Matt Damon

Local boys-gone-Hollywood Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and John Krasinski also got shout-outs in People maggie’s annual Sexiest Man Alive issue. As for Matt, his "The Informant" co-star Melanie Lynskey gushed to People that Damon is sexy because he's a "warm and welcoming" kinda guy.

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.

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.")

Did any of you see the season finale of "Entourage" this year? Best part of the whole thing was Matt Damon's appearance as himself, pushing his children's charity with all the intensity of Jason Bourne trying to shake an answer out of a bad guy.

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...

Interestingly enough, Bendis named quite a few names who were rumored to star in the adaptation of his creation. He mentioned Matt Damon had signed on along with Gary Oldman, Casey Affleck, and Rachel McAdams. Of course he had to drop the name of David Fincher who was long rumored to direct th...

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...

Steven Soderbergh discussed Matt's performance in The Informant! and previous roles in the November issue of Empire magazine: Most alluring as... Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity, hesitantly getting together with Marie in a Parisian hotel room.

An update on box-office figures for The Informant! from the Huffington Post: The Informant is just shy of $30 million on a mere $22 million investment (if there is justice, the film will pick up again in January when Matt Damon gets a well-deserved Oscar nomination).

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.

PARADE will help launch the America's Giving Challenge 2009 with a cover story on October 11 by Matt Damon. In addition to being a Hollywood superstar, Damon is also a passionate philanthropist. In his PARADE article, he encourages the magazine's 73 million readers to "find out what you ca...

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A good, long audio interview with The Informant! scriptwriter Scott Z Burns is available here, via The Playlist. Burns discusses how Matt got him involved in re-writing Bourne Ultimatum, how that script changed completely after early drafts by Tony Gilroy and Tom Stoppard, and some del...

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...

The Informant! did well at the weekend box-office - from USA Today: Matt Damon also benefited this weekend from the crush of suspense movies. His comedy The Informant! was a surprise No. 2 with $10.5 million, thanks largely to strong reviews.

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...

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...

Matt has found his Oscar again - from Sky Showbiz. Q: Where is the Oscar you won for Good Will Hunting? A: "I just saw it actually. We’re renting an apartment in New York this year. We had some stuff moved out of storage. It is in the closet. I was looking for some shoes."

Esquire magazine includes an article titled the 'Best People in the World - Good People List' in their current issue (Matt is on the cover). Matt tops their list of Best Person in the World, based on the following criteria: 1. Matt Damon

At that point filming on “The Informant!” hadn’t begun. But Damon had been cast and knew all about Herndon. Somehow he’d heard about the family’s crisis. Then, while “The Informant!” was in production last summer in Los Angeles, Herndon was invited to bring his family for a day on the set.

Steven Soderbergh And when Soderbergh—who comes across like a precocious but slightly brooding graduate student—talks about the film, he seems, uncharacteristically, joyous. Compared to his epic, Che biopic (his last major film before he turned to The Informant!), which he says was...

Matt provided an update on Bourne 4 and Green Zone to Empire online: He calls The Informant! reminiscent of 1970s films, because Soderbergh had a free hand in creating it. Unlike big Hollywood films with a $100-million budget US, it was made without studio interference, he said.

Matt Damon, causing a stir at Santa Monica's Café Delfini. The actor was eating with wife Luciana, as many excited diners looked on – but never approached the actor. Bob Zany discussed his role in The Informant: Zany plays an attorney for Damon’s character in "The Informant."

EW:You have The Informant! and Invictus coming out this year and an Iraq-war drama, Green Zone, set for next year, at a time when adult-oriented movies seem to be struggling at the box office. What do you make of all the hand-wringing over the state of movies for grown-ups? The Informant!

Matt discussed Steven Soderbergh's take on The Informant! at Newsday's fall preview: The film plays as dark comedy, Soderbergh centering on the absurdity of Whitacre's deceitful, vainglorious cooperation with his FBI handlers.

The soundtrack for The Informant! has been released, and the excerpts on Amazon are a lot of fun. Question: You're in Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! next month. What can you tell us about your role? The latest Bourne 4 rumors are here.

