History of the United States. While a big-name Hollywood actor may help sell a title, usi...

Soderbergh’s recently announced cinematic candelabra is full of other equally bright bulbs: word is that Matt Damon is in talks to co-star as Liberace’s litigious lover Scott Thorson; Oscar nominated scribe Richard LaGravanese is writing the script; and Soderbergh’s Ocean’s pal Je...

By Sarah Name: The Bourne Paradox Rating: R Summary:Following the events of Ultimatum, Jason Bourne is given the chance to gain back a life he doesn't remember, but at a price. Pairing: None Disclaimer: Not mine (but I wish Matt Damon was) ...

After winning an Oscar with best friend Ben Affleck in 1997 (Good Will Hunting), Matt Damon had a kick start to his career that most actors would only have dreamed of. Since then, not a year has gone by without box office success for Hollywood’s hottest actor. Damon has proven himself success...

By Alyk Earlier this year, Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon put together a tape for Sarah’s boyfriend, Jimmy Kimmel, called “I’m Fucking Matt Damon.” Last night, Jimmy had his revenge with Matt’s BFF Ben Affleck. Featuring appearances by: Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford, Cameron Diaz, Joan Jett, Macy Gr...

The return of Matt Damon as Jason Bourne in The Bourne Ultimatum also proved a potent mix, chasing its way to the No. 2 slot in the Forbesies list with $442.7 million in global box office (No. 9 overall in the worldwide rankings) and a No. 6 finish in the MetaCritic comparisons based on its overall...

33.  Can you say 'non-stop action'?  True summertime popcorn thriller, the action never stops, except once, if I remember correctly.  Matt pulls this role off like a walk in the park.  He makes it look easy, fighting 6 guys at a time, driving a motorbike up a wall, able to leap tall buildings in...

By Sarah, CBB News Editor Actor Matt Damon, 36, goes for lunch in NYC with his wife Luciana, mom Nancy (who's visiting from Boston) and daughters Alexia, 9, and Isabella, 13 months. Photos by Splash News, splashnews.com, splashnewsonline.com. She rides in a Bugaboo Cameleon in...

By Kevin Kelly Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in Iron Man is probably some of the most bizarre, and most genius, piece of Hollywood casting in a comic-book movie ever. I still remember when people were scratching their heads over the whole Michael Keaton as Batman news ... but he didn't have the same reputatio...

By lburch Well, they gang is really taking advantage of all that Hawaii has to offer during the group's vacation. Jennifer Garner joined actor and wife Luciana as they learn how to paddle surf in Hawaii. Jen took Luciana's daughter Alexa along for a ride down the river.

By Sarah, CBB News Editor Alexia Barroso, 9, hitches a ride with Jennifer Garner, 35, as she learns to paddle surf in Hawaii. Also having a lesson were Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso Damon. Photo by Flynet.... Alexia Barroso, 9, hitches a ride with Jennifer Garner,  35, as she learns to paddle surf in Hawaii. Also having a l...

By lburch Best friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck spent the weekend hanging in the tropical paradise. Affleck's wife Jennifer Garner, and baby Violet we're along for the vacation as well. Matt Damon's wife Luciana Barroso and their 1-year-old daughter Isabella are not pictured, but we're present.

By Sarah, CBB News Editor Isabella Damon, who celebrates her first birthday tomorrow, was spotted out for a walk with mom Luciana and dad Matt Damon in Soho earlier today. More images at Just Jared. Photos by INF; Splash News, splashnews.com, splashnewsonline.com Isabella wears Abigail...

The third roll of the dice for George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and their merry band of casino crooks is an almost certain winner for its makers, a break-even deal at best for audiences. Read more! The third roll of the dice for George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and their merry band of...

George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon have been in Cannes for the world premiere of Oceans 13.