Unlike most Hollywood hotties, Matt Damon doesn’t have body issues. The Oscar-winner played a skinny killer dork in “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” but for his upcoming role as a mentally unstable whistleblower in “The Informant,” he happily gained 30 pounds.

Grant Wilfley Casting is seeking the following for the feature film The Adjustment Bureau, starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt: FDNY and NYPD; Salsa dancers, salsa band and club-goers; college students; FBI agent types.

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The release date for The Informant! in the US/Canada now appears to be 18 September, but the release in Australia has been delayed from 22 October to 3 December. Guillermo from the Jimmy Kimmel Show wrote on his Twitter account that he filmed a "very funny" skit with Matt over the weekend for...

Question: Is it true that Matt Damon was at one point mentioned to play Kirk? From an interview with actor Zac Efron in the current edition of People: Efron: Matt Damon and Michael J. Fox. I just saw Rounders, and it just reminds me: Matt Damon is who I want to be. I just want to make his smart choice...

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A report on a screening of Running the Sahara in Boston from the Boston Globe: The People Speak has found a new distributor, and Matt's role in the documentary has finally been revealed - reports are at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter:

Bourne producer Frank Marshall wrote on his Twitter account today that Bourne 4 is now expected in Summer 2011, and that George Nolfi should complete the script by June. A short film titled "I'm not Matt Damon" has premiered at the Las Vegas Film Festival.

It's cool," Affleck, 36, told PEOPLE of his and Damon's enduring bond, which includes mixing and mingling with their wives and kids. Affleck has two daughters with wife Jennifer Garner, while Damon, also 36, has two daughters with wife Luciana Barroso.

Question: Does the timing feel right for you and Matt Damon to find a project to work on together? Affleck: No, the script is actually mostly already written. We wouldn’t write it together. Affleck: It’s possible I would direct it or else we’d both be in it and find a director.

Rugby coach Chester Williams talked about working with Matt at The Times: Although he would not reveal much, Williams did say that training Damon has "been easy". An early review of The Informant is here and a preview screening review of Green Zone is here.

Studios that are trying to fill 2010 release slates are weighing spec packages that would give them either an Adam McKay-directed action comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, or a drama that will reunite Matt Damon with his "Bourne Ultimatum" scribe George Nolfi.

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.

Universal have announced that Bourne 4 will not be based on Robert Ludlum's book The Parsifal Mosaic, as previously announced, but that it will be an original concept. Steven Soderbergh discussed Matt's performance in The Informant in the latest issue of Empire magazine (UK). A release d...

Isaacs recently wrapped Paul Greengrass' espionage thriller "Green Zone," with Matt Damon, in which he plays an American special-forces agent. "Like always, (Greengrass) gets your heart pumping," he promises. "There's a lot of adrenaline and I'm exhausted. That's all I can tell you."

Matt's quoted in the February 2009 issue of Empire (UK) magazine from the Morocco set of Green Zone talking about Paul Greengrass' plans for the movie: Crowley's latest project will be the fourth Bourne film, with Damon already agreeing to reprise his role.

A few new photos of Matt and family at the restaurant in Buenos Aires on 27 December are at X17online. Matt will support screenings for Running the Sahara, despite the movie already being shown on cable - details here: Steven Soderbergh shot some additional footage for The Informant durin...

Loosely adapted by screenwriter Brian Helgeland ("L.A. Confidential") from the nonfiction bestseller "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone," Greengrass' "Green Zone" aspires to be less didactic discourse than duck-and-cover adventure. Given Damon's collabo...

The Hollywood actor joined forces with Roger Jenkins, a senior executive at Barclays, for an event at which the 100 guests were charged as much as £10,000 a ticket. Guests included Clooney’s best friend Matt Damon as well as Scarlett Johansson, Cindy Crawford, Sarah Ferguson, Bono and Gu...

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:

A sighting from People Online: When a scheduling conflict made it impossible for Matt Damon to play White, the filmmakers forged ahead rather than wait for the Oscar-winning star. In December of last year, Josh Brolin was in talks to take over the role.

Universal Studios has secured the Jason Bourne name and rights to future Robert Ludlum books - details at Variety. A rough release date for the next Bourne films has also been revealed. Matt's included in the new People Sexiest Man Alive issue and online at People.

Update: A new book available at Amazon UK from author Kevin Conley, titled Full Burn: Behind Hollywood Stuntmen, includes at least one article on the making of the Bourne action scenes. An excerpt from the book is online at the Daily Telegraph.

Matt participated in the Escape to Miami Triathlon on Sunday with family and friends. A video and photos are at the Miami Herald. Matt was greeted at the finish line by wife Luciana Bozán Barroso and newborn daughter Gia after finishing his 6.2-mile leg in 59 minutes and 54 seconds.

The actor said he's headed to Florida this weekend to work with the Obama campaign on getting out the vote in a key battleground state. After that, Damon is off to Morocco to finish shooting a movie, but he said he would stay engaged with the Obama campaign.

Nolfi co-wrote 2007's "The Bourne Ultimatum" with Scott Z. Burns and the story's creator Tony Gilroy, which brought in $443 million at the boxoffice worldwide and is one of the studio's top-grossing films of all time. A quote from young actor Conor Donovan, who played the young Matt in The D...

Actor Paul Newman has died. Matt worked with Paul as the lead actor in The World of Nick Adams, which were live theatre readings in 2001 and 2002 to raise funds for Hole in the wall gangs, for which Matt was a patron and financial contributor. Some photos from the event are below. Matt discussed h...

Details of the fundraiser for Larry Aaronson is here. Aaronson is a former Cambridge Rindge and Latin teacher, and Matt is the honorary chairperson of his new advocacy group, Social Justice Works! Matt's mother Nancy Carlsson-Paige is a member of the Executive Committee.

Matt, Wyclef Jean and Frank McKenna continued their tour of devastated Haiti on Sunday. Reports are from Associated Press, The Star, Miami Herald, Ottawa Citizen and the Telegraph Journal. Photos are from Yahoo and The London Paper.

As for his involvement in History, Brolin admitted that he first discovered the book through a speech in which it’s referenced in Good Will Hunting, which Moore produced. “I had a very strange obsession with Matt Damon,” Brolin joked. Amy Ryan discussed her role in Green Zone with WWD:

We hear: That despite reports to the contrary, Cambridge homey and Hollywood leftie Matt Damon has no plans to be in Denver next week for the Democratic National Convention. More quotes from Joel McHale about The Informant at IGN. IGN: What is your part in The Informant?

Matt will attend a 'Mavericks' Q&A session at the Toronto Film Festival with Chris Moore and Howard Zinn to promote The People Speak. Details from the official site: Universal has plenty of other stuff cooking, too. There's a George Nolfi "Bourne" script designed to lure back Paul Gre...

Matt Damon says becoming a parent has changed his outlook and reinforced his commitment to helping kids through charity work. Damon has just completed shooting on two new films, Green Zone and The Informant. The latter, a Steven Soderbergh thriller, required Damon, normally a pretty fit...

More photos from the Obama fundraiser are at Faded Youth blog, X17, the Miami Herald's Scene in the Tropics blog (which has photos from inside the event) and Pure People. Reports from the event are at the Miami Herald and People. An article on Decatur restaurant The Beach House, and its role i...

Video interviews with Matt and crew members of The Informant in Decatur are at WAND-TV (two segments). In the interview Matt says he is wearing a fake nose and cheek implants in addition to the moustache, wig and glasses, and discusses his respect for director Steven Soderbergh.

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...

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...

A secret music video featuring Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon that was unveiled on Thursday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live fifth anniversary show is getting so much viral buzz that the show decided to air it once again on Friday night’s show.

Damon has been moving from one big studio film to another. He followed "The Bourne Ultimatum" by reuniting with director Paul Greengrass in the Universal drama based on the book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," and after that he will reunite with his "Ocean's Thirteen" helmer Steven S...